Category: Trump

Trump on defensive after Bush calls out domestic terrorism

Former US President Donald Trump speaks after the fight between Evander Holyfield and Vitor Belfort at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida on September 11, 2021.

As Trump openly considers another run for the White House, many of the Republican lawmakers who joined his effort to challenge Biden’s victory are staying away from the Saturday rally, even though many still echo his false claims that the election was rigged — despite numerous court cases by Trump’s allies that have failed to confirm those allegations.

Days after former US president George W. Bush called domestic and foreign terrorists “children of the same foul spirit”, former president Donald Trump has lashed out, saying Bush should not be lecturing Americans about national security.

Source: Trump on defensive after Bush calls out domestic terrorism

Video of Trump Saying He Now Had Tallest Manhattan Building on 9/11 Goes Viral on Anniversary

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The Stature of the man revealed

In a video released Saturday, Trump commemorated the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and praised the first responders—before quickly pivoting to attacking President Joe Biden’s handling of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Source: Video of Trump Saying He Now Had Tallest Manhattan Building on 9/11 Goes Viral on Anniversary

Trump, Texas, and the MAGA Drive for Power | The Smirking Chimp

Donald Trump dispensed with even the pretense of paying tribute to workers on Labor Day. Instead his three word Labor Day Statement, blasted out to his supporters everywhere via the right-wing media machine, was blunt about his political priorities: “Fix 2020 First.”

Source: Trump, Texas, and the MAGA Drive for Power | The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Border Wall Torn Apart by Monsoon, Who’s Laughing Now?

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As if we needed another reason to stop what we were doing and laugh full-stop at Donald Trump, here it is. A huge section of his very great border wall was torn to shreds after heavy rains fell in southern Arizona. Yep. All it took was one little monsoon in Douglas, Arizona to tear the wall of its hinges, leaving a gaping hole in Trump’s beautiful legacy. (Much like heavy winds tore a lovely section of the wall down last year that left President Beaker with IBS.)

Source: Trump’s Border Wall Torn Apart by Monsoon, Who’s Laughing Now?

Top 6 Ways Trump forced Abrupt US Departure from Afghanistan; and that Time Trump said Taliban would take over War on Terror

Trump was the first to push the domino

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been deeply involved in the negotiations with the Taliban. In early January, 2021, VOA reported, “No U.S. servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan in almost a year, and Afghans are finally discussing peace and reconciliation among themselves. Such incredible progress,” Pompeo said in a series of tweets that came one day after several social media posts boasting of American “swagger” during his diplomatic tenure.”

Source: Top 6 Ways Trump forced Abrupt US Departure from Afghanistan; and that Time Trump said Taliban would take over War on Terror

Feds “deliberately targeted” BLM protesters on orders from Trump, Barr: report | Salon.com

Donald Trump and Bill Barr (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Should this be a surprise?

The Justice Department “deliberately targeted” supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement with harsh prosecutions at the “express direction” of former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr, according to a new report from the advocacy group Movement for Black Lives.

Source: Feds “deliberately targeted” BLM protesters on orders from Trump, Barr: report | Salon.com

Top Nine Policy Recommendations for U.S. in wake of Afghanistan Debacle

The factor that was most responsible for the fall of Afghanistan was President Trump’s decision to announce the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, even without consulting Afghan leaders or Western allies. His decision to hold talks with the representatives of the Taliban in Doha behind the back of the Afghan government emboldened the Taliban and undermined the morale of Afghan leaders and armed forces. It seems in this case, America first became America only. In his various interviews with the media, Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament, said that negotiating with the Taliban behind the back of the Afghan government was as if US officials had negotiated with IRA terrorists at the height of the Troubles behind the back of US officials about the fate of Ireland. He complained: “we abandoned the Afghan people”.

Source: Top Nine Policy Recommendations for U.S. in wake of Afghanistan Debacle

Trump Slams Biden for Doing What Trump Bragged About – Mother Jones

As uncertainty consumes Afghanistan, Donald Trump is blaming Joe Biden for doing what Trump said he did. “He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him,” the former president wrote in a statement Saturday. Then, barely 25 hours later, another statement from Trump: “Never would have happened if I were President!” While we’ll never know exactly what a Trump administration-led withdrawal from Afghanistan will look like, we can make some educated guesses based on his words from barely a month ago. “I started the process, all the troops are coming home,” he told supporters at a rally in Wellington, Ohio in late June. “What are we going to say? We’ll stay for another 21 years, then we’ll stay for another 50. The whole thing is ridiculous.” And few months before that, in April of this year, Trump was clear about where he stood: “We can and should get out earlier…Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do. I planned to withdraw on May 1st.” Trump’s former National Security Advisor even agrees, saying the former president “would’ve done essentially the same thing” as Biden. So let me get this straight, the only president t

Source: Trump Slams Biden for Doing What Trump Bragged About – Mother Jones

Liz Cheney: Donald Trump’s meeting with the Taliban “set all this in motion” | Salon.com

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“The fact that Mike Pompeo was the first Secretary of State to meet with the Taliban, the fact that they were considering inviting the Taliban to Camp David on 9/11 — that set this all in motion,” Liz Cheney said of former President Donald Trump and his administration. She continued to say that she, as well as other ranking members of the party, were told by the former president and Pompeo that “we were going to renounce the Taliban, we were going to renounce Al-Qaeda…none of that happened.” As the well-known war hawk warned in early 2020, as the Trump administration left the Afghan government out of negotiations with the Taliban, “Any deal that the United States would contemplate entering into with the Taliban should be made public in its entirety.”

Source: Liz Cheney: Donald Trump’s meeting with the Taliban “set all this in motion” | Salon.com

A Scottish Judge Just Resurrected an Effort to Investigate Donald Trump for Money Laundering – Mother Jones

A Scottish court on Wednesday gave activists the green light to continue their effort to use an anti–money laundering statute to investigate the financing of Donald Trump’s golf courses in the country.

Source: A Scottish Judge Just Resurrected an Effort to Investigate Donald Trump for Money Laundering – Mother Jones

Trump praised Hitler’s “economic miracle” — and that’s even worse than it sounds | Salon.com

Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

In April 1933, for instance, less than three months after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Nazis passed the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which excluded Jews from civil service jobs. That same month, the Nazis passed legislation to reduce Jewish enrollments in schools and universities and restrict Jews’ options for practicing law and medicine. Within a few months, the Nazis put strict legal limits on Jewish professionals’ ability to work with state or state-regulated entities. The list of suffocating professional restrictions only grew over the next few years, extending to the media, the military, education, business ownership and beyond. Advertisement: Of course, removing one person from a job to replace them with another doesn’t reduce the number of people out of work. So to accomplish their goal of reducing the unemployment rate, the Nazis redefined who counted as “German” and who qualified as “unemployed.” Under the new laws, a non-Jewish German man without a job could be officially counted as “unemployed” (women were also legislated out of the job market). After 1933, he could increasingly count on the Nazis to help find him a job — often ba

Source: Trump praised Hitler’s “economic miracle” — and that’s even worse than it sounds | Salon.com

Revealed: Secret Donors to Hub of Election Fraud Conspiracies

First-time voter Baylee Fidler, 19, waits in the doorway for a voting booth as Tom Davis, background, completes his ballot at the Boot City Opry near Terre Haute, Ind., on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

Like the larger group, the Bradley Impact Fund has given money to groups that promote election fraud conspiracies and sought to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat. Bradley Impact’s donors, which were ostensibly cloaked in anonymity by the nonprofit’s structure, are being revealed here for the first time.

Source: Revealed: Secret Donors to Hub of Election Fraud Conspiracies

DOJ notes revealed: Trump’s coup was longer in the making than we thought | Salon.com

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Clark (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Stand by and stand back” sounds more like “be prepared” for ready made plan rather than and order to disband.

“These notes reveal that a sitting president, defeated in a free and fair election, personally and repeatedly pressured Justice Department leaders to help him foment a coup in a last-ditch attempt to cling to power. And that should shock the conscience of every American, regardless of political persuasion.” But it gets worse.

Source: DOJ notes revealed: Trump’s coup was longer in the making than we thought | Salon.com

A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all | Robert Reich | The Guardian

‘Make no mistake: this was an attempted coup.’

A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’

Source: A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Trump’s Shadow Cabinet is Part of his Ongoing Coup | The Smirking Chimp

Making sure the coup never ends but keeps rolling on is probably Trump’s best chance to avoid going to jail for crimes ranging from rape to bank fraud, sedition and treason. Running for office gives him both some political and legal immunities and access to more cash, so he’s going to persist and amp up the volume of his efforts. But Trump’s neofascist coup is no longer limited to himself and his fellow DC insiders. State after state is being taken over from the ground up by Trump supporters who want to end multiracial democracy in America and turns us back into a white-supremacist ethnostate. From Oregon to Florida and all across states in between, local school boards are being seized by anti-American supporters of the former reality TV star. The world watches with horror and our actual president, Joe Biden, finds himself, along with Democrats in Congress, frustrated at every turn by Trump’s loyalists and a few Democratic senators who are taking money from the same billionaires who fund the GOP and empower Trump. Meanwhile, the coup rolls on.

Source: Trump’s Shadow Cabinet is Part of his Ongoing Coup | The Smirking Chimp

Rudy Giuliani Is Reportedly Close to Broke—and Donald Trump Isn’t Taking His Calls – Mother Jones

That’s what happens when you go to bat for a notoriously cheap, friendless, crappy businessman.

Source: Rudy Giuliani Is Reportedly Close to Broke—and Donald Trump Isn’t Taking His Calls – Mother Jones

In one-two punch to Donald Trump, Justice Deptartment approves release of taxes, memo

Donald Trump has long fought to keep his tax records from congressional investigators.

Washington: Former US president Donald Trump suffered twin setbacks on Friday, local time, when the Justice Department cleared the way to release his tax records and disclosed a memo showing he urged top officials last year to falsely claim his election defeat was “corrupt”. The department, reversing course from the stance it took when Trump was in office, paved the way for the Internal Revenue Service to hand over the Republican businessman-turned-politician’s tax records to congressional investigators – a move he has long fought.

Source: In one-two punch to Donald Trump, Justice Deptartment approves release of taxes, memo

GOP brawls over Trump on eve of first Jan. 6 hearing | TheHill

Liz Cheney speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday

Trump’s critics in both parties are ignoring the distractions, saying the Jan. 6 attack was a threat to the nation’s underlying democratic traditions — and one that deserves a thorough examination. “It’s going to be … a really important opportunity to remind everybody about the necessity of accountability for what happened, [and] for making sure that it never happens again,” Cheney said.

Source: GOP brawls over Trump on eve of first Jan. 6 hearing | TheHill

Trump’s Arizona Theme: Hate America, Love Me | Crooks and Liars

Taking their Money Event

Traitor Trump continued his madness by performing his carnival treason act in Arizona Saturday night. The man who caused an insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th is still doing his grievance shtick with Charlie Kirk’s disgusting Turning Point USA (aka brownshirt) event.

Source: Trump’s Arizona Theme: Hate America, Love Me | Crooks and Liars

Trump’s Claims Of Voter Fraud Undercut By Few Arizona Cases | HuffPost

Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas on July 11, 2

Arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3 million ballots cast in last year’s presidential election, undercutting former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election as his allies continue a disputed ballot review in the state’s most populous county.

Source: Trump’s Claims Of Voter Fraud Undercut By Few Arizona Cases | HuffPost

Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House | Vladimir Putin | The Guardian

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G-20 summit in Hamburg in 2017

The paper refers to “certain events” that happened during Trump’s trips to Moscow. Security council members are invited to find details in appendix five, at paragraph five, the document states. It is unclear what the appendix contains. “It is acutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate his [Trump’s] election to the post of US president,” the paper says.

Source: Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House | Vladimir Putin | The Guardian

Trump’s ‘Stop The Steal’ Lying Lawyers Are In BIG Trouble | Crooks and Liars

Trump's 'Stop The Steal' Lying Lawyers Are In BIG Trouble

What you CAN’T do, if you are an attorney in court, is LIE to the judge. And if you bring a case to court, everything you, as an attorney, bring as evidence to the court? You’d better be sure it checks out. If you are sloppy, lazy, or lying, you can be fined, disbarred, and even jailed. Because you as an attorney are already considered “under oath” as an officer of the court. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are sloppy, lazy, liars.

Source: Trump’s ‘Stop The Steal’ Lying Lawyers Are In BIG Trouble | Crooks and Liars

There’s A New Big Lie In Town | Crooks and Liars

There's A New Big Lie In Town

Embarking on a vast propaganda campaign designed to erase one of the deadliest bouts of domestic, political terrorism in this country, Trump media and their GOP acolytes are moving quickly to peddle the next Big Lie, claiming that the January 6 insurrection never happened.At this point, there’s nothing too big for the right-wing noise machine to try to whitewash and gaslight — like the fact that a pro-Trump horde was responsible for breaking into the U.S. Capitol, attempted to disrupt the congressional vote certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and then chanted death threats against then-Vice President Mike Pence.Yet leading the charge on Sunday, Trump during a Fox interview called the insurrection “a lovefest between the Capitol police and the people that walked down to the Capitol” that day. He insisted the protesters were “peaceful.”

Source: There’s A New Big Lie In Town | Crooks and Liars

Trump embraces Capitol rioters, rewrites Jan. 6 history during Fox appearance | Salon.com

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on election night in the East Room of the White House in the early morning hours of November 04, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke shortly after 2am with the presidential race against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden still too close to call. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Donald Trump used a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News to rewrite the history of Jan. 6 and speculate wildly on the identity of the officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt, with almost no pushback from host Maria Bartiromo.

Source: Trump embraces Capitol rioters, rewrites Jan. 6 history during Fox appearance | Salon.com

In rare protests, thousands of Cubans take to the streets, demand ‘Freedom’

A woman shouts pro-government slogans as anti-government protesters march in Havana.

Cuba is going through its worst economic crisis in decades, along with a resurgence of coronavirus cases, as it suffers the consequences of US sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

Source: In rare protests, thousands of Cubans take to the streets, demand ‘Freedom’

Trump Sues Facebook, Google, and Twitter: Is It All About the Grift? – Mother Jones

In objective terms, Trump’s lawsuits look weak. But this is not about him winning in a federal court. By challenging Facebook, Google, and Twitter this way, he achieves two key goals: he keeps the conspiratorial demagoguery flowing and he keeps the cash pouring in. This case isn’t about justice. It’s about fear and money—the two things that make Trump’s world go around.

Source: Trump Sues Facebook, Google, and Twitter: Is It All About the Grift? – Mother Jones

Donald Trump just accidentally told the truth about his disinformation strategy – CNNPolitics

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if you listen to him long enough — no easy chore — Donald Trump will tell you all his secrets. Witness this line from his July 3 speech in Sarasota, Florida: “If you say it enough and keep saying it, they’ll start to believe you.”

Source: Donald Trump just accidentally told the truth about his disinformation strategy – CNNPolitics

Yes, Trump should be “thrilled” by this week’s news — indictments and all | Salon.com

President Donald J. Trump smiles while addressing delegates on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center on August 24, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The four-day event is themed "Honoring the Great American Story." (David T. Foster III-Pool/Getty Images)

he is reportedly happy about the indictments, “thrilled” they are what he thinks of as light charges, and already anticipating how the cases can be leveraged for his big comeback in 2024 because it will “hurt Sleepy Joe.” He plans to make this latest “witch hunt” a theme of his upcoming rallies and since his political career has been built upon relentless whining, which his followers eat up with a spoon, he may just be right.

Source: Yes, Trump should be “thrilled” by this week’s news — indictments and all | Salon.com

Michael Cohen says Trump’s time is up: “There’s no way anybody’s getting out of it” | Salon.com

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, departs his Manhattan apartment for prison on May 06, 2019 in New York City. Cohen is due to report to a federal prison in Otisville, New York, where he will begin serving a three-year sentence for campaign finance violations, tax evasion and other crimes. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Michael Cohen said Thursday that all roads lead to former President Donald Trump, at least as far as the indictments handed down against his family business are concerned. Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, reacted on CNN to Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg being placed in cuffs and charged with grand larceny, among an assortment of other crimes on Thursday, marking it as a signal the walls are closing in on the former commander-in-chief.

Source: Michael Cohen says Trump’s time is up: “There’s no way anybody’s getting out of it” | Salon.com

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Why loyalty to Trump is a loser’s gamble

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From jail to death via COVID-19, Trump always leaves his followers to pay the price — yet they remain faithful

Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

There are some other more important charges that I wish had been brought, and against Trump himself rather than only his company.

Source: Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Historians rank Trump near bottom of U.S. presidents, Obama rises into top 10 | Salon.com

Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Former President Donald Trump was ranked near the bottom of a new list by historians surveyed on who they believe the best U.S. presidents are, and received the lowest leadership grades of any commander-in-chief over the past 150 years. It was Trump’s first appearance on C-SPAN’s Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, with the one-term president ranked 41st out of America’s 45 former executives.

Source: Historians rank Trump near bottom of U.S. presidents, Obama rises into top 10 | Salon.com

This is reality and Trump is real what he says isn’t

‘Scores of people left early’: Trump supporters walked out of rally after his speech ‘fell flat’ – Raw Story – Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

'Scores of people left early': Trump supporters walked out of rally after his speech 'fell flat'

Dozens of people walked out of a rally in Ohio over the weekend as former President Donald Trump was speaking.

Source: ‘Scores of people left early’: Trump supporters walked out of rally after his speech ‘fell flat’ – Raw Story – Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

In Siccing Justice Dept. on Jimmy Kimmel and SNL, Trump Channeled worst Mideast Dictators

There isn’t any doubt that Trump would like to rule as al-Sisi does in Egypt or Khamenei does in Iran, and that his acolytes and his cheerleaders at Fox Cable News would be perfectly all right with that.

Source: In Siccing Justice Dept. on Jimmy Kimmel and SNL, Trump Channeled worst Mideast Dictators

Donald Trump and the new Lost Cause | Salon.com

Donald Trump, a painting of the Confederate army losing and the January 6, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

They’re going to keep this up. They’ve kept up the fiction of the Lost Cause of the South’s defeat in the Civil War for more than 150 years, so why shouldn’t they keep pushing the Lost Cause of Donald Trump’s defeat in the election of 2020? The South has been enslaved by the lies they have told about the Civil War. Look at John Bell Hood! They even managed to get a United States Army base named after the man who lost more Confederate soldiers on a single day than anyone during the entire war! Why give up now? Next thing you know, they’ll be pushing to erect monuments to General Michael “Let’s have a coup!” Flynn! If they can celebrate the criminally incompetent Hood, why not the criminally pardoned Flynn? Why not rename the FBI building after Rudy “Hunter Biden! Burisma!” Giuliani? Or re-name the building housing the Department of Justice after William “What Mueller report?” Barr? Or erect a grand statue of Mitch “I forgot where I was on January 6” McConnell? Or name a federal courthouse after Sidney “I lost every election lawsuit I filed” Powell?

Source: Donald Trump and the new Lost Cause | Salon.com

Former Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Trump’s psychosis is still an “enormous danger” | Salon.com

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

For at least the past five years, some of America’s and the world’s foremost mental health experts have attempted to warn the public that Donald Trump was (and is) a dire threat to public safety. Based on Trump’s public behavior and other available information, these experts warned that he appears to be a malignant narcissist, a pathological liar who is obsessed with violence, easily manipulated by praise and other ego-stroking behavior, indifferent to the suffering of other human beings, anti-social and anti-human in his values and behavior, irresponsible and impulsive and in total quite likely a sociopath or perhaps a psychopath. Collectively, these mental health experts predicted that Trump’s many apparent pathologies would lead to destruction and suffering for the American people and the world.

Source: Former Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Trump’s psychosis is still an “enormous danger” | Salon.com

Attention-Craving Egomaniac Crashes Memorial Services At Mar-a-Lago | Crooks and Liars

Attention-Craving Egomaniac Crashes Memorial Services At Mar-a-Lago

Trump’s life after the White House doesn’t resemble that of a typical ex-president so much as a foreign monarch cast into exile—like Napoleon at Elba, but with golf and a bigger buffet.

Source: Attention-Craving Egomaniac Crashes Memorial Services At Mar-a-Lago | Crooks and Liars

Opinion | Donald Trump Must Be Prosecuted for His Crimes | Thom Hartmann

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“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” Apparently, there are multiple great crimes behind the Trump fortune, stretching all the way back to his stealing most of his initial wealth from other members of his family, as his niece Mary Trump is alleging in a lawsuit.

Source: Opinion | Donald Trump Must Be Prosecuted for His Crimes | Thom Hartmann

‘Trump was an unabated crime wave’: ex-prosecutor lists the atrocities – Raw Story – Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

'Trump was an unabated crime wave': ex-prosecutor lists the atrocities

“If he is not held accountable, Ali, if we don’t prosecute him then what we are doing is we are encouraging tomorrow’s version of Donald Trump,” he warned. “We have to prosecute today’s version of Donald Trump to send the message that we will not tolerate a run away criminal president.” Watch:

Source: ‘Trump was an unabated crime wave’: ex-prosecutor lists the atrocities – Raw Story – Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

Guess what? The Trump coup against American democracy never stopped | Salon.com

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I would like to share a public secret: Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s coup attempt was not defeated on Jan. 6. The war against American democracy continues — and is gaining momentum. All one has to do is take off one’s blinders to see it. Unfortunately, too many Americans, including the Democratic Party’s leadership, the professional smart people and other members of the country’s mainstream media and chattering class, have waited for months to acknowledge what has been happening in plain sight. Republicans have rejected any independent investigation into the events of Jan. 6. Why? Because they feel implicated, explicitly or otherwise, in supporting and collaborating with Trump’s coup attempt and the assault on the U.S. Capitol. By rejecting any efforts to properly investigate those events, Republicans are also giving permission and encouragement for similar acts of right-wing political violence and terrorism in the future. Instead of being cowed by President Biden’s victory and the events of Jan. 6, the Republican Party and Trump’s larger neofascist movement have only been further empowered in their campaign to end America’s multiracial democracy.

Source: Guess what? The Trump coup against American democracy never stopped | Salon.com

“Planned in plain sight”: Why Donald Trump makes no attempt to hide his insurrectionist plots | Salon.com

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An Insult to Democracy trying to be delicate when Trump certainly wasn’t.

On Tuesday morning, a new Senate report revealed even more of what is increasingly obvious: The January 6 Capitol insurrection was both surprisingly predictable and yet widely ignored by the people who had the power to stop it. “The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot,” the Washington Post reports, “but a series of omissions and miscommunications kept that information from reaching front-line officers targeted by the violence.” The report itself is incredibly bureaucratic and, being bipartisan, overly delicate with the fragile feelings of Republicans who continue to support Trump despite his overt incitement of the insurrection. But the most important and remarkable aspect of the report is how it lays out that Capitol intelligence officials downplayed the threat of violence, even though, to quote the report author Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., “The attack was, quite frankly, planned in plain sight.”

Source: “Planned in plain sight”: Why Donald Trump makes no attempt to hide his insurrectionist plots | Salon.com

House Speaker Trump? A brief history of the idea | Media Matters for America

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Following former President Donald Trump’s June 4 remark that the idea of becoming speaker of the House after the 2022 midterm election is “very interesting” to him, political media has been abuzz with speculation. The idea has been making rounds in right-wing spheres in various iterations since January, when it was first championed by former White House chief strategist, election conspiracy-theorist-in-chief, and enchanted pile of dirty laundry Steve Bannon.

Source: House Speaker Trump? A brief history of the idea | Media Matters for America

Palm Beach officials prepare extradition plans ahead of possible Trump indictment: report | Salon.com

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Law enforcement officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, have discussed contingency plans in the former President Donald Trump is indicted on criminal charges, according to Politico. Officers have “actively prepared” for the possibility that Trump is indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, according to the report. Vance has led a years-long probe into Trump and his businesses. Officials have discussed potential “thorny extradition issues” if Vance indicts Trump, who currently lives at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

Source: Palm Beach officials prepare extradition plans ahead of possible Trump indictment: report | Salon.com

“Wrong and dangerous”: Taxpayers are still funding Trump’s defense against rape accuser | Salon.com

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Source: “Wrong and dangerous”: Taxpayers are still funding Trump’s defense against rape accuser | Salon.com

Will Trump End Up In Prison? | The Smirking Chimp

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Trump’s enablers want us to forget what they did. We can’t let that happen | Donald Trump | The Guardian

John Boehner, the former House speaker, at the US capitol in Washington

Source: Trump’s enablers want us to forget what they did. We can’t let that happen | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Trump’s lasting legacy: Scandals don’t hurt politicians like Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo | Salon.com

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Source: Trump’s lasting legacy: Scandals don’t hurt politicians like Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo | Salon.com

Trump’s example playing out in Asia, the world has to intervene

Aung San Suu Kyi, left, walks with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, right, in 2016

Source: Trump’s example playing out in Asia, the world has to intervene

TraitorTrump Complains Baseball Is On ‘Too Many Channels’ | Crooks and Liars

TraitorTrump Complains Baseball Is On 'Too Many Channels'

Source: TraitorTrump Complains Baseball Is On ‘Too Many Channels’ | Crooks and Liars

Trump’s Big Lie and Hitler’s: Is this how America’s slide into totalitarianism begins? | Salon.com

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