The Trump Riot Aftermath (Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Proud Boys join the club)

[China]

Team Trump Scrambles to Unmask the Feds Investigating Him

 

Donald Trump just needs a few names.

 

In recent months, the former president has asked close advisers, including at least one of his personal attorneys, if “we know” all the names of senior FBI agents and Justice Department personnel who have worked on the federal probes into him. That’s according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter and another person briefed on it.

 

Trump has then privately discussed that should he return to the White House, it is imperative his new Department of Justice “quickly” and “immediately” purge the FBI and DOJ’s ranks of these officials and agents who’ve led the Trump-related criminal investigations, the sources recount. The ex-president has of course dubbed all such probes as illegitimate “witch hunts,” and is now campaigning for the White House on a platform of “retribution” and cleaning house.

 

Separately, the twice-impeached former president has been saying for many months that on “day one” of his potential second term, he wants FBI director Christopher Wray “out” of the bureau, according to another source familiar with the matter and two people close to Trump. It’s an ironic turn, given that Trump appointed Wray in 2017.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

 

 

[Larry]

1 hour ago, China said:

Team Trump Scrambles to Unmask the Feds Investigating Him

 

Donald Trump just needs a few names.

 

In recent months, the former president has asked close advisers, including at least one of his personal attorneys, if “we know” all the names of senior FBI agents and Justice Department personnel who have worked on the federal probes into him. That’s according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter and another person briefed on it.

 

Trump has then privately discussed that should he return to the White House, it is imperative his new Department of Justice “quickly” and “immediately” purge the FBI and DOJ’s ranks of these officials and agents who’ve led the Trump-related criminal investigations, the sources recount. The ex-president has of course dubbed all such probes as illegitimate “witch hunts,” and is now campaigning for the White House on a platform of “retribution” and cleaning house.

 

Separately, the twice-impeached former president has been saying for many months that on “day one” of his potential second term, he wants FBI director Christopher Wray “out” of the bureau, according to another source familiar with the matter and two people close to Trump. It’s an ironic turn, given that Trump appointed Wray in 2017.

 

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You know, I bet there's a law against trying to gain the identities of FBI agents on an active investigation.  

 

[LadySkinsFan]

24 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

You know, I bet there's a law against trying to gain the identities of FBI agents on an active investigation.  

 

 

If not, there should be for sure!

[EmirOfShmo]

 

And there's this:

 

‘Will make a great trial witness’: experts thrilled Jack Smith is investigating Trump’s firing of election security expert

 

U.S. Dept. of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed former Trump administration staffers possibly involved in the firing of Chris Krebs, a top cybersecurity official who had published a report calling the 2020 presidential election “the most secure in American history,” just days after the election, infuriating then-President Donald Trump.

...

The New York Times on Wednesday reports the Special Counsel's investigators "appear focused on Mr. Trump’s state of mind around the firing of Mr. Krebs, as well as on establishing a timeline of events leading up to the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021. The latest subpoenas, issued roughly two weeks ago, went to officials in the personnel office, according to the two people familiar with the matter."

But national security and civil liberties journalist Marcy Wheeler asserts the Special Counsel's efforts go further.

"I think it likely erroneous to imagine that Jack Smith is getting into Chris Krebs' firing JUST to get to Trump's mindset," Wheeler tweeted. "He fired Krebs for doing something his Admin had specifically bought off on. It was a necessary part of the plot."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/will-make-a-great-trial-witness-experts-thrilled-jack-smith-is-investigating-trumps-firing-of-election-security-expert/

Edited May 31, 2023 by EmirOfShmo

[EmirOfShmo]

****ing lunatic...

 

[Ball Security]

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

Jan. 6 rioter who invaded Nancy Pelosi’s office denied summer respite and cushy prison camp recommendation

 

A Jan. 6th rioter seen gleefully kicking his foot up on a desk inside of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office had wanted the rest of the summer to “arrange for his affairs” before reporting to prison. That man, Richard “Bigo” Barnett, also wanted a federal judge to recommend a low-security camp for him to serve his 4 1/2-year prison sentence.

 

On Tuesday, a federal judge refused to make those recommendations, leaving Barnett’s fate in the hands of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

 

“Defendant has had ample time since his conviction to prepare for his incarceration and presents no compelling reasons to justify additional delay,” U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper wrote in a brief minute order. “Defendant’s request for a recommendation for a BOP placement beyond 500 miles from his home in order to qualify him for a minimum-security facility is also DENIED. 

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

Oops, no summer vacation for you! Go directly to federal prison, determined by BOP, and do not collect $200.  Yay!

[China]

Jordan, GOP ask DOJ to turn over details on FBI’s role in Trump investigation

 

House Republicans are asking the Justice Department (DOJ) to turn over information about special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump, including details on whether any FBI employees on the case have investigated the former president.

 

The letter, sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland, is an early show of how the powerful House Judiciary Committee plans to leverage a May report from special counsel John Durham detailing issues with the FBI’s early work investigating Trump campaign ties to Russia.

 

Complaining of “the institutional rot that pervades the FBI,” Jordan seeks a breakdown of the number of FBI personnel working on the case, including whether any have previously investigated Trump.

 

The letter also asks whether Smith’s investigation relies on any information gathered by the bureau in the period ahead of Durham’s appointment.

 

While Durham was highly critical of the FBI in his final 305-page report, his nearly four-year investigation yielded little new information or results in court. 

 

The letter points to a new authority included in congressional rules that gave them the power to seek information about ongoing criminal investigations — an addition that was accompanied by the formation of a subcommittee devoted to probing the “weaponization” of the federal government.

 

Smith’s investigation has appeared to pick up intensity in recent weeks, fueling speculation that the probe is concluding and that Trump could soon face charges for his role in both Jan. 6 and the mishandling of classified records at Mar-a-Lago.

 

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Gym Jordan punching above his weight class again.  I expect a response that legally schools him on what can be disclosed about an ongoing investigation.  Congressional "rules" are not laws.

[PleaseBlitz]

Garland should just copy and paste the **** you letter that Alvin Bragg recently sent to Jordan onto DOJ letterhead. 

[Bang]

Congressional subpoena. 
Ha.
Toothless. Ignore it.

 

 

~Bang

[FootballZombie]

Jimmy J is just lookin' out and sending over some toilet paper... cuz that is all that letter is good for.

[Larry]

We've seen the pattern before.  

 

When you've spent 4 years on a fishing investigation, and you still haven't even found a crime that's been committed . . . 

 

Announce that you're opening an investigation into the investigation.  

 

[China]

Capitol rioter who 'cross-checked' officer sues same officer for $750K over injuries

 

A Maryland man who pleaded guilty to a felony for interfering with police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is now suing several of those same officers – claiming in a lawsuit they repeatedly assaulted him with batons in violation of department policy.

 

David Alan Blair, 27, of Clarksburg, Maryland, says police assaulted him and violated his Fourth Amendment rights while taking him into custody. He names as defendants in the suit the District of Columbia, four officers he says struck him with batons and two senior officers, a sergeant and a lieutenant, who he claims were negligent in allowing the alleged assault to take place. The suit, which the D.C. Attorney General’s Office removed to federal court on Thursday, seeks a jury trial and damages of $750,000.

 

Blair pleaded guilty in March 2022 to one count of interfering with police during a civil disorder and was sentenced to five months in prison by U.S. District Judge Christopher. According to Bureau of Prison records, Blair completed his prison sentence in mid-January, although he remains on supervised release. As part of his plea deal, federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss eight other counts against him, including five other felony counts – among them one alleging he assaulted DC Police Officer Kevin Peralta with a dangerous weapon.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

Tough ****, asshole. The government needs to reinstate the five felony counts including the one of assault with a deadly weapon. 

[China]

‘They fought for freedom’: the nightly vigil to sanctify the January 6 rioters

 

he clock had just struck 9pm when Jeff Sabol, a Colorado man accused of dragging a police officer down a flight of stairs at the US Capitol on January 6 and beating him, placed a call from inside Washington’s jail.

 

Dozens of yards and several layers of concrete and razor wire away, on E Street Southeast, Tommy Tatum, a hulking Mississippian who had been present at the Capitol on January 6 but not arrested, stood with a microphone in one hand and a cellphone in the other.

 

“Hey, are you guys out there? We’ve had some technical difficulties for a variety of reasons,” Sabol’s voice rang out from the phone and over a sound system, drawing cheers from a group of about 15 people who had gathered, carrying American flags and wearing shirts with slogans such as “Abolish the FBI”.

 

Sabol’s voice grew echoey, and the sounds of others filled the room behind him. “Thirty seconds!” he cried.

 

And then, the two groups, one confined behind the jail’s walls over charges they attacked the Capitol in a failed attempt to keep Donald Trump from losing power and the other made up of their friends and loved ones on the sidewalk outside, sang the American national anthem in unison: “O say can you see …”

 

Thus concluded the 303rd evening of the “Freedom Corner”, perhaps the only regular public protest by Trump supporters in America’s capital city, where the demand is accountability – not for the former president, but for the government they believe is persecuting them.

 

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[China]

Mark Meadows Testified to Grand Jury in Special Counsel Investigation of Trump

 

Mark Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under President Donald J. Trump and a potentially key figure in inquiries related to Mr. Trump, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the investigations being led by the special counsel’s office, according to two people briefed on the matter.

 

Mr. Meadows is a figure in both of the two distinct lines of inquiry being pursued by the special counsel appointed to oversee the Justice Department’s scrutiny of Mr. Trump, Jack Smith.

 

One inquiry is focused on Mr. Trump’s efforts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the attack by a pro-Trump mob on the Capitol during congressional certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021. The other is an investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office and whether he obstructed efforts to retrieve them.

 

It is not clear precisely when Mr. Meadows testified or if investigators questioned him about one or both of the cases.

 

For months, people in Mr. Trump’s orbit have been puzzled by and wary about the low profile kept by Mr. Meadows in the investigations. As reports surfaced of one witness after another going into the grand jury or to be interviewed by federal investigators, Mr. Meadows has kept largely out of sight, and some of Mr. Trump’s advisers believe he could be a significant witness in the inquiries.

 

Mr. Meadows was around for pivotal moments leading up to and after the 2020 election, as Mr. Trump plotted to try to stay in office and thwart Joseph R. Biden Jr. from being sworn in to succeed him. Some of them were described in hundreds of text messages that Mr. Meadows turned over to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol before he decided to stop cooperating. Those texts served as a road map for House investigators.

 

But Mr. Meadows also has insight into efforts by the National Archives to retrieve roughly two dozen boxes of presidential material that officials had been told Mr. Trump took with him when he left the White House in January 2021. Mr. Meadows was one of Mr. Trump’s representatives to the archives, and he had some role in trying to discuss the matter with Mr. Trump, according to two people briefed on the matter.

 

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[China]

Stewart Rhodes forced his child to guard the family home with a rifle and body armor: court docs

 

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes allegedly made his son, Dakota, guard his younger siblings with a rifle when they played outside and, in a paranoia-fueled incident when Dakota was 16, forced the boy to wear full body and patrol their house with a gun while the rest of the family fled.

 

“Stewart became convinced that a power outage was a pending governmental raid and ordered Dakota to don full body armor with a rifle as the family fled their home in the middle of the night, anticipating an attack,” according to court documents obtained by Raw Story.

 

The document continued, “Dakota is angry that Stewart subjected him, at age 16, to being killed as an armed hostile if there had actually been an encounter with governmental forces.”

 

New information from the full divorce file of Rhodes adds to the sad and sordid tale of family life with the man convicted of seditious conspiracy and recently sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

 

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[China]

One Of Trump’s Jan 6th MAGA Insurrectionists Is Sad That His Actions Led To Him And His Dad Getting Kicked Out Of Their Wine Group

 

Cancel culture strikes again. Trump supporter Patrick Stedman, who did nothing but participate in a tiny, inconsequential coup of democracy itself, has now been kicked out of his dad’s wine club.

 

The South Jersey local is currently on trial for taking part in the Jan. 6th insurrection — a coordinated attack by angry Trump voters who hoped to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s presidency. Stedman tweeted his involvement in the mob assault that afternoon saying, “I was pretty much in the first wave, and we broke down the doors and climbed up the back part of the Capitol building and got all the way into the chambers.” He also shared a video of himself in former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. Despite the evidence, Stedman refused to accept a plea bargain, claiming he didn’t engage in any violence or property damage during the siege.

 

He’s also arguing that he should avoid jail time because he’s already been punished enough via his restricted social life. While fundraising the money needed to pay his attorney fees, Stedman described how he’s been ostracized by family and friends for simply trying to “defend” the country he loves.

 

“Classmates and family members informed the FBI on me. I was disinvited from family gatherings,” he wrote. “My father and I were kicked out of the wine group he founded 40 years ago.”

 

Not the wine group, you guys!

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[Ball Security]

2 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

Oh man. They finally caught him. He went off the grid for two years. Such a shame. I love Mr. Show.

 

He does have experience with interrogations.

 

Language alert

 

 

[mistertim]

1 hour ago, China said:

One Of Trump’s Jan 6th MAGA Insurrectionists Is Sad That His Actions Led To Him And His Dad Getting Kicked Out Of Their Wine Group

 

Cancel culture strikes again. Trump supporter Patrick Stedman, who did nothing but participate in a tiny, inconsequential coup of democracy itself, has now been kicked out of his dad’s wine club.

 

The South Jersey local is currently on trial for taking part in the Jan. 6th insurrection — a coordinated attack by angry Trump voters who hoped to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s presidency. Stedman tweeted his involvement in the mob assault that afternoon saying, “I was pretty much in the first wave, and we broke down the doors and climbed up the back part of the Capitol building and got all the way into the chambers.” He also shared a video of himself in former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. Despite the evidence, Stedman refused to accept a plea bargain, claiming he didn’t engage in any violence or property damage during the siege.

 

He’s also arguing that he should avoid jail time because he’s already been punished enough via his restricted social life. While fundraising the money needed to pay his attorney fees, Stedman described how he’s been ostracized by family and friends for simply trying to “defend” the country he loves.

 

“Classmates and family members informed the FBI on me. I was disinvited from family gatherings,” he wrote. “My father and I were kicked out of the wine group he founded 40 years ago.”

 

Not the wine group, you guys!

 

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It's amazing how privileged some of these asshats are. Reminds me of the idiots I see driving around in a $100,000 BMW drinking a Starbucks latte with a "Don't Tread on Me" license plate on their car. Mother****er, who the hell is treading on you? Was the barista a little rude to you this morning, cupcake?

Edited June 7, 2023 by mistertim

[The Evil Genius]

14 minutes ago, mistertim said:

 

It's amazing how privileged some of these asshats are. Reminds me of the idiots I see driving around in a $100,000 BMW drinking a Starbucks latte with a "Don't Tread on Me" license plate on their car. Mother****er, who the hell is treading on you? Was the barista a little rude to you this morning, cupcake?

 

Yes.