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7 Oct, 11 tweets, 2 min read

NEW -- Donald Trump tried to overthrow our democracy, and as part of that incited the Jan. 6 assault that led to 5 dead police officers and 140 injured.

A Palm Beach police charity is going to put big cash in Trump's pocket anyway.

huffpost.com/entry/palm-bea…

The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation would not disclose how much it will be paying Trump’s for-profit South Florida club to host the Jan. 22, 2022, “Policemen’s and Fire Fighters’ Ball.”

Tax filings with the IRS, however, show that it paid $235,012 in 2020, $214,760 in 2019 and $262,261 in 2018 in facility rental costs for the same event in those years, all of which were also held at Mar-a-Lago.

Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell was beaten with a flag pole and had his hand ripped open by Trump supporters. He is appalled by the event.

“Unfortunately, there is a vast amount of people, elected leaders and people of authority like police officers, that say that they are ‘pro law and order and the rule of law,’ yet they disregard what transpired on January 6, 2021."

“In my opinion they should find another venue and not support someone who betrayed his oath of office and the Constitution by failing to act and defend the Constitution from his supporters.”

And it's not just Florida police.

On Sept. 27, for example, the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association held a fundraiser at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, N.J.

Just two weeks earlier, the New York City police department’s 17th precinct, located a few blocks from his Trump Tower building, welcomed him for a Sept. 11 photo opportunity, where he hinted he would run for president again in 2024.

Mark Zaid, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who represents Gonell and another Capitol Police officer who defended the complex on Jan. 6, said police support for Trump today undermines public trust for law enforcement at every level.

“It is incredibly disappointing to see those who are sworn to uphold the law literally supporting someone whose position is completely contrary to those interests,” he said.

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8 Oct

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NEW -- Criminal law already has a “crime-fraud” exception to attorney-client privilege.

Donald Trump’s attempts to keep secret his actions leading up to Jan. 6 could define a “coup-plotting" exception to executive privilege.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-ja… via @HuffPostPol

The Biden WH spells it out pretty clearly:

"The constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the constitution itself."

Because that is what Trump is arguing. He plotted inside the Oval Office to overthrow democracy so he could remain in power, but wants the rules and norms offered by that democracy to keep that plotting a secret, basically forever.

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29 Sep

NEW -- When Trump was attacking Brian Kemp this weekend for failing to fraudulently overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory there, he may have inadvertently revealed more details of a scheme that could land him in prison.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-ge…

That the former president tried to coerce Kemp into calling a special legislative session to give Trump the state’s electoral votes rather than to now-President Biden has been known publicly since shortly after their Dec. 5 phone call.

But Trump during his rally Saturday twice said that he had asked Kemp to call a “special election” — a request that would mesh with some of his advisers’ recommendations to him to declare martial law in a handful of states he narrowly lost and to force them to hold new elections.

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25 Sep

CONTEXT ALERT: With all the information that is already out there, it should be clear to everyone that if Donald Trump had had his way, he'd be sitting in the White House right now, the US military having enforced his decision to seize voting machines ...

and hold new elections in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan in, oh, perhaps a couple of weeks.

It was the refusal of military leaders to go along with his autocratic tendencies that safeguarded our democracy, and the reason why he was left with the absurd...

scheme to use his mob to intimidate Vice President Mike Pence into stealing the election for him on Jan. 6.

Trump is staging a rally tomorrow, and will get lots of coverage, and almost none of it will mention any of the above.

So, once again, here is that missing background:

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24 Sep

NEW -- Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy.

But 112 businesses and nearly three dozen people have taken $21 million from him anyway -- AFTER Jan. 6 -- to help him spread his lies about the election.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-mo…

Here are the individuals:

And here are the businesses (True, some, like Uber drivers or online hotel sites, would have no way of knowing their customer was actively undermining our democracy. But most of them knew exactly who they were helping and did it anyway.):

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15 Sep

NEW -- Republicans want to talk about Gen. Milley and what he did at the end of the Trump presidency -- and the Biden White House is absolutely thrilled to have that conversation.

huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…

Biden and his staff have been facing tough questions about his chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Kabul drone strike that appears to have killed seven children and zero terrorists, a slowdown in the economic recovery and falling approval numbers.

Republican attacks on Milley ― led by Trump himself ― have allowed Biden, at least temporarily, to change the subject to the former president’s attempt to overthrow American democracy following his failure to win reelection.

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15 Sep

NEW -- Republican officer holders are now embracing a vocal minority whose macabre willingness to get sick and even die rather than get vaccinated also happens to be hurting the economy and Biden.

One former top GOP strategist says it's no coincidence.

huffpost.com/entry/republic…

Exhibit A? Ron DeSantis, who aggressively pushed Florida’s elderly population to get vaccinated late last year and early this year, in recent months has instead been emphasizing monoclonal antibodies for those who contract the disease.

At one such event Monday, DeSantis stood beside a Gainesville utility employee as he falsely claimed from behind a lectern bearing Florida’s official seal that the vaccines alter your RNA and that people should not get them.

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