The Donald Trump Score Card

but, there are now 3 additional judges chosen by the Federalist Society. Without Trump's appointees Thomas wouldn't have much to say. That's why nobody heard much from him until recently.

I should not have to explain this... It has all happened right before everybody's eyes.

 

Trump rioter convicted.


Michigan man who helped lead Capitol riot convicted by federal jury

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"A federal jury has convicted a Southgate man of storming the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection — a crime that involved him pushing past cops, posing by statues inside the building, smoking weed in the Rotunda and then bragging about it on Facebook.

"Was the proudest day of my life lol," Anthony Robert Williams wrote in a social media post obtained by the FBI. "Felt like the founding fathers were smiling down on us in that room, and I guarantee my dad and gramps, both vets, would be proud."

Williams is facing up to 20 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in September.

According to court records, Williams was among the first inside the U.S. Capitol during the attack, which occurred as Congress was trying to certify the presidential election results that declared Joe Biden the winner.

Williams was in the Capitol for about an hour and later discussed his success entering the building in a video, saying “desperate times call for desperate measures,” court records state. In another video taken outside the Capitol, records show, Williams discussed how he and others “'stormed” the Capitol and "pushed back the cops," stating: "We took this f------ building.""

 

and his wife

 

Sucks to be him.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/01/trump-capitol-riot-march/

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"Trump has acknowledged his foiled effort to reach the Capitol. “Secret Service wouldn’t let me,” he told The Washington Post in April. “I wanted to go. I wanted to go so badly. Secret Service says you can’t go. I would have gone there in a minute.”

But as Trump repeatedly floated the idea in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, several of his advisers doubted he meant it or didn’t take the suggestion seriously. One senior administration official said Trump raised the prospect repeatedly but in a “joking manner.”

As a result, the White House staff never turned Trump’s stated desires into concrete plans. Press officers made no preparations for a detour to the Capitol, such as scheduling an additional stop for the motorcade and the pool of reporters who follow the president’s movements. There was no operational advance plan drafted for the visit. No speech was written for him to deliver on the Hill, and it wasn’t clear exactly what Trump would do when he got there, said the person who talked with Trump about the idea."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/01/trump-capitol-riot-march/

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"Aides did not know where Trump got the idea, this person said, but it wasn’t from inside the White House. The chief of staff, Mark Meadows, discussed plans to bring Trump to the Capitol with Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was leading the campaign’s efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a close aide to Meadows.

“I remember hearing a few different ideas discussed between Mark and Scott Perry, Mark and Rudy Giuliani,” Hutchinson said in videotaped testimony to the Jan. 6 committee played during Tuesday’s hearing. “I know that there were discussions about him having another speech outside of the Capitol before going in. I know that there is a conversation about him going into the House chamber at one point.”

Meadows declined to comment through his attorney. Giuliani and a spokeswoman for Perry did not respond to requests for comment.

Hutchinson’s attorneys said Wednesday that she “stands by all of the testimony she provided yesterday, under oath.”

Hutchinson’s account was supported by other testimony played at the hearing. “He brought it up, he said, ‘I want to go down to the Capitol,” Max Miller, a White House aide now running for Congress in Ohio, said in taped testimony. But Miller’s entire testimony wasn’t played, where he suggested it was a short-lived idea, according to people familiar with the matter."

 

That's blatant.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/07/trump-pressed-secret-service-for-plan-to-join-march-to-capitol/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16

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"“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol,” he told the crowd.

Witnesses have told the House Jan. 6 committee that, immediately after Trump made that remark, Secret Service agents contacted D.C. police about blocking intersections, according to the people briefed on the testimony. Police officials declined, as they were stretched thin because they were monitoring numerous protests and later assisting with a growing mob at the Capitol, the people said. A senior law enforcement official told The Washington Post that the president’s detail leader scuttled the idea as untenable and unsafe.

A D.C. official on Tuesday confirmed that the Secret Service sought D.C. police for help with a presidential motorcade on Jan. 6.

“We were asked, and the response was no,” said Dora Taylor-Lowe, a spokeswoman for the D.C. deputy mayor that oversees the police department."

 

Trump wanted to go to the House Chamber with an armed mob....

Wake the fuck up people! This fucking moron is still out there waiting for the next time.

 

Trump may have gotten the idea to do a joy ride at the Jan. 6 protest from the one he did on Nov. 14.

On his way to his golf club, he had the Secret Service detour so that he could drive by a pro-Trump gathering in DC.

Trump is also known for his joy ride at the hospital when he was being treated for Covid.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ch-to-capitol/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16

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"Trump’s first public communique about Jan. 6 to his faithful supporters came in a Dec. 19 tweet. He encouraged his followers to gather in Washington to protest what he called a rigged election with these words: “Be there. Will be wild!”

Days later, according to witnesses’ accounts to the committee, Trump was pressing his aides to help him cheer on a protest directly outside the Capitol.

Around New Year’s Eve, Trump aides raised with Tony Ornato, a Secret Service official then temporarily serving as a deputy chief of staff in the White House, the president’s desire to ride in a motorcade on Jan. 6 alongside marchers heading to the Capitol, according to the witnesses’ accounts and a senior law enforcement official.

Ornato recommended Trump aides reach out to the leader of Trump’s Secret Service detail around Jan. 4, the law enforcement official said. Secret Service officials were highly skeptical they could safely spirit Trump to the Capitol based on a similar experience they had at a “Stop the Steal” rally in downtown Washington on Nov. 14, according to witness accounts. Trump had thrilled his faithful supporters at the November rally when his motorcade appeared on Pennsylvania Avenue shortly after 10 a.m. Fans scurried to Freedom Plaza in downtown D.C. to catch a glimpse. Trump had pressed his security detail to make the detour to ride alongside the crowd, just before he was scheduled to head to his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va."

 

That was also the incident where Trump's handlers had him sign blank sheets of paper before the joy ride and said he was working tirelessly for Americans.

The Trump staff released the images with timestamp info. It showed they were taken about 10 minutes before Trump's joy ride. They figured that since they went through the hassle of dressing him up for his ride, they might as well do photo-ops to make it seem like he was hard at work.

 

Trump would have had a fringe benefit if he had convinced agents to drive him to the Capitol. It would have further strained police who were trying to protect the Capitol.

Plus it would have egged on his rioters even more who were already riled from his speech at the Ellipse.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ch-to-capitol/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16

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"Some motorcade agents began rapidly making calls to their contacts in the D.C. police to see whether they could get help securing a motorcade route, according to witness accounts. Police officials responded that they were strained providing reinforcements for Capitol Police and manning security checkpoints around the multiple rallies that day."

 

Trump is of the type who would have agents drive him to the Capitol and bring a boom box so that he could dance to the tune YMCA with the QAnon shaman while his rioters attacked police and members of Congress.

 

Yes, I agree. It happened right in front of everyone. For years the Republicans bitched about judicial activism ... now they do exactly that!

 

"It's all Biden's fault ! "

 

Trump Eyes Early 2024 Announcement as Jan. 6 Scrutiny Intensifies

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"One of the most compelling arguments against an early announcement had been federal campaign finance laws. If and when Mr. Trump announces, he would be ineligible to use any of the $100 million that he has parked in his political action committee to directly support his presidential run. His campaign would also be constrained by a strict $2,900-per-person donation cap for the primaries, meaning he could tap his largest donors only once over the next period of roughly two years to directly fund a candidacy.

But Mr. Trump’s command over small-dollar donors has remained strong, leaving some on his team unconcerned about the fund-raising limits.

The debate over timing comes as investigations into the behavior of Mr. Trump and his associates are gathering steam. The Justice Department is looking into efforts to keep Mr. Trump in office after his defeat. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., have convened a grand jury as part of an investigation into whether the former president and his team tried to influence the vote count there. Each is separate from the House committee scrutinizing his conduct in the run-up to the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6."

 

Trump Eyes Early 2024 Announcement as Jan. 6 Scrutiny Intensifies

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"Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, had urged Mr. Trump to wait until after the midterms, worried that news about his campaign could derail the party’s midterm messaging. One R.N.C. official noted that when Mr. Trump opened a campaign, the party would stop paying his legal bills related to an investigation by the New York attorney general. Still, Ms. McDaniel has recently resigned herself to the idea that he will announce before the elections, according to people familiar with the conversations.

But even Trump aides who are supportive of another campaign worry that the former president’s path to a third nomination has become more difficult than he’s willing to acknowledge.

Some close to Mr. Trump have grown concerned about potential legal and political consequences from the congressional hearings into the Capitol riot. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, testified this week that Mr. Trump had known that some of his supporters were carrying weapons that day and had still encouraged his team to let them through security checkpoints. Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who is on the committee, said the panel had evidence of witness tampering."

 

‘Fairly exceptional’: Capitol riot suspect remains at large 1 year after FBI raid | The Hill

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"Stevens is now a private investigator specializing in missing persons cases. In order to avoid arrest, Stevens says Pollock has had to cut ties with family and associates, since they are most likely to be surveilled. Any public appearances, he said, could mean exposure to security cameras.

“I’m pretty certain his face is loaded in virtually every facial recognition system,” said Stevens.

Pollock is a welder and ironworker by trade, and may be working in that field or similar construction jobs, according to the FBI.

“He could get a cash-paying job where he has no friends or no associates from his former life and blend in at that location and be low-profile,” he said."

 

Zoyganeles pleads guilty.


‘They can’t stop a million people’: Chicago man admits role in U.S. Capitol riot

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A Chicago man who wrote “they can’t stop a million people” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and later reacted to a separate fatal attack by writing “being a capital police officer is a dangerous job” has pleaded guilty, court records show.

Athanasios Zoyganeles was originally charged in February for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, which led to what has been described as likely the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history. It also sparked a series of ongoing Congressional hearings.

On Friday, Zoyganeles pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, a misdemeanor for which he could serve up to six months in prison, records show. His sentencing hearing has been set for Sept. 30.

Zoyganeles is one of 30 known Illinois residents who have been charged as a result of the investigation.