Tracking former Trump officials

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Nice to hear he's broke, but they better make Giuliani delcare bankruptcy to make sure he's not just trying to hide his money.

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On 5/1/2023 at 11:30 PM, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

Apparently the Giuliani fart sniffer is on the lam...

 

 

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[Larry]

1)  "To fight in Benghazi" on who's side?

 

2)  Benghazi!!!

 

[China]

Federal inquiry details abuses of power by Trump's CEO over Voice of America

 

On the day after his confirmation as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media in June 2020, Michael Pack met with a career employee to discuss which senior leaders at the agency and the Voice of America should be forced out due to their perceived political beliefs.

 

"Hates Republicans," the employee had written about one in a memo. "Openly despises Trump and Republicans," they said of another. A third, the employee wrote, "is not on the Trump team." The list went on. (Firing someone over political affiliation is typically a violation of federal civil service law.)

 

Within two days, Pack was examining ways to remove suspect staffers, a new federal investigation found. The executives he sidelined were later reinstated and exonerated by the inspector general's office of the U.S. State Department. Pack ultimately turned his attention to agency executives, network chiefs, and journalists themselves.

 

The report, sent to the White House and Congressional leaders earlier this month, found that the Trump appointee repeatedly abused the powers of his office, broke laws and regulations, and engaged in gross mismanagement.

 

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17 minutes ago, China said:

The report, sent to the White House and Congressional leaders earlier this month, found that the Trump appointee repeatedly abused the powers of his office, broke laws and regulations, and engaged in gross mismanagement.

 

. . . in short, he faithfully carried out White House policies.  

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Dozens served in Trump’s Cabinet. Four say he should be re-elected.

 

Donald Trump may have put them in the most powerful and prestigious jobs many will ever hold, but few who worked in his Cabinet are rushing to endorse him in his bid to return to the White House.

 

NBC News reached out to 44 of the dozens of people who served in Trump's Cabinet over his term in office. Most declined to comment or ignored the requests. A total of four have said publicly they support his run for re-election. Several have been coy about where they stand, stopping short of endorsing Trump with the GOP primary race underway. Then there are those who outright oppose his bid for the GOP nomination or are adamant that they don't want him back in power.

 

“I have made clear that I strongly oppose Trump for the nomination and will not endorse Trump,” former Attorney General Bill Barr told NBC News. Asked how he would vote if the general election pits Trump against President Joe Biden, a Democrat, Barr said: “I’ll jump off that bridge when I get to it.”

 

The Trump campaign declined to comment beyond pointing to three former Cabinet members as people to contact — one of whom has endorsed Trump and two others who, when asked, didn't commit to endorsing him at this time.

 

A president’s Cabinet gets a unique window into his priorities, temperament and managerial style. Tasked with running the administration day-to-day, Cabinet members see first-hand the impact of policies he touted on the campaign trail and put forward in office. They sit with him in regular meetings at the White House, listen to him vent and act as surrogates, crisscrossing the country to amplify his message.

 

As president, Trump for the most part didn’t seem to either prize or develop the reciprocal loyalty that might have turned his Cabinet into a campaign asset that would help validate his contention that his was a hugely successful presidency.

 

"They’re not friends; they’re not hanging on forever," Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, said of Trump's Cabinet members. "They’re going to skip out, or he’s going to push them out in some instances."

 

Those backing Trump's bid for another term include former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker; Mark Meadows, his final chief of staff; former budget chief Russell Vought; and former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell, who in June tweeted "Trump 2024" above a tweet from Trump's main GOP rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

 

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Trump not expected to testify at his former trade adviser’s contempt of Congress trial, potentially undercutting his defense

 

Former President Donald Trump is not expected to testify on behalf of his former trade adviser Peter Navarro, potentially undercutting a key defense for Navarro in his upcoming criminal trial on contempt of Congress charges for defying the House select committee that investigated the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.

 

A lawyer for Navarro, Stanley Woodward, said in a court hearing Friday that Navarro’s legal team – which includes several former and current lawyers around the former president – had talks with Trump’s legal team but don’t expect to call Trump as a witness.

 

Woodward did not say why Trump wouldn’t take the stand, but the former president is campaigning to return to the White House and also faces a busy list of criminal cases and lawsuits that he is fighting as a defendant.

 

The absence of Trump’s testimony could leave Navarro, who has pleaded not guilty, without direct evidence that he was acting at the direction of the former president when he declined to testify and turn over records to Congress. Navarro has claimed Trump told him to assert executive privilege to keep matters related to the former president and top White House advisers confidential, and that Trump passed the message through one of his aides, Liz Harrington.

 

Navarro seeks to have Harrington testify for his case, though she already was called by prosecutors to speak to a grand jury investigating Navarro, according to records in his case.

On Friday, Navarro’s legal team discussed the possibility of bringing in testimony from Harrington about the former president’s instructions to Navarro at a hearing later this month. Woodward described Harrington at one point as a “critical witness.”

 

Navarro’s case may be a major test for congressional authority and the reach of the presidency. The trial would follow the conviction by a jury of another former Trump adviser, Steve Bannon, on the same charges last year. Bannon is appealing.

 

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And for those playing at home, Navarro may be unindicted co-conspirator #6 listed in Trump's most recent indictment.

[Larry]

I can't imagine why Donald Trump might be reluctant to testify under oath at the trial of someone who's defense is that Donald Trump told him to commit those crimes.  

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Former Trump advisor blames Jews for their own deportations to Auschwitz

 

The Auschwitz Museum has slammed comments made by former Trump adviser who blamed Jews for their own deportations at the hands of the Nazis.

 

In a recent speech, Michael Flynn, a Christian nationalist, suggested mothers were complicit in handing over their young children to go on trains to Auschwitz. 

 

He said “Any mother who would be told, ‘Give me your child, give me your baby, we’re going to separate you, we’re not just going to put you into a club coach car. We’re going to stuff you like a sardine into a train.’”

 

He went on to claim “there weren’t any guards,” implying that Jews could have simply left or said no to Hitler’s soldiers. 

 

A clip of his speech was posted on Twitter and has been viewed over 8 million times.

 

 

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Trump’s Truth Social facing a key funding deadline

 

When former president Donald Trump’s media start-up announced in October 2021 that it planned to merge with a Miami-based company called Digital World Acquisition, the deal was an instant stock-market hit.

 

With the $300 million Digital World had already raised from investors, Trump Media & Technology Group, creator of the pro-Trump social network Truth Social, pledged then that the merger would create a tech titan worth $875 million at the start and, depending on the stock’s performance, up to $1.7 billion later.

 

All they needed was for the merger to close — a process that Digital World, in a July 2021 preliminary prospectus, estimated would happen within 12 to 18 months.

 

“Everyone asks me why doesn’t someone stand up to Big Tech? Well, we will be soon!” Trump said in a Trump Media statement that month.

 

Now, almost two years later, the deal faces what could be a catastrophic threat. With the merger stalled for months, Digital World is fast approaching a Sept. 8 deadline for the merger to close and has scheduled a shareholder meeting for Tuesday in hopes of getting enough votes to extend the deadline another year.

 

If the vote fails, Digital World will be required by law to liquidate and return $300 million to its shareholders, leaving Trump’s company with nothing from the transaction.

 

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'Ghostbuster' Bill Barr was the 'Who Ya Gonna Call?' guy for 3 treasonous GOP presidents

 

The Manchurian Candidate was apparently more than just a movie.

 

A Russian agent in the employ of one of Putin’s oligarchs was paid millions to run Trump’s campaign and was passing secret campaign information to Russian intelligence that they used to target specific groups of American voters via Facebook and Twitter.

 

When this treachery was referred to the FBI, the lead agent there was later, it turns out according to The New York Times, also in the employ of Putin’s oligarchs.

 

And his bosses’ boss, Bill Barr — who has a new book out and is on what New York Times columnist David Firestone refers to as a “desperate salvage operation for what’s left of his legal and ethical reputation” — apparently tried to cover up much of it.

 

The depth and breadth of Bill Barr’s possible crimes against democracy while Attorney General for Trump are just now coming into clearer focus. We shouldn’t be surprised: like Ghostbusters, Bill Barr has been the “Who ya gonna call?” guy for Republican presidents committing treason for 30 years.

 

Knowing that he was running for office with the help of a hostile foreign power — something close to treason — Trump had reason to be paranoid. Once in office he did and said everything he could to discredit claims he was a Putin stooge.

 

His most effective effort in that regard was bringing Bill Barr in as Attorney General, heading up the Justice Department and overseeing the FBI.

 

Durham, after spending $6 million over 4 years investigating the case, found nothing to implicate either Clinton’s campaign or the FBI. He and Barr did, however, during a trip the two took to Italy, find criminal activity by Donald Trump himself, which they then proceeded to bury so deep it’s still only partially known.

 

But we know of other instances that are troubling.

 

In his first month in office, Trump outed an Israeli spy to the Russian Ambassador, resulting in MOSSAD having to “burn” (relocate, change identity of) that spy. That, in turn, prompted the CIA to worry that a longtime US spy buried deep in the Kremlin was similarly vulnerable to Trump handing him over to Putin.

 

As CNN noted when the story leaked two years later:

 

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“The source was considered the highest level source for the US inside the Kremlin, high up in the national security infrastructure, according to the source familiar with the matter and a former senior intelligence official. “According to CNN’s sources, the spy had access to Putin and could even provide images of documents on the Russian leader’s desk.”

 

The CIA concluded that the risk Trump had burned the spy was so great that, at massive loss to US intelligence abilities that may have helped forestall the invasion of Ukraine, we pulled the spy out of Russia in 2017.

 

Similarly, when they met in Helsinki in July of 2018, Trump and Putin talked in private for several hours and Trump ordered his translators’ notes destroyed; there is also concern that much of their conversation was done out of the hearing of the US’s translator (Putin is fluent in English and German) who may have been relegated to a distant part of the rather large room in which they met.

 

Things were picking up for our Manchurian Candidate in 2019, as Putin was planning his invasion of Ukraine while Trump was preparing for the upcoming election. In February of that year Trump put Barr in charge of the Justice Department and the FBI.

 

Once again, reports of Trump’s treasonous activities were apparently deep-sixed by Charles McGonigal in the FBI and his boss’s boss, Bill Barr.

 

— On July 31, 2019 Trump had another private conversation with Putin. The White House told Congress and the press that they discussed “wildfires” and “trade between the nations.” No droids in this car…

 

— The following week, on August 2nd, The Daily Beast’s Betsy Swan reported that Trump had just asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for a list of all its employees (including all our spies and overseas intelligence officers) who had worked there more than 90 days, and the request had intelligence officials experiencing “disquiet.”

 

— Within a year, The New York Timesran a story with the headline: “Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants.” The CIA then alerted spies around the world that their identities had probably been compromised, apparently by the president himself.

 

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'Murderers at CNN': Convicted Trump aide Peter Navarro accuses network of homicide

 

Trump's former trade advisor Peter Navarro, who was recently convicted of contempt, said on Sunday that there are "murderers" at CNN and that the network itself is guilty of "negligent homicide at a minimum."

 

Navarro, who also made headlines recently when he referred to several women who worked for the Trump White House as "pimp ladies," is this time targeting the news network. He's currently appealing his conviction, which was based on the finding that he didn't establish that he had executive privilege preventing him from providing testimony.

 

On Sunday, Navarro drew attention to an issue many thought was dead.

 

"From Mayo Clinic website grudging admission of glaring truth: 'Hydroxychloroquine may be used to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) in certain hospitalized patients,'" Navarro wrote. "For all you murderers at [CNN] [John Berman] who spread lies about hydroxy, this one's for u," the ally of Trump said.

 

In a separate post, Navarro claimed that he had "a million" of these tablets while working in Trump's administration.

 

"At the White House, I had a million tablets of hydroxy that could have saved thousands of lives but [CNN] crusaded against it to beat [Trump]. Negligent homicide at a minimum. [The FDA] was also implicated in hydroxy suppression."

 

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And Fox news should be on the hook for homicide for all the Covid deaths of people who they convinced not to get the vaccine or wear masks.