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2021-03-20 at 4:33 PM UTCIt looks like nobody will hire Trumpers. Cry me a fucking river.
Washington Examiner
Trump aides seeking jobs 'blocked everywhere'
Paul Bedard
You can count on two hands the number of former top Trump aides who have landed new jobs.
Former spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany is at Fox. Trump communicators Julia Hahn and Judd Deere joined newly elected Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty. The Heritage Foundation expanded its immigration team by giving fellowships to former Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf, his deputy Ken Cuccinelli, and former border boss Mark Morgan.
But for most others, resumes are gathering dust. Book manuscripts are being rejected. And corporations are being threatened with boycotts if they hire Trump team members.
“They are being blocked everywhere,” said Matt Schlapp, head of the American Conservative Union.
It’s “natural for the party that lost the White House, just as we saw after the Bush and Obama administrations, to spend a few months in the wilderness, so to speak,” added Brian Walsh, a partner at PLUS Communications.
But this time feels different, and many critics said it is deserved.
“They took a wrecking ball to the 'swamp.' Why would the 'swamp' want them back?” said a top K Street lobbyist.
Eric Dezenhall, an author and Washington communications adviser, said it is going to be hard for Trump staffers to land jobs quickly, especially with corporations, due to concerns the White House played fast and loose with the truth.
“I had one client say to me that they're avoiding people from Trumpworld because there, they are afraid that hiring from somebody from that world right out of the gate will provoke somebody into accusing them of lying,” Dezenhall said.
“The Trump crowd was able to traffic in dubious information, but they could do that as long as he was in power. When he loses that power, they're now victims of the same character assassination,” said Dezenhall, whose new novel, False Light, tackles that issue.
He also said Trump staffers have another strike against them. Republicans are not what corporations want because most have liberal management.
“The people who worked for Republican presidents have always had baggage that others have not had, and because corporations are desperate to be loved by people who don't like them, they're well known to recruit more heavily from Democrats," said Dezenhall.
His advice was for Trump administration staffers to avoid attention, take any job in their issue lane, and try again in a year.
Longtime Washington communicator Ron Bonjean, a partner at ROKK Solutions, agreed. “For those who want to stay in the Washington area, finding jobs with corporate offices and high-profile trade associations are probably going to be difficult to land. However, there are a number of right-of-center consulting firms along with new and existing policy campaigns that are going to be much more welcoming,” he said.
And give it time, said Walsh. “Inevitably, the dust settles, though, and those who are motivated and work hard will land on their feet.” -
2021-03-20 at 4:46 PM UTC
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2021-03-20 at 4:48 PM UTCWait a minute...I thought it was Antifa!
(AP) – Four men described as leaders of the far-right Proud Boys have been charged in the U.S. Capitol riots, as an indictment ordered unsealed on Friday presents fresh evidence of how federal officials believe group members planned and carried out a coordinated attack to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
So far, at least 19 leaders, members or associates of the neo-fascist Proud Boys have been charged in federal court with offenses related to the Jan. 6 riots. The latest indictment suggests the Proud Boys deployed a much larger contingent in Washington, with over 60 users “participating in” an encrypted messaging channel for group members that was created a day before the riots.
The Proud Boys abandoned an earlier channel and created the new “Boots on the Ground” channel after police arrested the group’s top leader, Enrique Tarrio, in Washington. Tarrio was arrested on Jan. 4 and charged with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December. He was ordered to stay out of the District of Columbia.
Tarrio hasn’t been charged in connection with the riots, but the latest indictment refers to him by his title as Proud Boys’ chairman.
Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs, two of the four defendants charged in the latest indictment, were arrested several weeks ago on separate but related charges. The new indictment also charges Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohoe.
All four defendants are charged with conspiring to impede Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote. Other charges in the indictment include obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and disorderly conduct.
Nordean, 30, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president and member of the group’s national “Elders Council.” Biggs, 37, of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl, 35, of Philadelphia, and Donohoe, 33, of North Carolina, serve as presidents of their local Proud Boys chapters, according to the indictment.
A lawyer for Biggs declined to comment. Attorneys for the other three men didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment Friday.
Proud Boys members, who describe themselves as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists,” have frequently engaged in street fights with antifascist activists at rallies and protests. Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, who founded the Proud Boys in 2016, sued the Southern Poverty Law Center for labeling it as a hate group.
The Proud Boys met at the Washington Monument around 10 a.m. on Jan. 6 and marched to the Capitol before then-President Donald Trump finished addressing thousands of supporters near the White House.
Around two hours later, just before Congress convened a joint session to certify the election results, a group of Proud Boys followed a crowd of people who breached barriers at a pedestrian entrance to the Capitol grounds, the indictment says. Several Proud Boys also entered the Capitol building itself after the mob smashed windows and forced open doors.
At 3:38 p.m., Donohoe announced on the “Boots on the Ground” channel that he and others were “regrouping with a second force” as some rioters began to leave the Capitol, according to the indictment.
“This was not simply a march. This was an incredible attack on our institutions of government,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason McCullough said during a recent hearing for Nordean’s case.
Prosecutors have said the Proud Boys arranged for members to communicate using specific frequencies on Baofeng radios. The Chinese-made devices can be programmed for use on hundreds of frequencies, making them difficult for outsiders to eavesdrop.
After Tarrio’s arrest, Donohoe expressed concern that their encrypted communications could be “compromised” when police searched the group chairman’s phone, according to the new indictment. In a Jan. 4 post on a newly created channel, Donohoe warned members that they could be “looking at Gang charges” and wrote, “Stop everything immediately,” the indictment says.
“This comes from the top,” he added.
A day before the riots, Biggs posted on the “Boots on the Ground” channel that the group had a “plan” for the night before and the day of the riots, according to the indictment.
In Nordean’s case, a federal judge accused prosecutors of backtracking on their claims that he instructed Proud Boys members to split up into smaller groups and directed a “strategic plan” to breach the Capitol.
“That’s a far cry from what I heard at the hearing today,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said on March 3.
Howell concluded that Nordean was extensively involved in “pre-planning” for the events of Jan. 6 and that he and other Proud Boys “were clearly prepared for a violent confrontation” that day. However, she said evidence that Nordean directed other Proud Boys members to break into the building is “weak to say the least” and ordered him freed from jail before trial.
On Friday, Howell ordered Proud Boys member Christopher Worrell detained in federal custody pending trial on riot-related charges. Prosecutors say Worrell traveled to Washington and coordinated with Proud Boys leading up to the siege.
“Wearing tactical gear and armed with a canister of pepper spray gel marketed as 67 times more powerful than hot sauce, Worrell advanced, shielded himself behind a wooden platform and other protestors, and discharged the gel at the line of officers,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Defense attorney John Pierce argued his client wasn’t aiming at officers and was only there in the crowd to exercise his free speech rights.
“He’s a veteran. He loves his country,” Pierce said.
Associated Press
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2021-03-20 at 4:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Wait a minute…I thought it was Antifa!
(AP) – Four men described as leaders of the far-right Proud Boys have been charged in the U.S. Capitol riots, as an indictment ordered unsealed on Friday presents fresh evidence of how federal officials believe group members planned and carried out a coordinated attack to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
So far, at least 19 leaders, members or associates of the neo-fascist Proud Boys have been charged in federal court with offenses related to the Jan. 6 riots. The latest indictment suggests the Proud Boys deployed a much larger contingent in Washington, with over 60 users “participating in” an encrypted messaging channel for group members that was created a day before the riots.
The Proud Boys abandoned an earlier channel and created the new “Boots on the Ground” channel after police arrested the group’s top leader, Enrique Tarrio, in Washington. Tarrio was arrested on Jan. 4 and charged with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December. He was ordered to stay out of the District of Columbia.
Tarrio hasn’t been charged in connection with the riots, but the latest indictment refers to him by his title as Proud Boys’ chairman.
Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs, two of the four defendants charged in the latest indictment, were arrested several weeks ago on separate but related charges. The new indictment also charges Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohoe.
All four defendants are charged with conspiring to impede Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote. Other charges in the indictment include obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and disorderly conduct.
Nordean, 30, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president and member of the group’s national “Elders Council.” Biggs, 37, of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl, 35, of Philadelphia, and Donohoe, 33, of North Carolina, serve as presidents of their local Proud Boys chapters, according to the indictment.
A lawyer for Biggs declined to comment. Attorneys for the other three men didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment Friday.
Proud Boys members, who describe themselves as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists,” have frequently engaged in street fights with antifascist activists at rallies and protests. Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, who founded the Proud Boys in 2016, sued the Southern Poverty Law Center for labeling it as a hate group.
The Proud Boys met at the Washington Monument around 10 a.m. on Jan. 6 and marched to the Capitol before then-President Donald Trump finished addressing thousands of supporters near the White House.
Around two hours later, just before Congress convened a joint session to certify the election results, a group of Proud Boys followed a crowd of people who breached barriers at a pedestrian entrance to the Capitol grounds, the indictment says. Several Proud Boys also entered the Capitol building itself after the mob smashed windows and forced open doors.
At 3:38 p.m., Donohoe announced on the “Boots on the Ground” channel that he and others were “regrouping with a second force” as some rioters began to leave the Capitol, according to the indictment.
“This was not simply a march. This was an incredible attack on our institutions of government,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason McCullough said during a recent hearing for Nordean’s case.
Prosecutors have said the Proud Boys arranged for members to communicate using specific frequencies on Baofeng radios. The Chinese-made devices can be programmed for use on hundreds of frequencies, making them difficult for outsiders to eavesdrop.
After Tarrio’s arrest, Donohoe expressed concern that their encrypted communications could be “compromised” when police searched the group chairman’s phone, according to the new indictment. In a Jan. 4 post on a newly created channel, Donohoe warned members that they could be “looking at Gang charges” and wrote, “Stop everything immediately,” the indictment says.
“This comes from the top,” he added.
A day before the riots, Biggs posted on the “Boots on the Ground” channel that the group had a “plan” for the night before and the day of the riots, according to the indictment.
In Nordean’s case, a federal judge accused prosecutors of backtracking on their claims that he instructed Proud Boys members to split up into smaller groups and directed a “strategic plan” to breach the Capitol.
“That’s a far cry from what I heard at the hearing today,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said on March 3.
Howell concluded that Nordean was extensively involved in “pre-planning” for the events of Jan. 6 and that he and other Proud Boys “were clearly prepared for a violent confrontation” that day. However, she said evidence that Nordean directed other Proud Boys members to break into the building is “weak to say the least” and ordered him freed from jail before trial.
On Friday, Howell ordered Proud Boys member Christopher Worrell detained in federal custody pending trial on riot-related charges. Prosecutors say Worrell traveled to Washington and coordinated with Proud Boys leading up to the siege.
“Wearing tactical gear and armed with a canister of pepper spray gel marketed as 67 times more powerful than hot sauce, Worrell advanced, shielded himself behind a wooden platform and other protestors, and discharged the gel at the line of officers,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Defense attorney John Pierce argued his client wasn’t aiming at officers and was only there in the crowd to exercise his free speech rights.
“He’s a veteran. He loves his country,” Pierce said.
Associated Press
Published 19 March 2021
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2021-03-20 at 5:10 PM UTCJust scroll right over anything stl1 posts. The ONLY thing he posts are the lies and schemes of the idiots who have him programmed. Not even worth reading.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-03-20 at 5:23 PM UTCfaggot cunt lefty commie bastard
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2021-03-20 at 5:25 PM UTClololol
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2021-03-20 at 5:41 PM UTCNot at all,, Ive known for years this country is filled to the brim with MORONS that don't give a proper fuck.
if you wanna see a nigger get triggered just follow me into a store with a bitch behind the counter with coolaid in her god damn hair.
it takes all 55 years of growing up to keep me from opening my mouth and speakin my mind.
I'm sure I look like a motherfucking cold blooded murderer while I'm biting my tongue and trying to get the fuck outs there before losing it and blowing the fuck up.. but you nigger don't faze me one little bit -
2021-03-20 at 5:59 PM UTCDo you miss taking your meds, Skunk?
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2021-03-20 at 6:28 PM UTC
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2021-03-21 at 5:24 AM UTCThe LA Times
Litman: Here's one way to hold Trump accountable for the insurrection: sue him
Harry Litman
President Trump promised, accurately, that his Jan. 6 "Save America/Stop the Steal" protest would be "wild.” As it turns out, its wildness created litigation opportunities that would otherwise be impossible.
Two sitting members of Congress — Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and California Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) — have each filed lawsuits against the former president (and others), in the wake of the attempted insurrection. These are civil suits — legal actions between private citizens or entities that are brought to reimburse the plaintiff for damages caused by the defendant.
The two congressmen allege Trump's lies about the 2020 election incited the Capitol attackers and intentionally harmed them. But their goal goes beyond a dollar payday. Swalwell and Thompson hope to hold the former president accountable in a way that he has maddeningly eluded to date.
The path to accountability is through the legal terrain known as discovery. In civil cases, the U.S. court system allows both sides to demand vast troves of information from each other, essentially any evidence that is relevant or could lead to relevant evidence. Most importantly for the two Jan. 6 lawsuits, the parties can be required to give depositions — sworn testimony under penalty of perjury.
Anyone paying attention to the Trump presidency knows that a deposition to Donald Trump is like a cross to a vampire. He can't seem to tell the truth for more than a few minutes at a time. He stonewalls on questions he wants to evade. But in a civil case, the judge can order Trump to respond. If he remains intransigent, he could be ordered to jail until he complies.
That sort of power could unearth protest planning documents, emails among participants and witness testimony about exactly how the president reacted when he watched the Jan. 6 mob surging through the halls of Congress. Trump would have to raise his right hand and swear to tell the truth about what he knew and when he knew it concerning both the Capitol attack and his false claims of election fraud. Criminal evidence is sometimes turned up in civil discovery. And perjury could get the former president into deeper hot water.
First, however, Swalwell and Thompson’s lawsuits have to overcome hurdles that could get them tossed before discovery begins.
One obstacle is what's called "standing." In the last 35 years or so, the U.S. Supreme Court, at the instigation of conservative justices beginning with Justice Antonin Scalia, has honed and strictly policed the doctrine of standing. Swalwell and Thompson may not sue Trump, let alone get anything out of him, just because they believe he lied or incited rioters. They must show what the court calls "a concrete, particularized injury in fact.”
Such a personal injury may be slight, but it must be concrete. And here is where Jan. 6's wildness opens a door. As a mob broke through police lines into the Capitol, Swalwell and Thompson can make a case that they were terrified, physically under threat and impeded from doing their official duties — in particular, certifying the election results that put Joe Biden into the White House.
That may be fairly thin stuff as harm or injury goes, but as the judge overseeing both cases makes a decision on the issue, it could well suffice.
There is another hurdle between Swalwell and Thompson and the holy grail of discovery and a Trump deposition. The cases must survive defendants' motions to dismiss. Typically, that means the court has to conclude before the case goes forward that if the allegations in the plaintiffs’ complaints are true (the main question to be decided in an actual trial), the plaintiffs would be legally entitled to relief.
Here again, Jan. 6 creates a legal opportunity. There is a specific law on the books — 42 USC 1985(1) — which allows "an action for recovery of damages" against anyone conspiring to “prevent by force, intimidation or threat” an official from discharging his duties.
Trump’s lawyers will no doubt argue against any such a conspiracy on the grounds that the former president didn’t intend for his followers to violently storm the Capitol. They'll claim he genuinely believed the election was stolen, so he lacked the knowledge that stopping the certification process was improper. But a civil plaintiff can “allege generally” states of mind such as intent and knowledge. On that standard, Swalwell and Thompson's complaints are likely to pass muster.
Will the plaintiffs prevail in the end? Will Trump and his co-defendants (in Swalwell's case, Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr. and Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks; in Thompson's case, Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers) be made to pay? Only a trial can tell.
Win or lose, however, the unprecedented events of Jan. 6, combined with every citizen's right to seek damages for concrete injuries, could force a public reckoning: the former president sworn to tell the truth, answering questions about his role in the Capitol siege and the months-long attempt to overthrow a free and fair election. -
2021-03-21 at 6:13 AM UTCno, the biggest hurdle will be legally defining the event as an 'insurrection'The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-03-21 at 10:42 AM UTC
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2021-03-21 at 11:17 AM UTCit would with you being a lefty cunt with a very low IQ and the fact you are willing to breed out the white in ur ass by breeding with a buck doesn't help you see things like a true AMERICAN.
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2021-03-21 at 11:31 AM UTC
Originally posted by Technologist in·sur·rec·tion
/ˌinsəˈrekSH(ə)n/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a violent uprising against an authority or government.
Seems pretty clear cut to me.
if that were the legal standard various groups would be arrested every 2 weeks or so.
other things aside it was largely a nonviolent protest until police allowed a small group to enter the chambers, who went on to steal shoes and take selfies -
2021-03-21 at 11:59 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra if that were the legal standard various groups would be arrested every 2 weeks or so.
other things aside it was largely a nonviolent protest until police allowed a small group to enter the chambers, who went on to steal shoes and take selfies
Now you’re truly believing propaganda aldra.
And Poley,
Sorry about your loss😂😂😂😂😂 -
2021-03-21 at 1:23 PM UTC
Originally posted by Technologist in·sur·rec·tion
/ˌinsəˈrekSH(ə)n/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a violent uprising against an authority or government.
Seems pretty clear cut to me.
looks like somebody needs to dicktionary more.vi•o•lent vī′ə-lənt►
adj.
Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force.
adj.
Characterized by or displaying physical violence.uprising ►
n.
A popular revolt against a government or its policies; a rebellion.
n.
The act or an instance of rising or rising up.
n.
The act of rising up, as from below the horizon, from a bed or seat, or from the grave.
a bunch of loud, unarmed weirdos in costumes and banners waltzing in into the capitol at the behest of capitol polices and without any clear objectives in mind is neither violent, nor an uprising.
the dicktionary has been very clear on this.
