Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Sen. Whitehouse On GOP Requests For Trump Pardons: ‘This Is Not Normal’

Judiciary Cmte. Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to react to the Jan. 6th Select Cmte. evidence showing at least six GOP House members sought pardons from Donald Trump during his final days in office.

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[Rick Plant]

Detailing Crimes May Have Discouraged Trump From Pardons

An MSNBC panel looks at the members of Congress who were revealed by the January 6th Committee to have asked for pardons from Donald Trump for their role in his effort to negate his election loss, and considers the possibility that listing the crimes being pardoned was not something Trump was comfortable doing.

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Full Phone Call: Trump Pressures Georgia Secretary of State To "Find" Election Votes | NBC News

During an hourlong phone call, President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump said, “I just want to find 11,780 votes.”

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[Rick Plant]

Legal expert walks through how DOJ raid on Jeff Clark could lead to Trump indictment



Ahead of the fifth public hearing for the House Select Committee investigating the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, Donald Trump's former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark was raided by federal agents.

Clark whined to the Fox network, "12 agents and two Fairfax County police officers went into my house, searched it for three and a half hours." The agents "took all of the electronics from my house."

Clark penned a document that he tried to get officials at the Justice Department to sign on to that declared they were investigating the Georgia election "irregularities." There were no Georgia irregularities. When asked questions by the House Committee about the letter, Clark refused to answer, pleading the Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times.

Speaking to CNN on Saturday, Constitutional and criminal defense attorney Page Pate explained that Clark is in big trouble.

"Well, we've heard a lot of discussion about the potential legal exposure and not just for the fake elector but for the people that were involved in getting these electors selected and chosen and eventually sending this slate up to the vice president, up to the national archives," said Pate. "We're looking at potential fault statement charges, potential obstruction charges, and potential seditious conspiracy charges. A lot of it will depend on the evidence that is being developed right now, subpoenas have gone out, and search warrants have been issued so once the department gathers all of that. They're sorting through it and see if there is sufficient evidence to prove one of those charges."

He went on to explain that he thinks it is possible that the former president could face charges.

"I do think it is possible, and here is why: I think there was so much legal news this week that I think a lot of people may have overlooked what is probably the single most significant thing that has happened so far in the Jan. 6 committee hearings," he noted. "And that was something that was not in the committee itself, but the search warrant that was executed at the residence of Jeffrey Clark. He is a former top-level justice department official!"

He explained that to get a search warrant a federal judge must find that there is probable cause for it. The attorney general can't simply go rogue, as Trump learned after the 2020 election. So, in the case of Clark, a judge must believe that a crime has been committed based on the evidence shown to the court.

"This is not like a subpoena," Pate continued. "A subpoena is when we're investigating to see if there is a crime that has been committed. When a search warrant is issued, there is probable cause, there has been a crime. We're just trying to get the evidence to prove who do it. So, I think the fact that they are now focusing on Jeffrey Clark and people very close to the president during these pivotal days, right around Jan. 6, suggests that this investigation is far from over."

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[Rick Plant]

'Asking for pardons is pretty close to a confession': Democratic congresswoman says of GOP pardon pleas



Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) spoke to Raw Story last week about her observations of the Republican reconnaissance tours that happened ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks. She explained on Saturday evening that about 30 or so members saw the tours.

Speaking to MSNBC on Saturday, however, Scanlon noted that the Republicans haven't been confessing, "although asking for a pardon is pretty close to a confession."

"You know, we hear from the Jan. 6 Committee that they are getting more evidence," she said of the House Select Committee investigating the attack on Congress and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. "They've taken a pause in the hearing to digest some of the evidence that they have received just in the last week or so. Certainly, members of the committee looked very confident and they keep suggesting that there is more evidence to come that we are far from bombshells here. You know, it is kind of hard to read the mood on the other side of the aisle now. Some people have been quite noisy — in the passing a little bit quieter."

She went on to describe the concerns she continues to have over the Republican-led tours of people who then attended the attack on the Capitol.

"I was one of 30 some odd members who had seen tours of the capital on the day or two before the insurrection," Rep. Scanlon said. "We asked the Capitol Police to investigate because there were not supposed to be any tours at that time. And in order to get people in there to have it where they had to be admitted by a member or the member staff. So, we clearly saw tours when we asked for that investigation. Folks on the other side of the aisle denied that there had been any tours. And they filed an ethics complaint against us. So, they were very noisy. Well, of course, just last week we found out that yes, the were tours. In fact, there is a videotape of those tours. And so, there's been this backtracking. So, we are hearing some people be less noisy than before. But I think there is a lot more to come."

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[Rick Plant]

Trump's MAGA candidates are fully open with their racism and the real reason for overturning Roe. This is the same woman who praised Hitler.

Illinois Republican thanks Trump for giving 'white life' an edge up with overturning of Roe



Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is being targeted for a comment she made Saturday night at a rally for Donald Trump.

Miller told the crowd how thankful she was for Trump appointing three Supreme Court justices that ensured the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. What followed, however, left people questioning whether she revealed herself to be a white supremacist or it was an accidental slip.

"President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America. I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday," she said.

She is up against Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) in a GOP primary on Tuesday.

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[Rick Plant]

Trump in 'uncensored' documentary footage will unveil 'a lot of little treasures': ex-Justice Department official



Former Assistant Deputy Attorney General Harry Litman addressed the revelation that on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump had a film crew following him and documenting him in the White House.

Speaking about it on MSNBC, Litman explained that the goal of the film from the Trump end was to lionize the former president.

"Trump gave him access, so there are going to be a lot of little things that they are pointing to," Litman told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez. "But Trump is a notoriously uncensored figure. Once he starts talking, he doesn't stop. It almost doesn't matter who the audience is, remember his conversations with Phil Rucker and Carol Leonig? Once you wind him up, there is no end to what he will say... He is really just sort of rolling the camera and letting him roll, but we've got Trump, we've got Trump's inner circle, we've got [Mike] Pence, and it starts from October and before the election, and goes on. So, it just figures to be a lot of real little treasures coming out."

As he noted, the House Select Committee investigating the plot to overthrow Congress has "stopped the music" when filmmaker Alex Holder revealed the footage. They're taking a break over the July 4th holiday, but they're also going to review the 11 hours of footage that Holder has turned over. He testified on Thursday ahead of the public hearing.

Menendez went on to play the clip of Ruby Freeman sobbing to the committee that she was targeted by the president and he abused the power of his office to try and destroy the life of someone he didn't even know with false allegations.

Litman explained that there is little that can be done to get justice for Freeman from the former president, but she has launched lawsuits against media outlets that reported false stories about her. There's already been a settlement between Freeman and the right-wing network OANN and a case is pending with The Gateway Pundit. Her legal fundraising campaign has drawn over 4,200 donations from individuals trying to help her.

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