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Colorado Disqualifies Trump for Insurrection
The Colorado Supreme Court determined that the “undisputed” evidence “established that President Trump engaged in insurrection,” and therefore “is disqualified from holding the office of the President.”
Ignore the GOP spin and read the Colorado Supreme Court decision: "We concluded that the foregoing evidence, the great bulk of which was undisputed at trial, established that President Trump engaged in insurrection." As result the Court ruled that, "Trump is disqualified from holding the office of Present under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States. Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
Trump and Putin Sitting in a Tree
GOP leaders defend Donald Trump who continues his very public bromance with the most ruthless, hateful dictators around the world.
Trump continues to blame immigrants for "poisoning the blood of our country" and in the same breath praises ruthless dictators such as Vladamir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un as ""brilliant"" and "strong leaders" who are "very fond" of him. Former GOP Gov. Chris Christie blasts Republicans for their silence and called Trump "Disgusting," adding “He’s becoming crazier. And now he’s citing Vladimir Putin as a character witness.”
We Are Just Going to Stay in Power
Trump's former attorney testified under oath that Trump intended to stay in the White House even after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's election challenges.
Jenna Ellis was one of Trump’s top coup attorneys who agreed to testify against her former boss. In leaked video testimony, Ellis relates how Dan Scavino, Trump’s former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, boasted that Trump had no intention of leaving power—even after exhausting all legal challenges. According to Ellis’s sworn testimony, Scavino told her at a White House holiday party that, “The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.”
Trump's Chief of Staff Granted Immunity
Mark Meadows joins a growing list of Trump's inner circle and attorneys that are cooperating with state and federal prosecutors to save themselves.
ABC News reports that Trump's former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, has been cooperating with federal prosecutors and was granted immunity to testify under oath. Meadows helped Trump spread the Big Lie of election fraud and was with Trump during the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. Although not charged in federal court, Meadows has been indicted as Trump's co-conspirator for violating the Georgia RICO act and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.
Trump's Dominoes Are Falling
Jenna Ellis is the 3rd of Donald Trump's former attorneys to cut a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors to testify against Trump and his co-conspirators for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
Donald Trump is infamous for throwing his supporters under the bus, so it is not surprising that his former attorneys are rushing to cut plea deals to testify against him. Last week, two of Trump's lawyers, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Trump in the Georgia RICO election conspiracy. This week, Jenna Ellis became Trump's 3rd attorney that was a member of his "truly great team" promoting election lies to cut a deal with state prosecutors. As Trump's dominoes start to fall, the only question is who's next.
2nd Trump Coup Attorney Pleads Guilty
The architect of Trump's fake elector plot pleads guilty to a felony "Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents" and agrees to testify against Trump and his co-conspirators.
Trump's co-defendants are starting to fall like dominos in Fulton County. Kenneth Chesebro is the second Trump coup attorney to accept a plea deal that requires him to testify against Trump and the other RICO co-conspirators charged in the Georgia election fraud trial. Chesebro admitted that he conspired with Donald Trump and his attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman to put forward "fake electors" in an illegal attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
The Kraken Flips on Trump
Trump's Coup attorney Sidney Powell, who once vowed to "Release the Kraken", pleads guilty to six charges and agrees to testify against Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia RICO and election fraud trial.
With Rudy Guiliani and Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell was part of “Team Crazy” that promoted unproven election conspiracy theories. At the infamous December 18, 2020 White House meeting, Team Crazy pushed Trump to sign an executive order authorizing the military to seize voting machines and appoint Powell as special counsel. At that meeting, Trump verbally agreed to appoint Powell saying, “I’m naming her that and I’m giving her security clearance.” One hour later Trump tweeted “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild.”
A Danger to the Administration of Justice
A federal judge imposed a gag order to prevent Trump from publicly attacking witnesses, court staff, prosecutors and their families.
Donald Trump is facing 4 criminal indictments for fraud, stealing classified documents, election interference, and racketeering. In response, Trump has publicly attacked judges, criminal prosecutors, and their families using violent and frequently racist language. Now a second judge has issued a gag order against Trump to prevent "a pre-trial smear campaign" that “presents a danger to the administration of justice.”
He'll Start Throwing People in Jail
General Mark Milley, serving as the nation's highest-ranking military officer, feared Trump's "Hitler-like embrace of the Big Lie," would lead to violence.
Serving as Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs presented "unique challenges" for General Mark Milley who said that Trump was “shameful” and “complicit” in the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. Milley's low opinion of Donald Trump is shared by many former military officials who served in Trump's White House. General John Kelly called Trump the "most flawed person" he's ever met and General James Mattis said Trump is "more dangerous than anyone could ever imagine." Milley has told friends that if Trump is re-elected president, “he’ll start throwing people in jail.”
21 Unindicted Co-Conspirators
The Georgia special grand jury recommended charging Senator Lindsey Graham and other top Republicans Trump allies.
Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis has had a busy 24-hours. First, she asked a judge to protect future Trump jurors from intimidation. Then, she publicly dismantled House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan's request for more information on the case, calling it "unjustified and illegal intrusion into an open state criminal prosecution." And finally, the released Fulton County special grand jury report recommended criminal charges against 21 additional Trump unindicted co-conspirators including GOP Senators Lindsey Graham, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Trump's national security advisor Michael Flynn, and the current Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones.
Completely Without Merit
Courts are rejecting Trump and his co-conspirators efforts to use unsound legal theories and delay tactics to prevent legal accountability.
Trump’s coup attorney Kenneth Chesebro was blocked from having his case severed from co-defendant in the Georgia racketeering criminal case. Then, Trump lost a summary judgement when the judge ruled that Trump is liable for continuing to deny that he sexually assaulted e. Jean Caroll. And, a third judge rejected Trump’s efforts to delay the October 2nd business fraud trial saying Trump’s arguments are “completely without merit.”
The Cost of Sedition
Enrique Tarrio and the leaders of the white supremacist group the Proud Boys were given lengthily prison sentences for seditious conspiracy and other crimes related to the January 6 Attack on the Capitol.
During the September 29, 2020 presidential debate, Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacist groups and instead told the Proud Boys to "Stand back and stand by." 104 days later, the Proud Boys lead the attack on on the U.S. Capitol after Trump told his supporters to come to the "Big protests in D.C. on January 6th," promising it "will be wild!" FBI Director Christopher said, “Today’s sentencing demonstrates that those who attempted to undermine the workings of American democracy will be held criminally accountable.”
Inmate P01135809 Vows to "Never Surrender"
Trump and his 18 co-defendants have all surrendered at the Fulton County Jail and booked on 41 felony counts including racketeering and election fraud.
Donald Trump (AKA Inmate P01135809) continues to market his four criminal indictments to raise money for his political campaign with lies about election fraud, deep state conspiracy theories, and even his self-reported height and weight on his booking form. Within hours of surrendering to authorities, Trump ironically started selling "Never Surrender," merchandise featuring his Fulton County Jail mugshot.
It's Trump's Party, and He'll Lie if He Wants To
With a 40 point lead, Donald Trump sat out the GOP Presidential Debate to repeat election lies and grievances in a taped interview with Tucker Carlson.
After 2 hours of debate, the 8 GOP Presidential candidates failed to offer any alternative to Trump's dark vision for America. The GOP candidates took turns angrily blaming Democrats, people of color, the queer community, and even teachers without offering any policy solutions except banning abortion and cutting taxes.
The State of Georgia V. Donald John Trump
“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.”
Defendants Donald John Trump, 18 indicted co-defendants, and others, “constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, act involving theft, and perjury.”
"An Out of Touch Lunatic"
With special counsel Jack Smith proposing that one of his three trials occur during the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Insurrection, Trump is acting like an animal trapped in a cage.
The former president's latest Truth Social post reeks of manic desperation saying, “Only an out of touch lunatic would ask for such a date, ONE DAY into the New Year, and maximum Election Interference with IOWA! Such a trial, which should never take place due to my First Amendment Rights, and massive BIDEN CORRUPTION, should only happen, if at all, AFTER THE ELECTION...” Coupled with Smith finally getting his hands on Trump's twitter data, it seems like the special counsel has clearly struck a nerve.
Free Speech DOES NOT Excuse Sedition
Trump's lawyers are in a bind. The only defense they're leaning on is the right to freedom of speech.
In a desperate grasp for any kind of defense of his seditious activity, Trump's team has sunk to using the most non-sensical argument yet. Trump will soon find out that free speech does not protect criminal activity. "There is no First Amendment privilege to commit crimes just because you did it by speaking," as former federal prosecutor Samuel Buell stated.
An Unprecedented Assault on Democracy
Trump and six uncharged co-conspirators knowingly lied about mass voter fraud as part of a detailed plan "to remain in power," despite knowing he had lost the election.
The four-count federal indictment includes conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiring against people’s civil right to have their vote counted. The indictment accuses Trump of orchestrating "an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.”
Doubling Down on Documents Charges
The special counsel has added new charges on one of Trump's four ongoing investigations. The 37 criminal counts on the Classified Documents Case will now be 40.
When a third separate indictment about Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election was expected, special counsel Jack Smith, instead, doubled down on a previous indictment. New evidence has been found that shows intentional acts on Trump's part to obstruct the recovery of the stolen classified documents he stashed in Mar-a-Lago. Specifically, IT and maintenance crew employees were forced to delete 45 days of security footage.
Third Indictment Looming
Donald Trump's lawyers met with special counsel Jack Smith after receiving a letter last week notifying Trump that he was the target of an investigation on the plan to overturn the 2020 election.
Although no indictments were charged on Thursday, this will be the third separate case charging Trump when indictments are returned. All signs are pointing to a bad outcome for the former president. From Rudy Guiliani, Trump's former lawyer, admitting to lying about election fraud in Georgia; to Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, cooperating with the federal Jan. 6 investigation.