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The Last Straw
The cabinet picks are starting to come out...
Susie Wiles for Chief of Staff
Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence.
Marco Rubio for Secretary of State.
Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. (He has resigned from Congress.)
Kristi Noem for Secretary of Department of Homeland Security.
Mike Huckabee for ambassador to Israel.
Steve Witkoff for Special Envoy to the Middle East
Elise Stefanik for ambassador to the UN
Lee Zeldin for EPA administrator
John Ratcliffe for CIA director
Bill McGinley for White House Counsel
Tom Homan for border czar
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy heading up a new agency, the Department of Government Efficiency.
USA Tumblrinas...the clown car is filling up and we can hear the squeaking shoes and honking noses of these largely incompetent and dangerous folks already. But most of them are, in fact, elected officials, which means they represent us. Start keeping track of them as you're able; you can tell them NO.
And remember: there is hope. Take a look at this video. Lawrence Tribe, one of the most prominent legal scholars in the country reminds us that the guard rails are not gone. That civil society has a very important function as we begin these uncertain days. That it's time to get involved.
"They were plotting this before the votes had even been counted," lawyer Asha Rangappa assessed.
Some legal experts contend that newly reported text message sent from Donald Trump Jr. to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows demonstrate that the former president and his allies were planning a "coup" from the start—even before votes were fully counted in the 2020 election.
CNN first reported on Friday that Trump Jr. sent a November 5, 2020 text message to Meadows which said: "It's very simple ... We have multiple paths We control them all." The former president's son reportedly laid out plans to subvert the Electoral College process and keep his father, former President Donald Trump, in the White House. Notably, that message was sent just two days after the election—before the results were finalized and as many states continued to count ballots.
Trump Jr.'s attorney Alan S. Futerfas told CNN that the message was most likely forwarded. "After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded," he said.
But Trump critics and some legal experts jumped on the reporting, arguing it was more evidence of a "coup" attempt.
"What this makes clear is that Jan. 6 was not based on a belief, good faith or otherwise, that the outcome of the 2020 election was decided incorrectly—they were plotting this before the votes had even been counted! The coup was the plan from the get-go," Asha Rangappa, a lawyer and senior lecturer at Yale University as well as a former FBI special agent, tweeted on Friday.
Laurence Tribe, a professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, agreed with Rangappa's assessment.
".@AshaRangappa_ has this just right," Tribe wrote, retweeting the lawyer's post. "Most others have missed this key point: Junior's revelations kill the 'innocent state of mind' defense, leaving compelling proof of corrupt intent for each of the several federal felonies the plotters close to the defeated president committed."
Glenn Kirschner, a former U.S. Army prosecutor who has repeatedly called for Trump's indictment, touted the text messages as evidence of "treasonous criminality."
"The 'Subject' line of Don Jr.'s email might as well have been, 'I'm a member of my father's criminal conspiracy to overturn the election.' How long do we have to endure this open, treasonous criminality by Trump and company before someone gets indicted?" Kirschner wrote in a Twitter post.
Trump has consistently rejected any wrongdoing related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the events of January 6, 2021—when hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and threatened the lives of top lawmakers, including Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The former president continues to claim that President Joe Biden's victory was fraudulent and that any investigations into him and his family are politically motivated.
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack against the Capitol said in a March court filing that evidence suggests Trump and his allies engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" related to the 2020 election. The Committee contended that the former president and "several others entered into an agreement to defraud the United States by interfering with the election certification process, disseminating false information about election fraud, and pressuring state officials to alter state election results and federal officials to assist in that effort."
U.S. District Court Judge David Carter appeared to agree that Trump may have engaged in criminality. "Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," Carter wrote in a late March ruling.
Despite Trump's and his allies claims, no evidence has emerged to corroborate allegations of widespread fraud resulting in his election loss.
Dozens of 2020 election challenge lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies failed in state and federal courts. Even judges appointed by the former president consistently dismissed the lawsuits. Meanwhile, audits and recounts—including in states where the election was overseen by pro-Trump conservatives—have repeatedly reaffirmed Biden's win.
Former Attorney General William Barr, who was widely viewed as one of Trump's most loyal cabinet members, has said repeatedly that there is "no evidence" to support allegations of widespread voter fraud. Barr wrote in his memoir published last month that he told Trump to his face that the claims were "bullishit."
Newsweek reached out to Trump's press office for comment.
02-11-26 | waternymph55. Misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive
Reminder:
The Supreme Court can make up a previously non-existent requirement to shield him, but the Constitution says what it says. Which, for the record, is:
Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights
Section 3 Disqualification from Holding OfficeNo person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Which by Mr. Tribe's interpretation (which I tend to agree with), means that P01135809 cannot Constitutionally be the President, regardless of whether he got 1 vote or 100 million. No more than he could if he were under 35 or not born a citizen.
Which also means that any order he gives as "President", any act he takes, is not legally valid. And that every person in the government who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, including every member of the armed forces, has a duty to not recognize his authority, and not obey his orders.
Harvard Law scholar: There is no ‘good reason for’ the Supreme Court to review Trump’s immunity case
Feb 12, 2024 #Trump#Politics#SupremeCourt President Biden and his campaign are fighting back against claims made about his mental fitness in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, and former President Donald is facing a gauntlet of court hearings and decisions in the coming weeks. Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss. “Donald Trump has another 11 hours within which to seek a stay of the decision of the DC Circuit, the unanimous decision, rejecting his extraordinary, extravagant and unprecedented claim of immunity. I don't expect that the US Supreme Court will grant his stay,” Tribe tells Andrea. “There's really no basis for it. It's simply a delaying tactic. And I also don't think there's a good reason for the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review of the case.”
On President Trump continuing to skirt the law and asking his voters to vote twice, Lawrence Tribe says, “For a law and order president, there isn’t a lot of order and certainly no law.”
Legal Expert: Jared Kushner Will Wind Up 'Doing Hard Time'
Legal Expert: Jared Kushner Will Wind Up ‘Doing Hard Time’
Of all the figures in the Russigate scandal, perhaps none has as many connections to Russia as President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
On Thursday, we learned that Kushner — who also serves as a senior White House adviser — failed to turn over documents requested by Congressional investigators that relate toa “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite.” This raises the question: What is…
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