Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

4 years of lies, 4 years of hot air, 4 years of empty promises and we got nothing from Criminal Donald except for an economic crisis, a covid crisis, daily chaos, daily corruption, and a deadly coup attempt. President Biden did what Trump could not do, he passed an historic Infrastructure bill that will revitalize America. We are building back better.

'Biden delivered': Devastating Lincoln Project ad mocks 'so-called builder' Trump on 'infrastructure week'



A devastating new ad from the Lincoln Project outlines the stark difference between former President Donald Trump's multiple failed attempts to pass an infrastructure bill during his term and President Joe Biden's newly-minted success in carrying the legislation over the finish line.

In the one-minute video, the Lincoln Project compiled clips of Trump's empty promises on infrastructure. Repeatedly, the former president promised to deliver a package to improve America's infrastructure, but that promise never came to fruition.

Since he was elected back in 2016, Trump and his administration promised to deliver a $1 trillion infrastructure package, but to no avail. Although the proposed bill gained bipartisan support back in 2019, the former president was still unable to get the proposal passed due to cost concerns raised by his own political party.

Per ABC News: "Trump and Democratic congressional leaders temporarily agreed to work toward a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, 'would be big and bold.' But that disintegrated as House Republicans raised concerns about cost, Trump declared a new North American trade deal a higher priority, and Democrats pursued impeachment."

The Lincoln Project notes how Biden managed to deliver where Trump failed. For the last several months, Biden pushed for a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure and refused to let negotiations falter.

Although Republican lawmakers are angry with Democrats over the passing of the bill, their own failure to execute and reach an agreement during the Trump era is what opened the door for Biden's plan.

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Trump’s legal strategy thwarted now that he’s no longer in office: report

Donald Trump's efforts to obstruct Congress from obtaining key information have been frustrated since he left office after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden, according to a new Washington Post analysis.

"As president, Donald Trump stymied lawmakers seeking his financial records and the testimony of a close adviser by employing a legal strategy that worked to his advantage even when he lost in court. Trump has turned to these familiar tactics now in a bid to thwart House investigators pursuing accountability for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, but legal observers say that in this latest test of executive power, such an approach may fail to achieve his desired outcome," The Post reported.

Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained how the dynamics have changed.

"Donald Trump just has one play in his playbook. Delay. He tries it everywhere," Katyal said. "It was easier for him when his folks controlled the Justice Department, but now that they don't, it's a much harder strategy."

This is not a new strategy for Trump, biographer Gwenda Blair noted. She cited his $100 million countersuit against the Department of Justice in the 1970s after being accused of racial discrimination.

Blair said Trump "stalls things indefinitely" while "punching back immediately."

"This is a legal system in which being able to afford a lawyer is very often the side that prevails," Blair noted.

That strategy is also no longer working, as Trump is facing a smart legal team representing Congress.

Read the full analysis:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-january-6-strategy/2021/11/16/c17cbe1e-4624-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html

[Rick Plant]

The American right's actions are right out of the Nazi playbook
https://www.rawstory.com/the-american-right-s-actions-are-right-out-of-the-nazi-playbook-call-it-what-it-is/

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Despite many questions Trump's White House never denounced Lin Wood's call for Pence to die by firing squad
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-denounce-lin-wood-pence/

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'It's a bad day' for MAGA rioters after watching QAnon Shaman get 41 months in jail: defense lawyer
https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-shaman-jail-sentence/

]b]Capitol Hill rioters: ‘US Congress members helped us plan attack’
Protest organisers claim to have met ‘dozens’ of times with lawmakers and White House staff[/b]
https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/world-news/us/954571/did-members-of-congress-help-capitol-hill-rioters

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'The past is the past': Rupert Murdoch says Trump needs to get over losing 2020 election
https://www.rawstory.com/rupert-murdoch-trump-2655755623/

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Two Iranians were behind 2020 emails that threatened violence against people unless they voted for Trump: feds

Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged two Iranian nationals with sending out emails to voters that threatened them with violence unless they supported former President Donald Trump in 2020.

As NBC News reports, the emails were sent out last fall and were purportedly from the far-right Proud Boys gang, whom Trump infamously told to "stand back and stand by" during his first debate with President Joe Biden.

In reality, however, the emails were sent by Iranians Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian, who were allegedly trying to compromise voter registration websites in 12 states.

"This indictment details how two Iran-based actors waged a targeted, coordinated campaign to erode confidence in the integrity of the U.S. electoral system and to sow discord among Americans," explained Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department's National Security Division. "The allegations illustrate how foreign disinformation campaigns operate and seek to influence the American public. The department is committed to exposing and disrupting malign foreign influence efforts using all available tools, including criminal charges."

Although the indictment of the two men does not say that they were working on behalf of the Iranian government, NBC News notes that other intelligence officials in the past have linked the scheme to an Iranian intelligence operation.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2655761024/