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The evidence against Trump and other Republican politicians is clear how ever laying charges against an ex president is problematic.

Trumps funding his own pockets from election funds is a real problem for him if true or proven the bigger problem of course is his behavior like an old South American dictator (unbelievable how he followed the same script) following the election loss and moves against the election process.

There is the other side of the issue and that is what comes when the next populous shucskter is elected and goes further.

 

[basilio]

The testimony of the Republican officials and election workers who conducted the 2020 election deserves a hearing.
They had their lives overturned by the repeated Trump lies that were exhaustively investigated, proven false but then re vomited by Donald Trump. The threats, doxing, assaults are revolting.

‘A dangerous cancer’: fourth hearing revealed the human cost of Trump’s delusion​

The ex-president’s attacks on officials to overturn the election resulted in them being harassed by his followers

Donald Trump appears on screen during the fourth hearing by the House Capitol attack committee. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

David Smith in Washington

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Wed 22 Jun 2022 06.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 22 Jun 2022 06.01 BST


Donald Trump was the most powerful man in the world. But he was also a paranoid fantasist who did not care how his lies destroyed people’s lives.

That was the picture of the former US president that came into focus with startling clarity at Tuesday’s hearing of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.


January 6 hearings: state officials testify on Trump pressure to discredit election
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Dead people, shredded ballots and a USB drive that was in fact a ginger mint were all part of the delusional narrative of election fraud peddled by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. They would have been as comical as flat-earthers but for the way they posed a danger to both individual citizens and American democracy.

‘A dangerous cancer’: fourth hearing revealed the human cost of Trump’s delusion

The ex-president’s attacks on officials to overturn the election resulted in them being harassed by his followers

www.theguardian.com

 

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January 6 hearings: state officials testify on Trump pressure to discredit election​

‘Pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook,’ says Adam Schiff


'The numbers don't lie': Georgia officials debunk Donald Trump's election fraud claim – video

Joan E Greve in Washington

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Tue 21 Jun 2022 21.59 BSTFirst published on Tue 21 Jun 2022 17.06 BST

State election officials testified before the January 6 committee on Tuesday, recounting how Donald Trump and his allies pressured them to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential election in the weeks leading up to the deadly Capitol attack.

Trump continued his efforts even after members of his own party repeatedly told him that reversing the election results would violate state laws and the US constitution, the officials testified.

As a result of Trump’s persistence, election officials and poll workers were subjected to violent, hateful and at times racist threats from the former president’s supporters.


Giuliani told Arizona official ‘We just don’t have the evidence’ of voter fraud

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The hearing came days after the panel heard about Trump’s pressure campaign on his vice-president, Mike Pence, to interfere with the congressional certification of the results.

“Today we’ll show that what happened to Mike Pence wasn’t an isolated part of Donald Trump’s scheme to overturn the election,” said Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the committee. “In fact, pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook.”

Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona house, was among those testifying at the Tuesday hearing. Less than an hour before the start of the hearing, Trump released a statement mocking Bowers as a “RINO”, meaning Republican in name only, and claiming that Bowers had said the election in Arizona was rigged.

Testifying before the committee, Bowers acknowledged that he spoke to Trump in the days after the election, but he denied ever claiming his state’s results were tainted by fraud. “Anywhere, anyone, anytime who said that I said the election was rigged – that would not be true,” Bowers said.

Instead, Bowers repeatedly pressed Trump and his lawyers to present valid evidence of widespread fraud in Arizona’s results. According to Bowers, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s campaign attorneys, told him: “We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence.”

Despite his failure to present any evidence to substantiate his baseless claims, Trump heavily leaned on Bowers to send a fake slate of Republican electors to Congress, as part of a larger bid to overturn the election results. Bowers said he told Trump, “You’re asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath.”

January 6 hearings: state officials testify on Trump pressure to discredit election

‘Pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook,’ says Adam Schiff

www.theguardian.com

 

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Giuliani told Arizona official ‘We just don’t have the evidence’ of voter fraud​

Former Trump lawyer acknowledged his efforts to overturn the election were based on mere ‘theories’, officials recall

‘I don’t know if that was a gaffe,’ said the speaker of the Arizona house. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Martin Pengelly in New York

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Tue 21 Jun 2022 20.57 BSTFirst published on Tue 21 Jun 2022 20.01 BST


Attempting to overturn election results in service of Donald Trump’s lie about voter fraud in his defeat by Joe Biden, the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani told an Arizona official: “We’ve got lots of theories. We just don’t have the evidence.”

January 6 hearings: state officials testify on Trump pressure to discredit election
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The Republican speaker of the Arizona house, Rusty Bowers, told the January 6 committee, “I don’t know if that was a gaffe. Or maybe he didn’t think through what he said. But both myself and … my counsel remember that specifically.”

For the committee, staging a fourth public hearing, the California Democrat Adam Schiff asked: “He wanted you to have the legislature dismiss the Biden electors and replace them with Trump electors on the basis of these theories of fraud?”

Bowers said: “He did not say in those exact words, but he did say that under Arizona law, according to what he understood, that would be allowed and that we needed to come into session to take care of that.”

This, Bowers said, “initiated a discussion about … what I can legally and not legally do. I can’t go into session in Arizona unilaterally or on my sole prerogative.

In extensive questioning of his witness, Schiff asked if anyone at any time provided to Bowers “evidence of election fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of the presidential election in Arizona”.

Bowers said, “No one provided me ever such evidence.”

Biden won Arizona by about 10,000 votes, a margin slightly increased after a controversial review pursued by state Republicans.

Giuliani told Arizona official ‘We just don’t have the evidence’ of voter fraud

Former Trump lawyer acknowledged his efforts to overturn the election were based on mere ‘theories’, officials recall

www.theguardian.com

 

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Summary of the fourth days hearings from the ABC

This Republican refused to 'break his oath'. Then Trump supporters threatened his home with his dying daughter inside

Chilling and tearful public testimonies are revealing more of Donald Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 US election. Here are the key takeaways from the latest hearing into the January 6 riots.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Craton]

Well, well well! Day 4 of the hearings has proven yet again what a miserable, low life the megalomaniac exPOTUS is.

 

[basilio]

The next details of Donald Trumps criminality - straight out of his own mouth.

Capitol attack panel details Trump’s pressure on DoJ to support fraud claims​

Ex-president told officials to declare election ‘corrupt’ and ‘leave the rest to me and Republican congressmen’

Donald Trump relentlessly pressured top officials at the justice department to pursue groundless claims of voter fraud in an extraordinary but ultimately unsuccessful effort to cling to power, according to testimony the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection heard on Thursday.

Three former justice department officials who served during Trump’s final weeks in office, told the committee that the then-president was “adamant” that the election was stolen despite begin told repeatedly that none of the allegations raised about the vote count were credible.




Barr feared Trump might not have left office had DoJ not debunked fraud claims

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Opening the hearing, the panel’s chair, congressman Bennie Thompson, said the hearing would show that the former president sought to “misuse the justice department as part of his plan to hold on to power”.

“Donald Trump didn’t just want the justice department to investigate,” Thompson said. “He wanted the justice department to help legitimate his lies, to basically call the election corrupt.”

After exhausting his legal options and being rebuffed by state and local elections officials, the panel said a desperate Trump turned to the justice department to declare the election corrupt despite no evidence of mass voter fraud, the nine-member panel will seek to show in their fifth and final hearing of the month.

Testifying from the Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill are Jeffrey Rosen, the former acting attorney general; Richard Donoghue, the former acting deputy attorney general; and Steven Engel, the former assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel.

In one of the near-daily conversations Trump had with the agency’s leader, Rosen told the president that the Department of Justice “can’t and won’t snap his fingers and change the outcome of an election”.

“I don’t expect you to do that,” Trump snapped back, according to Donoghue, whose handwritten notes of the exchange were displayed on a large screen during the hearing. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”

January 6 panel calls Trump’s scheme a ‘power play’ that nearly succeeded

Ex-president told officials to declare election ‘corrupt’ and ‘leave the rest to me and Republican congressmen’

www.theguardian.com

 

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A reminder of how Donald Trump plotted to overthrow the officials in charge of the Department of Justice and replace them with someone who would acquiesce to his desperate efforts to stay in power despite losing the 2020 election.

January 6 panel calls Trump’s scheme a ‘power play’ that nearly succeeded​

Ex-president launched a weeks-long campaign to strong arm the justice department into declaring the election corrupt

Trump asked DoJ to 'just say election was corrupt', January 6 hearing told – video

Lauren Gambino in Washington

@laurenegambino
Thu 23 Jun 2022 22.16 BSTFirst published on Thu 23 Jun 2022 18.34 BST

The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection said on Thursday that Donald Trump heaped immense pressure on top leaders at the justice department, engaging in a “power play to win at all costs” that nearly succeeded in overturning the will of the American people.

Testifying at the committee’s fifth and final hearing of the month, three former justice department officials, recounted a dramatic Oval Office confrontation three days before the assault on the Capitol in which Trump contemplated replacing the agency’s acting head with an “completely incompetent” lower-level official who embraced his stolen election myth. Trump only relented, they said, when he was warned that there would be mass resignations at the department if he followed through with the plan.



Barr feared Trump might not have left office had DoJ not debunked fraud claims

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“For the department to insert itself into the political process this way, I think, would have had grave consequences for the country,” said Richard Donoghue, the former acting deputy attorney general, to the committee on Capitol Hill. “It may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis and I wanted to make sure that he understood the gravity of the situation.”

That 3 January meeting was the culmination of a weeks-long pressure campaign by the president in which he attempted to strong arm the justice department into declaring the election corrupt.

January 6 panel calls Trump’s scheme a ‘power play’ that nearly succeeded

Ex-president told officials to declare election ‘corrupt’ and ‘leave the rest to me and Republican congressmen’

www.theguardian.com

 

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It comes to light that the DOJ is another hero of this mega saga. The truth shall set you free, a statement lost on the exPOTUS.

 

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It comes to light that the DOJ is another hero of this mega saga. The truth shall set you free, a statement lost on the exPOTUS.

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A stunning 2 hours: 1)Trump knew the protesters had guns 2)He assaulted his own security team 3)There may be a line from ProudBoys to the WH 4)Top aides asked for pardons 5)The commission thinks they have evidence of witness tampering. That is a very, very bad day for Trump.


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Cheney's closing is stunning: they think they have evidence of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. There is an old maxim: it's never the crime, it's always the coverup. Things went very badly for the former President today. My guess is that it will get worse from here

 

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A stunning 2 hours: 1)Trump knew the protesters had guns 2)He assaulted his own security team 3)There may be a line from ProudBoys to the WH 4)Top aides asked for pardons 5)The commission thinks they have evidence of witness tampering. That is a very, very bad day for Trump.


5:27 am · 29 Jun 2022·Twitter Web App

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Cheney's closing is stunning: they think they have evidence of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. There is an old maxim: it's never the crime, it's always the coverup. Things went very badly for the former President today. My guess is that it will get worse from here

Isn't a lot of this based on hearsay?

After 500 failed attempts to get Trump arrested. They will probably get him elected instead.
Wasted effort imo. Trump would likely lose against desantis.

I wasn't expecting Trump to get another run on multiple factors. None of them based on Jan 6 though.

 

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Hmm sounds like some of it is bs.
Eg: 'tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limousine.'

Really. The President sits in the back seat. Bit hard to be reaching the steering wheel from there.

Haven't bothered reading the rest. Looks like a lot of it is based on "Someone told me".

As with previous wake me when the charges get made.

 

[Knobby22]

Hmm sounds like some of it is bs.
Eg: 'tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limousine.'

Really. The President sits in the back seat. Bit hard to be reaching the steering wheel from there.

Haven't bothered reading the rest. Looks like a lot of it is based on "Someone told me".

As with previous wake me when the charges get made.

Think of it as a Royal Commission.
Everything comes out.

 

[moXJO]

Think of it as a Royal Commission.
Everything comes out.

Seems like a political witch-hunt based on hearsay. It's timing is also suss.
It's far from a "royal commission". It's basically tabloid crap to swing votes.

 

[IFocus]

Seems like a political witch-hunt based on hearsay. It's timing is also suss.
It's far from a "royal commission". It's basically tabloid crap to swing votes.

Unfortunately for Trump most is 1st hand accounts then there is the voice evidence and emails and really its all has been known.

It has moved to a point that even Fox is covering it now.

The big issue is who has the courage to charge him.

As for voters wait and see if Republicans run or double down.

 

[moXJO]

The big issue is who has the courage to charge him.

To get charged someone needs evidence. Which has been lacking in all the accusations up to now.

 

[Knobby22]

My mate who works in IT industry in the USA sent us this from a publicationwithin the industry. Truly fascinating.

Trump’s Truth Social Big Payday May Be Falling Apart

Donald Trump promised to take the social media world by storm with his Truth Social Twitter-clone for the MAGA world. “Free speech!” he claimed as he banned anyone who criticized him. O…

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[moXJO]

Surprise surprise. Cassidy Hutchinson bombshell claims are turning out to be bs.