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Trump Offered to Deploy 10,000 National Guard Troops in DC Ahead of Jan. 6: Mark Meadows
Former President Donald Trump offered to deploy 10,000 National Guard troops in Washington D.C. prior to Jan. 6, the day of the Capitol building breach, according to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Meadows told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that although Trump had been vocal about offering Capitol Police and National Guard presence at the Capitol on multiple occasions last month, his offer was rebuked “every time.”
“We also know that in January, but also throughout the summer, that the president was very vocal in making sure that we had plenty of National Guard, plenty of additional support because he supports our rule of law and supports our law enforcement and offered additional help,” Meadows told host Maria Bartiromo.
“Even in January, that was a given, as many as 10,000 National Guard troops were told to be on the ready by the Secretary of Defense” Meadows said. “That was a direct order from President Trump and yet here is what we see … all kinds of blame going around but yet not a whole lot of accountability.”
“That accountability needs to rest where it ultimately should be and that’s on Capitol Hill” Meadows added.
The Pentagon and the office of Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment by The Epoch Times.
Democrats allege that the president incited the violence at the Capitol in a speech he delivered near the White House on Jan 6. In his address, Trump used the words “fight like hell” in reference to his team’s legal efforts around election integrity. The Democrats allege that Trump used the words to incite his followers to commit violence.
House Democrats, joined by 10 Republicans, voted on Jan. 13 to approve a single article of impeachment against Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” making him the first president to be impeached twice. When the Senate trial opens on Feb. 9, he will become the first former president to stand trial.
Meadows described the impeachment effort against the former president as “political theater.”
“It’s really about Democrats trying to once again make a political point,” he said. “This whole impeachment is designed to remove someone from office. President Trump is a private citizen at this point. And yet they can’t stand it. They have to continue to go ahead and try to put forth some kind of narrative that scores political points.”
He added, “But we have seen it before. The American people are not going to have it. We have already had 45 senators say that this is unconstitutional. But it’s more than that. It’s a violation of due process. It’s not what our founding fathers set up. And it sets a very bad precedent of future officeholders.”
Continued: https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-offered-to-deploy-10000-national-guard-troops-in-dc-ahead-of-jan-6-mark-meadows_3690294.html?utm_source=pushengage By: BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN February 9, 2021 Updated: February 9, 2021
Evidence Mounts that Capitol Breach Was Pre-Planned, Eroding Incitement Allegation in Trump Impeachment Trial
As former President Donald Trump’s Tuesday impeachment trial approaches, there is a growing body of evidence in criminal complaints and affidavits that the Jan. 6 Capitol breach had been pre-planned, undercutting the allegation leveled against Trump that he is guilty of “incitement to insurrection.”
A number of FBI affidavits filed in support of various charges—including conspiracy—against accused participants in the Capitol breach show evidence of pre-planning, reinforcing an argument made by critics of the impeachment trial against Trump, namely that participants couldn’t have been incited by the president to break into the building if they had earlier planned to do so.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said recently that parts of the Capitol incident had been coordinated well before Trump’s Jan. 6 speech. Trump’s accusers have described the speech as a call to storm the building.
While Trump said in his speech that “we fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” the former president appeared to be making a general reference to political activism, as he called on supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard during the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress.
Continued: https://www.theepochtimes.com/evidence-mounts-that-capitol-breach-was-pre-planned-eroding-incitement-allegation-in-trump-impeachment-trial_3689106.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub BY TOM OZIMEK February 8, 2021 Updated: February 8, 2021
Man Charged in Capitol Riot Worked for FBI and Had Security Clearance, Attorney Says
The lawyer for a man who was charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots said the defendant has held a top-secret security clearance for decades and previously worked for the FBI.
Thomas Caldwell, who authorities believe has a leadership role in the Oath Keepers group, worked as a section chief for the federal law enforcement agency from 2009 to 2010 after he retired from the U.S. Navy, said his lawyer in a court motion.
Caldwell has denied being a part of the Oath Keepers, said attorney Thomas Plofchan.
“He has been vetted and found numerous times as a person worthy of the trust and confidence of the United States government, as indicated by granting him Top Secret clearances,” Plofchan wrote in a motion.
His lawyer, according to court documents, said Caldwell, 66, denies he ever went to the Capitol and has “physical limitations” that prevent him from breaching a building. “Moving, sitting for extended periods of time, lifting, carrying, and other physical activities are extremely painful and Caldwell is limited in his ability to engage in them,” the motion added.
“Caldwell is not a member of the organization, nor has he ever been a member of the organization, and if he were, such membership would be protected activity under the First Amendment,” wrote Plofchan, who added that the government hasn’t provided a photo or video that shows Caldwell in the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
Continued: https://www.theepochtimes.com/man-charged-in-capitol-riot-worked-for-fbi-and-had-security-clearance-attorney-says_3690690.html?utm_source=pushengage By: BY JACK PHILLIPS February 9, 2021 Updated: February 9, 2021
Dem Impeachment Case Leans On Legal Scholar Who Says Their Use Of His Position Is Based On Erroneous CNN Claim.
Rep. Neguse (D-CO) – one of the Democrat impeachment managers – leant on a 21-year-old case made by Turley advocating for the post-presidential impeachment of Donald Trump.
Turley’s work on this matter, they claim, is key. But Turley himself says they got it wrong.
Rep. Neguse cited a 21-year-old piece of work by Turley and tried to pass it off as a few weeks old. Turley – who says his views have now “evolved” – corrected the claim on Twitter and undermining a key component of the Democrat case:
Turley recently wrote:
In my 1999 Duke Law Journal article on impeachment, I wrote that “[t]he Senate majority, however, was correct in its view that impeachments historically extended to former officials, such as Warren Hastings.” See Jonathan Turley, Senate Trials and Factional Disputes: Impeachment as a Madisonian Device, 49 Duke Law Journal 1-146 (1999)(emphasis added). Strangely, some have cited that line to show that I have changed my position on the subject. It doesn’t. It indeed was used retroactively in Great Britain as a historical matter, which I have always acknowledged. Yet, there are significant differences in the use of impeachment in both countries. Indeed, the colonial impeachments were strikingly different in many respects. As I noted in the Duke article, “Even if the only penalty is disqualification from future office, the open presentation of the evidence and witnesses represents the very element that was missing in colonial impeachments.”
Indeed Turley walked his audience through lawyer Laurence Tribe’s own partisan about-face on the issue recently, revealing how Tribe once stood against retroactive prosecutions but now – for Trump – agrees with them. Tribe once wrote:
“Removing a President, even just impeaching him, paralyzes the country. Removing him decapitates a coordinate branch. And remember that the President’s limited term provides a kind of check, and if the check fails, he can be prosecuted when he leaves. To impeach on the novel basis suggested here when we have impeached only one President in our history, and we have lived to see that action universally condemned; and when we have the wisdom not to impeach Presidents Reagan or Bush over Iran-Contra; and when we have come close to impeaching only one other President for the most wide-ranging abuse of presidential power subversive of the Constitution would lower the bar dramatically, would trivialize a vital check.”
It was Tribe who first claimed Turley agreed with retroactive impeachments in a recent interview. Turley’s views on the matter were over 20 years ago, when Tribe’s own views were the polar opposite.
In other words, the Democrat impeachment managers appear to have included untrue comments about Turley’s current position not on the basis of what Turley actually said, but what Tribe claimed Turley had said in a CNN interview.
I even went back and found the clip, which features Tribe calling Turley a hack, then attributing a statement from 21 years ago to “not so long ago.”
Continued: https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dem-impeachment-case-leans-on-legal-scholar-who-says-their-use-of-his-position-is-based-on-erroneous-cnn-claim/ By: Raheem Kassam – February 9, 2021
FLASHBACK – TWENTY MINUTES after the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 ; the Washington Post announces the First Impeachment Trial
Comment – four years of planning a coup & insurrection & impeachment, AGAIN. The probability that the the WRONG party is being impeached increases daily.
The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun
The effort to impeach President Donald Trump is already underway.
At the moment, the new commander in chief was sworn in, a campaign to build public support for his impeachment went live at ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.org, spearheaded by two liberal advocacy groups aiming to lay the groundwork for his eventual ejection from the White House.
The organizers behind the campaign, Free Speech for People, and RootsAction, are hinging their case on Trump’s insistence on maintaining ownership of his luxury hotel and golf course business while in office. Ethics experts have warned that his financial holdings could potentially lead to constitutional violations and undermine public faith in his decision-making.
Their effort is early, strategists admit. But they insist it is not premature — even if it triggers an angry backlash from those who will argue that they are not giving the new president a chance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/20/the-campaign-to-impeach-president-trump-has-begun/
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American In Name Only
Mavericks no longer playing national anthem at home games on Mark Cuban’s orders
while reading the mind numbing printed verble vomit
a no shit sherlock thought came to me
“The pregame national anthem is a staple of American sports at both the professional and collegiate level, but is far less commonplace at pro sporting events in other countries”.
We are not like other countries
We dared to be different right from the start
I once explained to the kid what those fireworks represent
grapeshot & cannon balls being fired into the faces of America’s enemies
and of course I was quickly reminded I shouldn’t talk like that to a child
true stories are the best stories
is all I said
Mark.. it’s not in me to Capitulate
but if you care to step outside
where,title, position or coin mean nothing
I’ll be waiting
until then
here’s an American eagle to you!
which is still faster then anything russian or China China China
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Our weather forecast is calling for several weather events. I may have to attempt the following art work.
Sometime ago, well not to long long ago I was offered 50.00 measley bucks
for the gold covered double live album I’d told them in no uncertain terms
Hit the Road Jack
don’t come back here no more
Main difference between music and a teevee
teevee is so one sided,
sit there getting fat while droolin is no way to go through life
with music one can do stuff
which keeps the body moving while the hands and mind do productive stuff
I glanced and seen the National Felon League viewership is down again which a good thing
here’s a view less thought about
with less eyeballs watching the Bread & Circuses
the National Felon League will have less revenue
a reduction in teams will be needed while combining franchises
from now until further notice Tampa & Greenbay
will be known as the Tampaks
they will be only good for one period with no 2nd string
enjoy the music
get stuff done
GM spokesperson Kristin Zimmerman admits 95% of “clean” energy to charge electric cars comes from COAL
(Natural News) Okay, so she did try to whitewash her accidental admission by switching it to “natural gas” – which is not much different, according to the climate mafia – at the last second. Still, General Motors (GM) spokesperson Kristin Zimmerman has become something of an internet sensation for letting the cat out of the bag that “electric” cars actually run on about 95 percent coal.
During a recent unveiling of the new Chevy Volt, Zimmerman demonstrated for the media how the supposedly “green” vehicle is simply plugged into a power source for energy. And this power source, at least in Michigan, is mostly burned coal.
A man in a suit pulled out the giant plug (watch below) and waved it in front of the cameras, prompting laughter from the press, before inserting it into the Volt. A journalist then walks up to Zimmerman to ask her about the power source behind the plug.
Because everybody thought we killed the electric vehicle, and we didn’t,” Zimmerman told the questioning press with a confident smirk.
“So what’s charging the batteries right now? What’s the source?” one member of the press asked in response.
“Well, here,” Zimmerman answered. “It’s coming from the building.”
“I mean, what’s their mix of power?” the press member then responded.
“Oh, actually Lansing feeds the building. Lansing feeds power to the building, so I don’t know … I’ll bet you they’re a bit of coal, oh they’re heavy on natural gas, aren’t they?”
J. Peter Lark from the Lansing Board of Water & Light, the power company Zimmerman was referring to, quickly cleared up the discrepancy.
“Right, it would be charging off the power grid which is about 95 percent coal,” Lark told the reporter.
In other words, nearly all of the energy used to power electric vehicles in Michigan comes from burned coal, which is far more polluting than the internal combustion of normal gasoline.
If you watch the video closely, you can see the precise moment when Zimmerman realized she had walked right into a trap. She thought about it for a second and came to the realization that her company’s supposedly “green” vehicles are worse polluters than their gas-powered counterparts.
“For those of you who didn’t put it all together: Electric cars run off electricity, electricity provided by a power plant, a plant that runs primarily off coal, which actually is a worse pollutant than a gas-powered engine,” wrote one Twitter user in response to the clip.
This has been known for years, as a paper that came out back in 2015 revealed that most electric cars throughout the country are powered by electricity that comes from coal.
While some areas of the country are heavy on nuclear and hydro power sources, the fact remains that coal is still what powers America. Consequently, electric vehicles are nothing more than greenwashed virtue signaling tools to make climate fanatics feel as though they are better than everybody else.
Electricity is also more costly than normal gasoline, which means electric vehicles are overly expensive, highly polluting scams that only exist because of government subsidies.
“Electric cars should just be rebranded as coal cars,” wrote another Twitter user.
“The important thing is that our government overlords keep subsidizing electric cars, even though this very high price subsidy will achieve only tiny emissions savings,” wrote another.
“Someone should ask the climate czars how ‘green’ it is to mine for lithium,” this person further wrote, highlighting the dirty nature of producing lithium-ion batteries for electric cars.
More of the latest news about the “green” energy scam can be found at Corruption.news.
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/gm-spokesperson-kristin-zimmerman-admits-95-of-clean-energy-to-charge-electric-cars-comes-from-coal/ By: Ethan Huff – January 9, 2021
Comment: Although the author notes a report from 2015; it is worth noting the first electric car was designed in the 1890’s. One would hope that in light of the extensive lapse in time (decades) that a level of “honesty” would be prevail. Wishful thinking, obviously.
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Schumer, McConnell Reach Agreement on Trump
The names, the faces are different
for every character seen in this clip apply thier actions & words to someone in the news today
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Thought to be by Ben Seeetland
While it’s looking like a snow globe outside with a temperature -18 degrees
which shouldn’t stop anyone from doin what they were gonna do in the first place
it’s like when one gets mad it distracts from what you was going to do
Be like me
when Mad arrives, ignore it and continue on to what ya was gonna do
( take mental notes )
Mike, a former Navy guy stops by and starts right on me
” chance, you um going gay-ish on us?”
What the fuck are you talking squid?
He was pointing to my rose
works just as I planed
so what’s the problem?
“chance?”
Mike
“why did you use a rose knob and not something more manly”
Manly eh? I got your Manly right here squid!
I turned on the Lynn Anderson
ohh i like that song he says
changing the topic ain’t gonna work squid
I don’t think I’ve not seen Mike without a beer in hand in 30 plus years
Mike ya want a Vernors?
NO
then he starts touchin my stuff
” what are these?”
for someone who spent 20 in Navy
you ain’t as smart as you think you are
those are black bear claws
was thinking of using for decorations on the door
then he starts fondling my skull like a crook about to steal something
put that down
“what was it?”
Mike, you really don’t know jackshyt do you
it’s a coyote skull
then he blurts out eh!
I know where you found that sign
Mike what you want?
” I need to barrow your sawsall for about a week”
Mike if I don’t get this back next Monday
well let’s just say
I know what you drive and know where you live
ya know Mike
when comes to the dermestid beetles
they are nature’s vacuum cleaners when it comes to removing dead and decaying flesh, skin and hair.”
off he went with my sawsall
thing about Mike
he said he made promise to himself when leaving the Navy
When I retire I’m gonna drink beer and fish
so that’s pretty all he does
fish and drink beer
he’s a good guy
still some stuff to do to the smoker
before a pork belly magically turns to bacon!
Not sure if you people realize
Bacon is the Duck tape of food