Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Manhattan District Attorney convenes new grand jury in Trump Organization probe, report says
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/trump-organization-probe-manhattan-da-convenes-2nd-grand-jury.html

[Rick Plant]

More lies and smears coming from Trump's criminal kid Eric which is all projection.

"I'm telling you, there's nowhere like the United States of America," said Trump. "Now, you do have a party that's hellbent on trying to kill our ways of life. They're trying to kill our traditions, they're trying to kill our history. They're trying to tear apart the fabric of this country. They stopped believing in God a long time ago. They stopped believing in family values a long time ago. And those are all things that, frankly, made America America and made America great."

And this is coming from a seditionist who's father tried to steal the election with an attempted coup and insurrection. A criminal con man that stoked hate, fear, racism, bigotry, Anti-Semitism, and covid lies to divide Americans destroying our country. The Trump Crime Family has no "family values" which is why this whole bogus statement is a joke. And this fraud had enough nerve to spout this garbage after everything this criminal regime has done. 

https://www.rawstory.com/eric-trump-2656111765/


Trump gave a big chunk of money to Candace Owens' foundation before she interviewed him
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-candace-owens-cash/

[Rick Plant]

January 6th committee seeks potentially damning Trump video made during 'hours of silence' during riot



The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol wants to know more about what former President Donald Trump was doing during what the Washington Post describes as "hours of silence" during the insurrection.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) tells the Post that the committee is particularly interested in what Trump did right before he publicly broke his silence, around 187 minutes into the riots, and put out a video asking his followers to go home.

Some sources have indicated that Trump and his associates had to do multiple takes of the video because the former president refused to say what needed to be said to get his supporters to disperse.

“It appears that he tried to do a taping several times, but he wouldn’t say the right thing,” Thompson explained to the Post.

Thompson also said that it needs more information about Trump's actions during the siege before it makes a decision on whether to make a criminal referral against him for potentially corruptly obstructing an official act of Congress.

"That dereliction of duty causes us real concern,” Thompson said. “And one of those concerns is that whether or not it was intentional, and whether or not that lack of attention for that longer period of time, would warrant a referral.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-capitol-riot-commitee-2656111806/

[Rick Plant]

Trump's 'garbled' Supreme Court filing is 'riddled with absurd claims': MSNBC legal analyst



Donald Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court seeking to keep White House Jan. 6 records secret reads as though it's written in "garbled Russian," according to former acting U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal.

The former president's lawyers on Thursday asked the high court to overturn a unanimous decision from the D.C. appeals court rejecting his claims of executive privilege.

Katyal said he believes the Supreme Court is unlikely to take up the case, meaning the lower court's decision will stand, forcing Trump to turn over the documents.

"It's a really lousy filing, and that's putting it charitably,," Katyal said of Trump's appeal on Thursday night, adding that the Supreme Court typically receives 8,000 to 10,000 petitions each year, but only hears about 65 cases.

"The Supreme Court is really the big leagues," Katyal said. "You can't afford a false move when you're making a filing to the Supreme Court, but the document that Trump filed today is written frankly by lawyers who appear not ready for this kind of filing. It's riddled with loose language and absurd claims. It's kind of surprising to me that Trump couldn't get a Supreme Court lawyer to file this document for him. He is a former president and all that, but then it's not that surprising when you look at his actual claims."

Katyal added that the filing makes no new arguments, but does contain some fresh rhetoric alleging that Trump is "more than an ordinary citizen."

"The document pretends essentially that he's still president, which maybe these folks who filed this believe, but he's not the president, and the thing about living in a democracy is that once you're out of office, you're an ordinary person," Katyal said.

Noting that Trump's filing came on the last possible day for an appeal, Katyal said: "That delay tells you all you need to know about what this document that they filed today at the Supreme Court is about. It's just about trying to stall this thing out as long as they can."

Watch below:

[Rick Plant]

Faux "News" is fake news.

Fox News warned Biden would ruin Christmas — but doesn't want to give him credit for saving it



For months now, Fox News has circulated fear-mongering reports about the possibility of President Joe Biden ruining Christmas. But now the conservative network's talking heads appear to still be grasping at straws as the predictions of doom failed to materialize — and they refuse to give the president credit.

The Recount shared a supercut of Fox News clips predicting Christmas delivery nightmares and blaming Biden:

But reports have shown that deliveries are actually moving swiftly to their destinations this year, leading the administration to take a victory lap.

The Fox News panel discussion that aired on Thursday, December 23 struggled to cope with these facts and the network's past coverage. Jesse Watters suggested that the president doesn't deserve credit but acknowledged how the recent reports signal improvement.

"If people are getting gifts under the tree in time, that’s a good thing," Watters said. "If Biden deserves credit, I’ll give him credit. I don’t know if he deserves credit… but according to reports, things are a lot better than they were in November."

Despite saying he'd give Biden credit if he deserved it, Watters then speculated that other actors, such as consumers and ports, were responsible for fixing the problem.

Another panelist said, "It’s always interesting when a politician wants credit for doing their job."

One might plausibly argue that Biden himself and the White House didn't have much of a role in fixing the supply chain problems that people feared would thwart Christmas plans. But if that's correct, then it was arguably wrong to pre-emptively blame for potential issues that the president may indeed have little control over.

As the Fox News clip circulated on Twitter, users began weighing in and mocking the network for the apparent hypocrisies in their discussion.

Watch videos here:
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-christmas/

[Rick Plant]

'This r​eally is a serious case': CNN justice reporter explains the latest lawsuit against OAN and Rudy Giuliani
https://www.rawstory.com/oan-and-rudy-giuliani-lawsuit/

Michigan's GOP Senate majority leader has some bad news for Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/michigan-candidates-endorsed-by-trump/

[Rick Plant]

CNN analyst exposes MAGA's 'Let's Go Brandon' slur: 'It is fundamentally about insurrection'



CNN political analyst Ron Brownstein noted over the weekend that the popular "Let's Go Brandon" slur against President Joe Biden is "fundamentally about insurrection."

Brownstein made the observation after a father shouted "Let's Go Brandon" at Biden on a Christmas-themed telephone call.

The phrase has been widely used as a substitute for "F--k Joe Biden."

"It's ungracious, it's juvenile, it's reprehensible by the father [who spoke to Biden]," Brownstein explained on Friday. "But I don't think it's fundamentally about incivility; I think it is fundamentally about insurrection."

"The whole 'Let's Go Brandon' kind of motif is a reflection of the view of two-thirds of the Republican base driven by Trump's false claims and the Big Lie that Biden is an illegitimate president," he added.

Brownstein said that the phrase also reflected two polls that found many Republicans believe that force will be needed to "save" the country.

"This is a manifestation of not just incivility, but of the fundamental view of the illegitimacy and the ominous shores that we're kind of sailing toward very quickly in 2022 and especially 2024," he concluded.

Watch the video clip below from CNN: