"ROGUE GOP Prosecutor Commits MAJOR VIOLATION to help Trump
Attorney General Merrick Garland misapplied the Special Counsel laws and never should have released the Hur Report including the gratuitous attacks on President Biden. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains how Garland should have at least edited out the offending portions of the report but now has to be prepared to testify to the MAGA house along with Hur about the report that should have never been."
The Guardian
Trump gets access to sealed documents on witness threats in Mar-a-Lago case
Prosecutors allegedly turn over exhibit on threats made against potential witness to Trump’s lawyers after judge ordered them to
Sun 11 Feb 2024 13.19 EST
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“CORRUPT Judge Cannon Accidentally TRAPS HERSELF with Ruling
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas and Talking Feds host Harry Litman discuss Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest moves which have finally placed her in the crosshairs of getting reversed on appeal by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.”
“The anti-Obama tea party movement in 2009 and 2010 claimed to be built around opposition to the president’s budget policies, but it was really a backlash by white boomers and other older white Americans against the rise of a more diverse and progressive society. By 2015, Gallup found that 44 percent of boomers identified as conservative, and only 21 percent as liberal.
The racial backlash grew and helped elect Trump president in 2016. The only age group that supported Trump that year were voters over 50. The oldest boomers turned 70 in 2016, and that year Trump had his biggest win among voters 65 and older.
As president, Trump surrounded himself with other white boomers who had turned hard right: Roger Stone (born in 1952); Steve Bannon (born in 1953); and Michael Flynn (born in 1958), among many others. Despite Trump’s psychopathic and criminal behavior, despite the January 6 insurrection, two impeachments, and four criminal indictments, boomer voters have generally stuck with him.
I know that my parents’ generation, those who fought fascism overseas in World War II, would be ashamed that so many members of their children’s cohort are now willing to give in to fascism at home.
So many right-wing boomers today claim they want a return to the America we grew up in. If that’s true, they should remember that our parents and teachers also warned us about what the Nazis wrought in Europe just before we were born.”
The
Intercept
Donald Trump and His Boomer Base
My generation has not aged well.
February 5 2024, 6:00 a.m.
One Christmas in my grandmom's kitchen my Aunt Martha, Aunt Angie, Uncle Fred and Uncle Lou sat at the table. I said, "Thanks for what you did."
Uncle Lou said, "What do you mean."
"If you didn't fight in the war we'd be speaking German now."
My Uncle Fred couldn't handle that. He went upstairs to his room.
Uncle Lou who fought in the "Battle of the Bulge" said Freddy had it real hard.
My Uncle Fred landed on Omaha Beach with the first wave as a combat engineer.
He took off his boots for the first time 3 months later.
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When my son and me watched "Saving Private Ryan" in a movie theater Jeff said, "Dad nobody's talking." as the lights came on at the end.
"A Bangalore torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "Bangalore mine", "banger" or simply "Bangalore" as well as a pole charge:"
Later my son Jeff & daughter Julia would see Uncle Fred removing dead skin from the mold infection on his foot with maggots.
I knew 2 Higgens Boat drivers. One who brought the first wave into Omaha Beach. As soon as the door came down everyone was killed except him. He turned around to go back for more troops.
Most of my male teachers in high school were World War II veterans. One was a pilot on a B-17.
There is a series on Apple TV right now.
As a boy I found blackout curtains in our attic. I asked my mom what are they. I could see fear on her face. She didn't reply.
Lukens Steel Company made Coatesville PA a military target.
During the 1940s and 1950s, cities such as Detroit would practise blackout air raid drills. During this time, the city's Civil Defense workers would immediately activate the neighborhood air raid siren and families would be required to do the following in order:
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Gotta add more people I know who fought in World War II:
There was an Englishman who woke up in the North Atlantic when his Corvette was torpedoed by a U-Boat.
One Art School teacher Bill Falker was a cook on an LST who carried Marines to the Pacific Beaches.
Another Art School teacher A.I. Watts was a CRAF North Atlantic bomber pilot. He looked exactly like a movie RAF officer. Just flying a 4 engine bomber at low altitude over the North Atlantic was dangerous without people shooting at you.
My boss at Jaslow Dental Lab, Ed Jaslow was a U.S. Navy signalman on Merchant Marine ships making the North Atlantic crossing.
I can’t remember his name but I went to his funeral at St. Cecilia Cemetery. He was a WWII Marine who landed on the Pacific Beaches. There were two Marines one holding the flag and a bugler who played the sweetest taps I ever heard.
There’s more I’ve forgotten or didn’t realize they were veterans.
FROM THE WASHINGTON POST:
"It’s also up to everyone else to consider Mr. Biden’s flaws, not in the abstract, but relative to those of his opponent.” Is the WAP AFRAID TRUMP'S BROWNSHIRTS WILL BLOW UP THE WAP BUILDING IF TRUMP IS SAID IN A DEROGATORY MANNER?
Opinion The special counsel says the president is old. Nothing new about that.
FROM CNN:
"If more Republicans were willing to speak out against Trump, to forcefully acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, that his phony claims that legal cases against him are politically motivated are lies, then more Republican voters might be persuaded. But few are willing to do so, so Trump’s false, self-serving version of reality has taken hold with an astonishingly large segment of the country, dominating the Republican Party.
Beyond Washington, death threats, swatting assaults and the prospect of violence are silencing moderate, reality-based Republicans across the country, persuading local officials to keep quiet or step out of politics altogether in the face of death threats and harassment.
During Trump’s presidency, threats of violence against members of Congress skyrocketed. And now that the election is approaching and stakes for the former president are rising, threats of violence again are surging.
In just the past few days, police have arrested a man who threatened to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and his children. Swalwell, a Democrat, has been a fierce Trump critic. Bomb threats have shut down multiple state capitols. Police recently rushed to the home of Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presides over the subversion case against Trump, in a swatting attack. And after Trump lambasted Maine’s secretary of state and Colorado’s Supreme Court for declaring him unqualified to be on their ballot, his backers launched a barrage of death threats against them.
As he leaves the door open to political violence, Trump recently sent an email to supporters falsely accusing Biden of a most egregious crime. Biden, he said, ordered special counsel Jack Smith to, “try, convict, and sentence Donald Trump to jail before the November 2024 election.” That’s the product of Trump’s dangerous, self-serving imagination.
Trump is creating the conditions for an explosion of political violence — even if he’s not a dictator yet and even if he doesn’t have authority over Seal Team 6.”
FROM:
CNN
Opinion: The fear of physical harm that keeps even Trump’s supporters in line
Updated 8:28 AM EST, Thu January 11, 2024
When Trump is a convicted felon and his chances of winning the election diminished will the Washington Post, New York Times and Republican officials lose their fear of Trump?
"Frantic Trump makes devastating admission in private
Palm Beach State Attorney David Aronberg reports on Trump privately admitting he expects to be convicted."
"Courtroom drama plan
We're told Trump plans to attend his trials in person most days, as has been his recent practice for recent court proceedings. That by itself would mean a massive change in the rhythms of a presidential campaign: Nominees typically spend their days trying to sway voters, not jurors.
Trump feels certain the more voters think this is a political pile-on, the better he'll do. So look for Trump to continue to groan, moan and bemoan — then hit the TV cameras parked outside.
What we're hearing: Trump's team feels certain that the indictments helped him own the GOP primary field. Each new set of charges brought a surge in donations, and a bump in polls.
Reality check: Despite Trump's bluster, there's real trepidation among his advisers about what a conviction would mean. The Trump team comforts itself that independent-minded voters won't like the idea of a Democratic administration prosecuting the Republican nominee.
The risk
Polls show voters, especially swing voters, will view Trump differently if he's convicted by a jury of his peers.
The other side: This is Biden's big bet: The belief inside the White House is that many voters won't vote for a convict — especially if the case is about the storming of the U.S. Capitol and attacks on cops."
FROM:
AXOIS
Behind the Curtain: Trump's conviction scenario
Column / Behind the Curtain
Feb 2, 2024 -
FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN RULE OF LAW:
“Prosecutors RACE to Deliver FATAL BLOW to Trump
On the Legal AF podcast, National defense attorney Michael Popok and former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo debate what happens next with the setting of the DC election inference criminal case and the NY business record fraud criminal case against Trump and whether either happen before Election Day now that the DC Court of Appeals has ruled against Trump finding no immunity from criminal prosecution.”
