Politics and Money

[lesgetrich]

Yes, they did all that because your fascist cult leader kept breaking the law. He was caught lying over 30,000 times during his presidency...

Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years

...He tried to bribe the Ukrainian President by withholding military aid in exchange for inventing evidence against his political rival, Joe Biden...

How the Ukraine invasion connects to Trump's first impeachment — and where the players are now

As Russia bombards Ukraine, Donald Trump is wading into the conflict barely two years after he faced an impeachment trial on charges that he abused his power by essentially extorting the Kyiv government and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump was acquitted in February 2020 after the House impeached him, alleging he held hostage hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid in order to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including his eventual successor, Joe Biden. The aid was eventually provided, but not before a crisis that rattled two continents and desperate pleas by Zelenskyy’s government for help fending off the very Russian aggression that now threatens to topple him from power in Ukraine.

...He then staged an unsuccessful coup trying to overthrow the US government on January 6, 2021...

The damning case against Trump that the Jan. 6 committee has uncovered -- and what comes next

This is what the committee has established so far.

* The insurrection was carnage, not the overwrought protest described by Trump allies. Previously unseen film footage from outside and inside the Capitol showed Trump's mob smashing windows, battling with security officers and seeking vengeance against then-Vice President Mike Pence for failing to block President Joe Biden's election win. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards testified about a "war scene," adding, "I was slipping in people's blood."

* Trump was told repeatedly he lost the election by campaign aides, officials and lawyers but he persisted in his lies and attempts to steal power.

* Those fraud claims were "idiotic" and devoid of evidence according to multiple witnesses, including Trump's former Attorney General William Barr.

* Trump imposed extreme pressure on Republican officials in key swing states to overturn the election -- like Arizona Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who testified that he chose the Constitution over politics. Georgia election workers, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, said Trump's intimidation campaign left them afraid to leave their homes.

* Trump was personally involved in schemes to get Pence to overturn the election in Congress -- a power the vice president lacked, and to create slates of fake electors to steal Biden's state victories.

* According to witness testimony, Trump thought Pence, rushed to safety by the Secret Service as the rioters invaded, deserved the calls for him to be hanged. The danger to Pence was real -- the mob got to within 40 feet of him. A committee witness, whose identity was obscured, testified in a recording on Thursday that members of Pence's detail genuinely feared that they would be killed.

* Rioters testified that they came to Washington because Trump asked them to. The ex-President incited the mob at his rally on the Ellipse, and he knew members in the crowd were armed but he exhorted them to march on the Capitol anyway. In fact, he would have gone there with them himself if the Secret Service had let him.

* Trump did not just watch the mayhem unfold on television; he expressly refused to fulfill his duty as president to protect the Capitol and democracy. And he further incited the crowd with a tweet.

...His supporters invaded the Capitol and tried to stop Congress from certifying the election. Several neo-fascist groups planned and led the insurrection and over 150 police were injured in their attack. 363 rioters have pled guilty and 2 of them have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy...

A second Oath Keeper pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot

A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and agreed to cooperate with the government.

Brian Ulrich entered his guilty plea at a virtual hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The 44-year-old from Guyton, Ga., is the second Oath Keeper to plead guilty to sedition charges in the highest-profile case to emerge from the federal investigation into the Capitol riot.

Ulrich is one of 11 Oath Keepers, including the group's founder Stewart Rhodes, to be charged with seditious conspiracy and other crimes for allegedly plotting to use force to prevent Congress' Jan. 6 certification of President Biden's election win.

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