Here is an excellent Twitter thread discussing the E. Jean Carroll v. Trump civil rape trial from Adam Klasfeld @LawCrimeNews. Well worth the read.Read Here: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1655573544250621954GOP Georgia chair: Trump's lawyers advised me to stand as fake elector David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, now claims that his plot to stand as a fake elector should not be criminally charged because he was acting on the advice of former President Donald Trump's legal team, reported CNN on Monday.
"Specifically, Shafer’s attorneys say their client was relying on 'repeated and detailed advice of legal counsel' when he organized a group of 'contingent' electors from Georgia and served as one himself, thus 'eliminating any possibility of criminal intent or liability,' according to a copy of the May 5 letter," reported Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray. "The letter, which was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, comes as Willis and her team of prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are planning to make an announcement on possible charges against Trump or his allies later this summer."
This comes after reporting last week that eight of the 16 fake electors have accepted immunity deals from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
"Shafer, who sources previously told CNN could be among those indicted when Willis makes her charging announcements, has come under scrutiny for his role in the effort to put forward alternate slates of electors to block the certification of the 2020 presidential vote," said the report. "In their letter to Willis’s office, Shafer’s lawyers say he was 'given very direct, detailed legal advice on the procedure he should follow, and he followed those instructions to the letter ... I believe that any fair-minded person, with possession of all the facts, would conclude that Mr. Shafer and the other presidential elector nominees acted lawfully and appropriately.'"
The Fulton County District Attorney's office has run a broad investigation of the plot to interfere in the certification of the 2020 election results in Georgia, which saw the state vote Democratic for president for the first time since the 1990s. Among the issues scrutinized in the probe is Trump's phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanding he "find" extra votes to declare him the winner.
Willis has said that a decision over who to charge, potentially including Trump himself, could come at some point this summer.
Read More Here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/08/politics/georgia-gop-chairman-says-he-was-just-following-orders-from-trump-lawyers/index.htmlMaddow highlights the Nazi speakers welcomed to Trump Doral Miami event this weekMSNBC host Rachel Maddow began her Monday show with a list of pro-Nazi speakers that are being welcomed to the Trump Hotel in Miami for an event where a number of former White House officials will also be speaking.
A former national security adviser, a former U.S. trade chief, a former Pentagon chief of staff and a former acting attorney general are all appearing at the same confab with those who have promoted Nazi ideology — and in some cases — Hitler himself.
"This week all of those people I just mentioned, literally, the guy who was the attorney general of the United States and the chief of staff and the national security adviser and the White House trade chief, all the rest of these guys with these very high-up jobs, this week, all of them are speaking at the same event in Miami. An event at a hotel owned by the former president. It will include all those Trump administration officials as well as the former president's adult son, Eric, the blond one, his daughter-in-law, plus a lot of Trump administration folks."
But it's the neo-Nazis that will be joining the Trump acolytes that might be new faces to the rest of America.
Scott McKay is a guy who blamed "the Jews" for killing Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley will speak at the event with Trump administration officials. He'll be welcomed to the podium to speak before the former White House staffers.
Far-right commentator, Charlie Ward is another one joining the event. He is known for sharing actual videos of speeches by Hitler and proclaiming that Sept. 11 was a secret plot by "the Jews." He also believes the Earth is flat and that President Joe Biden and Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett are lizard people.
The event is part of Michael Flynn's new Christian nationalism cult.
The group's co-founder told a recent QAnon audience that he's excited to be embraced by Donald Trump's inner circle and family members like Eric and Lara Trump.
“It's exciting … that Trump's inner circle is now going, they're all reaching out to our tour, to the ReAwaken America tour, to Gen. Flynn, to myself, to Kash Patel. And they're all saying, hey, can we come to the tour?" Clark beamed according to Media Matters.
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