Donald J. Trump will act as his own defense attorney at his impeachment trial after receiving a law degree from Trump University.
Trump bestowed the degree upon himself in his capacity as the dean of the Trump University School of Law, where he graduated first in his class.
Let's face it. So many jurors are in on the crime, there is no way Trump gets convicted. My dog could defend him successfully.
59-seconds of truth bombs on the requirements of elected leaders in America...pic.twitter.com/N2o00KATDC
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 29, 2021
“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
[Rebekah] Mercer has been financing a host of right-wing individuals and groups involved in the storming of the Capitol, The Intercept reported earlier this month, from Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward to “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander, in addition to her role as a financier of news website Breitbart and the social network Parler. In 2020, Mercer’s father, Robert Mercer, donated $1.5 million to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, and the Mercers donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee.
The Mercers money insulates them from the vagaries of life that face over 99% of the rest of America's population which gives them a unique position from which they can judge others. In their view Democrats are rabid Marxists (a human species that has been on the endangered list for decades) and Black Americans had it much better before the out of control government started giving them the same rights as white Americans.
And no matter what you do, don't mention the media to them.
Mercer is indefatigable in her critique of the media. “Today, journalists of the mainstream media are little more than the Machiavellian foot soldiers of the progressive left, unethical to their very hearts, shameless about writing lies and defaming people, and assiduously filtering the stories they print through a prism of partisan prejudice,” Mercer writes.
These are Trump kind of people.
The horror show that is the "coat industry" or as they are called by insiders, the "big coat". Coats are just one of those items of clothing that people (sheeple) are being forced to wear. What about hats? Socks? Underwear? Come on people! Wake up?
If people talked about coats the way they talk about vaccines. By @jpscattini #COVID19 #CovidVaccine pic.twitter.com/HnNkPLcwPO
— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson) January 27, 2021
Don't get me started on face masks.
Trump is a tiny, insignificant person. He has no redeeming qualities, just a gut full of rage and a head filled with grandiose fantasies that he is intelligent and powerful. He is a petty bully and a weak, insecure little man. And, let's face it Melania is just as small and petty as her husband.
"The Trumps sent the butlers home when they left so there would be no one to help the Bidens when they arrived," the official said. "So petty."Other knowledgable sources confirmed to the Journal that chief usher Timothy Harleth, a former executive of Trump Hotels hired by Melania Trump, was summarily fired by the outgoing president and first lady -- and not by the Bidens, as was widely reported afterward.
Harleth was already gone by the time Joe and Jill Biden arrived at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, leaving no one in place to open the doors for their inaugural entry and leading to an awkward pause.
“If you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinly veiled innuendo,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said during an interview on Fox News, “calling us white supremacists, calling us racists, calling us every name in the book.”
Paul also apparently objected to Biden’s saying that “there is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit.”
“Calling us people who don’t tell the truth,” Paul continued. “ ‘And going forward we’re not going to have manufactured or manipulated truth.’ That’s another way of saying ‘All of my opponents manufacture or manipulate the truth and are liars.’ ”
In the crowd that day were 13 members of state Houses or Assemblies; three state senators; a county commissioner; a city council member; a GOP congressional district chair; a district director; and a co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party. The group also includes a QAnon conspiracy theorist; a self-described member of a fascist militia; and a man who once declared that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
These GOP officials, after all, were taking part in, and lending credence to, the finale of a months long campaign to falsely discredit the results of a fair election. All were eager participants in a nakedly anti-democratic ploy to keep their preferred president in power, and helped whip a fascist mob into a frenzy.
The two days of rallies were staged not by white nationalists and other extremists, but by well-funded nonprofit groups and individuals that figure prominently in the machinery of conservative activism in Washington.
Organizing warm-up events is not the same thing as plotting to invade the Capitol. But before the rallies, some used extreme rhetoric, including references to the American Revolution, and made false claims about the election to rouse supporters to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Unless Congress responds to the protests, “everyone can guess what me and 500,000 others will do to that building,” tweeted Ali Alexander, a former CNP fellow who organized the “Stop the Steal” movement. “1776 is *always* an option.”
Events included a “Patriot Caravan” of buses to Washington, a “Save the Republic” rally on Jan. 5 and a “Freedom Rally” on the morning of Jan. 6. A little-known nonprofit called Women for America First, a group run by Trump supporters and former tea party activists, got approval to use space on the Ellipse for what they called a “March for Trump,” according to the “public gathering permit” issued on Jan. 5.
Nearly a dozen political activists — including former White House, congressional and Trump campaign staffers — served as on-site rally coordinators and stage managers, the permit said. A spokesperson for Women for America First did not respond to requests for comment.
The list of right wing organizations and Republican groups involved includes almost all of what used to be the far right fringe of American politics. Now, those groups - the racist, the fascists, the adherents to "alternate facts," the Christian Dominionists, the QAnons - they are the beating heart of the Republican Party.
Is it any wonder why Rand Paul is so defensive about being called racist and a liar? If the shoe fits.
Tough first day on the job. It will take a long time to repair the damage Trump has done.
In what must be a shocking revelation for everyone … Trump lied. The military was never put in charge of vaccine distribution. Instead, it was contracted out to private companies. But that wasn’t the end of the problems with the distribution. While Trump and former HHS Secretary Alex Azar talked up a “federal stockpile” of vaccine that they were handing out carefully to make sure everyone got their prescribed two doses, it took until just before Azar’s departure before the truth came out. There was no stockpile.
It’s now clear that President Joe Biden isn’t just walking in to find the vaccine cupboards bare, but absolutely no real plan for handing out vaccine. Biden’s team is starting from scratch.
Just watch this.
Don’t know who this dude is but he broke that shit DOWN!! Listen especially the ones that need to hear it!! pic.twitter.com/gSZno2yaRh
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) January 17, 2021
...Over four polarising years Trump accomplished many of the KGB’s longstanding goals. These included estranging the US from its western allies and Nato; deepening domestic strife; and waging a Putin-style disinformation campaign against the 2020 result.
Manchurian candidate or not, Trump did more than any previous president to discredit US democracy and suck up to the Kremlin. Back in the 1980s the Soviet government invited Trump to Moscow. Seemingly it identified him early as a person without scruples, one perhaps capable given time and opportunity of bringing down the republic.
The invasion of the Capitol was the culmination of this cold war fantasy; a perfect series finale.
Will Trump get his Moscow hotel now? He's earned it.
The MAGA mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th were the "shock troops" of a group of right wing ideologues, billionaires and greedy corporations. The insurrection against the Constitutional government of the United States was fomented by Trump and his Republican political allies, but it was built on a foundation of racism and vulture capitalists, who prefer autocracy to democracy.
The Capitol siege was just one battle in an ongoing, decades-long assault on democracy. Racist ideologues have served as the vanguard, but they have long been supported (sometimes openly, often tacitly) by a wide swathe of capitalists. The ultranationalist Maga diehards, Qanon cultists, and various fascists that stormed the Capitol are shock troops searching for a leader. Trump will likely prove too self-absorbed, too cowardly, and too lazy for the job. But no matter how many arrests are made or officials fired, the tide of history has returned us to the rocky shores of political violence and mass upheaval.
Covid-19 has been a major contributor to the wealth of America's billionaires - this group has gained one trillion dollars of wealth in the last year. This increase in wealth has often been built upon the backs (and bodies) of low wage workers.
...the racialized distribution of labor in the United States – the concentration of workers of color in both essential industries, where they are more likely to be exposed to the pandemic, and service and hospitality industries, where layoffs have been rampant – means that Black, Latino, and Native Americans are significantly more likely to be hospitalized and die of Covid-19 than non-Hispanic white Americans. This serves as a stark reminder of the white supremacist character of the decades-long effort to defang and declaw the American labor movement – an effort funded and organized by the same far-right capitalists who laid the groundwork for 6 January.
...the secretive and influential [Council] for National Policy (CNP), which author Anne Nelson describes as “connecting the manpower and media of the Christian right with the finances of western plutocrats and the strategy of right-wing Republican political operatives,” called for state legislators in six swing states to reject Joe Biden’s election victory.
...the Judicial Crisis Network, which has contributed millions to the Republican Attorneys General Association (Raga), listed as one of the participating organizations in the rally. Raga’s fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, sent robocalls encouraging Trump supporters to march on the Capitol ahead of the 6 January rally...
...major donors to Raga include not only rightwing bogeymen like Koch Industries, Walmart, or the Adelson family but also household corporate names like Comcast, Amazon and TikTok.
Koch Industries is the single largest corporate donor to Republican representatives who pledged to try to overturn the election results, the next biggest contributors included defense companies like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, as well as tech (Amazon) and finance (Goldman Sachs) and insurance (Aflac), according to the Center for Media and Democracy.Dick Uihlein, the chief executive of the Uline shipping company and a contributor to the Koch donor network, spent at least $2m getting Josh Hawley elected to the US Senate and has contributed more than $4m to the Tea Party Patriots, another one of the 11 groups listed as participating in the Stop the Steal coalition.In 2019, more than $20m was funneled through DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund that disguises the source of major giving to nonprofits, to a dozen organizations that would ultimately contest the integrity of the 2020 presidential election...
Our country is under attack from the right. From groups and individuals who have no interest in forming a "more perfect union" and, instead have a vested interest in perpetuating a racist, wealth driven, stratified society. Trump demonstrated how quickly once reasonable people could be radicalized by "big lies" and how their frustrations and anger could be turned against their own government.
We must understand that what we've been living through is backlash. Backlash. It's not the engine of history. It is the revolt against the engine of history. Then we might remember — just to pat ourselves on the back for a second — that what we are actually endeavoring to do right now is to become a kind of society that has seldom, if ever, existed in history. Which is become a majority-minority, democratic superpower.
Trump and his MAGA mob are fighting to restore the past. America has always been in the future, not locking into the past. The victory of the country that our founders and every great leader of this country has fought for is not inevitable, but it is possible. We can't despair. We can work for the future.
This guy is trying to sell you pillows and he's selling Trump on declaring martial law so that he can stay in power. Even today, when the outline of Trump insurrection is being filled in with acts of violence and evidence of a seditious conspiracy, MyPillow guy is pushing for a violent overthrow of the Constitutional government of the United States.
MyPillow CEO Michael Lindell brought notes with him to a meeting in the West Wing Friday that zoomed-in photographs appear to show contained the phrases “martial law,” “Insurrection Act” and “foreign interference in the election.”
The paper also included a line reading “move Kash Patel to CIA Acting,” a seeming suggestion for President Donald Trump to fire CIA Director Gina Haspel and move Patel, a Trump loyalist recently installed at the Pentagon amid a purge of senior civilian officials, to fill the role.
I would avoid putting your head on a MyPillow unless you approve of treason.
For four years, Trump and his enablers systematically dismantled the machinery of government responsible for investigating and assessing the threat to our country posed by domestic terrorists. In particular, workers in agencies involved in monitoring and reporting on the threat posed by white supremacists or neo-fascist organizations were left with a clear understanding that none of the MAGA embeds in the various government agencies responsible for public safety were interested in the dealing with that threat.
Across conversations with multiple former DHS officials and analysts, TPM found that a top-down aversion from the Trump administration towards addressing the threat of far-right extremism, inept management, and the dismantling of DHS bureaucracies aimed at coordinating, analyzing, and disseminating information about extremist groups contributed to the lack of warning.
Trump considered these groups to be allies and treated them as such. Reduced emphasis on these violent groups themselves and an institutional unwillingness to provide warning of potential dangers particularly when those dangerous activities coincided with Trump and MAGA goals.
The real terrorist threat to our nation is Trump and the Republican Party. They are one and the same.
For the inauguration, there will be at least four times as many National Guardsmen in the US capital as troops in all of Afghanistan. Where is the greatest terror threat to the US today?
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 12, 2021
There isn't much evidence that Sinclair Lewis said or wrote that "when Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Whether Lewis is the author or not, the statement itself is tragically prescient.
Evangelical white Christians have been a core constituency of the Republican Party for decades. But, today their fidelity to the Republican Party has been eclipsed by their near worship of Trump himself. Trump seems an unlikely vessel for such adulation, but despite his obvious lack of faith and his long history of serial violations of a large number of Commandments, faith in Trump has become a cult like obsession among many evangelicals.
Some of the insurrectionist that pillaged and defiled the United State Capitol last Wednesday carried the banners of both Jesus and Trump. Some of them were likely also participants in the Jericho March, a series of marches on state capitols that culminated in Washington last Wednesday as the MAGA mob attacked our country.
...“Shout if you love Jesus!” someone yelled, and the crowd cheered. “Shout if you love Trump!” The crowd cheered louder. The group’s name is drawn from the biblical story of Jericho, “a city of false gods and corruption,” the march’s website says. Just as God instructed Joshua to march around Jericho seven times with priests blowing trumpets, Christians gathered in D.C., blowing shofars, the ram’s horn typically used in Jewish worship, to banish the “darkness of election fraud” and ensure that “the walls of corruption crumble.”
The founders of the Jericho March include Robert Weaver, who was selected by Trump to head the Indian Health Services. Weaver withdrew from consideration when serious questions arose regarding the veracity of his resume and multiple financial improprieties. Arina Grossu co-founded the Jericho March movement with Weaver. She is a prominent voice in the Family Research Council, a right wing Christian organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. She has been outspoken in her belief that Trump won the 2020 election, parroting Trump and his lawyers' lies in multiple interviews. Considering its singular purpose, it could be said that the Jericho March is basically a right wing astroturf operation designed to promote Trump's "stolen election" fiction by wrapping a Trump flag around the cross and calling it a religious crusade.
The Jericho March is evidence that Donald Trump has bent elements of American Christianity to his will, and that many Christians have obligingly remade their faith in his image. Defiant masses literally broke down the walls of government, some believing they were marching under Jesus’s banner to implement God’s will to keep Trump in the White House.
What is difficult and painful for many Americans of faith is the extent to which a large segment of Christians have been lead to believe that Trump's Christianity is somehow greater than the faith of the country's voters, election official and elected representatives. If Trump says something that is verifiably false these followers of Christ are compelled to say that his statement is true and that anyone who doesn't believe Trump has failed to do God's bidding.
On Wednesday, the Jericho March account tweeted a screenshot of Trump condemning Vice President Mike Pence for not stopping the certification of the Electoral College votes. “A sad day in America,” it said, along with prayer-hands emojis. The march organizers were not mourning the attack on the Capitol. They were mourning the vice president’s refusal to help the president overturn the election.
Football's New England Patriots head coach, Bill Belichick, will not accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump. Belichick has been a Trump friend and supporter even prior to Trump's 2016 election. The White House only announced the planned award to Belichick on Sunday in an apparent bid to give Trump a photo opportunity with the successful coach this Wednesday.
"Recently I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients. Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.
"Above all, I am an American citizen with great reverence for our nation's values, freedom and democracy. I know I also represent my family and the New England Patriots team. One of the most rewarding things in my professional career took place in 2020 when, through the great leadership within our team, conversations about social justice, equality and human rights moved to the forefront and became actions.
I wonder if Trump's other football pal, former Patriot quarterback, Tom Brady, will still be playing golf with Trump after his season ends?
...Plenty of the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday really, truly believed that Trump had been cheated out of four more years; that Vice President Mike Pence had unilateral power to revise the election results; that their takeover of the building could change the course of history... But the point remains: They were conned into coming to D.C. in the first place, not just by Trump with his compulsive lying, but by the legions of Republicans who refused to counter those lies, believing it couldn’t hurt to humor the president and stoke the fires of his base.
Republican leaders at every level took up Trump's "stolen election" lie and amplified it giving it credence and encouraging every one of the 73 million people who voted for Trump to violence.
Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who once skewered Trump’s dishonesty, promised “earth-shattering” evidence to support his former rival’s claims of a rigged election. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy insisted that “President Trump won this election,” told of a plot to cheat him and alerted the viewers watching him on Fox News, “We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes.” Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who famously called Trump “a pathological liar,” himself lied so frequently and so shamelessly it became difficult to keep up. Dozens of other congressional Republicans leveled sweeping, unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, some of them promoting the #stopthesteal campaign online.
The entire mechanism of the Republican Party joined in the deception, the lies, the wild far out theories. The party itself attacked honest Republican at the state level for doing their jobs correctly.
From party headquarters, the Republican National Committee’s chairwoman flung reckless insinuations left and right as her top staffers peddled a catalogue of factually inaccurate claims. The two Republican senators from Georgia, desperate to keep in Trump’s good graces ahead of their runoff elections, demanded the resignation of the Republican secretary of state for no reason other than the president’s broad assertions of corruption, none of which stood up to multiple recounts and investigations by GOP officials statewide. Local lawmakers in states like Michigan and Wisconsin told Republicans they’d been cheated, citing the suspicious late-night counting of mail ballots, when they were the ones who had refused to allow those ballots to be counted earlier, never mind the fact that Trump’s lawsuits were being laughed out of one courtroom after another.
No lies was excluded, no matter how bizarre and irresponsible. In fact it almost seems that Republicans, Trump's lawyers and the right wing noise machine were in competition to see who could get the MAGA mob to believe the most outlandish and ridiculous lies.
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich floated the arrest of election workers. Mark Levin, the right-wing radio host, urged Republican-controlled legislatures to ignore the results of their state elections and send pro-Trump slates to the Electoral College. Right-wing propaganda outlets like The Federalist and One America News churned out deceptive content framing the election as inherently and obviously corrupt. The RNC hosted disgraced lawyer Sidney Powell for a sanctioned news conference that bordered on clinically insane, parts of which were tweeted by the @GOP account. The president’s lawyers and surrogates screamed about hacked voting machines and international treachery and Biden-logoed vans full of ballots.
Trump is just the tip of the iceberg. The entire Republican Party is corrupt.
Yes, I mean fucking YES! It's all right here. This guy is a genius. He debunks the lies the right has been spreading for decades and asks the MAGAs "what are you so goddamned upset about?" Healthcare? The fact Obama didn't take your guns away? "What is it that this country doesn't give you?"
Couldn’t say it better pic.twitter.com/NxCkxeOQZX
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) January 10, 2021
Here are some observations from a knowledgeable observer of the Trump's insurrection mob. He describe a mob that included "country club Republicans" and "white Evangelicals in Jesus caps," untroubled by the racism and anti-Semitism of their fellow MAGA insurrectionists.
My wife and I attended the “Stop the Steal” Trump Insurrection on Wednesday (as observers, NOT participants) and there are FIVE big take-aways from what we witnessed and heard outside the Capitol that I'd like to share.
...These people are serious and they are going to keep escalating the violence until they are stopped by the force of law. There were many, many people there who were excited by the violence and proud and excited about the prospect of more violence.
And it wasn’t just the white nationalists, Second Amendment radicals, and QAnon boneheads. I can’t adequately describe the blood lust we heard everywhere as we walked over the Capitol grounds, even from mild-mannered looking people.
The most alarming part to me was the matter-of-fact, causal ways that people from all walks of life were talking about violence and even the execution of “traitors” in private conversations, like this was something normal that happened every day.
Trumpism is the inevitable result of decades of the hard rightward movement of the Republican Party. The people in Wednesday's mob were the Republican core, not its fringe.
What a bunch of entitled snowflakes these Trumpists are.
Domestic terrorists who broke into US Capitol are crying because they’re on no fly list pic.twitter.com/0FCm3QqF0L
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) January 10, 2021
Traitors on the inside. This woman took her oath of office last week and violated it on Wednesday. She supposedly represents her district in Colorado, but she appears to represent QAnon and insurrection. Also, possibly part of a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a gun-toting supporter of the QAnon movement, is facing backlash after she was accused of live-tweeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) location during the attack on Capitol Hill last week.
Boebert shared the tweet soon after President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol with deadly results.
"The Speaker has been removed from the chambers," Boebert wrote.
Earlier on Wednesday she Tweeted, "Today is 1776." Any question about what she expected from Trump's mob?
Apparently, all it took for the PGA as an organization to move a bit away from Trump is for him to commit sedition and foment an insurrection that included the violation of the United States Capitol, with the intent to murder the Vice-President and members of Congress. The courageous PGA is going to punish Trump by removing the prestigious 2022 PGA Championship from Trump's Bedminster golf club, but they don't intend to make a formal announcement until Trump is out of office.
The PGA of America will strip Donald Trump of the 2022 PGA Championship, which is scheduled to be held at Trump National Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.
In a blistering column that says the golf world must sever all ties with Trump, Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch said the PGA has been debating for two years the need to move the major championship and, once Trump is out of office, will announce the tournament will be played elsewhere...
Please take the time to read Eamon Lynch's denunciation of Trump in Golfweek.
The game will instead be portrayed as Trump’s refuge, something he did while ignoring a pandemic that has claimed 365,000 lives, refusing to acknowledge a resounding electoral defeat, and inciting feeble-minded fascists to violence that left five people dead at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
That’s the best case scenario.
The alternative? That a sport which prides itself on values like honesty, integrity and devotion to the rules will be characterized as a welcoming sanctuary for a brazen and amoral insurrectionist, a world in which a racist con man was never discomfited, even while taking a wrecking ball to the constitution and the rule of law.
Never a big fan of Arnold as a governor, but he does have a meaningful personal perspective regarding the human damage caused by fascism.
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021
Yale University historian, Timothy Snyder has written an extensive essay about the Republican Party's embrace of Trump and authoritarianism. Unfortunately, his work is behind the New York Times paywall, but you can read some extended excerpts here.
Snyder’s analysis of how the Republican party has been a coalition between politicians and their supporters who, respectively, want to game and break the system is clear-eyed and chilling. As is his conclusion that both the gamers and the breakers want to get rid of Trump now, since lacking both any sincere ideological commitment or genuine organizational skills he has turned out to be an inadequate weapon for the dreams of both those who wish to maintain our pseudo-democracy (McConnell et. al.), and those who want to destroy even the pretense of it (Cruz and Hawley).
Our history is never behind us. It surrounds us and manifest itself in the present. Democracy is under assault every day by people who want to subvert it to their own purposes. The Republican Party has become the vessel for authoritarians. This is what allowed Trump to subvert our republic and actually launch a coup when his subversion was thwarted by the will of the people in a free and fair election. The next Republican authoritarian is not likely to be as ignorant and lazy as Trump.
Here's another "patriot" for you. This one once swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Here is pictured with those very enemies. I guess he figures his oath has expired and it's OK to tear the United States Capitol apart while his fellow insurrectionist are looking for the duly elected Vice-President and Speaker of the House so that they can hang them.
A day after the riots, John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, notified the F.B.I. that he suspected the man was retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rendall Brock, Jr., a Texas-based Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran.
Colonel Brock claims he wore that combat gear for protection against antifa. Those zip ties he's holding? He says he picked them up off the floor and wanted to find a police officer so he could hand return them.
Trump has turned this horror loose on our country and he will leave office in 11 days with a government pension, travel benefits and Secret Service protection for life. He needs to be impeached and convicted.
This woman is a doctor from Seattle, Washington. She is also a buffoon and an insurrectionist. Her pride in her ignorance is almost painful to witness.
Meet Dr. Tammy Towers Parry a Family Medicine Doctor in Seattle, WA, "We just stormed the Capitol.. it's the least we can do, so God Bless America. Joe Biden did not win. He's hopefully going to prison" pic.twitter.com/BrAcKQsKVg
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) January 8, 2021
The sense of entitlement and privilege that these American traitors display is staggering. She thinks their are no consequences for her behavior. Trump's entire life of avoiding the consequences of his behavior is an example that these people have taken to heart. Let's hope they all, including Trump, end up paying for their treason.
"In Capital, a G.O.P. Crisis. At the R.N.C. Meeting, a Trump Celebration." The GOP agrees with the Trump coup- as a party they were amplifying Trump's lies. They radicalized people like Trump did. That's why I always say: The GOP is the party of FASCISM https://t.co/lTt6MsXhfo
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 9, 2021
