5/19/21: The State of New York has notified the Trump Organization that it has opened a criminal investigation into its operations,
expanding a probe that involved possible violations in civil matters.
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“Wait for investigation.”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL.)
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“We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature,” a spokesperson for the office of the Attorney General of New York said in a statement. “We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.”
Innocent until proven guilty is the rule; but I won’t deny it would be fun to go to a rally like Trump fans, and shout, “Lock him/her up!” before all the evidence has come in. Likely areas of legal jeopardy for the Rejected-President and his kids: tax evasion, conspiracy to commit various crimes, and fraud.
(Barron is innocent.)
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Rep. Brooks speaking at the Trump rally, the morning of the attack on Capitol Hill. |
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SPEAKING OF investigations, Republican leaders in Congress, and Loser Don made it clear yesterday that they preferred not to have a 9/11-style commission investigate the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. This was a surprise, since Loser Don and a host of GOP lawmakers and right-wing media types spent the days following the attack howling that the people involved were wicked left-wing types.
Rep. Matt Gaetz said it was Antifa. Said he read all about it in the right-wing Washington Times.
Rep. Paul Gosar said the attack had all the “hallmarks of Antifa provocation.” He said it on Fox News.
Rep. Mo Brooks told Lou Dobbs he had a hunch about who was doing all
that cop-clubbing: “there
is some indication that fascist antifa elements were involved, that they
embedded themselves in the Trump protests.”
Later, he sent out a series of tweets, claiming that he had received
information before the attack, that Antifa types were planning violence on
January 6. And you couldn’t fool Old Mo, not after all those windows got
smashed and five people were killed. “Please,
don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia,” he tweeted, “don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for
investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence
growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control
tactics.”
Yes, wait for investigation. Ferret out the “fascist ANTIFA” folks. Get
the “evidence.” That would be excellent advice.
You could dredge up any number of Republicans who insisted that “patriots,”
namely, Trump fans, “don’t act like this,” as one California state lawmaker suggested. So, it had to be leftists.
In fact, you could turn on any of the right-wing news outlets and hear the same brain-dead refrain. Our people wouldn’t do this! Mark Levin said
so on Fox. Greg Kelly on Newsmax was equally certain. Having looked at the same
video images as the rest of us, Kelly proved – if nothing else – that he needed
to learn braille. “These people don’t look like Trump
supporters,” he told gullible Trump supporters who tuned in to listen to his
show. “Trump supporters don’t do these things.” Brian Kilmeade, and Tucker
Carlson, and Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity insisted, thumping the same drum.
“I’d like to know who the agitators were,” Hannity exclaimed. Those “who truly
support President Trump…do not support those who commit acts of violence.”
Donald J.
Trump, chimed in during his second impeachment trial, and sent his lawyers out to argue that he
couldn’t be blamed for inciting a riot, because the rioters were liberals and
Democrats who hated America.
So he had
to be innocent.
Going on
five months later, here we are. The House of Representatives holds a vote. Will
a 9/11-style investigation be held to find out who these attackers were?
President Trump makes it clear beforehand that an investigation will be a
“Democratic trap.” That is: An investigation might prove who the rioters really
were. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tells colleagues to vote “no.” Yet, just one week after the attack McCarthy knew exactly
who the attackers were. Trump fans. Trump fans, stirred up by Trump himself.
“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress
by mob rioters,” McCarthy said on January 13. “He should have immediately
denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate
action by President Trump.”
Today, McCarthy would like everyone
to forget that the rioters showed up dressed in full MAGA regalia. The vote in
the House today went as you might expect if you expected one party to show
abject cowardice. There were 252 votes in favor of an investigation, including
35 Republicans, 175 against finding out who attacked the Capitol and why. Unfortunately,
Sen. Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he doesn’t want any of the 50 GOP senators
voting in favor of an investigation. Someone called Mitch “spineless,” as a
result. But at this point you wonder if Mitch has femurs and patellas.
He’s more like a cup of vanilla pudding in a suit.
It’s also worth noting that the bill would create an investigating panel made up of five people chosen by Democrats and
five by Republicans. The bill would require that all “should be prominent
United States citizens, with national recognition and significant depth of
experience in at least two of the following areas” – governmental service; law enforcement; the
armed forces; intelligence; counterterrorism; cybersecurity; technology; law;
or civil rights, civil liberties and privacy.
Trump might change his mind on
setting up a commission, but only if Democrats would agree to compromise, and
let him pick all ten members of the panel. Here are ten names he would accept:
Donald Trump Jr.
The MyPillow Guy
The Demon Sperm Lady
Sean Hannity
Rudy Giuliani
“Q”
Rep. Mo Brooks
Roger Stone
Rep. Matt Gaetz (assuming he hasn’t
been indicted)
– and –
Rep. Andrew Clyde, who said recently that it was a
“bald-faced lie” to call the riot an insurrection, adding that the people who
came to the Capitol on January 6 looked to him like people on a “normal tourist
visit.”
It did not help Rep. Clyde’s
defense of the “tourists” when a photo surfaced of him helping push a large piece
of furniture in front of the doors to the House chamber on that fateful day.
Worst tourist group ever!
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BUT WAIT! There’s more! The Cyber
Ninja outfit hired to conduct an “audit” of the votes in one Arizona county
(but not in any county where Republicans piled up more votes) has admitted it was bulls***ting when the claim was made that Maricopa County officials deleted
voting records.
Rejected-President Donald made the
same claim a few days ago; so let’s see if he backtracks. (Ha! He won’t. The
man is as clueless as a goat.)
And did we mention that the Board
of Supervisors in Maricopa County has five members, including four Republicans?
Those five have unanimously agreed that the audit by Cyber Ninjas is a “sham.”
We
should add that since various right-wing media outlets and individuals have accused
Board members of participating in criminal acts, the chance that members might
file defamation suits may have had something to do (besides ineptitude) with
the admission by Cyber Ninjas that, okay, we’re sorry. We found the “missing”
information. The records we accused the Board of deleting. They were right
there. On the Maricopa County website. So, can someone please notify the
Orange Goat?
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