Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Georgia DA Willis issues 50 grand jury subpoenas; is "weighing racketeering charges" against Trump

The New York Times has reported that Fulton County , Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has issued 50 subpoenas for witnesses to appear before a special grand jury investigation the crimes of Donald Trump. The Times reported that "Ms. Willis is weighing racketeering among other potential charges." Willis has already subpoenaed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and Raffensperger acknowledged receipt of the subpoena and issued a statement saying he will comply. Recall that Raffensperger is the Georgia state official Trump tried to strong-arm into corruptly giving him 11,780 votes so he could steel the Georgia state election.

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Criminal Donald is scared. 

I’ve said for a year that the case he was always worried about the most was Georgia. This time his “perfect call” was taped. He did NOT know that, and was enraged when he found out. Fani Willis is not “radical left” or “ambitious” - she is a pro. He knows he’s going down in Fulton County.

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Another right wing nothingburger. A waste of over 2 million tax payer dollars for nothing. Years of endless propaganda from the right wing media and they got zip. 

What is Faux Propaganda going to talk about now after 3 years of nonsense?

Trump roasted by legal experts after hand-picked Russiagate prosecutor John Durham suffers 'big fat loss'

Former President Donald Trump's special counsel John Durham has spent three years trying to sink members of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for supposedly trying to frame Trump over his connections to Russia.

On Tuesday, after under seven hours of deliberation, the jury concluded that the Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussmann was not guilty of lying to the FBI when he turned over information that they discovered.



The verdict drew commentary from legal analysts who mocked Republicans who swore that Durham would reestablish Trump's credibility when it came to any accusation involving Russia. That effort, however, failed.

Meanwhile, Durham spent $2.36 million in tax-payer dollars over the course of three years, doing nothing other than making wild accusations in court filing documents, according to Sussmann's lawyer.

In a Feb. 2022 rebuttal filing, Sussmann's lawyers attacked Durham's court claims, saying that he was wrong about critical facts. According to their information, Durham's claim that Trump's White House was being spied on in the Oval Office was a lie. Evidence showed that all of the data was legally and properly obtained prior to Trump taking office. The claim also went on to say that Durham was making wild accusations in his court documents to give fodder to right-wing media.

As former federal prosecutor Elie Honig explained, he predicted this case wouldn't go the way Trump hoped.

"That sound you heard — that muffled thud, off in the distance of southern New England — that was the sound of the much-ballyhooed John Durham investigation as it reached its pathetic anticlimax. That was the sound of a dud," wrote Honig in a Sept. 2021 editorial. He concluded that the comments hold true eight months later.

"So the crux of the indictment is that Sussman didn’t disclose to the FBI that he represented Clinton — but the FBI knew he represented Clinton anyway. That, folks, is what we prosecutors call a problem," he said last year.

"We have always known that Michael Sussmann is innocent and we are grateful that the members of the jury have now come to the same conclusion," said a statement from lawyer statement from Sean Berkowitz. "But Michael Sussmann should hever have been charged in the first place. This is a case of extraordinary prosecutorial overreach. And we believe that today's verdict sends an unmistakable message to anyone who cares to listen: politics is no substitute for evidence, and politics has no place in our system of justice."

See some of the additional commentaries by legal experts in the link below:

https://www.rawstory.com/john-durham-loses-trump-russia/

[Rick Plant]

Georgia DA Could Bury Trump With His Own Words, Says Former Fed Prosecutor
https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-da-could-bury-trump-205300529.html

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Peter Navarro subpoena specifically names Donald Trump



One of four federal grand juries investigating different aspects of the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election is getting closer to former President Donald Trump.

"Peter Navarro, a top White House adviser to Donald Trump, is being commanded by a federal grand jury subpoena to turn over to the justice department his communications with the former president, the former president’s attorneys and the former president’s representatives," Hugo Lowell reported for The Guardian. "The exact nature of the subpoena – served on 26 May 2022 and first obtained by the Guardian – and whether it means Trump himself is under criminal investigation for January 6 could not be established given the unusually sparse details included on the order.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin described the subpoena as significant.

"But certain elements appear to suggest that it is related to a new investigation examining potential criminality by the former president and, at the very least, that the justice department is expanding its inquiry for the first time into Trump and his inner circle," Lowell reported. "But the fact that Trump is specifically named in the subpoena – a reference that the justice department would not have made lightly – and the specific requests for Navarro’s communications with Trump could indicate that this is a criminal investigation examining Trump."

In addition to the grand jury subpoenaing Navarro, there is also one examining contempt charges against Steve Bannon, one examining organizers of Jan. 6 rallies, and one probing the fake electors scheme.

"Navarro was not told when he was served with the grand jury subpoena whether he was a target or a subject of the investigation. If he was a target, that might indicate the subpoena was related to a contempt case. If he was a subject, it could make him part of a wider inquiry," he wrote. "The distinction also raises a third possibility, according to the former assistant US attorneys: he may be a target for a contempt case, and also a subject in a different case – and prosecutors might use the contempt case as leverage to gain cooperation for the other."

Former prosecutor Renato Mariotti described the mention of Trump's name as "a really big deal."

"This is the first concrete evidence I’ve seen that the Justice Department is criminally investigating Donald Trump’s role in the January 6th insurrection," he explained.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1531821426055041024

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Here's another far right wing MAGA nut.

'Unhinged' Arizona Republican slammed for demanding mass voter arrests by former Ted Cruz staffer



On Tuesday, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake posted a claim that a far-right organization has identified people who cast an average of 21 ballots in Arizona's last election — a variant of the debunked claims made in Dinesh D'Souza's conspiracy theory-laden documentary "2000 Mules."

"When's the last time YOU voted 21 times in a single election? Asking for a friend," Lake tweeted. "ARRESTS ASAP!" She tagged Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who is currently running for Senate.

Former Ted Cruz communications aide Amanda Carpenter swiftly scorched Lake's comments.

"This lady's entire campaign is centered around unhinged threats to throw people in jail," she wrote. "And yes she is for real about to get the nomination for governor."



Lake, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has swiftly become controversial even beyond her repeated calls to have people arrested over unsubstantiated election fraud claims.

She has attended events with Ron Watkins, a far-right activist and congressional candidate who experts believe to be one of the key originators of the QAnon conspiracy theory that the U.S. is controlled by a shadowy network of child-trafficking cannibal Satanists (though he denies his involvement). She also appeared with Ethan Schmidt-Crockett, a Nazi sympathizer who has called Hitler "misunderstood" and made headlines for harassing a cancer wig store over its COVID-19 mask policy.

https://www.rawstory.com/former-ted-cruz-staffer-slams-unhinged-arizona-republican-for-demanding-mass-voter-arrests/

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Leaked document reveals coordinated RNC-Trump riot hearings communications plan



The Republican National Committee is seeking distance from Donald Trump as the GOP plans its strategy for televised hearings by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol according to a planning document obtained by Vox.

Reporter Ben Jacobs says the document "reveals a rare glimpse of daylight between the aims of the party and the desires of former President Donald Trump."

The select committee is scheduled to air public hearings beginning on June 9th.

"In a document obtained by Vox, a coordinated communications plan apparently sent from the Republican National Committee (RNC) recommends pushing back on the select committee as 'partisan' while also taking care not to be seen as explicitly speaking on behalf of Trump or embracing his lies about the 2020 election’s legitimacy. The RNC declined to comment on whether it created or sent the document," Jacobs explained.

The document is separated into two sections, one on the RNS's goals, an on on "Requests from FPOTUS" which is n abbreviation for “former President of the United States."

The first section says the RNC wants to define “Democrats as the real election deniers."

"Trump has remained adamant that the election in 2020 was rife with fraud based on a list of claims that have all proven false, and demanded that his political allies do the same to secure his political support in advance of the 2022 midterms," Jacobs reported. "The document displays the challenges for the GOP as they seek to aggressively push back at the select committee and appease the former president without explicitly endorsing the 'Big Lie' or all of Trump’s actions in the final days of his administration."

Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-MD), a former constitutional law professor and member of the select committee, predicted the public hearing would "blow the roof off the House."

Read More Here: https://www.vox.com/2022/5/31/23148789/rnc-january-6-committee