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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Jan 6 panel subpoenas Trump
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
Add the insurrection he orchestrated to his list of business failures. Leaders of Russia/China/Iran and North Korea are smiling thinking the document thief might be back in the White House,, while they are probably once again contributing to his election campaign in money and in their and US media, and laughing at the US American people and the US fin general for supporting this clown who along with his violent mobs (who also sending him money) is doing what he can to further divide and weaken the country. The Russia/China bloc are probably making plans for their next invasions knowing how easy it is to control Trump.
wallace
Another excuse for Trump to ask for donations.
Nemo
This one is worrisome for team Treason, but the one he should really be freaking about is the release of e-mail from Eastman under the crime-fraud exception to the 1/6 committee and the GA grand Jury.
It’s a big red line to knowingly submit false docs to a court. Trump’s own lawyer says this, says the numbers stated are false, says Trump knows they are false. Trump sign the docs and submitted them anyway.
The sitting Federal Judge hearing the matter said it’s more likely than not that Trump has committed a felony. Both investigations now have these communications, have almost certainly read them, and that knowledge cannot be unlearned.
Multiple former US Attorneys say this makes multiple indictments almost a foregone conclusion.
With this in mind, there’s as much chance of Trump complying with this Subpoena as there is that he’s sharing a bed with Melanie.
If he WERE to testify, it would only be to set a new record for most times taking the 5th (previous record: D. Trump). Look for the tapes of him saying “5th” like an LP with a scratch to set sales records.
TokyoLiving
In addition to the UK circus we have the US circus where we will see the great clown of Mar-a-Lago throw more of his usual tantrums, lies and deceptions to continue playing the victim and drag with him the compassion and blindness of his thousands of fanatic losers..
Yrral
Tokyo,at least American have critical be discussion about the consequences of their leader behavior,not like Japan that stick their head in the sand and feel hopeless about their inability to do something about it
PTownsend
Another excuse for Trump to ask for donations.
Trump wants back in the White House so he can once again overcharge the US government for Secret Service members staying at one of his properties, which probably helped keep those businesses out of the red. He's a grifter/gangster and his failed businesses show how little he knows about running anything legitimate. But like @Wallace said, he can always just continue to fleece his followers, maybe he'll ask his Saudi or UAE backers for even more money, his son-in-law Jared got US$ 2,000,000. from them. Maybe Trump's golf deals with Saudi will keep him solvent, and it's unlikely he'll report them on his US taxes, didn't he say he'd show them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump
bass4funk
Can you prove “he will?” If he does, where in the constitution does it say he can’t?
That was just complete and funny nonsense talk
Well, no, he has a lot of businesses, the left wants to destroy them all of they can and you see it with so many of these failed state and civil lawsuits.
Then he should be stone broke and the left have not managed to do that, not for lack of trying though.
Of he can just fight on and continue to watch most of the arrows bounce of his chunky hide. Carful what you wish for.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/president-trump-releases-memo-j6-un-select-committee-titled-peacefully-patriotically/
Bob Fosse
Nothing to hide eh? Only the mob take the fifth eh?
But of course he’ll hide and plead the fifth a few more hundred times.
PTownsend
Typical soft-on-crime, far right response (crimes are not crimes if they're committed by Republican thugs). The far right, along with foreign powers that support them, try to claim that US governments at all levels are bad. The conspiracy theory that all levels are out to get Trump has long been debunked, what has been shown, by reasonable people at least, is that Trump has been involved in crimes for decades. And Trump supporters cheer on his criminality, and send him more money, just like they do to their other favorite telescamgelists, then complain if they do not have enough money to gas up their gas guzzling pickups.
plasticmonkey
Trump has always whined about how he’s supposedly not been allowed to defend himself. Now he’s got his chance. If he doesn’t testify, it’ll indicate again his acknowledgment of his own wrongdoing.
He’s a con man and always has been. Just stalling for time.
plasticmonkey
One of those arrows is gonna pierce his “chunky hide” (lol!). The day approaches.
bass4funk
Hardly, but when there’s no real crime…
Not far right, just conservative, nothing more.
So what about the left and the foreign powers that support them? Should they go unnoticed, or should they be ignored?
Decades? So why is he not in prison? 14 years and nothing why?
Maybe because they know there’s no criminality, or to the point that it’s not even considered of being a crime.
Would they be more respected if they had Electric power guzzling EV trucks?
starpunk
Make him TESTIFY under oath! He can't tell the truth; he doesn't even KNOW what that is. He lies, commits every single crime and offense against the laws of God and man. GUILT is written all over his face. Everything he says, everything he does only shows it, deeper and deeper every day, every hour, every minute, every second.
He collaborated with Russia and he sold himself, the nation and democracy out. he is the Biggest Traitor of All Time, even worse than Benedict Arnold.
ClippetyClop
He could always pinch money from his 'charity' I suppose. Oh wait, he can't. He already did that, got caught, and can't do the charity scam anymore.
He's too big a coward to testify, he knows he'd be caught lying.
plasticmonkey
Lots of super rich crooks in the world who avoid prison. They use expensive lawyers who use various tricks to overload the court system. You’re grasping at straws if you think that’s evidence of innocence.
u_s__reamer
The subpoena is just the cherry on the committee's cake that Trump will have and eat it. He'll just run the clock out on that one and the slap on the wrist Bannon received will have only encouraged him to defy the request to give testimony. Still, Trump must be sleeping worse than ever 'cos he's now got Georgia on his mind where the buzz-saw of the law is waiting to receive the traitorous scofflaw. What happens next in the Peach State won't be a pretty sight as the hapless Potus is sliced and diced by indictments that will prove to be the end of the beginning for the Mar-a-Lardo mobster.
bass4funk
He probably can’t wait!!
But this group of….people can???
According to all the poles, the J6 committee doesn’t seem to have the confidence of the people let alone the abysmal ratings?
https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/jan-6-hearing-ratings-down-from-opener-draws-17-7m-viewers/
A two year investigation by Mueller, 500 lawyers and 500 witnesses and over 200 subpoenas say, No, he didn’t.
If that were remotely true, he would be in prison by now and the fact that the Dems can’t do that “legally” shows otherwise.
bass4funk
Wait!! The Dems are obsessed with trying to imprison this guy and failed miserably over the last 14 years and 7 of those years obsessively and I’m the one grasping at straws??? ROFL! Good one…
Starbucks
Wait!! The Dems are obsessed with trying to imprison this guy and failed miserably over the last 14 years and 7 of those years obsessively and I’m the one grasping at straws??? ROFL! Good one…
Hardly a reply to the posting is it?
wallace
Trump has lost more than $1 billion of his wealth and the selling off of his hotels is not increasing his wealth.
16 times Donald Trump's political action committees promised worthless rewards for a donation.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-political-committee-pac-donations-contributions-president-2024-2022-9#trump-gold-card-3
He's a fraud just like his mate Bannon.
He won't be the 2024 nomination.
lincolnman
One can truly say the "walls are crashing in" on The Donald...
The Mar-A-Lago classified steal, the Georgia election interference, the New York AG fraud investigation....
If you count up all the times a Trump, one of his cronies, or or family member has "took the Fifth" you'd need a Cray computer to calculate it...
But I agree the smoking gun are the Eastman emails that prove Trump submitted false information under oath...
*According to the court filing, some of the emails apparently show that Trump knowingly signed a document under oath certifying that inaccurate figures related to voter fraud were correct. “The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public,” U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in the filing. “The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”*
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-10-19/judge-orders-eastman-to-release-emails-showing-trump-fraud
That's now two cases the DOJ has Trump dead to rights on - this one and the obstruction of justice charge where his lawyer certified in writing that he turned in all the classified at MAL..but didn't...
These criminal and civil cases will leave Donald with significant jail time and penniless when he gets out...
He'll have to go begging to Jared and Ivanka for some money...or his BFF Vlad...
wallace
Trump will play out the game as usual milking the cow for as long as he can.
bass4funk
Thank God for investments.
The left continue to say this and yet, the nation seems this administration is running the country fraudulently.
You don’t know that. You mean, you hope he doesn’t, but it looks like he might, and if not, DeSantis will do just fine, even worse because he runs on the exact same policies with less of the baggage, either way, it’s not looking good politically for the left in any capacity.
wallace
Trump nor Desantis will be the GOP 2024 election nominations.
plasticmonkey
Biden is committing fraud?
Ergo, Trump is not a con man. Clever, in a Nigel Tufnel sort of way.
plasticmonkey
He’s definitely got what it takes to get his chunky hide into the White House.
lincolnman
Like Trump Airlines, Trump University, Trump Taj Mahal and Casino....LOL....
Sure, leftists like Liz Cheney, Bill Barr, and John Bolton...in MAGA-world these folks are more "left" than Bernie Sanders...ROFL...
Sure we do - no way the warden let's someone run for President from a cell at Rikers Island...
bass4funk
Nonesense, other than those two there is not one Republican that can beat either of these men, not one.
Maybe you think Liz or Adam can be the nominee for the establishment and can drag out 0.1% of the vote.
wallace
You said the same about Trump in 2020. You must have been in deep shock when Biden wiped the carpet with him.
lincolnman
And more info today on the sensitivity of the classified docs Trump stored for two years in cartons in his closet...
*Highly sensitive intelligence on Iran and China **was in some of the documents recovered by the FBI during an August search of former U.S. President Donald Trump's home in Florida, The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.*
*They included secret documents that described intelligence work regarding China and at least one of them described Iran's missile program, the report said, adding that the documents were considered to be among the most sensitive in the materials seized by the FBI.*
*The release of information in these documents would pose multiple risks, including endangering people helping U.S. intelligence efforts and compromising collection efforts, the newspaper cited experts as saying.*
https://www.yahoo.com/news/classified-papers-seized-trump-home-165746175.html
China and Iran....well, now we know who Trump was planning on doing a few quid-pro-quo deals with. I imagine the empty classified folders were already given to his BFF Vlad...
He's not only a criminal, he's a traitor to his pwn country...
wallace
Trump dumped the Truth.
He was never much good at it anyway.
bass4funk
After January we should learn more.
He did change the face of establishment politics so now we see that new trend of non-establishment Republicans
Yeah, but not for the reasons you think.
Numan
trump has too long term grifts. He wants to have numerous drawn out court cases. He needs to trick the rubes into donating more money in the guise of defense fund. He just needs to keep pushing the trials back and not pay his lawyers. He tells the lawyers that taking his pro bono case will make them famous.
The other is tempting the rubes that he will run for office again, but need funding to support him and his allies. As long as he does not officially declare his candidacy then he is not obligated to disclose the use of those funds. trump has also not used any of the money to help any of the GOP politicians running for office.
He will continue this process until it close to the presidential primaries or when he thinks that he might actually get prosecuted for the various crimes he committed. He will claim that his prosecution is a political witch hunt and should be thrown out court by the Supreme court because he a presidential candidate, and he help put 3 Supreme court justice into their positions, so they owe him.
Then if did get elected, he will fired all the people trying to prosecute him and replace them cronies.
Obstruction!
8T
The left is so nervous that Trump will become the next President AGAIN!
Keep the people confused, but that old “wag the dog” does not work anymore. The people are now on to all the scumbags in the White House brainwashing each other into oblivion.
bass4funk
Wait, but this White House is?? Huh? Lol
wallace
Not the last time he occupied it. More like the House of Cards. A one-term failure, for sure.
wallace
Do you support racist thugs?
bass4funk
That’s exactly what Biden is, a one term President.
No, I don’t vote Democrat.
wallace
If it wasn't so sad, GOP supporters or should I say the Nouveau GOP would be comical really.
Numan
I think they should also be concerned by the boxes seen being loaded into a plane, they need to retrieve them ASAP. I can't imagine what they could be but am sure they are not something you want in trumps hands.
wallace
The FBI is still waiting for the rest of Trump's hidden basement papers he stole. A crook.
wallace
Trump and Bannon are like two legless ducks trying to swim across the pond.
bass4funk
The FBI should be very worried about next January. C-SPAN will be getting historic ratings.
plasticmonkey
Ah yes, Gym Jordan to the rescue. Let’s get to the bottom of Hunter’s laptop and Ray Epps whereabouts. Enough time wasted witch hunting the least corrupt president in the history of the world (Trump), of whose alleged misdeeds we have NO EVIDENCE of.
plasticmonkey
Gym Jordan is gonna purge the FBI. He ain’t gonna let nobody investigate his personal lord ‘n savior, Don Trump! They’re gonna pay.
bass4funk
Jim, Plastic
Yes
Not even close, if you believe that then you believe in mystical unicorns.
That is a good thing, is it not?
The Dems have been doing that already, gosh almighty, where have you been?
wallace
Trump should have learned "Do No Harm!" Split the GOP into three. The old guard, the Nouveau, and the sick and twisted.
Not a united party.
bass4funk
Neither are the Dems. Almost none of them don’t want Biden coming to bail them out of this red wave that’s coming. At least Tim Ryan had the berries to admit it.
The Dems have their own internal war brewing like a fine cup of espresso.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/joe-biden-2024-democrats/2022/09/25/id/1088942/