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2021-07-13 at 10:18 PM UTCAIN'T NO FIXING STUPID
Vox.com
Trump has found his January 6 martyr
Aaron Rupar
On January 6, Ashli Babbitt was part of a mob that came within feet of laying hands on members of Congress who were still being evacuated from the Capitol. She was shot and killed by a US Capitol Police officer when she tried to climb through a glass pane that represented the last barricade between rioters and the government officials.
All of this is on video. During former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial for his role in inciting the January 6 insurrection, the impeachment managers played a video of these events.
The deadly use of force by law enforcement always merits critical scrutiny. Instead, there’s a campaign to mythologize Babbitt. Trump, as part of a broader effort to justify what happened on January 6, has recast Babbitt as a martyr — a victim whose tragic fate encapsulates why Trump supporters have good reason to feel aggrieved.
That campaign has been percolating for months, but it received one of its purest expressions during Trump’s interview with Maria Bartiromo for the most recent installment of her Sunday morning Fox News show.
“Who is the person who shot an innocent, wonderful, incredible woman — a military woman — right in the head, and there’s no repercussions,” Trump said, falsely, as Babbitt was actually shot in the torso. “If that were on the other side, it would be the biggest story in this country. Who shot Ashli Babbitt?”
Bartiromo agreed with Trump’s sentiments, then did her part to mischaracterize the events of January 6.
“Ashli Babbitt, a wonderful woman, fatally shot on January 6 as she tried to climb out of a broken window,” Bartiromo said, making it sound as though Babbitt was trying to escape the Capitol when in fact she was part of a group attempting to enter the US House chamber. She and Trump went on to strongly hint that the officer who shot Babbitt is somehow affiliated with prominent Democrats.
“I’ve heard also that it was the head of security for a certain high official. A Democrat. ... It’s going to come out,” Trump said. (This claim was quickly debunked — CNN reported on Monday that the officer who shot Babbitt was not part of a security detail for a member of Congress.)
Again, Babbit’s killing, like any fatal shooting by law enforcement, merits scrutiny. But the idea that it is somehow equivalent with the murder of George Floyd — a comparison made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) last week — is belied by the video.
Footage shows an angry mob, including Babbitt — a 35-year-old Air Force veteran and QAnon cultist who retweeted posts in the days leading up to January 6 suggesting that then-Vice President Mike Pence should be executed for treason because he refused to try to overturn the election results for Trump — trying to break down the last barrier physically separating them from members of Congress. That attempt prompted an officer to draw a weapon in an effort to deter rioters from going further toward the speaker’s lobby. The officer shot once at Babbitt after she attempted to jump through the door via the aforementioned broken glass pane.
While people can argue in good faith about whether there was a non-lethal way to prevent Babbitt from entering the House chamber, the video offers evidence that the officer’s decision to use deadly force was defensible. That Trump is insisting otherwise, six months after Babbitt’s death and right as he’s resuming regular rallies and speeches, highlights how central lies about the 2020 election will be to his campaigning going forward — and how the Republican Party he dominates will be an existential threat to democracy so long as they indulge these lies.
Trump thinks the insurrection was a “lovefest”
The broader context for Trump’s comments about Babbitt is his effort to transform the supporters of his who ransacked the Capitol from perpetrators to victims. Those supporters, inspired by Trump’s relentless election fraud lies, were there to prevent Congress from certifying his election loss to Biden. And though Trump may have condemned the violence on Capitol Hill in the days following January 6, now he’s making full-throated defenses of the insurrectionists.
While videos of that day show an angry crowd chanting things like “hang Mike Pence” and “take the Capitol,” Trump’s comments to Bartiromo incoherently alternated between making it sound like the insurrection was some sort of picnic in the park and insisting his supporters had good reason to be so angry. Trump insisted that those still incarcerated because of charges connected to their activities that day should be immediately released.
“They have to release the people that are incarcerated. They won’t do it to the other side,” Trump told Bartiromo, drawing a false equivalency between the insurrectionists and Black Lives Matter protesters.
Trump is also whitewashing his own role in instigating the insurrection. During his interview with Bartiromo, he described the speech he delivered just before the breach of the Capitol as “very mild-mannered,” ignoring that he actually mentioned “fight” or “fighting” at least 20 times.
“There was such love at that rally ... they were peaceful people,” Trump said. “The love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
That remark turns reality upside down. Mehdi Hasan’s MSNBC show put together a helpful video highlighting the disconnect between Trump’s latest comments about January 6 and video of what actually happened that day.
Ultimately, more than 150 officers were injured, with Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick dying the next day (there is some uncertainty about his cause of death). In addition to Babbitt, three Trump supporters died, with one of them — a 34-year-old woman named Rosanne Boyland — being trampled to death as Trump supporters clashed with law enforcement outside the Capitol.
Nonetheless, during his interview with Bartiromo, Trump described what happened that day as “a lovefest between the Capitol Police and the people who walked down to the Capitol.” Both Bartiromo and Trump expressed indignation that, as Bartiromo put it, “they continue to call this an armed insurrection, and yet no guns were seized” — overlooking that, in fact, at least four insurrection attendees were charged with firearms-related crimes, and that weapons seized that day included stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats, and even pipe bombs.
Republicans have learned to love the insurrection because they can’t afford to cross Trump
Trump’s recent focus on Ashli Babbitt makes very clear that lies about the 2020 election will be central to his political identity — and that of the Republican Party he dominates — going forward.
The lie Trump has been pushing is that Babbitt and the rest of the January 6 insurrectionists had good reason to attack Congress that day, because the election was stolen from him. And while there’s no evidence to back that up, Trump’s speech Sunday afternoon at CPAC Dallas — an event where he dominated the presidential straw poll — demonstrated he’s not above just making stuff up.
“You saw what happened in Georgia the other day. They found 35,000 votes,” Trump said, mischaracterizing a recent article from a right-wing publication about voters who may have moved from one Georgia county to another outside of a statutory 30-day grace period — hardly the type of politically motivated fraud Republicans have been fear-mongering about.
“Then they deleted, in Georgia, over 100,000 votes, because they were so bad, voters,” Trump continued, referring to the state’s recent routine move to purge 100,000 names from voter registration rolls.
For Trump, evidence or lack thereof isn’t important — what matters is that enough Republican voters buy his lies about the election so that it’s impossible for those who don’t indulge them to stay in the party. The purge appears to be succeeding. Consider Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who lost her spot in House leadership because she voted for Trump’s impeachment, or even Trump’s boasts at CPAC about how Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) can’t walk down the streets in his home state without being harassed by Trump supporters who are upset with his vote to convict Trump.
But diatribes about voter rolls and voting machines don’t have the same emotional impact as the story of Babbitt. After all, many Trump supporters probably see elements of themselves in her, as a veteran who was radicalized by viral conspiracy theories.
Turning Babbitt into the MAGA version of Horst Wessel has become a central theme of Trump’s return to public life. And her ascension to martyr status symbolizes how, now more than ever, Trumpism stands in opposition to free and fair elections. -
2021-07-13 at 10:32 PM UTCThe people supporting that woman are fucktards. If I was one of the metro officers there I would have grabbed an assault rifle and killed a few hundred people.
whatever happened to these days
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2021-07-14 at 11:58 AM UTCImagine a vaccine so "safe" you have to be threatened to have it. For a virus so "deadly" that you have to be tested to know if you have itThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-07-14 at 1:25 PM UTCgod is on the patriots side of the narrative
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2021-07-14 at 2:11 PM UTCMSNBC
Newly leaked RNC emails reveal a truly cynical GOP reality
Hayes Brown
If you're reading this, odds are you've known for a long time that former President Donald Trump's claims of a vast election fraud conspiracy are total fabrications. As is becoming clearer as the months pass, leading Republican Party figures have known the same for just as long.
They have either kept quiet about their concerns or been excommunicated from their roles. Instead, the loudest voices in the GOP are the ones who are actively promoting Trump's lies. But even those who are remaining quiet are content to use those lies to further their own agendas.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that one of those GOP leaders, Justin Riemer, was trying to get his colleagues to see sense back in November. Riemer, the Republican National Committee's chief counsel, wrote in an email to a staffer that the RNC shouldn't post Trump's claims about ballot fraud on its social media accounts. And he didn't mince words:
“What Rudy and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting laughed out of court,” Riemer, a longtime Republican lawyer, wrote to Liz Harrington, a former party spokeswoman, on Nov. 28, referring to Trump attorneys Rudolph W. Giuliani and Jenna Ellis. “They are misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking that the president is going to somehow win this thing."
Giuliani reportedly tried — and failed — to get Riemer fired after he learned about that email. But if you look at the RNC's position since then, you can see two things are true. First, that the committee on the whole followed Riemer's advice and hasn't on the whole claimed that the election was stolen from Trump. And Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel never signed off on the wildest lies Trump put out there and has conceded that President Joe Biden won.
Second, the RNC has apparently decided that lying through omission isn't a sin. Because while the party's apparatchiks aren't touting the big lie directly, they are still backing Trump and using him to strengthen their fundraising efforts. Politico reported in May that the RNC had "sent 97 emails mentioning Trump" to its mailing list since Jan. 6. And it isn't condemning candidates who blast out conspiracy theories or refusing to offer them funding and campaign infrastructure.
You can also see it in when the committee chooses to speak out. When Republicans like Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming try to tell the truth, the RNC isn't sticking its neck out to back them up. But the committee is more than happy to spend time, money and effort to defend laws that hinder voting, like the one Georgia has passed — laws that have Trump's lies to thank for their popularity among the GOP base and their swift adoption.
Because let's be clear: Riemer disagreed with Giuliani and Ellis only because they went too far. As The Post reported, he was concerned that their antics were damaging a broader GOP campaign to promote "election integrity" as an issue. Ahead of the election, the RNC was more than happy to join the Trump campaign's efforts to block mail-in voting during a pandemic because it would help Democrats vote.
Those "millions of people who have wishful thinking" whom Riemer warned about are still being misled, even if it's not the RNC saying that Trump should be the real president. They're just fans of the people who are. -
2021-07-14 at 2:22 PM UTCpost trump stress disorder.
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2021-07-14 at 2:24 PM UTCYes, Donald Trump's final days in office were even worse than we thought
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Donald Trump's final days as president were defined by near-total chaos as House Democrats moved to impeach him for his action (and inaction) during the January 6 riot at the US Capitol even as the soon-to-be-former president sought to use the power of his office to settle scores and reward loyalists.
And yet, even amid those last, wild days, there was a sense that for as bad as everything we could see was, there was even worse stuff going on behind closed doors that wouldn't be made public until Trump left office, and the true reportorial digging began.
Which brings me to Tuesday, when two highly anticipated Trump books -- Michael Bender's "Frankly We Did Win This Election," and Michael Wolff's "Landslide" -- went on sale, with a third book -- "I Alone Can Fix It" by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker -- scheduled to be released in seven days' time.
All three books focus on Trump's last year in office. And all three present what can only be described as a terrifying picture of a president consumed by personal hatred and unwilling to even consider the limits his predecessors had placed on themselves in office.
The stories that have already emerged paint a scary picture. Trump calling for the execution of whoever leaked that he had been taken to the White House bunker while Black Lives Matter protesters were marching through the streets of Washington in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. His volcanic reaction when Arizona was called for Joe Biden on election night. Trump raging at then-Attorney General Bill Barr about (nonexistent) voter fraud. A shouting match between Trump and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley over the appropriate response to the BLM protests engulfing the country in the summer of 2020.
There are more stories that have emerged from these books. And there will be even more once readers -- and reporters -- get their hands on the hard copies and are able to do their own digging into Trump's final days.
But these stories also present a problem: Each one is, yes, appalling. But the nature of our news cycle is such that even as I was writing this piece, I was struggling to remember the individual stories that had already come out of the books.
The stories that come out of these books -- released to gin up excitement and, more importantly, sales in advance of their releases -- tend to be fleeting, shining bright for a brief moment when the political universe is all staring at them but quickly disappearing into the vastness of our broader news consumption.
That fact is why it's important not to get too caught up in any one revelation that has or will emerge from these books and instead take a step back and see the broader reality being painted here.
And that reality is this:
* Faced with a once-in-a-century public health crisis, Donald Trump not only drastically mishandled some of the basics (rapid testing for Covid-19, mask-wearing) but also actively worked to undermine public confidence in the very doctors, epidemiologists and public health experts who were working to keep Americans safe.
* Unable to accept that he had lost the election, Trump sought to use the official powers of the government -- including the Justice Department -- to try to find non-existent evidence of fraud. He created an environment in which a large chunk of Americans believed this Big Lie about the election and then not only incited the January 6 crowd but also stood by for hours as they ransacked the Capitol.
* Trump, who repeatedly told crowds during the campaign that he had done more for Black people than any president since Abraham Lincoln, failed to grasp either the gravity or the goals of the Black Lives Matter protests. He saw the racial justice protests as nothing more than an uprising against HIM -- and tried to force the military to deploy to states where the marches were most prevalent.
This is, in sum, a man deeply unfit for the presidency. (That is not a partisan statement. It is a statement of fact based on the clear portrait we have of how Trump behaved while in the most powerful office in the country.) A man who, by his inability to understand the sanctity of the office he held, threatened to destroy that sanctity for those who would follow him into the White House. And a man who was, without any question, an active danger for every single American -- whether they supported or opposed him.
THAT needs to be the takeaway from these books. THAT is the forest through the trees. And THAT is the truth that voters needs to hear if and when Trump tries to reclaim the presidency in 2024. -
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2021-07-14 at 5:58 PM UTCDON'T YOU FEEL STUPID FOR BEING A SHEEP?
MSNBC
Trump lawyers tried to defend the indefensible in Michigan. It didn't go well.
Barbara McQuade
There is a big difference between baseless assertions and evidence. On Monday, lawyers advancing claims of election fraud in support of former President Donald Trump got a master class in the distinction.
Sidney Powell and other lawyers are defending themselves in federal court against allegations that their election fraud lawsuit in Michigan was so frivolous that it constitutes abuse of the court process. Powell and co. filed the lawsuit on behalf of a group of Michigan voters and nominated Republican electors alleging that the election was manipulated to elect Joe Biden. The plaintiffs dismissed the lawsuit in December after U.S. District Judge Linda Parker denied their motion for an injunction.
Now, counsel for the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit are asking the court to order the lawyers to reimburse taxpayers for the costs of defending the lawsuit, to refer the lawyers for disciplinary action and to ban them from practicing in the Eastern District of Michigan. No matter what the outcome is, the exercise offers a cold, hard look at how weak Team Trump's nationwide series of legal challenges really was.
Sidney Powell and other attorneys are defending themselves in federal court against allegations that their election fraud lawsuit in Michigan was so frivolous that it constitutes abuse of the court process.
Methodically walking through the affidavits submitted in support of the complaint, Parker exposed the utter absence of any factual basis to support the lawsuit, expressing concern that it was filed to "make the public believe there was something wrong in Michigan." In her opinion denying the injunction in December, Parker wrote that the complaint was based on "speculation and conjecture."
"In fact," she wrote, "this lawsuit seems to be less about achieving the relief Plaintiffs seek ... and more about the impact of their allegations on people's faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government."
During Monday's hearing, Parker read from affidavits submitted in support of the complaint. Each statement appeared to be completely lacking in evidentiary value. Witnesses made allegations such as a "belief" that ballots were altered, that they were "perplexed" by what they had seen and that plastic bags looked "as if" they contained papers that "could be" ballots. Parker noted a total absence of any probative value in affidavits that merely expressed subjective beliefs, asking repeatedly whether the lawyers had made any inquiry into the factual basis on which each affidavit was based. Hearing none, the court finally asked, "How could any of you, as officers of the court, present this in an affidavit?"
Powell responded by saying that because they were not required to file affidavits with a complaint in federal court, their misleading nature was irrelevant. Instead, she argued, the only way to verify their accuracy is "through the crucible of trial." That response ignores the requirements of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which states in its relevant part that by filing a pleading with the court, lawyers certify to the court that, to the best of the their "knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances ... the factual contentions have evidentiary support."
At least Powell tried to answer the question. L. Lin Wood, another lawyer whose name appears on the complaint, claimed that he had never even read it in the first place. He admitted only that he had offered to provide assistance to Powell, who he said added his name to the complaint without his knowledge. The judge noted, however, that Powell did not, at any time since the case was filed in November, ask to withdraw his name from the complaint and suggested that his position appeared to be "an after-the-fact assessment." That seems like a polite way of saying you're just making things up.
According to one report, 13,000 viewers watched at least part of Monday's virtual hearing, which was a rare opportunity to hold accountable the lawyers who were (and still are) facilitating Trump's specious election fraud lies. And clearly, it is one thing to make unsupported claims on television or social media. It is quite another to try to make them in court.
As former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski once testified, there is “no obligation to be honest with the media.” The same is not true of lawyers.
As former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski once testified before a congressional committee, there is "no obligation to be honest with the media." The same is not true of lawyers before a judge. Lawyers have an ethical duty to maintain "candor toward the tribunal" and are considered officers of the court as well as representatives of their clients. Lawyers must also investigate claims in good faith before they file complaints to ensure that they are supported in fact and law.
By filing a lawsuit challenging the election results without any evidentiary support, Detroit counsel David Fink argued, the attorneys for the plaintiffs were "wielding weapons bestowed upon them as lawyers to abuse the court process."
Fink accused the lawyers of using litigation to "fuel the fire of online conspiracy theorists to support their efforts." "Because of the lies told in this lawsuit," he argued, "even today, millions of Americans believe the big lie that Joe Biden did not with the election, that somehow, the election was stolen."
Fink's point is important, because this is about more than sloppy or even unethical legal reasoning. Trump did not need to win a lawsuit challenging the election; he just needed to file one. That Trump's lawsuits were shoddy and that they failed across the board is beside the point. The goal has always been to provide some basis for supporters looking to fool people into believing his claims. This is the recipe for a disinformation campaign. And if loyal lawyers are disbarred along the way, so be it.
Judge Parker ended the hearing without a decision, asking the parties to submit supplemental briefs within 14 days. But it is hard to imagine what more could be said in defense of indefensible conduct. The lawyers in this case appear to have abused the court process to engage in information warfare. By supporting the narrative that Trump won the election, the lawsuit worked to undermine confidence in our elections in the U.S. and in democracy around the world. As Fink said, these lawsuits helped spark the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, where lives were lost.
Parker has an opportunity to send a strong message that the courts will not allow themselves to be used as propaganda machines. As U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in sentencing Trump associate Roger Stone for lying to Congress and obstructing justice: In some places, "the truth still matters."
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2021-07-14 at 7:47 PM UTCDON'T YOU FEEL STUPID FOR BEING A SHEEP?
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2021-07-14 at 8:57 PM UTCCheck out how devious these elections thieves really were. Mindblowing evidence coming out.
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Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out how devious these elections thieves really were. Mindblowing evidence coming out.
https://rumble.com/vjsv8v-live-at-5-pm-cdt-bombshell-report-michigan-election-2020-case-with-atty.-st.html
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Because...you can't.
