The Donald Trump Score Card

Georgia grand jury seated in probe over Donald Trump, 2020 election

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"Prosecutors whittled down a group of 200 Fulton County residents to the 23 they need to serve on a special grand jury that will investigate whether former President Donald Trump should be charged for his attempts to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost. Three additional people were selected as alternates.

As the selection process began, Judge Robert McBurney encouraged prospective grand jurors to identify themselves as having a "conflict" if they have already reached a conclusion about whether Trump committed a crime in the aftermath of his defeat.

"Because this grand jury will be investigating a specific situation, the 2020 election here in Georgia, it's important that the grand jury be comprised of individuals who bring an open mind to the process," McBurney said."

 

I find it difficult to believe that they can find 23 jurors that have not make up their minds on the 2020 election. Guaranteed there are four or five "conservative" sleepers in that group of people ready to throw any jury. When have you EVER come across someone who thinks..."oh, I really don't know if anything happened with the 2020 election....I haven't been keeping up with life, I live in a can"

 

Anybody else would be in jail picking up the soap for Bubba.

 

Former Marine Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting Police During Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

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"A former Marine from Georgia who admitted to assaulting two police officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

Kevin Creek, 47, was at the front line of the crowd of Donald Trump supporters facing off against police at the West Plaza that day. According to one of the officers he assaulted, although the police were outnumbered, they had been able to hold off the rioters and stop them from breaching the building.

But that changed when Creek and a few others started attacking individual police officers.

Video shows Creek reaching over a bike rack-turned-barricade and grabbing an officer’s face shield. He later struck that officer with his right hand before, according to prosecutors, “driving him backward forcefully several feet.”

Creek is also seen on video kicking a police officer who was holding up a shield to protect himself."

 

Webster's self-defense ploy didn't work.


Former N.Y.P.D. Officer Convicted of Assault in Jan. 6 Case

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"A former New York City police officer who claimed he was acting in self-defense when he swung a metal flagpole at a fellow officer during the attack on the Capitol last January was convicted on Monday of all charges, including assault.

The former officer, Thomas Webster, was the first person charged in connection with the riot to defend himself at trial by claiming that the officers protecting the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, had used excessive force against the pro-Trump mob that stormed the building. The guilty verdict in the case — returned within two hours on the first full day of deliberations — could give pause to other defendants planning to use similar arguments at their own trials.

Mr. Webster, a former Marine who once served on the protective detail of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, testified that he had gone to Washington to hear President Donald J. Trump speak near the White House and became upset as he walked toward the Capitol and saw people injured by the violence that had erupted."

 

Webster's alibi for trying to tear off a police officer's protective head gear was that he was showing his hands to the police to try to calm the situation (the situation he started by swinging a metal flagpole at officers and knocking one down).




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Ronny Jackson has already said he won't cooperate.


Jan. 6 panel wants testimony from GOP's Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Ronny Jackson

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"WASHINGTON - Three more House Republicans received requests Monday to voluntarily appear before the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection and answer questions about their involvement in the effort to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.

The committee sent letters to GOP Reps. Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Ronny Jackson of Texas — three members of the ultra-right House Freedom Caucus that have in recent years aligned themselves with Trump.

The nine-member panel is asking for the members of Congress to testify about their involvement in meetings at the White House, direct conversations with then-President Trump as he sought to challenge his loss in the 2020 presidential election, and the planning and coordination of rallies on and before Jan. 6, 2021.

"The Select Committee has learned that several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investigation into the facts, circumstances, and causes of January 6th," committee chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and vice-chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said in a statement. "We urge our colleagues to join the hundreds of individuals who have shared information with the Select Committee to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6th.""

 

Mo Brooks spoke at the 'Save America' rally at the Ellipse before the insurrection started.

He is known for his remark "taking down names and kicking ass."

Brooks wanted the DOJ to defend him against suits related to Trump's riot, claiming that he was acting in his capacity as a U.S. Congressman when he helped Trump incite the riot. The DOJ denied his request.

 

To the Bootyhouse!!!

 

Scott Perry is another person of interest.


Scott Perry (politician) - Wikipedia

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"Perry reportedly played a key role in a December 2020 crisis at the Justice Department, in which Trump considered firing acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and replacing him with Jeffrey Clark, the acting chief of the civil division of the DOJ.[68] The New York Times reported that Perry introduced Clark to Trump because Clark's "openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr. Trump with a welcome change from the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president's efforts to undo them."[68] Before the certification of the electoral college vote on January 6, Perry and Clark reportedly discussed a plan in which the Justice Department would send Georgia legislators a letter suggesting the DOJ had evidence of voter fraud and suggesting the legislators invalidate Georgia's electoral votes, even though the DOJ had investigated reports of fraud but found nothing significant, as attorney general Bill Barr had publicly announced weeks earlier.[68][73] Clark drafted a letter to Georgia officials and presented it to Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue. It claimed the DOJ had "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States" and urged the Georgia legislature to convene a special session for the "purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors." Rosen and Donoghue rejected the proposal.[74] In August 2021, CNN reported that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe had briefed top Justice Department officials that no evidence had been found of any foreign powers' interference with voting machines. Clark was reportedly concerned that intelligence community analysts were withholding information and believed Perry and others knew more about possible foreign interference. Clark requested authorization from Rosen and Donoghue for another briefing from Ratcliffe, asserting hackers had found that "a Dominion machine accessed the Internet through a smart thermostat with a net connection trail leading back to China."[75]"

 

Scott Perry (politician) - Wikipedia

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"In text messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows days after the election, Perry suggested Ratcliffe should direct the National Security Agency to investigate alleged Chinese hacking. Perry also asserted "the Brits" were behind a conspiracy to manipulate voting machines and that CIA director Gina Haspel was covering it up. The next month, Perry sent Meadows a link to a YouTube video that asserted voting machines had been manipulated via satellite from Italy; Meadows later sent the video to the acting attorney general, seeking an investigation.[76][77]"

 

Fourth Mainer arrested for involvement in Capitol Riot

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"JEFFERSON, Maine —

The FBI charged and arrested 35-year-old Joshua Colgan, from Jefferson, Maine, on Monday for involvement in the January 6 Capitol Riot, making him the fourth Mainer to face federal charges for the insurrection.

Colgan was detained at Two Bridges Regional Jail, in Lincoln County, and wore a blue jail uniform when he made his initial court appearance remotely in Maine Federal District Court in a Zoom hearing that news stations were not permitted to record.

The evidence against Colgan, according to the FBI complaint, includes a pair of digital images showing him inside the Capitol wearing a Trump baseball hat and security camera video stills showing him among a group of rioters before they exited the building at 3:31 p.m.

The FBI complaint published a map identifying Colgan at multiple locations as he moved inside the Capitol between 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m."

 

Other Trump supporters from Maine who have been charged.


Fourth Mainer arrested for involvement in Capitol Riot

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"Mitch Simon, originally from Minot, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a restricted building on Friday.

Nicholas Hendrix, from Gorham, faces the same four charges as Colgan and in plea discussions with the government.

Kyle Fitzsimons, of Lebanon, has a June trial for a 10-count indictment, including felony charges for assaulting police officers."

 

Fitzsimons of Maine has a ten-count indictment.


Maine Capitol Riot defendant Kyle Fitzsimons trial date set

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"WASHINGTON —

Maine’s first Capitol Riot defendant, Kyle Fitzsimons, will go on trial in Washington federal court on April 4, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras decided on Tuesday.

Before scheduling what prosecutors and Fitzsimons’ defense attorney agreed would be a one-week jury trial, Contreras denied Fitzsimons’ motion to change venue from Washington to Maine, where Fitzsimons lived for a few years until his arrest in February.

Fitzsimons’ attorney, Natasha Taylor-Smith, a federal defender from Philadelphia, had argued the jury pool in Washington, which voted 95% for Joe Biden in 2020, would be too anti-Trump for Fitzsimons to get a fair trial.

In the hearing, Taylor-Smith told Judge Contreras, “He is charged here in the District of Columbia during a time in this country where the divide is cavernous. The evidence in this case is emotionally charged in every respect, and the potential jury who would hear the facts in the District of Columbia is the most emotionally vested in the facts of Jan. 6.”"

 

Fitzsimons' trial has been delayed and is scheduled for June.


Former Mainer has a new plea deal for role in the Capitol attack

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"The other Mainer charged in connection with the Capitol attack, Kyle Fitzsimons of Lebanon, is set to stand trial in June. That was delayed from early April. He faces 10 felony counts. Video evidence shows him fighting with police at the West Entrance of the Capitol. He has been in federal custody since he was arrested at his home in February 2021."

 

Another Trump rioter from Maine, Glen Mitchell Simon, is expected to accept a plea deal.


Former Mainer has a new plea deal for role in the Capitol attack

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"Glen Mitchell Simon, who used to live in Minot but now lives in Georgia, initially pleaded guilty last fall to willfully and knowingly parading, demonstrating and picketing in any U.S. Capitol building and was set to be sentenced to six months in prison. The original deal did not include any assault charges. But, just before his sentencing hearing, federal prosecutors said they had new evidence in the case and asked the judge to delay sentencing.

That request was granted and prosecutors revised the plea deal, to which Simon has agreed.

He is set to accept that plea deal Friday. Prosecutors said they would file additional charges against Simon if he did not accept the revised deal."

 

Banks is an ass from Indiana.

 

Opinion: How real is the chance of criminally prosecuting Donald Trump? - CNN

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"Een if the special grand jury does eventually return a recommendation to indict, Willis will then need to present evidence to a regular grand jury, which has the actual power to indict, if she chooses to that take step. That will take even more time. It’s difficult to square the seriousness of the potential crimes here – an attempt by the then-President to steal an election – with the decidedly casual pace of the proceedings.

If Willis ultimately does obtain an indictment of Trump, it is far from a sure thing that he will be convicted and imprisoned. First, Trump surely will move to dismiss the indictment. He likely will argue that he is a victim of what lawyers call “selective prosecution” (meaning he has been singled out for political reasons), and he might claim that it is unconstitutional for an elected county-level district attorney, who happens to be a Democrat, to indict a former president.

Even if an indictment survives those legal challenges, then the DA’s office will have to try its case and prove Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to the unanimous satisfaction of the jury. No trial verdict is a sure thing, and it can be particularly difficult to convict a universally-known personality like Trump, who evokes strong feelings of loyalty from his supporters (and visceral disdain from many detractors).

Even if a trial jury convicts Trump, a judge will then have to decide whether to sentence him to prison time. And any conviction and sentence must survive the appeals process, which can take many months."

 

Jim Banks - Wikipedia

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"After the January 6, 2021, United States Capitol attack, Banks expressed support for a bipartisan commission to investigate the riot. He later changed his mind.[28] On July 21, 2021, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed Kevin McCarthy's assigning of Banks and Jim Jordan to the January 6 Select Committee on the grounds that both had amplified Trump's false claims of fraud.[29] Banks subsequently claimed that Pelosi was at fault for the January 6 insurrection and that she was using the commission to cover up her role.[30]

In late February 2021, Banks and a dozen other Republican House members skipped votes and enlisted others to vote for them, citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He and the other members were actually attending the Conservative Political Action Conference, which was held at the same time as their slated absences.[31] In response, the Campaign for Accountability, an ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint with the House Committee on Ethics and requested an investigation into Banks and the other lawmakers.[32]

In October 2021, Representative Liz Cheney, vice chair of the January 6 Select Committee, revealed that Banks had been sending letters to federal agencies, claiming to be the ranking member of that committee, even though he had been rejected from it.[33] In one September 2021 letter, Banks requested that the Department of the Interior provide him with information it had sent the committee. He also wrote, "Pelosi refused to allow me to fulfill my duties as Ranking Member", and signed the letter as "Ranking Member", which he was not.[34][35]"

 

Ohio primary on May 3.

Trump endorsed J.D. Vance, even though at a rally on Sunday he mistakenly said he endorsed Mandel (while saying he's right about everything).


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