Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Trump supporter's ‘white privilege card’ lands Anchorage police in hot water



Law enforcement officials in Alaska are involved in the latest scandal involving a "white privilege card" that says it "Trump's Everything."

The Anchorage Daily News reports, "In a widely viewed post on social media that sparked public outcry, a woman who said she traveled to Anchorage for last weekend’s Trump political rally claimed that her “white privilege card” worked as a driver’s license when she was pulled over by a police officer, and she posted a smiling selfie with an apparent APD officer while holding the novelty card. Now the Anchorage Police Department is investigating the incident."

In a since-deleted Facebook post, Mimi Israelah said she was pulled over while driving in Anchorage.

"The officer told Israelah, who identifies herself as Pinay or Filipina on her social media profiles, that she had been 'waving (sic) on the road,' she wrote. She couldn’t find her license, she wrote in the post, and presented a 'white privilege card.' It’s unclear whether the incident resulted in a citation for the woman and whether the department took any disciplinary actions against the officers involved," the newspaper reported.

The Facebook post identified an "Officer Bo."

Celeste Hodge Growden, president and CEO of the Alaska Black Caucus, wants to know whether or not a ticket was issued.

“APD has had a hard time really with transparency and accountability,” she said. “And I think this is just another situation where it repeats itself. I don’t know why they just don’t own it.”

This is not the first time a Trump supporter with one of these cards has been in the news.

In January of 2021, the Department of Justice included a picture of what appears an identical card in charging documents against Ian Benjamin Rogers, who was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force with five pipe bombs and 49 guns.

Rogers had "Three Percenters" stickers and prosecutors and planned to attack California Democrats.

Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM

FBI alleges Ian Rogers, 44, an extremist Trump supporter, made 5 pipe bombs that were fully operational and was intent on attacking Democrats to keep Trump in power. He also had guns, 1000s rounds of ammo, 3 percenters sticker and a "white privilege card." https://buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/terrorism-alert-right-wing-extremist-more-attacks





In an affidavit, FBI Special Agent Stephanie Minor described the card.

"I know that many extreme anti-government militias are populated by white supremacists. I believe that the statement 'Trumps Everything' and the numbers '0045' repeated four times (to make it look like a credit card number), are references to Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States," Minor said.

Attorney Jess Raphael said Rogers is "a real adherent of President Trump, he's a true believer."

"When President Trump says they stole the election, he says they stole the election. Basically, whatever the president said, he parroted," she explained.

Israelah told Alaska Public Media she is part of the "Front Line Joes" that travel from one Trump rally to another, not unlike how Deadheads would stay on the road for Grateful Dead tours.

“The energy. The excitement. The love, patriotic love, all the time,” Israelah said. “And I met so many friends that we became like family. So we travel across the country. It’s like a reunion all the time.”





https://www.rawstory.com/white-privilege-card/

[Rick Plant]

Trump attorneys already looking to make Meadows the fall guy for Jan. 6: 'Mark is in a lot of trouble'



Donald Trump has already started to distance himself from the allies who helped his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, and his inner circle has identified Mark Meadows as the likely fall guy.

The former president's legal team is already planning strategies around criminal charges against Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, and Trump has begun to distance himself from him and other allies involved in election challenges and the Jan. 6 insurrection, reported Rolling Stone.

“Everyone is strategizing around the likelihood that Mark is in a lot of trouble,” said one lawyer close to Trump. “Everyone who knows what they’re doing, anyway.”

The House select committee has started looking into Meadows' financial dealings for evidence of legally dubious payments with other Trump advisers seeking to overturn Joe Biden's election win, according to two sources familiar with the matter, and the former president's legal advisers seem to expect they'll find it.

“Mark is gonna get pulverized…and it’s really sad,” said one of Trump’s current legal advisers. “Based on talking to [Meadows in the past, it felt like] he doesn’t actually believe any of this [election-theft] stuff, or at least not most of it. He was obviously just trying to perform for Trump, and now he’s maybe screwed himself completely.”

Eight sources still in Trump's political orbit or legal defense told Rolling Stone that Meadows was widely loathed by other Trump veterans, who see him as two-faced and blame him failing to control the White House coronavirus outbreak, and the former president's attorneys have gamed out how to protect him from the possibility of criminal charges against Meadows.

“I do think criminal prosecutions are possible,” said former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb. “Possible for Trump and Meadows, certainly, and for the others, including lawyers, who engaged fraudulently in formal proceedings or investigations.”

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https://www.rollingstone.com./politics/politics-news/mark-meadows-jan6-trump-cheney-1382261/

[Rick Plant]

Georgia grand jury seeks testimony from Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Lindsey Graham

[Rick Plant]

Steve Bannon LEAKED AUDIO reveals evidence of pre-planned Trump Coup Plot

Per Mother Jones, "On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if he was losing." Jessica Denson, the 2016 Trump campaign staffer who defeated Trump in court, weighs in!

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[Rick Plant]

Ivana Trump died yesterday.

Donald Trump sent out a message to his followers so he could fundraise off her death. What an evil soulless monster. 

Check out the "donate" button at the bottom.   




Donald Trump fundraises off of ex-wife's death

Shortly after the death of former President Donald Trump's first wife Ivana was confirmed by the Trump family on Thursday afternoon, the ex-commander in chief asked his supporters for donations to his Save America Political Action Committee.

"I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City. She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest In Peace, Ivana!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social app.

That statement was subsequently copied and posted into an email that had a "DONATE TO SAVE AMERICA" link attached.

A screenshot of the solicitation was first posted to Twitter by MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell.

"Fundraising off this," she said.

Republicans against Trumpism also shared Trump's ill-timed cash grab.

"Donald Trump is fundraising off his ex-wife's death," the Trump tracking account tweeted. "There is no bottom."

The Jewish Ginger Resister, meanwhile, noted that "I want so bad to be joking" and "there is no bottom to the grifters."

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1547681301649432577

[Rick Plant]

Each day Republicans are ripping away the freedoms of Americans. Women no longer have the right to control their own body. If they are raped, radical Republicans will force her to carry the rapists' baby. If the woman has a medical emergency to her pregnancy, radical Republicans says she has to die, because she can't terminate the pregnancy to save her own life under their "no exception" abortion law. These are the barbaric and extreme laws Republicans are enforcing which will kill many women. This is something you would see in a third world country, not America.

Republicans in red states that banned abortion, are now enforcing laws prohibiting pregnant women from travelling out of state to seek an abortion if their life is on the line or if they were raped. Do you know what that means? Republicans are holding women hostage in their state controlling women's bodies. This is Republican fascism.   

Women no longer have the freedom to go where they want to go. Republicans are controlling women under their insane laws. Imagine what these lunatics will do if they have full control of Congress. Trump supporters have gone too far and we are losing our freedoms.   

Republicans block bill to protect women who travel to other states for abortions
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-block-bill-protecting-women-travel-states-abortion-rcna38301

Ohio Republicans’ attempted erasure of a 10-year-old rape victim is incredibly sick and disturbed



The first and most important thing to recognize right now is that a heinous, violent crime was committed on a 10-year-old Ohio child, and thankfully justice has now found the alleged perpetrator.

A Columbus man was indicted Wednesday in a case that made national and international headlines about a 10-year-old girl who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion after Ohio’s abortion ban went into effect following the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

The story is horrifying and tragic. She has experienced enormous trauma. My heart breaks for her, and I’m very grateful to all the hard-working professionals out there providing her and her family assistance in what must be a truly awful time.

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his spokesman responded to the story by ignoring questions about whether children should be forced to have their rapists’ babies. Then DeWine allies contacted members of the press, asking how sure they were that the case of the pregnant 10-year-old even happened.

The Washington Post, the conservative Daily Caller and other media outlets published stories saying that the case was unverified. The Wall Street Journal Editorial page suggested the story was a “fanciful tale.” The National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty referred to the case as “a fictive abortion and a fictive rape.”

Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost went on Fox News Monday to raise further doubts. He said he works closely with law enforcement authorities and he’d gotten “not a whisper” about the case. “What I’m saying to you is there is not a damn scintilla of evidence,” he doubled-down to the Columbus Dispatch next on Tuesday.

Hamilton County Republican Party Chair Alex Triantafilou on Twitter called the case, “A garbage lie that a simple google search confirms is debunked.”

State Rep. Brian Stewart tweeted the Washington Post story saying he “wouldn’t trust an abortionist to tell me whether the sky is blue.”

Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted, “Another lie. Anyone surprised?”

None of them had the patience to verify for themselves with certainty the truth of the matter before going public on a massive, self-serving scale. Jordan deleted his tweet.

Columbus police said in court they were referred the case by Franklin County Children Services on June 22. On Monday, July 11, Fox News host Jesse Waters and Ohio AG Dave Yost were on national television questioning whether this case was real.

The propaganda erasing this 10-year-old’s existence was so swift it spread out over right-wing social media like a blanket. Those advocating the truth of her story — privately already confirmed for some of us, and crushing to hear about — were subjected to wild-eyed mockery and ridicule.

It’s incredibly disturbing that the default position of so many sick and twisted people — including Ohio’s most prominent Republican elected officials — is to very vocally and very publicly question whether the rape and impregnation of a 10-year-old child ever happened.

This case was never implausible. In 2020, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 52 girls aged 14 and younger had abortions in Ohio, according to the state department of health. A review of just the city of Columbus’ police log since March 15 uncovered 59 reports of sexual assaults of girls 15 and younger that, based on the information available, could have resulted in pregnancy. This included at least one case of a 10-year-old.

The wheels and integrity of local journalism spun and uncovered the truth, with the Columbus Dispatch breaking the news of confirmation of the case.

But after the confirmation broke Wednesday, DeWine’s spokesman, Dan Tierney, again refused to comment on whether child rape victims should be forced to carry their pregnancies to term.

Ten-year-olds who become pregnant are by definition rape victims. But Ohio’s abortion law signed by DeWine doesn’t make exceptions for rape and incest.

Yost’s office didn’t respond Wednesday when asked whether he believes child rape victims should be forced to carry pregnancies, nor whether it was important to believe stories about sexual violence. Instead he put out a statement applauding the arrest.

Yost offered no correction, no apology, and showed no contrition for going on national television to try to erase the lived experience of a child rape victim.

“Apologize for what? Questioning a newspaper story?” Ohio’s top law enforcement officer Dave Yost said about a case in his own county.

DeWine, Yost, and other Ohio Republicans hurt a traumatized child once by forcing her to flee the state in order to receive health care; then they hurt her again by peddling propaganda erasing her; now they’re hurting her a third time by refusing to acknowledge and apologize for their actions.

These powerful Ohio Republican politicians have thoroughly and completely shed themselves of any sense of shame or conscience.

They’re disgusting and disgraceful; callous, careless and cruel.

This is a matter of basic human decency, good faith and sensitivity on the most fundamental level of society.

If they are willing to try to erase the traumatic story of a 10-year-old rape victim, whose pain and suffering will they not try to ignore and erase?

They behave on a base level so repugnant and removed from the general good-heartedness of most Ohioans it’s almost unfathomable.

I honestly don’t know how they sleep at night, or look at themselves in the mirror in the morning.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/07/13/ohio-republicans-attempted-erasure-of-a-10-year-old-rape-victim-is-incredibly-sick-and-disturbed/

[Rick Plant]

‘He’s in big trouble’: Morning Joe busts Trump’s ‘cynical’ gambit to avoid prosecution



MSNBC's Joe Scarborough busted Donald Trump's "cynical" gambit to announce a run for president to avoid prosecution for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The House select committee has laid out the evidence against the former president that could result in multiple criminal charges, and he's facing possible prosecution in Georgia and New York as he weighs a third campaign for the White House, but the "Morning Joe" host said Trump was making a calculation to stay ahead of investigators.

"He knows he is not going to win, he knows he's not -- he can't -- no chance of winning," Scarborough said. "He knew he had a chance of winning in 2016, he knows he is not going to win in 2024. He knows it. He also knows that you have an attorney general who, many on the right and the left believe, is afraid of his own shadow. So if Merrick Garland's afraid to bring charges when Donald Trump is not running, Donald Trump has cynically concluded that Merrick Garland is too weak to bring charges against a man who very clearly broke the law on Jan. 6."

Trump clearly directed the violent insurrection in a final push to remain in power, according to evidence shown by the House select committee, after his legal challenges failed and he was unable to persuade various officials to help him overturn his loss, and Scarborough said he should pay a price for those crimes.

"We've been dancing around this thing about conspiracy to commit sedition," Scarborough said. "Jan. 6 was about treason, treason against the United States, against the United States of America. He tried to overthrow the United States government and put himself, through the use of fascist force, put himself in the place of the duly elected president of the United States, and so Donald Trump knows he's in big trouble."

"He's just hoping that if he announces he is running for president, that Republicans will be too stupid and too distracted to actually understand the need to have justice for somebody who committed treason against the United States."

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