Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.
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Jack Smith must be chuckling this morning following this development. It turns out someone in the Trump campaign in Wisconsin made recordings of a meeting in the days following the 2020 presidential election. What they caught on tape and what it means:
“We ever talk to Black people before? I don’t think so,” he said, eliciting laughter from others in the room.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A newly released audio recording offers a behind-the-scenes look at how former President Donald Trump’s campaign team in a pivotal battleground state knew they had been outflanked by Democrats in the 2020 presidential election. But even as they acknowledged defeat, they pivoted to allegations of widespread fraud that were ultimately debunked — repeatedly — by elections officials and the courts.
The audio from Nov. 5, 2020, two days after the election, is surfacing as Trump again seeks the White House while continuing to lie about the legitimacy of the outcome and Democrat Joe Biden’s win.
The Wisconsin political operatives in the strategy session even praised Democratic turnout efforts in the state’s largest counties and appeared to joke about their efforts to engage Black voters, according to the recording obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The audio centers on Andrew Iverson, who was the head of Trump’s campaign in the state.
That these two things happened is not surprising. After all, there exists plenty of other evidence that the Trump campaign would cry election fraud if Trump lost. Roger Stone admitted as early as the summer of 2020 that the Trump Campaign planned to contest the results in bad faith. And former top Trump advisor Steve Bannon was caught on tape telling a group that if Trump was losing on election night, he was going to claim the election was stolen.
What is different here is that this tape lays out what was going on at the critical battleground state level. Lower level Trump operatives there have far fewer means and connections to protect themselves against prosecution, and they’re unlikely to be willing to fall on the sword for Trump today. Indeed, the recording was apparently made by another campaign staffer, who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals. The staffer was concerned that Trump has decided to run again in 2024 and that the nation could see another repeat of the 2020 election chaos.
Folks, the Republican Party has now officially lost its mind:
1. Four Republican House member are waring lapel pins shaped like AR -15 rifles while the rest of the House Republicans voted to allow members to carry firearms into committee hearings.
2. Mike Lindell says, the RNC has agreed to let him lead an “Election Crime Unit” focused on the 2020 election.
3. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to deliver Republican response to State of the Union address.
At least three House Republicans this week began wearing pins in the shape of an assault weapon on their clothing. U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY), U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) were all caught on camera with the pins, leading some to express outrage.
This is very good news. The short version is in the two bullets below, followed by the long versions. I’m hoping Hunter Biden and the father of the dead young man both win their cases and bankrupt the bastards involved with the laptop, and, bankrupt Kyle Rittenhouse.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden have had enough of the bullshit about his laptop. Hunter Biden has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the saga of his stolen laptop — he turned it in for repair, the shop owner (a Trump supporter) stole the laptop and turned it over to Rudy Giuliani. Read the full story below.
Kyle Rittenhouse is being sued for wrongful death by the family of one of the young men Rittenhouse murdered. Remember: This suit is a civil action, thus, it requires only a majority of the jury to convict, not unanimous as in a criminal trial. Rittenhouse is going down.
Kyle Rittenhouse, killer. Cry me a river you slimy little bastard.
UPDATE
The little crybaby tried to hide. Huber’s lawyers and private investigators needed over 100 hours to locate Rittenhouse to serve him with the civil lawsuit paperwork, eventually serving him at his sister’s house. Rittenhouse’s lawyers tried to argue the case should be dismissed because he was not properly served. The judge dismissed that claim.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden request criminal investigation into the theft of his laptop by allies of Trump
Lawyers for Hunter Biden sent letters Wednesday requesting investigations into allies of former President Donald Trump who they say trafficked in stolen information from his laptop — a dramatic shift in strategy for the president’s son after years of GOP attacks.
Among the letters, which were obtained by NBC News, was one sent Wednesday to the Justice Department’s National Security Division asking for an investigation into “individuals for whom there is considerable reason to believe violated various federal laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr. Biden’s personal computer data,” including Rudy Giuliani, who was Trump’s lawyer at the time.
Hunter Biden lawyers wrote a similar letter to the Delaware attorney general’s office, requesting a probe into the same people for allegedly violating “various Delaware laws” in accessing Biden’s information from what Trump has called “the laptop from hell.”
The Justice Department declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Delaware attorney’s general did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kyle Rittenhouse sued for wrongful death — judge says suit can proceed
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Wisconsin on Wednesday ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.
The father of Anthony Huber, one of two men shot and killed by Rittenhouse, filed the lawsuit in 2021, accusing officers of allowing for a dangerous situation that violated his son’s constitutional rights and resulted in his death. Anthony Huber’s father, John Huber, also alleged that Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, conspired with law enforcement to cause harm to protestors. John Huber is seeking unspecified damages from city officials, officers and Rittenhouse.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman on Wednesday dismissed motions filed by Rittenhouse and the government defendants seeking to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit.
In allowing the case against Rittenhouse and the others to proceed, the judge said that Anthony Huber’s death “could plausibly be regarded as having been proximately caused by the actions of the governmental defendants.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 30, 2023) – The Associated Press has just reported that “Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been put on notice by . . . a Georgia prosecutor who indicated she was likely to seek criminal charges soon in a two-year election subversion probe.”
While noting that [Fani] “Willis, a Democrat, didn’t mention Trump by name,” nevertheless “her comments marked the first time a prosecutor in any of several current investigations tied to the Republican former president has hinted that charges could be forthcoming.”
Also according to the AP’s newest report, Clark Cunningham, a Georgia State University law professor, predicted “I expect to see indictments in Fulton County before I see any federal indictments.”
Law professor John Banzhaf, whose formal legal complaint filed with Willis initially triggered the criminal investigation of Trump and his allies, and led to the rare appointment of a special grand jury which just issued a still-sealed report, also suggests that the first – if not the only – criminal charges against the former president will be filed by a county prosecutor rather than by the Department of Justice [DoJ].
An ever growing number of experts have also concluded that Trump’s gravest legal threat comes not from the newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith, but rather from the DA of Fulton County, Georgia; in part because Attorney General Merrick Garland may nix one or more proposed federal prosecutions for legal and political reasons, as well as the troubling “optics,” says Banzhaf.
