The Donald Trump Score Card

Scott Perry was counting down the days.


Texts show details of Pa. Rep. Scott Perry’s role in plan to overturn 2020 election

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"The Jan. 6 Select Committee has received text messages that midstate Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry sent to White House staff, confirming Perry’s direct involvement in the Trump administration’s plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In one exchange, on Dec. 26, 2020, Perry texted former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows: “Mark, just checking in as time continues to count down. 11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration. We gotta get going!”

Perry encouraged Meadows to talk to Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice who was sympathetic to Trump’s voter fraud lies. The two planned to advocate for Clark’s promotion to attorney general. A U.S. Senate report said Clark planned to say the DOJ was investigating Georgia’s election results, despite no evidence to warrant a probe.

That message was one of multiple Perry sent to Meadows revealed in a filing Friday in federal court by the Jan. 6 Select Committee. The back-and-forth sheds light on Perry’s involvement in Trump’s plan to overturn the legal election results and remain in power despite his loss.

Trump met Clark at the White House the following week and discussed elevating him to attorney general, but didn’t move forward after Justice Department officials and White House lawyers threatened to resign.

But Perry’s texts to Meadows came while that plan was still active.

 

It appears that the start of the nearly 8-hour long gap in White House phone logs on Jan. 6 started after Trump made his call to Pence to try to overturn the election.

The time period after that is murky. It was the time when Trump had given up on Pence and had to resort to even more subversive tactics outside the scope of normal channels within the White House..


What is Trump hiding? The Capitol riot-sized hole in White House call log

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"Yet when you look for recorded details of Trump’s 2.26pm call – which was made, as Hugo Lowell of the Guardian revealed, on an official White House landline – they are nowhere to be found. The Lee call was one of an unknown number that Trump made during a mysterious gap of seven hours 37 minutes that exists in the call logs – precisely the timeframe of the Capitol attack.

Those missing call logs, disclosed by the Washington Post and CBS News, raise several burning questions – how did the records disappear? who carried out the excising? – but none more urgent than this: what was Trump trying to hide?

“A gap like this doesn’t happen by accident. It’s not a coincidence,” said Charlie Sykes, columnist at the Trump-resistant conservative outlet the Bulwark. “There is no innocent explanation here – somebody made the decision to rip up the record for the crucial hours of January 6 and there has to be a reason why.”"

 

What is Trump hiding? The Capitol riot-sized hole in White House call log

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"As a result of the missing logs it is unclear whether the then president remained in touch with the Willard Hotel group as the insurrection unfolded. Nor is it known whether they discussed any further tactics.

The gap in official records could also hamper the committee’s attempt to ascertain whether there were direct contacts between Trump and January 6 organisers. Ali Alexander, who instigated the “Stop the Steal” movement and who planned a “One Nation Under God” rally in the Capitol grounds that was canceled amid the violence, has been a figure of interest to the committee.

Before the insurrection he spoke to Kimberly Guilfoyle, the partner of Trump’s son Don Jr. CNN has reported that he also said in videos posted before the attack that he planned to reach out to the far-right groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to request they provide security for his rally.

Both organisations have members who are being prosecuted for criminal acts on January 6. Earlier this month the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested on conspiracy and other charges. The founder of the Oath Keepers and 10 other members have been charged with seditious conspiracy."

 

Ali Alexander has since agreed to cooperate with investigators.

Two Oath Keepers, Stuart Rhodes and Brian Ulrich, have since pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy.

 

A second Oath Keeper pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot

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"Ulrich later was added to an encrypted Oath Keepers group chat entitled "DC OP: Jan 6 21" that included Rhodes. The members used the chat to plan their travel to Washington, D.C. for Jan. 6. They also discussed what gear to bring, including radios, helmets and weapons.

On the day itself, after the pro-Trump mob had breached the Capitol doors and was streaming inside, Ulrich and several of his co-defendants hopped into golf carts and drove to the Capitol wearing tactical gear and goggles.

Once there, they formed a military stack-style formation and forced their way up the steps and into the building. Ulrich left the Capitol after being hit with chemical spray by police officers trying to protect the complex."

 

The goons gather!!!!!! Right here in America.

 

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

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"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."

 

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

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"Trump’s nods and winks to far-right hate groups began during his 2016 campaign and came to a head in August 2017 when he suggested that the torch-wielding white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, included some “very fine people.” His demagoguery was initially focused on “the other,” whether it was Muslims, or Mexican “rapists,” or migrant caravans, or “shithole” countries. He repeatedly attacked the news media as “the enemy of the people,” provoking violent threats and plots against journalists. By his 2020 reelection campaign, he’d turned his incitement squarely on the American political leaders who opposed him."

 

Domestic people radicalized by the president himself.


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

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"President Joe Biden inherited a nation reeling from a surging pandemic and an economy in crisis. He took office also facing an extraordinary threat from within. “We’ve hit a frightening apex,” says George Selim, a senior vice president of the Anti-Defamation League and counterterrorism expert who served under three presidents. “We’re at a rare moment in history where threats from far-right domestic terrorism have reached levels that have surpassed any threat of harm to the American homeland from external actors. That’s a moment I never thought I’d see.”"

 

The Homeland Security Department was a mess throughout Trump's term.


Fight Trump like he's a terrorist leader, national security experts say

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“My concern about all of this,” says Randazzo, “is that we have protective systems in place for different parts of our democracy that we’ve normally been able to rely upon, and that has to be called into question now.” That includes finding out whether the events of Jan. 6 were “not just a failure of individuals, but possibly a willful or planned failure.” It’s an unprecedented situation, she says, including an urgency to gauge the reliability of personnel involved in the inauguration, from Trump’s chronically leaderless Homeland Security department to the military. Vetting for the short-term could be accomplished to some degree with interagency cooperation and teaming with trusted partners, Randazzo says, and through spot checks of personnel records and social media activity among people in key positions: “It’s sort of the personnel equivalent of two-factor authentication.”

 

Article from January 2021.


https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...d-security-chief-resigns-earlier-than-planned

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"The announcement by acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf was perplexing. It came less than a week after he pledged to remain in office and just 10 days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Wolf cited a legal challenge to his leadership as a reason for his resignation, but that had surfaced months ago.

“For months we have known Chad Wolf has been serving illegally in his position, so the timing of his resignation from the Department today is questionable," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. “He has chosen to resign during a time of national crisis and when domestic terrorists may be planning additional attacks on our government.”

Wolf, who had been serving in an acting capacity since November 2019 and was never confirmed by the Senate, said he was compelled to leave by “recent events,” including court rulings that found he could not legally hold the position. He did not specify the other events or cite other factors."

 

Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes

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"Among the ideas: naming fake slates of electors in seven swing states, declaring martial law and seizing voting machines.

The efforts started in the weeks after The Associated Press declared Biden president-elect.

In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting in the White House counsel's office where attorneys for the president advised them that a plan to put up an alternate slate of electors declaring Trump the winner was not “legally sound.” One lawmaker, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, pushed back on that position. So did GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant in the Trump White House.

Despite the warning from the counsel's office, Trump's allies moved forward. On Dec. 14, 2020, as rightly chosen Democratic electors in seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — met at their seat of state government to cast their votes, the fake electors gathered as well.

They declared themselves the rightful electors and submitted false Electoral College certificates declaring Trump the true winner of the presidential election in their states.

Those certificates from the “alternate electors” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored."

 

Alternate electors

Alternate facts

These people live in an alternate universe....

 

Trump-Oz rally in PA.


Large turnout expected for Trump-Oz rally at Westmoreland Fairgrounds

 

Capitol attack panel set to subpoena Trump allies, Republican Kinzinger says

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"The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol will decide “in the next week or two” whether to issue subpoenas trying to force Republican lawmakers to testify about Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, one of two Republicans on the panel said on Sunday.

“If that takes a subpoena, it takes a subpoena,” Adam Kinzinger said.

The Illinois congressman also told CBS’s Face the Nation public hearings planned for June will aim to “lay the whole story out in front of the American people … because ultimately, they have to be the judge” of Trump’s attempt to hold on to power.

Kinzinger and nine other House Republicans voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol attack, which a bipartisan Senate committee linked to seven deaths.

But Senate Republicans stayed loyal, acquitting Trump, and Kinzinger is one of four anti-Trump House Republicans who have since announced their retirements.

He and Liz Cheney of Wyoming are the only Republicans on the January 6 committee.

The June hearings, Kinzinger said, will involve laying out “what led to January 6, the lies after the election, fundraising, the 187 minutes the president basically sat in the Oval Office [as the Capitol was attacked] … the response by [the Department of Defense]."

 

Arkansas governor considering 2024 presidential run.

Hutchinson said he would not support a Trump 2024 run.


Gov. Hutchinson Says 2024 Presidential Bid 'On the Table'

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"WASHINGTON — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday he is weighing a presidential run in 2024 and his decision won’t be affected by whether former President Donald Trump decides to join the race.

Hutchinson, a two-term Republican governor who is restricted under Arkansas law from seeking a third term, said it was time for the national GOP to move on from Trump in regards to the candidates he’s endorsing in 2022 as well as “the direction he wants to take our country.”

Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he was mulling a presidential run, Hutchinson replied: “I am. But you have got to get through, of course, this year, but that’s an option that’s on the table.”

Making clear he was “not aligned” with Trump, Hutchinson added: “I think he did a lot of good things for our country, but we need to go a different direction. And so that’s not a factor in my decision-making process.”

Hutchinson in recent months has become a fixture on cable television — at times drawing the ire of Trump — in defending his veto of legislation targeting transgender youths in the state and warning fellow Republicans about tying their fortunes too closely to the former president. After the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, which led to Trump’s impeachment by the House, Hutchinson said he wanted Trump’s administration to end. He’s also made it clear since early 2021 that he would not back a Trump 2024 bid."

 

President Who Was Wrong Countless Times Tells Cult Followers ‘I Was Right About Everything’

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"The pre-game show to Trump’s Nebraska rally was as wild as the main event. The crowd danced to YMCA. MyPillow guy Mike Lindell said he wants to “meet with” Elon Musk about “what happened with our voting machines.”

GOP candidate for Nebraska governor Charles Herbster, who eight women have accused of inappropriately touching or kissing them, called for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be impeached and said he wants to “take sex education out of the schools and put it back in the homes where it belongs.” And all this came before a typically self-absorbed speech from Donald Trump, where he supported Herbster’s primary run.

Trump took to the stage as the Sept. 11 tribute song, “Proud to be an American,” played. He then told the crowd, “I could have gotten out of this one.” The rally, originally scheduled for Friday, had to be postponed because of potential severe weather in the area.

Promoting Herbster, Trump said that the candidate accused of assault by multiple women was “a good man, a very good man.” (Trump has been credibly accused of sexual harassment or assault by at least 18 women.)"