When confronted with their hypocrisy despicables always fall back on whataboutism and personal attacks.

Yes, deplorables are capable of violence.
Just like despicables.

Careful on that high moral ground.

 

All the things you've been doing as well.

 

As usual, the village idiot proves Shooters point without understanding what he's done.
This is getting tedious.
Fun, but tedious.

 

'Fire to burn': Criminologist warns Trump supporters could react violently if he is indicted

Alex Henderson, AlterNet
August 15, 2022



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On Thursday, August 11 — three days after the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in South Florida — a Donald Trump supporter was killed during a violent confrontation with law enforcement. The armed suspect, identified by the Washington Post as 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer, unsuccessfully tried to breach an FBI field office in Cincinnati; after fleeing the premises, he was pursued by law enforcement agents and died during a shootout near Wilmington, Ohio.

The FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago were looking for classified government documents. Shiffer, according to the Post, had posted anti-FBI messages on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social before the attack — writing “kill the enemy” and “If you don't hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I." In an official statement on August 11, the FBI’s Cincinnati office noted, “The subject shot at law enforcement officers. During the incident, law enforcement also fired their weapons.”

Criminologist Brian Levin discussed the potential for more violence during a Friday night, August 12 appearance on CNN. Levin, who serves as director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, fears that violent attacks by Trump supporters could escalate if the former president faces some type of indictment.

READ MORE: Fox News guest calls Mar-a-Lago search 'a preemptive coup'

Levin told CNN’s Kim Brunhuber, “As this heats up, where there's a certain event, an indictment — we're not saying it's happening — but if it does, that will cause this fire to burn more. The kindling is already out there, and we are quite concerned because this kind of stuff heats up and gets more directed as we go down that trail as to what's going to happen with respect to a possible criminal prosecution of the former president.”

Brunhuber noted all the angry, over-the-top rhetoric that has been coming from Republican politicians and far-right media figures following the FBI’s August 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump has been living since leaving the White House on January 20, 2021. When Brunhuber asked Levin if “right politicians and media figures…. just don't care about the consequences of stoking political violence,” Levin responded, “I don't think they care. And we had reams of data showing that both hate crimes, extremist plots and including homicides, go up downstream around this kind of rhetoric.”

Levin continued, “What this does is it labels certain groups and individuals as legitimate targets of aggression. But sometimes, that aggression is manifest as what we're seeing online in this firehose of insults, epithets and conspiracy theories…. For some, they're gonna act on it either individually or in a more organized fashion.”

Levin added that according to FBI data, the “worst day for hate crimes” occurred in 2019 after the U.S. House of Representatives indicted then-President Trump on articles of impeachment.

READ MORE: Kamala Harris condemns GOP rhetoric and attempted attack on FBI field office



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'Going to get someone killed': Trump lawyer threatens to expose FBI agents even if DOJ redacts names

Igor Derysh, Salon
August 19, 2022



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Trump attorney Alina Habba on Thursday suggested releasing surveillance footage of the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago even though it could reveal the identities of agents who executed it.

Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the search warrant, on Thursday gave the Justice Department a week to propose redactions ahead of a possible release of the probable cause affidavit filed by the DOJ to get the warrant. The DOJ opposed releasing the affidavit at all, arguing that it could expose agents and witnesses and reveal the inner workings of an ongoing investigation. The DOJ is investigating Trump under the Espionage Act after he failed to turn over classified documents he had taken to his residence.

Habba told Newsmax on Thursday that if the affidavit is ultimately released, it is likely to be heavily redacted. She added that she "would love" to see CCTV footage of the raid released to the public, dismissing concerns that the video could reveal agents' identities.

"If you're doing it as an agent, I'm not sure you should have that right," she said. "Listen: FBI agents, undercover agents, that's one thing. But when you go into a president's home, an ex-president's home, what do you expect is going to happen? What do you expect?"

Habba claimed that the Trump team plans to send the video to the DOJ.

"We cooperate! That's what we always do, we always have," she said. "I would love for the country to see what I saw from those cameras."


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Despite Habba's claim about cooperation, a Trump lawyer signed a document in June certifying that all of the classified documents had been returned. Investigators later learned from inside sources that Trump still had classified documents at his residence. The DOJ subpoenaed footage from the Mar-a-Lago cameras — but the subpoena is seeking footage from the two months after Trump and his team were in contact with the DOJ before the raid, not video of the search.

Habba's comments came amid a rise in threats against federal law enforcement as Trump and his allies push baseless allegations of political persecution and evidence-planting. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security earlier this week released a joint bulletin warning of an increase in threats to law enforcement officials.

"The FBI and DHS have observed an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities, including a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI Headquarters and issuing general calls for 'civil war' and 'armed rebellion,'" the bulletin said, adding that some threats are "specific in identifying proposed targets, tactics, or weaponry."

Law enforcement officials also warned of an increase in "personal identifying information of possible targets of violence, such as home addresses and identification of family members, disseminated online as additional targets."

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The FBI has also faced a barrage of smears from TrumpWorld. Habba in a separate appearance on Fox News Thursday told host Sean Hannity that the entire agency is "tainted" because it previously investigated what she described as the "Russia hoax."

National security attorney Bradley Moss warned that the potential release of the surveillance footage would put law enforcement at even greater risk.

"These folks are doing to get someone killed," he said on Twitter.

Habba previously demanded the release of witness information in the affidavit, which the DOJ warned could put individuals at risk and prevent additional witnesses from coming forward.

"I understand the witness protection issue. But at the same time, these witnesses are truly not going to be concealed for very long. That's just not the nature of the DOJ and the FBI. And, unfortunately, our country. There's always leaks." she told Newsmax on Tuesday. "It's in the best interest so that the country can get comfortable to see what the basis was, especially from someone who was cooperating," she added.



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Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, says Trump wants the Department of Justice to release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.











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Former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance explained on Twitter that the DOJ would only release such information if Trump was actually charged with a crime.

"The only possible reason to try & get witness identities is so they can be pressure[d] or perhaps retaliated against," she wrote.

"Of course, this is what Trump wants (and it's probably driving him crazy that people are talking to the DOJ about him and he doesn't know who they are)," tweeted former appellate defense attorney Teri Kanefield. "The reasons Trump wants to know are exactly the reasons he shouldn't know."

Trump has reportedly struggled to find elite, experienced attorneys to represent him in the FBI investigation. Instead, he has largely relied on Habba, former OAN host Christina Bobb and Florida insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan to defend him in media appearances, with varying degrees of success.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham schooled Bobb on Thursday about how Trump's legal team may have screwed up by not filing its own motion to release the affidavit.

"Are you not concerned — because you didn't join any of these motions for the full release of this affidavit — that you're then waiving the possible objections to the way redactions are being done by the Justice Department later on?" Ingraham questioned. "I'm not sure what grounds you're going to have at this point, having waived your right to file those motions," she added.

Meanwhile, Trump's former attorney Rudy Giuliani has also defended the former president in media appearances and on Thursday offered a novel defense for Trump's decision to stash documents at Mar-a-Lago: He was preserving them.

"Really, if you look at the Espionage Act, it's not really about taking the documents," Giuliani told Newsmax. "It's about destroying them. Or hiding them. Or giving them to the enemy. It's not about taking them and putting them in a place that's roughly as safe as they were in in the first place."

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'In a body bag': Sarasota candidate says he'd kill FBI agents if they tried to search home

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Martin Hyde speaks at the Sarasota and Manatee Republican Parties candidates rally at Robarts Arena in Sarasota earlier this year.

A Sarasota candidate for Congress says he would have killed the FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's property if they tried to do the same thing to his home.

"I wish they'd turn up at my home 'cause they'd have gone home in a body bag," Sarasota businessman Martin Hyde says in a new video.

Hyde is a Republican running for Congress against U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key. He has been a magnet for controversy, with his campaign imploding after he was caught on camera in February berating a Sarasota police officer and threatening her job during a traffic stop.



It appeared Hyde might drop out of the race, but he paid the qualifying fee and has remained a candidate. His campaign hasn't attracted much attention since then until now, when Hyde put out the inflammatory video in the closing stretch of the Aug. 23 primary.

Hyde seizes on GOP outrage over the search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in the video.

"When they turned up at Mar-a-Lago and raided the home of President Trump, that was an assault on every one of the 75 million people who voted for Donald Trump, it was a assault on democracy," Hyde says as the video shows images of police officers, Mar-a-Lago and Trump supporters. "These people would stop at nothing. I wish they'd turn up at my home 'cause they'd have gone home in a body bag."


The video is deliberately provocative and appears to be a long-shot effort to attract attention and revive a campaign that is struggling to gain traction. Hyde has tried to challenge the eight-term Buchanan from the right by criticizing him on issues such as gun rights, but has raised little money and is an underdog in the race.

Hyde defended his comments in a text message to the Herald-Tribune.

"The FBI starts acting for a politically motivated (Department of Justice) they are more acting like tyrants and that's why we have the Second Amendment," Hyde said.

Hyde also seemed to confirm that he is being provocative to get media attention.

"Did you even consider I might be using hyperbole and rhetoric because I know how susceptible you are to it?" Hyde said. "No point in spending money on mailers when you'll print my name for free."


Hyde and Buchanan both live in Sarasota County but are running in congressional District 16, which includes all of Manatee County and a portion of Hillsborough County.

Hyde isn't the only Florida GOP candidate who has talked about killing FBI agents.

St. Augustine resident Luis Miguel, a candidate for state House District 20, was banned from Twitter this week after tweeting that “Under my plan, all Floridians will have permission to shoot FBI, IRS, ATF and all other feds ON SIGHT. Let freedom ring.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/body-bag-sarasota-candidate-says-132727227.html

 

If treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans don't win elections they are going to kill you.


Republican Minnesota candidate says people may ‘have to vote with bullets’

Michelle Griffith, Minnesota Reformer
August 19, 2022



A screen shot captured from video of Stephen Lowell speaking at the Dakota County Patriot Block Party on July 30.


In a speech about voting and trust in elections, a Minnesota Senate candidate said people need to “grow teeth” by “voting with a ballot before we have to vote with bullets.”

Stephen Lowell, the GOP-endorsed candidate for Minnesota Senate District 52, said Republicans should vote in droves, comparing the turnout needed to the number of protesters who demonstrated in the Twin Cities after George Floyd’s police murder in 2020.

“We have to vote just like they’re throwing Molotovs up in Uptown. We have to vote just like they burned down buildings… We have to vote as hard as they went out and did that,” Lowell said.


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Oklahoma GOP candidate under fire for saying it is 'totally in the right' to execute gay people

Sky Palma
August 22, 2022



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A GOP candidate in Oklahoma's Republican primary runoff election tomorrow is facing backlash after comments he made several years ago have emerged, LGBT Nation reports.

Scott Esk, 56, who is running for a seat in the state's House, commented on a Facebook post back in 2013 where he quoted a bible verse and later added that "we would be totally in the right" to execute gay people.

"Ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss," he wrote.

When a journalist asked him a year later about his comments, he replied that it's “totally just” to kill gay people.

IN OTHER NEWS: Legal expert slaps down right-wing hysteria over FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in Fox News column

“What I will tell you right now is that that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God,” he said at the time. “And in that time, there was, it was, totally just came directly from God.”

In a subsequent video explaining his comments, Esk said he has “compassion on anybody in the grips of an insidious addiction, such as homosexuality.”

“Any Christian should be in the position to say that this is sin or this is good. If we don’t make that distinction, we’re not going to help people,” he said in the 2015 video.

In another video from earlier this year, Esk called reports on his comments a “hit piece on the fact that I had an opinion against homosexuality.”

WATCH: Donald Trump Jr. fights rumors Matt Gaetz is Mar-a-Lago 'informant' at Gaetz campaign event

“Well, does that make me a homophobe? Maybe some people think it does,” he said. “But as far as I and many of the people, the voters of House District A7 are concerned, it simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should.”

“The fact is, that it’s much more offensive knowing what obscene things homosexuals do with each other than it is for somebody to hold the view that it is indecent,” he said.

When The Oklahoman asked him about his views, he referred to the videos and refused to do an interview.

“I’ve stood up for what is right in the past, and I intend to in the future and I am right now,” he told the publication. “That’s got me in trouble. The media are not my friends, as far as I’m concerned.”


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Whitmer praises verdict, says there’s no room for threats
by JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE, Associated Press - 08/23/22 7:53 AM ET

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This combo of images provided by the Kent County, Mich., Jail. shows Barry Croft Jr., left, and Adam Fox. Jury selection started Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in the second trial of the two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 over their disgust with restrictions early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Prosecutors are putting Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. on trial again after a jury in April couldn’t reach a verdict. Two co-defendants were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty earlier. (Kent County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is praising the guilty verdicts against two men who plotted to kidnap her in 2020 and warning that violent threats “have no place in our politics.”

Whitmer says threats against officials are a “disturbing extension of radicalized domestic terrorism” and undermine democracy.


Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were convicted of all charges Tuesday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

They were accused of scheming to kidnap the Democratic governor and ignite a civil war near the 2020 presidential election.

It was the second trial for Fox and Croft after a jury in April couldn’t reach a verdict. Two men were acquitted last spring and two more pleaded guilty.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a swift victory for prosecutors in a foiled plot that was described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists.

Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were also found guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home.


Croft, 46, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, was also convicted of another explosives charge. The jury deliberated for roughly eight hours over two days.

It was the second trial for the pair after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict after five days. Two other men were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors.

The result was a big win for the U.S. Justice Department following the shocking mixed outcome last spring.


“You can’t just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and go snatch the governor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors during closing arguments Monday.

“But that wasn’t the defendants’ ultimate goal,” Kessler said. “They wanted to set off a second American civil war, a second American Revolution, something that they call the boogaloo. And they wanted to do it for a long time before they settled on Gov. Whitmer.”

The investigation began when Army veteran Dan Chappel joined a Michigan paramilitary group and became alarmed when he heard talk about killing police. He agreed to become an FBI informant and spent summer 2020 getting close to Fox and others, secretly recording conversations and participating in drills at “shoot houses” in Wisconsin and Michigan.


The FBI turned it into a major domestic terrorism case with two more informants and two undercover agents embedded in the group. Evidence showed the group had many gripes, particularly COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Whitmer early in the pandemic.

Fox, Croft and others, accompanied by the government operatives, traveled to northern Michigan to see Whitmer’s vacation home at night and a bridge that could be destroyed.

Defense attorneys tried to put the FBI on trial, repeatedly emphasizing through cross-examination of witnesses and during closing remarks that federal players were present at every crucial event and had entrapped the men.


Fox and Croft, they said, were “big talkers” who liked to smoke marijuana and were guilty of nothing but exercising their right to say vile things about Whitmer and government.

“This isn’t Russia. This isn’t how our country works,” Croft attorney Joshua Blanchard told jurors. “You don’t get to suspect that someone might commit a crime because you don’t like things that they say, that you don’t like their ideologies.”

Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons said the FBI isn’t supposed to create “domestic terrorists.” He described Fox as poor and living in the basement of a Grand Rapids-area vacuum shop, which was a site for meetings with Chappel and an agent.


Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.

Over the weekend, she said she hadn’t been following the second trial but remains concerned about “violent rhetoric in this country.”

Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”


https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-...-start-for-2-men-charged-in-gov-whitmer-plot/

 

Capitol rioter made threatening comments against FBI in response to Mar-A-Lago search: 'Hang the traitors'

Travis Gettys
August 24, 2022



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A self-confessed U.S. Capitol rioter who has managed to avoid criminal charges has been making online threats against FBI agents in response to the search of Mar-A-Lago.

Brandon Lee Sanders has claimed to have entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and insists he'd do it again, and researchers at the nonprofit Advance Democracy linked him to menacing comments posted on Reddit and the rabidly pro-Trump forum The Donald, reported Vice.

“Everyone in [the] FBI involved is complicit in Overthrow of Our Republic and must face the Guillotine!” Sanders wrote two days after the Mar-A-Lago search, and the same day offered another comment on the investigation. “Just figured I’d come in here and agree with you and cement my reputation as a ‘domestic terrorist’ with the FBI. F*ck the FBI- hang the traitors.”

“We need trials, jail, and executions where appropriate," he posted last week. "The time for playing nice is long gone, they had their chances numerous times. I’m done, no compromise and no reconciliation.”

IN OTHER NEWS: 'The horror stories are piling up;' CNN analyst explains how abortion bans are blowing up in Republicans' faces

Capitol rioter Tyler Welsh Slaeker, who is awaiting sentencing for taking part in the insurrection, also posted "civil war" threats on TheDonald in response to the search, and an Ohio man attacked an FBI office in Cincinnati with a nail gun and AR-style rifle before dying in a shootout with police, but Sanders is among the few who have been positively identified

Researchers identified him using information he had shared on his online accounts, including YouTube and LinkedIn, and they concluded he had access to numerous weapons and may belong to a militia group.

They also determined that he worked for an Irish-owned engineering company.

Sanders did not respond to requests for comment, and his profiled on TheDonald disappeared after Vice contacted him.



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The guillotine?
Well, why bother with that.
They should be able to dust off the gallows the rioters erected on the capital lawn on January 6, don't you think?
Jesus. Propaganda everywhere.

 

Bill Barr: I'm 'pretty tired' of Republicans whipping up outrage at FBI over Mar-a-Lago search

Brad Reed
August 26, 2022



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Former Attorney General Bill Barr told podcaster Bari Weiss this week that he's grown very wary of Republicans and Trump allies who are whipping up outrage over the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.

As Fox News reports, Weiss grilled Barr about whether conservatives should have any faith in the FBI in the wake of its search of former President Donald Trump's residence to retrieve top-secret classified documents.

Barr replied that he was critical of some FBI agents' actions taken in investigating the Trump campaign's multiple contacts with Russian operative during the 2016 campaign, but he said Trump-appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray was not some reckless partisan hellbent on bringing down the man who gave him his job.

Weiss pressed Barr further, however, which was when he said he was growing fed up with Republicans' attacks on federal law enforcement officials.

READ MORE: Every defense of Mar-a-Lago docs scandal has 'been blown up by Donald Trump': former prosecutors

"You know, something I'm pretty tired of... from the Right is the constant pandering to outrage and people's frustrations," Barr said. "And picking and picking and picking at that sore without trying to channel those feelings in a constructive direction. In my opinion, Ronald Reagan was a great populist not because he followed, you know, the frustrated instincts and the outrage of the people that many people who supported him but because he channeled it and was constructive about it."

He then said that conservatives needed to win elections more convincingly and he said "that is not done by throwing fuel on the fire of outrage on one side of the equation while the other side does the same thing on their side."



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National Archives now receiving threats from Trump supporters

Sarah K. Burris
August 28, 2022



A Trump supporter demonstrates in New York City (Shutterstock).

The National Archives is now falling under the anti-government threats that other federal agencies have experienced in the past several weeks, Axios reported Sunday.

The attacks first began when the FBI conducted a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's golf club in Palm Beach to recover classified documents he'd stolen from the White House upon leaving his office. One man attacked the Cincinnati, Ohio FBI headquarters. Another man jumped the fence at the Chicago FBI offices.

Due to a Republican conspiracy theory, right-wing supporters are now threatening the IRS. Part of the Inflation Reduction Act gave funds to the IRS, which has been drastically underfunded for the past decade and has been unable to do audits against the super wealthy. Those individuals typically tie up the courts and cost the IRS more resources to fight just to get millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. Republicans claim that the funds will be all about arming IRS agents to shoot everyday Americans.

Now the National Archives and Records Administration has faced an increase in threats after the Mar-a-Lago search.

“NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down,’” acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall explained in an email to staff this week, according to the Washington Post. “Neither is accurate or welcome."

Read the full report at Axios.com.



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Of course they are.

 

First the FBI, now the National Archives... What's next the document printers or the paper company???

 

'Trump gives aid and comfort to domestic terrorists': Legal expert gets darker than Biden's 'semi-fascist' claim

Sarah K. Burris
August 28, 2022



A Trump supporter threatens to burn down Revolution Books in Berkeley, California (Screen cap).

Speaking to MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Sunday evening, "The Nation's" Elie Mystal and "Sisters in Law" co-host Joyce Vance had their own thoughts when it comes to the predicament in which the former President Donald Trump is enthralled.

The Fox network has spent the day going after former President Joe Biden for saying that the MAGA Republican is "semi-fascist," talking about their demand to pull books from schools, ban LGBTQ children from speaking to their teachers about their orientation. LGBTQ teachers in Florida have been banned from talking about their family if they're married to a same-sex or trans person. There are some states where types of birth control are being banned and others where pregnant women are forced to come to near death because abortions have been banned unless the pregnant person is dying.

Mystal disagreed with Biden's assessment and noted that the thing he considers to be the most important is that Trump and the Republican Party are giving aid, comfort and direction to domestic terrorists.

"We already know [they] have attacked government buildings on his, if not say so, certainly with his tacit support," said Mystal. "And they're doing it again. Right now they're going after the National Archives. We already saw they went after the FBI agents. And as this ramps up, one thing that I think we have to understand is what is going on just beneath the surface here. Trump is in deep legal trouble, all right? He has likely violated the Espionage Act. That carries real penalties and real prison time. He is a deep, deep trouble. One of the only ways he thinks he could stay out of jail is if the people who were responsible for putting him in jail are so afraid of his white domestic terrorist fans, that they let politics cloud their judgment of the law."

As former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, who co-hosts the "Sisters in Law" podcast, she knows full well that the documents scandal isn't a typical situation.

Trump is requesting a "special master" to go through the information to ensure no "executive privilege" or "attorney-client privilege" documents were taken. It's unclear how much the government has gone through over the past 3 weeks, however.

"Special master's are used when it's is likely to find a large quantity of attorney-client privilege material, for instance when you're searching an attorney's office or searching and attorneys, and in those situations, the parties will typically very close to the time of the search ask for the special master come in and review the documents," said Vance.

She explained that the DOJ used a "filter team" where a group of DOJ staff who have the necessary clearance level would be sifting through the information. They're also staff that likely isn't part of the prosecution team.

"Their only rule is to screen these materials, to determine whether there is anything privileged that needs to go back to the former president, and that the lawyer is working on the case should not see," Vance continued. "That is their role in the setting. The 11th Circuit Court just last year, issued an opinion, acknowledging that the use of filter teams is constitutionally sufficient and doesn't deprive the punitive defendant of his or her rights in that setting. So, really, there is no need here to appoint a special master."

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Just non-fuck you Lindsey Graham and all you treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans and your fucking domestic terrorists. You want to threaten the United States of America because we refuse to live under your mentally ill wanna be dictator? So be it. Its long past time for the United Sates government and Americans that do love their country to take a stand against your treason. Trump is not a king. Trump is not above all laws. Trump is not above the Constitution. And Trump is not above our national security. And its time the Department of Justice prove that. And if you want to riot over that then fine. We certainly have the law, the resources, and the manpower to call your bluff and restore law and order. You do not get to destroy our country because you believe Trump is the Chosen One.


'Bold-faced liar' Lindsey Graham buried for riot threat as he continues to 'shill' for Trump

Tom Boggioni
August 29, 2022



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Early Monday morning, "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski went on a rant when she lashed into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over a warning that came across as a threat that there will be riots if Donald Trump is arrested.

Speaking with host Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican boldly proclaimed, "I’ll say this, if there is a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle … there will be riots in the street."


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Graham and why he continues to defend Trump.

"This just doesn't end well," she began. "I don't understand Senator Graham, Senator [Roy] Blunt (R-MO), all the others. I mean, you know that you're wondering -- and this is basic -- you're wondering what those documents were doing there. You're wondering what a former president would do with documents like that in his club where people from around the world come to party with him."

"You know that he's had questionable -- and this is at best -- questionable meetings and appearances on the world stage with dictators," she continued. "Private meetings with Putin with no notetaker. Kim Jong-un. You even admitted, the former president, on television, that you would take dirt on a political rival; you would shake down a world leader for it."

RELATED: Trump's GOP supporters growing 'queasy' about defending him as allegations pile up: Axios founder

"Lindsey Graham has no question about what these sensitive documents were doing in the basement of Mar-a-Lago?" she scoffed. "It defies logic. That's the thing; he's not stupid, he knows this is a big question of national security. This is not drama. This is not overreaction. This is not an exaggeration. This is not the left going crazy -- it's just not."

"You know it is a question: what the hell were those documents doing in the basement of Mar-a-Lago?" she exclaimed. "And you're a bold-faced liar if you say you don't have that question. And you jump, eagerly, like a fly to fly-paper to Hillary Clinton's emails -- it's pathetic. It's also really bad for this country."

"And, yes, there may be violence, none of us like this, none of us wanted this," she scolded. "True patriots who love this country, love our democracy, love the process and the rule of law that makes us great, we don't like what's happening. We're not taking any joy in this. The question is why would you still shill for someone who has embarrassed you time and time again."

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Fine you mentally ill traitor. You just send your domestic terrorists into the streets. We are the United States of America traitor and will smash you to squirming pieces. Who do you and all you treasonous conservative/America Hasting/Republicans think you are fucking with here? We are the United States of America, the most powerful country on the face of the earth and will protect by all means necessary. Which you do not have a prayer of standing against.


Trump sets off alarm bells after sharing Truth Social warning of 'riots in the streets'

Igor Derysh, Salon
August 29, 2022



Donald Trump speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday shared a video on his struggling Twitter knockoff Truth Social of Sen. Linsey Graham, R-S.C., warning of "riots" in the streets if he is indicted.

Graham issued the warning during an interview with Fox News host Trey Gowdy, a former Republican congressman, days after a partially redacted FBI affidavit revealed that investigators had probable cause to believe Trump violated laws related to classified documents, record preservation and obstruction of justice.

"If there is a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle… there'll be riots in the streets," Graham told Gowdy, who led the infamous House GOP Benghazi hearings.

"Most Republicans, including me, believes when it comes to Trump, there is no law. It's all about getting him," Graham later added.

A three-year federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for government business cleared her of criminal wrongdoing. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner both used private email accounts and messaging apps to conduct government business while working in the Trump White House. Trump, meanwhile, refused to turn over classified documents to the National Archives after repeated warnings from the government, according to the FBI.

Trump shared the video of Graham warning of "riots" on Truth Social shortly after the interview.

Trump's team has similarly issued warnings to Attorney General Merrick Garland of potential unrest as the Justice Department investigates why he refused to return classified documents. One of Trump's attorneys after the raid told Jay Bratt, the head of the DOJ National Security Division's counterintelligence unit, his supporters were growing "angry."

"President Trump wants the Attorney General to know that he has been hearing from people all over the country about the raid. If there was one word to describe their mood, it is 'angry,'" the unidentified attorney told Bratt, according to a court motion filed by Trump's lawyers. "The heat is building up. The pressure is building up. Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know."

Trump issued a similar message on Truth Social over the weekend.

"The Raid on my home, Mar-a-Lago, is one of the most egregious assaults on democracy in the history of our Country which is, by the way, going to places, in a very bad way, it has never seen before!" Trump wrote on Saturday.

Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe compared the post to Trump's message to Garland.

"Like his recent message to AG Garland suggesting that he could help Garland turn down the 'heat' if only DOJ would back off," he tweeted.

Conservative attorney George Conway, a prominent Trump critic, wrote that the former president is "essentially threatening the country with violence if the laws are applied to him."

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., shared the clip of Graham's warning on his Twitter feed.

"Top [R]epublicans would rather torch America in violent riots than lose an election or face any accountability for their crimes," he wrote. "That's fascist."


MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Florida lawmaker and ex-Trump ally, called out Graham for downplaying the Jan. 6 Capitol riot while warning of "riots in the future, coming from Republicans, coming from his party, coming from Trump Donald Trump supporters."

"The irony is so rich, these people that talked about riots, Black Lives Matter riots, it's all they talk about... Yet they're fine when Trump riots are actually putting democracy at risk, when they're trying to overturn an election result," he said. "Lindsey is even fine threatening riots, saying, you know, Trump supporters will riot in the streets, there will be violence if he is held to account, if he broke the law."

Scarborough added that while Trump and his supporters believe he is above the law, his supporters certainly are not.

"Lindsey, if you are trying to stir up Republican riots, if you think Republicans are going to riot in the street, Republicans are going to riot in the street, they're not above the law," he said. "They'll be arrested. They'll go through the same thing that people who listened to Donald Trump on Jan. 6 are going through."



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'The MAGA Republicans are a domestic terrorist cell': ex-Breitbart staffer

Sarah K. Burris
August 28, 2022



President Trump concludes his campaign speech at the rally in the Bojangle's Coliseum. (Jeffery Edwards / Shutterstock.com)

A former Breitbart staffer turned Democratic operative, Kurt Bardella, labeled the MAGA Republican caucus as so far to the extreme that they're dangerous.

He argued that the level of lawlessness seen by MAGA Republicans has included the attempted insurrection, voter fraud, a kidnapping attempt, bombing plots, assassination threats, slaying of an anti-racist protester in Charlottesville, two attacks on the FBI, threats against the National Archives, threats against IRS agents and threats against judges, reporters, FBI agents and a slew of elected officials.

"Let's be clear. The Republican Party, the MAGA Republicans are a domestic terrorist cell operating in America," said Bardella. "This is a group of people who have decided that it is acceptable to use violence and threats of violence to try to achieve their political means. That it's okay to threaten law enforcement to stop them from doing their job and anytime you have people dedicated to using violent rhetoric, to incite violence against other people — that's terrorism. That's what we're seeing from the Republican Party."

Christina Greer, associate professor at Fordham University, agreed with the assessment, saying that President Joe Biden is finally realizing that the far-right groups are domestic terrorists and that it's his responsibility to call it like it is.

"This is the Republican Party," she said.

"This is who they are. They can no longer hide behind tax breaks. If you are in for a penny, you are in for a pound. You are supporting, aiding and abetting people or threatening journalists and other citizens, threatening other politicians and threatening law enforcement. It is all part and parcel. If you're in the Republican Party this is what you stand for. I think Joe Biden has finally reached a point where he believes the larger issue on the ballot is American democracy, she said.

"I always said that Joe Biden is a bridge president. He will take us over the bridge to help us fortify some of our American democratic principles that have been weakened under the former president, or we will see the destruction of these norms that we've realized, haven't been calcified," Greer continued. "They're fragile. The American democracy is a series of daily decisions we have to make collectively. We've seen that far too many Republicans are going in the opposite direction."

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