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From The Detroit News: Lansing — Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney...
by ericlewis0
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 12:09 PM PDT
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Somewhere in the USA, there are probably a few sincere conservatives who are smarting from having their words being deemed ‘racist’ by others. Some of them honestly think of themselves as non-racist, or even (passively) anti-racist because they reject...
by AChris
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 12:41 PM PDT
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Element removed OCIndependent OCIndependent’s Newsletter 14 hrs ago I wrote this to Joyce Vance. If you agree, amplify it by re-posting everywhere. Joyce, it's time to act. You and people like Barbara McQuaid can spearhead the action more effectively...
by O C Patriot
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM PDT
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Hear ye, hear ye. The unity-seeking, competent nice guy who (thank God) beat the Obese Usurper (who STILL claims to have won “by landslide”) now looks to have begun to fight back. Regarding the Trump-shared video of a truck sporting a...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 11:48 AM PDT
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This is the type of coverage we need to see more of from CNN: Donald Trump-backed Senate Republican candidate Bernie Moreno, who won a tough primary race last week in Ohio, refused to say if he believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen from...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 10:14 AM PDT
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Well, Trump got his candidate in Bernie Moreno (R. OH) on Tuesday, beating out both State Senator Matt Dolan (R. OH) and Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R. OH) in the primary. Trump really didn’t want Dolan to win because Dolan refused to push The Big...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 11:38 AM PDT
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With the Trump Supreme Court having decided that the only way to get someone declared an insurrectionist is for Congress to enact legislation, the question I have is “What should that legislation look like?” It’s unlikely that anything could be passed...
by jtg
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 05:52 PM PDT
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I remember the below video going around Daily Kos two years ago. It never received much attention as it was feared that it wasn’t real. It was, though, now that Kaitlan Collins interviewed Mar A Lago Trump employee #5, the video is making the rounds on...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 02:29 PM PDT
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With nepo-daughter-in-law Lara Trump taking over the GOP, Donald Trump has essentially declared the “old Republican Party” — the party of Reagan and Bill Barr — dead, arguing that it no longer exists in the form it’s taken since the 1970s. At a...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 08:50 AM PDT
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The following is an excerpt from the Op-Ed piece, “TRUMP et al v. USA et al” Copyright © 2024 Michael Lucas Monterey. Creative Commons Licensing protocols apply. In my opinion, no politician can make America great again. We all need to make it greater...
by mlmonterey
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 04:09 PM PDT
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Previously, I wrote about how the Justice Department could address Donald Trump’s conspiracy to overthrow the government in the face of intransigence from the Supreme Court. My suggestion is to proceed to trial against his co-conspirators. The delays...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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From Politico: Arizona prosecutors in recent weeks issued grand jury subpoenas to multiple people linked to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, a sharp acceleration of their criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state....
by ericlewis0
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 04:10 PM PST
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“Our enemies, the Administration keeps telling the people, are Germany, Italy, and Japan, naming them. Not one off them has made a gesture toward us. For all we think and feel about Hitler, he has not attacked us. But the American government has...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 08:07 AM PST
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While we are waiting for the Supreme Court to get its act together on the various cases against Donald Trump for trying to overturn democracy, the special counsel’s office of Jack Smith should start prosecuting his co-conspirators. Despite protests to...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Now that Republicans on the Supreme Court have forced a pause in Donald Trump’s federal trial for trying to overthrow the government of the United States and install himself as dictator for life, Jack Smith and his team may have a little time on their...
by thomhartmann
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 08:14 AM PST
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While we are waiting for the Supreme Court to get their act together, Special Counsel Jack Smith has plenty of time on his hands. Why waste it?
There are plenty of other people involved in the ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 11:10 AM PST
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Justice delayed is justice denied. The Supreme Court only needed four justices to delay the richly deserved comeuppance of Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the United States government. I would bet my life that Clarence Thomas was one of those...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 04:46 PM PST
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“When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he’s like the 12-year old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy.” —Malcolm Turnbull, 29th Prime Minister of Australia Donald...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 08:44 AM PST
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Now that Kenneth Chesebro — a key creator and implementor of Trump’s anti-democratic fake elector scheme — is back in the news for blatantly lying to investigators about his key role in the fake elector plot in 2020, it reminded me about an interesting...
by davidkc
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 11:29 AM PST
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From CNN : Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding ...
by ericlewis0
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 09:32 AM PST
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