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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 12, 2021 19:12:52 GMT
As a former poll clerk the threats are frightening. Poll clerks here, are at the polling sites at 5am to do the opening paperwork and they close he polls at 8 pm and need to finish all the tallies, secure the machines and one must return the books to the municipal building. It is an extremely long day for little pay.
And he calls our citizens and officials sleezebags.. I sure wish they would get moving on charges.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2021 23:14:00 GMT
His DIL has joined the incite the mobs group! Despite violent rhetoric from her family inciting the January 6th insurrection, Lara Trump suggested vigilante violence against people perceived to be from south of the southern border during a Saturday night appearance with Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro. The former president's daughter-in-law suggested residents of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California should arm themselves and prepare for violence. www.rawstory.com/lara-trump-vigilante-violence
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 15, 2021 14:03:32 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 15, 2021 14:08:19 GMT
If this country doesn’t hold trump accountable, the next guy could succeed at what trump was trying to accomplish.
Then what?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 15, 2021 14:22:42 GMT
Free for all !
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 17, 2021 17:21:42 GMT
From the Atlantic…
“How to Hold Trump Accountable”
The extent of the former president’s corruption may be too great for Americans to fathom.
By Ronald Brownstein
A torrent of new revelations is filling in the picture of how Donald Trump used, and abused, his authority as president. But the disclosures may serve only to underscore how little remains known about all the ways in which Trump barreled through traditional limits on the exercise of presidential power—and highlight the urgency of developing a more comprehensive accounting before the 2024 election, when he may seek to regain those powers.
The steady flow of discoveries over the past few weeks has been damning. Emails show how both Trump and his White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows pressured the Justice Department to support the former president’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020. A previously unheard tape captures how Rudolph Giuliani, as Trump’s attorney, explicitly pressured Ukraine to manufacture an investigation against Joe Biden—the issue that prompted the former president’s first impeachment. Even more ominous has been the disclosure that the Justice Department under Trump subpoenaed communications records of journalists, Democratic members and staffers in the House of Representatives, and even Trump’s own White House counsel, all without their knowledge.
The revelation of that sweeping surveillance, in particular, has triggered a uniform reaction among many who have most closely tracked Trump’s ethical and legal record: If a program that consequential and potentially egregious is surfacing only after he left office, there is likely much more that remains undiscovered.
“When the news broke about the congressional revelations, I was actually on television shortly thereafter … and I told the host, ‘This is just the tip of the iceberg; there will be more,’” Norm Eisen, who served as a special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s first impeachment, told me recently. “Certainly, someone who would target the news organizations and target Congress would do much more.”
John Dean, a pivotal figure in shattering the Watergate cover-up as Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, agreed. “He is such a harsh taskmaster and is so vicious about leakers and disloyalty that I think his inner circle is terrified of him and remains that way, and for that reason we know very little,” Dean told me this week. “Is there more? You bet.”
Trump’s behavior remains the subject of multiple investigations in both chambers of Congress, as well as by the Manhattan district attorney and the New York State attorney general’s office (which is examining financial manipulation at his company), and by the district attorney’s office in Fulton County, Georgia, which is probing his pressure on state officials there to overturn the 2020 election results. Federal investigators are examining whether Giuliani violated lobbying laws in his dealings with Ukrainian officials.
The House Judiciary Committee announced this week that it would hold hearings on the administration’s acquisition, during a leak investigation, of communications records of journalists and members of Congress. (The Justice Department’s inspector general is also investigating.) And after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection, House Democrats appear likely to launch their own inquiry into the attack.“
But it’s an open question whether these disparate investigations, proceeding on multiple tracks and operating under divergent rules, will provide a comprehensive picture of all the ways in which Trump used, and potentially misused, his authority during his four years in office.
Noah Bookbinder, the president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning nonprofit group that studies ethical abuses, says that a more systematic approach is needed to understand the breadth of Trump’s impact on the federal government. “As best as we can tell, this was a co-opting of the entire federal government for the political and personal advancement of one person and those around him,” he told me.
To Bookbinder, the common thread in all of the scandals—from Trump’s pressuring of Ukraine to the new revelations about his DOJ obtaining communications data—is a consistent effort to enlist every element of federal power for his personal and political benefit (a dynamic I’ve examined before). Trump, Bookbinder noted, did much of that in full public view. He pardoned Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, political allies who refused to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Trump companies also famously billed the government for costs associated with stays at properties he owned.
The evidence already available, Bookbinder said, shows that Trump’s determination to use federal power to benefit him and his allies was felt in every corner of government. That demands a more systematic investigation, he argued, of how the full range of government agencies made decisions that helped political allies, well-connected lobbyists, or businesses associated with Trump himself.“
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