At the end of 2023, Judge Tanya Chutkan paused Jack Smith’s election interference case while the Supreme Court considered Trump’s presidential-immunity appeal—and it remained paused for two months after the court released its decision, while Smith considered how to amend the charges in his indictment. On Friday, Smith requested that Chutkan vacate the remaining pretrial deadlines “to afford the Government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy.” Chutkan almost immediately granted Smith’s request. DOJ policy states that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted, since it “would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.”
Florida-based U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed this case in July, ruling that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was unlawful and that this meant he did not have the authority to prosecute Trump. Her decision came after she spent a year issuing sympathetic rulings that favored Trump.
Smith appealed Cannon’s decision to dismiss, and that appeal is currently being considered by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Smith could continue pursuing this appeal through the end of the year—but the court may very well not move forward on it, given that Trump has been elected president again and in a few short months it’s almost certain that Smith will no longer be a special counsel.
This is the only criminal case against Trump that has gone to trial. In May, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts related to hush money payments he made in the lead-up to the 2016 election. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan initially scheduled Trump’s sentencing in July, then delayed it twice, most recently until Nov. 26, to avoid the perception that he was interfering with the election.
This case, spearheaded by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, has been tied up with drama and delays since the beginning of 2024. Earlier this year, a defendant in her case accused Willis of misconduct related to her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to work on her investigation. During a dramatic evidentiary hearing, Willis admitted to having had a romantic relationship with Wade after he was hired but denied any misconduct. A judge ultimately ruled that she could stay on the election-interference case, so long as Wade resigned, which he did. (Willis on Tuesday won her own reelection fight.) However, Trump’s defense attorney appealed the judge’s decision, and for the past several months, the case has been paused until a Georgia appeals court makes a final ruling on Willis’ status in this case
Convictions
Trump - 0 for 34
Manafort - campaign chairman (financial fraud, lying to FBI). Pardoned by Trump
Deputy campaign manager
personal lawyer
National Security Advisor
Trade Advisor
Foreign Policy Advisor
Michael Cohen (campaign fixer)
CFO
Bannon (chief strategist): stole donations to buy yacht. Pardoned by Trump
Shapiro: hired by Manafort to write anti-Ukraine propanda (https://www.thedailybeast.com/manafort-docs-obama-jews-and-other-shocking-highlights-from-the-ex-trump-aides-downfall)
Campaign
According to the then-Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the ultrasensitive campaign information that Manafort passed to a Russian spy “identified voter bases in blue-collar, democratic-leaning states which Trump could swing,” including in “Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.”
Impeachment #1 - Ukraine
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who had claimed in a book that Trump specifically told him that he withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to obtain an investigation into Biden and his son. The book’s release had rattled the entire GOP conference.
“Out of one hundred senators, you have zero who believe you that there was no quid pro quo. None. There’s not a single one,” Cruz reportedly said at one point, contradicting what Republicans were saying publicly about the charges at the time. (from book "Unchecked")
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also fumed at Trump’s legal team after they fumbled responding to a senator’s question about calling new witnesses. Trump’s attorneys said that it was simply too late to do so, a line Graham worried would lose Republican votes. “We are FUCKED. We are FUCKED!” Graham, a top Trump ally, reportedly said afterward as he walked into the GOP cloakroom, a private chamber adjacent to the Senate floor. (from book "Unchecked")
Inspector Generals, etc.
03Apr2020: On Friday, the president notified Congress that he was removing Michael Atkinson as the inspector general of the intelligence community — a decision that Trump acknowledged was in response to Atkinson’s having alerted lawmakers to the existence of a whistleblower complaint about the president’s dealings with Ukraine.
Whistleblower reprisal investigation: https://www.dodig.mil/Portals/48/Documents/Reports/DODIG-2022-097.pdf?ver=aU6_d4rhoSHjvutHfuikiw%3d%3d
07Apr2020: Trump removes inspector general for $2 trillion PPP spending. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-removes-inspector-general-who-was-to-oversee-2-trillion-stimulus-spending/2020/04/07/2f0c6cb8-78ea-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html
Officials in the Small Business Administration (SBA) eliminated 2.7 million flags on PPP loans between December 2020 and January 2021. On January 16, 2021, four days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s SBA wiped 99 percent of special review flags, which were given out to every loan above $2 million for separate investigatory purposes. Out of the $800 billion given out in the program, flagged loans accounted for at least $189 billion.
09Nov2020: Trump Fires Mark Esper, Defense Secretary Who Opposed Use of Troops on U.S. Streets. Trump fired him via Twitter (right after election) and replaced him with a pro-Trump politician. SecDef approval is involved in approval of D.C. National Guard deployment.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/16/politics/list-inspector-general-removed-trump/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/
Impeachment #2 - January 6th
19Dec2020: Trump tweets "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild! "
Groups from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all allegedly met in December 2020 and sent lists of so-called alternate electors to the National Archives after the 2020 election.
Trump executive order to seize voting machines: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017e-7db3-d1fc-ad7f-fff3fd720000
Republicans asked for pardons: Representatives Mo Brooks (R – AL), Matt Gaetz (R – FL), Andy Biggs (R – AZ), Louie Gohmert (R – TX) and Scott Perry (R – PA) (involving a 12Dec meeting). Jordan (R – OH) talked about them but didn't ask for one. Green may have asked for one
Senate Judiciary Committee “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and his Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election” : https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
Trump’s attorneys saw a direct appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as their best hope of derailing Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election, according to emails newly disclosed to congressional investigators.
“We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt,” Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote in a Dec. 31, 2020, email to Trump’s legal team.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23257574-chapman059954_redacted
Trump's 56 (so far) uncharged crimes: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-staggering-record-of-uncharged-crimes/
Trump owed $19.8m to L/P Daewoo, a South Korean company with ties to North Korea. Trump’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, told the New York Times in 2016 that his boss disclosed all debt connected to companies in which Trump held a 100% stake on the documents. That was not true. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/12/04/trump-owed-hidden-debt-while-in-office/?sh=284b71deb30e
"Financial records reviewed by The New York Times show that Mr. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer and longtime fixer, used the shell company, Essential Consultants L.L.C., for an array of business activities that went far beyond what was publicly known. Transactions adding up to at least $4.4 million flowed through Essential Consultants starting shortly before Mr. Trump was elected president and continuing to this January, the records show.
Among the previously unreported transactions were payments last year of about $500,000 from Columbus Nova, an investment firm in New York whose biggest client is a company controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch. A lawyer for Columbus Nova, in a statement on Tuesday, described the money as a consulting fee that had nothing to do with Mr. Vekselberg." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.amp.html
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JANUARY 6TH COMMITTEE
Senate report: Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack: https://www.rules.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jan%206%20HSGAC%20Rules%20Report.pdf
House Summary report: https://january6th.house.gov/report-executive-summary, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23466439/j6-executive-summary.pdf
House Report: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23514956/the-full-january-6-committee-report-text.pdf
Trump and his inner circle engaged in ‘at least 200’ attempts to pressure state officials
Committee identifies pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro as architect of fake electors plot
a. Fake electors submitted by: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, New Mexico (lawsuit caveat), Pennsylvania (lawsuit caveat)
Trump WH called Eastman on the day he wrote his memo
Eastman reached out to speak to Trump on December 23, 2020, the same day that he drafted his initial memo on the Pence theory.
Eastman emailed Trump’s assistant, Molly Michael, at 1:32 p.m., according to the committee. “Is the President available for a very quick call today at some point? Just want to update him on our overall strategic thinking.”
The committee wrote that Eastman received a call from the White House switchboard, and the call lasted 23 minutes, according to Eastman’s phone records. Eastman’s two-page memo discussed various ways to ensure “President Trump is re-elected,
January 6 committee recommends barring Trump from holding office again
Says lawyers should be held responsible
Electoral Count Act reform
Committee refers Trump to Justice Department
a. obstruction of an official proceeding, that is for obstructing the actual January 6 count of the electoral votes by Congress.
b. conspiracy to defraud the United States, that refers to several instances, the committee says, including the so-called big lie by former President Trump, as well as the idea that former Vice President Pence could himself stop the electoral account.
c. conspiracy to make false statements, that specifically is about the scheme, as the committee puts it, to try to put false elector slates on the board, overturn the actual electors for each state.
d. assisting and aiding or comforting an insurrection.
Trump’s false victory declaration was ‘premeditated’
Millions of dollars were raised on false claims, but RNC showed caution to not go too far
The committee investigators describe how Trump campaign and Republican National Committee fundraising pitches containing false claims of a stolen election ultimately raised more than $250 million
Trump privately called some of Sidney Powell’s election claims ‘crazy’
Trump refused to act as riot unfolded
Aide characterized Trump’s tone on January 6 as, ‘can you believe this sh*t?’ the aide, John McEntee, said Trump told him “[t]his is a crazy day.”
During the nearly nine hours that Congress was under attack on Jan. 6, 2021, the official White House call logs show former President Donald Trump not placing a single phone call. The gap starts at 11:04 a.m. that day, when an incoming call was logged from then-Senator David Perdue (R-GA) with the attached note, “Talked Ok.” The next item appears nearly eight hours later at 6:54 p.m., when Trump asked the switchboard operator to ring his social media director. But similar to Nixon, there’s ample evidence that former President Donald Trump did indeed have damning conversations that aren’t reflected in the official record. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) have all admitted to having phone conversations with the former president during the harrowing hours while the attack unfolded in the afternoon, yet the White House switchboard typically used for official calls doesn’t reflect any of those calls. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-donald-trumps-missing-call-logs-could-become-his-richard-nixon-tapes
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas, admitted that she was not aware of any specific evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election at the time she personally lobbied senior White House officials to overturn the results in an interview with the House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol.
He’s saying that the crowd rioted because Pence didn’t do the thing Trump said he could do, which the vice president couldn’t. He’s saying that the crowd was there to see the election results overturned and became enraged when they weren’t. Trump is saying that Jan. 6 was his fault. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/14/trump-pence-jan-6/
The documents show how Trump and his conspirators hatched a plan to steal the election by interrupting, delaying, filibustering or otherwise blocking the congressional certification of electoral votes. The idea was to sow chaos for days, if not weeks, in hopes the Supreme Court would step in and simply nullify the election, declaring Trump president. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/two-weeks-of-chaos
The tax returns reveal that Trump had foreign bank accounts from 2015 to 2020. These include a bank account in China from 2015 to 2017, which reportedly is connected to Trump International Hotels Management business in China. The tax returns also showed that Trump had business dealings in Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, South Korea, St. Maarten, St. Vincent, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
Trump and Russia
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/10ukvz5/comment/j7d62ou/?utm=
Trump and classified info: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/03/trump-classified-documents-analysis/
Transition timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_post-election_transition_following_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
Indictments
The first one was by the state of New York regarding his payments to Stormy Daniels and whether or not campaign funds were misappropriated for that purpose.
The second one is a federal indictment regarding his possession of classified documents and related crimes such as conspiring to destroy evidence.
The third and latest indictment is another federal indictment, this one is about January 6th and the coup attempt.
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Indictment-1.pdf
FBI agent that resurrected Hilary Clinton case pleads guilty for taking Russian money: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-special-agent-charge-new-york-fbi-counterintelligence-division-pleads-guilty
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Killed around estimated 100-200K united states citizens alone by spreading covid disinformation and aligning with anti-vaxxers, vilifying doctors and scientists.
CIA foreign network agents/contacts murdered after his behind closed door meetings.
Billed the country 750$ per child per day forcefully taken their from parents and family and held in private prisons that could hold up to and above 3,000 children per prison. He met with private prisons in his first few weeks. costing the taxpayers up to and above 2.5M+ a day per prison.
Lost reportedly 2,000 children and do not know where they are. 2K is the reported number they gave out publicly but reality may be 5-10x more. These children could be anywhere from sex trafficked, dead or kidnapped.
Stole 180M+ for his golf courses, hotels and etc paid to his corporations.
Increased the deficit by over 2Trillion USD per year.
Gave acknowledgement, equal standing, justification to Nazis and the KKK. Emboldened the racists and xenophobes, gave carte blanche to the return of fascism.
Complete disregard for political traditions and government ethics.
Aligns with Putin and starts pathways to damage and break up alliances with beneficial allies.
Aligns with Saudi Arabia and accepts their glowing orb of terrorism.
4x as many Military drone bombings in 4 years than Presidents Obamas 8 years combined. He also said to bomb their families.
Military Actions that lead to the release of over 2,000 captured isis and alqaeda terrorists Who now have taken back control and are putting in place their draconian archaic rules and laws such as forbidding women from education. (Republicans apparently are inspired by these rules).
Removed vital government positions and members and did not fill those positions to ensure the USA was severely debilitated in both domestic and international issues.
Allowed the murder and dismemberment of a US green card holder by a foreign nation.
His son in law Received 2B from the same foreign nation.
Had foreign spies and agents in his retirement home mar-a-lago where he would boastfully share classified intel and data to gain admiration/attention from other people.
Stole nuclear documents. Shared those nuclear documents with foreign nations.
Showed the world that you can lie lie lie about anything and everything and you wont be held liable.
Trump and Putin, Wikileaks
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/14565m3/comment/jnjgzge/
Pardons
Trump’s pardons from his first term. It includes his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who lied for Trump to the FBI; former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who lied for Trump to the Robert Mueller investigation; lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan, who lied to Mueller; dirty trickster Roger Stone, who literally tampered with witnesses; and Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was engaged in an international conspiracy to obstruct justice and commit tax fraud. How about when Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, father of his daughter’s husband, who had been convicted on 16 counts of fraud and false statements and retaliating against witnesses? (Trump just picked Kushner to be his ambassador to France, by the way.) Phillip Esformes who stole $1.3 Billion dollars in Medicaid fraud. Pardoned
Geopolitics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1h4igyw/comment/m008cpz/
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
America leaves Euroasia, Russia-Iran-China divides it between them. America's rich elite carves up the States and turns them in to an oligarchy, just like the Russian model. Give it time, its coming. People screamed for years about Soros, but think that Musk will not play the very same game for his own ego and personal wealth? People do not realize, that part of how Putin stayed in power so long, was that he stoked both the Far-Right and the Far-Left. He funded both the old Communists, and the Neo-Nazi's - why? Because when the extreme poles of society are busy screaming at each other, and you then make it know you support it, nobody is really sure what and who are to blame. The people in Washington called it ''Managed Perception'' back in the 90s.
Kusher gave up names of people who were against MBS and Saudis: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/report-saudi-crown-prince-says-kusher-was-in-his-pocket/
August 2019
Trump issues a request for list of top U.S. spies. By 2021 CIA reports a high number of agents being murdered. during Mara Lago search, FBI finds more documents with U.S informants listed on them
July 2019
Trump has private meeting with Putin
Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
2024
Plans for a contingent election. Republican states don't send in electoral votes, enabling the House to elect the president. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/speaker-johnson-appears-to-confirm-a-secret-election-plan-with-trump
2025
Nazi Stuff
Is Elon Musk a "true believer?" No. None of these people on the stage are true believers in anything other than themselves. If there's a nazi zeitgeist that offers them power, they'll jump on it. They don't give a fuck. They do not see you or anyone else around them as human beings. They are gigantic goldfish with infinitely short memories gorging on endless wealth and capital and they'll put you in fucking camps if it gave them a nickel.
For the past decade they have:
Dehumanized and attacked trans and LGBTQ folk - including a executive order today to declare they don't exist
Dehumanized and attacked his political enemies
Musk keeps talking about the "declining birth rates" and how we need to force people to have more children or the population will collapse (a lie)
They want women to "go back to their place" and want to remove medical care from them. Musk endorses "extreme breeding"
Trump openly said he'd be a dictator on his first day in office
That's their stated, overt platform. They have claimed over and over and over again that they believe in all this shit right here. These people are fucking nazis. What else will it fucking take to open your eyes to the reality in front of your fucking face?
That's where we are currently. You can bury your fucking head in the sand and sanewash it and try and wave it away but today a convicted felon and Nazi was sworn in as President, surrounded by oligarchs and a cadre of other nazis, and the richest person in the world gave a nazi fucking salute to the crowd, turned around and gave another to Donald Trump.
That happened. That's real life. That's your reality.