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Trump Should Pay Legal Fees for Failed Lawsuit, Wisconsin Governor Says
Former President Donald Trump should personally have to pay at least a portion of Wisconsin’s legal fees for filing a failed lawsuit to overturn the result of the 2020 election — not just his lawyers, the state’s Democratic governor told a judge.
George Conway Urges ‘Criminal’ Probe Into Allegations Trump Attempted to ‘Coerce’ AG
Attorney George Conway called for a “criminal investigation” into former President Donald Trump over his alleged attempt to “coerce” acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the 2020 election was “corrupt,” despite no evidence to support the claim.
Handwritten notes from a December phone call between Trump and Rosen said Trump told the acting attorney general to “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” and Republicans in Congress, the Associated Press reported at the end of July.
Conway, the husband of former Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, argued in a Friday morning interview with MSNBC that this alleged action by Trump was criminal and amounted to attempted coercion of the Justice Department.
A tale of two chambers: Trump’s power holds in House, wanes in Senate
The infrastructure debate dominating Capitol Hill this summer is highlighting the sharp contrast between the chambers when it comes to the influence of former President Trump over the GOP.
Nearly 20 Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), broke with Trump this week to support a massive infrastructure package, providing President Biden with a big win and reflecting the diminishing hold his predecessor has on the upper chamber.
But the story is likely to be much different in the House, where Trump retains a muscular grip and GOP leaders have deemed his support vital to both the party’s prospects of winning back the chamber and their individual aspirations for rising in the leadership ranks.
Trump is ignoring attempts to get him to run a pro-vaccine campaign, saying he doesn’t want to do Biden any ‘favors,’ report says
Former President Donald Trump is ignoring allies’ efforts to get him to run a pro-vaccination campaign, partly because he doesn’t want to help President Joe Biden, The Daily Beast reported.
Four people who spoke independently to Trump about running a campaign told the outlet that he has shown little interest in doing so.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Resigns
Cuomo made the announcement just after noon Tuesday after being accused of the sexual harassment of at least 11 women, The Associated Press reported.
New records show how fiercely Trump DOJ loyalists fought to help — and resist — his effort to steal the 2020 election
Clark’s letter was, “in other words, a road map to overthrowing the will of voters,” The Washington Post’s Philip Bump wrote Wednesday. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) told MSNBC on Wednesday night that Clark had drafted similar letters to six states Trump lost, encouraging Republicans to overturn President Biden’s win.
Rosen and Donoghue flatly refused. “There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this,” Donoghue emailed Clark a few hours after receiving the draft. Rosen added later he “confirmed again today that I am not prepared to sign such a letter.”
“By itself, this back-and-forth is probably without precedent,” Bump writes. “But slotted into the other events we know were occurring at the same time, we see just how desperately Trump was scrambling to gain a toehold in his efforts to upend a Biden presidency” — and how close he came.
On Jan. 3, for example, Trump nearly replaced Rosen with Clark in a fraught Oval Office meeting. On Wednesday, Politico published an email senior DOJ official Patrick Hovakimian wrote in preparation for Rosen’s expected ouster. Rosen had “repeatedly refused the president’s direct instructions” to misuse the DOJ’s “law enforcement powers,” so he and Donoghue “resign from the department, effusively immediacy,” Hovakimian’s unsent email said.
University of Texas Law professor Steve Vladeck said “Clark’s (insane) draft letter lays bare” that Trump’s legal effort was always just a “thinly veiled cover for overturning the result of a democratic election.”
Top Republicans move to protect Trump from Capitol attack fallout
Some party leaders blamed the former president in the charged moments after the insurrection – but are now embarking on a campaign of revisionism
Are Trump’s followers being conned? No — they gave him $100 million because they love him
Can we stop claiming that Trump’s followers are his victims? They’ve made their choice, and must live with it
What Mike Fanone Can’t Forget
Mike Fanone—wiry, bearded, his arms and neck covered in tattoos—nursed a Modelo at the bar and took it all in again. It had been four months since the day Fanone nearly died defending the Capitol—the day a self-described redneck cop who voted for Donald Trump was beaten unconscious by a mob waving Thin Blue Line flags and chanting “U.S.A.” The day Fanone, a narcotics officer with the D.C. metropolitan police department (MPD) who’d planned to spend his evening shift buying heroin undercover, voluntarily rushed to defend the seat of American democracy and wound up in hand-to-hand combat with a horde hellbent on unstealing the election. The day Fanone was dragged down the Capitol’s marble stairs, beaten with pipes and poles, tear-gassed and stun-gunned. The day he pleaded for his life as they threatened to shoot him with his own gun, telling the rioters he had kids, until they relented and spared him.
The Mad Dad Fighting Critical Race Theory Is Actually a GOP Strategist
It might not be a coincidence that Loudoun County, Virginia, has become the epicenter of the debate over “critical race theory” in schools: One of the parents leading the fight isn’t just some mad dad—he’s a top national Republican operative. And Virginia just happens to be hosting 2021’s most important election.
U.S. prosecutors offering plea deals to allegedly violent Jan. 6 defendants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors are offering plea deals to a group of six people accused of forming a “shield wall” of stolen police equipment as they battled officers in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday.
At a status hearing for six defendants facing felony riot charges, Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Jackson told U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden that prosecutors had already made plea offers to some of the defendants and that all defendants would receive offers by later on Thursday.
Prosecutors allege in court documents the accused rioters used police riot shields and batons to attack uniformed officers guarding the Capitol and that crowd members could also be “overheard planning and implementing a rotation of rioters to have the ‘fresh’ rioters up front” to form a “shield wall” to stop police from using pepper spray.
GOP Congressman Mo Brooks asks court to grant him immunity from January 6 suit
Washington — Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama is asking a federal court to grant him immunity from a lawsuit alleging he incited the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Brooks argued in a filing with the U.S. district court in the District of Columbia he was acting within the scope of his employment as a member of the House when he delivered a speech at a rally outside the White House on January 6.
After his speech and remarks from former President Donald Trump, scores of the former president’s supporters descended upon the Capitol and breached the building in an attempt to stop Congress from reaffirming President Biden’s win. Five people died and hundreds of people, including law enforcement protecting the building and lawmakers inside, were injured.
Georgia Republicans didn’t waste any time in using their new voter suppression law
Republicans have begun a legal process that could allow them to disenfranchise much of Atlanta.
Donald Trump Asks ‘Dedicated’ Supporters To Pay To Carry Misspelled ‘Trump Offical Card’
Donald Trump wants his supporters to carry so-called “Trump Cards” with them — and, as part of his latest fundraising gimmick, is even giving them a say in the design with a handful of options, one of which misspells the word “official.”
In two emails sent to supporters on Wednesday, Trump’s Save America political action committee requested the former president’s followers consider carrying the red-and-gold object resembling a credit card to show their devotion to the 75-year-old politician, according to Business Insider.
You shouldn’t miss this massive bombshell in Trump’s ongoing election fraud lie
Unless you have been living on another planet for the past six months, you know by now that Donald Trump leaned on state and national officials in the final days of his presidency to force investigations into made-up claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 race.
But the story keeps getting worse – as we learn more and more about the extremes that Trump-loyal officials were willing to go to in an attempt to overturn the election, with zero proof or evidence to do so.
The latest bombshell came Wednesday with the revelation that Jeffrey Clark, a top official at the Justice Department, composed a draft letter – which he urged acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and acting deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue to sign onto – that said the DOJ had “significant concerns that may have impacted of the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.”
Biden sets goal for 50% of new US vehicles to be electric by 2030
Joe Biden is setting a goal for half of all new US vehicle sales to be electric by 2030 while also tightening pollution standards for cars and trucks, in a barrage of action aimed at reducing the largest source of planet-heating gases in America.
Accused Proud Boy suddenly secures $980k cash bail
Alleged Capitol rioter and Proud Boy Ethan Nordean is still in jail pending a hearing. But he suddenly came up with almost $1 million to offer as bail money.
Trump to DOJ last December: ‘Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me’
Former President Donald Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the election was corrupt in an attempt to help Republican members of Congress try to overturn the election result, according to notes of a December 2020 call Trump held with Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue.
During the December 27, 2020, call, Trump pressured Rosen and Donoghue to falsely declare the election “illegal” and “corrupt” even after the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud.
“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump said on the call, according to Donoghue’s notes.
Trump seeks to block Treasury Department from giving his tax returns to Congress
Lawyers for Trump said the stated reason for seeing the returns, to examine how the IRS audits presidents, is simply a pretext for wanting to look for something embarrassing.
Maricopa County defies state subpoena seeking to expand GOP ballot review, calling it an ‘adventure in never-never land’
Elected leaders in Arizona’s largest county responded defiantly Monday to a new subpoena issued by the state Senate that sought local computer routers and internal logs to bolster a GOP-commissioned review of the 2020 presidential election results.
So, hey, it’s August — is Trump being “reinstated” as president or what?
The highly anticipated month of August is finally here, but so far Donald Trump has yet to be reinstated as president.
Many in TrumpWorld have been led to believe — and pushed others to believe — in a grand and “inevitable” to nullify the 2020 election due to baseless claims of fraud, Trump remains far from the reins of power in Washington. Admittedly it’s very early in the month, but the prospects for any sort of Trump reinstatement, powered by a thus-far-imaginary Supreme Court decision, are fading more and more with each passing hour.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, the likely originator of the idea that Trump would return to power this month, has been boosting the August date for at least the last two months. Until recently, that is, when he began walking back the idea, admitting that his timeline might be off by a few months but saying the momentous occasion would occur on “God’s time.”
Trump Campaign And Four Seasons Total Landscaping Never Discussed Payment Terms
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and Four Seasons Total Landscaping never talked about payment terms before the Philadelphia landscaper hosted Rudy Giuliani’s infamous press conference in November.
Biden has a better handle on economics than Trump – but there are still risks
About half a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, it is time to consider how his administration’s economic doctrine compares with that of Donald Trump and previous Democratic and Republican administrations.
The paradox is that the “Biden doctrine” has more in common with Trump’s policies than with those of Barack Obama’s administration, in which the current president previously served. The neo-populist doctrine that emerged under Trump is now taking full form under Biden, marking a sharp break from the neoliberal creed followed by every president from Bill Clinton to Obama.
Everything’s Going Great For Mike Lindell, Who’s Losing Millions Every Month And Has Made A Third ‘Prediction’ For When Trump Will Be President Again
QAnon followers grow restless — which could lead to violence — as Mike Lindell again delays Trump reinstatement timeline
It’s Not About Trump, the My Pillow Guy, or the Insurrectionists. It’s About the Money.
Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, indefatigable dark-money gumshoe, has made another major bust, this time in the area of The Big Lie and the lushly financed ratfcking infrastructure of the American right. She begins with the extended farce that is dragging on in Arizona, largely because it has been designed to drag on in Arizona, and elsewhere. She points to Patrick Byrne, the founder of Overstock.com, as one of the major sugar daddies behind this particular exercise in weaponized futility. But Mayer also emphasizes the fact that the entire conservative dark-money machine has been turned away from some of its traditional purposes and put behind a national effort not only to suppress the franchise, but also to delegitimize the electoral process itself. One engine supplies the power to the other.
MyPillow Guy Punts Timeline for Trump Retaking Power as Conspiracy Theories Get Wackier
The prophecy failed in December, in January, and in March. Twice.
But now, claim conspiratorial fans of Donald Trump, the fabled month is finally upon us. In August, some of the most fringe voices in the ex-president’s sprawling universe of followers and adjacent conspiracists still seem to think Trump will be reinstated.
Pentagon lockdown lifted after gunman shot by police near Metro bus platform
The Pentagon reopened on Tuesday afternoon, roughly an hour and a half after the building was placed on lockdown following a “shooting event” near the Metro bus platform.
Maryland judge slams Trump-tied lobbyist for defying court order
A Maryland judge dealt another legal blow to Trumpworld lobbyist Barry Bennett Tuesday, refusing to lift a default judgment against him for defying a court order for over a year in a lawsuit brought by a former associate who claims she was never paid $300,000 in referral fees.
The dirty little secret about Trump’s endorsements
Former President Donald Trump boasts his winning endorsement record any chance he gets, but is his seal of approval really all it’s cracked up to be? In the latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza breaks down the numbers that show Trump’s picks aren’t quite as unbeatable as he wants you to think.
Opinion | This December phone call offers more bad news for Trump — but good news for America
As part of his scheme to overturn the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump — according to handwritten contemporaneous notes documenting a December phone call — pressed senior Justice Department officials to announce that the election was “illegal and corrupt.”
A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’.
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