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Federal, state, and local law enforcement preparing for violent reaction to Trump’s indictment

Law enforcement agencies are prepping for a possible Trump indictment as early as next week

Multiple agencies are preparing security plans for in and around the Manhattan Criminal Court to be in place when Trump is charged in connection with a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

Local, state and federal law enforcement and security agencies are preparing for the possibility that former President Donald Trump is indicted as early as next week, according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations.

Law enforcement agencies are conducting security assessments, the officials said, and are discussing security plans in and around the Manhattan Criminal Court, at 100 Centre Street, to be prepared for violence by Trump supporters when he is charged in connection with a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels and travels to New York to face charges.

Meanwhile, there’s this bullshit making the rounds of MAGAworld:

When reading anything Trump says, believe the opposite

Trump’s press release was at 6:12 PM EDST, March 16, 2023.

Former President Donald Trump’s spokesman released a statement on Thursday evening attacking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid reports that he is likely to indict the former president soon.

“President Donald J. Trump is completely innocent, he did nothing wrong, and even the biggest, most Radical Left Democrats are making that clear,” wrote Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung. “From Russia, Russia, Russia, to the Mueller Hoax, to Impeachment Hoaxes 1 and 2, and even the Unlawful Mar-a-Lago Raid, Democrats have investigated and attacked President Trump since before he was elected – and they’ve failed every time. Now Democrats are at it again, pushing the ‘Nuclear Button’ and attacking a President because of a disgraced extortionist. This is happening because President Trump is leading in the polls by a large margin against both Democrats and Republicans, and there’s never been anything so blatant in American political history.”

“The latest Witch-Hunt is being brought on by George Soros-backed Radical Left Democrat prosecutor Alvin Bragg,” Cheung continued. “Bragg has made political donations to fellow Radical Democrats like Raphael Warnock, and now Bragg is making a political donation of a different kind to Joe Biden. Everyone knows it’s a sham. In fact, the Department of Justice stocked the DA’s office with top people from DC to help ‘Get Trump’ at a local level.”

Cheung concluded by proclaiming that “Americans will not tolerate Radical Left Democrats turning our justice system into an injustice system to influence a presidential election, which is all they want to do.”

Bragg is expected to indict Trump for falsifying business records over the $130,000 hush payment his former attorney Michael Cohen helped facilitate between himself and adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Trump is currently facing a number of other criminal investigations, including an election probe by Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, and a pair of Justice Department probes overseen by special counsel Jack Smith.

Is there a single Republican candidate who is not a weird sociopath? Here’s Ron DeSantis — “eating like a starved animal, spreading food everywhere”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t officially entered the Republican presidential primary yet, but some of his supporters are taking steps to work around his lacking social skills.

Multiple sources told The Daily Beast the Florida governor struggles with basic social skills, and his allies are working in early primary states to structure events to prevent unexpected interactions between the public and a candidate who is off-putting at best and rude at worst.

“He would sit in meetings and eat in front of people, always like a starving animal who has never eaten before,” a former DeSantis staffer told The Daily Beast, “getting sh*t everywhere.”

At a Palm Beach donor retreat late last month, an attendee stood up and heckled him as “DeSatan,” according to Republican sources, and an Iowa caucus-goer posed for a photo with DeSantis holding a paper snowflake with the word “fascist” carved into it, but even those who wish to smooth the path at events have found staffers have taken on the governor’s standoffishness.

“Easily the least responsive campaign I’ve ever dealt with,” said one veteran event host in an early primary state. “We invite, invite, invite, ping, ping, ping. We don’t hear anything.”

DeSantis apparently used bike racks to wall himself off from the public during his Iowa visit, which one New Hampshire ally noticed.

“If they want 50 bike racks, we’ll give them 50 bike racks,” said a New Hampshire GOP legislator.

Three former staffers described DeSantis as merely “quiet” and prefers a “very small” orbit, but one top New Hampshire Republican said only Newt Gingrich was a bigger “nightmare” to handle.

“He’s been tighter in his requests than other candidates,” that Republican said.

Rude, crude, and stupid . . . is all it takes to be a Republican Presidential candidate.

“Northern Neck Patriots”: Bunch of dimwitted backwoods biblethumping goobers

Following the election of a black man as President, two “Tea Parties” formed at the end of the Virginia peninsula known as “The Northern Neck.”

  1. The “99th District Tea Party” took its name from the Virginia 99th House of Delegates District.  Folded in 2016 after then-president Don Johnson went off his rocker and pissed off most the members.  The 99th DTP had been failing for several months.
  2.  The “Montross Tea Party” took its name from the town of Montross in Westmoreland County.  They failed in 2016 after posting this plea on their website:

Our Board of Directors have been concerned for sometime on the drop of attendance at our Regular Tuesday night meetings. Our last meeting the attendance was 6.  We understand that we have members that are out of town and others that do not drive after dark especially in the winter and others that are working hard and just can’t make the meetings.

It is getting hard to get speakers and not fair to get speakers for only 6-10 members.  We have asked for input from our members.  The only input we have received is from our lively open discussions at meetings.

We are not going to roll over and let the Montross Tea Party die!  But we need to do something.  After two Board Meetings and a long agonizing debate this is our solution for now.  We are going to suspend our Tuesday night meetings for the time being.  This is effective the 8th of February.  The Board can call regular meetings as necessary.

In 2021, a notice appeared on the old Montross Tea Party Facebook page stating:

The Montross Tea Party is now the Northern Neck Patriots.

Turns out the “Northern Neck Patriots” are headed by a self-appointed holyroller preacher who was tossed out of the Navy for refusing to get the COVID vaccine.  The few members are a rag-tag bunch, some former Montross Tea Party members, some attracted to the “Patriot” name.  The “Northern Neck Patriots” website and Facebook page are simple, no information, rarely updated.

Turns out the main –some have said the only — activity by the “Northern Neck Patriots” has been to protest at the Northern Neck Regional Jail, Warsaw VA where several of the armed coup thugs from January 6, 2021, were housed awaiting trial.  Turns out the “Patriots” are convinced the Jan 6 thugs are true patriots who are now being persecuted as “political prisoners”.  The “Patriots” don’t have much of a track record — turns out that of the seven initial Jan 8 thugs supported by the “Patriots”, four have already been sentenced (7 years, 7 years, 51 months, and 1 year) while three have been found guilty (or pled guilty) and are awaiting sentencing.

The “Northern Neck Patriots” are not particularly respected in the area — for example:

  • Former members of the Montross Tea Party unanimously do not like the “Patriots” and refuse to have anything to do with them.
  • In November 2022, the “Patriots” approached every county Republican Party on the Northern Neck, asking to be appointed as “Official Representatives” so they could go into polling places and stay to “observe” election procedures.  Every Republican Party turned them down.
  • At least two county Republican Parties have thrown “Patriots” out of their membership.
  • “Patriots” show up at a lot of County Supervisors’ meetings where they speak in the public comments period.  Their comments are a mixture of nonsense, bullshit, and rightwing pipe dreams.

Back in December 2022, DOJ informed the US Attorney in DC to expect “1,000 or more” indictments from Jan 6

More than 1,000 additional people could still face charges in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, according to a letter to the DC federal court from the US attorney in Washington.

The one-page letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, was sent late last year to the chief judge and hasn’t been previously reported. It offers details on what Attorney General Merrick Garland has called “one of the largest, most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in our history.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/doj-told-court-to-expect-a-deluge-of-new-jan-6-prosecutions?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics&utm_medium=social&utm_content=politics

Oh, Lordy, there is ANOTHER tape !!!

We all know about the tape recordings of Trump’s attempts to force the Georgia Governor and Secretary of State to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election in Georgia.

Now, we find there is ANOTHER TAPE

Third call Trump made about votes aren't additional crimes — but they go to intent: Georgia lawyer
Trump recognizes that he is in deep, deep shit . . . and there’s no way out.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday that a third audio recording of Donald Trump asking a Georgia Republican official to help him flip the election was played for the Fulton County grand jury.

Georgia lawyer Michael Moore spoke to MSNBC about the new information that was previously unknown publicly. It makes three recordings that exist where Trump is pressing lawmakers to change the election results in the state. Moore explained that this doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s guilty of another crime so much as it goes to Trump’s intent while committing a crime.

“I do you think it is a good piece of evidence, I don’t think it is maybe as damning as the calls to [Secretary of State Brad] Raffensperger and to the other election specials,” said Moore. “But I think it gives you a good picture of Trump’s state of mind and his intent as he made those other calls. So, for instance, he calls the speaker, and he says I want you to have a special session and let’s, you know, let’s get election fixed or whatever. Well, he is not elections official that is going to recall the election. But it tells you that he knew there was a problem.”

He went on to say that when one looks at that call as well as the one to Raffensperger and even Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), “it all starts to be as clear as it can be. And that is that he’s telling Raffensperger, I need to just find this number of votes. I mean, basically, I think it is an indication that Trump knew he had problems, but he was taken every avenue he could to try to overturn the election in Georgia, including making references about possible criminal problems that Raffensperger may have or talking about these other votes and maybe intimidating someone in the role that he occupied at the time a president of the United States.”

One of the members of the special grand jury remembered a quote from Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) testimony about Trump’s state of mind at the time and that “if somebody had told Trump that aliens came down and stole Trump’s ballots, that Trump would’ve believed it,” the juror said.

Moore said that perhaps an option was to give immunity to the aliens to get them to testify.

“He knew exactly where he was, and what the truth was, and he was being told by people,” continued Moore. “There is one side of this that says he was maybe a candidate that lost a race and he is doing everything you can to see if there is some way to find a path to victory. But he went way beyond that. And it’s called to Raffensperge has been the DA’s clearest case I think that she has. It’s almost like having a taped confession before there is even a trial. Before there is even an interrogation or an arrest by a police officer. You have this guy admitting and essentially saying, give me this exact number of votes I have to find out who do this and that is going to be the problem for him down the road.”

Meanwhile, Republicans in the Georgia legislature and the governor are working to pass a bill that allows them to go after DA Fani Willis as she reportedly nears an indictment.

About child sex abuse:

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THIS is the man who was just arrested for child sex crimes. Was he in drag reading in libraries? No.

Surprise, surprise, he was a YOUTH PASTOR. For a church. In Texas. But was he the only pastor in America arrested recently for this charge? No. Not even close.

On July 22, 2022, a jury found Chad Michael Rider, 49, of Anna, Texas guilty of three counts of sexually exploiting children.

Rider was sentenced by a U.S. District Judge on Wednesday to 60 years in prison.

Was he the only pastor arrested and sentenced for child sex abuse?  Hardly.  In the past two weeks, two more pastors IN THE SAME TEXAS COUNTY were arrested on similar charges.