Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

Faux News is getting sued again for their lies and conspiracy theories but this time by their own former viewer.

Former Trump supporter sues Fox News over Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-trump-supporter-sues-fox-news-over-jan-6-conspiracy-theory

[Rick Plant]

Legal expert 'increasingly confident' second federal Trump indictment coming soon

A legal expert said Friday that a published report indicating prosecutors have interviewed secretaries of state for Pennsylvania and New Mexico in recent months suggests a second federal indictment against Donald Trump is likely.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” was responding to a CNN report that special counsel Jack Smith is focusing on the seven battlegrounds that were key to Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory over Trump.

Marshall Cohen and Maxime Tamsett write for CNN's website that "Smith’s team has sent subpoenas to local and state officials in all seven of the key states – Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that were targeted by Trump and his allies and where Trump’s campaign convened the false electors as part of the effort to subvert the Electoral College."

Wagner asked Rubin about the timing of a potential second federal indictment, suggesting it could occur before Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis decides whether to indict Trump on allegations that he tried to interfere with the 2020 election in Georgia.

Willis earlier this year suggested a decision on whether to indict the former president would likely happen in August.

“I won't be as confident to say in the next 10 days, but I do think that the way that they've gone about this could be a signal of what they're going to do when we do see a January 6 indictment and I am increasingly confident that we will see one,” Rubin said.

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[Rick Plant]

'Unusual' activity in Georgia points to Trump facing 'massive conspiracy case': ex-prosecutor

Donald Trump will likely soon be hit with a "massive conspiracy case" out of Georgia for allegedly attempting to overturn the election there, and there could be dozens of defendants who join him, according to a former prosecutor.

Former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner appeared on MSNBC to discuss Trump's criminal probe and case, and was asked about Trump's legal woes in Georgia. It has been reported that the prosecutor there, Fani Willis, is nearing a charging decision.

Kirschner noted that he has been expecting a large case from Willis, perhaps charging around a dozen people, because of actions she took before this month.

"I became convinced that the district attorney Fani Willis was going to indict probably a massive conspiracy case when she did something that was really unusual. I had never seen it done as a prosecutor. She sent a letter to the judges of Fulton County, the Fulton County court, saying that we respectfully request that you set no trials for two weeks in august," he said. "The week of august 7th and 14th, and you set no in-person hearings during those two weeks. That is an incredible ask of a prosecutor to courts, please clear your dockets, clear the decks."

He added:

The "only really inference there is that she knows full well that she is going to drop a mass of conspiracy indictment that will probably include, according to one of the grand jurors who gave some interviews after the special purpose grand jury had concluded its work, perhaps dozens of people. She is going to need those two weeks to run all of those defendants through court for their arraignment. That is their first court appearance. It is going to take time and she's asked the judges to clear their decks for two weeks in August so she can do that."

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[Rick Plant]

Atlanta area law enforcement preparing for possible Trump indictment in Georgia

As the nation awaits charging decisions in the plot to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, law enforcement agencies in the Atlanta are reviewing security protocol. MSNBC Political Contributor Greg Bluestein and MSNBC National Security Analyst Frank Figliuzzi joined American Voices to discuss how Georgia is preparing for possible indictments out of Fulton County.

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[Rick Plant]

Donald Trump is a loser. He made all these phony promises to his base  and never delivered on any of them.

"Build the wall", "Mexico is going to pay for it", "Drain the swamp", "Infrastructure week". All failures by Donald Trump that never even came close to fruition. These were just slogans he used to rally his deranged base into chanting these useless slogans at rallies and on social media to garner their support. A real leader would have came through on every one of these promises.

The fact is, President Biden got Mexico to pay $1.5 billion in border security and passed the largest infrastructure bill in history. That's real leadership!           

 

'You didn't drain the swamp': Trump battles Maria Bartiromo on poor performance as president

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo challenged former President Donald Trump about his performance while in office.

During an interview on Sunday, Trump told Bartiromo that some of his presidential appointments had been a mistake.

"I wouldn't have put a guy like Bill Barr in," Trump said of his administration's attorney general. "He was weak and pathetic. I wouldn't have put Jeff Sessions in."

"Why did you put them in the job, then?" Bartiromo wondered.

"Because every, look, every president, you put somebody in, you think they're good," Trump replied.

"Well, you didn't drain the swamp, like you said you would," the Fox News host pressed. "You didn't drain the swamp."

"I did, I fired [then-FBI director James] Comey, I fired a lot of people," Trump said in his defense. "If I didn't fire Comey, I don't think I would have been able to serve out my term because that was a plot."

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Chris Christie nails Trump for drawing supporters into his prosecution: 'He's indicted because of his outrageous conduct'

Chris Christie knocked down Donald Trump's attempts to draw his supporters into his criminal prosecutions.

The former president told a conservative audience that he considered the criminal charges "a great badge of honor and courage" and that was "being indicted for you," and the former New Jersey governor and 2024 Republican presidential challenger told CNN's Jake Tapper that was ridiculous.

"He's liar and a coward," Christie said. "He's not getting indicted for anyone other than because of his own conduct. There's no other of the 200 million Americans he spoke about who illegally retained classified national secrets after being asked politely, quietly and professionally for 18 months to voluntarily turn them back over after he left the White House. There's no other of those 200 million Americans who lied to their own lawyers about where those documents were, and there's none of those other 200 million Americans who lied to the prosecutors about it and flashed around documents regarding an Iranian war plan to people who didn't have the clearance to see them."

"Look, he's indicted because of his outrageous conduct, and that's why he's been indicted," Christie added. "He now has the opportunity to go to court and make the government prove that case beyond a reasonable doubt, but now he says he doesn't want to have a trial until after the election in 2024. I don't think he's doing that for us, either. He should resolve this thing before people vote, so that we know exactly who we're voting for, to put behind the desk in the Oval Office. When he says he's doing it for us, that's a lie, and when he was doing all the things that he was doing with those documents, it shows exactly what a coward he is."

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[Rick Plant]

Trump target letter cites three federal statutes, attorneys say

Two attorneys with direct knowledge of the Justice Department’s target letter sent to former President Trump say special counsel Jack Smith is looking at three federal statutes, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard has the details.

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[Rick Plant]

Trump promotes threatening video: ‘We are going to do things to you that have never been done before’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2662314004/


Special counsel informs Trump he is target in probe of efforts to overturn 2020 election
The development indicates another indictment of Trump could be imminent.

Special counsel Jack Smith has informed former President Donald Trump by letter that he is a target in his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.

Trump also confirmed the development in a post on his Truth Social platform.

The letter, which sources said was transmitted to Trump's attorneys in recent days, indicates that yet another indictment of the former president could be imminent.

The target letter mentions three federal statutes: conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States, deprivation of rights under a civil rights statute, and tampering with a witness, victim or an informant, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

There are no additional details in the letter and it does not say how the special counsel's office claims Trump may have violated the statutes listed, sources said.

Trump, appearing Tuesday night at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he received the letter on Sunday.

Target letters are typically given to subjects in a criminal investigation to put them on notice that they are facing the prospect of indictment.

Multiple sources tell ABC News that allies, aides and attorneys for the former president have been working to determine if anyone else received a target letter from the special counsel regarding the election probe.

"We can't find anyone," a source said Tuesday afternoon.

A lawyer for Trump's former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told ABC News that the former New York City mayor had not received a letter as of Tuesday afternoon.

"Any speculation that Mayor Rudy Giuliani 'flipped' against President Donald Trump is as false as previous lies that America's Mayor was somehow a Russian Agent," Giuliani adviser Ted Goodman said in a statement. "In order to 'flip' on President Trump -- as so many in the anti-Trump media are fantasizing over -- Mayor Giuliani would've had to commit perjury because all the information he has regarding this case points to President Trump's innocence."

Trump previously received a target letter from Smith before he was indicted by a grand jury in Florida for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House and his alleged efforts to obstruct the government's investigation.

Smith took control of the sprawling Justice Department investigation into the failed efforts by Trump and his allies to thwart his election loss upon his appointment as special counsel in November of last year, and in recent months dozens of witnesses have appeared to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C.

According to sources, prosecutors have questioned witnesses specifically about the efforts to put forward slates of so-called "false electors" that were to have cast electoral college votes during the certification for Trump in key swing states that he lost to Joe Biden.

Investigators have also sought information on Trump's actions and his state of mind in the days leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, temporarily disrupting the certification and causing lawmakers and former Vice President Pence to flee the building.

Trump was indicted last month on 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after Smith's prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The former president has also pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment from the Manhattan district attorney charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-informs-trump-target-probe-efforts-overturn/story?id=101404037