another woman in Trump's Admin comes forward
"[
@OliviaTroye
] says that Trump carried out his sexual harassment openly, “even in meetings.”
She also corroborated Griffith’s story about a specific young staffer with whom Trump developed an obsession."
good catch by
@NormEisen
here, suggesting that Trump saying Raffensperger owed him votes is added proof of intent
'Collins interrupted, "You asked him to find the votes," before Trump shouted, "I didn't ask him to find anything. I said you owe me votes"'
A grave aspect of Trump indictment: US national security costs of his alleged conduct.
Two experts do a damage assessment👇
What the classification markings mean
What the redactions mean
How intelligence agencies must respond
By
@bridgewriter
@rosen_br
Sarah Sanders: “We are under attack in a left-wing culture war ... Every day we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols.”
“Do you believe a president can lawfully issue a pardon in exchange for the recipient’s promise to not incriminate him?” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont asked during Barr’s January 2019 confirmation hearing.
“No, that would be a crime,” Barr said in response.
In 2020, Trump tweeted 96 times that the election would be rigged.
43 were prior to the election
53 were after the election
He sowed the seeds of doubt prior to the election, then incited violence by leading his supporters to believe their votes were stolen, and to fight back.
Donald Trump ridiculed by court staff for claim they 'cried' over his arrest
"You’d think the way he spoke he was the victim of the biggest miscarriage of justice in history."
“It’s laughable. No one cried. No one.”
Even Trump's NFT trading cards are based on photos that were stolen from Amazon listings and Shutterstock images. Is there legitimacy in anything he does?
@SteveSchmidtSES
Obama: "Through Sarah Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party—xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks—were finding their way to center stage."
omg this whole article
"[Stewart Rhodes]—beat his kids, used the toilet in their presence, encouraged them to use drugs and harbored an “obsession with sex (that) led him to incredibly inappropriate behavior around the children.”
including abuse of pets
Stephanie Grisham: "I watched him show documents to people at Mar-a-Lago on the dining room patio. He has no respect for classified information [and] never did."
@TheRickWilson
even if she wasn't able to influence him, it's still possible that her presence emboldened people like Powell and Giuliani, possibly giving them the impression that they had the Supreme Court on their side
Being reminded that Trump asked at John Kelly's son's grave on Memorial Day, "I don't get it. What was in it for them?" And how he would refer to fallen soldiers as 'suckers and losers' because he'll never appreciate or understand sacrifice, or what it means to be a true patriot.
'Nerves are fraying at Mar-a-Lago': Legal expert says Jan. 6 sentences should worry Trump
"As a general matter, judges typically reserve longer sentences for those higher up the ladder of culpability."
@RpsAgainstTrump
I've actually lost sleep over this until i remembered that Biden promised during the campaign at a town hall, that he would never consider pardoning Trump.
Three separate sources have told me they believe they saw Ginni Thomas at the Willard on Jan. 6. That's the hotel where rally planners had a headquarters and the Trump allies working to overturn the election had a "command center."
@AnaCabrera
in case anyone missed it, here's Alex Jones saying he was asked by the White House to lead the march:
"The White House told me three days before (January 6th), 'We're gonna have you lead the march.'"
"He has betrayed our national security and he will do so again. He has compromised our elections and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less & decency matters not at all."
i'm sorry but it's impossible to overlook the possibility that Ginni used the fact that she's married to Justice Thomas to convince Trump and his people that this was all within reach.
@MollyJongFast
Fauci did not lie about masks, he suggested we reserve the PPE grade masks for medical workers and first responders. So tired of this nonsense
Trump campaign had a report saying dominion machines were secure, but still wanted to appoint Sidney Powell to seize machines using our military—while also trying to gain access to dominion software in Coffee County (where they had 70% of the vote, so didn't have any other reason
Trump just posted this insanity
"Biden is guilty of obstruction ... he has been totally uncooperative, won't show the documents under any circumstances, and is fighting like hell."
kinda sad about the 200+ ppl who unfollowed me after i revealed that i'm female - unfortunately for them, they'll miss out on seeing my christmas rum cake recipe
@kylegriffin1
@MSNBC
Question for the sitting Vice President of the United States: Why won't you speak out against this, and uphold the oath you've taken to defend the U.S. Constitution? Do you have any capacity for shame?
#AskTheVP
@VP
@Mike_Pence
@gtconway3d
Gen. Milley said that we were on the brink of our own Reichstag moment, CIA Director Haspel expressed worry of a right-wing coup, and both Secretaries of Defense, Esper and Miller, have come forward saying that they had been concerned that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act.
@gtconway3d
It may seem amusing to some, but there's a mountain of evidence that shows this threat (especially in the absence of Electoral Count Act reform) is real, and should concern us all.
Try to imagine this - it's the day after Jan 6th, and the realization that he's not going to be president starts to kick in. Members of his Cabinet are resigning. There's talks about impeachment and invoking the 25th Amendment. Lawyers probably telling him he's in serious trouble
I keep thinking about Don. Jr's text to Mark Meadows, asking him to tell his father that: “It has gone too far, and gotten out of hand.”
Sounds planned to me.
@gtconway3d
What's stuck in my mind, is the Stanford study that linked 700 deaths to 21 of his rallies, and how he held 46 more rallies after those.
He's a psychopath who didn't promote masks, kept holding rallies, then used his own experience to say don't be afraid
i feel like we don't talk enough about how this plot against Governor Whitmer was a direct response to Trump's call for his supporters to "liberate Michigan"
'Griffith described Trump telling someone on Air Force One to retrieve the unidentified young woman and “bring her back so [they] can look at her ass.”
Troye affirmed this, and said, “That was the one they raised concerns about.”'
@TristanSnell
“The evidence takes us places, and frankly, it takes us places we did not anticipate.” — Do you think maybe they've found evidence that ties to Roger Stone?
Hopefully AG Garland heard the clip from last night where Trump offered to pardon everyone who's willing to break the law in order to keep him in office.