S.V. Date, senior White House correspondent at HuffPost, writes Trump Trial Also A Referendum On GQP Authoritarianism In America (my edits): As the Senate readies for yet another Donald Trump impeachment trial and prepares to judge the former president’s conduct, senators also may be voting on a much bigger question: American democracy versus GQP authoritarianism. … Read more
Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to Trump, who’s often described as a political “ratfucker,” was charged and convicted on a seven-count indictment of obstructing justice, witness tampering and multiple counts of lying to Congress in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election in November of 2019. On December 23, … Read more
The QAnon Queen, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who promotes her mass violence fantasies of wanting to kill Democrats, associates with the domestic terrorist organization the Three Percenters. The “Georgia III% Martyrs” group infamously provided armed, militia-uniformed “private security” for Greene during a Georgia campaign rally (above). Marjorie Taylor Greene’s far-right militia ally now believes America is … Read more
The New York Times has an 8,000+ word investigative report into how Donald Trump directed, financed and coordinated the seditious violent insurrection against the U.S. government to overthrow America democracy in a failed coup attempt on January 6. 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election (excerpts): By Thursday the 12th of November, President Donald … Read more
Warning that the deadly rampage of the Capitol this month may not have been an isolated episode, the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday said publicly for the first time that the United States faced a growing threat from “violent domestic extremists” emboldened by the attack. The New York Times reports, Extremists Emboldened by Capitol … Read more