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“Congressman Jim Jordan has decided to interfere with the prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia, and just hours before the former president turned himself in, the Chair of the Judiciary Committee sent a letter to district attorney Fani Willis requesting all sorts of privileged information. Jordan has absolutely no shame, and his antics should be investigated as he is directly interfering with a prosecution – and that should be considered obstruction of justice. Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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On Thursday, shortly before Donald Trump turned himself into the Fulton County Jail, Jim Jordan, Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, letting her know that he wants every document, every piece of information that she has regarding the investigation and the forthcoming prosecution of Donald Trump and the 18 other co-defendants. Let me rephrase that a bit. Jim Jordan, powerful Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, made it very clear that he is interfering with the prosecution, a state level prosecution of the former President of the United States because he got his feelings hurt. And that’s that. Obviously, this is not the first time that Jim Jordan has made such a ridiculous request. He did the same thing with Alvin Bragg up in New York when Bragg announced that he was gonna be indicting Donald Trump. Jim Jordan said, oh, hell no, not on my watch. Let me go ahead and issue you a letter. Give me all your materials. But this one with Georgia is particularly disturbing. Let me read you what Jim Jordan put in his letter. The timing of this prosecution reinforces concerns about your motivation. You did not bring charges until two and a half years later at a time when the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is in full swing. Moreover, you have requested that the trial in this matter begin on March 4th, 2024, the day before Super Tuesday, at eight days before the Georgia Presidential primary.
I imagine he’s writing that with tears in his eyes. Listen, the reason she didn’t just immediately file charges against Donald Trump on January 7th, 2021 is because that’s not how investigations work. You have to have an investigation. You have to talk to witnesses, you have to gather evidence. And Jim, I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to what’s been happening in Georgia for the last two years. Uh, she had the special grand jury, and while she had the special grand jury imp paneled, what happened, Jim, all your little Republican buddies kept objecting to all of her subpoenas, all of her requests. So that had to work its way through the court system, and it took forever. And then the judges had to decide, and then that was appealed, and then those judges had to make a decision. So had it not been for your party members of your party trying to delay, delay, delay, delay, we probably would’ve had these indictments earlier this year. Hell, we could already be finished with the trial by this point had it not been for your people. So don’t sit there and act like, why did it take you so long to do this? Because she was thorough.
She, she had to do everything she
Had to, to do, and she did it all by the book. Further down in his letter, Jim Jordan also makes the accusation that maybe now he has no evidence to back it up, but what if he says, what if Vonnie Willis was somehow communicating with Jack Smith, the special prosecutor? Well, first and foremost, um, there’s no evidence to suggest that Fannie Willis has made it clear she’s had no communications with Jack Smith. But let’s assume for a second that she did. Okay, so what, what, what’s the problem with that? They, that’s the thing. You make this accusation in your letter. You’re like, she may have been talking to him, but you don’t exactly explain like why that’s not allowed. Right? One prosecutor to another, you’re both investigating the same guy. Communication between the two investigations would actually be very common. I’m kind of shocked it didn’t happen, right?
I mean, you’re going after him. I’m going after him. Do, do, do we have any evidence that we need to, you know, share with each other? ’cause that’s a thing that can’t happen, by the way. So why would it be a bad thing? It wouldn’t. Jim Jordan’s got nothing, but Jim Jordan is actively trying to interfere in this investigation to save Donald Trump’s behind and the behinds of those 18 other people, which Jim Jordan probably doesn’t care too much about mainly the Trump thing.”
“Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 19 people indicted in Georgia along with Donald Trump, made a request this week for a “Speedy trial.” Fani Willis wasn’t in the mood to play games, so she suggested October 23, and the judge immediately agreed and set the date. This has Donald Trump petrified, as a quick prosecution of a co-defendant would likely spell doom for his own case – and give the other defendants reason to try to flip immediately. Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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Well folks, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants, his former lawyer, Kenneth Chesbro, had filed a motion last week telling the court system that, Hey, I would like a speedy trial. I don’t want to drag this thing out. Let’s just get this over with. Right? So gimme a speedy trial. Fanny Willis, the Fulton County district attorney in charge of the trial said, alright, tough guy. How about October 23rd? Is that that soon enough for you? Right? Two months down the road, you ready for that? How speedy is that? And then the judge overseeing the case said, you know what? Do it, the judge granted the motion for Kenneth Ches Bro’s trial to start on October 23rd. Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Now, while all of this was taking place and Chesbro kind of bit off a little more than he could chew, Fannie Willis called his bluff and won.
Donald Trump’s lawyers looked at this and said, oh hell no. They started to panic. Trump panicked. They said, oh my God, October 23rd of this year. No way. So they immediately file a motion in court begging the judge like, can you please not do this? Like, no, no, no. We do not want a speedy trial. We wanna drag this thing out as long as possible. And so the judge did decide, of course that, all right, Mr. Chesbro, you’re gonna come into my court. We’re gonna start your trial. October 23rd, they set the other dates, you know, September 20th. The two sides have to finish sharing all their evidence and information. Um, but it’s only going to be Chesbro. They are not going to bring in the other 18 co-defendants, which includes Donald Trump. So Donald Trump doesn’t have to worry about his trial just yet, but every single one of those co-defendants, including Trump himself, are gonna be watching this trial from start to finish.
Every single detail is going to be scrutinized. And here’s why. Chesbro, of course, is being prosecuted. One of the charges against him is the overarching RICO charge. Same with everybody else. If they pop him on that RICO charge, that is doom for everybody else. ’cause that’s the point of Rico, right? You get one, you get all of ’em. So if he is found guilty of that RICO charge, suddenly everybody else, like the scales of justice, just tipped and not in your favor after the one conviction that will happen this year or the conviction won’t happen, right? It depends on what the jury says. But having this first trial go forward in just, you know, actually at this point, less than two months from now, yeah, that’s gonna set the tone, that’s gonna set the stage. If Chesbro is convicted, if he’s convicted of everything, everybody else is screwed.
I mean, most likely, obviously we can’t determine the outcome of the trial before it happens. But every other jury, every other case that comes after that, they’re gonna look at the initial prosecutions, they’re gonna look at the initial conviction and they’re gonna say yes. If he did it under Ricoh, then they all did it under Rico. So that is why Donald Trump is panicking. It’s not just that he didn’t want to go to trial on October 23rd, he didn’t want anybody to go to trial this early. But lemme tell you another important thing about this. If there is a conviction of Chesbro on any of the charges, charges, we are gonna see some of those 18 other co-defendants immediately try, uh, start trying to flip because they’re gonna know that the writing is on the wall. They can’t fight these charges. If Chesbro can’t do it, we can’t do it. So everything hinges on what is going to happen in this trial that starts on October 23rd. Chesbro wanted it, he got it. Trump’s panicked. I’m sure the other co-defendants are also panicked because whatever happens in that trial is going to be a pretty good indicator on what’s gonna happen in all of the other trials.”
“Jessica Burbank and Shermichael Singleton discuss Former President Donald Trump’s surrender at Fulton County Jail. #Georgia #FanniWillis Disclaimer: Donald Trump falsely claims that he won the 2020 election. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump 306-232 in the Electoral College and had a 4-point margin in the popular vote.”
So…twitter is letting a guy on trial for election tampering [attempting a coup, and possible insurrection] to return and post on the platform…
…But I’m not allowed to post on the platform, because I’m an honest, decent person, who certain gate keeping stooges don’t like?
…Un-Fucking-Believable…
Twitter has zero integrity.
We need to indict trump here in this state…He and his stooges were trying to screw around with our votes here, also.
“Kari Lake is being sued for defamation by an election official in the state of Arizona, and she appears to admit in a recent court filing that she did, in fact, lie about what the man did. But Lake swears that her lies are protected by the First Amendment, even though slander/libel/defamation are clearly NOT protected forms of speech. Lake is now in a position where it is almost impossible for her to win this case, as Farron Cousins explains.
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Kerry Lake, the failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in the Arizona gubernatorial race from 2022 is fending off a defamation lawsuit by Maricopa County Recorder by the name of, uh, Steven Ricker. Now, Mr. Ricker has been the target of Ms. Lake’s ire for quite some time. She has specifically mentioned him. She’s made some outrageous accusations against him claiming that he intentionally misprinted the ballots so that she would lose and all this other crap. So he sued her for defamation, right? I mean, you are impugning his integrity to do his job. Something that could result in him not being able to get a job in the future. And of course, leading to threats against him all, by the way, meet the standard for defamation even. And this is important for a public official. Well, recently, Kari Lake sent her lawyers into court trying to file an anti slapp suit to get this whole thing dismissed. And in their filing, they seem to admit to admit that, yeah, KA Lake lied about this guy, but she is totally allowed to lie about this man. Here’s what they said. This is absolutely idiotic.
Lake’s lawyers said Rickers suit should be dismissed because he works for the state and he only brought the suit to deter retaliate against and prevent defendants lawful exercise of their free speech rights on the core public issue of election integrity. They said, quote in the filing, an anti-slap motion is not an attempt to adjudicate falsity, but to avoid the burden of having to justify statements concerning core political speech. Oh, okay. So like, yeah. Well, we don’t wanna get into the nuts and bolts about whether or not what she said is false. Right? I think we can all agree didn’t happen. By the way, courts have already ruled, uh, in Kerry Lake’s previous lawsuits that these allegations against this man were false and she had no evidence to back them up. So you already have that working against you, and then your lawyers file this thing saying, Hey, listen, yes, she may have lied about the guy, but let’s not make this about lying.
Let’s instead make this about the freedom of speech and let’s not censor Carrie Lake because she’s allowed to say horrible things about people that may ruin their lives because he is a public official. Right? That’s what they’re trying to argue. Because yeah, the bar for defamation against a public official is much higher than it is for an average citizen. But this man filed the lawsuit as an average citizen, not through his work. So whether or not that means anything, that’ll be for the courts to decide. Honestly, I don’t think it is because you’re still that public official. However,
Even though he’s a public official, he’s not exactly a, a well-known, he’s not a national figure. So would his status as a Maricopa County election recorder, does that rise to the same level as like President Biden? Definitely not. So you’re gonna have a little bit of legal leeway with that. So the bar may be higher, but it’s not gonna be as high as Kari Lake would like it to be. But even if the bar is high, you are still not legally allowed to do this. Like slander, libel, defamation are not protected forms of speech. You cannot just say whatever you want about any public official and then say, that’s my freedom of speech. Right. No, they can in fact, sue you. Most public officials, you know, the, the higher up people, members of Congress, things like that, they don’t bother with filing defamation lawsuits. Every time a media outlet says something about them.
That’s not true. They could, they could probably win a lot of ’em, not all of them, but a lot of ’em. But it takes a lot of time to do that. It takes away from their jobs. That’s why we don’t see these lawsuits being filed every other day. They could be, but they’re not. But this guy, he’s a local election recorder. He printed out the ballots for the county, right? This isn’t somebody that if you go to California or Florida or New York gonna be like, oh yeah, Stephen Ricker. Yeah. Everybody’s familiar with him.”
“After learning that his plan to fly surveillance drones over polling stations across the country would likely violate multiple state laws, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell sent out a frantic video saying that he isn’t actually going to do what he said he would do at his summit last week. Lindell insists that he was never going to use drones, even though he specifically said that just a few days ago. Farron Cousins explains why Lindell is so freaked out now that his plan has been scrutinized.
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So a couple days ago I told you about Mike Lindell’s plan that he unveiled at his summit last week, where he is going to fly the little drones over the polling stations, you know, all the polling stations in the country. There’s a lot of drones, uh, and they’re all gonna have these WMDs wireless monitoring devices, but that’s WMD as they’re calling them. And they’re gonna detect wifi networks in the polling stations to prove somehow that these voting machines are in fact tied to wifi. But here’s the problem. Shortly after Mike Lindell announced his little plan to fly the drones, because that is specifically what he did at the summit, legal experts started pointing out that yes, that is a violation of most state laws across the country. Nearly all 50 states have laws forbidding the surveillance of individuals forbidding the surveillance of government facilities, which is what a polling station is considered during the time an election is being conducted.
Uh, they prevent surveillance at election stations. They prevent blanket surveillance of civilians. So his little plan would actually be highly illegal, which caused Mike Lindell to come out in an interview with Charlie Kirk and let everybody know that he was actually totally kidding about the drone thing, even though that’s what he highlighted at his summit. And there’s, there’s photos, there’s videos of him saying, this is what we’re gonna do. He now says that what I said we were gonna do is definitely not what we’re actually gonna do, and apparently never was. So forget what you were told like four days ago, because that was just totally him bluffing. Here’s what he said to Charlie Kirk, I wanna take away all the rumors that were started all around the country. These are not drones. Everybody. We brought it in on a drone just for effect, and to make it kind of cool, bring it in, bring it in, all the excitement. The drones have nothing to do with it. So it is legal. Believe me, we’ve had our legal team on this for over a year, and it’s just, it’s like radio waves are capturing it.
So you’re still gonna be doing surveillance even though it’s not, as you say now gonna be on a drone. But the drone part isn’t the illegal part. The the illegal part is, is the surveillance. It doesn’t matter if it’s being done from a drone overhead, it doesn’t matter if it’s being done from a dude standing outside, it doesn’t matter if you’ve got a clandestine vehicle out there doing surveillance. That’s what’s illegal. So the drone part is kind of irrelevant. Your WMDs, the wireless monitoring devices, yeah, that’s what you can’t do. But more importantly, you have not yet explained
How these wireless monitoring devices, which are only designed to detect wifi networks, they can’t exactly always tell you what is connected to the wifi network. Not to mention the fact that you’re talking about doing this at a polling place when hundreds of people are coming in every hour and some places, thousands of people every hour, you know what you’re gonna be picking up. I mean, first and foremost, whatever building is doing this, you know, churches, schools, rec centers, whatever it is, they’re gonna have wifi. So are you gonna pick up wifi on that thing? Yes, you will. You’re also gonna have plenty of people that keep their wifi hotspot turned on on their phone. So you’re gonna be picking that up. You’re gonna be getting constant connections coming and going, and you are going to try to misconstrue that and present it to the public as evidence that somebody is hacking into the elections because your device is not trained to figure out what devices are on the internet, who is sending, who is receiving? They’re only designed to detect networks that exist within their range. But it doesn’t matter anyway because like I said, most states have laws preventing this kind of electronic surveillance. So if you try it, whether it’s on a drone or not, your most likely gonna be held criminally liable for it.”
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