POTUS 45.65: I'm Just Here For The Lincoln Project Ads

[French Rage]

Why didn't the park service prepare for the crimes we were going to commit and purposefully misled them about? https://abcnews.go.com/US/organizers...y?id=105747804

The report found that the organizers from Women for America First failed to provide information about Trump's likely attendance at the rally and that they actively concealed information about the plans to follow the event with a march to the Capitol, despite a clear request for that information from the National Park Service.

Organizers first raised the possibility that Trump might attend the event on Dec. 31, despite planning documents from the previous day including items such as "POTUS Audio Package" and "POTUS Lighting Package."

"The park ranger for President's Park told us that, even though WFAF would not confirm it, 'that's when [she] knew' the President was going to be at the demonstration," the report noted.

The National Park Service eventually received confirmation from the Secret Service on Jan. 1 that Trump would attend the rally.

The report added that Women for America First "intentionally failed to disclose information" about the planned march on the Capitol. During a Dec. 29 phone call with a park ranger, event planners explicitly said that WFAF did not plan to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, the report said. Permits revised as late as Jan. 5 stated that WFAF would "not conduct an organized march from the Ellipse at the conclusion of the rally."

At the same time, evidence reviewed by the OIG found that WFAF expected Trump to call for a march.

"POTUS expectations are intimate and then send everyone over to the Capitol," White House liaison texted a WFAF contractor on Jan. 3, according to the report.

"This stays only between us, we are having a second stage at the Supreme Court again after the ellipse. POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol ... It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it 'unexpectedly,'" a WFAF representative texted on Jan. 4 to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who was a potential speaker at the event.

However, a park ranger said that the WFAF representative "was just adamant there was gonna be no march," according to the report.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Heck, Biden isn’t great on the issue that’s most important to me, but I’m still not dumb enough to not vote for him.

all the Muslims backing trump will be able to witness the deportation process first hand though (he brought this up again yesterday)

[WeAreNDHockey]

But Biden is old, and gas and groceries are expensive.

I know this is sarcasm, but my reality is my groceries, while not cheaper than they were in 2021 (and who really believes that 2 years DOWN the road crap is supposed to get cheaper anyway) are no more expensive in December of 2023 than they were in the spring of 2023. And gas is almost $0.50 cheaper in most of metro Cleveland that it was 6 months ago. American voters (at least those who appear to be responding to polls) are idiots. There are people out there, people who identify as progressive, who believe Biden is the worst president in the last 50 years. Even if those people don't believe he is the worst one overall, they say he's the worst Democratic one.

I will repeat this to anyone until election day: If measured or judged fairly, Biden is probably the best president overall in my lifetime. And I have solid memory of the last 11 of them.

[Swansong]

But Biden is old, and gas and groceries are expensive.

[Kepler]

Fascist Fatty at it again.

Trump is not just humming Hitleresque themes, but bellowing full-bore Nazi slogans to his red-hat rally crowds. It shows that just as he has done so many times in the past, he has crossed the line and found that the white supremacist territory on the other side suits him just fine. Trump is making his similarity to Hitler into the core of his 2024 campaign.

As if quoting Hitler to his pale, screaming crowd wasn’t enough, Trump also trotted out a quote from Vladimir Putin about the “rottenness” of American democracy. Rotten, according to Putin, because it goes after Trump. “Even Vladimir Putin … says that Biden’s — and this is a quote – ‘politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy.’”

As a side note, Putin’s most notable political opponent, Alexei Navalny, who has been held as a political prisoner since 2021 after surviving an attempt to kill him using a nerve agent, disappeared from the prison where he was being held at the beginning of December. He is still missing.

Trump once again ticked off names from his authoritarian friends list, making his now-regular round of how much he admires everyone who is ripping up democracy around the world. That included reminding the crowd that he gets on well with Hungary’s Viktor Orb?n, and letting everyone know that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “very nice.”

But it was the centerpiece return of the Nazi theme of “poisoning the blood” that really stole the show at Trump’s New Hampshire rally. On many occasions, Trump has tossed some loathsome statement out to the public, stepped back for a moment to see how it went down, then chased it up with something even worse when it turned out his supporters either did not care or actively loved his hate speech. Could he get away with going after Gold Star families? Could he dismiss prisoners of war as losers? And could he endlessly elaborate on how Mexico is populated entirely by rapists and drug mules? Yes, yes, and oh-hell-yes.

He’s not unaware that he’s repeating Nazisms. He’s just erasing another line as he aspires to make the country a dictatorship.

[Swansong]

No, they delayed the Washington DC case.

Unfortunately, a necessary one and probably the correct move.

[Kepler]

The rapist loses again.

[ScoobyDoo]

Did they stave off disbarment proceedings for another day, was that the win?

No, they delayed the Washington DC case.

[St. Clown]

Trump's lawyers got a huge win today, and the House moved forward with impeachment inquiry on Biden.

Did they stave off disbarment proceedings for another day, was that the win?

[ScoobyDoo]

Trump's lawyers got a huge win today, and the House moved forward with impeachment inquiry on Biden.

[Slap Shot]

Infinitesimally? Not the words I would use.

Sorry - not what I meant to type. I wanted to write 'infinitely'.

[LynahFan]

Infinitesimally? Not the words I would use.

[Slap Shot]

This sums them up as a family. They are the biological manifestation of the Right; they should intermarry with the Palins. Except the rank and file are paying for the privilege, while these con artists (Gaetz, DeSantis, McCarthy, Thomas, McConnell) rake it in.

It's the evangelical con: political edition.

What's so amazing (yet sadly not surprising) is that the Trump offspring are infinitesimally more wicked and dangerous than Hunter and yet the press continues to give them a virtual free pass.

[Kepler]

Everything they do is for two purposes: to complain and play the victim, and to delay proceedings.

This sums them up as a family. They are the biological manifestation of the Right; they should intermarry with the Palins. Except the rank and file are paying for the privilege, while these con artists (Gaetz, DeSantis, McCarthy, Thomas, McConnell) rake it in.

It's the evangelical con: political edition.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Eric Trump as well. I wonder if their lawyers finally got through to them that it was a horrible idea, or if this was the plan all along. Everything they do is for two purposes: to complain and play the victim, and to delay proceedings.

It was the plan the entire time. They're a low rent version of the mob.