I think I might have found out why the Party of Trump is so energetic over Kyle Rittenhouse. It's not that he proved you're allowed to cross state lines to hunt human beings for sport. Maybe a little, but that's not really it. It's because everything else is going against them.
1) Reports are coming in that the murderous insurrectionists were told to buy and use cash burner phones to contact Eric Trump and Mark Meadows.
I mean...I'm not even sure that works, anymore.
This is yet more evidence that the Trump family was directly and personally involved in the planning of the murderous insurrection, something I bet @Edge- would like to know.Kylie Kremer, a top official in the “March for Trump” group that helped plan the Ellipse rally, directed an aide to pick up three burner phones days before Jan. 6, according to three sources who were involved in the event. One of the sources, a member of the “March for Trump” team, says Kremer insisted the phones be purchased using cash and described this as being “of the utmost importance.”
The three sources said Kylie Kremer took one of the phones and used it to communicate with top White House and Trump campaign officials, including Eric Trump, the president’s second-oldest son, who leads the family’s real-estate business; Lara Trump, Eric’s wife and a former senior Trump campaign consultant; Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff; and Katrina Pierson, a Trump surrogate and campaign consultant.
The member said a second phone was given to Amy Kremer, Kylie Kremer’s mother and another key rally organizer. The team member said they did not know who the third phone was purchased for.
“That was when the planning for the event on the Ellipse was happening, she needed burner phones in order to communicate with high level people is how she put it,” the March For Trump team member tells Rolling Stone, referencing Kylie Kremer.
According to the three sources, some of the most crucial planning conversations between top rally organizers and Trump’s inner circle took place on those burner phones. “They were planning all kinds of stuff, marches and rallies. Any conversation she had with the White House or Trump family took place on those phones,” the team member said of Kylie Kremer.
2) Mike Lindell has...look, the man is just insane.
So remember how he said he'd have a case before SCOTUS that would overthrow the 2020 election? Well, what he meant was, he would post some text on his website by 2020. The...I don't know the legal term for this, I don't think it's "complaint", the plaintiff's name isn't on it, the plaintiff's counsel's name isn't on it, and not a single state signed onto it, meaning it has the same legal weight as my blog post about taking the Nestle Tollhouse recipe and swapping out one egg white with 3tbsp of Starbuck's Espresso and Creme Doubleshot.
So there's no court case. Lindell said he's going to fly to five states to personally get five state AGs to sign up for it, which for some reason they haven't done yet but surely will after meeting him in person, sarcasm sarcasm.
As expected, Lindell says his inability to get this...case?...in court was a vast conspiracy by the RNC, which...wait, what?
Huh. Yeah, Lindell went on that livestream he calls a TV network and told all four viewers that the most recent admission by the RNC that Trump lost, get over it, was proof the RNC was trying to shut him down. Which by my count, means the conspiracy includes Democrats, Republicans, all fifty states, Serta, Sealey, my blog about chocolate-chip cookies, Hunter Biden, Hunters on WoW, and the Monkey King that lives in his attic. At what point does it stop being a "conspiracy" when it's literally everyone except you?How dare the RNC try and stop this case from getting to the Supreme Court. Shame on you, RNC! You are worse than Fox now!
3) In court, another wrinkle in the Trump Executive Time case which neither sides' lawyers apparently thought of. The judge in the federal court flat-out asked "Do I even have the authority to do this?"
Apparently there's a line in the law's text that says Executive privilege is not up for judicial review. It was challenged in 2001 and upheld.
4) This headline:
Dr. Jill BIden officially ends Melania's four year war on fucking Christmas.
Yep, that'll do.
5) Yet more from Kar's new book, Trump was "infuriated" when Barr didn't back his play.
I'm not sure how mad I should be at Barr. Yes, he started an investigation based on Some Guy From Twitter's baseless claims. But at least, when he found nothing, he stopped the investigation and refused direct orders to go any fuhrer in the matter. Further! I meant further! Shit.Barr went and investigated Donald Trump’s crazy claims and unsubstantiated claims about election fraud, took them seriously, looked into them, and concluded that there was absolutely nothing to them.
6) This one strikes me as a long-shot, but the fact that it's even being discussed is itself noteworthy. Trump could be criminally charged for telling Pence not to certify.
So, yeah. That's something he should be worried about too -- and if such communications happened, they're about to be handed over. It could be interesting to note, while Trump has so far avoided taking the stand, so has Pence basically because nobody needed to hear what he had to say -- he wasn't even suspected of involvement in this. He could be ordered to testify what Trump said to him.The judge and both sides in the case found themselves debating the scope of a law being wielded against many Jan. 6 defendants that makes it a felony to “corruptly” interfere with an official federal government proceeding and carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
The statute is typically applied to court-related conduct, like threatening judges, jurors or witnesses. However, prosecutors have leveled the obstruction charge against about a third of the roughly 700 Jan. 6 defendants over their alleged efforts to disrupt the electoral vote tally that Congress was undertaking when a crowd loyal to Trump broke through police lines and forced their way into the Capitol.
At a hearing on Monday for defendant Garret Miller of Richardson, Texas, Nichols made the first move toward a Trump analogy by asking a prosecutor whether the obstruction statute could have been violated by someone who simply “called Vice President Pence to seek to have him adjudge the certification in a particular way.” The judge also asked the prosecutor to assume the person trying to persuade Pence had the “appropriate mens rea,” or guilty mind, to be responsible for a crime.
Nichols made no specific mention of Trump, who appointed him to the bench, but the then-president was publicly and privately pressuring Pence in the days before the fateful Jan. 6 tally to decline to certify Joe Biden’s victory. Trump also enlisted other allies, including attorney John Eastman, to lean on Pence.
It's a longshot, like I said.
7) Two members of Team Trump were ordered to pay court fees and such amounting to nearly $200,000 for their baseless "cases" about election fraud.
[quote]Lawyers Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker filed their class-action suit in December 2020.
It accused a group of tech companies, nonprofits, and politicians of conspiring to unlawfully snatch away a Trump election victory, according to court documents seen by Insider. The case was dismissed in April.
The fine, ordered on Tuesday, is one of the first times a financial penalty has been attached to a rebuke of the mass of lawsuits seeking to undermine President Joe Biden's election win.
Their crowdfunded lawsuit accused figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, as well as Dominion Voting Systems. There is no evidence that any of them interfered in the election.
The lawyers, calling their case the "largest civil rights class action in history," sought $1,000 compensation for every registered voter in the US, which would run to some $160 billion.
Naturally, the lawyers were stuck paying the $11,000 court fees but are calling the $187,000 fine "unfathomable" which is what I would say, if I took a crowdfunded court case that cost me more than I raised.
All this was from the last 24 hours. This is less about a competent political party and more like a high-school drama. So when they celebrate Rittenhouse, who apparently went to Mar-a-Lago (there were no confirmed survivors), it's because, after court case after court case after overturned E.O. and actions go against them, they can shrug and say "well, at least we can still murder people."
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They don't. Doctors are state certified. Like, 96.78% sure.