Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Expert blames Trump for cops joining the ranks of radical groups



A recent hack revealed the extent of active-duty police officers who are members of the right-wing Oath Keepers paramilitary group, and new reports show their involvement in additional anti-government extremist groups.

Police officers from some of the nation's largest departments are involved with the Oath Keepers, according to a hacked membership list, and MSNBC legal analyst Frank Figliuzzi sees three factors that allowed radical extremism to infiltrate law enforcement agencies.

"First, President Donald Trump strategically cultivated cops in his bid to win and maintain power by recruiting those who already wielded it," Figliuzzi writes. "'Cops for Trump' rallies, often led by then-Vice President Mike Pence, played out in packed venues across the country, including one where Pence warned officers that they 'won't be safe' if Joe Biden were elected president. Trump also promoted the false notion that only his supporters were defenders of police, which caused most police unions, including the country's largest, to endorse Trump for president."

Figliuzzi argues police were radicalized by the nationwide wave of Black Lives Matter protests, which he says caused more than 2,000 injuries to officers and created a backlash.

"To police, the violence against them became a self-fulfilling MAGA prophecy — caused not by their own colleagues' misconduct but, as they were led to believe, by far-left liberals and minorities intent on destroying the country," Figliuzzi writes.

The former FBI assistant director of counterintelligence also believes the "defund the police" slogan further isolated police into an "us versus them" mindset.

"Counter-radicalization of police officers won't be easy, but it can be done," Figliuzzi writes. "The answer isn't to defund the police, because, in reality, corrective measures are likely to require increased budgets. Those measures must include changing the way police candidates are recruited. Targeted recruitment of college-educated, proven problem solvers, from a wide variety of academic, cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds, will take more money, not less. Enhanced screening and vetting, including polygraphs and social media analysis, to identify and weed out those applicants more likely to default to physicality over verbal de-escalation or to act upon biases and violent ideologies, can be accomplished — but again, it will cost more, not less. Such vetting and background investigation can't end with the application process but rather must be systematically incorporated throughout officers' careers."

https://www.rawstory.com/cops-for-trump/

[Rick Plant]

‘Barely concealed bloodlust’: Claremont Institute laid out detailed plan for using cops to overturn Trump’s election loss



The right-wing Claremont Institute published a report in mid-October 2020 that gamed out a scenario where Donald Trump would remain in office through an alliance between law enforcement and militant extremists.

The report was prepared by attorney John Eastman, who authored a memo laying out another strategy for keeping Trump in office, and former Trump deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland, as well as Kevin Roberts, then-executive director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, alt-right figure Jeff Giesea and right-wing blogger Charles Haywood, reported The Bulwark.

"Despite the authors' pretensions to scholarship and rigor — 'for a simulation to be valuable, the other side gets a vote and actions must be based in realism' — the final document is a frenzied and paranoid piece of work, revealing of the anxieties and aspirations of the authoritarian right," writes columnist Christian Vanderbrouk. "Practically, the report is an instruction manual for how Trump partisans at all levels of government — aided by citizen 'posses' of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers — could, quite literally, round up opposition activists, kill their leaders, and install Donald Trump for a second term in office."

Most of the predictions in the report, titled "79 Days to Inauguration," did not come to fruition, such as the authors' belief that some states' voting results would be fatally tainted by cyber attacks and suspicious fires, and left-wing mobs did not converge on Washington, D.C., to incite violence, and police did not execute antifa/Black Lives Matter leaders as part of a federal operation.

"A barely concealed bloodlust runs through the report," Vanderbrouk writes. "This isn't a serious wargame or a policy study so much as a bowdlerized retelling of The Turner Diaries."

The report was produced in response to the bipartisan Transition Integrity Project's (TIP) exercise on "Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition," which considered the prospect of Trump refusing to concede an election loss and made recommendations for avoiding a crisis -- which seems to be the opposite intent of the Claremont Institute's exercise.

"To the extent that the Claremont-TPPF report offers recommendations, they are mostly focused on how to emerge victorious from the chaos, including preparation 'for destructive urban unrest [with] potential targets includ[ing] ballot counting facilities, government buildings, especially state capitols and city halls, as well as television and radio studios,'" Vanderbrouk writes. "The Claremont task force seems either resigned to—or perhaps energized by—the view that 'prudent steps are likely to be spun as preparations for a military takeover or coup and may result in negative consequences either way.'"

"Either way. It's as if they're steering into the violence instead of trying to avoid it," he adds. "The message is clear: do whatever it takes to crush your opponents and all will be forgiven in the second Trump term."

https://www.rawstory.com/claremont-institute-2655520135/

[Rick Plant]

The insanity continues with these lunatics...

QAnon believers refuse to leave Dallas after JFK Jr disappointment — and could set up a permanent HQ



The recent QAnon gathering in Dallas, Texas to witness the re-emergence of John F. Kennedy Jr. to announce a joint ticket with former President Donald Trump ended in bitter disappointment for many true believers, as the decades-dead JFK Jr. never showed up.

But according to VICE, many of the believers who gathered for the event are still there — and a Christian rapper is offering to help them establish a permanent headquarters in the city.

"The group, led by the antisemitic QAnon influencer Michael Brian Protzman, who's known to his followers as Negative48, has maintained a presence in Dallas since JFK failed to appear last Tuesday. And over the weekend, the group gathered once again in Dealey Plaza, the site of JFK's 1963 assassination," reported David Gilbert.

Protzman has previously claimed that Trump would be reinstated as the "king of kings" and that type O blood is a "Christ bloodline" under attack by the New World Order.

"In an audio chat on the newly formed Occupy Dealey Plaza Telegram channel, one of Protzman's lieutenants was asked how long the group was going to stay in Dallas. He revealed that one member of the group, a rapper known as Pryme Minister, has offered the use of a property near the city that could act as a permanent headquarters for the group, calling it 'the promised land,'" continued the report. "Pryme Minister (whose real name is Randell Moody) did not respond to VICE News' request for comment."

The QAnon movement believes that Trump is a messiah working to save America from a shadowy cabal of flesh-eating Satanists.

https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-dallas-jfk-jr/

[Rick Plant]

Here's another example of how hateful, evil, violent, stupid, and delusional these deplorable Trump supporters are. They threaten a Republican Representative for voting YES on the Infrastructure Bill that benefits ALL Americans including Trump supporters in rural areas. Trump failed to get an infrastructure bill passed or even written but when Democrats pass a bill and 13 Republicans support it those Republicans are called "traitors" by anti American MAGAts. Anybody who doesn't support revitalizing American infrastructure and creating good paying jobs is anti American and that is what the Trump cult is against.

'Hope your family dies!' Trump supporter leaves threatening message for Republican who backed infrastructure

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) on Monday appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper to discuss some of the angry blowback he's received after voting last week for the bipartisan infrastructure package signed into law by President Joe Biden.

Cooper started off by telling Upton he'd heard about some "disturbing" phone calls he'd received after the infrastructure vote, and he proceeded to play an audio recording of an unhinged man yelling through the phone.

"F***ing traitor!" said the man. "That's what you are. You're a f***ing piece of s**t traitor. I hope you die. I hope everybody in your f***ing family dies!"

Cooper then asked Upton for his reaction.

"Thank goodness it wasn't a constituent," said Upton, explaining that a Republican colleague "put out the phone numbers of the 13 of us that voted that way," which presumably led to the threatening phone calls.

Upton nonetheless expressed concern about the rage that voting for a bipartisan infrastructure package has generated.

"We've seen civility really downslide here," he said. "I am concerned about my staff. They are taking these calls... the threats to them."

Watch the video below:

[Rick Plant]

These radical right wing MAGA Republicans are a serious danger and continue to incite violence against Democrats. Every single one of them inciting violence need to be expelled from Congress. How is this allowed from a sitting member of Congress? Yet Republicans stay quiet because they are all just like Paul Gosar. This is the guy who hangs out with and supports white nationalists and neo Nazis. His own family has disowned him because of his extreme radicalization and neo Nazis ties.     ​

Republican Paul Gosar tweets anime-themed video of him killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez



Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., the far-right dentist known for his ties to multiple white nationalist groups, on Sunday released a video of photoshopped clips of an anime show depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

The tweeted video – which he captioned, "Any anime fans out there?" – opens with Gosar's name under Japanese text that reads "attack of immigrants," an apparent reference to the anime show "Attack on the Titan" from which the Republican pulled various clips.

The video then goes on to show footage of immigrants at the southern border, overlaying the footage with anime-style special effects and crosscutting with interstitials that read "drugs, crime, poverty, money, gangs, violence" and "trafficking."

About midway into the video, "Attack on the Titan main character Eren Yaeger is shown in a mashup of clips with Gosar's face photoshopped onto the cartoon character. Swords in both hands, the fictionalized Gosar scales a European-esque urban landscape alongside cartoon versions of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Bobert, R-Colo., until slaying what appears to be a titan with Ocasio-Cortez's face photoshopped onto it.

Toward the end, the cartoon Gosar is shown leaping into the air with his blades unsheathed moments before striking the photoshopped head of President Joe Biden.

"Attack on Titan," a best-selling Japanese manga series created by Hajime Isayama, is set in a world in which humanity lives inside a city surrounded by walls guarding its populace from human-eating beasts called "titans". Though the creator has strayed from addressing the politics of the show, it has been interpreted by white nationalists online to be an allegory for U.S., which they say teaches white people to hate themselves for the sins of their ancestors, according to The New Republic. Liberal commentators have meanwhile critiqued show for its possible allusions of anti-Semitic tropes.

The video, which has garnered roughly 1.5 million views since its release on Twitter, takes ostensibly a political attack ad on the Biden administration for its handling of the surge in immigrants at the southern border.

All throughout his presidency, Biden has faced criticism from Republicans for adopting what they say is an overly permissive approach to immigration, allowing too many migrants to pass through the border.

Biden recently faced bipartisan scrutiny back in September, when it was reported that the U.S. had begun clearing out a squalid encampment of 12,000 Haitian migrants seeking asylum near the Rio Grande.

That same month, photos surfaced of border agents on horseback aggressively corralling Haitian migrants between Del Rio, Texas, and Acuña, Mexico. The pictures drew a tidal wave of outrage from progressives and immigration advocates. Biden's special envoy to Haiti shortly resigned after the scandal, citing the administration's "deeply flawed" policies on Haitian immigration.

RELATED: Special envoy to Haiti resigns in protest of Biden's continuation of Trump immigration policy

Gosar, first elected to Congress in 2010, is arguably one of Donald Trump's most loyal backers and is notorious for his off-color remarks and ties to white nationalist groups.

Back in February, the Republican attended the America First Political Action Conference, a white nationalist conference, cozying up to far-right white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who is known anti-semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial.

Rep. Paul Gosar, after speaking at AFPAC on Friday night, and then saying he denounces “white racism” at CPAC on SaPersonay morning, is now meeting with white nationalist and Unite the Right attendee Nick Fuentes with a CPAC lanyard around his neck.


In a March interview with Salon's Igor Derysh, all three of Gosar's siblings expressed a firm belief that their brother is a white supremacist.

"He's literally scared of his own shadow," said Gosar's brother, Tim. "That's what kind of person we're talking about here. Is he a white supremacist for political gain? Absolutely. Is he a white supremacist because he's a 'scared of his own shadow' guy? Yeah, he is that too."

https://www.rawstory.com/republican-congressman-tweets-anime-themed-video-of-him-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/



'Sick behavior': Dem congressman tears into Paul Gosar for anime video of himself killing AOC



On Sunday, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) triggered outrage by tweeting out an anime-themed video depicting himself killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and swinging a pair of swords at President Joe Biden.

The stunt earned furious condemnation from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA).

"This is sick behavior from Rep. Paul Gosar," said Lieu, a former Air Force Reserve officer. "He tweeted out the video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez from both his official account and personal account. In any workplace in America, if a coworker made an anime video killing another coworker, that person would be fired."

Gosar also drew outrage from former Republican National Committee official Doug Heye, who tweeted, "This deserves an overwhelmingly bipartisan censure."

An extreme-right lawmaker who has been condemned by his own family members, Gosar has been accused of associating with white supremacists. He has repeatedly used his account to spread far-right internet memes, including from a "men's right's activist" who has said men should stand up straight to project dominance over women.

https://www.rawstory.com/paul-gosar-aoc/



Colleagues call for Paul Gosar to be censured after assassination meme — while Republicans stay mum



Normally when an individual threatens someone's life or draws a cartoon about someone being killed, a judge will issue a victim protection order and police do investigations. But when a Republican member of Congress does it, things get complicated.

Such was the case when Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) posted an anime cartoon of himself assassinating colleague Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The photo also depicts himself swinging swords at President Joe Biden. The photo was a violation of Twitter's terms of service and was removed, but not before many screen captures were taken.

Gosar's siblings have worked to tell voters as often as possible that their brother is mentally ill and that he doesn't belong in Congress. His colleagues are also calling on either censure or expulsion for Gosar. Expelling Gosar from Congress would take all Democratic members to vote for it and 70 Republicans. Thus far only one Republican has been willing to denounce what Gosar did.

Many also noted that this isn't the first time Gosar has casually talked about assassination. There's also the matter of his participation in the planning of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Ali Alexander. He warrants investigation by the FBI as a danger to America, commentators tweeted.

You can see some of the ways leaders and officials are responding to the tweet below. Many have called on Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to act. It's unclear if there will be a vote to censure Gosar for the behavior.

Click Link Below To Read Tweets:

https://www.rawstory.com/paul-gosar-censure-meme-republicans/

[Rick Plant]

A lawsuit against Trump's inaugural committee moves to trial

Donald Trump's lawsuits stemming from activity by his inauguration committee are heading to trial, a judge decided Monday.

CNN.com reported that Judge Jose Lopez dismissed attempts to name the Trump Organization as a co-defendant, but ruled that the lawsuit against the Trump Inauguration Committee was moving forward.

In a statement, Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine noted, "Our lawsuit is moving forward and going to trial. The Inaugural Committee misspent more than $1 million in nonprofit funds to unlawfully benefit private interests. We cannot allow those in power to get away with using money to illegally enrich themselves and their families."

He said that he will continue his efforts to depose Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who was indicted over the summer on tax fraud by the Manhattan district attorney's office. Weisselberg has pleaded not guilty.

In his statement, Judge Lopez had his own questions that he says deserve to be answered.

"Did higher ranking Trump family officials have the ability to control the workings of the PIC [Presidential Inaugural Committee]," Lopez wrote. "Did members of the PIC ignore internal recommendations to pay the Trump Hotel for services that could have been offered for free? If so, did they make those payments for strategic reasons, or for other purposes?"

Racine alleges that the Committee even paid for event space on days where they weren't using the space.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-inaugural-committee-lawsuit-court/


Part of DC lawsuit against Trump's inaugural committee moves toward trial

A lawsuit filed by DC Attorney General Karl Racine accusing former President Donald Trump's 2017 Presidential Inaugural Committee of abusing non-profit funds will proceed to trial after a DC Superior Court judge ruled Monday that claims accusing the committee of overpaying for event space may move forward.

But Judge Jose Lopez dismissed the Trump Organization as a defendant and ruled that claims of waste and misuse of funds against the inaugural committee could not proceed.

In a statement Monday night, a spokesperson for the attorney general said, "Our lawsuit is moving forward and going to trial. The Inaugural Committee misspent more than $1 million in nonprofit funds to unlawfully benefit private interests. We cannot allow those in power to get away with using money to illegally enrich themselves and their families."

In addition, an official with the DC Attorney General's Office told CNN that now that the lawsuit will move to trial, they will renew their efforts to depose Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and other executives at the company. Weisselberg was indicted over the summer on tax fraud charges by the Manhattan district attorney's office. He pleaded not guilty.

CNN has reached out to the inaugural committee and the Trump Organization, which still manages the Trump International Hotel in Washington, for comment.

Racine filed the lawsuit in January 2020, accusing the inaugural committee of coordinating with the former President's family to "grossly overpay" for event space for inauguration events in January 2017 at the Trump International Hotel in DC. The lawsuit accused the inaugural committee of wasting about $1 million in charitable funds to pay for the event space at the hotel.

In allowing the lawsuit to move forward only on the issue of whether the committee had overpaid for event space at the Trump International Hotel, Lopez found that there were genuine issues of fact that needed to be resolved.

"Did higher ranking Trump family officials have the ability to control the workings of the PIC [Presidential Inaugural Committee]," Lopez wrote. "Did members of the PIC ignore internal recommendations to pay the Trump Hotel for services that could have been offered for free? If so, did they make those payments for strategic reasons, or for other purposes?"

The attorney general's office says DC's non-profit laws state that funds must be used only for their stated public purpose and not for private interests.

Racine has alleged that the inaugural committee was aware that it was paying far above market rates and never considered less expensive alternatives. He has also alleged that the inaugural committee paid for space on days it did not hold events.

Lopez dismissed the attorney general's claims of waste because of the high legal bar Racine needed to clear: He needed to show that the inaugural committee had intentionally wasted its money "so far beyond the bounds of reasonable business judgment that its only explanation was bad faith," according to Lopez. The judge ruled that the evidence did not satisfy that heavy burden.

The lawsuit is seeking to recover more than $1 million that the DC attorney general says improperly benefited the Trump family, and it is asking the court to direct the recovered funds to another non-profit that is engaged in civic-focused charitable work.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/politics/trump-inaugural-committee-lawsuit-washington/index.html

[Rick Plant]

Ann Coulter on Trump: He’s an ‘abjectly stupid’ man who betrays his base and lies to them

Speaking on Andrew Sullivan’s Dishcast, conservative commentator Ann Coulter slammed Donald Trump for being “abjectly stupid.”

Coulter said that when she supported Trump, he knew his character was lacking but she was relying on his to follow through on his promised immigration policies.

“I grew up in New Canaan and I’ve been reading Page Six since I was a little kid,” Coulter said. “I was well familiar with what a narcissistic, ridiculous, tacky, vulgar, arriviste this guy was. That I knew about. The one thing I underestimated, in fact, did not see at all is, I had no idea how abjectly stupid the man is.”

“In my defense, a lot of journalists would ask me during 2016, when I was promoting [her book] In Trump We Trust, they’d say, ‘Oh he’s not really going to build the wall’ and I’d laugh at them. I’d laugh and say, ‘No the one thing he’s got to do is build the wall,’” she continued.

“I just couldn’t imagine anyone could be so stupid to run on one thing” and not do it, she said.

https://deadstate.org/ann-coulter-on-trump-hes-an-abjectly-stupid-man-who-betrays-his-base-and-lies-to-them/

[Rick Plant]

Trump schooled by judge in overnight denial of attempt to block National Archives docs

A judge wasted no time in swatting down an emergency request from Donald Trump to block the National Archives from sending over sensitive documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The twice-impeached one-term president filed the emergency request late Monday night, and Judge Tanya Chutkan responded just after midnight and gave Trump's attorneys a brief lesson in basic courtroom procedures.

"Federal Rule of Civil Procedure allows temporary injunctive relief "[w]hile an appeal is pending from an interlocutory order of final judgment,'" the judge responded. "This court has not yet entered any such interlocutory order of final judgment and thus a request for relief under Rule 62(d), which plainly requires an interlocutory order of final judgment before considering such motions, is premature."

Trump's attorney, Jesse Binnall, had asked Chutkan to approve the "administrative stay" of her own ruling before she issued it so the former president could appeal the decision before the Archives started turning over documents, and he also warned the judge that he would ask an appeals court to step in if she didn't rule by Wednesday.

https://www.rawstory.com/judge-schools-trump-s-attorneys-in-late-night-response/