Trump Rages About ‘FBI Atrocities’ While Insiders Say He Should Be Scared Of Indictment
If he isn’t prosecuted, we do know what happens next because we can look at the past.
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If he isn’t prosecuted, we do know what happens next because we can look at the past.
Trump is not only set up perfectly – literally – to lose; he might lose better than anyone has ever lost a federal tort claim action.
According to one of the country’s most elite prosecutors, Andrew Weissman, there are elements of the affidavit that could be devastating for Trump.
There is almost surely an investigation into what Trump planned to do with the files, and – it’s possible that Trump’s intentions forced the raid to occur when it did.
Trump is threatening to release the video of the FBI’s search, which would put the 30 specialists’ lives in a significantly more dangerous position while not giving Trump any significant advantage.
Oz managed to get a question on the number of homes he owns 20% correct.
It sounds like Jared Kushner wrote a book with a level of arrogance that is only exceeded by its lack of self-awareness.
It’s interesting. Mulvaney saw Trump work up close, and that gave Mulvaney an idea of Trump’s dangerousness and inability to do the job.
If Trump actually declassified the documents, the media should file FOIA requests because the media would have a right to see them if declassified.
The man who asked Merrick Garland how he could “reduce the heat” around the country made his most dangerous demand yet.
In a very real way, the most moderate Republicans are the ones that are most dangerous to the FBI.
Donald Trump is at his most dangerous when he slyly insists that his followers are the ones under attack, convincing the MAGAs who had nothing to do with Trump’s crimes that they’re the real target
Democrats in Congress are requesting that Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines immediately put together a report on possible damages to our national security posture.
Trump not only lashed out at the FBI itself but reposted Q-anon accounts and conspiracy theories as he did.Â
Just like Trump must be the center of attention, he must be the leader in control. Trump would hate anyone with rising popularity.
Glenn Kirschner has never been one to pull any punches. He used his appearance on Tiffany Cross’s MSNBC show this morning to unleash his outrage regarding Kevin McCarthy and McCarthy’s statement on the day of the FBI search.
Michael Cohen says Trump must be obsessed with finding the informant, and his guess is that it is Jared Kushner.
The warrant and affidavit will not include the name of the witness or witnesses that worked with the FBI. Only that one exists. And that will drive Trump crazy.
The former president of the United States is under investigation for spying on the U.S., And it’s even more complicated than that.
The United States intelligence community saw the president of the United States as “a security risk” throughout the Trump administration.
Joe Scarborough was boiling mad over the Republican claims that the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump might have additional motivation to take the Fifth. He lies with such impunity that saving himself from answering a question may save him from a perjury charge.
Trump World is right to be paranoid about a flip. And when people are paranoid that someone is talking, it can often unleash a zoo-break of close associates wanting to talk,
A former FBI agent says that the FBI wouldn’t take such an unprecedented step unless they sought information that represented a counterintelligence issue critical to national security.
This is the type of proof that could pin actual criminal “consequences” on Trump and be used in lieu of charging him with seditious conspiracy.
The leader of the minority, Donald Trump, reacted in the way he always does, taking the fight to his “enemies” inside his party who didn’t back his coup enough.
The Secret Service is handing over the agency-issued numbers. But it is also handing over personal cell phone numbers,
CPAC Texas was so dark, so unapologetically violent, that it should stand out in our mind as an important point on the historical timeline. Unfortunately, this international movement shows us that we’re on a timeline
When Eric Holder speaks, listen. Because he may be relaying stuff he’s “heard” from the inside.
It is entirely possible that Trump is far more worried about the January 6th criminal probe than Georgia… he just can’t talk about it.
Arizona’s purple voters may hold the key to the majority of the 2022 Senate. NASA handed Mark Kelly the keys to the space shuttle. Many suburban, educated women wouldn’t hand Masters the key to their van.
 This morning, Joe Scarborough and John Heilemann discussed McConnell’s “sinking feeling,” a feeling that should be familiar to McConnell because he’s been through this before.
Finding those Secret Service texts could actually be the difference between Trump winning the 2024 presidency or Trump being sentenced in 2024.
According to Ty Cobb, the Committee has the evidence needed to disqualify Trump from office,
Manchin has been the GOP’s best friend this term, but that means nothing to the GOP, and Manchin knows it.
Joe Scarborough, former “ultra-Republican,” says the entire Republican Party is in “self-destruct mode.”
Joe Biden deftly used his tiny “majority” in the Senate to, presumably, make fundament changes that, combined with legislation passed early in his term, ensure that Biden’s first term in office is one that makes fundamental and vital changes to the nation and thus the most consequential term in recent memory.
Joe Manchin wouldn’t answer an easy question as to whether he would support Joe Biden if nominated for 2024.
The DHS Inspector General knew of the critical January 6th, 2021, deleted texts over a year ago and didn’t flag the issue and report it to the Secretary, the FBI, or the White House, a sign of institutional trouble.
Matt Gaetz promised Roger Stone that he’ll receive a “get out of jail free card.”
These numbers bode very well for the Pennsylvania candidates and the “other three” similar races.
Trump is arguing before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals that he should be immune from the damage caused by his January 6th speech because the speech was given as part of his official duties as president.
For now, we know that DOJ is keenly interested in securing Cassidy Hutchinson’s cooperation as a witness, almost surely as part of its criminal investigation of the White House.
If he sounds increasingly desperate each time, it is because he is, especially after the last two days.
Trump is so oblivious to human rights, people’s pain, ethics, and the values behind the criticism lobbed at the Saudis that Trump is happy that the Saudis have a chance to wipe some of that blood off.
In a bombshell revelation, the Justice Department has formed a grand jury to investigate January 6th and indict anyone for any crimes the jury believes were committed during that period.
Utah Democrats threw their support behind Evan McMullin. That decision has Mike Lee on the run.
Republican pollster extraordinaire Frank Luntz laughably “warned” Republicans that they better not allow Trump to announce prior to 2022 because he could cost them Congress.
For reasons that are hard to understand, the relatively reliable Bret Baier took up Trump’s tired argument as a “both sides” thing on Fox News Sunday.
Kinzinger says that the hardcore Trumpers in Washington (as opposed to the countryside) are turning to the point that they hate him, even while remaining quiet.
Trump is most bothered by the number of “his people” that raised their hands to tell the truth and promptly said Trump lost the election fair and square and they all knew it.
Investigate the investigators. Bannon promised it was coming. Last night on Tucker Carlson’s show, the man with no defense promised a lot of offense.
This is an ex-president bragging that the Committee cannot charge him with dereliction of duty.
GOP consultant and Mitch McConnell aide Scott Jennings began to argue that both sides resort to violence in response to what they see as illegitimate government action and was shut down.
These are actions deliberately chosen in furtherance of a conspiracy,
New filings show it was and remains an even bigger problem than we imagined. Trump’s PAC spent $2 million on attorneys’ fees to do nothing more than represent witnesses in what was typically one Congressional deposition.
Attorney General Merrick Garland made it clear yesterday that the federal government was prepared to hammer Texas with clear federal law.
Tonight, the Select Committee will show outtakes from Trump’s January 7th speech to the nation in the aftermath of the attack.
Almost two full years later, Trump is still trying to decertify the 2020 election, something that CNN’s Jeffery Toobin finds insane.
Walker’s problems continue, including a very dark and disturbing violent predisposition.
Biden looks to be stepping up to be that person after learning that Manchin will not support the economic package that contained massive investments in curbing carbon emissions.
. Mastriano is so extreme that he quickly ripped some of his most embarrassing videos off Facebook.
Trump plans to protect himself by making any criminal prosecution as politically dangerous as possible and, ideally, win the presidency, becoming effectively “untouchable.”
It appears painfully obvious that the woman who commissioned a replica of Mount Rushmore with Donald Trump carved into it is once again gunning to please the MAGA man himself and be his running mate should Trump announce.
Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter insists that pharmacists should have the right to deny filling prescriptions for abortifacients.
For the first time in modern memory, the midterms may not turn against the party in power.
Former U.S. Attorney and current University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade believes Trump could and should be charged with multiple counts of manslaughter.
The GOP and Trump, which are almost synonymous at this point, are putting together what Bloomberg informally calls a “shadow government.”
A year ago, Obama sent Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House doctor, a rare private scolding for calling Biden mentally unfit, an ethical missile with GPS guidance directly into Jackson’s soul.
Republicans aren’t ashamed to hide an open partnership with Nazis and fascists.
Team Trump is desperate enough to have chosen a risky strategy, putting it all on Mark Meadows.
Turley is still covering for MAGA and Trump. Turley is pointing to deeply disturbing juvenile behavior by a spiraling out-of-control White House instead of pointing out the devastating evidence of intent to commit a vicious crime on January 6th,
Trump is described as always watching the 1/6 Committee hearings and angrily ranting about them behind closed doors.
The Committee played the haunting voice of Rep. Debbie Lesko of Arizona, a woman who objected to Biden’s clear victory, talking on a conference call on January 5th about her concerns for a plan for “members’ safety” for the next day.
The ultimate question going into today’s hearing is whether there is evidence that Trump communicated into the “war room” and whether the war room directed Trump’s instructions to the people on the ground.
The RNC doesn’t want Trump to announce that he is running for president as they are worried about the midterm.
In a sign of the dark change in the American right, Cassidy Hutchinson has been forced into hiding after testifying about Trump.
As the criminal probe focuses and intensifies, a candidate for Georgia’s Lt. Governor position, Burt Jones, has come under intense scrutiny for his involvement.
Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to the Committee was poised, confident, detailed, internally consistent, and consistent with the facts already established. She blew the roof off the building. But Hutchinson cannot help the fact that, at the time, she was 25 years old and held a lower-level position at the White House. So when Pat Cipollone, someone…
It is difficult to point to a person who fell further, faster, than Musk over the last year, both in wealth and stature.
The DOJ revealed new details as to the Oath Keepers’ plans for January 6th that demonstrate the extremes involved in the original conspiracy. The
To the fury of Pennsylvanian local GOP bosses, the people that make campaigns “go,” Oz has gone “dark” in their words, with few ads and even fewer campaign events, and very little communication.
Mike Flynn has been cited for $450,000 in illegal foreign payments from Turkey and Russia.
Ron DeSantis may simply avoid the entire issue up front by creating his own police force for elections and appointing its leader, despite the fact that there’s no indication of any criminality in Florida’s elections beyond people having been caught voting twice.
Sarah Matthews worked as President Donald Trump’s deputy press secretary and will testify publicly to the House Select Committee on January 6th activities in one of the upcoming hearings.
It provides a clear focus on the Trump family (as opposed to aides) and a line uttered by an unknown voice stating that Trump’s plan was always a “dynastic one.â€
What Francis might be able to do, as the leader of the world’s largest religion, is at least get Putin to consider Russia’s place in the world “after” the war.
Trump senses this threat and his feral survival instinct has him in a rage. He is obsessed with the Committee and he is directing his fury at Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney says there is greater danger in not prosecuting Trump.
Trump has spent Sunday whining and lashing out on Truth Social, he must be terrified.
Had we just left Ukraine to its own defense, we could have had Russia as an ally, according to Marjorie Taylor Greene but we blew it. We helped Ukraine and now Ukrainians are dying. It is Joe Biden’s fault.
The fear is subsiding as potential candidates now anticipate that Trump will be indicted for some kind of felony related to January 6, 2021.
There is video below showing that the Presidential Suburban remained occupied and unmoving for a relatively long time after Trump’s speech.
Leave it to Donald Trump to whine about a “two-tiered” justice system. This is the man who pardoned everyone who did his bidding while hammering the people like Michael Cohen who “failed him.”
Even beyond allowing for horrific gerrymandering outside the reach of any court, the case allows the SCOTUS to rule upon whether citizens even get to vote for president directly.
Alex Holder, the director of the documentary film “Unprecedented,” now needs armed guards to protect him.
Now, it appears that the Committee has some degree of video evidence that backs up Hutchinson’s testimony. Trump was at least raging at the agents.
bishops who try to politicize and weaponize communion in a bizarre attempt at conservative Catholic virtue signaling.
Riggleman suggested that Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony from Tuesday was just a “bridge” to the nuts and bolts, the actual planning of the attack.
As ironic and amusing as Adam Kinzinger’s bomb may be, it is also entirely possible that Kinzinger is warning Lindsey Graham