Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

In a remarkable, 112-page ruling, MEHTA said Trump essentially entered into a "tacit agreement" with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, sending a rally crowd he knew included violent elements to the Capitol.

This is clear evidence of insurrection and sedition. Lock up Criminal Donald for treason and crimes against the United States.

[Rick Plant]

Trump ends week with yet another court loss as judge refuses to dismiss Capitol riot-related lawsuits

Donald Trump has just lost in court -- again.

Capping off what one legal analyst has described as an "epically terrible legal week" for the former president, United States District Court Judge Amit Mehta slapped down Trump's attempt to dismiss civil lawsuits filed by multiple members of Congress that hold him personally responsible for inciting the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol building.

While Mehta granted Trump's attempt to dismiss certain aspects of the lawsuits, including accusations of intentional infliction of emotional duress, he refused to dismiss claims in the lawsuits that Trump aided or abetted the assault on the Capitol.

This ruling is just the latest in a string of legal defeats for Trump that, in the last week alone, have included being forced to testify in the New York Attorney General Office's civil lawsuit alleging fraud at the Trump Organization; a failed effort to keep White House visitors logs hidden from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots; the reinstatement of the Trump Organization as a defendant in Washington, D.C. AG's civil lawsuit over alleged fraud at the Trump Inaugural Committee; and the announcement that longtime accountant Mazars USA could no longer vouch for the validity of Trump's financial statements.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-capitol-riot-lawsuit-2656724792/


Trump took classified material from White House to Florida, National Archives says

Donald Trump took classified information to his Florida home after leaving the White House, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration said in a letter to Congress on Friday about the 15 boxes of documents it recently recovered.

The Archives said it had informed the Department of Justice, which would handle any investigation.

"NARA has identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes," David Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, said in a letter to Democratic U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney, chair of the House of Representatives oversight committee.

Maloney's committee has been looking into Trump's handling of records by the Republican president, who left office in January 2021.

"These new revelations deepen my concern about former President Trump’s flagrant disregard for federal records laws and the potential impact on our historical record," Maloney said in a statement.

The letter from Ferriero also said that some White House staff conducted official business using nonofficial electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into official electronic messaging accounts and that it was in the process of obtaining some of those missing records.

The Washington Post reported last week that some of the documents taken to Trump's home were marked as classified, which could intensify the legal pressure Trump or his aides could face.

The Presidential Records Act requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president's official duties.

Claiming executive privilege, Trump sued unsuccessfully to stop the release of records from his White House, including to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-took-classified-material-white-house-florida-national-archives-says-2022-02-18/

[Rick Plant]

Trump's 'whole house is crumbling' — and there are 'no good answers': Former federal prosecutor



Donald Trump is left with no "good answers" as his legal troubles pile up, according to former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne.

Appearing on MSNBC, Alksne said a federal judge's decision Friday allowing Jan. 6 civil lawsuits against Trump to go forward was like "another concrete block falling down from the ceiling."

"He's going to have to give a deposition in this case," Alksne said.

"They're going to have to give depositions in the attorney general's case in New York," she added, referring to Trump and two of his adult children, Don Jr. and Ivanka.

"They have major business problems because of the accounting issues and Mazars pulling out," Alksne said. "Their whole house is crumbling on top of them, and the pressure has got to be intense."

"There's so much pressure with no right answer," she added. "Like, for example, they're going to have to give discovery in the New York case, they're going to have to answer questions in the New York case, and if they have to answer questions it can be used against them in criminal cases. So do they take the Fifth Amendment? Well, they don't really want to do that, because Trump has already said anyone who takes the Fifth Amendment must be a mobster and must be guilty, and if they take the Fifth Amendment it can be used against them in the (criminal) case. All these things are crashing down on top of them, and there aren't good answers. It's all crumbling."

Watch below:

[Rick Plant]

Trump is 'reaching the end of his rope': legal experts



Appearing on MSNBC's "Last Word" on Friday night, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said a week's worth of legal setbacks for Donald Trump has all the appearances of the former president reaching the end of his rope as investigators close in.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, the prosecutor was asked whether "Trump will face any consequences?"

"How could he not, Jonathan?" Kirschner replied. "You just went through the trifecta of really crushing legal stories for Donald Trump. And it's not that he's just losing these cases, but what some of the judges are saying."

Quoting from a judge's ruling that the former president appears to be complicit in the Jan 6th insurrection, the attorney bluntly stated, "Those are the words of federal crimes. Things are getting really bad as the investigative circle is tightening around Donald Trump."

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"Donald Trump may be reaching the end of his rope," he later added. "I predict, once the first brave prosecutor who has the evidence to indict Donald Trump brings that indictment, everybody is going to want to be the second prosecutor to indict Donald Trump."

Watch video in link below:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-legal-problems-2656729259/

[Rick Plant]

'Linguistics detectives' claim they've confirmed the identity of QAnon's founders



According to a report from the New York Times, two teams of "linguistic detectives" have arrived at the same conclusion pinpointing the founders of the conspiracy theory cult QAnon.

Noting that the QAnon phenomenon appears to have been kicked off on a popular online message board in 2017 with an ominous post reading "Open your eyes. Many in our govt worship Satan,” the report adds that Paul Furber, a South African software developer became the first "apostle" on the cult that later exploded and helped pave the way, in the long run, to the Capitol riot on Jan 6th.

As the Times reports, questions about who "Q" is has long bedeviled journalists, investigators and the public at large and now it appears that the answer is close at hand.

According to the Times' David Kirkpatrick, "... two teams of forensic linguists say their analysis of the Q texts show that Mr. Furber, one of the first online commentators to call attention to the earliest messages, actually played the lead role in writing them."

"Sleuths hunting for the writer behind Q have increasingly overlooked Mr. Furber and focused their speculation on another QAnon booster: Ron Watkins, who operated a website where the Q messages began appearing in 2018 and is now running for Congress in Arizona," the report adds. "And the scientists say they found evidence to back up those suspicions as well. Mr. Watkins appears to have taken over from Mr. Furber at the beginning of 2018. Both deny writing as Q."

Adding, "The studies provide the first empirical evidence of who invented the toxic QAnon myth," Kirkpatrick goes on to explain, "Computer scientists use machine learning to compare subtle patterns in texts that a casual reader could not detect. QAnon believers attribute this 2017 message to an anonymous military insider known as Q."

"The two analyses — one by Claude-Alain Roten and Lionel Pousaz of OrphAnalytics, a Swiss start-up; the other by the French computational linguists Florian Cafiero and Jean-Baptiste Camps — built on long-established forms of forensic linguistics that can detect telltale variations, revealing the same hand in two texts," the report continues.

According to mathematician Patrick Juola of Duquesne University, he thinks the two teams nailed it.

“What’s really powerful is the fact that both of the two independent analyses showed the same overall pattern,” he explained.

You can read in-depth details describing how they arrived at their conclusions here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/technology/qanon-messages-authors.html

[Rick Plant]

Faux Propaganda stopped with the Durham conspiracy story because it’s so patently false it’s potentially illegal after Hillary called them out. Anyone still continuing with the ridiculous narrative that HRC “spied” on Donnie is actually dumber than Fox “news”. As I've said thousands of time before, Faux is nothing but lying propaganda. Clinton should sue them for defamation.     

[Richard Smith]

November is one day closer!  And so is 2024.  Biden's poll numbers continue to crater to historic lows.  Reaching the lowest point in his presidency.  And wait until Russia invades Ukraine and gas prices shoot up to over $5 per gallon since Old Joe decided to send us back to the 1970s.  Over 2K Americans are still dying every day from the virus.  Soon to reach one million deaths.  Let's go Brandeau!

[Rick Plant]

November is one day closer!  And so is 2024.  Biden's poll numbers continue to crater to historic lows.  Reaching the lowest point in his presidency.  And wait until Russia invades Ukraine and gas prices shoot up to over $5 per gallon since Old Joe decided to send us back to the 1970s.  Over 2K Americans are still dying every day from the virus.  Soon to reach one million deaths.  Let's go Brandeau!

    

45% approve of President Biden’s performance in office.

42% Democratic candidate, 32% Republican candidate

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/half-americans-say-certain-to-vote-upcoming-midterms-021522