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On Wednesday, we learned that Donald Trump won’t have to appear before the January 6 Select Committee as the committee has withdrawn its subpoena.

“In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in a letter to Trump’s lawyers. “Therefore, through this letter, I hereby formally withdraw the subpoena issued to former President Trump, and notify you that he is no longer obligated to comply or produce records in response to said subpoena.”

Trump responded to the news by insisting that the committee withdrew the subpoena because they knew he did nothing wrong.
“Was just advised that the Unselect Committee of political Thugs has withdrawn the Subpoena of me concerning the January 6th Protest of the CROOKED 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “They probably did so because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court. Perhaps the FBI’s involvement in RIGGING the Election played into their decision. In any event, the Subpoena is DEAD!”
Of course, there’s another reason why the committee withdrew its subpoena: it never intended to have him testify in the first place.

“If the committee truly wanted to compel Trump’s testimony, it should have subpoenaed him in 2021,” constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley pointed out. “Yet liberals celebrated the committee’s belated move as a ‘bombshell ending’ instead of asking why it had not been a bombshell beginning.”

So what was the point?

The J6 Committee subpoenaed Trump in late October, and the Republican Party was widely predicted to gain control of the House and ultimately disband the transparently partisan Committee. I wrote at the time that it was conceivable that the committee didn’t actually want Trump to testify. In addition to testimony, the committee asked for a number of documents and communications. Trump, for his part, expressed a willingness to appear before the committee — but, as expected, resisted the request for documents.

Was the Trump Subpoena a Political Stunt?

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Trump's Tax Returns Have Been Released, and the Press Squee With Excitement​

In an unprecedented abuse of power, Democrats in the House of Representatives decided to seize a private citizen’s taxes and dump them out into the public for no legitimate reason whatsoever. There was no constitutional oversight role being performed (because again, Trump is not in government), and certainly, there was no legitimate investigative purpose given they had no evidence of wrongdoing related to the work of Congress.

No, this was simply yet another episode of “get the bad orange man.” But because everything is stupid, we are going to have an entire news cycle about this topic for the umpteenth time.

To be sure, there’s nothing of note in the tax returns. How do I know? Because the Democrat-led committee that released them has spent the last year going over them with a fine-toothed comb, desperately searching for anything they can nail Trump with. Conspiracy theories (pushed in the mainstream) about Trump’s taxes have ranged from allegations of Russian collusion to tax fraud.

 

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Republicans on Trump Tax Returns: Democrats 'May Regret It Sooner Than They Think'

Republicans said there had been "no legitimate legislative purpose" for the Democratic majority to release Donald Trump's tax returns.

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On Friday, the committee released six years of Trump’s returns, from 2015 through 2020. While they revealed little that was noteworthy, other than some debatable deductions, Republicans warned that Democrats had set a dangerous precedent that would allow Congress to abuse its power to punish any political opponents.

In a separate, 17-page minority report, the dissenting Republican minority pointed out that Democrats admitted they had no legislative purpose for releasing Trump’s taxes.

Most importantly, the Committee Majority’s action set a dangerous new precedent. It is apparent from the proceedings that the Committee Majority set out with the goal of obtaining and publishing the former President’s full tax returns. Everything since then has been a search for a rationale or justification that would be acceptable to the courts. Committee Republicans are not focused on whether the former President should have made his tax returns public, which has been tradition. Nor are Committee Republicans focused on the accuracy of those tax returns – that is for the IRS to determine in the ongoing audits of the former President.
Committee Republicans are concerned that this politically motivated action unleashes a dangerous new political weapon reaching far beyond the former President and overturns decades of privacy protections for average Americans. Going forward, the new precedent is that the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee have nearly unlimited power to target and make public the tax returns of private citizens, political enemies, business or labor leaders, or even Supreme Court justices. No party in Congress should hold that power. No individual should hold the power to embarrass, harass, or destroy a private citizen through disclosure of their tax returns. But the Committee Majority has demonstrated that the tax-writing committees do have that power.
After nearly half a century, the political enemies list is back in Washington, D.C, and the Committee’s actions on December 20, 2022, will unleash a new cycle of political retribution in Congress. It didn’t have to be this way. Despite warnings about the long-term negative consequences, Democrats moved forward anyway. This development will simply make our politics more divisive and partisan. Even Democrats will come to regret this. And they may regret it sooner than they think.

 

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Think about this:

The democrats sought President Trumps tax returns.
The President objected in Court.
The law ---The law---not the Judges were on his side, but the Judges allowed the returns to be opened to the democrats in Congress. The democrats in Congress decided to break the law again and release these returns.

Now I don't know what others think but to me this means that our Judicial system has been appropriated by the democrats.
Just as the Judges in Arizona decided that Kari Lakes evidence in her case against the cheating in Arizona was not intentional---which to anyone with a brain can figure out the cheating was indeed intentional. The Judges allow men to be kept in jail without trial and without bail, for going to the Nations Capitol while turning loose lawbreakers in some state with no bail..

Now let me ask: What chance do you believe the republicans have of getting anyone's tax records when they face these same judges in their efforts---IF they can gather up enough courage to ask?

The Judicial system in this country has become a farce, from the top down. From the Attorney General to the FBI, to the WH that turned loose 7,000 Drug convictions from our jails and allows Fentanyl to walk across our borders with the illegals we welcome and support with our taxes.

 

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Buried News: Obama muscled Zuckerberg to censor Trump -- and made an example of him​

By Monica Showalter

Has Barack Obama gone from ex-president to Democrat party crime boss?
It sure looks like it, based on a new report about his treatment of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Investigative reporter Lee Smith has got a stunning report that ran this week in Tablet, comparable in impact to that report by Molly Ball at Time who wrote about how elites conspired to "fortify democracy" by rigging the election against President Trump in 2020 and afterwards thought it was a smart thing to crow about.
Smith's report beginns with how the FBI "hacked" Twitter, not just engaging in a "master-canine" relationship as Twitter files reporter Matt Taibbi put it in one of his reports, but actually infiltrating the company and controlling it from within, rendering it a corporate Zombie.

 

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Trump is BACK! Hilarious Court Transcripts of Trump Testifying in Case Involving 'Nut Job' E. Jean Carroll

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Thank you for my first good Billy. Laugh of the day. I don't need help. I'm not Joe Biden. Can you imagine if you allowed somebody to just question Biden about events over the last three or four years? No. Reference material no. AIDS tapping his shoulder. No freaking cosplay animal clown bunnies to come save his ass

 

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Manhattan DA Raises Alarm Over Former Prosecutor’s Trump Book​

“Based on the pre-publication descriptions of his book and the benefit of current knowledge of the matter, but without access to the manuscript, this office believes there is a meaningful risk that the publication will materially prejudice ongoing criminal investigations and related adjudicative proceedings,” the letter says.

Pomerantz abruptly resigned along with one other prosecutor leading the Trump inquiry in February of last year after Bragg reportedly expressed doubts about the case he inherited from his predecessor. In a resignation letter that later came to light, Pomerantz insisted Trump was “guilty of numerous felony violations.”

Trump has broadly denied any wrongdoing, but Bragg recently scored a conviction against the Trump Organization for criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. A judge ordered the company to pay the maximum penalty of $1.6 million last week.

Pomerantz’s book offers a “fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former president Donald Trump” and “tells the story of his unprecedented investigation, why he believes Donald Trump should be prosecuted, and what we can learn about the nature of justice in America from this extraordinary case,” according to a description on the publisher’s website.



Perhaps the truth will leak out the DA's office has been on a personal vendetta against Trump all along ... and the basis for the case has been OPINION with very little legal basis

 

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Earlier this week, Newsweek ran a breathless story headlined, “Trump Dismisses COVID-19 Vax Safety Claims, Says He Saved 100 Million Lives.”

Corporate media LOVES this kind of story, it gives them a chance to boost the vaccines AND drag President Trump.

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The whole thing is extremely curious. For a moment, let’s set aside the factual question of whether the vaccines are dangerous or not and just focus on the President.

The first odd thing is that — apart from this issue — Trump inarguably has the greatest political instincts of any politician since Reagan. Trump MUST know that lots of his supporters hate the jabs. Even if he didn’t know, his advisors must have told him. We can take it as a fact that Trump knows.

But even though he surely knows about the awful conflict, he has never directly addressed unhappy supporters.

I’m not the only person who’s noticed this odd discongruity. Many people have speculated that it’s Trump’s pride; he just can’t admit he was wrong. Or a more nuanced version: Trump calculates he’ll be more damaged politically if he admits the jabs are problematic than if he continues to insist they are fine.

Perhaps. But neither of those explanations are satisfying. They both presume Trump couldn’t find a third way, a way to exploit the crisis to his own advantage, which after all is his specialty. We’re talking about a man who survived the “grab them by the p***” video released days before his 2016 election.

☕️ KRACKING ☙ Friday, January 20, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

A monstrous new variant, a new myocarditis study and an ethical dilemma, Trump's bizarre jab advocacy, Musk drags the WEF, and McCarthy delivers on another promise.

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Ex-FBI Official Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted for Working on Behalf of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch​

According to federal prosecutors, McGonigal received “concealed payments” from a Russian intelligence officer in exchange for his help in having sanctions targeting Deripaska lifted. McGonigal is being charged by the Federal District in Manhattan with additional counts relating to money laundering and conspiracy.

“Charles McGonigal, a former high-level FBI official, and Sergey Shestakov, a Court interpreter, violated U.S. sanctions by agreeing to provide services to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. They both previously worked with Deripaska to attempt to have his sanctions removed, and, as public servants, they should have known better,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams wrote in a statement released Monday.

 

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Facebook and Instagram to end Trump's suspension from platforms​

Trump’s accounts will be reinstated “in the coming weeks” with “new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said in a statement. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram.

The guardrails will include "heightened penalties for repeat offenses — penalties which will apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol,” Clegg said on the company’s website. “In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation."

Trump celebrated the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social.

"FACEBOOK, which has lost Billions of Dollars in value since 'deplatforming' your favorite President, me, has just announced that they are reinstating my account. Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!" he wrote.

Asked why Meta was reinstating Trump despite recent inflammatory posts on Truth Social, Clegg said the company wanted to tread lightly on censorship concerns.

 

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Trump says Chinese spy balloons ‘NEVER’ flew on his watch; former DNI chief Richard Grenell agrees​

Trump also commented on the current administration’s motive suggesting they had to spread the story. because “they look so bad, as usual.”

“They are incompetent,” he said.

As the once and potentially future president of the United States was making these remarks, national security and defense officials from his time in office came out with resounding unison to support Trump and combat the claims glommed onto by leftists.

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell called out Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, ABC’s Jon Karl, Maggie Haberman of The New York Times and Julie Pace from The Associated Press as he tweeted, “Biden’s DoD is shamelessly using an anonymous source to say that Chinese balloons flew over the US under Trump — and the Trump team allowed it. It is a lie. We never heard this — ever. Congress should demand @SecDef tell the truth. Shame on @JakeSullivan46.”

 

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Trump says Chinese spy balloons ‘NEVER’ flew on his watch; former DNI chief Richard Grenell agrees​

Trump also commented on the current administration’s motive suggesting they had to spread the story. because “they look so bad, as usual.”

“They are incompetent,” he said.

As the once and potentially future president of the United States was making these remarks, national security and defense officials from his time in office came out with resounding unison to support Trump and combat the claims glommed onto by leftists.

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell called out Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, ABC’s Jon Karl, Maggie Haberman of The New York Times and Julie Pace from The Associated Press as he tweeted, “Biden’s DoD is shamelessly using an anonymous source to say that Chinese balloons flew over the US under Trump — and the Trump team allowed it. It is a lie. We never heard this — ever. Congress should demand @SecDef tell the truth. Shame on @JakeSullivan46.”

They should insist on details from the story - dates, locations. You know - to be able to VERIFY it.

 

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Leftists Go Into Four-Alarm Frenzy: Trump Laptop Found! Trump Laptop Found! Trump Laptop Found!​

How wonderful for the Democrats! Does the Trump laptop contain salacious photos of the former president and 2024 frontrunner engaging in lewd, drug-fueled frolics with prostitutes? Is there evidence on the Trump laptop that the possible next president sold access to the White House to foreign entities who do not have the best interests of Americans at heart? Leftists are hoping for all that and more. Lawyer and MSNBC commentator Tristan Snell crowed, “HUGE: Trump team copied classified documents — storing them on laptop and thumb drive. This involves aide who worked for the Save America PAC. Opens up possibility long feared — that Trump not only stole and hid Mar-a-Lago classified docs but copied and distributed them.”

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Witch Hunt)’s excitement was tempered with a show of moral indignation at Republicans’ hypocrisy: “Since MAGA Republicans are obsessed about laptops, @HouseGOP should do a hearing on the Trump laptop that illegally stored classified information. Instead, House GOP did a stupid hearing on what Twitter said about a widely known NY Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop.” Leftist activist Ryan Shead said piously: “I was a federal contractor for 12 years. I have walked people off-base and had them handover their ID for taking photos in an aircraft hanger. This would be an immediate termination under any circumstance.” On the outer edges were Leftists hyperventilating about what it all could mean. One wrote breathlessly: “Now we learn that Donald Trump not only stole classified government documents, but that he made digital copies and had them on an unsecured laptop. Why? Did he send them to our enemies? Did he sell them? Has Trump committed TREASON?”

One would think that after all this time and so much failure, Leftists would know better than to convict Trump before all the facts come out. Every previous attempt to rid themselves of this troublesome America-Firster turned out to be a hoax, a lie, or wild media hype that turned out to be all foam and no beer. And complicating the Left’s efforts to sensationalize this new report and convince its base that this time, by golly, they finally got him is this little detail that is buried in CNN’s report: “The Trump attorneys discovered pages with classified markings in December, while searching through boxes at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence. The lawyers subsequently handed the materials over to the Justice Department. A Trump aide had previously copied those same pages onto a thumb drive and laptop, not realizing they were classified, sources said. The laptop, which belonged to an aide, who works for Save America PAC, and the thumb drive were also given to investigators in January.”

So a Trump aide, not Trump himself, copied some files without realizing they were classified, and Leftist talking heads are already getting the hangman’s noose ready. Well, they’ve done this before. And when the Trump laptop story turns out to be as much of a nothingburger as the Russian Collusion Hoax, the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and all the rest, Leftists won’t learn the obvious lesson any more than they did the other times. They’ll just go searching for the next opportunity to say it again: The walls are closing in!

 

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Prosecutors probing classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago want Trump's LAWYER to appear before a grand jury, 'over fears ex-president used legal advice to commit further crimes'​

• M. Evan Corcoran represented Trump and was called before a grand jury in January, to answer questions on how classified documents ended at Mar-a-Lago
• On Tuesday it was reported that federal prosecutors are now seeking to force Corcoran to return for further questioning
• They have written to the Justice Department asking that the standard attorney-client privilege be overturned, under 'the crime-fraud exception'

 

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Consultant Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence For Scheme To Connect Russian Millionaire To Trump




“Benton acted as a straw donor and contributed $25,000 of the Russian national’s money to the campaign, falsely identified himself as the contributor, and pocketed the remaining $75,000,” the DOJ said. “Because Benton falsely claimed to have given the contribution himself, the relevant campaign entities unwittingly filed reports with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that inaccurately reported Benton – instead of the Russian national – as the source of the funds.”

Vasilenko attended the fundraiser and later posted a photo of himself with Trump with the caption, “Two Presidents.”

Benton has previously worked as an aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Benton is married to Ron Paul’s granddaughter, Rand Paul’s niece.

In 2016, Benton was convicted in a scheme to bribe an Iowa state senator in 2012 to endorse Ron Paul ahead of the state’s Republican caucus. Benton pleaded with the judge for leniency during sentencing, requesting a sentence of home confinement. Benton told the judge that he had reformed and that separation from his family would be hard on them. The judge acquiesced to Benton’s request, according to Mother Jones.

 

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"It's a terrible legal process," Dershowitz said on the Thursday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "The Constitution provides for the grand jury to be a safeguard against false indictment. It's in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution."

Five pages of the report, including its introduction and conclusion, were released following county Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney's order earlier this week.

Dershowitz said that legal decisions like this cause serious problems.

"Grand juries' conclusions are not worth the paper they're written on," he explained. "They're only usually charging documents. It's a serious problem when grand juries make announcements like this without having given the opportunity of due process for those who they accuse."

Dershowitz says it was unconstitutional for Georgia grand jury to release report on Trump

'It's a terrible legal process,' Dershowitz said

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Turns out, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kohrs was unemployed at the time she was summoned for jury duty, having worked in mostly customer service and retail roles. The 30-year-old woman was also largely unfamiliar with all the controversy over the outcome of Georgia’s presidential election in 2020, the newspaper reported.

“High energy, with a red vape in her hand and a notebook in front of her… on what could and could not be discussed, Kohrs expressed amazement at the media attention she had received over the last several hours,” AJC added of their interview.

She rolled her eyes and burst out laughing when told that the former president posted, “Total exoneration.”


”Did he really say that?” Kohrs asked. “Oh, that’s fantastic. That’s phenomenal. I love it.”

In an interview with CNN’s Kate Bolduan, a giggly Kohrs reassured the host that it was “not a short list” when it comes to those being indicted.

“There may be some names on that list that you wouldn’t expect. But the big name that everyone keeps asking me about – I don’t think you will be shocked,” she added while playing coy.

Giggly GA jury forewoman rushes to media to discuss Trump trial

"I kinda wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in and so I thought it would be really cool."

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