Author: clearandpresentdanger

Trump purposefully scheduled the rally on the anniversary of the destruction of the “Branch Davidian” compound by the FBI and US marshals, hoping to draw similarities between the Branch Davidians and his MAGAt followers.

It’s not working out well.

Trump is struggling to get GOP figures to appear as a guest speakers at the Waco rally amid suggestions the New York grand jury are gearing up to vote on whether to indict the former president in the coming days.

The names of other speakers in Waco have still not been confirmed by Trump’s team, but several Texas Republicans have confirmed they will not be attending.

Aides for Rep. Troy Nehls, who has endorsed Trump for 2024, told Insider he cannot attend the rally as he has an engagement in Washington D.C. that day.

Rep. Pete Sessions, a Waco native, also has prior engagements on March 25, with Rep. Michael McCaul, and state GOP chairman Matt Rinaldi also saying they are unable to attend.

Waco Mayor Dillon Meek, will be another absentee as he is attending a centennial banquet for the 10th Court of Appeals on Saturday. He expressed concern that the event will once again highlight the Branch Davidian tragedy that the local community has spent decades striving to move on from.

That’s FIVE important local and state Republicans who have turned down Trump.

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Meanwhile, check out the cities where Trump held rallies in 2020 and cities to which he still owes money for security, facilities, and the like.  Note that the is not returning to these cities.

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“None of the 30 Texas Republicans Insider contacted about the event said they were going,” Insider reveals.

“Most of the 30 GOP members contacted about Donald Trump’s inaugural visit to the site of a 30-year-old standoff between cult leader David Koresh and federal authorities did not respond to requests for comment about whether they intended to rally with the scandal-plagued candidate and perhaps say a few kind words,” Insider reports.

Trump is a caged animal who is backed in the corner .  He looks that way and he’s acting that way.  He is unhinged and it is frightening.

As proof, look at how he went through these evil, insane, wild,  disgusting anti-Semitic racial tropes.  He called NYC DA Bragg that “Soros-backed animal,” you might as well say “dirty Jew Black animal,” you might as well say those words because that is what he’s saying.

And the fact that other Republicans, including [Florida Gov. Ron} DeSantis, the number one challenger, does the same thing, does the Soros thing, the same “Jew-backing” this Black man — and one used the word “master” — I think that was [Rep. Elise] Stefanik  — that’s the stunning talk.”

We know Trump is insane. We know he has lost his mind, we know he’s just continually, continually shriveling away.

 

 

 

 

 

Parents of one of the children killed in the Parkland shooting were arrested for disrupting a congressional hearing; they were called out of order by the Republican chairman.

On the same day, the mother of Ashli Babbitt had a one-on-one audience with the Speaker of the House.

The world is turned upside down.

A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge.

The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/

By Courtney Tanner | March 22, 2023, 2:55 p.m. | Updated: March 23, 2023, 11:48 a.m.

Frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries, a Utah parent says there’s one that hasn’t been challenged yet, but that they believe should be, for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”

So they’ve submitted a request for their school district in Davis County to now review the Bible for any inappropriate content.

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request, listing topics they found concerning in the religious text. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”

The code cited is the Utah law passed in 2022 to ban any books containing “pornographic or indecent” content from Utah schools, both in libraries and in the classroom. It came after outcry from conservative parents groups, who have been pushing to have titles removed.

Florida’s fascist white nationalist governor just got his soft white well-fed belly poked by the Disney Corporation after a long-standing feud between the two over the dignity and rights of LGBT people.

The happiest place on earth just announced a large LGBT conference at its park in Orlando. 

The booked summit is an apparent pushback to Desantis by the company that will occur not only in September 2023 but also in September 2024. Good luck telling American families to hate Disney in a craven attempt for votes when every kid is transfixed by the animated films they enjoy.

Disney hosts conventions all the time and hosts Gay Pride and Gay Day events at its international parks. They have been around the block a few times.

To paraphrase Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, Don’t fuck with us, fella.

The Federal judge handling E. Jean Carroll’s rape/defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump just gave Trump a treatment generally reserved for mafia bosses and terrorists. Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered that the jurors in the case will be anonymous. The judge did so, not on the request of either party, but sua sponte (the court’s own motion). The judge acknowledged that such treatment was unusual and “most often” reserved for “terrorism and organized crime cases.”

However, the judge cited Trump’s long history of attempting to intimidate courts, witnesses, and even individual jurors as justifying this unusual step.

Wonder what they talked about . . . after delivering a slap in the face to every Capitol Police officer who held of the mob on Jan 6?

Meanwhile, there’s this:

Yes, Gym Jordan really is that stupid.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Gym Jordan (R-OH) has signaled a willingness to haul Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg into Congress to explain his investigation of former President Donald Trump’s hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

However, Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent believes “it’s not clear that Jordan… has thought this through,” as this course of action could lead to a counteroffensive from Democrats.

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“If and when there is an indictment, we will be able to reconstruct all the facts of this case in a way that makes sense to the American public,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tells Sargent.

Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY), meanwhile, tells Sargent that Jordan’s actions will make it easy for Democrats to argue that House Republicans are “using the official power of Congress to effectively coordinate with a criminal defendant.”

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Also — when a witness appears before a Congressional committee, there is a time limit for members, however, there is no time limit for how long a witness can take to respond.  Thus, NYC DA Bragg can take all the time he wants to lay out in simple terms the case against Trump — something that will be picked up by every news outlet in the country and replayed over and over and over.  Do Republicans REALLY want that?

Remember:  Democrats on the committee are former federal attorneys and lawyers.  Gym Jordan is a former assistant wrestling coach.

For his entire career, Trump has relied on legal tricks to keep him out of trouble.  His main trick has been to delay, delay, and delay some more.

Trump has been sued close to 4,000 times, most of the time by contractors to whom, after the work was finished, Trump refused to pay the full contracted amount.  He could get away with this because all but the very biggest contractors cannot afford to pay lawyers for months at a time, so, Trump — with his deep financial pockets — simply waited them out until the contractor gave up and accepted Trump’s low payment.

Trump is now dealing with state and federal governments.  These entities have endless resources — they can go along with his delays indefinitely.  HOWEVER — at some point, judges step in and now it is clear that local and state judges as well as federal judges appointed by Trump are not buying his delay tactics.

The latest case in point is his lawyer, Evan Corcoran, who tried to drag out the classified document case.  Finally, the DC federal judge had enough, told Corcoran late in the afternoon of March 21, 2023, to file his motion by midnight and told DOJ to respond by 6:00 AM the next day.  The filings are in and the judge is expected to rule against Trump within hours.

Trump’s one-trick pony is out of tricks.

A heated battle over whether a Trump attorney can be forced to testify is now in the hands of an appeals court.”

“A U.S. appeals court is expected to rule shortly on whether Trump attorney Evan Corcoran can appear before a grand jury in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.”

“The move comes after a dizzying saga overnight, in which the U.S. Department of Justice and attorneys for Trump filed dueling motions over Corcoran’s testimony. At the heart of the battling motions is a Friday ruling in which a federal judge reportedly sided with the DOJ, finding that Corcoran could be compelled to testify because prosecutors had sufficient evidence Trump may have used one of his defense attorneys in an alleged bid to mislead investigators.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/appeals-court-makes-extraordinary-late-night-demands-in-trump-mar-a-lago-case?ref=scroll

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AN EXPLANATION:

• Evan Corcoran was one of Trump’s attorneys who prepared the letter to DOJ claiming that Trump did not have any classified documents.
• Now it seems as though DOJ has either messages between/among Trump and his attorneys, including Corcoran — emails, texts, phone calls, conversations.
• DOJ has demanded copies of these communications, Corcoran says they are protected by attorney-client privilege; DOJ argues there is no such privilege when the communication is in furtherance of a crime (possession of stolen classified documents).
• The Court has told Corcoran to answer by midnight, March 21, and DOJ to respond to Corcoran within six hours (by 6:00 AM, March 22).

This might be a few things, all of which are speculation:

1) There is some imminent threat to National security at issue.

2) There could be concern about interfering with an active grand jury.

3) The court is all done being used for delays

4) A combination of things.

It’s all under seal, so there’s no real way to know until it’s ultimately revealed.

Whatever it is, the court deemed it important enough to go at lightspeed in handling the complaint.