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Manhattan DA convenes new grand jury in Trump Org. case to weigh potential charges
By Shayna Jacobs, David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell
November 4, 2021 at 3:08 p.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...549fe0-3d8b-11ec-a493-51b0252dea0c_story.html

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"NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney has convened a second long-term grand jury to hear evidence about the Trump Organization’s financial practices, and potentially to vote on criminal charges, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

An earlier grand jury — convened this spring in Manhattan — previously handed down felony indictments against two Trump companies and Trump’s longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, charging them with tax evasion. It is unclear if that grand jury is still hearing evidence about the Trump Organization.

The new grand jury is assigned to meet three days a week over six months, people familiar with the matter said. It was expected to hear evidence on Thursday, meeting in Manhattan’s Surrogate’s Court — usually a forum for disputes over the estates of the deceased — because the criminal court buildings are jammed with a rush of post-pandemic trials."

 

Another long-term grand jury probe of Trump.


Trump's Legal Woes Deepen as Manhattan DA Convenes Second Grand Jury in Case Against Company: Report

 

Defamation attorney Tom Clare is representing Dominion in the case against Lindell. He represented the beef company that was eventually awarded $177 that Disney had to pay.


Will Dominion end up owning MyPillow if it wins a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell? Here are 2 ways it could take control.

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"If a jury awarded Dominion $1.3 billion, it would almost certainly be the biggest-ever verdict in US history for a defamation case. It would be far beyond the $177 million Disney had to pay in the "pink slime" case, which is believed to be the biggest award in recent years and involved an NBC News story that misled viewers about a beef company's products.

The beef company in that lawsuit hired Tom Clare, a famed defamation attorney, to represent it in the litigation, which ended in 2017.

Clare is now representing Dominion."

 

Trump rioter from TN arrested.


Smyrna man connected to U.S. Capitol riot arrested by federal agents

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"SMYRNA, Tenn. (WZTV) — A Smyrna man was arrested by federal agents on Wednesday for his involvement in the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol.

Joshua Portlock is charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a capitol building, and act of physical violence in the capitol grounds or building."

 

I can't even comprehend this crackhead lunatic's rantings could even get to court and wasting their time.

 

How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—And What Experts Say Must Be Done to Defeat It
“He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry.”
Mark Follman
March+April 2021 Issue

How Trump unleashed a domestic terrorism movement—and how to defeat it

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"The description of Trump as a terrorist leader is neither metaphor nor hyperbole—it is the assessment of veteran national security experts. Trump, those experts say, adopted a method known as stochastic terrorism, a process of incitement where the instigator provokes extremist violence under the guise of plausible deniability. Although the exact location, timing, and source of the violence may not be predictable, its occurrence is all but inevitable. When pressed about the incitement, the instigator typically responds with equivocal denials and muted denunciations of violence, or claims to have been “joking,” as Trump and those speaking on his behalf routinely made.

Throughout his presidency, numerous violent actors directly invoked him and his rhetoric, including the mass shooter who murdered 22 people in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, whose writings echoed Trump’s talking point about a supposed migrant “invasion” of the United States. After Biden’s victory, extremists responding to Trump’s lies about fraud stalked and menaced public officials, election workers, and Trump’s Democratic and Republican critics. “Stop the Steal” rallies led to beatings, stabbings, and a shooting. When the president’s enraged backers roamed the Capitol hallways, some were hunting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and vowing to “hang Mike Pence” for refusing to interfere with the election certification."

 

US Capitol Rioter Who Said She's 'Definitely Not Going To Jail' Sentenced To Prison
Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate agent who flew to DC on a private plane and livestreamed in the Capitol, got 60 days in prison.
By Ryan J. Reilly, HuffPost US
04/11/2021 19:04 GMT

US Capitol Rioter Who Said She's 'Definitely Not Going To Jail' Sentenced To Prison

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"Jenna Ryan, a Donald Trump enthusiast who tweeted that she’s “definitely not going to jail” after she stormed the Capitol on January 6, was sentenced to 60 days in prison on Thursday.

US District Judge Christopher Cooper said Ryan ― a Texas real estate agent who flew to DC on a private plane and promoted her business as she livestreamed in the Capitol ― played a “lesser role in the criminal conduct that took place” than many others did. “But that does not mean that you don’t have any culpability in what happened that day,” Cooper said.

When she chose to leave her hotel room, she knew that she was going to something that wasn’t a peaceful protest, Cooper said.

“I don’t think you could have missed the fact that this was no peaceful protest,” Cooper said. “You were a cheerleader, you cheered it on.”

Ryan, who faced four charges, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanour count, admitting she “paraded, demonstrated, or picketed” inside the Capitol when she knew that she didn’t have permission to be there."

 

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Should have given her at least 6 months.

 

Trump's antics give investigators fodder for probe into his efforts to upend Georgia's 2020 election results - CNNPolitics

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"In an interview with CNN, Raffensperger said he worried about whether Trump could somehow weaponize the Department of Justice or the FBI against him and others in his office.

"I could hear that he thought that he could have some kind of pressure to bear from outside forces to make our life miserable," Raffensperger said. "They didn't care about one person. That person was in their way. Didn't mean to be in their way, I'm just doing my job, just reporting the facts."

Raffensperger's clear perception that he was being threatened was "very helpful" for investigators, according to a person familiar with Willis' probe.

"That's like having an ace in the hole," said Michael J. Moore, a former US attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. "I think that it's a much better day for the prosecution if you can say: And he was threatened and he felt -- clearly felt threatened in his job -- whether that was with a criminal offense or something else. He felt like the President was trying to threaten him to change votes."

Investigators still haven't spoken directly with Raffensperger, although he said he would be willing to appear before a grand jury if summoned."

 

Committee interviews Jan. 6 rioter who witnessed state GOP contacts with Trump allies

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"According to the source familiar with the testimony of the defendant who interviewed this week, the defendant was also pressed to describe reasons for attending Trump’s Jan. 6 rally and then marching to the Capitol — and the answers made clear that the defendant and others traveled in response to Trump and marched to the Capitol at his direction. Many also left after he told them to go home — an invocation that came hours after lawmakers begged him to call off his supporters but got no response.

Gruppo’s attorney, Daniel Lindsey, offered a similar accounting of his client’s interview with the panel.

"He gave them specifics about why he went to Washington, what he did and all the events of that day,” Lindsey said. “Mr. Gruppo is a great man and it was an honor to represent him. Even the greatest of us make mistakes. Former President Trump has left chaos, damage and heart ache in his wake and he has shown no responsibility for all the lies.”

Prosecutors charged Gruppo with misdemeanor offenses for entering the Capitol illegally. In their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors say Gruppo drove with his wife from New Mexico to attend Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally on the morning of Jan. 6.

The retired army lieutenant colonel, entered the Capitol despite obvious signs that police were attempting to turn them back, and prosecutors say Gruppo deleted evidence from his phone after seeing negative press coverage of the attack."

 

A year later after the 2021 election, Trump is still promoting his narrative.

He tried to explain GOP Youngkin's 2021 win in VA, in an election system that he contends is riddled with fraud, by by saying that Democrats stopped the fraud they supposedly did in Fairfax during the 2020 VA election (that Trump lost by 10%) because too many eyes are now watching.
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Judge sharply questions Trump effort to block records from Jan. 6 investigators

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"Chutkan repeatedly seemed incredulous at Trump’s legal effort to block Congress from obtaining the documents, noting that this is a rare case in which Congress and the current White House are in “harmony” about the decision to release them. And Trump, she said, as a former president, has no authority over either branch of government.

“I don’t see where the separation-of-power argument that you’re making exists,” Chutkan said as she grilled Trump attorney Justin Clark.

Chutkan’s commentary suggests she’s likely to rule against Trump’s effort to stop the National Archives from furnishing the records to Congress, a crucial milestone as the Jan. 6 committee seeks greater insight into Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. Though Chutkan didn’t rule immediately, she vowed to issue a decision “expeditiously,” noting that the National Archives intends to provide the documents to lawmakers by Nov. 12."

 

Capitol Rioter Who Boasted She Wouldn’t Go to Jail Because She’s White Is Going to Prison

Capitol rioter Jenna Ryan, who infamously declared her “blonde hair white skin” would spare her from prison, was sentenced to 60 days behind bars on Thursday.

 

Still not as bad as a resurrection of Billy Mays.

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Why Trump’s conservative detractors are seizing on Youngkin’s win

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"Now come those who think the previously obscure Youngkin has cracked the code. Yes, it’s just one state race, but they believe he figured out how to hold onto the MAGA base while attracting Republicans who might have agreed with Trump’s policies but disliked his persona.

That, to say the least, was a challenge. Trump kept issuing statements about the Virginia contest, and claimed substantial credit after the win. But it’s no accident that Youngkin never agreed to campaign with him in person, and distanced himself from a last-minute video event headlined by the former president. The continuing Twitter ban also muffled the voice of the man who’d had more than 80 million followers."

 

Trump reportedly fascinated with KKK garb.


Donald Trump was "fascinated with looking at KKK garb"—former aide

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"In a video shared on Australian Big Brother's official TikTok account, Manigault Newman was asked during about her final day in the White House, prompting her to speak about organizing the opening of a civil rights museum in Jackson, Mississippi.

"It didn't go so well, because he was fascinated with looking at the KKK garb," she said. "He was obsessed with the white [supremacist] kind of display.

"And it was kind of one of those moments where I was like, 'Holy cow. Who is this person? He is not the person that I met back in New York in Trump Tower in 2003. This was a different person that I was talking with.""

 

California School District Disciplines Teacher For Telling Students Trump Is Still President

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"A California middle school teacher has been disciplined after telling her students that Donald Trump is still president, COVID vaccines are frightening and Hunter Biden had sex with his niece and was doing deals in Ukraine and China.

None of that is true.

The “lesson,” given last month by a history teacher at Anacapa Middle School in Ventura, was recorded by one of her students.

“I trusted her to teach him the facts about history and she went off on this rant like a preacher on a pulpit,” said Sarah Silikula, whose 8th grade son recorded the teacher.

The comments upset and confused her son, Slikula told CBS Los Angeles."

 

Oh Wow............

Just look at who is carrying those tiki torches now.