Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Trump wouldn't understand because he is an absolute MORON. 4 years of praising and appeasing Putin got us in this disaster. The great "dealmaker" at work folks. What an absolute joke. Anybody who defends this clown is a bigger moron than Criminal Donald.

Fiona Hill: Putin warned he would use nukes -- but Trump didn't understand what he was saying



One of the world's foremost experts on Russia and Vladimir Putin believes there's a grave risk of nuclear war after his invasion of Ukraine.

Fiona Hill, the former National Security Council staffer who testified against Donald Trump in his first impeachment saga, told Politico that Putin's invasion of Ukraine was part of a broader war against liberal democracies and posed a potentially existential risk to the world order.

“Ukraine has become the front line in a struggle, not just between democracies and autocracies but in a struggle for maintaining a rules-based system in which the things that countries want are not taken by force,” Hill said. “Every country in the world should be paying close attention to this.”

Putin has repeatedly made it clear that using nuclear weapons was a real possibility, well before he put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert, but Hill said former president Donald Trump apparently failed to recognize the gravity of his warnings.

"Putin tried to warn Trump about this, but I don’t think Trump figured out what he was saying," Hill said. "In one of the last meetings between Putin and Trump when I was there, Putin was making the point that: 'Well you know, Donald, we have these hypersonic missiles,' and Trump was saying, 'Well, we will get them too.' Putin was saying, 'Well, yes, you will get them eventually, but we’ve got them first.'"

"There was a menace in this exchange," Hill added. "Putin was putting us on notice that if push came to shove in some confrontational environment that the nuclear option would be on the table."

Putin has already used a type of nuclear weapons with the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium, which killed the former spy and spread radioactive material around London, and he has used nerve agents to poison other political enemies.

"So if anybody thinks that Putin wouldn’t use something that he’s got that is unusual and cruel, think again," Hill said. "Every time you think, 'No, he wouldn’t, would he?' Well, yes, he would, and he wants us to know that, of course. It’s not that we should be intimidated and scared. That’s exactly what he wants us to be. We have to prepare for those contingencies and figure out what is it that we’re going to do to head them off."

Hill has written a highly regarded biography of Putin, and she said his recent behavior appears to be a bit more unhinged than his usual closely guarded public appearances.

"Putin is usually more cynical and calculated than he came across in his most recent speeches," she said. "There’s evident visceral emotion in things that he said in the past few weeks justifying the war in Ukraine. The pretext is completely flimsy and almost nonsensical for anybody who’s not in the echo chamber or the bubble of propaganda in Russia itself. I mean, demanding to the Ukrainian military that they essentially overthrow their own government or lay down their arms and surrender because they are being commanded by a bunch of drug-addled Nazi fascists? There’s just no sense to that. It beggars the imagination."

Hill also worries that Putin has become a bit unbalanced during his pandemic isolation and has become obsessed with re-establishing historic borders of the Russian empire.

"I’ve kind of quipped about this but I also worry about it in all seriousness — that Putin’s been down in the archives of the Kremlin during Covid looking through old maps and treaties and all the different borders that Russia has had over the centuries," she said. "He’s said, repeatedly, that Russian and European borders have changed many times, and in his speeches, he’s gone after various former Russian and Soviet leaders, he’s gone after Lenin and he’s gone after the communists, because in his view they ruptured the Russian empire, they lost Russian lands in the revolution, and yes, Stalin brought some of them back into the fold again like the Baltic States and some of the lands of Ukraine that had been divided up during World War II, but they were lost again with the dissolution of the USSR."

"Putin’s view is that borders change," she added, "and so the borders of the old Russian imperium are still in play for Moscow to dominate now."

NOW WATCH: Putin will escalate to 'scorched earth' campaign in the next 48-hours according to Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling

[Rick Plant]

Lock Him Up!

Trump had 'multiple phone calls' on January 6 with lawyer who pushed DOJ to overturn election



The House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots has revealed that former President Donald Trump had "multiple phone calls" on January 6th, 2021 with an attorney who had pushed the United States Department of Justice to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In announcing a new set of subpoenas for witnesses on Tuesday, the committee claimed that attorney Kurt Olsen not only talked with Trump repeatedly on January 6th, but also "reportedly prepared a draft executive order for then-President Trump that would have directed the Department of Justice to 'take voter action'" and overturn President Joe Biden's victory.

Previous reporting about Olsen has indicated that he rose from relative obscurity to become a favorite of Trump's after he began promoting theories about ways to overturn the results of the election.

As The Daily Beast reported last year, "Olsen's name also appeared on a memo that was hand-delivered to Trump in his very last days in office — a memo that also appeared to include a recommendation on resorting to 'martial law if necessary.'"

Sources who spoke with The Daily Beast about Olsen's legal theories on overturning the election described them as "nonsense."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-pro-trump-lawyer-was-a-rising-stop-the-steal-star-his-firm-erased-him

[Rick Plant]

These Trump MAGA Qanon cultists are white nationalists and white supremacists who pander to these hate groups. Their "America First" slogan means white supremacy. We cannot allow people like this to be in our government. They all need to be voted out. 

Trump-loving Arizona state lawmaker censured in near-unanimous vote for speaking at white nationalist conference



Trump-loving Arizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers was censured by the vast majority of her colleagues on Tuesday after she delivered an address over the weekend at a white nationalist conference.

As reported by KPNX TV's Brahm Resnik, Rogers was censured by the Arizona Senate by an overwhelming vote of 24 in favor and just three opposed.

Rogers herself was one of the three senators to vote against her own censure.

During a recent speech at the America First Political Action Conference, Rogers told a group of white nationalists that she wanted to see gallows erected to hang “high-level criminals” and “traitors who have betrayed our country.”

Shortly after the censure, a defiant Rogers took to Twitter to attack the colleagues who voted against her.

"I do not apologize, I will not back down and I am sorely disappointed in the leadership of this body for colluding with the Democrats to attempt to destroy my reputation," Rogers wrote. "In the end, I rejoice in knowing I do and say what is right and I speak as a free American regardless of the actions of this corrupted process today."

Earlier in the week, Rogers threatened to "personally destroy the career of any Republican" who voted agaist her.

https://www.rawstory.com/wendy-rogers-censure/

[Rick Plant]

Biden rips Trump’s notorious ‘infrastructure weeks’ during SOTU address -- without saying his name



President Joe Biden did not need to mention former President Donald Trump's name to draw serious contrast with his predecessor by touting the success of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework during his first State of the Union Address on Tuesday.

In 2019, The New York Times reported "How ‘Infrastructure Week’ Became a Long-Running Joke."

"At this point in the Trump presidency, “Infrastructure Week” is less a date on the calendar than it is a “Groundhog Day”-style fever dream doomed to be repeated," the newspaper reported. "Roughly two years after the White House first came up with the idea of discussing, for all of seven days, the pursuit of a bipartisan agreement to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and broadband networks, President Trump more or less torpedoed those plans on Wednesday in a Rose Garden speech. In the process, he gave Democrats a helpful sound bite when he said he would not pursue a legislative agenda while under investigation by House committees."

Biden alluded to Trump's failures during his speech to a joint-session of Congress.

"We’re done talking about infrastructure weeks. We’re now talking about an infrastructure decade," Biden said.

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https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1498849537745731585

[Rick Plant]

Here's Donnie's "big beautiful border wall" that he claimed Mexico was going to pay for. Can't believe how many morons fell for that

This "wall" is a joke and it hasn't kept smugglers or immigrants out and it was going on while Donnie was in office. So, Donnie left his immigration disaster for President Biden to deal with and the fake right wing media attacks Biden for Donnie's immigration disaster. Blaming others is all the right wing media does as they constantly cover for the orange clown's failures. What do you expect from a moron that bankrupted 6 casinos and turned $400 million gifted to him by his father into billions of dollars of debt.  

Trump's border wall has been breached thousands of times



Hardly anything that Donald Trump claimed about his "big, beautiful" wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico came to fruition. The candidate said he would compel Mexico to pay for it. They didn't. Citing his supposed expertise as a builder, Trump claimed the wall would be erected within months of his inauguration. It wasn't. He also declared it would be impenetrable. It isn't.

In fact, according to records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, Mexican smuggling gangs have sawed through and breached segments of Trump's wall 3,272 times in the past three years. The previously undisclosed maintenance records the newspaper obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol show that the federal government has spent $2.6 million repairing breaches to the wall between 2019 and 2021.

It appears that smugglers pop into their local hardware store and purchase relatively inexpensive battery-powered angle grinders and demolition saws and then, under cover of darkness, cut through the base of the 18- to 30-foot tall steel bollards. Once severed, the steel beams easily can be pushed aside to create a gap wide enough for people to pass through.

How porous is the 458 miles of wall that Trump, who once likened it to a Rolls Royce, spent $11 billion of U.S. taxpayer money to build? The Post reports that it recently observed 71 steel bollards with visible repairs just along one 25-mile stretch between Naco and Douglas, Ariz. Some of them were labeled in white paint with the word "breach."

The Post also reports that the black paint that Trump insisted on coating the steel structure in - on the theory that it would make it hotter to the touch in the desert sun and scald the hands of would-be climbers - already is peeling away less than 18 months after it was applied.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-border-wall-2656828262/

[Rick Plant]

Lock Him Up!

Felony accusations against Trump are 'as deadly serious as it gets': Neal Katyal



Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on Wednesday broke down the significance of a 221-page legal filing submitted by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"Lawyers for the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol said in a court filing Wednesday that former president Donald Trump and key allies engaged in potential crimes during their effort to overturn the election: conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing an official congressional proceeding — the counting of electoral votes," The Washington Post reported. "The alleged criminal acts were raised by the committee in a California federal court filing challenging conservative lawyer John Eastman’s refusal to turn over thousands of emails the panel has requested related to his role in trying to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors from states won by Joe Biden."

Katyal offered his analysis during an interview by MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle.

"To me, this filing is not about John Eastman, he's not a serious player or lawyer," Katyal said. "It's a filing about Donald Trump."

"And it's serious because what you have here is a big deal. It's a formal legal brief by this congressional committee, the January 6 committee, saying that there is a good faith basis to believe that Donald Trump committed felonies and this lawyer, John Eastman, helped him do it," he noted. "To have that kind of accusation from a congressional committee about a president happens so rarely in American history."

Katyal said of the allegations, "this is as deadly serious as it gets, seditious conspiracy."

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[Rick Plant]

Veterans group blasts 'defeated loser' Trump for continued praise of 'butcher' Putin in new TV ad



The VoteVets progressive political action committee, whose mission is to elect Democratic veterans to Congress, is out with blistering TV spot that blasts Republicans for their continued praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin even as he pursues the war on Ukraine,

The group’s 76-second ad, released Wednesday, shows former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo complimenting the Russian leader, who is receiving global condemnation following his order to invade Ukraine.

“Nothing good comes from appeasing a dictator, whether it’s the butcher in Moscow or the defeated loser in Mar-a-Lago,” says the video’s narrator.

“Remember, Donald Trump was impeached for threatening to withhold military aid for Ukraine,” the voiceover continues. “Aid Ukraine needed to hold off Russian aggression. He tried to extort Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, the hero now leading the resistance on the streets.”

The narrator recalls how “52 out of 53 Republican senators voted to let Trump get away with it,” Trump “divided NATO, threatened to pull America out and convinced his pal Putin that the west was weak.”

“Donald Trump’s appeasement of Putin wasn’t just a personal act of treason, it’s the Republican Party’s official position,” the spot concludes.

You can watch that spot below:

VoteVets
@VoteVets

Donald Trump never says a bad word about Vladimir Putin. Even as Ukraine is invaded, he calls Putin "very savvy." When he tried to extort Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and was impeached, the Republican Party refused to convict.

One thing is certain, the GOP is the #PartyOfPutin.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1499021712725315584

https://www.rawstory.com/votevets-ad/