Here in Otero County NM, the GOP county commission listened to testimony by an "expert" who claimed that Dominion machines were hacked. His technique was to impress the commission with reams of technical jargon. I gave up listening to his bullshit after about 15 minutes, concluding that this "expert" was misleading them. The commissioners never grasped that the truth would have been revealed by simply releasing the results of the independent ballot recount. #cspanwj #politics #USpolitics #biglie

Here in Otero County NM, the home of infamous Couy Griffin, owner of Cowboys for Trump (who was removed from the county commission by a district judge) the county commission hired a pair of election deniers who brought an "expert" to testify how Dominion voting machines could be hacked. They scanned all the ballots with their own equipment, but would not reveal if there were any discrepancy between their own results and the official County results. #cspanwj #politics #USpolitics #biglie

"A federal judge declined to remove Mark Meadows’ Fulton County prosecution to federal court, per an order issued on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones for the Northern District of Georgia said in the ruling that Meadows’ alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to reverse his loss 'was not related to his role as White House Chief of Staff or his executive branch authority.'”

~ Josh Kovensky

#MarkMeadows #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-denies-meadows-bid-to-remove-georgia-case-to-federal-court

Cliff Schechter explains why the "heroic" young woman who repeatedly clowns behind the über-clown Peter Navarro when he appears on camera is performing a valuable service by using her free speech to point out exactly who Navarro is, as the media invite Jan. 6 coup plotters onto their shows and normalize them.

#PeterNavarro #FreeSpeech #CoupPlotter #insurrection #Jan6 #BigLie #normalization #MediaFail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd52mASqL-0&t=159s

"But, so far, no one has been willing to employ the power of the judicial system to stem the violent incitements and the danger they are to the process of justice and democracy.

That must change. Either there’s rule of law or there isn’t."

#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #violence

"In a sane world, neither the Russians nor a criminally charged ex-president of the United States would be in a position to endanger the lives of Americans performing this most fundamental task of citizenship."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #violence
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https://america.substack.com/p/as-the-vise-tightens

"Trump White House official Peter Navarro found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress. Sentencing set for Jan. 2024."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Navarro #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Jan6

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/down-goes-navarro

What would happen to the stupid conspiracy theory that the Moon Landing was a hoax if another country landed near all the equipment those previous missions that walked on the moon left behind?

I'm thinking those morons won't ever believe we walked on the moon.
The same goes for the #BigLie. 65% of #Republicans don't believe Trump lost the 2020 election with nary a scrap of evidence to prove Trump won and massive amounts of data to prove Trump lost.

"In other words [as ABC now reports], Trump knew that a search was likely in the works when he set Nauta and De Oliveira to the task of removing boxes from storage in Mar-a-Lago, and subsequently returning fewer of them than were removed. The inference is that Trump knowingly removed items he did not want prosecutors to find."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #NationalSecurity #BigLie #insurrection

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/things-that-happened-today-867

Thick as thieves, so of course Sidney Powell and Kenneth Cheseboro do not want to be tried together — because trying them together underscores links in a conspiracy to overthrow the government that they do not want to acknowledge.

I'm all for letting the light shine on them — together, as co-conspirators.

#Cheseboro #Powell #conspiracy #Rico #Georgia #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection

https://newrepublic.com/post/175412/judge-tosses-chesebro-powell-attempt-sever-cases-georgia-trial

"The Tarrio case — and hundreds of others like it — function as a vivid reminder of the violent chaos fueled by Trump’s lies around the election and the extent to which his false claims helped inspire right-wing extremists who ultimately stormed the Capitol to thwart the peaceful transfer of power."

~ AP

#EnriqueTarrio #ProudBoys #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #insurrection #BigLie #violence

https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb

"Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and leading a failed plot to prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden."

~ Hannah Rabinowitz

#EnriqueTarrio #ProudBoys #Jan6 #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #violence

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/politics/enrique-tarrio-sentencing-proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy/index.html

As Brandi Buchman reports, the Proud Boys being sentenced for their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt cannot quit Trump and his lies:

"Their minds are heavy still with toxic propaganda. Their egos remain front and center and from their mouths, they continue to sputter drivel echoing a lie told by a man that, for whatever reason they appear unable to fully grasp even now, has helped pave the road to their ruin and continued suffering."

#ProudBoys #Trump #BigLie

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/09/04/the-finding-out-part-proud-boys-face-sentencing/

As Isabella Ramirez reports, Spazzo Pezzola cried crocodile tears on the courtroom as he, his wife, and mother pled for leniency for him after he "opened up the Capitol like a can opener" on Jan. 6, to quote Judge Timothy Kelly.

But once given his stiff sentence, all that false humility vanished, and he raised his fist and shouted, "Trump won."

Some folks are unteachable and have no shame.

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #InmateP01135809 #ProudBoys

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tearful-proud-boy-dominic-pezzola-does-a-180-after-judge-shows-little-mercy

14th Amendment Omen+: Beginning of The End of Donald #Trump (Chapter 2)🔴https://rb.gy/1yu7h

ICYMI:

Chapter 1 Here🟥https://rb.gy/891je

#NewHampshire #Law #Michigan #Politics #Arizona #News #Florida #Lawsuit #USA #Security #Leadership #Georgia #MAGA #Education #America #Fediverse #BigLie #BlackMastodon #Insurrection #Ethics #Media #Republicans #2024Election #Legal #History #FaniWillis #Coup #LockHimUp #GOP #Crime #J6 #iTHiNKLabs #Constitution #BrianKemp #SCOTUS #Democracy #USPol ▼

"One of Trump’s recent federal court filings is truly Orwellian. Trump was trying to delay his trial by almost three years. The filing compares Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, to the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black youths who suffered one of the most notoriously racist judicial persecutions in U.S. history."

~ Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

#Trump #ScottsboroBoys #Orwell #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/31/trump_orwell_and_the_scottsboro_boys

"Texas has the third lowest voter turnout of any state in the union; only West Virginia and Arkansas are worse. Part of that is by apathy, but part is by design. The Texas GOP, which has controlled the state legislature for decades, has turned voter suppression into an art form. The result is the most corrupt and ineffectual governor/lieutenant governor/attorney general troika in the United States."

#Texas #Republicans #fascism #democracy #BigLie
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"With fascism on the rise in the United States, we cannot laugh off the fact that the dominant political party in the country’s second-most-populous state [i.e., Texas] flat-out refuses to recognize the authority of the duly elected POTUS, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr."

~Greg Olear

#Texas #Republicans #fascism #democracy #BigLie
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/acting-presidents-and-lone-star-sedition

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-defenses-georgia-phone-call-203020705.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

Mark Meadows is basically arguing that he’s either a) gullible, b) dumb or both.

#BigLie #MarkMeadows #Georgia #GeorgiaTrump

Judge Beryl Howell on how Giuliani's attempt to play the victim cuts no ice with her:

“Donning a cloak of victimization may play well on a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court of law this performance has served only to subvert the normal process of discovery in a straightforward defamation case."

#Giuliani #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-rudy