#jan. 6

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Elvis Presley rehearses for his third and final appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, January 6, 1957.

Photo: Steve Oroz via Getty Images/Facebook

[fightthefirenow]

New at Fight the Fire:

Violence isn't the answer. And neither is Trump.

With a crackdown looming, we need to continue fighting what Charlie Kirk stood for - peacefully,

Violence isn't the answer. And neither is Trump.

With a crackdown looming, we need to continue fighting what Charlie Kirk stood for - peacefully

[misterlemonzlime]

01-24-25 | wooddove-mark-2. misterlemonzlime.tumblr.com/archive

[follow-up-news]

Trump 'resorted to crimes' to stay in office after 2020 loss, Jack Smith team says

Donald Trump's actions to overturn his election loss were "fundamentally" a private endeavor, the special counsel argued.

Former President Donald Trump was "fundamentally" acting as a private candidate for office and not as president of the United States when he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss, special counsel Jack Smith's team argued in a filing on Wednesday that revealed new details of the scheme at the heart of Trump's federal election interference case. The filing asserts that Trump knew that the claims he was spreading about the 2020 election were lies, with Smith's team arguing that Trump didn't believe his own falsehoods but instead spread them as part of his broader scheme to stay in power. As officers were being brutally assaulted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Smith's team says, Trump was scrolling Twitter, according to an analysis by an FBI expert that is among the revelations in the new filing. "The phone’s activity logs show that the defendant was using his phone, and in particular, using the Twitter application, consistently throughout the day after he returned from the Ellipse speech," Smith's team wrote. The filing also elaborates on the Smith team's prior claim that a member of Trump's campaign encouraged rioting at the TCF Center in Detroit, where a pro-Trump mob tried to stop the counting of votes in what was America's largest majority-Black city on Nov. 4, 2021, the day after the election. "Make them riot," an unnamed campaign employee texted a colleague, according to the filing. "Do it!!!" The filing is a response to the Supreme Court ruling that Trump had immunity for some actions he took as president and that prosecutors could not use his official acts in their case. Smith's team argued the 2024 Republican presidential nominee "must stand trial for his private crimes as would any other citizen" and a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against him in August adjusting Smith's case to comply with the Supreme Court's order. Trump "resorted to crimes to try to stay in office" after his loss, Smith's team wrote in Wednesday's filing, arguing that he launched "a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."

[thingstrumperssay]

Trump's getting indicted again today. I think for January 6th? And on my birthday too!

Thank you for the gift, Jack Smith!

[sbrown82]

Supreme Court: Trump has 'absolute immunity' for official acts

The Supreme Court has finally ruled on Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claim.

This country is DONE!!!!

[bighermie]

Undercover DC Police Officer Pushed Protesters Toward Capitol, Climbed Over Barricade: Court Filing

Three undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers joined the march of protesters up the northwest side of the Capitol ...

[newsrepertoire]

I wonder if House Republicans will commemorate the two year anniversary of a failed fascist coup by still failing to get a Speaker elected