January 5, 2024

Court says even passive members of Jan. 6 mob can be convicted of disorderly conduct

The decision is a victory for the Justice Department on one of the most common charges lodged against Jan. 6 defendants.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Jan. 6 defendants can be found culpable of “disorderly” or “disruptive” conduct inside the Capitol even if they weren’t personally violent or destructive.

The decision is a victory for the Justice Department in cases against hundreds of defendants charged with misdemeanor counts of disorderly and disruptive conduct, one of the staple charges that has been applied to nearly every member of the mob that entered the halls of Congress.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/05/court-says-even-passive-members-of-jan-6-mob-can-be-convicted-of-disorderly-conduct-00134030
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1743306109736169650

January 5, 2024

Sen Patty Murray re: Jan 6 "I will not let the history of that day be rewritten. It was an attack on our very democracy"

Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) about Jan 6, “I will not let the history of that day be rewritten. It was an attack on our very democracy—a violent one. People brought dangerous weapons. They built a gallows and shouted ‘kill the infidels..”
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1743273185749913975

January 5, 2024

Rebuttals to Eric Trump's Talking Points about His Daddy's Corruption

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As I’ll show below, that’s a very partial number, but by itself it says that Trump made as much from foreign governments while President as the entirety of the funds that James Comer has spent a year lying about with respect to private citizen Hunter Biden over a longer period of time.

It’s not Hunter Biden who has been on the foreign take. It’s Donald Trump. And while this report mentions that Trump is basically an employee of Mohammed bin Salman through his LIV Golf relationship, that funding, and a number of other foreign payments Trump and his Oval Office employee family members received is not reflected in the topline of this report.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/05/rebuttals-to-eric-trumps-talking-points-about-his-daddys-corruption/
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1743269651985924219

January 5, 2024

Trump's campaign guided filing of Michigan's false electors certificate, emails show

Lansing — Then-President Donald Trump's campaign directly orchestrated the filing of a certificate, signed by 16 Michigan Republicans, that falsely claimed he won the state's 2020 election, according to internal campaign emails obtained by The Detroit News.

The documents, which have become part of Attorney General Dana Nessel's ongoing investigation into the slate of false electors, showed that Trump's campaign staff helped coordinate the Republicans' gathering inside state party headquarters on Dec. 14, 2020. Then, Trump's team prepared the official mailing of the false certificate to Vice President Mike Pence and the National Archives, according to the emails.

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The revelations provide further proof that the false elector certificates advanced in seven battleground states, including Michigan, were not organic efforts by local Republican officials to question the election results in their states, but part of a larger scheme by Trump's campaign to maintain power.

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However, internal emails showed that Trump campaign staffer Shawn Flynn prepared the mailing and sought advice from others within the campaign on how to get it to the U.S. Senate office of then-Vice President Mike Pence, who oversaw the counting of electoral votes.

"Just wanted to check if these need to be sent a certain class of mail along with the extra service of certified mail and registered mail respectively?" Flynn wrote of the false Michigan certificate in a Dec. 15, 2020, email to Chesebro, two other Trump campaigns staffers and an employee of the Republican National Committee.

https://twitter.com/time_loves/status/1743250735758729716
EMAILS & MORE:
https://archive.ph/jK22N#selection-309.0-309.84

January 5, 2024

Hillary Was Right - They Are Deplorable

January 4, 2024

Trump is weak, not strong.

- 35% to 40% of Rs not supporting him nationally
- Majorities of Rs not with him in the early states
- GOP has meaningfully splintered, keeps losing elections
- Olympian negatives, will make it near impossible for him to win
- New Hampshire

New ARG Poll of NH: Trump 37%, Haley 33%; Biden write-in 57%, Phillips 21%.

https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1742981002623139851

January 4, 2024

Trump's businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his presidency,

Donald Trump's businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his presidency, according to new documents released by House Democrats — most of it came from China.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1742928891243815207

January 2, 2024

This is very interesting and a major FU to Bibi

State Dept spox: The United States rejects recent statements from Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza. This rhetoric is inflammatory and irresponsible.

https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1742286077170270321