“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter…It mustn’t happen again. We can’t let it. We simply can’t let it happen again.”
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
“California [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all…
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
“Freedom is under attack in [Florida]… In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom.”
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
“If Republicans win, their strategy is an anti-democratic strategy… The Republican Party will likely push us closer to autocracy, making the US an anocracy, which puts us at higher risk of political violence.”
Barbara F Walter (@bfwalter) @ProjectLincoln
@AndrewYang: You describe civil war in the U.S. as hundreds of militias engaging in what most people would consider terrorist activities. How many militias exist right now in the U.S.?
Barbara F Walter (@bfwalter): Over 400… Most are far-right groups.
“Two best predictors of [violence] are whether a country is an anocracy [partial democracy] and whether ethnic entrepreneurs …are using racial, religious, or ethnic divisions to try to gain political power.”@bfwalter
Barbara F Walter civil war interview:
“The far-right militias… have doubled down. They are angry, resentful, [and] believe the election was stolen from them. [Extremists] believe the only way to improve things… is through violence.”@bfwalter
Barbara F Walter civil war interview w @CapehartJ:
“21st century civil war tends to be [decentralized] like an insurgency where you have multiple factions, militias, paramilitary groups… They tend to use unconventional tactics like guerrilla warfare and terrorism.”
Barbara F Walter (@bfwalter) @amanpour:
“93% of the people arrested for the [#January6th] attack on the Capitol were white, and the key characteristic according to [University of Chicago] researchers uniting the attackers was not ideology or geography but in fact race.”
@tonydokoupil #Allentown
“The threat on #January6th continues to exist against our democracy… We continue to see threats of violence by the #ProudBoys and #OathKeepers at local and state levels across our country. We need to take this threat seriously.”
@MargaretLHuang @AymanM
“The #OathKeepers…evolved during the Trump years into a radical gang. So did the #ProudBoys…Showing how those people came together [and] how coordinated they were [and] if they were tied to Roger Stone…will be interesting.”
@oneunderscore__ @KatyTurNBC
“The headline here is not only ties between Trump’s inner circle and these [white-power violent hate] groups, but their ties with one another… A broad groundswell…guerrilla army that is interested in the overthrow of America.”
@kathleen_belew @JoyAnnReid
“If you come into my community and you commit a crime, you deserve to be held responsible. I don’t care what your race is. I don’t care what your gender is. I don’t care the status you’ve reached.”
DA Fani Willis in Fulton tells NBC 7/6/22 #TrumpForPrison
“Donald Trump launched the attack on the Capitol and refused to call it off… He told those around him Mike Pence should be hanged. Donald Trump waged war — levied war — against the United States on and around #January6th.”
@glennkirschner2 #JusticeMatters
“[Trump] was very concerned about the…photograph that we would get because the rally space wasn’t full. He wanted it full, and he was angry that we weren’t letting people through the mags with weapons.”
Sixth #January6thHearings (6/28/22) — 4-minute recap:
“At the White House on December 21 [2020 meeting]: Congressmen Brian Babin, Andy Biggs, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, Andy Harris, Jody Hice, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry [and] Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
#TrumpCoupAttempt #CoupCaucus #January6thHearings:
“Authoritarian parties have two essential features in common, in history and around the world. They do not accept results of democratic elections when they lose, and they embrace political violence as legitimate.”
Jamie Raskin closing statement @RepRaskin
“If [President* Trump] is willing to…whip up a civil war among his followers using lies and deceit and snake oil — regardless of the human impact — what else is he going to do if he gets elected again?”
Jason Van Tatenhove #OathKeepers #January6thHearings
“One of the crimes that is much harder to prove that…came into play as a result of [#January6thInsurrection] findings and these links between extremist groups and Trump allies is…seditious conspiracy.”
@JaxAlemany @NicolleDWallace #OathKeepers #ProudBoys
Stephen Ayres apologized to Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, fmr Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, fmr DC Police Officer Michael Fanone, and DC Police Officer Daniel Hodges.
If he really wants to make amends, he will help more people deradicalize.
“If a hitman is hired and he kills somebody, the hitman goes to jail [and so does] the person who hired them. There was an attack carried out on #January6th and a hit man sent them.
I want you to get to the bottom of that.”
Harry Dunn (@libradunn) 7/27/21
“Remember how there was…evidence of officers and others inside on #January6th supporting insurrectionists, but…it was too politically risky to investigate thoroughly so they brushed it under the rug and now we still have no idea who or what is safe?”@AOC
“We need to quit mincing words and talk about truths.
What [#January6th] was gonna be was armed revolution.
People died that day…
There was a gallows set up [at] the Capitol…
This could’ve been the spark that started a new civil war.”
Jason Van Tatenhove
“Donald Trump committed treason against the United States of America. If you’re wondering what #January6th is about, it’s about #treason… Either we live in a country where no man is above the law — or we don’t.”
@JoeNBC #TrumpCoupAttempt #TreasonousTrump
“What Trump’s gonna do is just declare victory…but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna SAY he’s a winner… After then, Trump never has to go to a voter again… He’s done his last election.”
Steve Bannon 10/31/20 @MotherJones #TrumpCoupAttempt
“Trump is a 76-year-old man…not an impressionable child…
He is responsible for his own actions and his own choices…
[No argument can] excuse President* Trump’s behavior during the violent attack on #January6th.”
@Liz_Cheney #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Trump’s followers took to social media to declare they were ready to answer Trump’s [‘will be wild’ tweet 12/19/20] … Rhetoric turned openly homicidal and white nationalist —
such as why don't we just kill them, every last Democrat.”
#January6thHearings:
“[Trump on Twitter] for the first time was speaking directly to extremist organizations and giving them directives…
I had been begging…to raise the reality that…if we made no intervention into what I saw…people were going to die.”
#January6thHearings
“When you have armed militia collaborating with white supremacy groups collaborating with conspiracy theory groups online — all toward a common goal…a blended ideology…that’s a very, very bad sign.”
Dr. Donell Harvin (@donell_harvin) #January6thHearings
“OathKeepers spoke directly with Roger Stone about security on #January6th [and] were ready to use, quote, lethal force if necessary against anyone who tried to remove President* Trump from the WhiteHouse, including the National Guard.”
#January6thHearings:
Roger Stone: This is nothing less than an epic struggle for the future of this country.
Michael Flynn: We will not stand for a lie.
Ali Alexander: 1776 is always an option… We are going to shut this country down.
Stop The Steal January 5 rally montage:
“The word ‘peacefully’ was in the staff-written script,
used only once [in Trump’s #January6th speech]…
He lied to his supporters that the election was stolen.
He stoked their anger [and] directed them to the Capitol.”
@RepStephMurphy #January6thHearings
Brad Parscale text: A sitting president asking for civil war…
I feel guilty for helping him win…A woman is dead…
If I was Trump and knew my rhetoric killed someone…
Katrina Pierson: It wasn’t the rhetoric.
BP: Yes it was.
#January6thCommitteeHearings
“When [Mark Meadows] began acknowledging… there wasn’t enough voter fraud to overturn the election, I witnessed him start to explore potential constitutional loopholes more extensively, which I… connected with John Eastman’s theories.”
Cassidy Hutchinson
“Sidney Powell, General Flynn, and Rudy Giuliani left the White House [and] Trump’s purpose was to mobilize a crowd…
At 1:42am on December 19, 2020, shortly after…the unhinged meeting, Trump sent [#January6th ‘will be wild’] tweet.”
#January6thHearings
“Donald Trump really did appoint Sidney Powell as special counsel, but nothing ever came of it because his own White House officials refused to act on his order—which is an astonishing thing in the history of the U.S. presidency.”
#TrumpCoupAttempt #Maddow
“They had a battle plan and they were looking for a war…
[Trump] goes to the last box on his list and it’s the crowd [of] already-militarized Americans who are organized and skilled in combat…Trump’s cronies certainly knew.”
@alexwagner #TrumpCoupAttempt
“They saw opportunity…to become a paramilitary force…
The Department of Justice…has evidence of Oath Keepers bringing not just firearms but explosives to Washington D.C. ahead of #January6th.”
They had an attack blueprint and kill list — and were armed.
“Reffitt engaged in acts of violence…intended to influence the government through intimidation or coercion—acts…defined, by statute, as domestic terrorism.”
DOJ seeking first ‘terrorism enhancement’ in sentencing
3 Percenter Guy Reffitt on #January6th:
“There are still some outstanding people like #GinniThomas who have talked a big game — said that they would come forward and cooperate [with the @January6thCmte] — but we still have yet to hear from them.”
@JaxAlemany @NicolleDWallace #TrumpCoupAttempt
Why did EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN Representative vote against a bill to report on white supremacists and neo-Nazi activity in our law enforcement and United States military?
80% of Republican Representatives voted against creating an Amber-Alert-style system to alert people about active shooters.
More American children died last year from gun violence than police officers and military service people COMBINED.
Firearms are now the leading cause of death of American kids — over 4300 killed since 2020.
@ChangeTheRef @manueloliver00 @mySA @SenTedCruz
99% of Republicans voted no on a bill that protects the right to TRAVEL — including to get abortion health care.
This move shows they stand with extremist politicians trying to hold women captive in their own states — rather than defending the right to travel within our country.
EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN Representative voted against keeping abortion rights legal in America on July 15 2022.
This confirms that GOP’s top priority is to ban abortion rights for all Americans.
The only answer to extremist GOP Senators and radical Justices is at the ballot box.
“They are taking your rights away as you sleep…
Vote! Get your ass on that Internet and register to #VOTE…
Do you understand? Are you listening to me?
Don’t let me have lived my life in vain.” @JeniferLewis
#VoteBlueDownBallot #VoteBlueDownBallot2022
“[Republican leaders] want to sunset — get rid of — social safety net programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. And they want to abandon the Affordable Care Act and replace it with nothing.”
@IAmPoliticsGirl @MeidasTouch #VoteBlueDownBallot
“When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a culture war…They don’t have answers on gas prices [or] inflation [or] child care…So what do they do? They find someone vulnerable and pick on them.”
@PeteButtigieg UChicago 5/4/22 @votevets
“[#RoeVsWadeOverturned] protestors are upset because an important right — that the majority of Americans support — was taken away. Not only the right to choose [but also] stripping away the right to privacy.”
@PeteButtigieg Fox ‘News’ 7/10/22 #RoeVsWade
157 Republicans voted against marriage equality in 2022.
“First of all I’m glad to have a president who can ride a bicycle. And I will look beyond the insulting nature of that question and make clear to you that [@JoeBiden is] as vigorous a colleague or boss as I have ever had.”
@PeteButtigieg Troy Nehls 7/19/22
@chrislhayes: Are people at DOJ acting in good faith or not?
@AshaRangappa_: If Trump declares his candidacy, and investigation is pursued after that — there may be one already open, for all we know — Merrick Garland’s name will be in the authorization.
“Republicans were furious about Hillary Clinton’s emails and personal server. Why aren’t they screaming from the rooftops outraged about the Secret Service texts exchanged on #January6th being purged?!” @OliviaTroye✨
#SecretServiceCoverup @ProjectLincoln:
Josh Hawley #HawlinAss on #January6th to Benny Hill theme:
“Hawley’s gesture riled up the crowd [#January6th] and it bothered her greatly because he was doing it in a safe space protected by officers and barriers. Later…Hawley fled after those protesters he helped rile up stormed the Capitol.”
#January6thHearings
“The VP detail thought this was about to get ugly [and] were starting to fear for their own lives… There were calls to say goodbye to family members, so on and so forth."
Pence Secret Service detail #January6th
#January6thHearings
“President* Trump did not FAIL to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the Ellipse and telling the mob to go home.
He CHOSE not to act [on #January6th].”
@AdamKinzinger @RepKinzinger #January6thHearing
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President* Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack… From 1:25 until 4:00 he stayed in his dining room… There is no official record of what [he] did.”
@RepElaineLuria #January6thCommitteeHearings
“If President* Trump wasn’t calling law enforcement or military leaders, what did he spend his time doing [in] the dining room? He was calling Senators to encourage them to delay or object to certification.”
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this: Donald Trump’s conduct on #January6th was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation.”
Adam Kinzinger closing
“Cassidy [Hutchinson], Sarah [Matthews], and our other witnesses — including Officer Caroline Edwards, Shaye Moss, and her mother Ruby Freeman — are an inspiration to American women and to American girls.”
Liz Cheney closing statement #January6thHearings
“Oaths matter. Character matters. Truth matters. If we do not renew our faith and commitment to these principles, this great experiment of ours — our shining beacon on a hill — will not endure.”
@AdamKinzinger closing statement
#January6thCommitteeHearings
“This [was not] inaction in a time of crisis.
Instead it was the final action of Trump’s own plan to usurp the will of the American people and remain in power…
It was his newest version of Stand Back and Stand By.”
Elaine Luria closing #January6thHearings
“I think that Donald Trump violation of his oath of office — the violation of the Constitution that he engaged in — is the most serious misconduct of any president in the history of our nation.”@Liz_Cheney
@jaketapper #CNNSOTU #January6thCommitteeHearings
“The [@January6thCmte] is engaged with [#GinniThomas] counsel. We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not.”
Liz Cheney #SubpoenaGinniThomas #January6th #CNNSOTU
“Every American must consider: Can a president who was willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of #January6th, ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?”
Liz Cheney closing:
“‘This election is now over. Congress has certified the results.’
I don’t want to say the election’s over.
I just want to say ‘Congress has certified the results’ without saying the election’s over, okay?”
Trump outtakes 1/7/21 #January6thCommitteeHearings
“What we aren’t gonna do, Bret, is blame the Capitol Police — blame those in law enforcement — for Donald Trump’s armed mob that he sent to the Capitol.”
Liz Cheney Fox ‘News’ Sunday 7/24/22
Baier asked if @January6thCmte is investigating Pelosi & Police:
“The notion now that somehow the @January6thCmte is incapable of getting to the facts of what happened — because Kevin McCarthy withdrew his nominees — is nonsensical. It also is a diversion.”
Liz Cheney annihilates Fox ‘News’ talking points ON Fox ‘News’
“It’s not just me that’s saying that Donald Trump is unfit for office. It’s other entities owned by Rupert Murdoch. It’s the New York Post intheir editorial. It’s the Wall Street Journal.”@Liz_Cheney
#January6thHearings ARE working:
“I don’t want to say the election’s over.
I don’t want to say the election’s over.
I don’t want to say the election’s over.
I just want to say ‘Congress certified the results’ without saying the election’s over, okay?”
Donald Trump outtakes January 7 2021
@January6thCmte: “To be crystal clear, there was no direct order from President* Trump to put 10,000 troops to be ready for #January6th?”
Fmr Acting Defense Sec Chris Miller: “That’s correct. There was no direct — There was no order from the president.”
“No one is above the law.” Merrick Garland interview 7/20/22
“We pursue justice without fear or favor. We intend to hold everyone—anyone who was criminally responsible for events surrounding #January6th or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power—accountable.”
Merrick Garland Lester Holt interview
“Merrick Garland [implied without saying] yes we are investigating Donald Trump, because we have to make sure that whoever is responsible for attempting to overturn the election is held criminally accountable.”
@tribelaw @Lawrence on Lester Holt interview
“Democracy is fragile… While the [#January6th] violence was underway, [Trump] placed no call to ANY element of the United States government to instruct that the Capitol be defended.”
@Liz_Cheney @AccountableGOP
#January6thCommitteeHearings summary so far:
“There was no basis in the Constitution or laws of the United States at all for the theory espoused by Mr. [John] Eastman. At all. None.”
Judge Michael Luttig (@judgeluttig) to @JohnWoodMO 6/16/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“JD Vance thinks parents should stay in violent marriages ‘for the sake of their kids.’ That’s not just wrong, it’s unbelievably dangerous.” @TimRyan
Whose choice should it be? Don’t let Greg Abbott decide.
@MomsAGAbbott #WhoseChoice #WomensRights
#MothersAgainstGregAbbott #TxLege #MAGAtheGood
#VOTE @BetoORourke #BetoForTexas #BetoForGovernor
MothersAgainstGregAbbott.com @CollierForTexas
96% of Republicans voted against a federal right to birth control use in all 50 states. Access to contraceptives vote in July 2022:
Every day @staceyabrams keeps getting better. @TeamAbrams
@JohnFetterman will be an AMAZING Senator for Pennsylvania.
@MeidasTouch shows why Dr Oz is just a #WizardOfLies:
“Every one of those Republicans that voted against healthcare for veterans, voted for the [OCO $60-70 billion] slush fund for the war. They don’t support the troops; they support the war machine. And that’s gotta stop.”
@jonstewart #PACTAct #PassThePACTAct
80% of Republican Senators voted to block the #PACTAct, critical health care for veterans with illness caused by toxic burn pits. #PassThePACTAct
Watch Ted Cruz fist bump Steve Daines and Pat Toomey, John Kennedy, and Joni Ernst celebrate their filibuster:
99% of Republicans voted against an assault weapons ban.
“This [#PACTAct] is for veterans who suffered health effects from being exposed to burn pits and other toxins. That is it… When they voted [to #PassThePACTAct] in the Senate on June 16, they got 84 votes.”
@TheProblem @jonstewart @Burnpit360 to Ted Cruz:
Not one Republican voted to stop gas station price gouging.
Republicans in Congress have no plans for reducing inflation — other than more tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. For example, when given the opportunity to lower insulin prices in 2022, all but 12 voted no. #RepublicansLovePriceGouging
“Alex Jones, [your attorneys] sent me a digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you’ve sent for the past two years…and as of 2 days ago it fell free and clear into my possession. And that is how I know you lied to me.”
Mark Bankston
“You must tell the truth while you testify. This is not your show… You believe that everything you say is true, but it isn’t…
Just because you claim to think something is true does not make it true.”
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble to Alex Jones 8/2/22
Republican Senators BLOCKED a $35/month cap on insulin.
“Nothing like this has ever happened before and we don’t know how this ends. Tonight’s news — that the FBI has raided the home of the immediate past POTUS — feels both astonishing and inevitable in equal measure.”
@maddow #TrumpFBIRaid #TrumpRaided #Maddow
“Volume is just one way to quantify the damage that might have been done. Even just one page or portion of a top-secret or classified item… improperly archived, could do very grave damage to national security of the U.S.”
@JaxAlemany #TrumpFBIRaid #Maddow
“Donald Trump, you have a copy of the warrant. It explains what they were looking for, what statutes they think were violated, what judge signed off...If you believe this is such an abuse, release the warrant and let us decide for ourselves.”
@neal_katyal
“The ‘story’ isn’t the search warrant, it’s that DOJ gave Trump a YEAR to return the stolen goods, and he didn’t… Secrets would be a jackpot for foreign governments… Why would Trump take such documents and what did he plan to do with them?”@AshaRangappa_
Fox ‘News’ talks about Hillary Clinton — “#ButHerEmails!” — next to footage of the Donald Trump FBI search at Mar-a-Lago:
“Who gave you up to the feds?” @ProjectLincoln asks Trump.
“The men and women of the FBI and DOJ are dedicated, patriotic public servants. Every day they protect the American people from violent crime, terrorism, and other threats to our safety while safeguarding our civil rights.”
AG Merrick Garland #DarkGarland
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”
Hillary Clinton, Democratic nomination accept speech 7/28/16
@HillaryClinton #NuclearDocuments #TrumpNuclearSecrets
Laura Ingraham: Is it your understanding that there were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities or nuclear issues w national security implications in Trump’s possession?
Christina Bobb: I don’t believe they were.
LI: But do you know for a fact?
Judge Reinhart affirmed that DOJ established probable cause of potential violation of 3 federal statutes:
1. Unlawful removal of government material
2. Concealment of documents to obstruct investigation
3. Espionage Act
@jheil @therecount #TrumpEspionage
“It’s not just that [Trump] removed and retained classified information. It’s about what he did with it. This goes so deep. And why hold on to 20 specific boxes (one leather containing top secret) after returning 15?”
— @azarilaw,
“Putin’s mouthpieces on Russian state TV are taunting America about Top Secret documents [Trump took] which they claim had to do with the newest nuclear weapons developed by the U.S. and gleefully imply that Moscow already got to see them.” @JuliaDavisNews
“All of Trump’s talking points have exploded in his face...”
@JessicaTarlov #TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk
“[Donald Trump] is a man who said that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia.” (June 2, 2016)
@HillaryClinton #TrumpNuclearDocuments #TrumpSaudi
“Whoever, owing allegiance to United States, levies war against them…is guilty of treason… Levying war means the assembly of armed people to overthrow of the government or to resist its laws.” @glennkirschner2
#TrumpTreason #JusticeMatters #TrumpTRE45ON
“[Trump] campaigned on #LockHerUp on his complaints about Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information. I think every statement he made about Hillary Clinton would come into evidence if there were a criminal trial.”
@JoyceWhiteVance @AliciaMenendez
The malarkey ends now. #DarkBrandon #DarkBrandonRises
Actions speak louder than golf. #DarkBrandon @beastieboys
Trump as Thanos in Avengers Endgame... #DarkBrandon
Biden delivers AGAIN! #BidenDeliversAGAIN @TheDemocrats
“Look at Joe Biden! Suddenly, you have this huge climate change plan… This has been an extraordinarily successful two years. Any way you cut it, even Republicans have to admit this privately. And they are.”
@JoeNBC #BidenDelivers #BidenDeliversAGAIN #VOTE
No more malarkey. #VoteBlueDownBallot #DarkBrandon
Please keep asking: Why did Trump take 35+ boxes of documents that belong to the U.S. government, why didn’t he return them all when asked, and what did he do with them for 19 months at Mar-a-Lago?
@mehdirhasan debunks every Trump FBI search excuse & lie:
“Merrick Garland has outsmarted Donald Trump at every turn.”
@Lawrence @TheLastWord #MerrickGarland #LastWord
“It has never occurred to Donald that somebody who looks like Merrick Garland — and talks like Merrick Garland — is actually a ninja.”
@MaryLTrump @AriMelber #DARKGARLAND #NinjaGarland
“#EspionageAct [doesn’t] mention classification at all. It talks about a specific type of information: national defense… The real question is, why would Trump WANT to declassify secrets that could harm the U.S.?”
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
“Trump has still not said a word of explanation as to why he took the documents, why he did not return them all, and what he was doing with them for over 18 months.” @AWeissmann_
🎶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblack…
“[Donald Trump] has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again… You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.” Adam Schiff
“This was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditated misconduct — a cover-up [with] false statements and lies to Congress and the American people.” #LockTrumpUp
“Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, says that Trump wants the Department of Justice to release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.”@therecount
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
CPAC 2022: “We are all domestic terrorists.”
GOP 2022: “That didn’t happen…”
“Whatever Trump does, he accuses everyone else of doing.”
Lindsey Graham. Ted Cruz. Rand Paul. Rick Perry. Nikki Haley.
Marco Rubio. Mike Pompeo. Kellyanne Conway. Susan Collins.
THEY ALL KNEW. #THEYKNEW
#VoteBlueDownBallot #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy #VOTE
🎶 Does it really take the FBI to verify he tends to lie? 🎶
#LockHimUpYesterday #RandyRainbow @RandyRainbow
🎶 Giuliani... Here you go again... Lie, lie... 🎶
#RudyColludy #RandyRainbow @RandyRainbow #FBF
“Now they want to make [Trump] responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. Really if you look at the #EspionageAct, it’s not really about taking the documents. It’s about … hiding them or giving them to the enemy.” #RudyColludy
“That would cause so much mayhem. That would be a monstrous mistake.” Trump attorney Alina Habba 8/15/22
“The FBI is downstairs.” #Succession @tyler_digital
Ingraham: Was there a limited number who had access to that storage room?
Bobb: Yes… Mar-a-Lago is secure… Just getting onto the compound is hard… Only certain members of staff can get there… A very limited number of people have access down there.
Trump lost in 2020 by 7,052,770 votes. @alfranken @SRuhle
“Culture war [is] the Republican Party manufacturing issues…to deflect from the fact that they’re not doing anything to bring down inflation [and] to bring down healthcare costs — but Democrats are.”
@MalloryMcMorrow @SRuhle @CAPAction #DemocratsDeliver
“Evidence seems to be coming forward of #willfulness… From the intel committee perspective, we’re really frightened of what’s in that stockpile [of 300 classified documents Trump took] — particularly those that are marked top secret.”
@AdamSchiff #Maddow
GOP members of Congress whose PPP loans were forgiven:
“In this moment, those of you who love this country — Democrats, Independents, mainstream Republicans — we must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving America than the MAGA Republicans are to destroying America.” Biden Maryland speech
“MAGA Republicans don’t have a clue about the power of women. Let me tell you something: They are about to find out.”
President Biden Maryland speech
#RoeRoeRoeingOurVOTES #RoeRoeRoeYourVote #RoeVsWade
#RoevemberIsComing #DarkBrandon #DarkBrandonRising
“Women all across Texas are no longer free to make decisions about our own body…not even in cases of rape or incest. Women will die because of it. All because of Greg Abbott’s abortion law. It’s too extreme.”
@BetoORourke #RoeRoeRoeingOurVOTES #RoeTheVote
“My sons are very tough but they can’t stop a bullet.”
Sobbing father thanks attentive @BetoORourke at 8/17/22 rally in Fredericksburg Texas—and says his Republican family will vote for #BetoforGovernor because Beto is taking on the issue of gun violence:
“Any official document [Trump] has is stolen property…Classification is just shorthand for the danger that info could pose to U.S. if released…Nuclear secrets are still things we want to keep secret.”
@AshaRangappa_ @jentaub @mehdirhasan #IndictTrumpNow
“My top-level, expert legal analysis of the [Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI search] affidavit is: Why ain’t this dude in jail? What does this man have to do to go to jail?”
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
“Just the classification markings referred to in this [redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant] affidavit — made the hair on the back of my neck stand up… Literally human lives can be at stake.” @FrankFigliuzzi1
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“There is a feeling here that [if] Merrick Garland decides not to prosecute Trump, how do you hold anyone else accountable for violating classification rules going forward in the U.S. government?”@JaxAlemany
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“Trumpism [is] no longer a political movement. It’s a violent fairytale of revenge on political enemies. Feds could’ve found a body in those Mar-a-Lago boxes and followers wouldn’t care. It’s about retribution, not facts.”
@oneunderscore__ #TrumpCult
“If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information… there’ll be riots in the streets.”
Lindsey Graham practicing stochastic terrorism 8/28/22
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpESPIONAGE
“Let me say to my MAGA Republican friends: Don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on #January6th. For god’s sake, whose side are you on? You can’t be pro-law enforcement AND pro-insurrection.”
Biden Wilkes-Barre speech
“Every single Republican member of Congress…voted against the support for law enforcement. They talk about how much they love it yet they voted against the funding… Every Republican in the House. Every Republican in the Senate.”
Biden Wilkes-Barre speech
“The lessons that you have from authoritarians around the globe is that it’s easier to prevent them from coming into office than it is to get them out one they’re there. We learned that lesson frankly on #January6th.”
@AshaRangappa_ @JoyAnnReid #CivilWar2
“[The DOJ and FBI] found these three mundane statutes — espionage and the two others, obstruction — and they’re trying to claim that there was some sort of criminal activity.”
Alina Habba on ‘mundane’ crimes
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
Dark Garland rises. #DarkGarland #DarkBrandon #DarkForce
.@NorahODonnell 2/5/21: What’s your worst fear if Trump continues to get intelligence briefings?
@JoeBiden: “There is no need for him to have intelligence briefings... What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”
“You cannot say that you are in favor of law enforcement if you don’t want accountability for your orange overlord. You cannot steal classified documents and expect no consequences.”
@lindyli ✨ @ZerlinaMaxwell
@ZerlinaShow #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“My responsibility as a leader is to see a problem and try to solve it… As the next Governor of Georgia, I will continue to do my job to make certain that every legally eligible vote that gets cast, gets counted.”
@staceyabrams schools pompous Brian Kemp:
Biden delivers & dances! #BidenDeliversAGAIN #DarkBrandon
“I’m somebody that has been in Trump’s office…
I have firsthand knowledge. I have never seen that. That is not the way his office looks… He has guests frequently there.”
Alina Habba confesses to Hannity #TrumpESPIONAGE AND #TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk:
“They asked for DOJ to punch them in the face — and that’s what DOJ did… Turns out there were documents in Trump’s office, documents all over the place. Tons of them. They have him dead to rights.”
@gtconway3d @donlemon #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“Constitutionally, there’s nothing that prevents somebody who is either under investigation, convicted, or even in prison from running for President… This is a serious obstruction case that appears…it would not be difficult to prove.”
Andrew C. McCarthy
“MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic… Not every Republican — not even a majority — are MAGA… Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.”
Biden Philly speech @ProjectLincoln #BidenSpeech
“Equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. I come to this place where it all began to speak as plainly as I can to the nation… Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism.”
Biden Philadelphia speech
“America must choose: To be a nation of hope and unity and optimism — or a nation of fear and division and of darkness.”
President Joe Biden Philadelphia speech #SoulOfTheNation
#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot #VoteBlueDownBallot #VOTE
“For them to take things to the current point they probably have pretty good evidence… People say this was unprecedented; well it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a county club.” Bill Barr @Acyn
“[#GinniThomas] was actively involved in strategies to overturn the results of the 2020 election… Ginni Thomas has refused to cooperate, pushing the @January6thCmte to now consider a subpoena.” @KatiePhang
@katiephangshow #SubpoenaGinniThomas #January6th
“We need answers to what Ginni Thomas has referred to ‘misconceptions’ … It matters that the wife of a Supreme Court Justice was promoting ways to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.” @KatiePhang
@katiephangshow #SubpoenaGinni #SubpoenaGinniThomas
“We also need to think about digital thefts. We don’t know what pictures were taken of these documents… This is highly problematic. [Trump] basically served up our sources and methods to our adversaries on a silver platter.”
@tracy_walder #TrumpESPIONAGE
“Even the *unclassified* documents (11,000 of them!) are still valuable intelligence for foreign adversaries because they offer a window into the people and priorities of the U.S. government.” @AshaRangappa_
@KatiePhang @JoyceWhiteVance #TrumpStoleTheDocs
“Trump [still has not said] why he took these documents, why he didn’t return them, what was in them, what he was planning to do with them, why the folders are now empty…
Why shouldn’t he have to explain to Congress @HouseIntel?”
@AWeissmann_ @PeterWelch
“Anyone who calls for use of violence and fails to condemn violence when it’s used — refuses to acknowledge when election has been won, insists on changing [vote count rules] — is a threat to democracy. Democracy.”
@POTUS @JoeBiden #DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
“Do you want to put your Social Security in the hands of Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene?”
President Biden Maryland speech 8/25/22
#VoteBlueDownBallotLocalStateFederal #DarkBrandonRising
“Was I happy when I beat Donald Trump by nearly 3 million votes but lost the Electoral College? No. Did I ever for a nanosecond think, ‘I’m gonna claim victory and try to get Democrats to refuse to certify the election’? No.”
@HillaryClinton @NorahODonnell
“The taking of classified…nuclear top secret documents should not be a Republican vs Democratic issue…This is an AMERICAN issue… Donald is a clear and present danger to our national security.”@MichaelCohen212
@JoyAnnReid #TrumpIsANationalSecurityThreat
“Trump told you ‘the election was stolen’ to rip you off. To sucker you. To take your hard-earned money and shovel it into his pockets… Every dollar you send him pays to keep his…lavish lifestyle going. It was a sucker’s game all along.” @ProjectLincoln
Reporter: You stated that repeal of #RoeVWade would let every state decide if abortion is legal and you said that was the most constitutionally sound way.
Lindsey Graham: I thought it’d be nice to introduce a bill to define who we are.
#RoeRoeRoeYourVote
“I do not want anyone in this room making life and death decisions for me, my daughter, my granddaughter— and for that fact, anyone.”
Katrina Shealy (Republican South Carolina state Senator) fighting abortion ban
#RoeIsOnTheBallot @therecount #RoeYourVote
“If we take back the House and the Senate, I can assure you we’ll have a vote on our [nationwide abortion ban] bill. If the Democrats are in charge, I don’t know if we’ll ever vote on our [national abortion ban].”
Lindsey Graham 9/13/22
#RoeRoeRoeYourVote
“Republicans promised us they would leave abortion up to the states. Supreme Court reassured us they would leave abortion up to the states. So what are they doing? Pushing a NATIONAL ABORTION BAN.” @lindyli
@ZerlinaMaxwell @ZerlinaShow #RoeRoeRoeYourVote
“MAGA Republicans want to ban ALL abortions.
What’s their plan? It’s a ban. A TOTAL ban… Banning abortion in EVERY state. No freedom. No rights. No choice…
Extremism like we’ve never seen.” @CAPAction
#StopRepublicanAbortionBans #RoeRoeRoeYourVote #Roe
Trump: “If [DOJ indictment] happened, I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before…”
Hugh Hewitt: “What kind of problems?”
Trump: “They’d have big problems. Big problems.”
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
Boston immigration attorney Rachel Self explains all we need to know about the lawful asylum seekers that DeSantis sent to Martha’s Vineyard.
DHS officials gave them falsified U.S. addresses, likely ensuring that they’d be deemed in our country illegally.
“Open up large parcels of inexpensive land in the outer reaches of the cities… Create thousands and thousands of ‘high quality’ tents…”
Donald Trump’s plan for American homeless people 7/26/22
#TrumpConcentrationCamps @duty2warn #TrumpCult
Trump merged MAGA with QAnon at his Youngstown Ohio rally.
#TrumpCult 9/17/22:
Samuel Alito mocked ‘foreign leaders’ who condemned his opinion overturning #RoeVsWade in his ‘religious liberty’ speech in Rome July 2022. Alito jokes about taking away our rights; the cruelty is the point.
“The Rule of Law is not assured. It is fragile. It demands constant effort and vigilance. The responsibility to ensure the Rule of Law is and has been the duty of every generation in our country’s history...”
Merrick Garland speech at Ellis Island 9/17/22
“We are filing a lawsuit against Trump for violating the law…Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us.”
Letitia James announcement #TrumpCrimeFamilyForPrison
“You pulled the plug on the [@January6thCmte] investigation you originally advocated because Donald Trump didn’t want it. Let’s tell some truth! You’re talking about truth; I’m GIVING you the truth!”
@RepRaskin @jamie_raskin #TrumpCoupAttempt #January6th
“If you’re POTUS, you can declassify just by saying ‘it’s declassified’ — even by THINKING about it. Because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago — or to WHEREVER you’re sending it.”
Where else did Trump send documents he stole?
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
Great Governor candidates #VoteBlue2022:
AR—@JonesForAR
AZ—@katiehobbs
FL—@CharlieCrist
GA—@staceyabrams
KS—@GovLauraKelly
MI—@GovWhitmer @gretchenwhitmer
OH—@nanwhaley
OK—@joy4ok
PA—@JoshShapiroPA
TX—@BetoORourke
WI—@GovEvers @Tony4WI
#VoteBlueDownBallot
“Please, DOJ, TAKE THIS ON! These asylum seekers were following the rules set for them by the federal government. [DeSantis and Abbott deceiving them] is not merely cruel, but appears to be criminal.”@glennkirschner2
@KatiePhang #MarthasVineyard #DeSantis
“A real a-ha moment: The White House switchboard connected to a rioter’s phone WHILE [#January6thInsurrection] WAS HAPPENING… I only know one end of that call. I don’t know the White House end.” @RepRiggleman
@January6thCmte @60Minutes #TrumpCoupAttempt
“If you flip the House, we know you will put forward a FULL BAN on ALL ABORTION for ALL STATES… You want to turn a veterans bill into an abortion bill… Who do you think you are? …Shame on you!” @ElissaSlotkin
@RepSlotkin @Acyn 9/28/22 #RoeIsOnTheBallot
“[The classified documents] are most critical to the criminal investigation for the Espionage Act, which involves willful retention of national defense information, and for obstruction of justice.” @AshaRangappa_
@KatiePhang #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“What you are really looking at is an attempt to do, in black robes, what Donald Trump and John Eastman tried to do in 2020 election — give state legislatures almost unfettered power…with elections.” @Dahlialithwick
#VotingRightsAct #MoorevHarper #Maddow
“Justice Jackson explicitly reading the reports from the drafting of the 14th Amendment to explain that it was ‘not a race blind idea.’ Extraordinary.” @Dahlialithwick
“Progressive originalism at work.” @mjs_DC
#JusticeKetanjiBrownJackson #SupremeCourt
“Wow. That’s an incredibly made-up figure. That doesn’t comport with any of the studies or documentation that exists from medical organizations.”
Jon Stewart to Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge
@jonstewart @TheProblem #VoteBlueToProtectYourRights
“I am concerned about one thing — and one thing only — at this point. So I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.”
Dana Loesch @patriottakes #VoteBlue
#VoteBlueForSoManyReasons #VoteBlueDownBallot
“They’re on the same boards of directors... They have like interests. They don’t need to call a meeting. They know what’s good for them and they’re getting it... You have the illusion of choice. You don’t get the real important choices.”
George Carlin 2001
“Here’s the thing that’s most troubling about this: Lack of courage. Trump took JD Vance’s dignity from him on the stage in Youngstown… We need leaders who have courage to take on their own party.” @TimRyan
#TimRyanForOhio #TimRyanForSenate #OHSenDebate
“I had a small number of boxes in storage… There is no crime. It’s not a crime and they should give me immediately back everything that they’ve taken from me because it’s mine. It’s MINE.” Trump Mesa 10/9/22
Intent to illegally possess classified records:
“That [Trump’s] trying to engage in the art of the deal with respect to classified documents and he’s saying these documents were ‘all mine’ — Those are incredibly damning statements that go directly to knowledge and intent.”
@AWeissmann_ @NicolleDWallace
“[Trump reacting to the Supreme Court rejecting election fraud claims] had said something to the effect of: I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out.”
Cassidy Hutchinson
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Trump’s claim that Pelosi failed to call law enforcement on January 6 is undermined by literal video evidence.”
@briantylercohen #January6thCommitteeHearings
Republicans AND Democrats worked together to end the violence, doing what Trump refused to do:
“I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out...for trespassing on Capitol grounds. I’m going to punch him out, I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.”
Speaker Pelosi video defending democracy on #January6th
#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot @therecount
“With every effort to excuse…the conduct of the former president*, we chip away at foundation of our republic. Indefensible conduct is defended, inexcusable conduct is excused. Without accountability, it all becomes normal, and it will recur.” @Liz_Cheney
“The Secret Service had advance information—more than TEN days beforehand—regarding the #ProudBoys planning for #January6th. We know now that Proud Boys and others did lead the assault on our Capitol building.”
@January6thCmte #January6thCommitteeHearings
Meet the Flynnstones, they’re the bane of our democracy… 🎶
#TrumpCoupAttempt #TrumpCult @colbertlateshow #Colbert
“The former potus today threatened America’s Jews… Now is not the time to remain silent or give the GOP a pass… These [connected] acts of #antisemitic hate [are] all part of the same thing: Rising and dangerous fascism on the American right.”@mehdirhasan
@Marcus4Georgia: Did Biden win the election?
Greene: He’s the President of the United States.
Flowers: You pushed a big lie that he did not win the election.
Greene: There was election fraud and my husband has proof.
#VoteBlueDownBallotLocalStateFederal
“Tudor Dixon doesn’t understand the office she’s running for, or she is lying. Either way — it is dangerous. The governor has power over abortion access in our state, and she has pledged to enact a dangerous ban.” @gretchenwhitmer
#RoeIsOnTheBallot #MIgov
“MAGA Republicans want women arrested for having an abortion. This is what that looks like.” @ericswalwell
Protect women’s rights and freedom. #RoeIsOnTheBallot
#VoteBlueDownBallotLocalStateFederal #LockHerUp
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