Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

That didn't last long 

Truth Social loses two key executives after botched rollout of Trump's social media app



Two top tech entrepreneurs have already quit working for Donald Trump's Truth Social startup.

Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, who served as the company’s chiefs of technology and product development, quickly became central figures in Trump's effort to build a social media company, but they both resigned less than a year after joining the former president's venture, reported Reuters.

“If Josh has left… all bets are off,” said one source about Adams, describing him as the "brains" behind Truth Social’s technology.

Their departures followed the bungled launch of the company's iPhone app on Feb. 20, with many users still on waiting lists and unable to access the platform -- despite assurances by chief executive Devin Nunes that the app would be fully operational by the end of last month.

The company still doesn't even have an app for Android phones, which are used by more than 40 percent of the U.S. market.

The pair resigned before their roles were publicly known outside Truth Social, where they worked at a level just below Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky, two former castmates on Trump's reality TV show “The Apprentice,” and they reportedly believed in the company's "anti-cancel culture" mission.

"[They wanted to create an] open platform, where as long as you don’t say anything that is criminal, you can be entitled to your own opinion," said one source.

They frequently posted on the platform after its launch, but presented themselves only as “Josh A.” and “Billy B.”

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-two-key-tech-execs-quit-truth-social-after-troubled-app-launch-2022-04-04/

[Rick Plant]

The 7 hour gap in Donald Trump's phone logs has not been "debunked". It was one of the first topics discussed during yesterday's House Rules Committee hearing before Contempt of Congress vote.   



Rep McGovern: “For his part Mr Scavino spoke by phone with (Trump) multiple times during attack”…...during period In which people “begged” Trump to intervene."

McGovern cited a long 7 hour gap in the call logs as reported by Costa Report and then compared it to 18 minutes of missing tape from Watergate. 

And then we heard from Rep. Jamie Raskin on this very same scandal where he is quoted as stating the 1/6 House Committee has an "intense interest" in Trump's 7 hour plus call log gap. Once again, I'm 100% correct as this 7 hour gap scandal is being intensely investigated. It's not "debunked". Two Trump stooges fed CNN a bogus story trying to soften the scandal so it wouldn't keep being reported.       

"The House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot has 'intense interest' in the gap in former President Donald Trump's call log", Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Sunday as the panel weighs whether to issue a criminal referral against Trump to the Justice Department.

Raskin, a former Trump impeachment manager who sits on the committee, told CBS News on Sunday that the nearly eight-hour gap in Trump's White House phone logs on Jan. 6 covered the period when the Capitol was under siege. Trump made publicly reported calls during the time period and the committee has been able to piece together some of Trump's activities throughout the day but is still missing information.

"It's a very unusual thing for us to find, that suddenly everything goes dark for a 7-hour period in terms of tracking the movements and the conversations of the president," Raskin said.

"We are aware of other phone calls that took place during that time that included the president. But we have no comprehensive, fine-grained portrait of what was going on during that period," he added. "And that's, obviously, of intense interest to us."

[Rick Plant]

Trump facing fresh scrutiny over $800 million campaign finance violation: report



According to a report from the Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger, former president Donald Trump could be looking at a massive fine from the Federal Election Commission over the handling of $800 million in campaign donations.

At issue is how Trump's 2020 re-election campaign shuffled money around in his losing bid to remain in the Oval Office.

As Sollenberger wrote, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign was on the receiving end of a $113,000 fine from the FEC last week for its involvement in research for the so-called Steele file with the federal government claiming the campaign hid the payments.

Coming on the heels of that, Sollenberger reports watchdog group Campaign Legal Center previously filed a complaint with the FEC alleging Trump's people " violated federal campaign finance transparency requirements by routing hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign spending through intermediaries without disclosing the ultimate payees," and now a former FEC official has asked a judge to force them to investigate it.

According to the Beast report, the FEC -- "specifically its three Republican commissioners" -- has turned a blind eye to accusations against the Trump campaign but now, with the recent Clinton fine as a reminder, that may change.

"Dan Weiner, a former counsel at the FEC who now directs the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program, said the Republican commissioners will have to contend with this precedent.," Sollenberger wrote, with Weiner explaining, "The FEC isn’t exactly overzealous about enforcement, but you’ve got to have some modicum of accuracy. You can’t describe something as ‘legal services’ when it’s nothing like legal services.”

Calling the Clinton fine "an interesting precedent," he added, “Historically both sides have placed some emphasis on consistency, and it will put some constraint on the commissioners to reconcile any refusal to go forwards in the Trump case.”

After noting, "While it’s inescapable that the three Republican commissioners are far more averse to action than the Democrats, there’s debate over whether the rift is political or purely ideological. The conservatives may not specifically be in the bag for their own party, some observers argue—just less inclined to enforcement generally," the Beast report added, "The filing alleges that the Trump campaign laundered about $770 million in expenses to an unknown number of vendors through a single shell company. According to news reports, that company—American Made Media Consultants—was designed by members of Trump’s inner circle (with Trump’s blessing) specifically to conceal campaign payees from the public.'Like the Clinton complaint, CLC said the Trump arrangement “has hidden the identities of other sub-vendors' and the details of payments to those sub-vendors."

"CLC filed that initial complaint more than 600 days ago, but, according to Adav Noti, a former FEC attorney and current vice president at CLC, there has been “no indication” that the FEC has taken any action. So purely by coincidence, the same day that the Clinton news leaked to the press, Noti filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to order the FEC to move," Sollenberger reported, adding that Noti told him, "The law requires campaigns to disclose where they spend money and what they spend it on, because voters deserve to know where their money goes. But there’s a growing problem in federal political campaigns of running spending through shell corporations to hide where it’s going. We’ve seen it now in multiple election cycles, and campaigns for all federal offices.”

You can read more here:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/first-the-feds-fined-hillary-clinton-now-it-might-be-donald-trumps-turn?ref=home

[Richard Smith]

Still winning.  While Biden, Inc. was taking millions through corruption and bribes, Trump is earning billions from good, old fashioned business. 


"former President Donald Trump has seen his net worth soar to $3 billion, according to brand new numbers from Forbes."

[Rick Plant]

So, Criminal Donald ADMITTED he lost the election on video, but still continues to lie to this very day screaming that the election was "stolen" from him, which incites his radical base to commit more political violence. It also allows this fraudster to continue to fundraise off this lie which is the only reason he's still doing it. Lock him up!

This video is extremely damning and this the evidence which will send Donnie to prison. He knew he lost the election but tried to overturn the election via a coup and insurrection anyway. His admission is on video and the DOJ will use it against him as evidence.       

'I didn't win the election': Trump concedes 2020 defeat in video interview with historians



Donald Trump admitted on video that he did not win the 2020 election.

The former president conceded his defeat -- which could become a key piece of evidence in the various investigations of his attempts to overturn the loss -- during an interview with a panel of historians convened by Princeton professor Julian Zelizer published by The Atlantic.

“I didn’t win the election,” Trump said.

Trump had reached out to the panel of professional historians in hopes they would produce "an accurate book," said Zelizer, the author of the scholarly book The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment.

“I’m looking at the list, it’s a tremendous group of people, and I think rather than being critical I’d like to have you hear me out, which is what we’re doing now, and I appreciate it," Trump told the group.

Zelizer said Trump's staff supplied the panelists with documents that portrayed him as "a conventional president with a moderate record," although he issued a statement shortly after the meeting saying he would give no more interviews for books about his time in office.

“It seems to me that meeting with authors of the ridiculous number of books being written about my very successful administration, or me, is a total waste of time,” Trump said in that July 2021 statement. “These writers are often bad people who write whatever comes to their mind or fits their agenda. It has nothing to do with facts or reality.”

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2657095627/

[Rick Plant]

Donnie admitted on video that he lost the election, but he goes to his hate rallies still making up dangerous lies that the "election was stolen from him". Those lies incite his rabid base to go out and commit political violence. This fraudster also continues to fundraise off this scam so he can make more money off his gullible base. He sees his base as easy marks and continues to take advantage of them.

Not only that, he has his handpicked right wing stooges from Congress come out on stage before him to parrot the same "election fraud" lies, push conspiracy theories, falsley smear Joe Biden, and viciously attack Republicans who stand up against these outright lies. They call those Republicans "RINOs" and are forcing them out of the party. The Republican Party is a cult and in order to be welcome you have to lie for Donald Trump and do whatever he tells you, and if you don't, they will cancel you out of the party. That is the very definition of a cult....supreme loyalty.         

His stooges in Congress know these are lies as well but only do it to prop up Donnie. Lying Michigan Rep. McClain lied to the crowd stating that "Trump took out Osama bin Laden" while Donnie stood there beaming taking credit for something he never did. President Obama took out Osama bin Laden in 2011 while Donnie was still on television. But that doesn't stop these right wingers from outright lying giving Donnie fake credit and delusional Donnie took fake credit for it.

The GOP is a conspiracy party and exists to worship and give fake credit to Donald Trump. His crowds are getting smaller and his app is a flop so even his own base has caught on to his scam. Why would anyone want to be associated with a party who is always lying to you? They want you to live in a fake alternate world just telling you what you want to hear even though the claims are totally absurd.   

Really glad that these officials in Michigan are debunking all these lies and conspiracies. This needs to be done all over America and in the Mainstream media as well instead of letting these liars on programs to push these lies to the viewers.       


Michigan Dem officials do 4-hour livestream fact-checking Trump's ‘Big Lie’ claims



Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, Attorney General Dana Nessel and state Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) recorded a four-hour livestream during former President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington Township Saturday where they reviewed and corrected inaccurate claims from he and other GOP officials.

“For 18 months, we have endured lies and conspiracies regarding the 2020 Presidential Election and they have undermined the public’s trust in our elections administrators, and our Democracy,” said Byrum. “It is critical that we not let these go unchecked, and that the residents of Michigan have access to actual facts about how our elections are run.”

Trump was in Michigan to support Kristina Karamo, a Republican running for secretary of state in 2022, and Matthew DePerno, who is seeking the attorney general nomination to run against Nessel.

DePerno is up against former state House Speaker Tom Leonard and state Rep. Ryan Berman (R-Commerce Twp.) for the Republican nomination at the state convention April 23 in Grand Rapids.

Karamo is battling state Rep. Beau LaFace (R-Iron Mountain) and Chesterfield Township Clerk Cindy Berry for the Republican secretary of state nomination. The winner will be up against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Both candidates have helped spread election fraud conspiracies in the state and across the country, despite hundreds of audits across Michigan showing that Trump lost to President Joe Biden in Michigan by more than 154,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump, along with the endorsed candidates and GOP leaders who joined him at the podium, like Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock and U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Bruce Twp.), focused on the 2020 election and conspiracies that the election was rigged against Trump with thrown-out ballots and voting equipment.

When DePerno took the stage, Byrum, Irwin and Nessel pushed back on conspiracies he shared about election fraud in the Antrim County 2020 general election.

DePerno filed a case challenging the election results in Antrim County, but Nessel noted that it was “a Republican-nominated judge who threw his lawsuit out, finding it to be completely without merit.”

On election night, Antrim County briefly showed Biden was winning Antrim County, a Republican stronghold, due to human error. It was quickly corrected.

“Early the next morning, the clerk in Antrim County realized the mistake was made, corrected it and owned up to it,” Irwin said during the livestream Saturday. “Despite what was a rather mundane mistake that everybody could see, who knew anything about elections in Antrim County … that mistake was spun up into a national controversy and was used by irresponsible lawyers like Matt DePerno.”

Trump’s speech lasted approximately 90 minutes, where he talked about many of his typical rally topics, including the 2020 presidential election, COVID-19 mandates by Democratic governors, high crime rates in cities with Democratic mayors and comparing the unemployment rates between his time in office and under Biden.

“What we need to bear in mind is that public trust can be lost in an instant and it will take years to regain that trust,” said Byrum. “It is my hope that exposing his lies for what they are, we can start to rebuild the trust that he took from this country.”

https://michiganadvance.com/2022/04/05/dem-officials-do-4-hour-livestream-fact-checking-big-lie-claims-during-trump-rally/

[Rick Plant]

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