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Tap Dancing With Trump: Lindsey Graham’s Quest for Relevance

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Lindsey Graham’s moment, it seemed, came on the evening of Jan. 6. With crews still cleaning up the blood and broken glass left by the mob that just hours before had stormed the Capitol, he took the Senate floor to declare, “Count me out” and “Enough is enough.”

Half a year later, a relaxed Mr. Graham, sitting in his Senate office behind a desk strewn with balled napkins and empty Coke Zero bottles, says he did not mean what almost everybody else thought he meant.

“That was taken as, ‘I’m out, count me out,’ that somehow, you know, that I’m done with the president,” he said. “No! What I was trying to say to my colleagues and to the country was, ‘This process has come to a conclusion.’ The president had access to the courts. He was able to make his case to state legislators through hearings. He was disappointed he fell short. It didn’t work out. It was over for me.”

 

Graham was correct with his initial assessment of Trump.


Tap Dancing With Trump: Lindsey Graham’s Quest for Relevance

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"For four years, Mr. Graham, a man who had once called Mr. Trump “a race-baiting, xenophobic bigot,” exemplified the accommodations that so many Republicans made to the precedent-breaking president, only more vividly, volubly and candidly."

 

Graham is the ultimate hypocrite and sell-out and he has done it repeatedly (during the 2016 campaign and after Trump's riot).

The GOP collectively should have excommunicated Trump after his riot at the Capitol. Inciting an insurrection, beating police officers, threatening Congressional members and one's own VP, and trying to overthrow a fair election goes against the tenets that the GOP once embraced. Instead, they further embraced him with pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago and made apologies for him.


Tap Dancing With Trump: Lindsey Graham’s Quest for Relevance

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"But Mr. Graham’s reaffirmed devotion has come to represent something more remarkable: his party’s headlong march into the far reaches of Trumpism. That the senator is making regular Palm Beach pilgrimages as supplicant to an exiled former president who inspired the Capitol attack and continues to undermine democratic norms underscores how fully his party has departed from the traditional conservative ideologies of politicians like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney and Mr. Graham’s close friend John McCain.

To critics of Mr. Graham, and of Mr. Trump, that enabling comes at enormous cost. It can be seen, for example, in Republicans’ efforts to torpedo the investigations of the Capitol riot and in the way the party, with much of its base in thrall to Mr. Trump’s stolen-election lie, is enacting a wave of vote-suppressing legislation in battleground states."

 

I think it was John Jay who said, " If men were angels we wouldn't need government."

 

Now we call him Lady Graham, because he likes to invite his guests through the back door.

 

Lindell-apalooza melts down: MyPillow guy claims antifa sabotaged his "cyber symposium"

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"The pillow tycoon, alongside self-proclaimed "information warfare" specialist Col. Phil Waldron, took to the main stage early Thursday to decry the invisible opposition force he claims has hijacked this event, which he has promised for months would offer "absolute proof" that the election was stolen from Donald Trump.

"We've got antifa things, or people that have infiltrated, they're telling me this morning," Lindell said. "I just want everyone to know all the evil that's out there. I'm OK. It hurts a little bit.""

 

No, Mike... You are not okay.

 

A pro-Trump county clerk is accused of helping to leak sensitive election data to one of QAnon's leaders: reports

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"Tina Peters, a county clerk in Mesa, Colorado, and so-called "Trump Truther," permitted surveillance cameras to be turned off for up to two months, it is alleged. During that time, she has allowed someone to steal information that was then leaked to QAnon figurehead Ron Watkins, the media outlet reported.

At some point in May, Peters's office reportedly ordered officials to turn off the surveillance cameras monitoring Mesa County's voting equipment, according to evidence from Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State Jenna Griswold.

The cameras were not turned on again until this month, Vice reported, which broke the equipment's "chain of custody" and means that the machines cannot be used in November's city, town, and school district elections."

 

A pro-Trump county clerk is accused of helping to leak sensitive election data to one of QAnon's leaders: reports

""This is troubling for the entire state of Colorado to have someone in a trusted position, literally trusted to protect democracy, allow this type of situation to occur," Griswold said during a Thursday press conference. "To be very clear, Mesa County Clerk and Recorder allowed a security breach and by all evidence at this point assisted it."

On May 23, an unknown person gained access to one of the Election Management Systems machines from Dominion Voting Systems used by Mesa County, Vice reported. That person was then able to download an image of the machine's hard drive, a process repeated on May 26, a cybersecurity expert told Vice.

On May 25, Dominion employees visited the country to conduct a highly-regulated "trusted build" upgrade to the voting machines' software, the media outlet said.

According to state law, only staff from Griswold's office, Mesa County, and Dominion are permitted to be in the room during a "trusted build.""

 

Peters attended Lindell's cyber symposium.


A pro-Trump county clerk is accused of helping to leak sensitive election data to one of QAnon's leaders: reports

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"Peters, however, invited an unauthorized non-employee into the room during the process, the Associated Press reported. She misled Griswold about his employment status, CBS Denver said.

While the unauthorized man was there, he allegedly illegally captured footage of the machines being updated.

On August 2, this footage was posted to Watkin's Telegram channel. The former 8chan owner and administrator has fervently promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, and some people believe that him and his father could be the infamous 'Q.'

According to Griswold's team, the footage included an image that accidentally linked the leak to Mesa County.

Griswold issued an order last week authorizing her staff to travel to Mesa County to inspect the election system, but when they arrived, Peters was nowhere to be seen.

Peters was on her way to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's "cyber symposium" in South Dakota, Vice reported.

While speaking at the event, the Colorado Newsline reported that Peters accused Griswold's office of "raiding" her county's office.

At the South Dakota symposium, Vice said that Watkins showed the audience images that appear to have been taken from the Mesa County machines on May 23 and May 26."

 

Peters needs to be arrested.

If the news story is factual, Peters turned off security cameras and falsified the identity of someone who illegally took photos, harvested software from the voting machine, and published it at Lindell's symposium. She later falsely accused others of raiding her office.

 

Obviously.

 

How rioter Ballard was busted.


Fort Worth man arrested for assault during Jan 6. Capitol riot

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"According to the FBI, someone ran Ballard’s photo through a public facial recognition search tool and that led to a motorcycle-based YouTube channel called “CliffCares.” That person turned over that information to the FBI and they conducted their own search. During the FBI investigation they found a motorcycle tire repair business connected to Ballard as well as a Facebook business page.

The Facebook business page included a posted photograph of an Arlington, Texas police officer’s motorcycle, thanking Ballard for a tire change. The FBI interviewed the officer who identified Ballard in a photo from the Capitol riot. That officer also directed the FBI to another Arlington, Texas, police officer who had used Ballard’s repair services. The second officer also identified Ballard in the same photo taken at the riot."

 

An investigation may ensue for months before Peters is arrested.

If she is arrested, she and Trump will allege that she is being persecuted for trying to reveal how the election was supposedly stolen from Trump.

 

Guess who else is from Mesa County, Colorado?
Lauren Boebert.

I’ve been to Grand Junction, the county seat, a couple of times. Not the kind of place I would live.
stormountainman, you been there?

 

Yes, I have been there many times. I have a buddy who lives on 49 acres above rifle. I have been to Lauren's restaurant which sits on a lot next to the exit ramp. I think it's at the GYPSUM EXIT. She has a ton of right wing political signs. I used to know a guy who owned a motel downtown Grand Junction. I always stopped at the three truck stops there. On Thursday nights they have the all you can eat beef tips and noodles at the Powderhorn Truckstop.

 

That's not too blatantly obvious, is it...

 

In 2015, Boebert was arrested in Mesa County for making a public disturbance at a musical festival. In 2016, she pleaded guilty to an unsafe vehicle charge after rolling her car into a ditch late at night. In 2017, her restaurant was responsible for over 80 cases of food poisoning at the Garfield County Rodeo after serving food without a license.[15]

 

First time I was there was in 1981. Second time I was there was in 1990 when my transmission died. I was there in 2011, and it looked like they were improving the downtown area.

 

The "Law and Order" party...