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$83 Million Judgment Against Trump for Defaming E. Jean Carrol
A jury in New York has awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages in her defamation trial against former President Trump.
On Friday, a jury ordered Donald Trump to pay a whopping $83.3 million in punitive damages for repeatedly defaming E. Jean Carroll. Hugo Lowell and Joyce Vance, a personal friend of Carroll’s, join Alex Witt to discuss Trump’s reaction to the verdict, his statement announcing he plans to appeal Carroll verdict, and whether E. Jean Carroll could file a third defamation suit for Trump’s comments about her recently, including 42 Truth Social posts about her on Monday, 37 on Wednesday, and another 16 posts while he was in court on Friday, the same day the verdict was released.
‘An 80 year old woman was the first to get accountability from Donald Trump’: Lisa Rubin
Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst and Katie Phang, MSNBC Host join Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the verdict awarding $83.3 in damages to E. Jean Carroll for defamatory statements Donald Trump made about her, and her being the first person to get true accountability from the former President.
Trump’s Relentless Posts Defaming E. Jean Carroll
VERDICT IS IN: Trump ordered to pay MASSIVE penalty in defamation case
Trump hit with record-breaking $83 million fine for sexual assault lies
E. Jean Carroll attorney: Trump verdict proves ‘your lies’ catch up to you
Attorney for E. Jean Carroll Shawn Crowley joins Chris Hayes to discuss the $83M Trump verdict. “I hope and I believe very strongly after today that the lesson is that actually no one’s above the law, and that your behavior and your statements and your threats and your lies are going to catch up to you some day,” says Crowley.
Bill to Require Florida Resident ID for Social Media
The dark side of Florida’s HB 1 it that it will require everyone using Social Media in the State of Florida to submit a photo ID, making it much easier for Florida officials to identify and go after anyone who posts things on Social Media which they don’t like.
We’ve already seen how Florida Republicans attacks entities which exercise their Constitutional Rights to Freedom of Speech, such as Disney and the Tampa Bay Rays.
This bill violates every principle of Republican “limited government”. Florida Republicans are taking away people’s freedom and attempting to use BIG GOVERNMENT to micro-manage and legislate every aspect of their lives. This is all part of Republican’s “slippery slope” to take away your Liberty, Freedom and Democracy… piece by piece… until they’ve completely turned the United States into a Fascist Dictatorship like Russia, North Korea and Hungary.
“It is only the third week of the Florida Legislative session, and lawmakers have pushed for an extensive censorship bill to be heard on the House floor.
House Bill 1 (HB 1) would stifle freedom of expression online by requiring all users, including adults, to verify their age by providing a photo ID or other age verification documentation before using existing social media accounts or creating new ones.
If passed, HB 1 would result in the prohibition of minors under the age of 16 from creating social media accounts on specific platforms and the deletion of any existing accounts, regardless of parental consent for their children to use such platforms.
The bill raises serious constitutional concerns regarding freedom of speech and privacy. Age-verification requirements create unwarranted barriers between users – adults and minors alike – and their constitutional right to express themselves online. It also forces adults to sacrifice their anonymity to engage in constitutionally protected speech, chilling their freedom of expression.
“Let’s be clear: This bill is not about prioritizing the health and well-being of minors. HB 1 is unconstitutional censorship.”
Anonymity
Anonymity is a core First Amendment value that enables the dissemination of ideas, participation in the democratic process, membership in political associations, the practice of religious beliefs, and the expression of one’s identity without fear of government interference or public retaliation.
Florida Bill HB 1 VIOLATES First Amendment Rights to Anonymity and Freedom of Speech
Per the above article: “Anonymity is a core First Amendment value that enables the dissemination of ideas, participation in the democratic process, membership in political associations, the practice of religious beliefs, and the expression of one’s identity without fear of government interference or public retaliation. The protection of anonymity is all the more important online, where surveillance and personal data collection threaten individuals’ ability to communicate without revealing their identities.
The ‘Honorable Tradition’ of Anonymous Speech
Although anonymity has taken on new meaning in the digital era, its historical roots run deep. As the Supreme Court wrote in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995), anonymous speech “is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent.” One of the most famous examples of anonymous political writing occurred during the ratification of the Constitution itself, when the Federalist Papers were published under the pseudonym Publius. Notably, the practice was nonpartisan: in response to the refusal by several Federalist papers to publish anonymous works, outraged Anti-Federalists declared that this action would “reverse the important doctrine of the freedom of the press.”
Anonymity remains an important safeguard for political discourse, yet its significance reaches much further. Anonymity is a necessary component in people’s ability to form ideas outside the watchful eye of their neighbors, as well as the government’s. “The recognition that anonymity shelters constitutionally-protected decisions about speech, belief, and political and intellectual association—decisions that otherwise might be chilled by unpopularity or simple difference—is part of our constitutional tradition,” writes Prof. Julie Cohen. “But the benefits of informational autonomy . . . extend to a much wider range of human activity and choice. We do not experiment only with beliefs and associations, but also with every other conceivable type of taste and behavior that expresses and defines self.”
Anonymous Criticism helped make America Great
Per an article published by the Washington Post, “Anonymous criticism helped make America great” at washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/08/anonymous-criticism-helped-make-america-great/
“Anonymous publication has been an essential feature of American democracy since its beginning. It has long allowed vulnerable voices to participate in public politics and speak truth to power. Indeed, anonymous debate was at the center of the revolutionary politics that led to American independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which enshrined the press freedoms that continue to protect anonymous speech today”.
“In the late 18th century, pseudonyms and anonymous sources filled the pages of newspapers. In fact, some of the most prominent Founding Fathers regularly used the shield of pseudonyms in political essays during the era of the American Revolution: Thomas Paine, John Dickinson, Alexander Hamilton, Arthur Lee, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Influential texts such as “Common Sense,” the Federalist essays and the “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” essays were all published without an author’s byline”.
Every year, during their legislative period, Radical Right Wing Florida Republicans propose & pass more & more RESTRICTIVE legislation to take away people’s rights, rather than legislation to solve problems and improves people’s lives. Examples include;
- Anti-choice 6 week ban on abortion taking away Women’s Rights to make decisions about their own bodies
- Laws limiting what can be discussed in classrooms, such as the “Don’t say Gay” law. These laws doesn’t fix any existing problems, they’re a “Solution in Search of a Problem” and unnecessary BIG GOVERNMENT regulations & restrictions which makes teachers jobs more difficult. Laws like these were not needed since the founding of our country and are not needed now. Today’s Republicans are FASCISTS who want to micro-manage and legislate every aspect of people’s lives.
- Law mandating public colleges and universities survey students and faculty about their Political Beliefs (FL HB 233)
- Teachers must withhold classroom library books until they can be individually reviewed for certification or face being charged with a third-degree felony if violated. (Bill 1467)
- Florida HB 999 Republican plan to restrict the way history is taught at Florida’s colleges and universities (condemned by academics & historians across the U.S. Another example of Fascist, Authoritarian policies).
- Voting Police to intimidate people so they’re afraid to vote in Florida
- Bill to eliminate the Democrat Party in the State of Florida, thereby creating One Party Rule similar to how Dictator Victor Orbán took over the once Democratic government in Hungary
- Florida ‘Bloggers Bill’ to require anyone who writes about Florida Republicans and DeSantis to register with the state. This is another BLATANT violation of the 1st Amendment and attempt to SILENCE critics. This is the same Anti-Democratic, Fascist Authoritarian tactic used by the Nazi German Propaganda Ministry in 1933 called the “Editors Law” and in 2014 by War Criminal Dictator Vladimir Putin, forcing bloggers in Russia to register with the Russian Media office.
- Attacking Freedom of Speech – Bill HB 991 to significantly weaken libel laws. Critics believe this is an attempt to give Ron DeSantis even more power to sue his critics for saying things he doesn’t like. Bill 991 also gives Florida residents the right to sue others (both in the state or elsewhere in the U.S.) who describe their actions online as transphobic or homophobic, for $35,000 and would not allow the truth to be used in defenses against such lawsuits.
- Retaliated against Disney for exercising their First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech, stripping Disney of 50+ years self-governing authority after Disney stated opposition to the ‘Don’t say Gay’ law which limits discussing LGBTQ issues in schools.
- Right Wing figures installed on the board of former Disney district. This is the same tactics used in Anti-Democratic Fascists Dictatorships
- Retaliated against the Tampa Bay Rays for exercising their First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech by blocking state money to their training facility after team tweeted against gun violence
- Florida Senate Bill 254 to allow the state to take Trans children receiving gender-affirming care away from Parents
- Anti-Protesting Laws making protesting a felony & allowing protestors can be run over & killed with no consequences. This law was passed to silence and intimidate anyone who dare protest and raise objections to Republican’s oppression (similar to Russia and North Korea)
- DeSantis own State Militia which would only answer to him and “not be encumbered to the federal government.”
Florida Republicans PROVE They’re Anti-Democratic FASCISTS
Historian Calls Ron DeSantis the ‘Florida Fascist’
“Extreme DeSantis”
Florida Republicans PROVE they’re Anti-Democratic FASCISTS by introducing a bill to eliminate the Democrat Party, thereby creating ONE PARTY RULE similar to how DICTATOR Victor Orbán took over the once Democratic government in Hungary (more about this in detail below).
INCREDIBLE how Florida Republican Senator Blaise Ingoglia, who introduced the bill to ‘Cancel’ the Democratic party uses the ridiculous excuse of ‘Slavery’ when his party does everything possible to keep minorities from voting (details can be found in videos on this site).
This is another example of how Florida Republicans are ARROGANT and DRUNK with power.
REPUBLICAN Senator Blaise Ingoglia wants to ‘cancel’ the Democratic Party in Florida
Ken Burns Compares DeSantis Bills to ‘Soviet System’ on CNN: ‘The Way the Nazis Would Build a Potemkin Village’
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns joined CNN on Tuesday and accused Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of creating a Soviet-like system through his bills targeting materials available in public schools. DeSantis has been focused on introducing legislation specifically aimed at explicit and “woke” materials in schools. His efforts have earned major pushback as critics argue new strict guidelines can be used to target LGBTQ and Black history-related content. House Bill 999 would give more power to a university board of trustees over curriculum being taught and essentially ban controversial curriculum like Critical Race Theory. [source: mediaite.com/tv/ken-burns-compares-desantis-bills-to-soviet-system-on-cnn-the-way-the-nazis-would-build-a-potemkin-village]
DeSantis & Florida Republican’s War with Disney is classic Fascism… using the powers of BIG Government to FORCE a business to submit to the Dictator’s wishes and CRUSH anyone who dares defy the “Dear Leader”. This what Russia and 3rd world Banana Republic Dictators do.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis points to Florida as a ‘blueprint’ for the nation
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis prepares for a possible 2024 White House run, he’s pointing to Florida to highlight his vision for America. MSNBC Political Analyst Fernand Amandi joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss DeSantis’ so-called Florida “blueprint.”
‘It’s death to public discourse’: First Amendment expert on Florida bills targeting media worker
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is seen by many as apparently creating the right-wing “safe space” that Marjorie Taylor Greene seemed to ask for–a space where the children of certain white Christians will never have to learn anything that makes their right-wing parents uncomfortable. Joy Reid and her panel discuss the Florida bills and new laws passed by Republicans that experts say infringe on the First Amendment.
‘This is what a dictator does’: Nikki Fried blames Gov. DeSantis for Republican proposal to abolish Florida Democratic Party
The bill would ‘cancel’ the registration of ‘any political party that has ever supported slavery’
Per the above article: ‘This is what a dictator does’: Nikki Fried blames Gov. DeSantis for Republican proposal to abolish Florida Democratic Party
“Nikki Fried, the newly elected chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party, blamed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration for the proposal. “This is what a dictator does,” Fried said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters. “A dictator goes after those who oppose his policies, those who stand in his way of ultimate power.”
Fried also criticized what she called the “radical Republican Party” for opposing freedom of speech and the freedom to organize. On Wednesday, the Democratic Party called the measure “unserious” and a publicity stunt by Republicans. “The sooner DeSantis and his puppets in the Legislature learn that Florida is a democratic republic and not a banana republic, the better it will be for all Floridians,” the party said in a news release.
DeSantis wants his own State Militia which would only answer to him and “not be encumbered to the federal government.” This is ‘Wannabe Dictator” conduct
Florida Employees Threatened With Demotions If They Criticize Ron DeSantis
Florida Bill Would Legalize Kidnapping Of Transgender Children
The Young Turks calls out Florida Republican Senator Blaise Ingoglia, who introduced the bill to ‘Cancel’ the Democratic party
Florida Republicans Are Trying To BAN The Democratic Party
Florida Republican blasted over ‘ridiculous’ bill to obliterate all traces of Democrats
A Florida GOP State Senator has proposed a bill that would officially abolish the state’s Democratic Party, NBC reports.Sen. Blaise Ingoglia filed “The Ultimate Cancel Act,” which according to the Tallahassee Democrat, “never mentions the word Democrat or Democratic, but would decertify any politica…
Per the above article: “Ingoglia suggested in a news release that his bill was designed to get back at Democrats and ‘leftist activists’ who he said had ‘been trying to ‘cancel’ people and companies for things they have said or done in the past,’ including ‘the removal of statues and memorials, and the renaming of buildings.’
Florida’s Democratic Party responded to the proposed measure in a statement saying, “Presenting a bill that would disenfranchise 5 million voters is both unconstitutional and unserious. Under Ron DeSantis, Senator Ingoglia is using his office to push bills that are nothing more than publicity stunts instead of focusing on the issues that matter most to Floridians.”
Although deemed “unserious” by the Florida Democrats, many Twitter users are unamused by the proposed legislation.
@Longjacket2: “people this is not a test – this is full blow Fascist WTF crazy! ‘Sen. Ingoglia is backing a bill in FL he calls the ‘Ultimate Cancel Act,’ ~ ban any political party that once included slavery in their platforms from running in the state, including the FL Democratic Party.”
@Patriot1690: “Members of the Maga GOP once again showing that if they ever take power again, they would do all they can to destroy democracy.”
@JordanAdams171: “This is downright authoritarian and fascism @GOP”
@JoePalank: “It’s refreshing to be able to say ‘oh, he’s a fascist’ as a statement of fact and not political opinion.”
Tim O’Hara: “This is so ridiculous even for the GOP.”
@TheMermaidAg: “Um Florida… y’all ok? You just wanna go all in on the whole fascism thing for real?”
Republican Ron DeSantis ‘God made a fighter’ who was ‘Anointed By God’ is Christian Nationalism Fascist Propaganda
This ad really shows what DeSantis thinks of himself and what a danger to Democracy he is. DeSantis who claims he’s made Florida “one of the Freest States in American”, has taken away rights and made it one of the most oppressed. Floridians re-electing DeSantis has helped reinforce his grandiose delusions.
DESANTIS & REPUBLICANS HAVE MADE FLORIDA THE MOST OPPRESSED, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC STATE
- Dystopian Laws Attacking Freedom of Speech to SILENCE & SUE Critics
- Culture Wars and “Woke” BULLSHIT
- Anti-choice Laws against Women’s Rights
- Laws limiting what can be discussed in classrooms, such as the “Don’t say Gay” law. These laws doesn’t fix any existing problems, they’re a “Solution in Search of a Problem” and unnecessary BIG Government regulations & restrictions which makes teachers jobs more difficult.
- Law mandating public colleges and universities survey students and faculty about their Political Beliefs (FL HB 233)
- Teachers must withhold classroom library books until they can be individually reviewed for certification or face being charged with a third-degree felony if violated. (Bill 1467)
- DeSantis Hostile Takeover of Liberal New College of Florida is following the playbook of Fascist Autocrat Dictator of Hungary Viktor Orban by taking control of Education
- Indoctrinate Educators with Radical Right Wing Ideology. (Per news reports) Encouraged by DeSantis, Christian nationalist values and an “originalist” interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is now being taught in Florida Schools.
- Florida HB 999 Republican plan to restrict the way history is taught at Florida’s colleges and universities is being condemned by academics & historians across the U.S. (Another example of Fascist, Authoritarian policies).
- DeSantis has publicly called for putting cameras and microphones into classrooms to monitor teachers. He wants more surveillance in every part of our lives, empowering legislators to police classrooms, doctor’s offices, the workplace.
- Voting Police to intimidate people so they’re afraid to vote in Florida
- Florida Employees Threatened With Demotions If They Criticize DeSantis
- Bill to eliminate the Democrat Party in the State of Florida, thereby creating One Party Rule similar to how Dictator Victor Orbán took over the once Democratic government in Hungary
- Florida ‘Bloggers Bill’ which would require anyone who writes about Florida Republicans and DeSantis to register with the state and put on an ‘enemies list’. This is another BLATANT violation of the 1st Amendment and attempt to SILENCE critics. This is the same Anti-Democratic, Fascist Authoritarian tactic used by the Nazi German Propaganda Ministry in 1933 called the “Editors Law” and in 2014 by War Criminal Dictator Vladimir Putin, forcing bloggers in Russia to register with the Russian Media office.
- Attacking Freedom of Speech – Bill HB 991 to significantly weaken libel laws. Critics believe this is an attempt to give Ron DeSantis even more power to sue his critics for saying things he doesn’t like. Bill 991 also gives Florida residents the right to sue others (both in the state or elsewhere in the U.S.) who describe their actions online as transphobic or homophobic, for $35,000 and would not allow the truth to be used in defenses against such lawsuits.
- Retaliated against Disney for exercising their First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech, stripping Disney of 50+ years self-governing authority after Disney stated opposition to the ‘Don’t say Gay’ law which limits discussing LGBTQ issues in schools.
- Right Wing figures installed on the board of former Disney district. This is the same tactics used in Anti-Democratic Fascists Dictatorships
- Retaliated against the Tampa Bay Rays for exercising their First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech by blocking state money to their training facility after team tweeted against gun violence
- Florida Police raided the home of former Covid-19 Scientist Rebekah Jones after her data contradicted DeSantis’ Covid Data claims.
- Transgender athlete discrimination Laws
- Florida Senate Bill 254 would allow the state to take Trans children receiving gender-affirming care away from Parents
- Anti-Protesting Laws making protesting a felony & allowing protestors can be run over & killed with no consequences. This law was passed to silence and intimidate anyone who dare protest and raise objections to Republican’s oppression (similar to Russia and North Korea)
- DeSantis wants his own State Militia which would only answer to him and “not be encumbered to the federal government.”
- Felons Victimized by Republicans and DeSantis “Voter Fraud Crackdown”. Per an article at commondreams.org, “Most who were arrested were approved by the Florida Department of Elections, which sent their voter registration cards ahead of the 2020 elections. All were charged with third-degree felony voter fraud, a crime punishable by as many as five years behind bars and up to a $5,000 fine. The ACLU of Florida stated, “The arrests are a grotesque abuse of power by Gov. DeSantis”.
- Using Migrants as Props. Per an article at theguardian.com, “DeSantis should be prosecuted for his treatment of immigrants. Those conspiring with him appear to have acted criminally under Texas law. Title 5, section 20 of the Texas penal code defines the crime of unlawful restraint. Under the statute, a person is restrained if their movement is restricted without their consent by, among other means, moving the person from one place to another. Restraint is without consent “if it is accompanied … by deception”. Under the statute, the violation is a class A misdemeanor, unless the person restrained is younger than 17, in which case it is a felony. According to reporting, there were children among those criminally transported to Martha’s Vineyard”.
- DeSantis fought for and was given the authority to redraw Congressional districts to rig elections in Republican’s favor. This resulted in House Seats being stolen from Democrats. Another example of how Republicans know they can’t win elections unless they CHEAT because their policies are UNPOPULAR.
Florida Blogger Bill Similar to Nazi Germany & Russian Laws
Florida Bill proposed which targets Bloggers who write about Florida Republicans and Governor DeSantis is similar to 1933 Nazi Germany’s “Editors Law” and forced registration with the Russian Media office in 2014 by War Criminal & Fascist Dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
This Bill is a Unconstitutional Abuse of Power violation of the First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech.
Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor, legislators to register with the state
A Republican state senator in Florida has introduced a bill that, if passed, would require bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, his cabinet or state legislators to register with the state.
Per the above article; “Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.
“The bill defines a blog as “a website or webpage that hosts any blogger and is frequently updated with opinion, commentary, or business content,” but it says the “term does not include the website of a newspaper or other similar publication. If a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post, the blogger must register” with the appropriate office within five days of the post, the legislation says”.
It defines “elected state officer” as “the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature.” Failing to register would result in a fine of $25 a day, and the penalty would be capped at $2,500 per posting, NBC affiliate WFLA of Tampa reported.
Brodeur stated to the publication, Florida Politics: “Paid bloggers are lobbyists who write instead of talk. They both are professional electioneers. If lobbyists have to register and report, why shouldn’t paid bloggers?”
Here’s my response to this BULLSHIT –
- Like most blog sites, this site doesn’t receive ONE CENT in income. Most bloggers post articles out of sheer passion to express their opinions and expose wrong-doing
- Real lobbyists are paid 10’s of thousands of dollars so Brodeur’s comparison is uninformed, asinine and ridiculous
- This law is a clear violation of a bloggers’ Civil Rights and First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech. There will be multi-billion dollar lawsuits filed against the State of Florida and lot’s of BAD press using this as PROOF how Republicans are Anti-Freedom of speech, Anti-democratic FASCISTS if it’s passed.
- Language in Brodeur’s bill is vague addressing whether bloggers who receive no income would be subject to this bill.
- The bill doesn’t make it made clear if this law would retroactively apply to existing posts or only new ones.
- The bill doesn’t make it made clear if this law would apply to blogs located only in Florida or throughout the United States
- This law would be difficult to enforce. Almost all website owners’ data is hidden (and that’s perfectly legal). Therefore, there’s almost no way Florida officials could tell which blogs are in Florida and which are out of state. Attempts to enforce this law would likely result in harassment of website owners and the response will be lawsuits, more public outrage and more bad press for DeSantis and Florida Republicans.
- Most bloggers will not register with the state of Florida so they can be placed on a “enemies list” and harassed. DeSantis has proven, he’s an out-of-control Wannabe Hitler Dictator with a Napoleonic Complex who retaliates against anyone who criticizes him. (e.g. Retaliation against Disney, Tampa Bay Rays, Berating Students for wearing masks & Florida Police raiding the home of former Covid-19 Scientist Rebekah Jones after her data contradicted DeSantis’ Covid Data).
This bill violates every principle of Republican “limited government” policies. It reinforces the public perception that Florida Republicans are Anti-Democratic Authoritarian Fascists who are taking away people’s freedom and attempting to use BIG GOVERNMENT to micro-manage and legislate every aspect of people’s lives.
Ron Kuby, a First Amendment lawyer in New York, said the law would not survive a court challenge if it is passed. “It’s hard to imagine a proposal that would be more violative of the First Amendment,” Kuby said. “We don’t register journalists. People who write cannot be forced to register”
Florida Republicans, ARROGANT and DRUNK with power, believe they can pass Unconstitutional Laws with impunity. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich who was indicted on corruption charges in 2009, proves that State Officials CAN be held accountable and arrested for Abuse of Power.
Complaints WILL be filed to the Attorney General of United States Department of Justice and President Biden for Abuse of Power against Florida Republicans if this unconstitutional law is passed.
After paying InfoWars blogger $37K, Florida Rep. Jason Brodeur files bill requiring bloggers to register with state
Brodeur was found in 2019 to have paid $37K to an Orlando blogger ahead of his election
“After paying InfoWars blogger $37K, Florida Rep. Jason Brodeur files bill requiring bloggers to register with state”. It appear Brodeu’s motivation for creating this bill was retribution against bloggers as detailed in the article above.
Florida’s Dangerous Anti-Blogger Bill Is Blatantly Unconstitutional
Contrary to what Gov. Ron DeSantis might believe, the Constitution still applies in Florida.
Per the above article: “Contrary to what Ron DeSantis might believe, the Constitution still applies in Florida. It’s hard to think of any legislation that’s more in violation of the First Amendment than this bill from the governor’s allies. That said, it’s not surprising that the same politicians who favor banning books from public schools and libraries and removing any mention of slavery and racial injustice from courses at state universities would want to further restrict free speech and press freedom in this way.
“This draconian legislation attacking the rights of journalists and other media makers represents a frightening new strain of authoritarianism in the United States. Whether it’s Texas legislation that would ban internet providers from connecting to websites offering abortion information or moves to take away people’s right to protest in Georgia, efforts to undermine our constitutional freedoms are finding a foothold in GOP-controlled states across the country.
“When people believe their voices aren’t being heard in mainstream forums and their rights aren’t being upheld by politicians they often take to alternative means — including blogging — to express their opinions and be heard. The Florida legislation and other bills like it are clearly designed to silence these dissenting voices and those of others who aren’t represented in more traditional political arenas.
“Florida’s anti-blogger bill is part of a larger culture war that’s driven by disinformation and intent on dividing our country and silencing the opinions of people without power. This dangerous legislation should be deep-sixed long before it ever reaches a courtroom. Bills like this are blatantly unconstitutional, deeply un-American and completely unjust. We have to fight such horrible bills and call out the politicians pushing them, who seek to entrench the views and prejudices of a privileged few while stripping away the rights of everyone else.”
Florida to CREATE REGISTRY of Bloggers Who Criticize Ron DeSantis!
Jesse talks about an insanely fascistic bill being proposed in Florida, requiring bloggers (who criticize the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature) to register with the government. This is a clear and flagrant violation of the 1st Amendment and a dangerous departure from liberal democracy!
Florida Moves One Step Closer to Full Fascism
Florida Republican Jason Brodeur wants any blogger who write about Ron DeSantis to register with the state.
Florida Republicans Get Closer To Making It ILLEGAL To Criticize Ron DeSantis
A Republican lawmaker in Florida has introduced legislation that would require any “blogger” that publishes a story about Governor DeSantis or any member of his administration or the state legislature to register with the state. The writer would have to file monthly reports of what they wrote, who published it, and who paid them. This is a step in the direction of making it illegal to criticize the state’s government, as Farron Cousins explains.
RED ALERT: Florida Republicans want to force bloggers to “register” with the state
DeSantis’ Putin tactics with crackdown on media
A controversial new proposal in Ron DeSantis’s Florida would require bloggers who write about DeSantis or other state government officials to register with the state and disclose who’s paying them and how much. Critics say it’s all part of a larger DeSantis crusade against free speech and the press and even comparing it to a Putin law.
Russian Lawmakers Pass Bill to Outlaw Insulting the State
Critics worry that the state will use the laws to silence critics in the country, which already has severely restricted free speech freedoms.
Per the article above: “Russian Lawmakers Pass Bill to Outlaw Insulting the State” is similar to how DeSantis and Florida Republicans want to silence critics by making it easier to SUE them.
Similar to Florida Employees being threatened if they criticize Republican Ron DeSantis or tell the truth about Climate Change when Republican Rick Scott was Governor, during the invasion of Ukraine, Russia passed a law which would put people in prison for up to 15 years for criticizing Putin and Russia’s policies.
Democrats has never engaged in these type of restrictions or violations of Freedom of Speech. This commonality is found in oppressive RIGHT WING governments. It’s easy to see that Republicans are headed in this direction and would not hesitate to be just as extreme if given the opportunity.
Florida Republican Proposes Bill To Make It Easier For Ron DeSantis To Sue His Critics
A Republican Representative in the Florida statehouse has put forth legislation that would significantly weaken libel laws, and critics believe this is an attempt to give Ron DeSantis even more power to sue his critics for saying things he doesn’t like. Legal scholars have trashed the bill, pointing out that a state cannot legally have different thresholds than federal legislation, making this bill all the more confusing.
Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a Anti-democratic Authoritarian Fascist One-Party-Rule Dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere.
DeSantis & Florida Republicans are following the playbook of Fascist
Autocrat Dictator of Hungary Viktor Orban by taking control of Education
Radical Right Wing Republican Ron DeSantis Hostile takeover of liberal New College of Florida is similar to Right Wing Fascist Autocrats playbook around the world, turning Florida into a Anti-Democratic Fascist Christian Nationalist State
Florida Republicans PUNISH Disney for Exercising 1st Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech by criticizing Florida Republican’s “Don’t say Gay” law
When Disney’s chief executive Bob Chapek exercised his First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech by criticizing the “Don’t say Gay” law, DeSantis and Florida Republicans RETALIATED by revoking Disney World’s designation as a special tax district which allowed Disney to self-govern the 25,000-acre resort since its founding. Using the Government to Punish people who speaks out against Government policies is Anti-Democratic, Authoritarian FASCISM
A Solution In Search Of A Problem’: DeSantis Goes After Disney’s Special Status
Fallout over Florida’s controversial new law that critics have called the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill continues. This is another example of how Republicans focus on divisive social issues instead of governing and actually doing things to improve people’s lives.
Republicans “Don’t say Gay” law is ‘A Solution In Search Of A Problem’ which doesn’t exist. It’s more Republican Authoritarian, Fascist BIG GOVERNMENT legislation to enslave and regulate every aspect of people’s lives.
DeSantis Brazenly Admitting To Punishing Disney
The GOP embrace of authoritarianism, and how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a prime example of this, are discussed by Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, Rep. Charlie Crist
There is nothing conservative about DeSantis attacking businesses
Joe Scarborough discusses Gov. Ron DeSantis’ record of going after business in Florida
DeSantis Promises Florida Will Control Disney Content
Ron Desantis appointed cronies to a board overseeing Disney, and promised it would block “woke ideology.” “I think all of these board members very much would like to see the type of entertainment that all families can appreciate,” he said.
Right Wing cronies installed on the former Disney board giving “Dictator” DeSantis control over a private business
DeSantis and Florida Republicans retaliated against the Tampa Bay Rays for exercising their First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech by blocking state money after the team tweeted against gun violence
Right Wingers around the world are systematically destroying Democracy, implementing One Party Rule with rigged elections, take-over of the News Media, Judiciary and take-over of Education, similar to what DeSantis and Republicans are doing in Florida.
Right’s Embrace of Authoritarianism
Videos show how Right-wingers turned Hungary into a anti-democratic fascist one-party-rule dictatorship. Trump & Republicans have followed the same playbook so it could happen here unless they are STOPPED. Republicans have passed laws to overturn / override election results in states they control and put partisans in control of counting the votes, allowing them to make sure only Republicans are declared the winner.
Hungary Is A Version Of What Trump Wants For The U.S.
Chief national correspondent at the New York Times, Mark Leibovich, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, react to Fox News’ anchor Tucker Carlson’s bizarre choice to host his show from Hungary, a country with an authoritarian regime.
Video shows how Democracy is DESTROYED by Power Hungry Wanna-Be Dictators
“Dictators Playbook”
Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former FBI special agent Clint Watts discuss with Nicolle Wallace the former president’s endorsement of Viktor Orban ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary.
Republicans fit all of the Characteristics of Fascism described below
Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism – Article by Dr. Lawrence Britt
1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
2. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause – The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
3. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
4. Rampant Sexism – The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
5. Controlled Mass Media – Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
6. Obsession with National Security – Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
7. Religion and Government are Intertwined – Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
8. Corporate Power is Protected – The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
9. Labor Power is Suppressed – Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
10. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts – Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
11. Obsession with Crime and Punishment – Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
12. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
13. Manipulate & Control elections – Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate & control elections.
14. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
REPUBLICANS ARE LIKE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
Republicans ARE America’s TALIBAN
Radical Right Wing, Trump Supporting Republicans can be easily spotted in Pick-up Trucks with flags (similar to Islamic Terrorist in pick-up trucks with flags).
Here’s a few of the behaviors and ideologies Republicans, The Taliban and Islamic ISIS Terrorist have in common;
- Bullies
- Religious extremists (such as Christian Evangelists)
- Extremists who resort to Violence to get their way (January 6, 2021 riots to overturn legitimate election which their leader, Trump lost)
- Right-wing Anti-democratic Fascist (most Republicans condone eliminating a free press and democracy)
- Suppress Women’s Rights (anti-abortion laws)
- Extreme Patriotism with tons of flags
Trump & Republicans Responsible for “Open Borders”
Trump & Republicans are responsible for Open Borders because TRUMP demanded they block Border Security Legislation so he can use “Open Borders” as a campaign issue. Trump demanded Republican do nothing which Biden can get credit for doing which might help hem get re-elected.
Also, since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017 to January 3, 2019, when Trump & Republicans had the Presidency, the House of Representatives and Senate… they did NOTHING about the border when they had absolute control of all 3 branches of Government.
Trump and Republicans now trying to blame Democrats for “Open Borders” are LYING, and refusing to accept responsibility for the Border problems they refused to solve. Once again, Republicans are literately putting Politics above doing what’s best for our country and the American people.
Romney accuses Trump of trying to stop bill to blame Biden
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) says that President Trump has told Republican lawmakers to not negotiate a compromise bill with President Biden that could help alleviate some of the immigration issues at the US-Mexico border.
Trump and Republicans EXPOSED for Blocking Border Security Legislation
Trump wants ‘blame’ for blocking border bill while insisting border crossings kill 300,000
Trump told Republicans to block a bipartisan border security bill after falsely claiming 300,000 people are killed because of weak border security.
Dan Crenshaw Blasts His Fellow Republicans For Being The Party Of Stupidity
Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw blasted members of his own Party this week, effectively calling their actions “stupid.” As Republicans in the House prepare to destroy a bipartisan immigration deal so that President Biden can’t win, Crenshaw attacked his fellow Republicans for acting at “the height of stupidity” for tanking a piece of legislation that is not only sorely needed, but that Republicans themselves had demanded.
Republicans OPENLY ADMIT Their ‘INVASION’ Claims Were Only FEAR TACTICS!
Jesse talks about a rare moment of clarity coming from Fox News’s Laura Ingraham show where she and her guest, Newt Gingrich, both essentially admit that the hyperbolic lies about immigration and the border only served to gin up fear and outrage in their audience.
MAGA Republicans have vowed to block the latest immigration reform bill, while also saying immigration is a crisis and immediate threat.
Trump’s recent statements on wanting the economy to crash and keeping the border open have ignited a political firestorm. Critics argue that these positions could have far-reaching consequences, while supporters claim they are part of a strategic plan.
McConnell admits Trump doesn’t want this border security deal
House Republicans find themselves in a rift over a pivotal border security deal while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s position takes a surprising turn, now suggesting separating the Ukraine funding from the border security deal.
Republicans siding with fentanyl and illegal immigrants instead of border security
Negotiations for a bipartisan bill addressing the southern border and foreign aid are ongoing, but former President Trump’s stance on the issue and the potential impact on the economy are causing division within the party. Morning Joe take a look at the Senate Republicans pushing for the party support the bill as GOP infighting intensifies.
Trump urging Speaker Mike Johnson not to compromise on border negotiations
Rep. Jim Hines, Democratic Congressman from Connecticut joins Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss how MAGA Republicans in Congress are threatening to halt all legislation to put the good of their preferred candidate in the 2024 election (Donald Trump) over the good of the country and doing their job and governing.
‘Stop lying’: House member blasts GOP for blocking border bill
During a House Oversight meeting on border security, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., blasted Republicans for playing cynical politics with the border.
House Dem blasts Speaker Johnson for worrying about angering Trump on border bill
Leading Senate Republicans are warning their House colleagues not to play political games with the current immigration negotiations because they won’t get a better deal down the road under a potential second Donald Trump presidency. House Intel Committee member, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., joins Morning Joe to discuss the negotiations.
Jeffries hammers MAGA GOP’s ‘political games’ undermining U.S. national security
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his weekly presser and discussed the meeting with President Biden and congressional leaders. Jeffries applauded Biden for calling for this meeting and slammed House Republicans for “politicizing” the challenges at the border, as opposed to addressing it.
Trump DOES NOT Want You to See THIS VIDEO!
Despite being on camera contradicting this, Trump is currently claiming that Congress has no role in addressing issues at the southern border.
Five Biggest Border Lies Debunked
Texas Paul calls out Republicans for they’re failure to secure the southern borders while blaming Democrats to score political points
Republicans have a history of blocking important legislation so Democrats will be blamed
On January 20, 2009, the day of President Obama’s Inauguration, Republican Leaders in Congress plotted to obstruct everything President Obama proposed to make his presidency a failure (know as the ‘Caucus Room Conspiracy‘), so he and Democrats would be blamed, so Republicans could re-take Congress and the White House in 2012, with no regard to the damage it would cause to the American people.
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Per the above article: “Border security has been a winning issue for Republicans for decades. They use the same fearmongering tactics—saying Democrats want “open borders” and to let violent criminals into our country. Their latest attacks accuse undocumented immigrants of trafficking fentanyl across the border. And these lines of attack seem to be working with voters. A 2022 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 40% of registered voters trust Republicans more on immigration, an 8 point lead over Democrats.
If Republicans are so strong on border security, why did they just pass a bill that would cut Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding by 22%?
Republican Debt Limit Bill Defunds the Border
House Republicans have passed debt limit legislation that would freeze Fiscal Year 2024 federal spending at FY 2022 levels. This would mean a 22% cut to non-defense discretionary spending, including a 22% cut to border security funding.
Customs and Border Protection is responsible for monitoring our borders and ports of entry. For years, Republicans have been calling for more money and officers to secure our southern border, but their bill does the exact opposite—it would cut CBP’s budget by $4 billion, resulting in the loss of 2,400 officers. Cuts would also mean over $640 million in border security technology would no longer be operational. This loss of resources would have serious consequences for CBP’s capacity to process migrants at the border and to stop fentanyl and illicit drug trafficking. Republicans claim that we have a border crisis, but their bill would only make things worse.
Biden’s Budget Strengthens Border Security & Cracks Down on Fentanyl
President Biden’s proposed budget includes nearly $25 billion for CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an $800 million increase from the previous year. His budget includes:
Funds for CBP to hire an additional 350 Border Patrol Agents;
- $535 million for border security technology at and between ports of entry; and,
- $40 million to combat fentanyl trafficking and disrupt transnational criminal organizations.
In addition to border security measures, President Biden’s budget strengthens our immigration system. Addressing the backlog of asylum and immigration applications would help immensely in ameliorating the situation at the border. That’s why the President’s proposal includes:
- $865 million for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to process the backlog of asylum caseloads;
- $1.5 billion to hire new immigration judges and staff to surge to the border and manage the backlog of cases; and,
- $4.7 billion to help the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) respond to migration swells along the southwest border.
While Republicans are abdicating on border security and immigration, President Biden and Democrats are putting their money where their mouth is. They’re strengthening border security, combatting fentanyl trafficking, and improving the functioning of our immigration system. The next time a Republican Congressman cries “open borders,” ask them why they voted to defund border security.
Myth vs. Truth: Dissecting the Republican narrative about the border
Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security. If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it.
Per the above article: “Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security”.
“If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.
It’s time to correct the record.
MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.
TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.
It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.
One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.
There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.
MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.
TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.
The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.
House Republicans voted against this historic funding.
MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.
TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.
In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.
MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.
TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.
Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.
Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.
Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice
From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception
Republicans Must Lie to Survive: They have No Other Choice
Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.
Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.
But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”
“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”
“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”
The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.
Republicans Responsible for Uvalde Massacre of Children
Greg Abbott, State of Texas, Republicans and cowardly law enforcement caused the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children
- Greg Abbott & State of Texas Republicans failing to raise gun ownership age to 21 contributed to the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children
- Congressional Republicans who has consistently refused to outlaw military grade assault weapons contributed to the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children
- Cowardly law enforcement who were more afraid of being shot by a AR-15 assault weapon, than protect the lives of children contributed to the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children
‘Cascading failures’ cited in federal Uvalde shooting report
A review team investigating the shooting “identified several critical failures and other breakdowns prior to, during, and after the Robb Elementary School response.”
DOJ calls law enforcement response to Uvalde school shooting a ‘failure’
Uvalde Report Shows Police Were Afraid Of Confronting AR-15
Lawrence O’Donnell details the many “systemic failures” that a Texas House committee report finds contributed to the mass shooting in Uvalde, but he says the single “decisive factor in this mass murder” that prevented 376 heavily armed officers from confronting the gunman for 77 minutes was his AR-15 weapon.
Lawrence On The Cascade Of Failures By Uvalde Police
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why everyone involved in the Texas coverup of the mass murder in Uvalde, from the Governor to the police department and school board, is at fault.
Uvalde teacher who survived shooting speaks out on police response
Arnulfo Reyes, whose students were killed in the Uvalde shooting, says he felt abandoned by police. “After everything, I get more angry …You’re supposed to protect and serve.”
Texas Republicans Coverup of Mass Shooting in Uvalde, TX
Texas Republicans cover up what happened inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde is falling apart after Texas officials point the blame at each other.
Gov. Abbott Is Trying To ‘Bamboozle’ The Public Says Texas State Senator
Democratic Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez and author and historian Kurt Andersen react to Texas Governor Abbott calling on lawmakers to find solutions to end school shootings, but not through gun control.
Texas reporter says ‘some basics’ in response to shooting still need to be answered
New questions are being raised in the response to the Uvalde mass shooting following the release of a new timeline from the Texas Tribune
Lawrence O’Donnell shares the impassioned remarks given remembering the victims of the Uvalde mass murder by the town’s native son, Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey. In addition to detailing the horrors of the Uvalde massacre, McConaughey called for swift gun safety legislation from Congress.
Matthew McConaughey full speech
Texas State Senator Gutierrez Discusses Uvalde Shooting
NRA’s ‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Theory Failed In Real Time In Uvalde
In addition to the police response being an unfathomable failure, it is also proof that the ‘good guy with a gun’ theory doesn’t work.
Uvalde Police’s ‘shocking collective cowardice’ led to 21 deaths at elementary school
Texas Officials’ Uvalde Response Is Wait ‘And Do Nothing’
Lawrence O’Donnell discusses what he calls “the most important editorial ever published by a small town Texas newspaper,” which was published by The Uvalde Leader-News looking at the town’s “darkest hour” when police did not respond as the shooter remained inside Robb Elementary School, plus the response by officials from Uvalde all the way to Greg Abbott’s office which seems to be to wait out the outrage.
Uvalde ‘Greatest Failure In Modern American Law Enforcement History’ During Active Shooter Situation
Tom Winter, investigative correspondent for the NBC News Investigative Unit, breaks down the timeline of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety Director, saying that to him, this was the “Greatest failure in modern American law force history, as it pertains to an active shooter — period.”
‘Enraging’: Hayes On Dystopian Call To ‘Harden The Schools’ After Shootings
Chris Hayes: “Something I am certain of is that the most wrongheaded, dystopian response to a tragedy like Uvalde is to call for ‘hardening schools.’”
Texas rampage is among deadliest school shootings in U.S. history
In 2020, there were more than 19,000 gun-related homicides in the U.S., according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s an average of 53 per day. There have been 213 mass shootings so far this year. The death toll in school mass shootings is also startling — since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, 77 students have been killed.
Rep. Castro Slams Gun Reform Blocking Policy Makers In Wake Of Uvalde, Texas School Shooting
The Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting and the problem of gun reform blocking policy makers are discussed by Rep. Joaquin Castro. “When these things happen over and over and over again, we just went through Buffalo… It’s hard not to reach the conclusion,” Rep. Castro tells Joy Reid, “that there are policy makers that are okay with this happening, because they’re not doing anything about it.” Plus, The ReidOut takes you to Vice President Kamala Harris speaking out against this atrocity at a live event.
Parkland Father To Cruz And Abbott: ‘You Are As Low Of A Human Being As Can Be’
In the wake of the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, anti-gun violence activist Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was murdered in the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, joins The ReidOut. “I say screw you Ted Cruz and Gov. Abbott,” Guttenberg tells Joy Reid. “You want this fight? I’m done talking to you. I’m done trying to reason with you. You are who you are. You are as low of a human being as can be. We will fire you. And that’s what we need to do.”
Coward Uvalde Cops Reveal Why They Didn’t Save School Children’s Lives
An official from the Texas Department of Public Safety publicly stated that police officers were hesitant to storm the school building and save the children from the shooter because they were afraid of getting shot. Uvalde police waited for around an hour outside of the school, preventing parents from rushing the building and waiting for back-up instead of doing the job they signed up for, which was saving lives during these situations.
How Does A Texas Police Chief Go AWOL?
Exactly one week after the mass murder at Robb Elementary School, not a single officer who responded to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has been fired despite the delayed response. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains the crisis in governance happening in Texas from Uvalde all the way up to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Lawrence: Republicans Don’t Want You To Know The Truth About TX School Massacre
For years, Republicans have argued that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the mass murder of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, has again proven that Republican plan will never work.
A Political Party That Doesn’t Care If You Get Shot
Despite clear evidence to the contrary, the GOP continues to push the idea that liberal policy is the culprit for gun violence in America. Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter in the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, joins Katie Phang to discuss.
Being Murdered In School Is A Uniquely American Way Of Death
May 24, 2022 MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers the tragic news of yet another mass shooting in an American school, this time an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and looks back at the history at this uniquely American way of death.
Lawrence: GOP Position Is Kids Have To Die Because The Constitution Says So
Texas Democratic candidate for Governor Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference in Uvalde, Texas, being chaired by his political rival, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott, telling Abbott the Uvalde shooting was “totally predictable.” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers that and how the Republican solution to school shootings didn’t work in Uvalde, Texas.
Preventable But Predictable: Activist Slams Abbott, GOP After 18 Children Killed In TX Shooting
Eighteen children are dead after the deadliest mass shooting of 2022 occurred at a Texas elementary school. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by activist Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting, to discuss the shooting and the need for gun reform in America. Guttenberg reacted to Mitch McConnell’s response to the shooting, telling Melber that “he probably put out the exact same statement after my daughter was killed.”
Texas Governor gets BOOED by fed up Texans after shooting
Only In America: Child Legally Purchases Firearm
Despite being denied access to lottery tickets, cigarettes, and beer, a 13-year-old child takes advantage of America’s Gun Show Loophole to legally purchase a firearm.
Fox Trump Town Hall Hides Trump’s Destructive Agenda
Fox moderators of Trump’s Town Hall in Des Moines Iowa on January 10, 2024 made Trump seem normal with soft-ball questions. They failed to call him out for his numerous criminal charges, threats he’s made of retribution, his insane social media posts with lies about prosecutors, judges and witness causing them to receive death threats.
Fresh off a court appearance, Trump made the most of the time back in Fox News’ warm embrace. He cleaned up comments he made in December about being a “dictator” for one day, saying, “I am not going to be a dictator.
Moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum failed to interrupt Trump with fact-checks. During an abortion discussion, when Trump suggested “radical” Democrats supported killing babies after they were born, it was not challenged.
Fox’s town hall with Trump averaged 4.3 million viewers from 9-10 p.m., according to early data from Nielsen Media Research, while the CNN debate featuring Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley averaged 2.5 million during the same hour.
Fox consistently fails to tell their audience the truth about Republicans such as Trump. Former Fox News Host admits they “Lie by Omission of the Facts”
Fox News Exposed for Peddling Trump’s Big Lie
The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air, damning messages contained in a court filing revealed.
Why Fox is ‘the most destructive institution in all of American politics’
Trump promoted a video featuring an extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making an obvious threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
Trump PROVES he’s a LAWLESS THUG who should be ARRESTED and LOCKED UP for making threats: “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” and “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.” This is how MOB BOSSES and CRIMINALS behave.
Trump posts disturbing baseball bat photo with Alvin Bragg, threatens ‘death and destruction’
Former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage by sharing images of him holding a baseball bat next Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head.
March 24, 2023: Trump threatened “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged in New York — writing the shocking social media warning after posting an image of himself holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head. Trump shared the image of himself holding a baseball bat — with Bragg’s hands up — on his Truth Social platform Thursday as he devoted his day to attacking the prosecutor for pursuing a case over a “hush money” payout to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Donald Trump THREATENS NY DA Alvin Bragg in violation of NY state law
Former President Donald Trump threatened New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as Bragg investigates and prepares to indict Trump for his earlier New York crimes. Specifically, Trump indicates there will be “death and destruction” if Bragg indicts hims. Then, Trump commits a second crime by posting a picture of himself, holding a baseball bat, mid-swing, next to a picture DA Bragg whose hand is upraised as if in a defensive posture., who
This conduct by Trump violates New York penal law section 195.05, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree: “a person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree when that person intentionally . . . attempts to prevent a public servant from performing an official function, by means of intimidation or interference . . . ”
When the NY grand jury reconvenes on Monday, they should be presented this evidence of Trump’s threats and add two additional charges to the indictment of Donald Trump – one for the “death and destruction” post and one for the baseball bat post.
Trump attacks led to ‘serious and credible’ death threats to court
New documents in the New York fraud case against Donald Trump reveal that the ex-president’s attacks on the judge’s clerk resulted in “hundreds of threatening and harassing” messages against her. Nov 22, 2023
Trump mainstreams political violence with normalizing repetition
Trump’s regular use of violent rhetoric has desensitized the public as the legal and political atmosphere surrounding Trump becomes increasingly threatening to anyone seen as being disloyal.
Trump Thinks hes above the law
During trump’s impeachment, his lawyer said he could prosecuted after he leaves office. Now, his lawyers says he’s immune from being prosecuted.
This video shows one of Trump’s staff saying he wanted one of his own staffers executed
After Trump posted attacks on Judge Engoron’s law clerk in New York, hundreds of threats poured in from Trump’s supporters. Special Counsel Jack Smith packaged up the evidence of those threats and filed the information with the appellate court in DC that is deciding the constitutionality of the gag order imposed by Judge Tanya Chutkan in Trumps federal prosecution in DC.
More PROOF that Trump IS the Most Lawless, Corrupt & Dangerous President in History
REPUBLICANS are proving to be LAWLESS SCUM OF THE EARTH, unfit to hold Public Office by doing & saying NOTHING about Trump’s Threats, while continuing to defend and support him.
August 2023, Trump was indicted in Georgia on 13 criminal counts related to interference in the 2020 election in Georgia
Trump indicted on 37 felony charges in classified documents probe
Former President Trump indicted for attempts to overturn 2020 election
March 2023, former President Trump (R) was indicted in New York on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
After learning that he lost the 2020 election, Trump REFUSED to admit defeat and LIED claiming without any proof that the election was stolen from him. Trump used legal tactics to challenge the election results in swing states and when those challenges didn’t work he resorted to inciting his deluded & brainwashed followers to engage in a violent COUP to overturn our government to make himself an UN-elected dictator to stay in power against the will of the people.
This violent coup was the final act committed by the most Lawless and Corrupt administration in American History.
Traitor Trump
Aids say Trump is running for President to have all Federal Charges dismissed by his Attorney General if he’s elected. This is also a Motivation to stay in office and become a dictator so he’s never held accountable for his crimes
Espionage – Trump is joining the traitor’s hall of fame for stealing our county’s secrets while LAWLESS Republicans Defend and Protect him
‘A President Who Was Compromised’ recordings expose Donald Trump’s discussing classified intel
Andrew Weissmann, a former top official with the Justice Department, Mary McCord, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Justice Department, and Pete Strzok, Former FBI Counterintelligence Agent join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the leaked audio revealing Donald Trump discussing national security matters.
Highly classified binder went missing in Trump’s final days in office
A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
BOMBSHELL Audio Recording of Trump Admitting to Having Illegal Classified Information.
Photos show classified documents in ballrooms, bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago
Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago
Coup charges that can send Trump to prison
The Jan. 6 insurrection was more than a “one day” plot. In this special report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber shares original reporting on the several plots that stretched weeks or months, and shows how they are central to the new charges by special counsel Smith.
Trump’s Lawyer: No Criminal Accountability for Presidents
Trump’s lawyer’s argued that Presidents are above the law and shouldn’t be criminally prosecuted for ANYTHING, including Assassinating Political Enemies
Lawrence: Trump immunity appeal shattered by judge Trump doesn’t believe should be a citizen
Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes arguments made by lawyers for Donald Trump at the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that he should be entitled to presidential immunity for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 reaction, including the tough questioning from a three-judge panel who didn’t seem inclined to side with him.
Trump Thinks he’s above the law
During Trump’s impeachment, his lawyer argued that he could prosecuted after he leaves office. Now, his lawyers says he’s immune from being prosecuted for anything he did while he was president.
While Trump was President, he used every legal tactic imaginable to evade being held accountable. Now that he’s out office, he continuing to use legal tactics to evade being held accountable for the crimes he committed while President
Trump saying he has “Total Authority” and insinuating if States don’t follow his orders it would be Mutiny is yet another example that he is a Wanna-Be King & Dictator.
Throughout his presidency, Trump has, at every turn, advanced extreme legal arguments and made excuses to avoid the traditional oversight that previous presidents have accepted. In the process, he has negated the checks and balances that are at the heart of our constitutional system, and elevated himself to a king-like position.
How Wannabe Dictators become REAL Dictators
Trump wants to be a Dictator… FOR LIFE
Elise Stefanik: Lying, Lawless, Partisan HACK Unfit for Office
Elise Stefanik proves she’s a Liar, Lawless and an enemy of Democracy for supporting Trump, calling Insurrectionist ‘Political Hostages’ and falsely claiming the government has been ‘Weaponized against Conservatives’ after being held accountable for their crimes.
GOP Rep. Stefanik faces censure push for calling Jan. 6 rioters ‘hostages’
“It’s an election year, and we just cannot have members of Congress who are lining up, gearing up to subvert our democracy once again—we need to lay a marker down right now,” says Rep. Dan Goldman on his censure resolution against Rep. Elise Stefanik.
MeidasTouch plays clips of Rep. Elise Stefanik being a shameless sycophant to Trump, making ridiculous false statements and stating she wouldn’t have certified the 2020 election, based on conspiracy theories. She’s a great example why ALL Republicans should be voted out of office.
Elise Stefanik exposed as a Lying Partisan HACK in the above video
Michael Fanone, a retired police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6: “It also pisses me off to see Republican lawmakers continue to spread the lies and conspiracy theories regarding Jan. 6 in an attempt to whitewash that day because it’s politically inconvenient for them to acknowledge the reality of what happened.”
Stefanik saying she stands for “Election Integrity” is a LIE. She and her anti-democratic Fascist Colleagues attempted to overturn and STEAL the 2020 election.
Stefanik saying the “Real threat to our Democracy is these baseless witch-hunt investigations and lawsuits against Trump” and calling his being held accountable for his crimes “UN-Democraitc” is FALSE. The investigations and lawsuits against Trump aren’t witch-hunts or “Politically Motivated”.
Trump’s claims of “Election Interference” are LIES to deflect from his being held accountable for his many CRIMES of which he has been charged, arrested and will be prosecuted.
Stefanik saying there’s “two sets of rules if your name is Clinton or Biden than a everyday patriotic American” is another LIE.
Time and time again, TRUMP is the one who received preferential treatment as shown in the above video. Let’s also not forget how Trump corruptly pardoned Republicans such as Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon and George Papadopoulos… MORE Republicans who received preferential treatment and wasn’t held accountable for their crimes.
No mention about THAT by Stefanik or the ABC Meet the Press Host Kristen Welker.
Trump promoted a video featuring an extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making an obvious threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
Trump PROVES he’s a LAWLESS THUG who should be ARRESTED and LOCKED UP for making threats: “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” and “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.” This is how MOB BOSSES and CRIMINALS behave.
Trump posts disturbing baseball bat photo with Alvin Bragg, threatens ‘death and destruction’
Former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage by sharing images of him holding a baseball bat next Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head.
March 24, 2023: Trump threatened “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged in New York — writing the shocking social media warning after posting an image of himself holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head. Trump shared the image of himself holding a baseball bat — with Bragg’s hands up — on his Truth Social platform Thursday as he devoted his day to attacking the prosecutor for pursuing a case over a “hush money” payout to porn star Stormy Daniels.
More PROOF that Trump IS the Most Lawless, Corrupt & Dangerous President in History
REPUBLICANS are proving to be LAWLESS SCUM OF THE EARTH, unfit to hold Public Office by doing & saying NOTHING about Trump’s Threats, while continuing to defend and support him.
Donald Trump THREATENS NY DA Alvin Bragg in violation of NY state law
Former President Donald Trump threatened New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as Bragg investigates and prepares to indict Trump for his earlier New York crimes. Specifically, Trump indicates there will be “death and destruction” if Bragg indicts hims. Then, Trump commits a second crime by posting a picture of himself, holding a baseball bat, mid-swing, next to a picture DA Bragg whose hand is upraised as if in a defensive posture., who
This conduct by Trump violates New York penal law section 195.05, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree: “a person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree when that person intentionally . . . attempts to prevent a public servant from performing an official function, by means of intimidation or interference . . . ”
When the NY grand jury reconvenes on Monday, they should be presented this evidence of Trump’s threats and add two additional charges to the indictment of Donald Trump – one for the “death and destruction” post and one for the baseball bat post.
“Terrorist supporter Stefanik’: Top Trump ally sparks outrage by taking Big Lie to next level
Rep. Elise Stefanik refused to commit to certifying this year’s election results Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ “Donald Trump has an endless stable of lackeys shamelessly willing to spread his MAGA propaganda, including members of the Republican leadership in Congress,” Joy Reid opines on this development.
‘Dangerous for democracy’ – Rep. Stefanik’s audition to be in a future Trump administration
Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security and Claire McCaskill, former Senator from Missouri join Ali Velshi in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline
Stefanik Is The ‘Defender In Chief Of January 6th’ Says Stefanik Challenger
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik was one of the 147 Republicans who violated their Oath of Office and proved to be lawless traitors by voting to overturn the 2020 election results in 6 states.
Republicans Members of Congress who tried to overturn the 2020 election should NOT be seated or allowed to hold Federal Office.
Republican Rep. Jim Banks and Steve Scalise caught making outrageous LIES about Nancy Pelosi being responsible for delayed help from the National Guard on January 6, then try to blame Democrats for not investigating which blows up in their face.
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik and Republicans LIED about January 6 to Deflect Blame
Lawrence O’Donnell says just hours after the Capitol was attacked on Wednesday, 147 Republican members of Congress continued to attack the Constitution. By objecting to the legitimate results of the presidential election, he says those members of Congress violated their oath to defend the Constitution with “true faith and allegiance.
Out of the 50+ bogus lawsuits filed by Trump and his attorneys, no CREDIBLE voter fraud was found which could have changed the outcome of the election. This was also verified by Attorney General William Barr, who was a Trump loyalist.
The Republicans who voted to overturn the election
Reuters asked the 147 lawmakers if they believed Donald Trump lost because of election fraud. Most refused to say.
Reuters asked the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the U.S. election if they believed Donald Trump lost the presidency because of election fraud. Most dodged the question.
Today’s Twisted, Upside-Down Republican Party… where supporting a lawless lying, wanna-be dictator traitor who repeatedly LIED about losing the 2020 election and made baseless claims that the election was stolen is “Right”. Voting to Impeach him for violating his Oath of Office, Inciting a Riot & engaging in Insurrection to overturn an election that he lost is “Wrong”.
Today’s Republicans are LAWLESS, LIARS, VIOLENT, UNHINGED, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS… DISCONNECTED FROM REALITY
GOP PARTY OF THE INSANE
Republicans are LIARS who have NOTHING to offer except LIES, Divisive Social Issues, taking away Women’s Rights, Attacking / Demonizing LGBT’s, Cutting / Eliminating Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, giving Tax Breaks to RICH, Rigging Elections by Gerrymandering, Voter Obstruction and other anti-democratic tactics to prevent people from voting who aren’t likely to vote for them.
Trump Got Millions From Foreign Governments While President
New report from the House Oversight Committee shows that TRUMP received nearly 8 million dollars from at least 20 foreign governments (including China) during his presidency, violating the Emoluments Clause. Once again, Trump and Republicans are using projection to falsely accuse Joe Biden of that which TRUMP is guilty.
EXPLOSIVE NEW REPORT Shows Direct Payments to Trump From Foreign Governments, Including China
Trump’s fulfilled the worst fears and nightmares of the Founding Fathers
Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, joins Morning Joe to discuss their new report that Trump received millions in payments from foreign governments while serving as president, highlighting how this contradicts constitutional provisions and past presidential practices. The report raises questions about Trump’s compliance with the Emoluments Clause, designed to prevent foreign influence on U.S. leaders.
Trump busted for taking foreign money at Trump.Org
Trump received at least $7.8 million in payments from foreign governments, during two of his four years in the White House, according to a new House report.
GOP needs to investigate Trump, not Biden
Once again, Trump & Republicans are copying the playbook of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels of ‘Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty’… calling Joe Biden ‘crooked’ and accusing him of receiving millions from China, when it was TRUMP who received millions from foreign governments, INCLUDING China.
Outrageous “God made Trump” Video
Trump’s propaganda video “God made for Trump for America” is blasphemy and sacrilegious. This is another example of how Trump is exploiting Christians to amass power.
Trump COPIED Ron DeSantis ad in which he tried to claim he was a ‘Fighter who was anointed By God’. This goes to show there’s no limits to the disgusting, deceitful & depraved behavior which Republicans such as DeSantis & Trump will engage in to brainwash gullible people into voting for them.
Be not deceived… Trump is a False Prophet… a wolf in sheep’s clothing who pretends to be Religious and pretends he believes in prayer to appeal to Christians so they’ll vote for him. He’s a pathological liar who will do and say anything to get elected President.
Trump is a liar, adulterer, braggart, vengeful, hateful, selfish, mean spirited, never apologies or repents, proving that Trump is not Religious or a Christian who follows the teachings of Christ or the Ten Commandments.
Retired Pastor speaks out against Trump “Using Christians to amass power”
‘Most un-Christian person ever’: the white evangelical love affair with Donald Trump gets worse
Christians / Evangelicals who Support Trump are following / supporting / worshiping a FALSE IDOL
LYING: Fact checkers claim Trump has made over 30,000 false statements and lies. Here’s what the bible says about lying;
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
Exodus 20:16
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 13:5
The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
Psalm 101:7
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.
Bearing False Witness – Trump is constantly accusing people of doing things they didn’t do, such as in the 2 black female election workers in Georgia he slandered & accused of stealing votes and accusing people of saying things people didn’t say.
Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 391 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
Exodus 20:16 ESV / 381 helpful votes
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 377 helpful votes
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 283 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
Matthew 19:18 ESV / 175 helpful votes
He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,
Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 172 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
John 8:44 ESV / 158 helpful votes
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Exodus 23:1 ESV / 145 helpful votes
“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 133 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
1 John 2:4 ESV / 129 helpful votes
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
John 14:6 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Romans 13:9 ESV / 123 helpful votes
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
1 John 4:1 ESV / 104 helpful votes
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Deuteronomy 5:20 ESV / 100 helpful votes
“‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 98 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 25:18 ESV / 97 helpful votes
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Bragging & Boasting: Trump is a compulsive and obnoxious braggart. Here’s what the bible says about boasting;
James 4:16
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Psalm 94:4
They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
Romans 2:23
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Jeremiah 9:23
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Adultery: Trump paid off women before the 2016 election to not reveal his cheating on his wife. Here’s what the bible says about Adultery;
Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Proverbs 6:32
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Deuteronomy 5:18
“‘And you shall not commit adultery.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
1 Corinthians 10:8
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did
Trump refuses to apologize, repent or take responsibility for ANYTHING.
These are only a few example of how Trump violates Christ’s teachings, the Bible and the 10 Commandments with IMPUNITY
SHOCKING SIMILARITIES TO THE ANTICHRIST
The Antichrist has “a mouth that speaks boastfully.. prospered in everything he did, and truth was thrown to the ground.. he will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior”.
Trump stated that he has never asks GOD for forgiveness because he does not believe he has ever done anything that needs forgiven.
Video shows Trump’s shocking similarities to the description of the Antichrist
Description from YouTube: “15 Bible Verses Identifying Donald Trump as the Antichrist”
This video shows how Trump managed to evade consequences for his disgusting, outrageous and despicable conduct his entire life. It’s as though there’s demonic forces at work which has enabled and protected him from being held accountable.
Description from YouTube: “Born-again Christians testify about the rise of Antichrist Trump in light of God’s Word.”
Evangelicals Call For Trump’s Removal
Trump Secretly Mocks Christian Supporters
Trump Mocks Christians Who Voted For Him
President Trump used to boast about having sex with his friends’ wives, devised calculated infidelity plots
A passage of author Michael Wolff’s Washington tell-all describes how Trump would devise calculated plots to get the wives of his friends into bed.
Trump is such deplorable, disgusting excuse of a human being that according to Michael Wolff’s tell-all book, “Fire and Fury”, he used to boast about having sex with his friends wives and devised plots to get the wives of his friends into bed.
Sicko Trump
Trump has lived a life of depravity, corruption, criminality and greed.
Trump admitted to sexually assaulting women in the above video
Numerous women say Trump sexually assaulted them
Trump engaged in inappropriate conduct regarding Lisa Page & Peter Struck in front of women & children during a rally in Minnesota
This video shows how Trump is hateful, mean spirited and vindictive: “Get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades”… the exact opposite of Christ’s teaching of “Turn the other cheek”.
Trump has Incited Violence for Years
Trump proves he’s no Christian with his “rot in hell” Christmas post
Trump threatening revenge with a extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making a threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
Trump posts disturbing baseball bat photo with Alvin Bragg, threatens ‘death and destruction’
Former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage by sharing images of him holding a baseball bat next Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head.
March 24, 2023: Trump threatened “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged in New York — writing the shocking social media warning after posting an image of himself holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head. Trump shared the image of himself holding a baseball bat — with Bragg’s hands up — on his Truth Social platform Thursday as he devoted his day to attacking the prosecutor for pursuing a case over a “hush money” payout to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump PROVES he’s a LAWLESS THUG who should be ARRESTED and LOCKED UP for making threats: “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” & “If you f— around with us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before & threatening “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged for his crimes in New York.
This is how MOB BOSSES and CRIMINALS behave and is more PROOF that Trump is the Most Lawless, Corrupt & Dangerous President in History.
This type of conduct is the antithesis of everything Christianity is supposed to stand for and is further proof…. Trump is NOT a religious person, doesn’t follow the 10 Commandants or Christianity.
Trump Threatens NY DA Alvin Bragg in violation of NY state law
Former President Donald Trump threatened New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as Bragg investigates and prepares to indict Trump for his earlier New York crimes. Specifically, Trump indicates there will be “death and destruction” if Bragg indicts hims. Then, Trump commits a second crime by posting a picture of himself, holding a baseball bat, mid-swing, next to a picture DA Bragg whose hand is upraised as if in a defensive posture., who
This conduct by Trump violates New York penal law section 195.05, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree: “a person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree when that person intentionally . . . attempts to prevent a public servant from performing an official function, by means of intimidation or interference . . . ”
When the NY grand jury reconvenes on Monday, they should be presented this evidence of Trump’s threats and add two additional charges to the indictment of Donald Trump – one for the “death and destruction” post and one for the baseball bat post.
Don’t believe pundits at FOX like Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham… they are Propaganda Ministers for Trump. They have sold they’re souls for the millions they’re paid per year so they can live a lavish lifestyle, with no regard to the harm they’ve cause to our country and it’s citizens. Republican Strategist for 2008 McCain / Palin Presidential campaign Steve Schmidt explains how Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have destroyed America with Lies and Propaganda.
Renowned Psychologist : Like Hitler, Trump suffers from Sadism, Malignant Narcissism & Paranoia
Per the above article: “Renowned Psychologist Dr. John Gartner, who specializes in borderline personality disorder, biopolar disorder, and depression stated; Trump has the most dangerous form of mental illness that you can find in a leader… Malignant Narcissism”.
“Gartner stated that Malignant narcissism is a combination of 4 traits, which includes narcissism, paranoia, antisocial personality disorder (the psychology of a criminal and someone who routinely lies) and sadism”.
“The sadist aspects of Trump’s apparent mental illness, according is Gartner, means that “he is driven and gets intense pleasure from harming, humiliating, and degrading other people.”
“He has actually gotten intense pleasure from [other people’s] pain. He is reveling in the chaos and the destruction he is causing,” Gartner explained. “The more he feels threatened by the Mueller investigation, the more he needs to experience the exaltation of feeling drunk with power, through his ability to harm and humiliate and degrade other people.”
“While Gartner stopped short of saying that Trump is the next incarnation of Hitler, he did emphasize the importance of looking back at history as a means to try and prevent the catastrophes of the past from happening yet again”.
In speaking of Trump, Gartner did not imply that Trump would follow in the path of Hitler, but he did underscore his belief that “these are the kind of people who really can commit genocide,” when comparing the two men.
“I’m not saying he’s Hitler. I’m saying he has the same psychology. He’s of the same type, cut from the same cloth…. He is someone, who if given the chance, would enact that same kind of destructive agenda.”
Gartner accentuated his observations that Trump is demonizing immigrants similarly to how Hitler demonized the Jews”.
Trump Has Same Personality as Hitler, Mussolini
Historian and Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses how Trump has the same personality as dictators throughout history and talks about his hateful and racist ideology.
Dr. John Gartner stated; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump,” Gartner began. “He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies. And this is someone who is handling the nuclear codes.”
Former Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lance Dodes suggested; “He lies in the way anybody who scams people does. He’s tried to sell an idea or a product by telling you something that is untrue. There is also the kind of lie he has that in a way is more serious — that he has a loose grip on reality. We can say that because he lies about things that aren’t that important. I think what that indicates is that he can’t stand an aspect of reality that he doesn’t want, so he rejects it,” Dodes continued. “His grasp of reality, his attention to reality is loose. This is an extremely dangerous trait in a president. It actually makes him unqualified.”
Even ex-Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan referred to Trump as an ‘Authoritarian Narcissist’. No normal person would lie with impunity like Trump has (over 30,000 times while President), refuse to admit he lost the election, claim he won after he lost, then instigate a coup and insurrection to overturn the election after he lost.
According to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) have at least five of the symptoms listed below;
- Grandiosity with expectations of superior treatment by others
- Fixated on fantasies of power, success, intelligence, attractiveness, etc.
- Self-perception of being unique, superior, and associated with high-status people and institutions
- Needing constant admiration from others
- Sense of entitlement to special treatment and to obedience from others
- Exploitative of others to achieve personal gain
- Unwilling to empathize with others’ feelings, wishes, or needs
- Intensely jealous of others and the belief that others are equally jealous of them
- Pompous and arrogant demeanor.
Republican’s Hypocrisy and Double Standards Exposed
Mrs. Betty Bowers exposes Republicans Hypocrisy
Jen Psaki on the GOP’s history of hypocrisy on law and order
John Berman held Greg Murphy’s feet to the fire, pressing him on why he would enforce a subpoena against Hunter and James Biden but not against Steve Bannon. You will never believe the answer he eventually came up with. Jesse also covers the brazen projection of committee Chairman James Comer to fabricate allegations against Joe Biden that HE HIMSELF is actually guilty of.
Democratic Star RIPS Republicans to SHREDS during must-see hearing
Congressman Jared Moskowtiz calls out Republicans for their smear campaign of lies against Democrats, pointing out Trumps association with Jeffrey Epstein who Trump said “Like them young” and how Republicans support and defend Trump, the worst and most lawless President in history.
Republicans Supreme Court Hypocrisy
In 2016, when conservative Scalia suddenly died during Obama’s last year in office, then-candidate Trump said the GOP should block President Obama’s nominee. McConnell refused to even hold hearings on Obama’s centrist court nominee, Merrick Garland.
Those same Republicans have proven to be Partisan Hypocrites by rushing to replace Ruth Ginsburg Seat with Republican Trump’s nominee just weeks from the 2020 election. These people have no shame or decency.
Republicans said & did nothing about Trump mean & hateful tweets. CNN’s Ana Cabrera calls out Republicans for their vocal criticism of past tweets from two of President Biden’s cabinet nominees after years of downplaying or ignoring controversial tweets from then-President Donald Trump.
Examples of right-wing leaders who were forced to resign from their anti-gay organizations after their own homosexuality came to light
Hypocrisy with Florida GOP leader amid sex scandal
The Republican Party of “Family Values” GOP Chair Christian Ziegler and his far-right “Moms for Liberty” co-founder wife Bridget Ziegler. The couple both admit to having at least one threesome with a woman now accusing Mr. Ziegler of rape as calls grow for him to resign from his powerful Republican Party post.
Bridget Ziegler allowed anti-LGBTQ+ attacks at school board meeting, member says
Florida GOP chairman, Christian Ziegler, is under criminal investigation for allegations related to sexual battery, including rape. He denies the allegations. Christian Ziegler is married to Bridget Ziegler, the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, which espouses an anti-LGBTQ+ agenda. Bridget Ziegler was not named in the complaint against her husband, but the affidavit said that she confirmed, “having a sexual encounter with the victim and Christian over a year ago and that it only happened one time,” the alleged victim being a woman. The reporter who blew this story wide open, Bob Norman, and Sarasota School Board member Tom Edwards, who walked out of a board meeting after anti-LGBTQ+ comments were directed at him, apparently linked to Bridget Ziegler’s reported crusade to empower Christian institutions to overhaul public education in Florida, both join Joy Reid.
Republican Hypocrisy On Crime Rates
GOP’s Insurrection Hypocrisy
Coach D EXPOSES GOP hypocrisy on Grooming in the Perfect Takedown
Rep. Omar: Do Republicans want to continue their hypocrisy over committees?
Republicans Hypocrisy about Conceding Elections on Full Display in this video
Video Revealing GOP Impeachment Hypocrisy
Some Republican lawmakers in Congress who downplay Donald Trump’s alleged felonies have a big problem – videotape. MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Ari Melber, examines footage of 14 current Republican senators who are on the record, advocating for charging a president with obstruction in the 1990s.
In 1998 Lindsey Graham advocated Impeachment against Bill Clinton, yet failed to advocate Impeachment against Trump for far worse than offenses Clinton committed
Lindsey Graham 12-18-1998: Nixon failed to comply with subpoenas from Congress, causing Impeachment
Article 3 of Impeachment against Richard Nixon was based on the idea that Nixon as President, failed to comply with subpoenas from Congress. This robbed Congress of it’s oversight duties and subjected him to Impeachment. Graham proves to be a partisan hypocrite because that’s EXACTLY what Trump did when he refused to comply with subpoenas from Congress.
Proof Mitch McConnell Once Cared About Obstruction of Justice
Why Mike Pompeo is the “Secretary of Hypocrisy”
MSNBC’s David Gura goes on a trip down memory lane sparked by Secretary Mike Pompeo’s comments the State Department is being bullied.
How Trump’s Latest Threats Reveal Republicans’ Hypocrisy
Trump tampered with witnesses and lied. These Senate Republicans voted to oust Bill Clinton for doing the same; Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Richard Burr, Pat Roberts, Mike Crapo, Mike Enzi, James Inhofe, Richard Shelby, Roy Blunt, Jerry Moran, Rob Portman, Roger Wicker and John Thune
This video compares the way in which Republican senators approached Clinton’s impeachment crisis with how they are now treating Trump and the Russia investigation.
More Video Of Republican Hypocrisy On Impeachment
Watch Republican Senator John Thune condemn a president lying to the American people when it’s a Democratic President.
Republican John Thune stated on the House floor in 1998, “Lying to the American people is a betrayal of trust. The pattern of deception and dishonesty that acts as a bodyguard to this president strikes at the very core of his ability to lead. Either the president chooses contempt or complete disregard — or his conscience is so diminished as to leave him unable to discern the truth from his lies” citing his reasons why Bill Clinton should be impeached.
Today, Thune is a high-ranking member of the Republican Senate, one of the craven Trump enablers who refuses to put country over party.
Republicans has shown their Hypocrisy by pursuing the impeachment of Bill Clinton while refusing to impeach or criticize Donald Trump.
Republicans dismissed President Trump asking acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe who he voted for in the 2016 election as casual conversation but were outraged over a similar incident between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton.
Republicans Shamed for Protecting ‘Pathetic’ Trump and Barr
Rep. Eric Swalwell condemned congressional Republicans for protecting a ‘pathetic’ President Trump from facing the consequences of his actions.
Examples shown in this video of what hypocrites Fox program hosts are
What If Fox News Covered Trump the Way It Covered Obama?
Sean Hannity was all for NSA surveillance when George W. Bush was president, but now he blames President Obama for NSA surveillance snooping and claims it’s a violation of the 4th Amendment.
GOP Exposed as Hypocrites on Presidential Orders
For eight years, Republicans often skewered President Obama for the executive orders he issued from the Oval Office. Now however, they seem to be cheering Donald Trump on for his own orders. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who called a handful of orders Obama issued a year ago aimed at reducing gun violence “a dangerous level of executive overreach,” has expressed nothing by support for Trump’s. Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions, who is now Trump’s attorney general nominee, once called Obama “emperor” for his use of executive action on immigration. Sessions has not yet commented on Trump’s dozen presidential actions during his first week as president.
Sen. Michael Bennet on Republican’s Fiscal Discipline Hypocrisy
Donald Trump criticized Barack Obama endlessly for Golfing. As president, Trump has played golf almost 175 times since taking office, at a cost to taxpayers of $102 million. That’s nearly twice as often as President Obama played over his eight years in office.
Donald Trump and Sean Hannity were both against Wikileaks Assange. After Wikileaks Julian Assange helped Trump by releasing criminally hacked / stolen DNC emails, Trump and Hannity now loves Wikileaks Julian Assange, proving both are Hypocrites.
Benghazi Investigations Politically Motivated
There were 60 embassy deaths under George W. Bush, but no endless investigations into those deaths by Republicans. It’s clear that Republicans endless Benghazi investigations were motivated by politics and hate for President Obama and to discredit Hillary Clinton
Republicans are the BIGGEST Hypocrites on this Planet.
Trump’s Threat Against Freedom of Speech & The Press
Trump’s threats of shutting down news outlets which are critical of him proves he’s a wannabe dictator who intends to destroy Democracy and Freedom of Speech in the U.S. if elected President in 2024.
Trump hate’s MSNBC and wants them shut down because they expose him for being a Wannabe Fascist Dictator, his despicable conduct, his LIES, Lawlessness, Corruption, the Worst President in History, the threat which he is to Democracy and the United States. This is what Dictators do… SILENCE anyone or anything which exposes their lies, corruption, lawlessness and autocratic behavior.
Authoritarians around the world makes a priority of attacking the media that criticize them and notes that tendency in Donald Trump and the Trumpy class of Republicans and billionaires who emulate autocrats.
Lawrence: Media still not ready to cover Trump after years of his lies
Donald Trump called on the government to “come down hard” on MSNBC and not one major broadcast news network covered it. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why this is a product of what Brian Klaas calls the “banality of crazy.”
Trump: NBC, CNN should have ‘licenses or whatever’ pulled for not airing Iowa speech
Former President Trump says NBC and CNN should be taken off the air for their decision to not air in full the speech he gave in Iowa following his win in Monday’s caucuses. “We were talking about her show and how corrupt the press is, and last night it was amazing,” Trump said during separate…
Per the above article: “NBC, CNN should have ‘licenses or whatever’ pulled for not airing Iowa speech”
“Trump says NBC and CNN should be taken off the air for their decision to not air in full the speech he gave in Iowa following his win in Monday’s caucuses. We were talking about her show and how corrupt the press is, and last night it was amazing,” Trump said during separate remarks to a crowd in New Hampshire on Tuesday night. “NBC and CNN refused to air my victory speech. They should have their licenses or whatever they have: Take it away.”
“There is a reason that we and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to remarks by former President Trump,” said Rachel Maddow, a leading pundit, on its air Monday night as he was speaking. There is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. And that is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are.”
Just another example of how Turmp is a Wannabe Dictator who is the THREAT to Freedom of Speech and Democracy in the United States
Trump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter’s phone and email records
The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have taken aggressive steps targeting journalists in leak investigations.
Trump has repeatedly attacked the concept of an independent press. He’s called critical coverage “fake news” and journalists “the enemy of the American people,” made threats to change libel laws and revoke licenses, and his battles with CNN led him to try to interfere in the AT&T/Time Warner merger.
This demonstrates his unwillingness to respect and uphold the Constitution, and disdain for the crucial foundations to our free society.
Bottom line: Trump’s threats against freedom of the press are also threats against American democracy.
Since Trump began running for President and throughout his 1st year in office, he has called the Press “The Enemy of the People” and news which exposes things he doesn’t like, “Fake News“.
It’s clear, the reason Trump hates the press is because they expose his LIES and outrageous behavior.
Trump attacks on the press out of an authoritarian playbook
Here’s how Trump has threatened the media
On November 29 2023, Trump stated that he wants the ‘Federal Government to come down Hard on MSNBC’ for its criticism of him.
Trump Wants To Change Libel Laws So People Can’t Criticize Him
Allies to Donald Trump are pitching a “system overhaul” for the U.S. government in a plan called Project 2025, which some call a revealing and horrifying look at what many leading entities on the right have in store for America should Donald Trump return to the White House.
Trump’s Threats To Become A Dictator After Election Cannot Be Ignored
Donald Trump has been increasing his use of fascist language in his speeches, but that’s nothing compared to the actual plans that his team is working on should he retake the White House. In addition to creating an “army” of loyal public servants and lawyers, Trump has also said that he would use the Insurrection Act to root out enemies of the country. That doesn’t mean extremists from terrorist cells hiding in the country – it means people like you.
Trump’s new autocratic plan exposed… Alarms over ‘radical second term’ plots
Trump plans to declare Martial Law using the Military to QUASH protests, violating the First Amendment and his Oath of Office if he’s elected President. In a new report, The Associated Press details Donald Trump’s repeated “hints” of an “expanded role” for the military and the lack of “guardrails” to restrain him.
Trump is ‘making being a dictator his brand’: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Ana Cabrera is joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at New York University and author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” to talk about Trump’s comments about being a “dictator for a day”.
Hungary Is a Version of What Republicans Wants For The U.S.
Chief national correspondent at the New York Times, Mark Leibovich, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, react to Fox News’ anchor Tucker Carlson’s bizarre choice to host his show from Hungary, a country with an authoritarian regime.
Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former FBI special agent Clint Watts discuss with Nicolle Wallace the former president’s endorsement of Viktor Orban ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary.
Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a anti-democratic authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere.
Republicans admitting they want a dictatorship and want to eliminate Democracy
Representative Gerry Connolly explains how Trump plans to replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, gut the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, invocation of the Insurrection Act on day one to QUASH protests, termination of all rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution if Trump is elected for a 2nd term as President.
March 28, 2024 Steve Bannon stated: “After we’ve won the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.
Trump posted & stated on 11/11/2023; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.
In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
Radical Right Winger Mike Davis, who Trump might make his Attorney General has stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in ‘the gulag’ and caging migrant kids would be glorious.
Under Republicans “Project 2025” plans, Trump could order his Attorney General to arrest and prosecute anyone for no reason at all. Trump even mentioned this in a speech (shown in the above video) saying if he had a political rival who was doing well, he might have them “arrested for walking across the street the wrong way”.
Below is the post by Trump’s possible Attorney General pick, Mike Davis referenced in the above video, about putting Professor of History, Ruth Ben-Ghiat in the “Gulag”. Her crime? Being critical of Trump and calling him out for his Autocrat, Authoritarian, Fascist behavior which she claims is similar to Hitler & Mussolini.
Kash Patel, who may be in Trump’s 2025 administration of LAWLESSNESS and TERROR, recently stated; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.
Steve Bannon Calls on “SHOCK TROOPS” to Take Over Government
On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.
Trump Has Same Personality as Hitler, Mussolini
Historian and Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses how Trump has the same personality as dictators throughout history and talks about his hateful and racist ideology.
Steve Bannon and Kash Patel Outline the Scheme to Fill Government With Insurrectionists
Jesse talks about the exchanges between Steve Bannon and Kash Patel on Bannon’s show yesterday. They plotted about the swiftness of prosecutions of Donald Trump’s critics in the first moments after he was inaugurated if he is reelected.
Kash Patel, who may be a candidate for Trump’s Attorney General, recently stated; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.
These are the type of threats we used to hear from the Dictator of Soviet Russia, Nikita Khrushchev: “We will BURY you!”
Trump like Hitler and Mussolini
If elected President in 2024, Trump plans to declare Martial Law on the day he takes office to deploy the military to quash protests
Trump plans to expand executive power if he’s elected
Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, according to NYT reporting.
Trump is ‘making no effort to hide his fundamentally autocratic intentions’
Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes reacts to reporting on plans by Donald Trump to remove any and all obstacles to his power in a potential second term
Steve Schmidt breaks down the troubling polling that shows Donald Trump ahead in a head to head showdown with Joe Biden. Steve explains that these warnings must be taken seriously, as they were not properly heeded when Trump faced off against Hillary Clinton.
TRUMP ATTACKING REPORTERS
Trump Attacks Reporter Yamiche Alcindor For Quoting Him Directly
Trump loses it, erupts in feud with reporter over Jared Kushner’s lies
Trump Uses Coronavirus Briefing To Attack Media Covering A Pandemic
Trump got an assist from a far-right reporter during his coronavirus briefing in his attacks on the media, dismissing a valid question from another reporter there about the virus’s impact on the economy. Fmr. RNC Chairman Michael Steele reacts.
Trump behaves like the LUNATIC he is, attacking NBC’s Peter Alexander… ‘You’re A Terrible Reporter’. This is OUTRAGEOUS, UN-PRESIDENTIAL conduct. Since he fails to behave presidential and treats others with NO respect… HE deserves NO Respect
NBC News Peter Alexander speaks with Andrea Mitchell about the president’s attack during a press briefing on coronavirus. Aired on 03/20/2020.
Trump Attacks CNN, NBC Reporters At News Conference: ‘You Are A Rude, Terrible Person’
President Trump calls out CNN’s Jim Acosta at a White House news conference, saying, “The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible.” Trump also tells NBC’s Peter Alexander, “I’m not a big fan of yours either.”
Trump calls CNN reporter ‘rude, terrible person,’ ‘enemy of the people’
At a news conference at the White House Nov. 7, President Trump told CNN reporter Jim Acosta, “When you report fake news … you are the enemy of the people.”
Hillsdale College Right Wing Agenda
Sources in the above video claim Hillsdale College has a Right Wing agenda, creates programs which are ‘politically motivated’, ‘helps provide intellectual cover for the Christian Nationalist movement’ and is a ‘danger to democracy’.
How this tiny Christian college is driving the right’s nationwide war against public schools
Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge
Per the above article: “How this tiny Christian college is driving the right’s nationwide war against public schools. In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge”
For decades, 1,500-student Hillsdale College — a liberal arts school in rural southern Michigan, founded by Baptist abolitionists in 1844 — has been known as a “citadel of conservatism.” Its campus features prominent statues of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, its curriculum leans heavily into the Western canon of “Great Books” and it describes itself as “a trustee of modern man’s intellectual and spiritual inheritance from the Judeo-Christian faith and Greco-Roman culture.”
In the 1980s, the college earned right-wing adulation for refusing to accept any federal funding, including student aid, to maintain its “independence in every regard”; in practice, this means it doesn’t have to comply with federal regulations, such as Title IX prohibitions on sex discrimination or the reporting of student racial demographics. (In 2013, Hillsdale president Larry Arnn complained to a Michigan legislative committee about state officials visiting campus to assess whether the student body included enough “dark ones.”) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas once summoned up Reagan and American colonist John Winthrop in calling Hillsdale a “shining city on a hill.”
But in recent years, Hillsdale has greatly expanded its influence, becoming one of the most significant actors in U.S. conservative politics — if also one of the least conspicuous. Throughout the Trump years, there was a virtual revolving door that shuttled Hillsdale staff and alumni back and forth between the school, the White House and Capitol Hill. (Vanity Fair described the college as “a feeder school for the Trump administration.”) Right-wing politicians and thought leaders vie to give speeches at Hillsdale, which are then disseminated to a claimed audience of 6.2 million through the school’s monthly publication, Imprimis.
As Republicans move into a new phase of their long-game efforts to privatize public education, Hillsdale has become a key resource.
Anti-Democratic Fascist REPUBLICANS are passing Laws banning books, limiting what Teachers can Teach and what can be discussed in classrooms with huge fines of up to $10,000 for violations. Republicans want BIG GOVERNMENT to control every aspect of people’s lives. Life in the United States could become as anti-democratic, oppressive and unbearable as it is in Russia or Hungary unless Republicans are STOPPED by VOTING THEM OUT.
REPUBLICAN’S WAR on Teachers
Florida REPUBLICAN Governor Ron DeSantis wants to put cameras in classrooms.
Teachers Pull Books To Avoid Felony Prosecution From DeSantis Law
Teachers are being told to withhold ALL of their classroom library books until they can be individually reviewed for certification in the wake of a new law, House Bill 1467, which can result in a third-degree felony if violated.
Indoctrination by cartoon? DeSantis’ latest attack on ‘woke schools.’
Ron DeSantis says Florida schools should be about “education over indoctrination.” So why is his state now bringing in lessons on race and social justice from a right-wing group whose leader brags about indoctrinating kids? Mehdi breaks down the hypocrisy behind DeSantis’ war on ‘woke’ schools.
‘Outrageous’: Don Lemon reacts to Florida book law championed by DeSantis
Embattled Florida parents to America: You’re next if DeSantis wins!
Alex Wagner looks at the agenda Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has laid out for his state and his disingenuous pushback on criticism of his cultural crusade as parents of students at New College of Florida caution the rest of America that if DeSantis succeeds in making an example of their school, Republicans everywhere will try to follow suit.
Republican’s War or Woke is a war against young people… an attack on how they think, exist, speak and especially how they understand the world they live in.
Ken Burns Compares DeSantis Bills to ‘Soviet System’ on CNN: ‘The Way the Nazis Would Build a Potemkin Village’
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns joined CNN on Tuesday and accused Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of creating a Soviet-like system through his bills targeting materials available in public schools. DeSantis has been focused on introducing legislation specifically aimed at explicit and “woke” materials in schools. His efforts have earned major pushback as critics argue new strict guidelines can be used to target LGBTQ and Black history-related content. House Bill 999 would give more power to a university board of trustees over curriculum being taught and essentially ban controversial curriculum like Critical Race Theory. [source: mediaite.com/tv/ken-burns-compares-desantis-bills-to-soviet-system-on-cnn-the-way-the-nazis-would-build-a-potemkin-village]
DeSantis & Florida Republicans are following in the footsteps of Autocrat Dictator of Hungary Viktor Orban by taking control of Education
Right Wingers around the world are systematically destroying Democracy, implementing One Party Rule with rigged elections, take-over of the News Media, Judiciary and take-over of Education, similar to what DeSantis and Republicans are doing in Florida.
Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a anti-democratic authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere. Republicans are following the same playbook so it could happen here unless they are STOPPED.
Outrageous’: Florida teacher rips DeSantis’ censorship, criminal threats
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing a new law forcing teachers to remove books from classrooms that are not deemed “appropriate.” So-called “Woke Busters” are joining DeSantis’ effort and forcing libraries and schools to remove “offensive” books. Florida public school teacher Andrea Phillips joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber, calling the law “outrageous,” and adding students “don’t have books to read.”
| Republican Christian Nationalists Threat to Democracy |
Trump & Republicans want to turn the Presidency into a Presidential Dictatorship. The reason most Republicans is OK with this is because they know the majority of Americans doesn’t support their Radical beliefs. So they are counting on winning the 2024 Presidential election through the Electoral College, which allows them to seize power with a minority of the votes. Then they will cram their Radical Right Wing laws, beliefs and lifestyles down American Citizens throats. They have already started in Red States by criminalizing abortions and taking control of education.
Republicans admitting they want a dictatorship and want to eliminate Democracy
Republican Christian Nationalists want anti-democratic fascist one-party-rule in the United States and are behind strict Anti-Abortion Laws to charge a woman with murder who aborts a pregnancy for any reason.
3 Ways Christianity Was Largely Responsible For The Holocaust
While Christianity wasn’t the sole catalyst for the Holocaust, there is no doubt that Christianity set the stage for the Holocaust to happen.
Per the above article; “Christianity was culturally oppressive to the Jews – In the eyes of the Christian church, Jews were heretics and Jesus-killers. Since they rejected the teachings of salvation, they deserved to go to Hell. Hitler hijacked German Christians’ existing prejudice towards Jews.
Hitler stepped in and said, “I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator by defending myself against the Jew. I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
Hitler merely played on the prejudices created by Christianity to blame the problems that were largely created by Christianity, on the Jews. Thus, Christianity played a central role in setting the stage for the Holocaust”.
Just like GERMAN CHRISTIANS…. AMERICAN CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS condone HATE, VIOLENCE and MURDER. Just like Hitler who said “I am fighting for the work of the Lord” many American “Christians” believe (because they are so hopelessly brainwashed) they are right and everyone else who doesn’t share their beliefs are wrong and should be destroyed.
Why So Many QAnon Believers Are Evangelical Christians
Christian Nationalism Ascendant In GOP Politics
In June 1979, Jerry Falwell Senior, a flamboyant Baptist minister, announced his intentions to build one of the most powerful political coalitions in American history. The “Moral Majority,” as it would later be tagged, was not only instrumental in the election of Ronald Reagan… it also forged a bond between the Republican Party and Christian fundamentalist groups that persists to this day – one that we now see manifesting even on the nation’s highest court.
Christian nationalists have hijacked the GOP and my faith community, says Wyoming Republican
“Christian nationalists have hijacked both my Republican Party and my faith community by blurring the lines between church and government and in the process rebranding our state’s identity,” writes Wyoming Republican Party member, Susan Stubson.
Description from YouTube: “Jesse talks about two Christian pastors who call democracy a disease and Black Lives Matter a Jezebel spirit. Shane Vaughn & Jackson Lahmeyer delivered remarks to their congregants in an effort to radicalize them politically”.
Trump Should Be In Prison, NOT Running for President
Within days of the riots Trump caused to stay in power, Trump should have been arrested for Inciting Riots, Insurrection and Sedition.
According to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment Trump isn’t qualified to to run for President in 2024 due to having “Engaged in an insurrection”.
Germany and Peru took their recent Coup attempts seriously and reacted swiftly. This is how the United States should have reacted to Trump and Republican’s Coup attempt.
Swift arrests of coup plotters in Peru and Germany are contrasts to the U.S. response to the insurrection. There are new lessons and a new push for accountability. MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on these arrests in democracies abroad and what it means for the DOJ probe into the Trump coup plot.
Trump’s DERANGED ANNOUNCEMENT on running for President
Trump held a humiliating event at Mar-A-Lago to announce he is running for President in 2024. The event was so weird and bad that people in the audience tried to escape but were blocked by security.
As pointed out in the above video, Reality Winner was arrested for stealing one (1) Secret Document (within days), so why hasn’t Trump been arrested for his theft of hundreds of Top Secret Document?
What Does Trump Have To Do To Go To Jail?”
In the wake of the release of the affidavit at the center of the search of Donald Trump’s golf course Mar-A-Lago, Dr. Jason John and Elie Mystal query, “why ain’t this dude in jail?”and discuss the national security implications connected with this breach.
Viewer Question: Why is Donald Trump Still A Free Man?
Trump Literally Stole Documents And Got Away With It
Within days of Merrick Garland taking office in 2021, Trump should have been arrested and prosecuted for “Obstruction of Justice” as detailed in the Mueller Report.
After all of the potential crimes Trump has committed including Classified Documents theft, Inciting a riot which resulted in deaths & law enforcement attacked, Insurrection, Sedition, Obstructing Justice, Extorting Ukraine for military aid, Soliciting election fraud and more, it’s an outrage that Trump hasn’t been arrested and is out running for President again.
This demonstrates that there’s two (2) “Justice” systems in the United States… one for the Rich & Powerful Politicians, and another for everyone else.
Trump’s being free (and not incarcerated) to make an announcement that he’s running for President again after all his crimes and outrageous conduct is an outrage.
Trump Motivated To Announce Candidacy By Fear Of Indictment Says Jon Karl
ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi weigh in on Trump’s expected announcement to launch his 2024 presidential run.
Goldman: Despite 2024 Bid, Trump’s Criminal Defense Strategy Will ‘Fall On Deaf Ears’ At DOJ
NY Representative-elect Daniel Goldman & MSNBC Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann join MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss why Donald Trump can’t “bad act his way out of a criminal charge” through his 2024 presidential campaign announcement.
White House ethics attorney Richard Painter and Claire Finkelstein, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania listed the following as potential crimes Trump committed;
(1) Obstructing justice as identified in the Mueller investigation.
(2) Bribing and/or extorting Ukraine with military aid to investigate his political opponent Joe Biden and conduct another investigation undermining the Mueller investigation.
(3) Coercing cabinet members and other federal employees to engage in partisan political activity in violation of the criminal political coercion provisions of the Hatch Act.
(4) Soliciting election fraud in a phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State in November 2020.
(5) Criminal sedition in authorizing preparation of the unsigned draft Executive Order dated December 16, 2020 pursuant to which President Trump would have ordered the Secretary of Defense to seize voting machines in certain states to look for evidence of election fraud.
(6) Inciting insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump lying in Dalton, GA on January 4, 2021 after losing the 2020 election. Judge finds Trump lied under oath
Hear the calls Trump made as he tried to steal the election
Former President Trump and his inner circle were using all the powers of the presidential office to wage a high-pressure campaign, CNN’s Drew Griffin reports — not to stop the steal but to start it.
‘100 Times Worse Than Nixon’: Historian Warns Of Trump’s ‘Coup’ In Damning 2021 Emails
New evidence concerning Donald Trump’s DOJ pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election shows DOJ officials rejected their colleague’s attempt to intervene in Georgia’s election certification. Presidential historian Michael Beschsloss joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss how Trump’s so-called “coup attempt” echoes the Nixon-era “Saturday Night Massacre.”
Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago
‘Cult Of Criminality’: Long List Of Trump Allies Convicted Of Crimes Grows
Chris Hayes: “The cult of criminality surrounding Donald Trump has been present since he first ran for president. So, Trump executive Allen Weisselberg is really just the latest in a very long list of people charged with crimes in Trump’s orbit—and it shows no sign of slowing down.”
Former U.S. Attorney Berman Reveals How Trump Weaponized The DOJ
Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, details instances when Donald Trump abused the power of the Department of Justice.
Jan. 6 White House Records Gaps Suggest Potentially Willful Omissions
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, that “internal White House records from January sixth show a gap in Trump’s phone records of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the Capitol was being violently assaulted.”
TRUMP HIDING 7-HOUR GAP OF PHONE RECORDS During the January 6th Insurrection
Jesse talks about the reporting on the 7-hour gap of Trump White House phone records that are missing from the documents turned over to the House Select Committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021, and the insurrection at the United States Capitol.
Senate Report Details Trump’s Attempts To Overturn Election
New details emerge about Trump’s efforts to overturn election
The Senate Judiciary Committee released a sweeping report detailing how President Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Trump Admits He Wanted To Steal Election
Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Donald Trump’s “public stupidity” adds evidence to the criminal investigations of election fraud.
Trump Illegally Destroyed and Removed Documents from the White House
Trump Illegally Ripped Up ‘Hundreds’ of Documents Despite Warnings – With Many Destroyed in ‘Burn Bags’: Report
Former president Donald Trump tore up “hundreds” of White House records during his administration – in clear violation of federal law – despite “multiple admonishments,” the Washington Post reported Saturday. “The documents included briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane,” the Post reported.
Trump Used ‘Burn Bags’ To Destroy Docs, Took Records To Mar-a-Lago
Flush Away The Evidence?: The Trump Toilet Obsession Takes A Crooked Turn
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| • Campaign Finance Violations: Prosecutors claim a Hush Money Payment was made to porn star Stormy Daniels by personal attorney / fixer, Michael Cohen “in coordination with and at the direction of” Trump days before the 2016 Presidential Election. Cohen served over 1 year in prison for being a co-conspirator for this offense. | |
| • LIAR who claimed he “Won” the 2020 Election, without ANY Proof. Accused Democrats of “Stealing the Election” when HE & REPUBLICANS tried to STEAL the election & subvert the will of the people | |
| • Engaged in Sedition, Insurrection and Treason by a coup d’etat, inciting riots & violence, causing 5 deaths by his brainwashed MOB of Supporters to make himself an UN-elected Dictator by stopping the certification of Democratically Elected Joe Biden. | |
| • Threatened Election Officials demanding they “find votes” to help him STEAL the 2020 election | |
| • Mob Boss Style Quid Pro Quo: As a smear tactic to preemptively destroy Biden as a potential 2020 Democrat candidate, Trump acting both directly and through his agents, corruptly solicited the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations of political opponent former Vice President Biden, before Military Aid would be released |
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| • Obstructed & Blocked Congressional Investigations to prevent the American People from learning how he Violated his Oath of Office using unjustified claims of Executive Privilege and ordered Witnesses & Federal Employees not to comply with Congressional Subpoenas | |
| • STOLE Top Secret Document and took them to Mar-a-Largo violating the Presidential Records Act and Espionage Act | |
| • Obstructed Justice on numerous occasions as detailed in the Mueller Report | |
| • Attacked & Threatened Whistleblower who overheard & reported Trump’s phone conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky, calling him/her a “Spy” and implying he/she should be executed | |
| • Impeachable Conduct: More than 500 legal scholars from top universities stated in an open letter there’s “overwhelming evidence” Trump engaged in “impeachable conduct” in his dealings with Ukraine | |
| • Vindictive, Pay-back Firings such as the dismissal of Intelligence Inspector General who alerted Congress of an “urgent” whistleblower complaint… the firing of National Intelligence Director for allowing the House Intelligence Committee to be Informed about Russia’s Plans to Interfere in the 2020 Election and the firing of Colonel Vindman for testifying against Trump | |
| • Emoluments Violations: Received tax payer and foreign money at properties he owns while President, violating the Emoluments Clause | |
| • Corrupt Pardons – Trump used his pardon powers to reward political allies, corrupt public officials, accused war criminals and other controversial figures | |
| • Attacked Judges who didn’t rule his way & attacked Law Enforcement investigating his corruption | |
| • Violations of Presidential Records Act – Destroyed and took Top Secret Documents to Mar-a-Lago in violation of the Presidential Records Act | |
| OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE AS DETAILED IN THE MUELLER REPORT | |
| Source for list of 10 below: apnews.com | |
| (1) Pressure On Comey To End Probe Of Michael Flynn – Comey testified to congress that Trump said this at a private dinner meeting; “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go,”. Mueller’s report says “substantial evidence” indicates Trump’s decision to fire Comey in May 2017 was the result of the FBI director’s unwillingness to say publicly that Trump was not personally under investigation. | |
| (2) Reaction To The Continuing Russia Investigation – Among the evidence is the president telling then-White House counsel Don McGahn to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation and Trump’s subsequent anger at Sessions. Trump also contacted Comey and other intelligence agency leaders to ask them to push back publicly on the suggestion that Trump had any connection to the Russian election-interference effort. | |
| (3) Firing Of Comey And Aftermath – Mueller’s report says “substantial evidence” indicates Trump’s decision to fire Comey in May 2017 was the result of the FBI director’s unwillingness to say publicly that Trump was not personally under investigation. On the day after Trump fired Comey, the president told Russian officials that he had “faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.” | |
| (4) Appointment Of Special Counsel And Efforts To Remove Him – Following media reports that Mueller’s team was investigating whether Trump had obstructed justice, Trump called then-White House counsel Don McGahn at home and directed him to have Mueller removed. McGahn refused. | |
| (5) Further Efforts To Curtail The Special Counsel’s Investigation – Trump instructed former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to have Sessions publicly announce that, notwithstanding his recusal from the Russia investigation, the investigation was “very unfair” to the president, the president had done nothing wrong, and Sessions planned to meet with Mueller to limit him to “investigating election meddling for future elections. | |
| (6) Efforts To Prevent Public Disclosure Of Evidence – In summer of 2017, Trump learned that the news media planned to report on the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between senior campaign officials and Russians offering derogatory information about Hillary Clinton. The president directed aides not to publicly disclose the emails setting up the meeting. Before the emails became public, the president also edited a press statement for Donald Trump Jr. by deleting a line that acknowledged that the meeting was “with an individual who (Trump Jr.) was told might have information helpful to the campaign.” | |
| (7) Additional Efforts To Have Sessions Take Control Of Investigation – At several points in between July 2017 and December 2017, Trump tried to get Sessions to declare that he was no longer recused from the Russia investigation and would assert control over it. The report says there’s evidence that one purpose of asking Sessions to step in was so that the attorney general would restrict the investigation’s scope. | |
| (8) Trump Orders White House Counsel To Deny That President Tried To Fire Mueller– In an Oval Office meeting in February 2018, Trump told McGahn to “correct” a New York Times story that reported Trump had earlier instructed McGahn to fire Mueller. Trump also asked why McGahn had told Mueller’s investigators about the directive to remove Mueller. McGahn told Trump he had to tell the investigators the truth. | |
| (9) Trump’s Actions Toward, Flynn, Manafort And Other Possible Witnesses– Mueller looked at whether Trump’s sympathetic messages to Flynn, former campaign manager Paul Manafort and others were intended to limit their cooperation with Mueller’s investigation. When Flynn began cooperating with prosecutors, Trump passed word through his lawyer that he still had warm feeling for Flynn and asked for a “heads up” if Flynn knew of information implicating Trump. Trump praised Manafort during and after his criminal convictions, and refused to rule out a pardon for his former campaign chairman. | |
| (10) Trump Actions Toward Michael Cohen – Mueller noted that Trump’s conduct toward Cohen, a former Trump Organization executive, changed from praise to castigation after Cohen began cooperating with prosecutors. The evidence could “support an inference that the president used inducements in the form of positive messages in an effort to get Cohen not to cooperate, and then turned to attacks and intimidation to deter” cooperation and undermine Cohen’s credibility, Mueller wrote. | |
| IMPEACHMENT: ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER | |
| (1) President Trump—acting both directly and through his agents Within and Outside the United States Government corruptly solicited the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into (A) a political opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and (B) a discredited theory promoted by Russia alleging that Ukraine—rather than Russia—interfered in the 2016 United States Presidential election. | |
| (2) With the same corrupt motives, President Trump—acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States Government—conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that he had requested | |
| (A) the release of $391 million of United States taxpayer funds that Congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to Ukraine to oppose Russian aggression and which President Trump had ordered suspended; | |
| (B) a head of state meeting at the White House, which the President of Ukraine sought to demonstrate continued United States support for the Government of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. | |
| (3) Faced with the public revelation of his actions, President Trump ultimately released the military and security assistance to the Government of Ukraine, but has persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting Ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal political benefit. | |
| IMPEACHMENT – ARTICLE II: OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS | |
| (1) Directing the White House to defy a lawful subpoena by withholding the production of documents sought therein by the Committees. | |
| (2) Directing other Executive Branch agencies and offices to defy lawful subpoenas and withhold the production of documents and records from the Committees—in response to which the Department of State, Office of Management and Budget, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense refused to produce a single document or record. | |
| (3) Directing current and former Executive Branch officials not to cooperate with the Committees—in response to which nine Administration officials defied subpoenas for testimony, namely John Michael “Mick” Mulvaney, Robert B. Blair, John A. Eisenberg, Michael Ellis, Preston Wells Griffith, Russell T. Vought, Michael Duffey, Brian McCormack, and T. Ulrich Brechbuhl. | |
| These actions were consistent with Trump’s previous efforts to undermine United States Government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections. | |
| • | Emoluments Violations – Received tax payer and foreign money at properties he owns while President, violating the Emoluments Clause |
| • | Calling the Impeachment Inquiry an “Attempted Coup” is another example of his outrageous conduct, how IGNORANT he is of US laws and how unfit he is to be President |
| • | Said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep Adam Schiff should be Arrested for Treason when Schiff was only doing his job to hold the most LAWLESS “President” in History accountable |
| LAWLESS, VINDICTIVE, PAY-BACK FIRINGS | |
| • | Systematic and lawless firing of multiple agency’s Inspectors General who are there to reign in corruption and hold leaders and government accountable. |
| • | Secretary Mark Esper FIRED for criticizing Trump for using Military Troops to remove Protestors in Washington, DC for Trump’s Photo-Op |
| • | Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research Rick Bright FIRED in retaliation for his criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, including Trump’s touting of the drug hydroxychloroquine. |
| • | State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, FIRED for allegedly investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over a number of potentially corrupt activities. Details… |
| • | Mitch Behm, acting IG watchdog for Department of Transportation FIRED who was overseeing a high profile investigation of Secretary Chao’s alleged favoritism benefiting her husband Senator Mitch McConnell’s political prospects.. Details |
| • | Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, FIRED because he was the first to sound the alarm to Congress about an “urgent” complaint he received from a “whistleblower” intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president. |
| • | National Intelligence Director Joseph Maguire FIRED for allowing the House Intelligence Committee to Informed about Russia’s Plans to Interfere in the 2020 Election |
| • | U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, REMOVED because she stood in the way of Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden |
| • | US ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, FIRED after his damning House testimony that Trump demanded his appointees set up a quid pro quo with Ukraine, explicitly offering much-needed US military aid and an Oval Office meeting in exchange for personal political favors |
| • | U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Alexander, FIRED for truthfully testifying against Trump for his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. Details |
| • | Colonel Vindman’s Brother was also FIRED for no other reason than being U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Alexander’s brother |
| • | Gordon Sondland who testified “there was a Quid Pro Quo” was abruptly recalled as the US’s ambassador to the European Union. Details |
| COVID-19 | |
| • | Ignored and dismissed early warnings about COVID-19 for months, then LIED saying he always took the threat seriously |
| • | Reports claim Trump treated RED and BLUE states differently. RED states got what they wanted while BLUE stated had difficulty getting what they needed and had conditions put on them. |
| • | Suggested that Governors from BLUE states need to be “Be Nice” and not criticize Trump in order to get medical supplies they need by stating “It’s a two-way street, they have to treat us well, also. They can’t say, ‘Oh, gee, we should get this, we should get that.” |
| • | Officials in at least 6 states say the Trump Administration FEMA / Feds has been seizing orders for coronavirus medical equipment – Details |
| • | Suggested any relief for states hit hard by COVID will require ending “sanctuary city” policies and turning residents over to ICE. Trump has established a pattern of threatening to withhold COVID money and resources from states that don’t do as he wants |
| • | Threatened to Withhold Disaster Relief Funds to Michigan unless they stop Mail-In Voting |
| • | Falsely Stated that HE, not the Governors has TOTAL AUTHORITY over when to re-open the country |
| WANNABE DICTATOR | |
| • | In an interview with Andy Borowitz from the New Yorker on May 9, 2018, Trump stated the following about the United States Constitution; “I’ve seen a lot of bad deals in my life, but this Constitution is a total mess,” he said. “We need to tear it up and start over. “The branches thing is maybe the worst part of this deal. The first thing we do when we pull out of the Constitution is get rid of two of those branches. He called the First Amendment “something that really has to go. No one in his right mind would put something like that in a Constitution,” he said. “Russia doesn’t have it. North Korea doesn’t have it. All the best countries don’t have it.”. Click here for full article |
| • | Like a Banana Republic Dictator, Trump wants to Limit Freedom of Speech, calls the Press “The Enemy of the People” and News which exposes his LIES or News he doesn’t like, “Fake News“. This is how Dictators behave & what they do to get their subjects to only believe THEM. |
| • | Trump saying he has “Total Authority” over when to re-open the country and insinuating if States don’t follow his orders it would be Mutiny is yet another example that he is a Wanna-Be King & Dictator |
| • | Praises Dictators like Kim Jong Un who has critics & opponents jailed, tortured and murdered, while disparaging Democratic allies |
| • | Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un… “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” |
| • | Expects everyone to Praise him like a Dictator – Accused Democrats of “Treason” for not standing & clapping at the 2018 State of the Union address. |
| • | After Chinese President Xi Jingping abolished term limits in his country, Trump said “we’ll have give that a shot some day”. |
| • | Suggested he should get a third term, perhaps more. |
| TREASONOUS CONDUCT | |
| • | Helped by Putin / Russia to become President. Appears compromised because he REFUSES to ever say anything negative about Putin. Is helping “Make Russia Great Again” |
| • | Pro-Russia RNC Platform benefited Russia by abandon its platform of arming Ukrainian soldiers in their fight against Russian forces |
| • | Refused to call out Putin at the Helsinki Summit for 2016 Election Meddling |
| • | Had Secret Meetings with Putin in which Trump demanded no notes or records be kept |
| • | Stated he sees nothing wrong with accepting help from a foreign power to get elected |
| • | Publicly asked Russia to Commit Espionage when he said; Russia: “If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” |
| UNPRESIDENTIAL CONDUCT | |
| • | Pathological Liar – Fact finders claim Trump has made over 30,000 lies & false statements since taking office. Since he lies constantly, NOTHING he says can be believed – Details… |
| • | Couldn’t accept that he LOST the 2016 Election by 3 Million Popular Votes so he LIED by claiming it was due to “People who voted illegally” |
| • | Revoked Security Clearances of people who criticized him. Granted Security Clearances to people who were deemed unfit |
| • | Refuses to release his Tax Returns (What is he hiding?) |
| • | Narcissistic Psychopath. Psychiatrists and mental health professionals have stated that Trump exhibits Narcissistic Personality Disorder symptoms and is a “Clear & present danger”. |
| • | Responsible for Betrayal & Massacre of our Allies, the Kurds while helping Russia |
| • | Vengeful, Childish, Outrageous UN-Presidential Behavior and Insane Twitter Tirades Uses twitter to BULLY, BERATE, INTIMIDATE and HARASS those who disagree with him |
| • | Crimes Against Humanity – Responsible for inhumane conditions at US migrant internment camps. Separating children from their Parents with no plans to EVER re-unite them. |
| • | Sexual Abuse – Accused by numerous women of Sexual Abuse. Recorded bragging about sexually assaulting women, saying he can “grab them by the p****y” & “do anything he wants” |
Senate Report Reveals More Trump Election Crimes; What Congress Should Do About Witness in Contempt
The Senate Judiciary Committee must released a report titled, “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election.” Among other crimes, the Senate details how Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to overturn the election results. The conduct described in the report makes clear that Trump committed the crime of Coercion of Political Activity, 18 US Code section 610. This video reviews s the elements of that crime and how Trump’s conduct violated the federal law prohibiting such coercion.
In a related story, October 7 was a deadline for Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Kash Patel and Dan Scavino to provide documents that had been subpoenaed by the House Elect Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. This video also reviews the various options Congress has to enforce its subpoenas when witnesses fail to comply.
Trump is so LAWLESS and CORRUPT that he tried to pressure the Department of Justice to declare the 2020 election was corrupted so he could stay in office AGAINST the will of the people.
Trump is so LAWLESS and CORRUPT that he pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find more votes” to shift the count in his favor
Trump’s ‘Attempted Coup’: Bombshell Evidence Reveals How Close Trump Came To Overthrowing Democracy
New evidence confirms Trump pressed the DOJ to overturn the 2020 election, prompting many to call his efforts a “coup attempt.” Emails show DOJ officials rejected their own colleague’s request to intervene in Georgia’s election certification, according to ABC News.
Trump called AG Jeffrey Rosen repeatedly over false claims of voter fraud
Devlin Barrett, national security reporter for the Washington Post, talks about new reporting that Donald Trump called acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen almost daily after his 2020 election loss to pressure him about stolen election theories, and the likelihood that notes taken of some of the calls will be turned over to Congress.
Trump ‘Soft Coup’ Busted By 2021 Leak Of Secret DOJ Notes
Trump tried to order the U.S. government to help him overturn his losing election, and the DOJ has the evidence to prove it. Newly released internal notes show Trump tried to order the Attorney General to “say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on why the new evidence is significant and interviews Mother Jones’ David Corn and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, who notes Trump’s attempted order was “illegal.”
Litany of Campaign staff, Cabinet members, Lawyers for Trump and personal businesses which have found themselves in legal trouble
Five Trump Cabinet Officials Were Referred To Federal Prosecutors
Average Joe Americans are subject to the law and the penalties that follow when it is broken. However in Trump’s America, his detractors face the full weight of punishment, and his criminal cronies like Roger Stone, Mike Flynn get their crimes wiped clean.
Trump’s Failed Coup
“The last thing left to him was the mob, and so he used the mob. That violent, bloody insurrection—the failed coup we saw was his final attempt after he tried everything else,” says Chris Hayes on the Trump plot to stay in power.
Mark Meadows Pushed DOJ To Probe Election Fraud Claims
New York Times Justice Department reporter, Katie Benner, reports that former President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, repeatedly pushed the Department of Justice to probe conspiracy theories about election fraud in Trump’s final days in the White House.
Trump incited violence, chaos and rioting in Washington, DC. Rioters stormed the House & Senate chambers, wrecking havoc, destruction and deaths at the United States Capital. This is Sedition, Insurrection and Treason.
Most Lawless & Corrupt “Administration” in History
BOMBSHELL: Trump-Connected Spies Worked in Op Against Nat Sec Council & FBI – Used Women as Bait!
Trump Admin Engaged In Unprecedented Obstruction
According to a new report, the Trump administration engaged in unprecedented levels of obstruction with regard to investigations by inspector generals and other government agencies in order to protect both the President has his appointees. The obstruction managed to delay some of these investigations by years, and we are only just now starting to get some of the results from these probes.
Trump Tried To ‘Suppress Intelligence’
Brian Murphy, former senior DHS official and whistleblower, shares the reasons why he filed multiple whistleblower complaints against the Trump administration when it actively suppress intelligence, especially regard Russian disinformation on the 2016 election.
Trump Issues Sweeping Pardons For A MURDERER and other criminals
Trump pardons US contractors convicted in Iraq massacre
Trump pardons 15, including 4 Blackwater defendants who killed 14 innocent, unarmed Iraqis.
Donald Trump grants 15 pardons: he pardoned Republican Congressman Chris Collins who committed financial crimes/insider trading, Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter who stole campaign money from his supporters, he pardoned George Papadopoulos who lied to the FBI about contacts with Russians.
But worst of all, he pardoned the four Blackwater contractors who slaughtered 14 innocent, unarmed Iraqi men and women and injured 17 others. My former office, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, prosecuted those four defendant three times, trying to bring justice to the dozens of Iraqi citizens and their surviving family members. Trump’s pardons of these murderers is a horrific affront to victims rights the world over.
“Mueller prosecutor: Trump used pardon power to prevent cooperation”
Trump Hosting Meetings in the White House About Declaring Martial Law
Trump’s Hidden Calls with Putin
Miles Taylor served as the Chief of Staff of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. What he saw firsthand terrified him.
Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor, who recently endorsed Joe Biden for president, tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that he wasn’t alone at the White House in doubting President Donald Trump’s leadership ability and hints others will speak out against Trump.
Trump is trying to rig the 2020 election in his favor by sabotaging the USPS
This is how Democracy’s are turn into Authoritarian Dictator regimes.
The latest footage of the Secret Police, AKA Trump’s Gestapo in Portland shows how Trump is behaving like a Banana Republic Dictator. Trump threatens freedom. Trump threatens democracy. Trump threatens America.
Trump Wielding Presidency Like An Autocrat: To Preserve His Power
Trump is following a pattern common to dictators and autocrats, using the power of the government he leads to preserve his own power, with elections being mere window dressing.
Trump Weaponizes Postal Service To Hurt Americans Voting By Mail
Trump is trying to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service in order to undermine the ability of Americans to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic Trump’s administration has failed to contain.
Former associate of Rudy Giuliani, Les Parnas discusses the corrupt & illegal pressure Trump put on Ukraine President Zelensky to announce an investigation of Joe Biden in exchange for Military Aid which was already approved by congress.
Description from YouTube; “Operating as Trump’s personal lawyer, Giuliani wove a complex web of misinformation involving Ukrainian tycoons and prosecutors, diplomats and hustlers, laying the groundwork for just the third impeachment trial in U.S. history.
Along with his associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, Giuliani worked to get rid of Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at the time and a champion of the anti-corruption movement. He also pushed for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, just as the former vice president announced he was challenging Trump in 2020. As Giuliani waged his shadow pressure campaign, the Trump administration withheld millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine and denied its new president an urgently sought White House meeting”.
Trump Fires Four Inspectors General In Two Months
Starting in the beginning of April, Trump has been firing the very people meant to hold his administration accountable, the inspectors general. But his latest firing may be the most provocative and perhaps the most clearly lawless yet. Aired on 05/18/2020.
Trump Fires Ukraine Witnesses Vindman And Sondland
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman: FIRED for telling the Truth
Retaliation Against Lieutenant Col Vindman
Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a decorated Iraq war veteran who served on the staff of the White House’s National Security Council, is among scores of officers who have been picked to be promoted to full colonel this year. Typically, such promotions are backed by Army and Pentagon officials before moving to the White House for final approval and then to the Senate for a confirmation vote.
In his role as a Ukraine expert on the council, Colonel Vindman was on Mr. Trump’s phone call on July 25 with Ukraine’s president that later led to the impeachment inquiry. Colonel Vindman testified in the House impeachment hearings that it was “improper for the president” to coerce a foreign country to investigate a political opponent.
Some Pentagon officials say that White House aides have signaled their desire to have Colonel Vindman’s name dropped from the promotion list before it is forwarded to the White House. When Colonel Vindman was dismissed from his National Security Council staff position shortly after the Senate acquitted Mr. Trump, the White House made no effort to portray the ouster as anything other than a reprisal.
Trump Acts Like He’s a King
Trump Is Removing Everyone Who Can Hold Him Accountable
Trump’s systematic and lawless firing of multiple agency’s Inspectors General who are there to reign in corruption and hold our leaders and government accountable. The rampant corruption and coverup go much deeper.
Jame Comer Personal Business Dealings Exposed
REPUBLICAN Jame Comer’s Hypocrisy of pursuing an impeachment inquiry of President Biden with no proof of wrongdoing, while facing increased scrutiny over the use of shell companies in his own personal business dealings
Description from YouTube: “Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) joins Jen Psaki in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss House Republicans moving forward with an impeachment inquiry of President Biden despite a complete lack of evidence, in the wake of new reporting that the man leading the inquiry House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer facing increased scrutiny over the use of shell companies in his own personal business dealings”.
Republicans Plan to End Democracy
Republicans want to end Democracy and turn the United States into a Fascist Dictatorship similar to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary and Putin’s Russia using plans outlined in ‘Project 2025’
Trump and his cronies have openly stated they intend to “terminate rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution”, invoke the “Insurrection Act” & declare “Martial Law” to Quash Protests, use “Shock Troops” to take over the government, replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, eliminate Freedom of Speech and shut down media outlets which have been critical of him. Trump believes a President should have absolute “Presidential Immunity” to the extent he could order SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent and be immune to criminal prosecution. He’s promised to ‘root out’ those who he thinks are ‘communists, marxists and ‘the radical left’. This means anyone who opposes him.
Trump’s statements prove he intends to violate his Oath of Office, the United States Constitution and Citizens rights. Trump has proven to be a lawless pathological liar, narcissistic psychopath and a clear & present danger which the RNC is recklessly unleashing onto the American public by enabling, sponsoring and promoting on they’re ticket.
Authoritarian expert breaks down dangers of Project 2025
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of history and scholar of authoritarianism, speaks to Ali Velshi about Project 2025’s plans to consolidate power if Trump wins the presidency in 2025, including who’s on their hypothetical list of pre-screened loyalists to join the Trump administration, and why their plan to abolish federal agencies is so uniquely dangerous to democracy.
How Trump is Following Hitler’s Playbook
Republicans want to end Democracy and turn the United States into a Anti-Democratic Fascist Dictatorship
Hard-Right Republicans want to replace democracy: Anti-Trump conservative
“Democracy is hard work and they want a shortcut to achieve their craven policy ends without doing the work,” Rick Wilson told Newsweek.
Per the above article: “Some on the far-right, including within the Republican Party, are seeking to “replace democracy” with a system that “they alone benefit from,” according to a leading anti-Trump conservative.
Rick Wilson, a former GOP media consultant who co-founded The Lincoln Project, a conservative campaign group opposed to Donald Trump, told Newsweek when asked why some conservatives have been sympathetic towards Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.
They want to put the control of all the people in the hands of a government that reflects their own ideological bias. It’s easy to see why they would want to replace democracy with a system that allows that they alone benefit from.”
Representative Gerry Connolly explains how Trump plans to replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, gut the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, invocation of the Insurrection Act & Martial Law on day one to QUASH protests against him. Termination of all rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution if Trump is elected for a 2nd term as President.
Trump says members of Jan. 6 Select Committee should go to jail
Under Republicans “Project 2025” plans, Trump could order his Attorney General to arrest and prosecute anyone for no reason at all. Trump even mentioned this in the above video saying if he had a political rival who was doing well and “beating me very badly I’d say go down and Indict them”. “That means that if I win and somebody wants to run against me, I call my attorney general, I say listen, indict him”.
Glen Beck asks Trump in the above video “if you’re president again, will you lock people up? The answer is you have no choice… because they’re doing it to us”.
This proves Trump is a lawless THUG who plans to “Lock Up” opponents out of spite and retribution if he gets back into the White House.
Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department and Tim Heaphy former lead investigator for the January 6th Select Committee join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss real fears held by members and staff members of the January 6th committee that they could be prosecuted for committing no crimes, by Donald Trump should he win the presidency again.
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity
Trump believes he should have Presidential Immunity to do anything he wants. On Jan. 9, 2024, Trump’s legal team argued to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that a President should be able to order SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent and be immune to criminal prosecution.
March 28, 2024 Steve Bannon stated: “After we’ve won, the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.
Trump posted & stated on 11/11/2023; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.
In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
Radical Right Winger Mike Davis, who Trump might make his Attorney General has stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in ‘the gulag’ and caging migrant kids would be glorious.
Below is the post by Trump’s possible Attorney General pick, Mike Davis referenced in the above video, about putting Professor of History, Ruth Ben-Ghiat in the “Gulag”. Her crime? Being critical of Trump and calling him out for his Autocrat, Authoritarian, Fascist behavior which she claims is similar to Hitler & Mussolini.
Donald Trump ally lists “potential targets” of investigation
Mike Davis, who has come under scrutiny from the Biden campaign, raised concerns over a new report about anti-Trump analysts.
Per the above article from 4/24/2024: “Mike Davis, an ally to former President Donald Trump, has listed several legal analysts as “potential targets” for investigation if Trump beats President Joe Biden in the November presidential election. According to the article, published Tuesday, the discussions occur weekly and allow the pundits to “intellectually stress-test” Trump’s legal arguments.
Davis highlighted a passage that listed several alleged regular participants—conservative commentator Bill Kristol, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, former White House counsel John Dean, conservative lawyer George Conway, MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissman, and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
“Potential targets of the Trump 47 Justice Department’s criminal probe of Biden Democrats’ criminal conspiracy against Trump,” Davis wrote, responding to the article.
It remained unclear, however, what these legal analysts would specifically be investigated for, as the Politico article did not raise concerns about any crimes—only that the regular meetings could lead to “groupthink” or feed into concerns “damaging perceptions” about the media.
Davis came under scrutiny from the Biden campaign on Tuesday after it posted a clip to X of him being interviewed by conservative commentator Benny Johnson, discussing the possibility of being Trump’s attorney general.
“During my three-week reign of terror as Trump acting attorney general, before I get chased out of town with my Trump pardon, I will reign hell on Washington, D.C.,” he said.
In a follow-up post, Davis wrote that he is “not going to serve as AG” and “can’t get confirmed.” He also disputed a separate post from the Biden campaign accusing him of saying there will be consequences for Americans who do not support Trump.
As Trump has faced legal investigations at federal, state and local levels, some Republicans have called for investigations into Democrats and the Biden administration, accusing the president of being behind Trump’s prosecutions, though these claims have not been proven.
Trump has described himself to his voters as their “retribution” on the campaign trail”.
Kash Patel, who may be a member of Trump’s lawless, fascist “administration of terror”, recently stated; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.
Trump Henchman Steve Bannon wants “SHOCK TROOPS” to take over the Government
On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.
Three former Trump White House staffers says a 2nd Trump term would be ‘the end of American democracy as we know it’
Trump’s new autocratic plan exposed? Alarms over ‘radical second term’ plots
In a new report, The Associated Press details Donald Trump’s repeated “hints” of an “expanded role” for the military and the lack of “guardrails” to restrain him.
If a Republican wins the Presidential election in 2024, they’re planning to implement “Project 2025” which would give their leader the power of a Dictator.
As stated by wikipedia; “Project 2025 seeks to place the entire Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government under direct presidential control, eliminating the independence of the Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission and other agencies. To reshape the Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit thousands to come to Washington, D.C., to replace existing employees to restructure the Executive Branch of the federal government as to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump. The plan would perform a quick takeover of the entire U.S. federal government under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory – a theory proposing the president of the United States have absolute power of the executive branch – upon inauguration”.
“The development of the plan is led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank. It includes widespread changes across the entire government, particularly with regard to economic policy and the role of the federal government and federal agencies”. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025]
Trump is a Wanna-be Dictator who plans to become a Dictator if Elected in 2024.
Trump’s insane statements prove he intends to violate his Oath of Office, the United States Constitution and Citizens Rights on DAY ONE. His claiming he’s only going to be a Dictator for ONE DAY is BULLSHIT. Let’s not forget how Fact Checkers found Trump LIED over 30,000 times while President, so he has no credibility. He did everything possible to stay in office after he lost in 2020. If he gets back in the White House in 2024, he isn’t leaving… he’s made it clear; he wants to be a DICTATOR FOR LIFE. Under Trump’s rule, the United States could become like Russia where dissenters are arrested, locked up and executed.
Trump is campaigning to establish ‘a presidential dictatorship’ historian Beschloss says
Trump & The End of Democracy
How Trump hopes to become an American dictator
Trump and allies plot revenge, DOJ control in second term
“Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.
In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John F. Kelly, and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to people who have talked to him, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI and Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter said.
In public, Trump has vowed to appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” President Biden and his family. The former president has frequently made corruption accusations against them that are not supported by available evidence.
To facilitate Trump’s ability to direct Justice Department actions, his associates have been drafting plans to dispense with 50 years of policy and practice intended to shield criminal prosecutions from political considerations. Critics have called such ideas dangerous and unconstitutional.
“It would resemble a banana republic if people came into office and started going after their opponents” said Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia who studies executive power”. [source: washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/trump-revenge-second-term]
How Wannabe Dictators become REAL Dictators
In an interview with Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker on May 9, 2018, Trump Stated about the United States Constitution; “I’ve seen a lot of bad deals in my life, but this Constitution is a total mess. We need to tear it up and start over. The first thing we do when we pull out of the Constitution is get rid of two of those branches. He also called the First Amendment “something that really has to go. No one in his right mind would put something like that in a Constitution. Russia doesn’t have it. North Korea doesn’t have it. All the best countries don’t have it.”
On November 29 2023, Trump stated that he wants the ‘Federal Government to come down Hard on MSNBC’ for its criticism of him.
Trump & his crony’s statements prove he intends to violate his Oath of Office, the United States Constitution and Citizens Rights on DAY ONE. His claiming he’s only going to be a Dictator for ONE DAY is BS.
Trump Wants To Change Libel Laws So People Can’t Criticize Him
Trump double downs on anti-democratic rhetoric in new speech, calling 2024 ‘our final battle’
Former GOP Strategist Rick Wilson and Stuart Stevens of the Lincoln Project join Ali Velshi to discuss Donald Trump’s “extraordinarily dangerous” remarks last night at Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida and why his rhetoric signals a dark turning point for his 2024 campaign and democracy at large.
Aids say Trump is running for President to have all Federal Charges dismissed by his Attorney General if he’s elected. This is also a Motivation to stay in office and become a dictator so he’s never held accountable for his crimes
Report Details Trump’s FASCIST Plans If Elected In 2024
Allies to Donald Trump are pitching a “system overhaul” for the U.S. government in a plan called Project 2025, which some call a revealing and horrifying look at what many leading entities on the right have in store for America should Donald Trump return to the White House.
Republicans Not Willing To Risk 2024 Outcome With A Fair Election
Rachel Maddow shares passages from new reporting by Barton Gellman in The Atlantic in which he lays out the ways in which Donald Trump and his supporters have infiltrated the election apparatus in the United States to ensure a Trump victory, and primed Trump’s base for violence to take victory by force.
The GOP has a plan to push America into classical fascism and it’s happening faster than you know. Only three steps to go.
Right’s Embrace of Authoritarianism
Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former FBI special agent Clint Watts discuss with Nicolle Wallace the former president’s endorsement of Viktor Orban ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary.
Viktor Orban Is A ‘Right Wing Dream For GOP Trying To Destroy Our Democracy’
Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban, who was accused of pure Nazi rhetoric by one of his own aides–but that did not prevent him from receiving the red carpet treatment by Republicans at CPAC. “Viktor Orbán has nothing to offer, nothing to export. His country is bankrupt,” foreign policy analyst Rula Jebreal says. “He’s begging Europe to basically give him some money.”
POLL: Only 36% Of Republicans Support Freedom Of The Press
43% of Republicans think President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” while only 36% disagreed with the statement, according to an Ipsos poll
Trump Supporters Are Excited By The Idea Of Him Being A Dictator
Donald Trump did exactly what most of us expected, and he actually convinced his base that he SHOULD be a dictator if he gets back into office, and that it is somehow a good thing to trample on the Constitution. Ever since Trump first made his dictator comments, his supporters have been quick to defend and ultimately offer their praise of the comments, and that part isn’t dying down, either. A new poll also shows that a strong number of Iowa voters say that his rhetoric makes it MORE likely that they will support him.
Hungary Is A Version Of What Trump & Republicans Want For The U.S.
Chief national correspondent at the New York Times, Mark Leibovich, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, react to Fox News’ anchor Tucker Carlson’s bizarre choice to host his show from Hungary, a country with an authoritarian regime.
Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a anti-democratic authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere.
Expert Compares Trump’s Politics to Fascism
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains why he claims President Donald Trump’s politics are akin to fascism, a political movement based around a leader. 80+% of Republicans approve of Trump, even after he has LIED more than any other Politician in history (fact checkers claim over 30,000 false or misleading statements since becoming president).
Inside Hungary’s far-right movement
The radical narratives mounted by Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party and far-right movements are gaining ground ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections. Euronews reporter Valerie Gauriat traveled to Hungary for the national Republic Day to hear from supporters and critics of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration—and what it means to be Hungarian.
How To Dismantle A Democracy
If you’re curious about why Tucker Carlson is doing his show from Budapest, Hungary all week, so is Mehdi. Especially given that country’s recent history of doing away with democracy and rise of autocracy. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become a favorite among Trump-loving ethno-nationalists. Yale’s Jason Stanley and authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat break down why Orbán — and the fascination with Orbán — is so dangerous.
Fiona Hill Discusses how Democracy in the United States is Under Assault
The Rules of the Demagogue | #RejectGOPFascism
Trump & Republicans are following in Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels footsteps by telling the BIG LIE that Trump won the 2020 election while “Accusing the other side of that which they are guilty”.
Today’s Republicans are Anti-Democratic Fascist, determined to seize and maintain power by any means necessary.
Republicans are constantly demonizing Antifa (Anti-Fascist) as being BAD. Being against Antifa means your against Democracy and FOR anti-democratic, authoritarian Fascism. German Nazis were Right-Wing “Conservative” Fascist.
The full name of Hitler’s party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. In English, that translates to National Socialist German Workers’ Party. But it was not a socialist party; it was a right-wing, ultranationalist party dedicated to racial purity, territorial expansion and anti-Semitism and total political control.
The Nazi party was largely supported by small-business men and conservative industrialists (just like today’s American Republican party).
Thousands of solders from around the world fought and died to defeat Fascism in WWII. We owe it to them and ourselves to continue fighting for freedom and against Anti-Democratic Fascists who wants to take away our freedom and democracy. Enemies of Democracy should be REJECTED and DEFEATED.
Republicans equate Black Lives Matter as being one and the same as Antifa. They’ll say “BLM Antifa Protestors” in the same sentence as though a BLM protestor is a automatically a member of “Antifa”. Not true.
“Antifa is an ideology, not an organization” stated FBI Director Chris Wray in sworn testimony to congress on September 17, 2020.
The American Republican Fascist Party
Famous Quotes About Fascism Which Apply to Today’s Republican Party…
Benito Mussolini – “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
George Orwell – “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism – “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt – “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power…. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom – “When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak.”
Henry A. Wallace – “If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.”
Upton Sinclair – “Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
Mehmet Murat ildan – “Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!”
Republicans are starting to look like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds | CNN
The Republicans have become more illiberal and populist in recent decades and are now starting to resemble autocratic parties like Hungary’s Fidesz and Turkey’s AKP, according to a new study from Sweden.
Per the above article’ “Experts from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden stated US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties like Hungary’s Fidesz and Turkey’s AKP.
“What we see is that the disrespect of political opponents, the encouragement of violence and also the violation of minority rights … they have all clearly increased with the Republican Party in recent years, since [President Donald Trump] came in the leadership but also before that,” Anna Luehrmann, V-Dem’s deputy director and one of the lead authors of the study, told CNN”.
Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un… “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
This video gives insight into the oppressive laws Republicans has been passing in recent years such as anti-voting laws to rig elections in their favor, anti-abortion, anti-LGBT laws and how Russia shares many of the same anti-democratic ideals and values held by Republicans.
You can STOP TRUMP
Republicans fit all of the Characteristics of Fascism described below
Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism – Article by Dr. Lawrence Britt
1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
2. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause – The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
3. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
4. Rampant Sexism – The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
5. Controlled Mass Media – Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
6. Obsession with National Security – Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
7. Religion and Government are Intertwined – Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
8. Corporate Power is Protected – The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
9. Labor Power is Suppressed – Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
10. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts – Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
11. Obsession with Crime and Punishment – Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
12. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
13. Manipulate & Control elections – Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate & control elections.
14. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
REPUBLICANS ARE LIKE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
Radical Right Wing, Trump Supporting Republicans can be easily spotted in Pick-up Trucks with flags (similar to Islamic Terrorist in pick-up trucks with flags).
Trump Hates MSNBC Because they Expose His LIES
Trump hates MSNBC and wants them shut down because they expose him for being a Wannabe Fascist Dictator, his despicable conduct, his LIES, Lawlessness, Corruption, the Worst President in History and threat which he is to Democracy and the United States. This is want Dictators do… SILENCE anyone or anything which exposes their lies, corruption, lawlessness and autocratic behavior.
Trump’s threats of shutting down news outlets which are critical of him proves he’s a wannabe dictator who intends to destroy Democracy in the U.S. if elected President in 2024
Right Wingers around the world are systematically destroying Democracy, implementing One Party Rule with rigged elections, take-over of the News Media, Judiciary and take-over of Education, similar to what DeSantis and Republicans are doing in Florida.
Lawrence: Media still not ready to cover Trump after years of his lies
Donald Trump called on the government to “come down hard” on MSNBC and not one major broadcast news network covered it. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why this is a product of what Brian Klaas calls the “banality of crazy.”
Donald Trump’s Threat To Democracy
Trump attacks on the press out of an authoritarian playbook
Title from YouTube: “Reince Priebus Says Trump Considering Abolishing 1st Amendment”
Description from YouTube: “According to his Chief of Staff, the President is considering either amending or completely abolishing the 1st Amendment in order to teach the press a lesson about being mean to him. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this”.
Trump Wants To Change Libel Laws So People Can’t Criticize Him
Trump Plans to Declare Martial Law to QUASH Protests
Representative Gerry Connolly explains how Trump plans replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, gut the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, invocation of the Insurrection Act on day one to QUASH protests against him. Termination of all rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution if Trump is elected for a 2nd term as President.
In a new report, The Associated Press details Trump’s plans to deploy the military to push his MAGA agenda
While campaigning in Iowa, Trump hinted at expanding the use of the military under the Insurrection Act. He specifically named blue cities like New York and Chicago calling them “crime dens.” “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do”.
Trump Plans To Use Military To Attack Liberal Cities
Donald Trump has made it perfectly clear that he intends to invoke The Insurrection Act if he gets back into the White House, and has suggested that he would have the military march into blue cities and states. This would be done, according to Trump, to stop the “crime” that liberal cities are allegedly suffering from, but experts are sounding the alarm that this is just a farce. Trump will crush his political enemies with the full might of the military, and that is something that isn’t being talked about enough.
Republicans OK with Violence to Seize Power
March 28, 2024 Steve Bannon stated: “After we’ve won the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.
Trump posted & stated on 11/11/2023; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.
In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
Radical Right Winger Mike Davis, who Trump might make his Attorney General has stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in ‘the gulag’ and caging migrant kids would be glorious.
Below is the post by Trump’s possible Attorney General pick, Mike Davis referenced in the above video, about putting Professor of History, Ruth Ben-Ghiat in the “Gulag”. Her crime? Being critical of Trump and calling him out for his Autocrat, Authoritarian, Fascist behavior which she claims is similar to Hitler & Mussolini.
Kash Patel, who may be a member of Trump’s lawless, fascist “administration of terror”, recently stated; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.
Steve Bannon Calls on “SHOCK TROOPS” to Take Over Government
Trump says members of Jan. 6 Select Committee should go to jail
Under Republicans “Project 2025” plans, Trump could order his Attorney General to arrest and prosecute anyone for no reason at all. Trump even mentioned this in the above video saying if he had a political rival who was doing well and “beating me very badly I’d say go down and Indict them”. “That means that if I win and somebody wants to run against me, I call my attorney general, I say listen, indict him.
On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.
Three former Trump White House staffers says a 2nd Trump term would be ‘the end of American democracy as we know it’
Let’s not forget how Trump used National Guard troops to forcefully push back peaceful protesters outside the White House to clear a way for Trump to do a photo-op in front of a church to hold a bible upside down
Trump behaving like an Authoritarian Fascist Dictator
Trump saying he has “Total Authority” over when to re-open the country and insinuating if States don’t follow his orders it would be Mutiny is yet another example that he is a Wanna-Be King & Dictator.
Throughout his presidency, Trump has, at every turn, advanced extreme legal arguments and made excuses to avoid the traditional oversight that previous presidents have accepted. In the process, he has negated the checks and balances that are at the heart of our constitutional system, and elevated himself to a king-like position.
Trump’s admiration of dictators and scorn of our allies is one the most dangerous threat to our democracies our country has ever faced
Title from Youtube: President Trump: My People Should Give Me The Attention Kim Jong Un Gets
During an interview with Fox News’s Steve Doocy Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un; “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different,” Trump said “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.
Trump plans to expand executive power if he’s elected
Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, according to NYT reporting.
Trump is ‘making no effort to hide his fundamentally autocratic intentions’
Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes reacts to reporting on plans by Donald Trump to remove any and all obstacles to his power in a potential second term
Trump is ‘more erratic, more unstable’ than when he was in the White House
Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss in Donald Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and what could happen if the current Republican front-runner returns to the White House
“We are sleepwalking towards authoritarianism,” says scholar who studies democracy
The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky and Professor Brian Klaas discuss former President Trump’s recent remarks at a campaign stop where he pledges to root out ‘vermin’ if given a second term. Tomasky and Klaas discuss the historical parallels for Trump’s language.
Trump Corrupt Pardons Obstructed Justice
Trump used the power of the presidential pardon to disrupt the order and work of the Department of Justice.
Mike Schmidt, New York Times Washington Correspondent and Frank Figliuzzi, Former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence discuss how Trump pardoned Kushner-linked drug smuggler Jonathan Braun which disrupted the order and work of the Department of Justice and how he could do it again should he return to the White House.
These pardons prove there’s two (2) “Justice” systems in the United States… one for the wealthy and politically well connected, another for average Joe Americans, who gets thrown in prison for crimes they didn’t commit and the full weight of the law brought down on them for minor infractions.
Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson refused to pardon a black man who served 43 Years in Prison for a Crime he Didn’t Commit, but pardoned a St. Louis couple who waved their guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators immediately after they were convicted.
Despite the witness recanting her testimony which put this innocent man in prison 43 years ago for a crime he didn’t commit … the prosecutors and judges wanting him to be freed, he continues to remain in prison because the Republican Governor, Mike Parson says addressing the clemency petition for a man who’s been behind bars for more than four decades “is not a priority”.
This is classic example of how there’s two (2) “Justice” systems in the United States where the RICH and Politically well connected often escapes Justice and Accountability.
How a Trump 11th hour pardon reportedly derailed a federal investigation
New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt joins MSNBC’s Jen Psaki to discuss his reporting on now-former President Donald Trump’s 11th hour pardon of Jonathan Braun, a man with ties to the Kushner family, and how said pardon reportedly interfered with a federal investigation.
Trump pardon of Kushner pal is a taste of ‘tough on crime’ presidency
Jen Psaki discusses New York Times reporting that reveals new details from former President Donald Trump’s final hour pardons. Psaki discusses how Trump granting clemency to an alleged loan shark derailed the Department of Justice investigation and the threat of a second Trump term.
‘Tangible damage done from the commutation’: NYT on pardoning of drug smuggler
Federal Judge Walton Discusses in Open Court How Judge Emmet Sullivan Might Challenge Flynn Pardon
DC Federal District Court Judge Reggie Walton is presiding over Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation regarding the Mueller Report. In that capacity, Judge Walton discussed in open court on Friday how his colleague on the DC Federal Court, Judge Emmet Sullivan, might challenge Donald Trump’s pardon of Mike Flynn.
Having appeared as a federal prosecutor before both Judge Walton and Judge Sullivan, I can attest to how these two jurists are entirely dedicated to the rule of law and the integrity of the criminal justice system and the federal judiciary. Moreover, it looks like they will have the courage to challenge potentially corruptly issued presidential pardons, whether or not there is precedent for such a challenge.
Trump’s Corrupt Pardons Show His Contempt for the Rule of Law
Trump Issues Sweeping Pardons for A MURDERER and other criminals
Trump issues nearly 150 pardons and commutations overnight
Trump Issues Pardons And Clemency For Phone Calls, Tax Fraud, And Corruption
Trump issued nearly a dozen pardons and commutations on Tuesday, many for crimes of which he stands accused. One recipient of clemency, former Illinois governor and ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ contestant Rod Blagojevich, had been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trying to solicit bribes in exchange for President Obama’s former Senate seat. Former NYC police commissioner and Giuliani associate Bernard Kerik received a pardon after serving a 4-year sentence in prison for 8 felonies, including tax fraud. Former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. was pardoned of a decades-old corruption charge. Aired on 2/18/20.
Trump grants 15 pardons, 5 commutations
The pardons included two congressmen, Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter, who were convicted of corruption charges and forced to resign.
Trump pardons 15, including 4 Blackwater defendants who killed 14 innocent, unarmed Iraqis.
Donald Trump grants 15 pardons: he pardoned Republican Congressman Chris Collins who committed financial crimes/insider trading, Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter who stole campaign money from his supporters, he pardoned George Papadopoulos who lied to the FBI about contacts with Russians.
But worst of all, he pardoned the four Blackwater contractors who slaughtered 14 innocent, unarmed Iraqi men and women and injured 17 others. My former office, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, prosecuted those four defendant three times, trying to bring justice to the dozens of Iraqi citizens and their surviving family members. Trump’s pardons of these murderers is a horrific affront to victims rights the world over.
Trump pardons Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Kushner’s father
Trump commuted Roger Stone’s sentence days before Stone was to report to prison on charges of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements. Stone was convicted for lying about his contacts with WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.
‘As Corrupt As A Pardon Gets’: Chris Hayes On Trump Pardoning Manafort, Stone
“This is as fundamentally corrupt as a pardon gets,” says Chris Hayes on Pres. Trump pardoning Paul Manafort, his 2016 campaign chairman, and Roger Stone, his longtime associate.
Trump Corruptly Pardons Mike Flynn
Trump’s last-minute pardons include Steve Bannon, Lil Wayne and scores of others
‘You’re Pardoned!’: Trump Frees ‘Apprentice’ Contestant From Prison In Legal Dumpster Fire
“Trump broke news with the surprise announcement he is using his pardon power for eleven convicted individuals, including Rudy Giuliani’s convicted NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik, former “Apprentice” contestant Rod Blagojevich, and Michael Milken, a billionaire convicted of 98 counts of racketeering and fraud. The pardons come as Trump’s DOJ faces a firestorm over allegedly giving special treatment to Pres. Trump’s convicted aide.
In this report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber explains how these new “political and messaging pardons” clearly “favor the rich and famous,” and constitute “a new low for this total breakdown of justice in the pardon process.” Melber implores citizens to take note of Trump’s action, saying it is as “serious as a heart attack” and noting the new pardons demonstrate why people should actually take Trump “literally,” as he openly campaigned and now governs on deploying “the intimidation of the law, of investigation, of jail – into a political weapon against rivals.”
Time For Warnings Is Past As Trump Openly Abuses Power
Rachel Maddow points out that it is no longer accurate to frame Donald Trump’s corruption as imminent or potential as he is openly abusing his power to make it clear that the power of the U.S. government will be used to punish people who oppose him and help people who demonstrate fealty. Aired on 02/21/20.
Trump’s Corrupt Pardons, Court Challenges and Constitutional Amendments
Trump’s pardons range from the despicable (pardoning corrupt Republican politicians for insider trading and stealing from their donors) to the abusive of victims’ rights (the Blackwater pardons) to the downright corrupt and arguably criminal (Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn).
There are those who say that even criminal pardons are a legitimate exercise of the broad presidential pardon power and are not susceptible to court challenge.
Even former Attorney General Bill Barr – a man not exactly tethered to the law – testified to the Senate that it would be a crime for a president to grant a pardon in exchange for a person’s silence, an agreement not to incriminate the president. Accordingly, Trump’s corrupt pardons MUST be challenged in court. If the judiciary rules that corrupt pardons to buy silence are not susceptible to court challenge, then the only remaining answer to prevent future presidents from granting corrupt pardons is a constitutional amendment.
Joyce Vance, a former Northern District of Alabama attorney, told MSNBC “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell Tuesday that Trump’s “pardon package” was a message for his associates and friends.
“We know that this is a president who uses pardons to signal to people who have been his friends and have been his associates, that if they will not turn and testify against him that he will take care of them down the road.”
Vance noted that those pardoned Tuesday had engaged in “public corruption, lying to law enforcement, extortion” and other crimes “akin to some of the allegations that have swirled around the president and his associates.”
“There’s no way to take this other than as a message to people that he will take care of them as long as they don’t stray from the fold,” she added.
‘The Law Is Going To Come After Him’: Lawyer Warns ‘Lawless’ Trump After Pardons
Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Who Is Joe Arpaio?
President Trump pardoned a man who boasted about creating his own ‘concentration camp’ for prisoners — this is Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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Trump pardons Joe Arpaio, the former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, after Arpaio was found guilty of contempt of court for systematically and unlawfully racially profiling Latinos for traffic stops and detentions.
FBI investigation of Sheriff Joe
Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, a conservative commentator, highlighted a letter from a group called Protect Democracy, which is combating Trump’s violations of legal norms, to the public integrity section of the Justice Department’s criminal division. The letter made the case that the Arpaio pardon is, at best, legally suspect.
“While the Constitution’s pardon power is broad, it is not unlimited. Like all provisions of the original Constitution of 1787, it is limited by later-enacted amendments, starting with the Bill of Rights. For example, were a president to announce that he planned to pardon all white defendants convicted of a certain crime but not all black defendants, that would conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Similarly, issuance of a pardon that violates the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause is also suspect. Under the Due Process Clause, no one in the United States (citizen or otherwise) may “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” But for due process and judicial review to function, courts must be able to restrain government officials. Due process requires that, when a government official is found by a court to be violating individuals’ constitutional rights, the court can issue effective relief (such as an injunction) ordering the official to cease this unconstitutional conduct. And for an injunction to be effective, there must be a penalty for violation of the injunction — principally, contempt of court.
The president’s unprecedented pardon of Arpaio undermines the rule of law by immunizing unscrupulous law enforcement officials from judicial review. The foundation of the role of courts as protectors of individual rights will be nullified if they cannot execute and protect their own orders. The pardon itself conveys the unmistakable message that similarly-situated local, state, and federal law enforcement officials need not fear the judiciary, because if they run afoul of a court order, the president will pardon them”.
If you read the whole letter, Protect Democracy makes the compelling point that the presidential pardon power is considerable, but it’s not limitless, and the Arpaio pardon deserves more scrutiny.
Donald Trump Disregard For Rule Of Law Puts Officials In Awkward Spot
Ali Velshi reviews past instances in which government officials have had to walk back Donald Trump’s encouragements of lawbreaking or unethical behavior.
Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon, a key adviser in Trump’s 2016 presidential run, and issued a wave of pardons and commutations in his final hours in office
Trump pardoned Elliott Broidy, a former top fundraiser for Trump who pleaded guilty to violating foreign lobbying laws, and commuted the sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was serving a 28-year prison term on corruption charges.
Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black were among the beneficiaries of Trump’s pardons, befitting a president who made his name in New York’s tabloids and on reality TV
Lil Wayne was charged in Florida on Nov. 17 with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, a federal offense that carries a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
In 2019, Kodak Black was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to weapons charges stemming from his arrest just before a scheduled concert performance.
Trump said he gave a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before the engineer briefly headed Uber’s rival unit
Anthony Levandowski left Google in early 2016 where he worked in the autonomous vehicle division to start his own company called Otto. That company was acquired by Uber for $680 million as the ride-hailing venture pursued its own autonomous vehicle division.
Before leaving, Levandowski downloaded a trove of Google’s self-driving car technology, leading eventually to 33 counts of intellectual property theft against him. He pled guilty to one count and was sentenced to 18 months in prison last summer.
Full list of Trump’s last-minute pardons and commuted sentences
The list, made public early Wednesday morning, included his former chief strategist and longtime ally Steve Bannon.
Per the above article, below are the; “List of 143 people. Here are some of the most notable names:
“Alex Adjmi: Adjmi was granted a full pardon. The White House said Adjmi was convicted of a financial crime in 1996 and served 5 years in prison.
“Fred Keith Alford: Alford received a full pardon. The White House said he was convicted in 1977 for a firearm violation and served one year’s unsupervised probation.
Michael Ashley: Ashley was convicted for bank fraud over the 2009 collapse of mortgage company Lend America and sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2019. He was the executive vice president and chief business strategist with the company. Ashley was ordered to pay $49 million in restitution and $800,000 in forfeiture. His sentence was commuted.
Stephen K. Bannon: Trump’s former chief strategist in the White House was in charge of the final months of his 2016 presidential campaign and was indicted in August along with three others on wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges. Prosecutors alleged that Bannon’s crowdfunding “We Build the Wall” campaign raised more than $25 million from Trump supporters and used hundreds of thousands for personal expenses. He was taken into custody by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents while on board the yacht of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. Bannon received a full pardon and now will not have to face a trial.
Lynn Barney: Trump granted a full pardon to Lynn Barney, who was sentenced to 35 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, after having previously been convicted for distributing a small amount of marijuana, according to the White House.
David Barren: Trump commuted the sentence of David Barren, who was sentenced to life in prison in addition to 20 years for a drug conspiracy charge. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted his life term to a 30-year sentence. The White House said Barren is a father of six children and has maintained an exemplary prison record. A petition advocating for further clemency for Barren’s release has garnered nearly 20,000 signatures.
Dr. Faustino Bernadett: Bernadett, a retired anesthesiologist, was sentenced last year to 15 months in federal prison for taking part in a long-running health care fraud scheme where he authorized sham contracts that concealed over $30 million in illegal kickback payments to physicians, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The overall scheme resulted in more than $900 million in fraudulent bills being submitted, the office said. The White House said Bernadett has spent the past year “devoted to helping protect his community from Covid-19.” He received a full pardon.
Carl Andrews Boggs: Trump granted a full pardon to Carl Andrews Boggs. In 2014, Boggs pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a criminal investigation into the illegal use of a disadvantaged business enterprise to obtain government-funded construction contracts. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the department of transportation and one count of money laundering conspiracy.
Kristina Bohnenkamp: Trump commuted the sentence of Kristina Bohnenkamp. According to the White House, she has served more than 10 years of a 24-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense.
Todd Boulanger: Trump granted a full pardon to Todd Boulanger, who is a former deputy to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In 2009, he pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to commit honest services fraud, according to the Department of Justice. Boulanger, Abramoff and other lobbyists working with them sought to advance the interests of groups and companies they represented by lobbying federal legislative and executive branch officials, the department said.
Jonathon Braun: Braun imported marijuana worth approximately $1.76 billion, from 2008 to 2010, according to Customs and Border Protection documents, including 2,200 pounds in a single incident. He pleaded guilty in 2011 and served five years of a 10-year sentence for conspiracy to import marijuana and to commit money laundering. Trump commuted his sentence.
Elliott Broidy: Broidy, a former Republican National Committee finance chair and one of Trump’s top fundraisers, was pardoned. Broidy pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws. Prosecutors said that the scheme aimed to have the Trump administration sink an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund.
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.: Carter, a rapper who performs as Lil Wayne, was also granted a pardon. He pleaded guilty in December to a federal weapons charge after he carried a handgun from California to Florida on his private jet. Due to past felony convictions, he is barred under federal law from possessing firearms. The charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Carter has frequently expressed support for Trump and recently met with the president on criminal justice issues.
Randall “Duke” Cunningham: Another ex-member of Congress, the California Republican was sentenced to 8 years in prison for bribery and was released in 2013. He received a conditional pardon.
Paul Erickson: Erickson, a conservative operative with ties to the NRA, came under scrutiny during the investigation into Russian election interference. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in an unrelated case.
Rodney Nakia Gibson: Convicted of drug trafficking in 2009, Gibson served more than 11 years in custody, according to the White House. His commutation was supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. The details of his conviction couldn’t be independently verified.
George Gilmore: This former local GOP chairman was convicted in April 2019 of failing to pay payroll taxes and for making false statements on a bank loan application. In an appeal, Gilmore claimed that a “hoarding” disorder made him spend lavishly on personal expenses rather than make timely payments to the IRS. His pardon was supported by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie among others.
Deborah, Gregory and Martin Jorgensen: In the 1980s, the Jorgensens marketed and sold processed beef as heart-healthy, antibiotic-free and hormone-free. When demand outstripped their supply of beef, they mixed in commercial beef trim that usually used to make hamburgers, without telling their customers. They were convicted in 1996 of several counts, including conspiracy and fraudulent sale of misbranded meat. Martin Jorgensen passed away in 2019, and was married to Deborah Jorgensen. Gregory Jorgensen is their son.
Bill K. Kapri: Kodak Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was sentenced to 46 months in prison on federal weapons charges in 2019 after admitting that he falsified information on federal forms to buy four firearms. The rapper obtained three guns: a 9mm handgun, a .380-caliber handgun and a semi-automatic Mini Draco weapon. He received a pardon.
Kwame Kilpatrick: The former mayor of Detroit had his 28-year sentence commuted. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned from office as part of a plea deal in 2008 following a pay-to-play scheme in which Kilpatrick and his father took kickbacks and bribes to steer city business to certain contractors. He initially served 99 days in prison but then served an additional year for violating his probation and was released in 2011.
Kenneth Kurson: Trump granted clemency to Kurson, the former editor of the New York Observer and friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner who was charged last October with cyberstalking during a heated divorce.
Anthony Levandowski: Levandowski, a former Google engineer who was sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before he briefly headed Uber Technologies Inc’s rival unit, was also pardoned.
Salomon Melgen: Trump commuted the prison sentence of Melgen, an eye doctor and major Democratic donor convicted of defrauding Medicare patients. He stood trial with New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, who lobbied Trump for Melgen’s case.
Desiree Perez: Perez was arrested in 1994 for drug possession and in 1998 for grand larceny and possession of a firearm. In 2019, she was named CEO of Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by rapper-turned-mogul Jay-Z.
Albert J. Pirro, Jr.: With less than an hour to go before Biden is sworn in, Trump granted a full pardon to Albert J. Pirro, Jr. Pirro, Jr., the ex-husband of Fox News host and Trump ally Jeanine Pirro, was convicted on conspiracy and tax evasion charges in 2000.
Rick Renzi: Former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., was granted a full pardon. In 2013, he was sentenced to three years in prison for extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering and racketeering in a public corruption case. He had served three terms in the House.
Aviem Sella: An Israeli citizen, Sella was indicted in March 1987 on charges he recruited convicted American spy Jonathan Jay Pollard to collect U.S. military secrets for Israel. Trump granted him a full pardon and his request was supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Brian Simmons: Trump commuted the sentence of Brian Simmons, who has served 5 years of a 15-year sentence for nonviolent conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
Syrita Steib-Martin: Syrita Steib of New Orleans, received a full pardon after being convicted at the age of 19 of using fire to commit a felony. Steib now serves as executive director and co-founder of Operation Restoration, which works to create education and work opportunities for formerly incarcerated women.
Patrick Lee Swisher: Patrick Swisher of Charlotte, North Carolina, was granted a full pardon after being convicted in 2002 of tax fraud and false statements and serving 18 months in prison. Previous to this, the Securities and Exchange Commission had charged his company with accounting fraud in 2001. Swisher now works as CEO of a company at which he employs more than 1,000 individuals, according to the White House.
David Tamman: Trump granted a full pardon to David Tamman, who was a partner at a law firm when he doctored financial documents at the behest of a client who was perpetrating a Ponzi scheme. According to the Department of Justice, the scheme ultimately took $22 million from victims. Tamman was found guilty of 10 counts that included obstruction of justice, altering records in a federal investigation, and being an accessory after the fact to the fraud scheme. He was convicted in 2013 and completed his seven-year sentence in 2019.
Casey Urlacher: Urlacher was pardoned after being named in a grand jury indictment in 2020 and being accused of helping to run an illegal offshore gambling business. Urlacher faced two counts in the case, each of which had carried a potential prison sentence of five years. He currently serves as the mayor of Mettawa, Illinois and is the brother of former Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher.
Monstsho Eugene Vernon: Vernon had his sentence commuted after serving 19 years in prison. Vernon committed numerous armed bank robberies in Greenville, South Carolina. The White House said that some of these offenses involved Vernon carrying BB guns as opposed to genuine firearms.
Blanca Virgen: Blanca Virgen was convicted of drug charges, and has served 12 years of a 30-year sentence. Virgen featured on the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers trial penalty clemency project which described her as “a model prisoner” and highlighted her desire to return to Mexico to care for her children.
Jerry Donnell Walden: Convicted in 1998 of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, Walden was sentenced to 40 years in prison. President Trump has commuted Walden’s sentence, 23 years into his incarceration.
John Harold Wall: Wall was granted a full pardon after being convicted of aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in 1992. According to the White House, he completed a 60 month prison sentence with 4 years’ supervised release.
William Walters: A retired professional gambler, Las Vegas-based William Walters had been sentenced to prison for five years in 2017 for conspiring to commit insider trading from at least 2008 through 2014. Walters, who was 70 at the time of his conviction, was also ordered to pay a $10 million fine. Trump’s commutation of the sentence was supported by former Majority Leader Harry Reid and golfer Phil Mickelson, among others. The New York Times reported that this pardon was brokered by John Dowd, Trump’s former personal lawyer, who was hired by Walters to exert his influence on Trump
Eliyahu Weinstein: Weinstein, from Lakewood, New Jersey, has been pardoned whilst serving his eighth year of a 24-year sentence for a real estate investment fraud as well as money laundering charges. His commutation was supported by former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman, former Representative Bob Barr, and Alan Dershowitz, among others.
Shalom Weiss: Weiss was pardoned 18 years into an 835-year sentence — believed to be the longest-ever white-collar prison sentence — for his role in setting up an insurance fraud scheme. He received support from Alan Dershowitz and Jay Sekulow, who sent letters to Trump.
Tom Leroy Whitehurst: The White House has said that Whitehurst was serving a life sentence in prison for leading a conspiracy to manufacture at least 16.7 kilograms of methamphetamine and possessing numerous firearms during the course of the conspiracy. His sentence has been commuted to 30 years, of which he’s served 24.
Caroline Yeats: The White House has said that Yeats’s 20-year sentence has been commuted. She has served almost 7 years of it and is a first-time, non-violent drug offender.
Chris Young: Young was pardoned for his non-violent drug offense in a conspiracy case and had served over 10 years of the sentence. He has initially been given a life sentence. Kim Kardashian West had been advocating for his release.
Robert “Bob” Zangrillo: Robert Zangrillo was pardoned for his role in the 2019 college admissions scandal. Zangrillo, the CEO of a private investment firm in Miami, FL, was accused of bribing employees from the University of Southern California’s athletics department to secure his daughter’s college place. He was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
Here is the full list, as provided by the White House:
Abel Holtz — President Trump granted a full pardon to Abel Holtz. This pardon is supported by Representative Mario Diaz-Balart and friends and business colleagues in his community. Mr. Holtz is currently 86 years old. In 1995, he pled guilty to one count of impeding a grand jury investigation and was sentenced to 45 days in prison. Before his conviction, Mr. Holtz, who was the Chairman of a local bank, never had any legal issues and has had no other legal issues since his conviction. Mr. Holtz has devoted extensive time and resources to supporting charitable causes in South Florida, including substantial donations to the City of Miami Beach.
Jaime A. Davidson — President Trump commuted the sentence of Jaime A. Davidson. This commutation is supported by Mr. Davidson’s family and friends, Alice Johnson, and numerous others. In 1993, Mr. Davidson was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in relation to the murder of an undercover officer. Notably, witnesses who testified against Mr. Davidson later recanted their testimony in sworn affidavits and further attested that Mr. Davidson had no involvement. Although Mr. Davidson has been incarcerated for nearly 29 years, the admitted shooter has already been released from prison. Following the commutation of his sentence, Mr. Davidson will continue legal efforts to clear his name. In addition, while incarcerated, Mr. Davidson mentored and tutored over 1,000 prisoners to help them achieve their GED certificates. Mr. Davidson has earned praise from prison officials for his dedication to helping others.
James E. Johnson, Jr. — President Trump granted a full pardon to James E. Johnson, Jr. In 2008, Mr. Johnson pled guilty to charges related to migratory birds. Mr. Johnson received 1 year probation, was barred from hunting during that period, and a $7,500 fine was imposed. Throughout his life, Mr. Johnson has made numerous contributions for the conservation of wildlife.
Tommaso Buti — President Trump granted a full pardon to Tommaso Buti. Mr. Buti is an Italian citizen and a respected businessman. He is the Chief Operating Officer of a large Italian company and has started a successful charitable initiative to raise funds for UNICEF. More than 20 years ago, Mr. Buti was charged with financial fraud involving a chain of restaurants. He has not, however, been convicted in the United States.
Jawad A. Musa — President Trump commuted the sentence of Jawad A. Musa. In 1991, Mr. Musa was sentence to life imprisonment for a non-violent, drug-related offense. Mr. Musa’s sentencing judge and the prosecutor on the case have both requested clemency on his behalf. He is currently 56-years old. During his time in prison, Mr. Musa has strengthened his faith and taken dozens of educational courses. Mr. Musa is blessed with a strong supportive network in Baltimore, Maryland and has numerous offers of employment.
Adriana Shayota — President Trump commuted the sentence of Adriana Shayota. Ms. Shayota has served more than half of her 24 month sentence. The Deputy Mayor of Chula Vista, California, John McCann, supports this commutation, among other community leaders. Ms. Shayota is a mother and a deeply religious woman who had no prior convictions. She was convicted of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, commit copyright infringement, and introduce misbranded food into interstate commerce. During her time in prison, Ms. Shayota mentored those who wanted to improve their lives and demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to rehabilitation.
Glen Moss — President Trump granted a full pardon to Glen Moss. After pleading guilty in 1998, Mr. Moss has been a vital member of his community. Mr. Moss has been committed to numerous philanthropic efforts at the national level, including St Jude’s Hospital for Children, Breast Cancer Awareness, and the Colon Cancer Foundation. Within his community, he has contributed to Danbury Hospital and Ann’s Place, a community-based cancer support center.
Michael Liberty — President Trump granted a full pardon to Michael Liberty. Mr. Liberty’s request for clemency is supported by Representative Susan Austin, Matthew E. Sturgis, and Anthony Fratianne. In 2016 Mr. Liberty was convicted for campaign finance violations and later was indicted for related offenses. Mr. Liberty is the father of 7 children and has been involved in numerous philanthropic efforts.
Greg Reyes — President Trump granted a full pardon to Greg Reyes. This pardon is supported by Shon Hopwood, former United States Attorney Brett Tolman, and numerous others. Mr. Reyes was the former CEO of Brocade Communications. Mr. Reyes was convicted of securities fraud. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, however, threw out his convictions, finding prosecutorial misconduct. He was later retried, convicted, and sentenced to 18 months in Federal prison. Mr. Reyes has accepted full responsibility for his actions and has been out of prison for more than 8 years.
Ferrell Damon Scott — President Trump commuted the sentence of Ferrell Damon Scott. This commutation is supported by former Acting United States Attorney Sam Sheldon, who prosecuted his case and wrote that he “… strongly does not believe that [Mr. Scott] deserves a mandatory life sentence.” Ms. Alice Johnson, the CAN-DO Foundation, and numerous others also support clemency for Mr. Scott. Mr. Scott has served nearly 9 years of a life imprisonment sentence for possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Under today’s sentencing guidelines, it is likely that Mr. Scott would not have received such a harsh sentence.
Jeffrey Alan Conway — President Trump granted a full pardon to Jeffrey Alan Conway. Mr. Conway’s pardon is strongly supported by his business partners Gary N. Solomon and Ely Hurwitz, members of law enforcement, and numerous other members of the community. Since his release from prison, Mr. Conway has led a successful life and currently runs 10 restaurant businesses that employ nearly 500 people. Mr. Conway is active in his community and in various philanthropic efforts.
Benedict Olberding — President Trump granted a full pardon to Benedict Olberding. Mr. Olberding was convicted on one count of bank fraud. Mr. Olberding is an upstanding member of the community who has paid his debt to society. After completing his sentence, he purchased two aquarium stores, as well as a consulting business to train prospective mortgage brokers.
Lou Hobbs — President Trump commuted the sentence of Lou Hobbs. Mr. Hobbs has served 24 years of his life sentence. While incarcerated, Mr. Hobbs completed his GED as well as various other education classes. Mr. Hobbs is dedicated to improving his life and is focused on his family and friends who have assisted him during difficult times.
Matthew Antoine Canady — President Trump commuted the sentence of Matthew Antoine Canady. This commutation is supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Canady had an unstable childhood and all of his prior drug-related convictions occurred during his teenage years. Mr. Canady worked hard to move beyond his challenging circumstances and has demonstrated extraordinary rehabilitation while in custody. He has maintained clear conduct while incarcerated and has notably taken advantage of significant vocational programs, including an electrical apprenticeship. He receives “outstanding” work reports and is described as “hardworking” and “respectful” by the Bureau of Prisons staff. Mr. Canady takes full responsibility for his criminal actions and would like to find gainful employment to help support his children.
Mario Claiborne — President Trump commuted the sentence of Mario Claiborne. This commutation is supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Claiborne is serving life imprisonment and has already served more than 28 years in prison. For more than 20 years, Mr. Claiborne has maintained clear conduct. Mr. Claiborne currently works for a UNICOR facility and has completed rehabilitative programming, including drug education.
Luis Fernando Sicard — President Trump commuted the sentence of Luis Fernando Sicard. This commutation is supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Sicard was sentenced in 2000 for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm during and in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He has served 20 years with clear conduct. Mr. Sicard has participated in substantial programming, including a number of vocational courses. Currently, Mr. Sicard works in the camp vehicular factory and previously worked in UNICOR earning “outstanding” work reports, and he also volunteers in the inmate puppy program. Importantly, Mr. Sicard takes full responsibility for his criminal actions. Mr. Sicard is a former Marine and father of two girls.
DeWayne Phelps — President Trump commuted the sentence of DeWayne Phelps. This commutation is supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Phelps has served 11 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. He has served over a decade in prison with clear conduct, has trained as a dental apprentice, participated in UNICOR, and is noted as being a reliable inmate capable of being assigned additional responsibilities. Most notably, Mr. Phelps’s sentence would unquestionably be lower today under the First Step Act.
Isaac Nelson — President Trump commuted the sentence of Isaac Nelson. This commutation is supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Nelson is serving a mandatory 20 year sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of crack cocaine. Following the First Step Act’s changes to the definition of serious drug felony, Mr. Nelson would no longer receive a mandatory minimum term of 20 years’ imprisonment. Instead, he would likely face a 10-year sentence. He has already served more than 11 years in prison. Throughout his incarceration, he appears to have demonstrated commendable adjustment to custody.
Traie Tavares Kelly — President Trump commuted the sentence of Traie Tavares Kelly. This commutation is supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Kelly was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. He has served over 14 years in prison, but if he were sentenced today, he would likely be subject only to 10-year mandatory minimum. Moreover, Mr. Kelly has substantial work history while incarcerated and his notable accomplishments in education and programming demonstrate that he has used his time to maximize his chance at being a productive citizen upon release.
Javier Gonzales — President Trump commuted the sentence of Javier Gonzales. This commutation is supported by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Gonzales was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine in 2005. He has served over 14 years in prison, which is 4 years longer than the 10-year sentence he would likely receive today. He has a demonstrated record of rehabilitation during his incarceration, including steady employment, with substantial UNCIOR experience, and participation in vocational programming and training to facilitate his successful reintegration into the workforce upon release. He also has no history of violent conduct. Mr. Gonzales has actively addressed his admitted substance abuse issues with nonresidential drug treatment and participation in the residential program.
Eric Wesley Patton — President Trump granted a full pardon to Eric Wesley Patton. This pardon is supported by former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Patton was convicted of making a false statement on a mortgage application in 1999. In the 20 years since his conviction, Mr. Patton has worked hard to build a sterling reputation, been a devoted parent, and made solid contributions to his community by quietly performing good deeds for friends, neighbors, and members of his church.
Robert William Cawthon — President Trump granted a full pardon to Robert William Cawthon. His pardon is supported by former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Cawthon was convicted in 1992 for making a false statement on a bank loan application and was sentenced to 3 years’ probation, conditioned upon 180 days’ home confinement. Mr. Cawthon has accepted responsibility for his offense, served his sentence without incident, and fulfilled his restitution obligation. His atonement has been exceptional, and since his conviction he has led an unblemished life while engaging in extensive, praiseworthy community service.
Hal Knudson Mergler — President Trump granted a full pardon to Hal Knudson Mergler. This pardon is supported by former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Mergler was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1992. He received 1 month imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution. Since his conviction, Mr. Mergler has lived a productive and law-abiding life, including by earning a college degree, creating a successful business career, and starting a family. He has made significant contributions to his community and has helped to build a new school for a non-profit charitable organization. He is uniformly praised as a hardworking and ethical businessman and a caring father.
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Gary Evan Hendler — President Trump granted a full pardon to Gary Evan Hendler. This pardon is supported by former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. In 1984, Mr. Hendler was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances and served 3 years’ probation for his crime. He is remorseful and has taken full responsibility for his criminal actions. In the 40 years since his conviction, Mr. Hendler has lived a law-abiding life and has positively contributed to his community. He is financially stable and owns a successful real estate business. Most notably, he has helped others recover from addiction. Since 1982, he has organized and led weekly AA meetings. He also has mentored many individuals on their journey to sobriety with his radio broadcasts. His former probation officer noted that Mr. Hendler had become “integral” in the lives of many members of the community who were dealing with substance abuse issues. Further, his efforts in addiction and recovery have been recognized by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, who recently appointed him to a state advisory council on drug and alcohol abuse.
Steven Samuel Grantham — President Trump granted a full pardon to Steven Samuel Grantham. This pardon is supported by Mr. Grantham’s friends and family who praise his moral character, Acting Attorney Jeffrey Rosen, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Grantham was convicted in 1967 for stealing a vehicle. He received 18-months imprisonment, and 2 years’ probation. Since his conviction and release from prison, he has demonstrated remorse and accepted responsibility for his crime, which he committed approximately 50 years ago when he was just 19 years old. Mr. Grantham has lived a law-abiding and stable life. Most notably, he stepped in and assumed custody of his grandchild when the child’s parents were unable to care for him. He now seeks a pardon for forgiveness and to restore his gun rights.
Clarence Olin Freeman — President Trump granted a full pardon to Clarence Olin Freeman. This pardon is supported by former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Mr. Freeman was convicted in 1965 for operating an illegal whiskey still. He received 9 months imprisonment and 5 years’ probation. Since his conviction and release from prison, Mr. Freeman has led a law-abiding life. He has expressed sincere remorse for his illegal activity and remains mindful of the valuable lesson his conviction taught him. In the approximately 55 years since his conviction, he has built a stable marriage, founded a thriving business, and contributed positively to his community. He has earned a reputation for honesty, hard work, and generosity.
John Knock — President Trump commuted the sentence of John Knock. This commutation is supported by his family. Mr. Knock is a 73 year-old man, a first-time, non-violent marijuana only offender, who has served 24 years of a life sentence. Mr. Knock has an exemplary prison history, during which he completed college accounting classes and has had zero incident reports.
Kenneth Charles Fragoso — President Trump commuted the sentence of Kenneth Charles Fragoso. Mr. Fragoso is a 66 year-old United States Navy veteran who has served more than 30 years of a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense. Mr. Fragoso has an exemplary prison history and has worked for UNICOR for over 20 years, learned new trades, and has mentored fellow inmates.
Luis Gonzalez — President Trump commuted the sentence of Luis Gonzalez. Mr. Gonzalez is a 78 year-old non-violent drug offender who has served more than 27 years of a life sentence. Under the First Step Act, Mr. Fragoso would not have been subject to a mandatory life sentence. Mr. Gonzalez has an upstanding prison record and has worked for UNICOR for over 20 years producing military uniforms.
Anthony DeJohn — President Trump commuted the sentence of Anthony DeJohn. Mr. DeJohn has served more than 13 years of a life sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Mr. DeJohn has maintained a clear disciplinary record and has been recognized for his outstanding work ethic while incarcerated. Mr. DeJohn has employment and housing available to him upon release.
Corvain Cooper — President Trump commuted the sentence of Mr. Corvain Cooper. Mr. Cooper is a 41-year-old father of two girls who has served more than 7 years of a life sentence for his non-violent participation in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
Way Quoe Long — President Trump commuted the sentence of Way Quoe Long. Mr. Long is a 58-year-old who has served nearly half of a 50-year sentence for a non-violent conviction for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana. Mr. Long has spent his incarceration striving to better himself through English proficiency classes and by obtaining his GED. Upon release, Mr. Long will reunite with his family and will be strongly supported as he integrates back into the community.
Michael Pelletier — President Trump commuted the sentence of Michael Pelletier. Mr. Pelletier is a 64-year-old who has served 12 years of a 30-year sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Mr. Pelletier has maintained a clear disciplinary record, has thrived as an artist working with oil paints on canvas, and has taken several courses to perfect his skill while incarcerated. Upon his release, Mr. Pelletier will have a meaningful place of employment and housing with his brother.
Craig Cesal — President Trump commuted the sentence of Craig Cesal. Mr. Cesal is a father of two, one of whom unfortunately passed away while he was serving his life sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Mr. Cesal has had an exemplary disciplinary record and has become a paralegal assistant and a Eucharistic Minister in the Catholic Church to assist and guide other prisoners. Upon his release, Mr. Cesal looks forward to reintegrating back into society and to contributing to his community while living with his daughter with whom he has remained close. Mr. Cesal hopes to be a part of her upcoming wedding.
Darrell Frazier — President Trump commuted the sentence of Darrell Frazier. Mr. Frazier is a 60-year-old who has served 29 years of a life sentence for non-violent conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Mr. Frazier has had an exemplary disciplinary record in prison and has spent his time creating the Joe Johnson Tennis Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that provides free tennis lessons to hundreds of children in underserved communities. Upon his release, Mr. Frazier will have a meaningful place of employment and housing with his mother.
Lavonne Roach — President Trump commuted the sentence of Lavonne Roach. Ms. Roach has served 23 years of a 30-year sentence for non-violent drug charges. She has had an exemplary prison record and has tutored and mentored other prisoners. Ms. Roach has a strong family support system to help her transition back into the community.
Robert Francis — President Trump commuted the sentence of Robert Francis. Mr. Francis has served 18 years of a life sentence for non-violent drug conspiracy charges. Mr. Francis has a spotless disciplinary record in prison and has been active in his efforts toward rehabilitation. Upon release, Mr. Francis, a father of 3, will live with his sister in Houston, Texas
Derrick Smith — President Trump commuted the sentence of Derrick Smith. Mr. Smith is a 53-year-old who has served more than 20 years of a nearly 30-year sentence for distribution of drugs to a companion who passed away. Mr. Smith is deeply remorseful for his role in this tragic death and has had an exemplary record while incarcerated. Mr. Smith intends to secure a construction job, care for his mother and his son, and rebuild his relationship with his two other children.
Raymond Hersman — President Trump commuted the sentence of Raymond Hersman. Mr. Hersman is a 55-year-old father of two who has served more than 9 years of a 20-year sentence. While incarcerated, Mr. Hersman has maintained a spotless disciplinary record, worked steadily, and participated in several programming and educational opportunities. Upon release, he looks forward to transitioning back into the community and leading a productive life with strong family support.
James Romans — President Trump commuted the sentence of James Romans. Mr. Romans is a father and a grandfather who received a life sentence without parole for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Mr. Romans has had an exemplary disciplinary record for the more than 10 years he has served, and has completed a long list of courses. He has already secured job opportunities that will help him successfully re-enter society.
Michael Harris — President Trump commuted the sentence of Michael Harris. Mr. Harris is a 59 year old who has served 30 years of a 25 year to life sentence for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Mr. Harris has had an exemplary prison record for three decades. He is a former entrepreneur and has mentored and taught fellow prisoners how to start and run businesses. He has completed courses towards business and journalism degrees. Upon his release, Mr. Harris will have a meaningful place of employment and housing with the support of his family.
Kyle Kimoto — President Trump commuted the sentence of Kyle Kimoto. Mr. Kimoto is a father of six who has served 12 years of his 29-year sentence for a non-violent telemarketing fraud scheme. Mr. Kimoto has been an exemplary prisoner, has held numerous jobs, shown remorse, and mentored other inmates in faith. Upon his release, he has a job offer and will help care for his six children and three grandchildren.
Chalana McFarland – President Trump commuted the sentence of Chalana McFarland. Ms. McFarland has served 15 years of a 30-year sentence. Though she went to trial, Ms. McFarland actually cooperated with authorities by informing them of a potential attack on the United States Attorney. Her co-defendants who pled guilty, however, received lesser sentences ranging from 5 to 87 months. Ms. McFarland was a model inmate and is now under home confinement.
John Estin Davis – President Trump commuted the sentence of John Estin Davis. This commutation is supported by Caroline Bryan, Luke Bryan, Ellen Boyer, Amy Davis, Kim Davis, Brandon McWherter, Sheila McWherter, Dr. Jeff Hall, Dr. Brad Maltz, Brent Ford, Mark Lotito, Keri Rowland, Mark Rowland, and Stephen Stock. Mr. Davis has spent the last 4 months incarcerated for serving as Chief Executive Office of a healthcare company with a financial conflict of interest. Notably, no one suffered financially as a result of his crime and he has no other criminal record. Prior to his conviction, Mr. Davis was well known in his community as an active supporter of local charities. He is described as hardworking and deeply committed to his family and country. Mr. Davis and his wife have been married for 15 years, and he is the father of three young children.
Douglas Jemal – President Trump granted a full pardon to Douglas Jemal. Mr. Jemal is an American businessman and philanthropist credited with rebuilding many urban inner cities in the United States. In 2008, Mr. Jemal was convicted of fraud. In addition, Mr. Jemal was instrumental to various other charitable causes, including the rebuilding of churches prior to his conviction. Notably, at his trial the presiding judge told prosecutors that he thought it “inconceivable” to send Mr. Jemal to prison.
Noah Kleinman – President Trump commuted the sentence of Noah Kleinman. Mr. Kleinman is a 45-year old father of two children. The mother of his children unfortunately passed away during Mr. Kleinman’s incarceration. Mr. Kleinman has served 6 years of a nearly 20 year sentence for a non-violent crime to distribute marijuana. Mr. Kleinman has had an exemplary prison history and has worked to remain close to his children and his father. Upon release, he looks forward to living with his father, working for the family business, and caring for his children.
Dr. Scott Harkonen – President Trump granted a full pardon Dr. Scott Harkonen. Dr. Harkonen was convicted of fraud based on a misleading caption in a press release with respect to a treatment for a disease. Dr. Harkonen is world renowned for his discovery of a new kidney disease, as well as its cause and treatment. Dr. Harkonen looks forward to returning to medicine.
Johnny D. Phillips, Jr. – President Trump granted a full pardon to Johnny D. Phillips, Jr. This pardon is supported by Senator Rand Paul, the former United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, and numerous members of his community. In 2016, Mr. Phillips was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. Mr. Phillips is known as an upstanding citizen and is a valued member of his community. He dedicates his time to his three young children and is an advocate for Type 1 diabetes research.
Dr. Mahmoud Reza Banki – President Trump granted a full pardon to Dr. Mahmoud Reza Banki. This pardon is supported by many elected officials of stature, including the late Representative John Lewis, Senator Diane Feinstein, and other Members of Congress. Dr. Banki is an Iranian American citizen who came to the United States when he was 18 years old. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, before obtaining a PhD from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2010 Dr. Banki was charged with monetary violations of Iranian sanctions and making false statements. The charges related to sanctions violations were subsequently overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. However, the felony charges for making false statements have prevented Dr. Banki from resuming a full life. In the years since his conviction, Dr. Banki has dedicated himself to his community and maintained a sincere love and respect for the United States.
Tena Logan – President Trump commuted the sentence of Tena Logan. Ms. Logan has served 8 years of a 14-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. She had an exemplary prison record with extensive work and programming, and has assumed several leadership positions. In addition, Ms. Logan was authorized to work outside the perimeter of the prison, and was granted home confinement under the CARES Act last summer. Today, Ms. Logan lives with her husband and works fulltime at a major retail store.
MaryAnne Locke – President Trump commuted the sentence of MaryAnne Locke. Ms. Locke has served roughly 11 years of a nearly 20-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. Despite the difficulties of beginning her sentence just 6 weeks after having a Caesarean section, her prison record has been exemplary, with extensive programming and work. Ms. Locke was authorized to work outside the perimeter of the prison, and was granted home confinement under the CARES Act last summer. Today, she lives with her father, is building a relationship with her children, and works fulltime at a major retail store.
April Coots – President Trump commuted the sentence of April Coots. Ms. Coots has served more than 10 years of her 20-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. Throughout her incarceration, she has been an exemplary inmate, obtained an HVAC license, and completed the PAWS apprenticeship program. During the 18 months before the trial, Ms. Coots started a business, completed her GED, and took two semesters of community college classes. Importantly, Ms. Coots has a supportive family and church community that will help her transition and create a stable network for her post-incarceration
Jodi Lynn Richter – President Trump commuted the sentence of Jodi Lynn Richter. Ms. Richter has served 10 years of a 15-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. Ms. Richter has an exemplary prison record, and spends her time training service dogs in the PAWS program, tutoring other inmates in pursuit of their GED, and learning to operate a range of heavy machinery. Her parents have continued to support her and she has various employment opportunities available.
Mary Roberts – President Trump commuted the sentence of Mary Roberts. Ms. Roberts has served 10 years of a 19-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. She has maintained an exemplary disciplinary record, and a strong programming and work history, including as a part of the PAWS program, UNICOR and food service, and she is authorized to work outside the prison perimeter. Upon her release, Ms. Roberts plans to spend time with her daughter and enjoys strong support from her family. In addition, she has various employment opportunities available.
Cassandra Ann Kasowski – President Trump commuted the sentence of Cassandra Ann Kasowski. Notably, her warden recommended her for home confinement under the CARES Act. Ms. Kasowski has served more than 7 years of a 17-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. She has been an exemplary inmate and has worked extensively, including as a part of the PAWS program and in UNICOR. Upon her release, she plans to spend time with her son and seek employment.
Lerna Lea Paulson – President Trump commuted the sentence of Lerna Lea Paulson. Notably, Ms. Paulson’s warden recommended her for home confinement under the CARES Act. Ms. Paulson has served nearly 7 years of a 17-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. During her time in prison, she has maintained an exemplary disciplinary record, has worked full-time in UNICOR, and served as a mental health counselor. In addition, she has served an inmate companion as well as a suicide watch companion. She is also authorized to work outside the prison perimeter. Upon her release, she plans on spending time with her family and seek employment.
Ann Butler — President Trump commuted the sentence of Ann Butler. Ms. Butler has served more than 10 years of a nearly 20-year sentence for a non-violent offense. She has an exemplary prison record, with extensive programming and work history and has garnered outstanding evaluations. In addition, she is extraordinarily devoted to her faith. At the time of her arrest, Ms. Butler was caring for five children and held two minimum-wage jobs. Upon her release, Ms. Butler wishes to reunite with her family and seek employment.
Sydney Navarro — President Trump commuted the sentence of Sydney Navarro. Ms. Navarro has served nearly 8 years of a 27-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. She has an exemplary prison record. In addition, Ms. Navarro obtained her GED, participated in extensive program work, and earned excellent work evaluations. Notably, Ms. Navarro was chosen to speak to at-risk youth in the community through the SHARE program. Upon her release, Ms. Navarro wishes to reunite with her daughter and seek employment.
Tara Perry — President Trump commuted the sentence of Tara Perry. Ms. Perry has served nearly 7 years of a 16-year sentence for a non-violent drug offense. She has maintained an exemplary prison record and has obtained her nursing certification. Ms. Perry also enjoys singing during the prison religious services. Upon her release, Ms. Perry plans to spend time with her mother and seek employment.
John Nystrom – President Trump granted a full pardon to John Nystrom, who, other than this conviction, was described by his sentencing judge as a “model citizen.” His clemency is supported by Governor Kristi Noem and Senator Michael Rounds. Over 10 years ago, while working as a contractor on a school reconstruction project, Mr. Nystrom failed to alert the proper authorities when he learned that a subcontractor was receiving double payments for work performed. Mr. Nystrom took full responsibility for this oversight and even tried to pay the Crowe Creek Tribe, who was paying for the work, restitution before he pled guilty. Mr. Nystrom has since paid his restitution in full. Mr. Nystrom teaches Sunday school and volunteers for the Knights of Columbus and Habitat for Humanity, among other organizations, and has previously served as County Commissioner.
Jessica Frease — President Trump granted a full pardon to Jessica Frease. This pardon is supported by Governor Kristi Noem, South Dakota State Senator Lynne Hix-DiSanto, the United States Probation Officer responsible for Ms. Frease’s supervision, and many in her community. Ms. Frease was 20 years old when she was convicted after converting stolen checks and negotiating them through the bank where she worked as a teller. Upon her arrest, however, she immediately relinquished the stolen funds to the authorities. After serving her two year sentence, she was granted early termination of her supervised release due to her commendable conduct. Currently, Ms. Frease is studying to become an Emergency Medical Technician and devotes her time and energy to raising funds for cancer patients.
Robert Cannon “Robin” Hayes — President Trump granted a full pardon to Robert Cannon “Robin” Hayes. The former North Carolina Congressman is serving a 1-year term of probation for making a false statement in the course of a Federal investigation. In addition to his years in Congress, Mr. Hayes has served as Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and Chair of the National Council of Republican Party Chairs. Senator Thom Tillis and several members of the North Carolina Congressional delegation strongly support clemency for Mr. Hayes.
Thomas Kenton “Ken” Ford — President Trump granted a full pardon to Ken Ford, a 38-year veteran of the coal industry and currently the General Manager of a coal company. Mr. Ford’s pardon is supported by members of the coal mining community, including those with extensive experience in mining operations, safety, and engineering, who describe Mr. Ford as a “model manager” who conducts himself with the utmost professionalism and integrity. Twenty years ago, Mr. Ford made a material misstatement to Federal mining officials. Mr. Ford pled guilty and served a sentence of 30 years’ probation. In the decades since, Mr. Ford has been an upstanding member of his community and has used this experience and his decades of expertise to keep miners safe, including promoting truthfulness and integrity with Federal mining officials, for whom Mr. Ford states that he has the “utmost respect.”
Jon Harder — President Trump commuted the sentence of Jon Harder, former President and CEO of Sunwest Management Inc., who has served nearly 5 years of a 15-year prison sentence. Notable figures, including the Honorable Michael Hogan who served as the Federal judge overseeing Sunwest’s bankruptcy and receivership, Ford Elsaesser who served as counsel to Sunwest’s creditors in receivership, and multiple other individuals involved in the litigation support Mr. Harder’s commutation. Mr. Harder was serving as president and CEO of Sunwest Management Inc., a large management company overseeing residential senior care facilities, when he misused investment funds during the real estate crisis. Mr. Harder fully accepted responsibility, pled guilty, and cooperated with the government’s civil and criminal actions against him at great personal cost. According to former Chief Judge Hogan, Mr. Harder’s full cooperation “against his substantial financial and penal interests” helped secure the sale of the company’s assets, ensuring that Sunwest’s investors recovered more of their investment, seniors could continue living in their facilities, and employees could retain their livelihoods. Mr. Elsaesser stated that “of all the financial wrongdoers that [the court and the Government] dealt with during the real estate crash of 2008, Mr. Harder acted more responsibly than any of his ‘peers.’” President Trump commends Mr. Harder for choosing to put his employees, investors, and the senior citizens residing in Sunwest’s homes above himself.
Scott Conor Crosby — President Trump granted a full pardon to Scott Conor Crosby. Mr. Crosby is supported by Senator Martha McSally, the Mayor and Vice Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, and the Bishop of his church, all of whom attest to Mr. Crosby’s service to his community and upstanding character. In 1992, Mr. Crosby made a “‘spur of the moment’ poor decision” to participate in a co-worker’s plan to commit a bank robbery. Mr. Crosby was arrested the same day and cooperated with the authorities. Since his release from prison, he has spent significant time volunteering at his church, mentoring youth, and has earned a certification as an Emergency Medical Technician. Mr. Crosby’s civil rights were restored by the State of Arizona in 2003, and this action restores his Federal civil rights.
Adrianne Miller – President Trump commuted the remaining sentence of Adrianne Miller. This commutation is supported by former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman and the Clemency for All Non-Violent Drug Offenders (CAN-DO) Foundation. Ms. Miller has served 6 years of a 15-year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a list I chemical. Ms. Miller, who has struggled with drug addiction, has fully committed to rehabilitation while in prison. In addition, she has taken numerous courses including drug education, life management, and has participated in the Life Connections Program, an intensive, multi-phase re-entry program offered by the Bureau of Prisons. She is extremely remorseful, regrets her “destructive choices” and has taken full responsibility for her actions.
Joshua J. Smith — President Trump granted a full pardon to Joshua J. Smith. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Representative Tim Burchett, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Corrections Tony Parker, Director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation David Rausch, and numerous other community and faith leaders support the pardon of Mr. Smith. Since his release from prison in 2003 for conspiracy to possess drugs with intent to distribute, Mr. Smith has dedicated his life to his faith and to his community. He is now a successful businessman and has used his financial success to establish Fourth Purpose, a non-profit organization devoted to making prison “a place of transformation.” He has mentored incarcerated individuals and taught business classes to those in prison—including at the prison where he was incarcerated. Mr. Smith has also been heavily involved in mission trips throughout Latin America.
Amy Povah – President Trump granted a full pardon to Amy Povah, the founder of the CAN-DO (Clemency for All Non-violent Drug Offenders) Foundation. In the 1990s, Ms. Povah served 9 years of a 24 year sentence for a drug offense before President Clinton commuted her remaining prison sentence in 2000. Since her release, she has become a voice for the incarcerated, a champion for criminal justice reform, and was a strong advocate for the passage of the First Step Act. Those assisted by Ms. Povah’s organization include Ms. Adrianne Miller, whose remaining prison sentence the President commuted.
Dr. Frederick Nahas – President Trump granted a full pardon to Frederick Nahas. This pardon is supported by Representative Jeff Van Drew. Dr. Nahas is a talented surgeon with a practice in New Jersey. In the 1990s, Dr. Nahas became aware of a Federal investigation into his billing practices. Although the 6-year investigation uncovered no underlying billing fraud, Dr. Nahas did not fully cooperate and ultimately pled guilty to one count of obstructing justice in a health care investigation. Dr. Nahas spent 1 month in prison in 2003 and has spent the subsequent 18 years working tirelessly to regain the trust and admiration of his patients, colleagues, and community.
Fred “Dave” Clark — President Trump commuted Dave Clark’s remaining term of incarceration after serving over 6 years in Federal prison for a first-time, non-violent offense. Mr. Clark’s commutation is supported by Professor Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, the Aleph Institute, his family of seven children, and former business colleagues and investors, among others. While in prison, Mr. Clark has lead Bible Study and developed a “Promising People” program to teach inmates technical skills and connect them with faith-based support.
Todd Farha, Thaddeus Bereday, William Kale, Paul Behrens, Peter Clay — President Trump granted full pardons to Todd Farha, Thaddeus Bereday, William Kale, Paul Behrens, and Peter Clay, former executives of a healthcare maintenance organization. Widely cited as a case study in overcriminalization, these men have attracted a broad range of support, including from the CATO Institute, the Reason Foundation, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and various scholars and law professors. In 2008, Messrs. Farha, Bereday, Kale, Behrens, and Clay were criminally prosecuted for a state regulatory matter involving the reporting of expenditures to a state health agency. The expenditures reported were based on actual monies spent, and the reporting methodology was reviewed and endorsed by those with expertise in the state regulatory scheme. Notably, there was no evidence that any of the individuals were motivated by greed. And in fact, the sentencing judge called the likelihood that there was any personal financial motivation “infinitesimal.” The judge imposed a range of sentences from probation to 3 years’ imprisonment, reflecting the conduct as an aberration from these individuals’ otherwise law-abiding lives. Messrs. Farha, Bereday, Kale, Behrens, and Clay are described as devoted to their family and their communities, and have weathered their convictions without complaint
David Rowland — President Trump granted a full pardon to David Rowland. This pardon is supported by Senator Lindsey Graham. Mr. Rowland’s asbestos removal license had lapsed when he agreed to remove asbestos found in an elementary school. He completed the work in compliance with all other regulations, but received 2 years’ probation for a violation of the Clean Air Act. Mr. Rowland accepts responsibility and is remorseful. In addition, he has given back to his community by continuing to work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation after the completion of his mandatory community service.
Stephen Odzer — President Trump granted a conditional pardon to Stephen Odzer. This pardon is supported by former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Sigmund “Sig” Rogich, Jason Greenblatt, Michael Steinhardt, Wayne Allyn Root, Salvador Moran, the Aleph Institute, and numerous members of Mr. Odzer’s religious community. Mr. Odzer pled guilty to conspiracy and bank fraud, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Numerous individuals testify to his substantial philanthropic and volunteer activities. His philanthropic endeavors include providing personal protective equipment to front-line workers in New York City hospitals; visiting sick children in hospitals; and donating religious materials to prison inmates and U.S. Service Members around the world. He has also dedicated resources to support and build synagogues in memory of his late cousin who was kidnapped and killed by Muslim terrorists while in Israel. The pardon requires Mr. Odzer to pay the remainder of his restitution order.
James Brian Cruz — President Trump commuted the remaining sentence of James Brian Cruz. Mr. Cruz’s many supporters include Alice Johnson, Dr. Robert Jeffress, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, Kelly Shackelford of the First Liberty Institute, several former inmates who Mr. Cruz mentored or ministered, Mr. Cruz’s work supervisor, and several business owners and managers. Mr. Cruz, who has served approximately half of a 40-year sentence for a drug crime, has truly reformed and has worked to better his life and the lives of other inmates while in prison. Several former inmates credit Mr. Cruz, whom they met while incarcerated, as someone who helped changed their life, as “a great source of comfort” for many, and one who helps others without looking for anything in return. Mr. Cruz’s work supervisor describes him as a dependable and hard-working employee, who has “gained the respect of many staff workers and inmates alike” and who helps arguing inmates “make peace.” Mr. Cruz writes that he recognizes the effect drugs have on people, families, and the community, and desires a second chance to “live life as one who upholds the law, and lives to help others.”
Steven Benjamin Floyd — President Trump granted a full pardon to Steven Benjamin Floyd. This pardon is supported by Representative Mark Green. Mr. Floyd joined the United States Marines Corps at age 17 and earned a combat action ribbon in Iraq. He pled guilty to one count of bank robbery by extortion. Since his release from prison in 2009, Mr. Floyd has exemplified the power of second chances, and is raising a family and owns a successful car repair business. Mr. Floyd’s dedication to service includes helping extinguish fires set during the recent unrest and repairing widows and disabled veterans’ cars free of charge. President Trump thanks Mr. Floyd for his past military service and for his commitment to his community.
Joey Hancock — President Trump granted a full pardon to Joey Hancock. Senator Roger Wicker, and Mr. Hancock’s employer, pastor, and other members of his community all support this pardon. Mr. Hancock was convicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Following his release from prison, Mr. Hancock has been a hard-working employee and active in his church and community.
David E. Miller — President Trump granted a full pardon to David E. Miller. Governor Bill Lee, Mr. Miller’s employer, and numerous colleagues support this pardon. In 2015, Mr. Miller pled guilty to one count of making a false statement to a bank. Today, Mr. Miller is the development director for the charitable organization Men of Valor, where he helps previously incarcerated men rebuild relationships with their faith, family, and society. Governor Lee describes Mr. Miller as having “embraced the ministry’s work and [has] committed himself to doing right and serving others.”
James Austin Hayes – President Trump granted a full pardon to James Austin Hayes. Mr. Hayes’s pardon is supported by Paula White, Rick Hendrick of Hendrick Motorsports, and NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon. Nearly 10 years ago, Mr. Hayes was convicted of conspiracy to commit insider trading. Mr. Hayes cooperated immediately and extensively and disgorged all profits he earned in a related civil action. Since his conviction, Mr. Hayes has been active in his church and his community.
Drew Brownstein — President Trump granted a full pardon to Drew Brownstein, who, other than this conviction, was described by his sentencing judge as someone who “goes out of his way to help people that are less fortunate.” This pardon is supported by the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, and several of Mr. Brownstein’s friends and family. Mr. Brownstein was convicted of insider trading and has since paid his fines and forfeitures in full. Both before and after his conviction, Mr. Brownstein has volunteered extensively as a youth coach with the Boys & Girls club in Denver and the Jewish Family Services of Colorado.
Robert Bowker – President Trump granted a full pardon to Robert Bowker. Mr. Bowker’s pardon is supported by Ann Marie Pallan, Sherriff Butch Anderson, and the late Robert Trump. Nearly 30 years ago, Mr. Bowker pled guilty to a violation the Lacey Act, which prohibits trafficking in wildlife, when he arranged for 22 snakes owned by Rudy “Cobra King” Komarek to be transported to the Miami Serpentarium. Although he did not ask for any animals in return, he was offered 22 American alligators. After pleading guilty, Mr. Bowker was sentenced to probation. Mr. Bowker has dedicated resources to animal conservation efforts in the intervening decades, including as a member of the Humane Society of the United States, World Wildlife Fund, and Wildlife Conservation Society.
Amir Khan – President Trump granted a full pardon to Amir Khan. This pardon is supported by his adult children and members of the community. Mr. Khan pled guilty to wire fraud. Notably, he immediately paid back the victim more than in full and has demonstrated remorse for his conduct. Prior to the pandemic, Mr. Khan volunteered at the organization 3 Square Meals, and has regularly donated to charities including St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Boys Town, Covenant House, Tunnel to Towers Foundation, and the Salvation Army.
Robert Sherrill – President Trump granted a full pardon to Robert Sherrill. Mr. Sherrill was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Mr. Sherrill has taken full responsibility for his criminal past and received treatment for his drug addiction. He started a commercial cleaning business as well as a non-profit organization that mentors at-risk youth.
Dr. Robert S. Corkern — President Trump granted a full pardon to Robert S. Corkern. This pardon is supported by Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, Governor Phil Bryant, and Dr. Michael Mansour. Dr. Corkern was convicted of Federal program bribery. This pardon will help Dr. Corkern practice medicine in his community, which is in dire need of more doctors as it has struggled to keep up with demand for emergency services. Dr. Corkern served in the Mississippi Army National Guard and has generously provided his services to low-income patients.
David Lamar Clanton – President Trump granted a full pardon to David Lamar Clanton. This pardon is supported by Senator Roger Wicker, Alton Shaw, Mark Galtelli, and Terri Rielley. Mr. Clanton was convicted of false statements and related charges. Mr. Clanton’s supporters testify to his contributions to the community, especially with respect to issues surrounding rural healthcare. Mr. Clanton has been active with 4-H Clubs and other organizations in his community.
Hillel Nahmad — President Trump granted a full pardon to Hillel Nahmad. This pardon is supported by members of his community. Mr. Nahmad was convicted of a sports gambling offense. Since his conviction, he has lived an exemplary life and has been dedicated to the well-being of his community.
Brian McSwain — The President granted a full pardon to Brian McSwain. This pardon is supported by Senator Lindsey Graham, two former United States Attorneys for the District of South Carolina, and other former law enforcement officers. Since serving his 18 month sentence for a drug crime committed in the early 1990s, Mr. McSwain has been gainfully employed and has been passed over for several promotion opportunities due to his felony conviction.
John Duncan Fordham — President Trump granted a full pardon to John Duncan Fordham. Mr. Fordham was convicted on one count of health care fraud. A judge later dismissed the conspiracy charge against him.
William “Ed” Henry — President Trump granted a full pardon to William “Ed” Henry of Alabama. This pardon is supported by Senator Tommy Tuberville. Mr. Henry was sentenced to 2 years’ probation for aiding and abetting the theft of government property and paid a $4,000 fine.
In addition, President Trump commuted the sentences to time served for the following individuals: Jeff Cheney, Marquis Dargon, Jennings Gilbert, Dwayne L. Harrison, Reginald Dinez Johnson, Sharon King, and Hector Madrigal, Sr.
CORRECTION (Jan. 21, 2021): A previous version of this article misstated the dollar amount of the drugs Jonathan Braun smuggled into the United States. $1.76 billion is the estimated worth of all the marijuana he smuggled in from 2008 to 2010, not just of 2,200 pounds of marijuana.
NYT reporter Michael Schmidt joins Morning Joe to discuss how the commutation for a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun had broader implications than previously known and how it puts new focus on how Donald Trump would use his clemency powers in a second term.
Trump Vermin Comments Similar to Hitler and Mussolini
During a speech on Veterans Day, former president Trump stated: ‘”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.
Historian and Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses how Trump has the same personality as dictators throughout history such as Hitler & Mussolini and talks about his hateful and racist ideology.
Trump is behaving like ruthless dictators Hitler and Mussolini, calling political opponents “vermin” reminiscent of rhetoric used during the 1920s and 1930s, plus promising ‘retribution’.
“Dehumanizing groups of people to encourage followers to collaborate with or tolerate state persecution is exactly what authoritarians do,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.” [source: usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/11/13/donald-trump-vermin-hitler-mussolini/71567397007]
Responding to outrage over Trumps outrageous comments, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung, who also worked on the 2016 campaign and in the Trump White House, told The Post, “Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
Statements like those prove what a dire threat Trump is to the United States, how he intends to violate his Oath of Office, violate the United States Constitution, violate citizens rights and should be disqualified from running for public office.
Trump’s post states: “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections“
Trump hates “Radical Left” Democrats because they’re exposing him for the Liar, Lunatic, Criminal, Wannabe-Dictator and threat which he is to our country and democracy. Stating that he’s going to “root out the left” should insure that Trump is disqualified from running for President because he’s implying he intends to violate his Oath of Office from DAY ONE if he’s Elected by violating the rights of registered Democrats. This will be pointed out to Secretary’s of States to use in lawsuits to have Trump DISQUALIFIED and REMOVED.
When Trump states; ‘The real threat is from the radical left‘ it’s because Democrat prosecutors have indicted him with 91 criminal charges and are holding him accountable for his numerous crimes, which he sees as a threat.
‘Rout the fake news media . Like all dictators and wannabe dictators… Trump hates the ‘news media’ because they expose his LIES and INSANITY. He therefore wants to shut down and eliminate any media outlets which are critical of him.
Trump stated in his speech; “We are a failing nation. We are a nation in serious decline.” He’s such a Narcissistic Psychopath and has such an inflated ego that he wants everyone to believe our country can only be great if HE’s President. If someone else is president, he wants everyone to believe everything has gone to hell. Like he once said… “I alone can fix it!”.
Trump was the WORST, most LAWLESS and INCOMPETENT President in history
A book called “The Toddler in Chief” details more than 1,000 documented reports by Cabinet members, Oval Office advisers, Republican Party officials and the President himself having childlike behavior and temper tantrums. Reports claim White House aides had to treat Trump like a child in order to placate him.
Staffers claim he was unable to stay focused, had a 2 minute attention span… former DHS official claims classified memos had to be ‘dumbed down’ so he could understand them… reported to have required a ‘Special Folder’ with flattering news and photos about himself Twice a Day. Top White House officials described Trump as; “a f***ing moron”, “he tries to divide us”, “he’s an Idiot”, “a professional liar”, “thinks he God”, “like an 11 year old child”, “dumb as shit”, “dope with the intelligence of a kindergartner” & “don’t think he’s fit for office”.
It’s reported that Trump kept a copy of Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf on his bedside table. This is why Trump always engages in projection and accuses the other side of that which HE is guilty (tactic used by NAZI Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels).
‘lie and steal and cheat on elections’. Trump and Republicans are the ones LIE constantly and who tried to STEAL and OVERTURN the 2020 election. This has been PROVEN in court.
Trump calling Democrats ‘fascists‘ is more deflection and lies. Trump and Republicans are the REAL Fascists who exhibit the 14 characteristics of FASCISM, as detailed further down this page.
thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie. Trump is the BIGGEST LIAR IN HISTORY. He calls everyone who exposes his lawlessness, insanity and treachery LIARS so they don’t believe the TRUTH and only believe his LIES. Trump engages in GASLIGHTING on steroids.
Trump follows the playbook of NAZI Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbles
by telling HUGE lies and repeating them often so his GULLIBLE follows believe his lies
Trump calling Democrats ‘Communists’ and ‘Marxists‘ is another LIE and tactic used by NAZI Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels; ‘If you repeat a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it’.
Trump uses Communists’ and ‘Marxists’ as Boogeyman phrases to demonize Democrats who he wants to DESTROY, because they are standing in the way of him becoming a Dictator and are holding him accountable for his well documented crimes. Democrats fight for Democracy, the Rule of Law, the United States Constitution, Human Rights, the Middle Class and the Poor.
Republicans have become lawless, corrupt and are blindly following Trump, a wannabe Dictator.
Trump vowed to root out the radical left thugs.
TRUMP is the REAL THUG – After being indicted in New York on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, Trump posted the above photo with a baseball bat aimed at New York Prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s head and threaten “death and destruction” if he’s prosecuted and held accountable for his crimes.
Trump further proved to be a THUG by posting “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” after he was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on four counts relating to efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
This is how MOB BOSSES and CRIMINALS behave.
Trump vowed to target ideological groups that he described as “radical left lunatics”
TRUMP is the REAL ‘LUNATIC’ – More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump’s mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being. Renowned Psychologist Dr. John Gartner, who specializes in borderline personality disorder, biopolar disorder, and depression stated; Trump has the most dangerous form of mental illness that you can find in a leader… Malignant Narcissism”.
Dr. John Gartner stated; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump,” Gartner began. “He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies”.
Trump like Hitler and Mussolini
Numerous Mental Health professionals have stated Trump is “Textbook Narcissist”
According to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) have at least five of the symptoms listed below;
- Grandiosity with expectations of superior treatment by others
- Fixated on fantasies of power, success, intelligence, attractiveness, etc.
- Self-perception of being unique, superior, and associated with high-status people and institutions
- Needing constant admiration from others
- Sense of entitlement to special treatment and to obedience from others
- Exploitative of others to achieve personal gain
- Unwilling to empathize with others’ feelings, wishes, or needs
- Intensely jealous of others and the belief that others are equally jealous of them
- Pompous and arrogant demeanor.
Renowned Psychologist : Like Hitler, Trump suffers from Sadism, Malignant Narcissism & Paranoia
Per the above article: “Renowned Psychologist Dr. John Gartner, who specializes in borderline personality disorder, biopolar disorder, and depression stated; Trump has the most dangerous form of mental illness that you can find in a leader… Malignant Narcissism”.
“Gartner stated that Malignant narcissism is a combination of 4 traits, which includes narcissism, paranoia, antisocial personality disorder (the psychology of a criminal and someone who routinely lies) and sadism”.
“The sadist aspects of Trump’s apparent mental illness, according is Gartner, means that “he is driven and gets intense pleasure from harming, humiliating, and degrading other people.”
“He has actually gotten intense pleasure from [other people’s] pain. He is reveling in the chaos and the destruction he is causing,” Gartner explained. “The more he feels threatened by the Mueller investigation, the more he needs to experience the exaltation of feeling drunk with power, through his ability to harm and humiliate and degrade other people.”
“While Gartner stopped short of saying that Trump is the next incarnation of Hitler, he did emphasize the importance of looking back at history as a means to try and prevent the catastrophes of the past from happening yet again”.
In speaking of Trump, Gartner did not imply that Trump would follow in the path of Hitler, but he did underscore his belief that “these are the kind of people who really can commit genocide,” when comparing the two men.
“I’m not saying he’s Hitler. I’m saying he has the same psychology. He’s of the same type, cut from the same cloth…. He is someone, who if given the chance, would enact that same kind of destructive agenda.”
Gartner accentuated his observations that Trump is demonizing immigrants similarly to how Hitler”.
Psychiatrist Warns That Trump Has Become More ‘Psychotic’ As Trials Get Closer
Per the article referenced in the above video at; salon.com/2024/02/02/either-malpractice-or-criminal-dr-justin-frank-on-power-and
“Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he is a lawless person — but his malign influence extends far beyond himself.
We are a society more divided than united. Many of us are anti-intellectual and don’t want to think. That makes such people attracted to strongmen and bullies like Trump. Trump has made his followers reject the truth for alternate facts – and that makes most of us insecure and uncertain about what to believe.
Trump’s “dangerous charisma” attracts already corrupt and ethically compromised people into his orbit. He also exerts a malignant perfidious influence over people who are vulnerable to such energy and temptations, but for whatever reason have not yet fully surrendered to them. This is a defining feature of dangerous leaders.
Dr. Frank continues to warn about Trump’s extremely dangerous mind and overall pattern of behavior and why as seen with the second E. Jean Carroll court case for defamation, and escalating threats of violence and retribution against his “enemies”, that the corrupt ex-president will not be stopped by “the walls closing in.” Instead, Dr. Frank predicts that Trump is a malignant narcissist who will go down in a blaze of glory before he ever surrenders or is otherwise made to yield in his assaults on society, human decency, and the rule of law.
From the time Trump was five years old, he hated rules and couldn’t control himself. If Trump didn’t like something, he would convert feelings into immediate action. He threw rocks at a toddler who lived next door when he was five. He punched out his second-grade teacher because he got mad at him. As a father, Trump knocked out his son, Don Jr., when he was in high school because he wasn’t dressed appropriately. Trump has always been like this. As people age, they generally do not change; they instead become more of their true selves. His capacity for self-restraint is becoming a thinner veneer over fundamental destructiveness. He is increasingly no longer able to fake it. This is why Trump is in court acting out, mumbling, being angry and disruptive.
In my opinion, Donald Trump is a “segmental thinker”. He lives in the moment and is attracted by a shiny object and forgets everything else.
The main thing that I am worried about is the complacency of the public and specifically the country’s leaders and law enforcement and other people in positions of authority and power who are still letting Trump run wild. Trump is extremely dangerous. Trump does not believe in laws and rules. He wants to be a lawless dictator. This is why I continue to share my conclusion, based on the evidence, that Donald Trump appears to be psychotic. He is a person who is detached from reality. Even with the trials and other pressures, Trump is not capable of breaking down, of being cowed and/or broken. If anything, Trump will go down in flames if he goes down at all. Trump is an extreme narcissist who will destroy anyone who has ever done anything to hurt him, to oppose him, or defy him.
Speaking with host Lawrence O’Donnell, Dr. John Gartner stated; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies. And this is someone, as you said, who is handling the nuclear codes.”
Dr. Lance Dodes stated: “He lies because of his sociopathic tendencies that Dr. Gartner was talking about. “He lies in the way anybody who scams people does. He’s tried to sell an idea or a product by telling you something that is untrue. There is also the kind of lie he has that in a way is more serious — that he has a loose grip on reality. We can say that because he lies about things that aren’t that important.”
“I think what that indicates is that he can’t stand an aspect of reality that he doesn’t want, so he rejects it,” Gartner continued. “His grasp of reality, his attention to reality is loose. This is an extremely dangerous trait in a president. It actually makes him unqualified.”
Trump is ‘more erratic, more unstable’ than when he was in the White House
Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss in Donald Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and what could happen if the current Republican front-runner returns to the White House
“We are sleepwalking towards authoritarianism,” says scholar who studies democracy
The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky and Professor Brian Klaas discuss former President Trump’s recent remarks at a campaign stop where he pledges to root out ‘vermin’ if given a second term. Tomasky and Klaas discuss the historical parallels for Trump’s language.
On the level of Hitler and Mussolini’: Biden camp slams Trump on anti-immigrant plan
Quentin Fulks, principal deputy campaign manager for President Biden’s reelection campaign, urges American voters to take Donald Trump’s plans for a potential second term seriously, and shares insights on the Biden campaign’s strategy for building support going forward.
How Trump Has Incited Violence for Years
After learning that he lost the 2020 election, Trump REFUSED to admit defeat and LIED by falsely claiming the election was “Rigged”, “Stolen” & he “Won in a landslide” with no proof.
Trump used legal tactics to challenge the election results in swing states and when those challenges didn’t work he resorted to inciting an insurrection and a COUP which caused 5 deaths, to overthrow the United States Government & overturn / steal the 2020 election to install himself as an UN-elected dictator to stay in power against the will of the people.
Trump is a hateful vindictive bully, pathological liar who has no humility, never admits he’s wrong, never apologizes & the most UN-Presidential behavior in history. This video shows how Trump managed to evade consequences for his despicable conduct his entire life.
Trump behaving like an Authoritarian Fascist Dictator
Trump saying he has “Total Authority” over when to re-open the country and insinuating if States don’t follow his orders it would be Mutiny is yet another example that he is a Wanna-Be King & Dictator.
Throughout his presidency, Trump has, at every turn, advanced extreme legal arguments and made excuses to avoid the traditional oversight that previous presidents have accepted. In the process, he has negated the checks and balances that are at the heart of our constitutional system, and elevated himself to a king-like position.
Trump’s admiration of dictators and scorn of our allies is one the most dangerous threat to our democracies our country has ever faced
Title from Youtube: President Trump: My People Should Give Me The Attention Kim Jong Un Gets
During an interview with Fox News’s Steve Doocy Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un; “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different,” Trump said “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.
| PROOF: TRUMP & REPUBLICAN RIGHT WINGERS ARE THE REAL FASCISTS |
Trump & Republicans are following the playbook of NAZI Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels:
“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty“.
Trump & Republicans fit the description of “FASCISTS”
1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
2. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause – The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
3. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
4. Rampant Sexism – The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
5. Controlled Mass Media – Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
6. Obsession with National Security – Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
7. Religion and Government are Intertwined – Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
8. Corporate Power is Protected – The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
9. Labor Power is Suppressed – Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
10. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts – Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
11. Obsession with Crime and Punishment – Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
12. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
13. Manipulate & Control elections – Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate & control elections.
14. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, such as flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
REPUBLICANS ARE LIKE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
Here’s a few of the behaviors and ideologies Republicans, The Taliban and Islamic ISIS Terrorist have in common;
- Bullies
- Religious extremists (such as Christian Evangelists)
- Extremists who resort to Violence to get their way (January 6, 2021 riots to overturn legitimate election which their leader, Trump lost)
- Right-wing Anti-democratic Fascist (most Republicans condone eliminating a free press and democracy)
- Suppress Women’s Rights (anti-abortion laws)
- Extreme Patriotism with tons of flags
Republicans admitting they want a dictatorship and want to eliminate Democracy
POLL: Only 36% Of Republicans Support Freedom Of The Press
43% of Republicans think President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” while only 36% disagreed with the statement, according to an Ipsos poll
Trump Supporters Are Excited By The Idea Of Him Being A Dictator
Donald Trump did exactly what most of us expected, and he actually convinced his base that he SHOULD be a dictator if he gets back into office, and that it is somehow a good thing to trample on the Constitution. Ever since Trump first made his dictator comments, his supporters have been quick to defend and ultimately offer their praise of the comments, and that part isn’t dying down, either. A new poll also shows that a strong number of Iowa voters say that his rhetoric makes it MORE likely that they will support him.
Right’s Embrace of Authoritarianism
Univision Promoting Trump’s Lies and Propaganda
Univision is helping to Destroy Democracy and the United States by airing Trump’s lies and propaganda in an interview in which none of his false claims where challenged and by refusing to run Biden ads exposing the danger Trump is to our country.
Spanish media giant Univision is facing growing backlash after canceling Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign ads in key states during an exclusive Trump interview. Former Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development Julián Castro joins Katie Phang to discuss how the Biden administration could get its message out to Latino voters.
Rachell Maddow explains the connection between Univision and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner
Univision coziness with Trump leaves Biden camp chagrined over ad cancellation
In the time since then-candidate Donald Trump had Jorge Ramos removed from a press conference, Trump’s relationship with the powerful Spanish language TV network has warmed considerably. Michael Sherer, national political reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Alex Wagner about the access Univision is giving Trump to Latino audiences and the alarm in the Biden camp over the shift in Univision’s relationship with Trump.
‘It’s inexcusable’: Backlash grows over Univision’s Trump interview, cancelled Biden ads
Spanish-language media giant Univision is facing pushback over its softball interview with Donald Trump and for reportedly dropping ads already paid for by the Biden campaign. MSNBC Political Analyst Maria Hinojosa and Nuestro PAC Founder Chuck Rocha join MSNBC’s Paola Ramos to discuss the recent moves from a network reaching millions of Latinos across the nation.
Univision interview with Trump was a disservice to Latino community | Commentary
A news interview that seemed to show deference to the former president raises profound concerns about the network’s commitment to impartiality and responsible reporting.
Per the above article; “In the recent exclusive interview of Univision with Trump, the feeling was more of a public relations campaign than a rigorous journalistic exercise. None of Trump’s numerous false claims were challenged, despite having solid evidence that contradicted them. The duty of the journalist is to scrutinize and confront interviewees with tough questions, those that the interviewees like to evade.
Impartiality and balance in news coverage are essential for the electorate to make informed decisions. Whether it’s Trump, Biden, or anyone else, it’s essential to question misinformation. The lack of questioning in this interview contributes to perpetuating misinformation in the Latino community in the United States at a critical moment where erroneous data is presented as facts. These types of interviews only serve to fuel misinformation in our communities.
TelevisaUnivision’s closeness with political leaders and the hosting of a Republican primary debate add layers to this growing concern. It fosters an environment where journalistic integrity might succumb to political agendas, eroding the trust painstakingly built within the community.
The Spanish-speaking community deserves better— journalism that upholds the sanctity of truth and presents a comprehensive spectrum of perspectives. Anything less than this is a disservice not just to Univision’s audience but to the essence of ethical journalism itself”.
Trump’s ramped-up rhetoric raises new concerns about violence and authoritarianism
Trump Has Same Personality as Hitler & Mussolini
Historian and Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses how Trump has the same personality as dictators throughout history and talks about his hateful and racist ideology.
Trump like Hitler and Mussolini
‘On the level of Hitler and Mussolini’: Biden camp slams Trump on anti-immigrant plan
Quentin Fulks, principal deputy campaign manager for President Biden’s reelection campaign, urges American voters to take Donald Trump’s plans for a potential second term seriously, and shares insights on the Biden campaign’s strategy for building support going forward.
