Today in Trump

[TitoFan]

I don't believe anyone actually thought the Jan 6th mob was going to "overthrow the government."

If this must be explained, it's the actual act of invading and defiling what used to be untouchable ground by an angry mob. It's the previously unthinkable act of the United States Capitol Building being successfully breached by a lathered-up bunch of Trump-agitated Minions. It's the reality of something that would make the founding fathers roll over in their graves. No one actually thought this invasion was going to accomplish anything.

If it MUST be explained...

[NoSavingByTheBell]

So no insurrection then

[TitoFan]

So no insurrection then

in·sur·rec·tion
[ˌɪnsəˈrɛkʃ(ə)n]
NOUN
a violent uprising against an authority or government


By this definition... yes. It was an insurrection. Did it succeed? Obviously not.

Let me know what other elementary concepts need to be explained to you.

[TitoFan]

As I've stated many times before, I didn't like Hillary back in 2016 when she ran against Trump.

But this clip from a 2016 debate should have set off some alarms back then... and foreshadowed what became a terrible reality in 2020.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

🎻🎻🎻

[TitoFan]

Brilliant comeback. As usual, you outdo yourself.

[Spicoli]

Well, that turned out well

[Kirkland Laing]

Some good questions for the Republican debate tonight. I'm sure it's going to be heavily focused on policy and not culture war stuff so these questions will all get asked at some point anyway.








When Rep. Gohmert tried to file a lawsuit arguing Eastman's theory of Pence's powers, Eastman lobbied against it."Eastman didn’t want it tested in court because he knew it would fail. He didn’t want a ruling on its legality, because he knew it was illegal," says


https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/s...08016950476802





On the matter of honesty -- among Trump voters -- Trump leads 'religious leaders' by nearly 30 percentage points and 'friends and family' by 8 percentage points.

Trump leads among those say it's very important a nominee is honest & trustworthy.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/st...70562913554835





CNN Senior Data Reporter Harry Enten outlined how the four criminal indictment against Donald Trump have impacted his chances in the 2024 presidential election against Joe Biden.

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“The GOP base has made up its mind when it comes to these indictments,” Enten told Acosta after presenting polling that shows over 80% of the GOP disapprove of the Trump indictments. “They don’t believe that Trump should have been charged with a crime. The vast majority believe that. And the fact is, it just does not seem like there’s any changing of their minds on any of this, no matter how many indictments there are.”

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When it came to a hypothetical general election between Trump and Biden, Enten showed that Trump is in a “stronger position” against Biden than he was in the entire 2020 election. Enten cited a poll from Quinnipiac which shows Biden and Trump statistically tied in a general election match up.
“The polling indicates that Trump is, in fact, in a stronger position at this point than he was during the entire 2020 campaign, according to the national polls. If we had state level polling, I wouldn’t even be surprised if Trump were ahead in the swing states that are most important,” the reporter concluded.



https://www.mediaite.com/tv/remarkab...against-biden/





As we discussed
a couple of months ago, the former Republican president, while in office, spent much of his White House tenure trying to turn Justice Department prosecutors into his own personal attack dogs. The New York Times reported last year that Trump and his team “tried to turn the nation’s law enforcement apparatus into an instrument of political power” to carry out the Republican’s wishes. A Washington Post analysis published soon after highlighted the many instances in which Trump not only leaned on the Justice Department to follow his whims, but also Trump’s efforts to push federal law enforcement to validate the Big Lie in the wake of his election defeat.
The Republican’s weaponization efforts reached a truly amazing pinnacle less than a month before Election Day 2020, when Trump publicly called on federal prosecutors to go after Biden — at the time, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee who was leading the Republican incumbent in the polls — accusing him of undefined crimes. The then-president added that his future successor shouldn’t be “allowed” to run against him.


On Oct. 7, 2020, with early voting underway across much of the country, Politico published an especially memorable headline: “‘Where are all of the arrests?’: Trump demands Barr lock up his foes.”
The next day, the Republican incumbent spoke to Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo and called on the Justice Department to "indict" his perceived Democratic foes — including Biden.



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...source=twitter

[Kirkland Laing]

[Kirkland Laing]

The kraken has been released on bail.

https://twitter.com/ZaleskiLuke/stat...16131548078216

[NoSavingByTheBell]

United States has become a police state with kangaroo courts and complete made up nonsense.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

144 million views in the first 4 hours..... Yeah, that's Trump, not talking about the "debates" 😆😆😆

[TitoFan]

United States has become a police state with kangaroo courts and complete made up nonsense.

[Kirkland Laing]

What she said.



https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1694538518343663709





Seriously how do they expect this to be a vote winner anymore? It isn't even close to being true, not that that kind of thing matters in politics these days.

https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/...85545887449201

[Kirkland Laing]

United States has become a police state with kangaroo courts and complete made up nonsense.

Where are these kangaroo courts and what is this made up nonsense you speak of?

Of course you can't answer this with anything factual.