Author: clearandpresentdanger

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donald Trump has been issuing increasingly frenzied denials and defense as the House select committee concludes its investigation and hands over new evidence to help the Department of Justice conduct their own.

The former president had been wailing about his predicament on his Truth Social platform since before the Jan. 6 committee held its final public hearing, where they voted to refer him to the DOJ for criminal charges, but his urgency seemed to pick up after the panel’s final report dropped and the IRS finally turned over his tax records to the House Ways and Means Committee, reported The Bulwark.

“Trump truthed out a novel legal defense: ‘The Fake charges made by the highly partisan Unselect Committee of January 6th have already been submitted, prosecuted, and tried in the form of Impeachment Hoax # 2. I WON convincingly. Double Jeopardy anyone!'” wrote columnist Bill Lueders.

“Double jeopardy is the legal principle that a person cannot be charged twice for the same crime,” Lueders added. “It does not apply to impeachment proceedings, because those are not criminal prosecutions. Trump should probably ask a lawyer to explain this to him, although maybe not the lawyers who were advising him in late 2020 and early 2021, since the committee has referred some of them for criminal prosecution alongside Trump.”

The ex-president continued blasting out frenzied denials through the holiday weekend attacking law enforcement and his political enemies, including one “frantic and foul-tempered rant” extending Christmas Day greetings to even the “Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country.”

“Donald Trump gives new meaning to the word ‘shameless,'” Lueders said. “I could go on and on with the catalog of Trump posts, but you get the idea: He is ensconced in his bunker at Mar-a-Lago, spewing nonsense, denying the obvious, and making a perpetual display of his unfitness for office.”

The posts make plain Trump hasn’t read the report or understand that its findings undercut his lies about election fraud and his subsequent attempts to escape consequences for trying to overturn his 2020 loss, but Lueders said they seem to point toward a final reckoning with his criminality.

“With the release of the January 6th Committee’s report and the picked-up pace of the Justice Department investigation now led by a special counsel, this moment may be the beginning of the end of Trump’s avoidance of consequence,” Lueders wrote. “But don’t expect his social media to reckon with that possibility. He’ll just keep posting his angry lies — until, perchance, prison bars prevent him from accessing the internet.”

A Harvard business graduate, Youngkin spent 25 years climbing to the top ranks of the Carlyle Group. He played a key role in building Carlyle into one of the leading investment firms in the world, his bio states.

If you care, you can read the full disgusting, cloying, ridiculous article at this link.

Youngkin doesn’t say if God will lead him to become President.  Meanwhile, polling says something different.

 

NOTE:  The CBN reporter who interviewed Youngkin is Abigail Robertson.  She is the niece of Gordon Robertson, founder and owner of CBN, and is also the granddaughter of Pat Robertson.

 

 

 

 

Former President Donald Trump has spent the night ranting on his personal social media site about everything from a recent piece in New York Magazine to the final report of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

“Very interesting, because until recently the political Hacks and Thugs of the highly partisan January 6th Unselect Committee were seldom talking about your favorite President, me, as it related to the PROTEST on Election Fraud. NUMBER ONE, as President, I have total Immunity. Number two, I did nothing wrong. Then the Committee members, mostly the same sleaze that pushed the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, started saying that “Trump” did it. Even Shifty Schiff got into the act again. SAD!!!”

New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi revealed a bombshell report in which she quoted a staffer of former president Donald Trump’s who claimed he “cracked” while working in the White House alone through the COVID-19 pandemic.

“He just goes, plays golf, comes back, and f*cks off. He has retreated to the golf course and to Mar-a-Lago,” an adviser told the reporter. “His world has gotten much smaller. His world is so, so small.”

The reporting sent Trump raging into his personal social media site, where he didn’t dispute what was said other than his usual “fake news” claim before he attacked Nuzzi as dumb and ugly.

“The Fake & Corrupt News is only getting worse! As an example, I agreed to do a short telephone interview for a once very good, but now on its ‘last legs’ and failing, New York Magazine. The reporter was a shaky & unattractive wack job, known as ‘tough’ but dumb as a rock, who actually wrote a decent story about me a long time ago. Her name, Olivia Nuzzi. Anyway, the story was Fake News, her ‘anonymous sources’ don’t exist (true with many writers), and I’m happily fighting hard for our GREAT USA!”

 

Several busloads of migrants were dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve in 13 degree weather late Saturday.

An initial two busloads were taken to local shelters, according to an administration official. More buses arrived outside the vice president’s residence later Saturday evening. A CNN team saw migrants being dropped off, with some migrants wearing only T-shirts in the freezing weather. They were given blankets and put on another bus that went to a local church.

Amy Fischer, a volunteer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, which has been receiving migrants sent to DC since the spring, said the organization had been prepared for Saturday night’s arrivals, having been informed about it earlier by an NGO working at the border in Texas.

Abbot and his ilk think they are “owning the libs” when in fact they are guaranteeing their place in Hell.

I pray every day that this is Abbot’s fate.

Donald Trump kicked off his Christmas morning in merry fashion by noting on his Truth Social account that it is a “very cold but beautiful Christmas Day,” before continuing on to point out that the country is going to hell because he is no longer president

On Christmas Eve the former president ranted, “Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is illegally coercing & paying Social and LameStream Media to push for a mentally disabled Democrat over the Brilliant, Clairvoyant, and USA LOVING Donald J. Trump, and, of course, The Department of Injustice, which appointed a Special ‘Prosecutor’ who, together with his wife and family, HATES ‘Trump’ more than any other person on earth. LOVE TO ALL!”

Early Sunday, he continued in that vein in two postings, one of which declared,:”The USA is dying from within!!!”

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As he wrote, “On this very cold but beautiful Christmas Day, look at our Nation NOW on the Southern Border compared to only a short time ago during the Trump Administration. We had the most SECURE Border in our history, versus the ‘horror show‘ that that is happening now, with record setting numbers of people, many of them hardened Criminals (including Killers, Human Traffickers and Drug Dealers), POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY at a rate the likes of which we have never seen before. The USA is dying from within!!!”

Not content with that, he added, “Just two years ago we were Energy Independent, had almost Zero Inflation, there was no war with Russia and Ukraine (would NEVER have happened!), ISIS was defeated, our Military was rebuilt and respected (before the disaster of Afghanistan), our Border was Strong, the Economy was GREAT, the China Virus was in retreat (Operation Warp Speed was considered a modern day ‘miracle’), and we weren’t the laughing stock of the World. TODAY, LIKE NEVER BEFORE, WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE, A FAILING NATION!”

Trump lies over and over.  He’s nutty as a porta-pottie at a peanut festival.

Fox News host Dana Perino urged Congress to “tap the brakes” on releasing former President Donald Trump’s tax documents because he could release them during the next campaign cycle.

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Perino explained why she opposed the release of Trump’s tax information.

“It’s like the filibuster, right?” Perino said. “That’s always like the game of chicken. And this is unprecedented and I think that the committee was probably — Democrats overall were probably disappointed in the report that they got after they had Trump’s tax returns and now they just want to release them to the public.”

“Now, however, tax returns can be released,” she continued. “The people running for office have usually. I understand that was a breaking of norms. But this would also be a breaking of norms. And I don’t know if you’re going to have future presidents who refuse to release their taxes. So in a way, I think they should tap the brakes, slow their roll and allow for the next presidential campaign to happen, and then if the Congress thinks there has to be some requirement, then they can try to pass a law that does that.”

Maybe it’s the blonde hair.

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at President Joe Biden, the January 6 committee, and his other perceived rivals in two Truth Social posts on Christmas Eve.

“The Unselect Committee’s January 6th Report is a Hoax, no different than RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of the other Scams that the Disinformation laden Democrats have been planting for years,” Trump wrote. “If I weren’t leading by a lot in the Polls, against both parties, this continuation of falsehoods and lies would end quickly. I won in 2016, did much better in 2020 (RIGGED!), and the Radical Marxists don’t want to run against me or MAGA in 2024. I had almost nothing to do with January 6th. FREE SPEECH!”

Earlier this week, the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has urged the Justice Department to pursue Trump for inciting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the US government and making false statements.

The panel has begun turning over evidence to independent prosecutor Jack Smith, who is overseeing federal probes into Trump’s role in the riot and his handling of government secrets improperly stored at his Florida beach club.

“If the evidence is as we presented it, I’m convinced the Justice Department will charge former President Trump,” committee chairman Thompson told CNN ahead of the report’s release.

The twice-impeached 76-year-old Trump is also facing criminal and civil investigations into his business practices and efforts to overturn his election defeat in the swing state of Georgia.

In a subsequent Truth Social post, the former president raged against Biden and law enforcement.

“Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is illegally coercing & paying Social and LameStream Media to push for a mentally disabled Democrat over the Brilliant, Clairvoyant, and USA LOVING Donald J. Trump, and, of course, The Department of Injustice, which appointed a Special ‘Prosecutor’ who, together with his wife and family, HATES ‘Trump’ more than any other person on earth. LOVE TO ALL!”