The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence — have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states, the people said. Some of the questions focused directly on the extent of Trump’s involvement in the fake-elector effort led by his outside lawyers, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, these people said.

In addition, Justice Department investigators in April received phone records of key officials and aides in the Trump administration, including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, according to two people familiar with the matter. That effort is another indicator of how expansive the Jan. 6 probe had become, well before the high-profile, televised House hearings in June and July on the subject.

Read more (May be behind a paywall.): https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/26/trump-justice-investigation-january-6/

In case there is any question as to DOJ investigatin Trump for criminal activity:

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Breaking news: The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter. https://wapo.st/3owJ8Tf

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Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won.

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The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors.

Season of Treason: A Recap of the First Eight January 6th Committee Hearings

Trump spearheaded a seditious conspiracy to overthrow our democracy. What comes next?

The article is on a subscription Substack site — on the opening page is a link to subscribe along with a link that says something like “Let me try it first.”  Click on that link where you can read articles without a subscription.

Of course, Trump did say he loves the uneducated.

$60,000 truck.  $8,000 lift kit.  $800 each tires.  $2,5000 modified exhaust.  $2,000 custom front bumper.  Who knows how much for Trump flags.

You cannot cure stupid.

And it’s happening.  The main indicator is church attendance, which has been dropping steadily for years — in 1990, 70% of Americans said they regularly attended church; in 2020 the figure was down to 47%.

In my opinion, this DOES NOT mean people are rejecting the teachings of Jesus.

Instead, this means that people are rejecting the meanness, the bigotry, the downright hatred that marks so much of what is “Christian” and “church” today.

It’s not that people are rejecting the life and teaching of Jesus, it’s that they want to live the life and teachings of Jesus every day . . . and they aren’t finding it at church.

This week, a memo went out to librarians across Oklahoma County’s Metropolitan Library System telling them that not only are they not allowed to assist anyone in looking up information on abortion, but they are not even allowed to say the word — noting that if they violate this and are found to have assisted anyone in any way with getting an abortion that they will be fined $10,000 and possibly thrown in prison. The memo also warned that there will likely be people coming into the library and trying to trick them into giving information on how to obtain an abortion for the purposes of collecting the $10,000 bounty.

After the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, Legal reviewed MLS’s role regarding giving information on abortions and concluded that due to state law libraries have no role. Library staff should avoid the use of the word “abortion” and are not to assist in looking up information on either library PCs or even their own devices to aid in such a search. If a staff member gives any information on how to obtain an abortion, then that person may be found personally liable and will also make MLS liable. Civil penalties include a $10,000.00 fine, plus jail time, and the staff member will lose their job due to being informed by MLS and disregarding the warning. There may be people that go into public libraries and try staff on this just to see if they will give information on how to obtain an abortion just to report them (along the lines of 1st Amendment Auditors), so staff should be aware of this potentiality as well.

While Fox is still alive and well and spewing lies 24/7, at least there is one bright spot:  OAN (One America News) is dead.  Well, not completely dead, but on life support and fading fast.

Good sense, truth, and responsibility strike again! Its latest victim is One America News, which got dropped by Verizon Fios yesterday after failing to renegotiate its carrier agreement.

The divorce, which was first reported by the Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona, leaves OAN without a way to get its bullshit on the airwaves. It was already dropped by DirecTV, after which it filed a hilariously stupid breach of contract suit against AT&T, which owns DirecTV, alleging that the telecom’s board chair was a dastardly Democrat hellbent on “cutting off [OAN’s] ability to earn revenue to help fund its defense” in the defamation case filed against it by Dominion Voting Systems.

Which is exactly the LOLsuit you’d expect from a network which made Chanel Rion a “star” by flogging every election fraud conspiracy or bit of COVID misinformation crapped out of the ass-end of 4chan. Remember that time when Rion claimed that octogenarian philanthropist George Soros was tailing her around Ukraine as she and Rudy Giuliani pursued the “truth” about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter?

I have heard that when Melanoma met Trump, the only English she knew was “Anal is $500 extra!!”  .