Clear and Present Danger

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!”

 

 

 

During an appearance on MSNBC with host Alex Witt, former GOP campaign adviser Tara Setmeyer was asked about a major deep dive by Intelligencer’s Olivia Nuzzi that revealed that Donald Trump is wasting his days at Mar-a-Lago and doing nothing to enhance his 2024 presidential election chances.

According to Setmayer, the former president is “terrified” that he is quickly becoming yesterday’s news and reporting like Nuzzi’s is the last thing he wants people to hear about.

As she told the MSNBC host on the day before Christmas, the former president can be expected to do something drastic to make himself the center of attention again.

“He is terrified ,he is terrified of anything being small,” she told the host. “We already know this throughout his career, the way that he speaks. Olivia Nuzzi is a brilliant writer and captured that throughout her article.”

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“He’s afraid of being a loser, afraid of being irrelevant, he has now become a shut-in retiree down in Florida who has to create spectacles to stay relevant like the asinine digital NFT cards that he put out. Is this is a serious person? No,” she added. “It is somebody who’s crying out desperately for attention. Unfortunately, with someone as dangerous as Donald Trump and someone as irrational as him and someone as vicious and malignant and narcissistic like him, he is very dangerous still.”

Adding, “There’s no telling what he will do, she continued, “He does not care about the Republican Party or the state of the country, he will burn it to the ground first if that is what it means, if that is what it takes for him to stay in the headlines.”

“Anyone who knows Donald Trump, anyone who has followed him, or written biographies or read them, knows that being irrelevant and a loser is his biggest fear in life and he is headed down that path quickly,” she concluded.

Trump is two years out of office as President.  At this point, every other former President was finalizing plans for his Presidential library, and, working on his memoirs after signing a multi-million $$ book deal.  Trump is doing neither — he has no interest in a Presidential library and no one gives a damn about his memoirs.

In a deep dive into how things are going for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential run as he skips holding his rallies and holes up at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Olivia Nuzzi notes that things are not well at all and his advisers are admitting they are witnessing a downward spiral.

In the Intellinger report, under the telling headline “The Final Campaign: Inside Donald Trump’s sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win),” Nuzzi spoke with multiple Trump insiders and one lamented “The magic is gone.”

According to her report, Nuzzi claims she interviewed the former president 28 days ago and in the intervening time, he has rarely left the compound, saying defensively weeks ago, “I stay here “but I am outside of Mar-a-Lago quite a bit. I’m always largely outside of Mar-a-Lago at meetings and various other things and events. I’m down in Miami. I go to Miami, I go to different places in Florida.”

Writing, “He is sensitive about smallness. His entire life, he has rejected smallness,” Nuzzi spoke with some close associates who claimed that is what his life has come to after his announcement that he will run again in 2024 landed with a thud.

According to a former White House official. “It feels like he’s going through the motions because he said he would.”

Another questioned his actions while ensconced at his Florida resort, singling out his highly publicized dinner with controversial Kanye West, “He doesn’t have anything else to do. What else can he do? Why did he see Kanye? He wants to be relevant and wants the limelight. He’s thirsty.”

One Trump adviser painted a sad portrait of the former president as his legal problems pile up and his approval ratings plummet.

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

Another complained about the quality of people who are still hanging on to Trump hoping for a comeback.

“It’s not there. In this business, you can have it and have it so hot and it can go overnight and it’s gone and you can’t get it back. I think we’re just seeing it’s gone. The magic is gone,” they remarked “When Seb Gorka and Raheem Kassam and Kash Patel and Devin Nunes are your stars, that’s the D-list.”

A Tennessee man already facing charges in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was arrested for allegedly planning to kill FBI agents, including those who had been investigating him, the Justice Department announced Friday.

Edward Kelley, who was previously charged with assaulting an officer during the Capitol riot, and Austin Carter, also from Tennessee, have been charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate threats and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

According to an affidavit, Kelley and Carter had a list of names of 37 law enforcement members to assassinate.

The list noted which officers were involved in Kelley’s arrest in May in Knoxville, Tennessee, on the January 6-related charges or present during the search of his home, and it included some of their phone numbers, according to the affidavit.

An “acquaintance” of Kelley and Carter gave the list to police and began cooperating with investigators, according to the affidavit.

CNN has reached out to Kelley’s attorney. Carter’s attorney, Joshua Hedrick, told CNN in a statement, “Our investigation is only just beginning, but we are looking forward to providing a zealous defense of Mr. Carter, who has asserted his innocence.”

In a news release Friday, the Justice Department said Kelley not only discussed attacking law enforcement agents with Carter and their unnamed acquaintance, but also planned to attack the FBI’s Knoxville, Tennessee Field Office.

“If I’m extradited to DC or you don’t hear about my status within 24 or 48 hours..if they are coming to arrest me again, start it,” Kelley told the acquaintance during a recorded call Wednesday, according to the affidavit. “You guys are taking them out at their office. What you and [Carter] need to do is recruit as many as you can…and you’re going to attack their office.”

When the acquaintance asked if Carter was in support of part of Kelley’s plans, Carter told the individual that “this is the time, add up or put up” and “to definitely make sure you got everything racked, locked up and loaded.”

Kelley and Carter will remain detained pending further hearings.