Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Watch: Lauren Boebert called out by local media for 'openly espousing' the Buffalo shooter’s racist creed



Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) received a sharp rebuke from a local media outlet this week for echoing an insidious racist conspiracy theory that appears to have inspired the suspected Buffalo gunman.

"The targeted killing of Black shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, over the weeks is just the latest mass shooting apparently inspired by the baseless and racist replacement theory," said News 9 anchor Kyle Clark. "The idea that Jews and Democratic elites are trying to replace white Americans with people of color from other countries."

"There are some conservative political figures that will hit about this theory or speak about it in code and then there’s Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert."

Clark then played a clip of Boebert speaking about a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, in which she remarked "yes, there is definitely a replacement theory that’s going on right now."

"That was Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert openly espousing replacement theory by name in 2021," Clark emphasized.

The 18-year-old suspect, Payton Gendron, took explicit inspiration from the white supremacist gunman who murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019.

The Christchurch killer had warned in a manifesto of a "Great Replacement" of white Christians of European descent by Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Latinos and others, a theory that has found an increasing echo in American right-wing politics and on cable news.

Lifting often word-for-word from the rambling text, Gendron produced a chilling 180-page manifesto of his own -- in which he stated his goal: to "kill as many Blacks as possible."

Gendron himself came from a rural town in New York state that had a very small number of non-white residents.

He learned his hate almost exclusively online, a pattern of "radicalization" that law enforcement authorities say has only increased in recent years to become a major threat for the United States.

Gendron drove 200 miles to the Tops market in Buffalo to carry out his attack in a neighborhood he knew had a large African American population, during the busiest shopping period of the week.

His shooting spree left 10 African Americans dead.

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'Coup memo' author threw Trump under the bus in new court filing: Nicolle Wallace



MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday said that efforts by lawyer John Eastman to protect himself further implicated Donald Trump as the ringleader of the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

"John Eastman, the attorney who architected Donald Trump’s last-ditch legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election, revealed Friday that he routinely communicated with Trump either directly or via 'six conduits' during the chaotic weeks that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol," Politico reported Friday. "In a late-night court filing urging a federal judge to maintain the confidentiality of his work for Trump, Eastman provided the clearest insight yet into the blizzard of communications between Trump, his top aides, his campaign lawyers and the army of outside attorneys who were working to help reverse the outcome in a handful of states won by Joe Biden."

Eastman is seeking to convince U.S. District Court Judge David Carter to shield his conversations from the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Eastman says he received “two hand-written notes from former President Trump about information that he thought might be useful for the anticipated litigation.”

Wallace described how she perceived the dynamics.

She said Eastman, "who from the outside, it looks like he's trying to strengthen attorney-client privilege claims, but in doing so, he seems to either wittingly or unwittingly be throwing Donald Trump under the bus as the architect of the coup. He's alleging that, I guess, everything he did was in direct consultation with and after conversations and handwritten notes from Donald Trump."

"How does the 1/6 committee view those revelations?" she asked New York Times reporter Luke Broadwater.

"Yeah, it's really a fascinating court filing from John Eastman, where he says that he spoke directly to President Trump as they were coming up with some of these legal theories to try to overturn the election," he replied.

"Now, we know Donald Trump called John Eastman into the Oval Office and the two of them together attempted to pressure Mike Pence and then later Mike Pence's attorney, lead attorney, to go along with the plan to overturn the election throughout legitimate votes or delay the certification of the votes to give state legislatures the chance to install pro-Trump electors and put Donald Trump in office for a second term," he explained.

"But yeah, I mean, he directly names Donald Trump here as being one of the people who directed this plan and came up with it, and you know, I do think this is a fascinating revelation," Broadwater noted.

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This nut wants to interfere in our lives with her so called "moral authority", yet she supports the most immoral person on the planet. We have a separation between church and state written in the Constitution, but these radical MAGA Christian nationalist lunatics want to control what we do in our every day lives based on their radical evangelical religion. They want to tell us how we can live, and now, they are enacting laws telling that's how we have to live. That is the very definition of fascism. Right wing nut, Doug Mastriano, running for Governor in Pennsylvania wants to do the same and Criminal Donald backs all these radical 'Christian" kooks.   

Watch: Trump-endorsed GOP candidate says she'd 'absolutely' vote to ban all birth control



A Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for Michigan state representative said this week that she would vote in favor of legislation banning all contraception, which she said is against God's "moral order."

During an interview with Catholic journalist Michael Voris of Church Militant, MAGA candidate Jacky Eubanks responded by saying she would indeed vote to scrap contraception.

"Would that ever come to a vote in the Michigan state legislature, and if it should, I would have to side with it should not be legal," she said. "I think that people believe that birth control is better... because, 'Oh then you won't get pregnant and you won't need to have an abortion.' But I think it gives people the false sense of security that they can have consequence-free s*x. And that's not true! S*x ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage... and open to life. Absolutely."

In addition to her devotion to eradicating what she sees as immoral se*ual practices, Eubanks is a staunch supporter of thrice-married serial adulterer Donald Trump, who once openly boasted of being able to grab women's genitals without suffering any negative consequences.

Watch an excerpt of the interview below at this link:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1527390618984402944

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John Eastman Provides Evidence That Trump Directly Plotted Coup



In a court filing, John Eastman provided evidence that Trump was directly involved in the planning and strategy for his attempted coup.

Via: Politico, “The filing also describes the direct role of Trump himself in developing strategy, detailing “two hand-written notes from former President Trump about information that he thought might be useful for the anticipated litigation.” Those notes are among the documents Eastman is seeking to shield via attorney-client privilege. Eastman said he would also speak directly with Trump by phone throughout his legal challenges to the election.”

Eastman is still attempting to hide documents from the 1/6 Committee, but his filing to justify not turning the documents over is revealing details about how closely Trump was involved in the planning of the coup plot.

Trump’s involvement in the coup was never in doubt. The suspicion has long been that he was the figurehead and director of a plot that was thought up by others around him.

If Donald Trump was involved in the strategizing of the coup, that fact would take his criminality to a new level. Republicans have continually tried to give Trump an out on the coup plot, but Trump’s handwritten notes could be the evidence needed to directly implicate Trump in crimes against the United States.

Read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/20/eastman-trump-role-legal-overturn-election-00034023

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Trump pays $110,000 in fines after being held in contempt of court

A Manhattan judge had fined the ex-president for not complying with a subpoena related to the investigation of his businesses

Donald Trump has paid $110,000 in fines after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by the attorney general of New York state.

The news on one front in the former president’s many legal battles came shortly after a big development on another, the news that Trump’s former US attorney general, William Barr, is in discussions about testifying in front of the House committee investigating the deadly Capitol attack.

The House investigation of January 6 has produced a criminal contempt charge for one Trump ally, the former White House strategist Steve Bannon.

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, is conducting a civil investigation of Trump’s business affairs.

Last week, a lawyer for James’s office said evidence could support legal action against Trump, his company or both, but a final decision had not been made.

James, a Democrat, has said her three-year investigation uncovered evidence the Trump Organization misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses for over a decade.

Trump paid the contempt of court fine on Thursday but must still submit additional paperwork to have the contempt order lifted, James’s office said.

A Manhattan judge declared Trump in contempt of court on 25 April and fined him $10,000 a day for not complying with a subpoena in the long-running investigation into his business practices.

Arthur Engoron agreed on 11 May to lift the contempt order if Trump paid the fines by 20 May and submitted affidavits detailing efforts to search for the subpoenaed records and explaining his and his company’s document retention policies.

Engoron also required that a company hired by Trump to aid the search, HaystackID, finish going through 17 boxes in off-site storage and for that company to report its findings and turn over any relevant documents. That process was completed on Thursday, James’s office said.

Engoron told Trump to pay the money and for the attorney general to hold it in an escrow account while Trump’s legal team appeals the original contempt finding.

Engoron stopped the fine from accruing on 6 May, when Trump’s lawyers submitted 66 pages of documents detailing efforts to locate subpoenaed records. The judge warned that he could reinstate it, retroactive to 7 May, if conditions were not met.

A message seeking comment was left with Trump’s lawyer.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/trump-pays-fine-contempt

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Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemite
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/21/trump-shares-cpac-hungary-platform-racist-antisemite

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Trump, Jr. winds up in felony poaching scandal in Utah after killing a bear baited with pastries: report

Second-generation New York real estate heir Donald Trump, Jr. is caught up in yet another hunting scandal.

Utah hunting guide Wade Lemon is facing five years in prison for baiting a bear that was killed by Trump, Jr. on May 18, 2018, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Saturday.

But the New York developer may not have been familiar enough with western hunting to know about the felony poaching.

"Trump Jr. is not named in a recent filing against Lemon, but the DNR confirmed his identity as the person named in the felony complaint as Lemon’s “client” on the hunt. Prosecutors have indicated there was no evidence showing Trump Jr. would have known about the alleged baiting that went on during the hunt," the newspaper reported. "Without naming Trump Jr., Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings said the hunter in the case 'was actually a victim and a now a possible witness in a fraudulent scheme to lead the hunter to believe it was actually a legitimate Wild West hunting situation.'"

Trump, Jr. posted pictures of his hunting trip to Instagram.

"On Sept. 3, 2020, The Utah Investigative Journalism Project requested files on closed investigations against Wade Lemon Hunting. The DNR provided files on cases dating back to 2009 except for the case on the 2018 Trump Jr. hunt. DNR had decided to reopen that case and denied the records request, stating the release would interfere with the now 'open' investigation," the newspaper reported. "DNR turned the case over to the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Utah Attorney General Reyes has close ties to Trump, having campaigned for him and even flying to Nevada to investigate the election results after Trump’s defeat at the polls and signed on to a lawsuit claiming 'unlawful election results.' The Attorney General’s Office reinvestigated the case for months, then handed it off to the Davis County Attorney’s Office to screen for filing of charges."

Trump, Jr.'s guided hunting trip resulted in kills of a black bear and mountain lion.

"Charging documents allege Lemon’s outfitters illegally used bait on the bear shot by Trump Jr. According to the document, a witness identified Lemon and his employees during the hunt in May 2018 and was able to identify Lemon over radio traffic, giving instructions to his employees," the newspaper reported. "The illegal bait, 'a pile of grain, oil and pastries' was discovered with a trail camera pointed right on it with 'WLH' (for Wade Lemon Hunting) written on the side and with Lemon’s own telephone number, according to court documents. The charging documents also include evidence from a subordinate confirming Lemon had him place the bait in the location several weeks before the hunt."

The guide Trump, Jr. hired for his hunt has been investigated before.

"Hunting guides who cater to the wealthy elite have a lot at stake in ensuring successful hunts. These companies employ hunters to scout woods, deserts, mountains and plains for the biggest game, to ensure these high-profile clients have the highest chance for a successful hunt. According to DNR, Wade Lemon Hunting has been investigated eight times for allegedly breaking the law to ensure a successful hunt, though he was not charged with a felony until Tuesday," the newspaper explained.

The vast majority of game taken in America is from hunters who do not require a hired guide.

The former president's eldest son has previously had scandals over killing an elephant in Africa, killing an endangered sheep in Mongolia, and killing pregnant prairie dogs in Montana.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/05/21/utah-hunting-guide-faces/