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Thirteen months after ordering his blindly loyal supporters – who believe his Big Lie of a "rigged" and "stolen election" – to "march to the Capitol" and "fight like hell" to "stop the steal" or "we're not going to have a country anymore," Donald Trump has yet to be punished for inciting a deadly riot. Oh, sure, he was impeached – but a majority of Senate Retrumplicans, who have sold their souls to Donald Trump, voted for acquittal.
Judge says Trump could be culpable for January 6 and says lawsuits against the former President can proceed
CNN, Feb 18 2022 7:06 PM EST
Civil lawsuits seeking to hold Donald Trump accountable for the January 6, 2021 insurrection can move forward in court, a federal judge said today in a ruling outlining how the former President could conceivably be responsible for inciting the attack on the US Capitol. Trump’s statements to his supporters before the riot “is the essence of civil conspiracy,” Judge Amit Mehta wrote in a 112-page opinion, because Trump spoke about himself and rallygoers working “towards a common goal” of fighting and walking down Pennsylvania Avenue. “The President’s January 6 Rally Speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action,” Mehta said.
Democratic members of the House and police officers who defended the US Capitol on January 6 sued Trump last year, claiming he prompted his supporters to attack. Friday, Mehta wrote that the three lawsuits could move to the evidence-gathering phase and toward a trial – a major loss in court for Trump. "Tlhe President’s actions here do not relate to his duties of faithfully executing the laws, conducting foreign affairs, commanding the armed forces or managing the Executive Branch,” Mehta wrote. “They entirely concern his efforts to remain in office for a second term. These are unofficial acts, so the separation-of-powers concerns that justify the President’s broad immunity are not present here.”
Two of the lawsuits were brought by Democratic House members while a third was filed by Capitol Police officers. The lawmakers allege that they were threatened by Trump and others as part of a conspiracy to stop the Congressional session that would certify the 2020 Presidential election on January 6, 2021. They argue that Trump should bear responsibility for directing the assaults. Trump’s legal team is likely to appeal the decision.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/polit...uit/index.html
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Powell helped spread The Big Lie that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump – and, like Trump, she does not want Americans discovering the truth about the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot.
Sidney Powell sues to block January 6 committee subpoena for phone records
Powell was a leading voice in spreading former President Donald Trump's election lies.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sidne...b0f2c343f51669
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The man who bragged that he was the "most transparent President" in history has fought hard to keep Americans from seeing his financial records and his White House records. He just lost another legal challenge
Supreme Court officially ends Trump’s legal fight to block disclosure of documents to January 6 investigators
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/polit...ial/index.html
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This blindly loyal Trump supporter says she was overcome by "dark energy forces." Yeah, I guess that's what happens when you believe Donald Trump's Big Lie that the 2020 Presidential election was "rigged" and "stolen" from him.
Capitol rioter who declared 'civil war' on January 6 sentenced to 45 days in prison
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ca...son/ar-AAUcWo9
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And another blindly loyal Trump supporter who believed Trump's Big Lie of a stolen election and obeyed his command to "march to the Capitol" and "fight like hell" is headed to prison.
Jail time for rioter who carried Nancy Pelosi's podium during insurrection
Adam Johnson told US District Judge Reggie Walton that posing with Pelosi’s podium was a "very stupid idea."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-...b0d1388f1479ab
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Donald Trump, who has made thousands of baseless claims that the 2020 Presidential election was "rigged" and "stolen," did everything he could to try to rig and steal the 2020 Presidential election. And unfortunately he had help. A lot of help.
Donald Trump had several calls with lawyer on January 6, House Committee says
Newsweek, Mar 1 2022
The House Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has subpoenaed a lawyer who had reportedly been in contact with then-President Donald Trump the same day a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol. The committee today issued letters to six witnesses demanding documents and testimony for what it described as their roles seeking to overturn the election in the leadup to the insurrection. Since being formed last year, the committee has turned its attention in recent months to how efforts by Trump and his inner circle to stay in power allegedly played into the attack.
One of the newly subpoenaed witnesses is Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who previously assisted with unsuccessful efforts to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. The committee's letter to Olsen states that he had "multiple telephone calls" with Trump on January 6 after previously providing legal assistance to help the then-President overturn the election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ays/ar-AAUu0U1
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And, as usual, Donald Trump just says, "Thanks for the support, sucker!"
Oath Keeper leader in Alabama pleads guilty to conspiracy in US Capitol attack
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oa...ack/ar-AAUx5F4
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Trump and right-wing lawyer were part of 'criminal conspiracy' to overturn 2020 election, January 6 committee alleges
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/polit...tee/index.html
The House committee can not bring criminal charges against Donald Trump. That will be up to the Department of Justice, which still has filed no obstruction-of-justice charges relating to Trump's conduct during the Mueller investigation – and the statute of limitations on Trump's offenses is expiring in 2022 and 2023. Teflon Don manages to get away with everything.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/where-ju...ction-offenses
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A lawyer for Donald Trump insisted Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 election results. He told Trump exactly what Trump wanted to hear – but the Vice President has no power or authority to reject any electors. Trump, of course, didn't know that. He has never read the Constitution of the United States of America. We now know what a lawyer for Pence wrote to the lawyer for Trump on the day of the deadly Capitol riot.
Analysis: The single most damning email exchange in the new January 6 committee filing
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/polit...ail/index.html
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This blindly loyal Trump supporter was "psychologically frail," according to his lawyer – but he obviously wasn't frail when he believed Donald Trump's Big Lie and obeyed Trump's command to "march to the Capitol" and "fight like hell."
Capitol rioter awaiting sentencing dies by suicide, coroner says
https://www.aol.com/news/capitol-rio...160317569.html
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And Donald Trump's only comment was "Thanks for the support, sucker!"
Jury finds first US Capitol riot defendant to go on trial guilty on all counts
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/polit...ict/index.html
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"The mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" – Donald Trump, September 28, 2016. Yeah, Donald, about that.......
Michael Flynn pleads the Fifth in closed-door testimony with January 6 committee
The panel wanted to question Flynn about an Oval Office meeting where attendees reportedly discussed ways to overturn the election.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/micha...b02961583ae525
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The indictment says Tarrio "continued to direct and encourage the Proud Boys prior to and during the events of 6 January 2021" and later "claimed credit for what had happened on social media and in an encrypted chat room during and after the attack." More than 770 blindly loyal Trump supporters have been charged in connection with the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. At least 30 are members of the far-right, neo-fascist group The Proud Boys.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio held without bond on January 6 charges
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pr...ges/ar-AAV611W
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The Retrumplican National Committee claims to want to protect "internal political strategies" and "private, personal information regarding its supporters." In truth, they want to protect Donald Trump and his Big Lie of "widespread voter fraud" and a "rigged, stolen election."
RNC tries to stop 2020 email communications data from going to January 6 committee in latest court effort
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/polit...ons/index.html
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Trump, of course, would never denounce any of his blindly loyal supporters who believe his Big Lie of "widespread voter fraud" and a "rigged, stolen election" and who are willing to fight for him, to kill for him and to die for him.
Lindsey Graham threatened to have Trump removed from Presidency on January 6
Graham told the White House counsel he'd press for the 25th Amendment if Trump didn't denounce the Capitol rioters, according tro a new book.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/linds...b009ab92f3fb89
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The Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against more than 800 Capitol rioters but still has not indicted Donald Trump, who incited the deadly riot. In response to those who criticize the Attorney General's inaction and call him "Merrick the Mild" or "Merrick the Meek," the Washington Post wrote, "The notion that Attorney General Merrick Garland is slow-walking charges against Trump or has decided to not go after him is inconsistent with the department’s actions to date. Garland might just be warming up to take on the man whose refusal to accept defeat resulted in the most lethal armed insurrection since the Civil War."
Liz Cheney says January 6 committee exploring 'enhanced criminal penalties' for Trump
The Wyoming Republican who co-chairs the House panel also said the probe's findings will reveal new information about the insurrection on the Capitol.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/liz-c...b046c938dd37f8
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In December, Mark Meadows filed a lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi and all nine members of the January 6 Select Committee because they subpoenaed him to testify about the deadly, Trump-incited riot and they subpoenaed his telephone records. Meadows does not want to testify and he says his calls include “intensely personal” and potentially “privileged” communications. We now know why he doesn't want to testify or provide his phone records. He helped Trump plan the riot!
Exclusive: Witness claims Trump’s Chief of Staff was on phone call planning January 6 March on Capitol
Trump’s team agreed it would encourage supporters to march but would try to "make it look like they went down there on their own," Scott Johnston tells Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...icans-1324218/
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Griffin, not surprisingly, is a conspiracy theorist. After a federal judge found him guilty of trespassing, he told reporters the Capitol insurrection was a set-up by the US government. Griffin will be sentenced on June 17. He faces a fine and/or probation and/or up to one year in prison.
'Cowboys For Trump' founder guilty of illegally entering Capitol grounds on January 6
Couy Griffin was also acquitted of engaging in disorderly conduct during the riot.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/couy-...b019fd81338a62
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During yesterday's confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was wrongfully accused by Retrumplicans of being "soft on crime." Jimmy Kimmel's response: "It’s funny listening to the same people who let the President get away with trying to overthrow the government call anyone soft on crime.”
Trump, Giuliani are 'unindicted co-conspirators,' Capitol riot defendant argues
The attorney for Dustin Thompson plans to appeal a judge's decision to prevent him from calling Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani as witnesses.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/n...b-22ef3cae3a1e
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In his ruling, the judge noted that Trump and Eastman "launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation's government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers and deepened public distrust in our political process." If the January 6 committee recommends criminal charges be filed against Trump, it will be up to the Department of Justice to do so.
Federal judge finds Trump 'more likely than not' committed felony obstruction in effort to overturn election
The judge said Trump's former lawyer John Eastman must turn over documents.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-find...y?id=83721530|
