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Joinfortmill's Journal
Joinfortmill's Journal
December 31, 2022
I wondered if Melania Trump was responsible for deliberate errors on jointly signed tax returns
So, from what I can learn: probably, maybe, kinda, sorta. She can file for 'Innocent Spouse Relief.' Good luck with that, Melania.
December 31, 2022
Barbara Walters Died
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/entertainment/barbara-walters-death/index.html
December 28, 2022
Breaking Now: House Panel to Publicly Release Trump Taxes On Friday: Deadline White House.
December 26, 2022
'Trump's legal team should have him plead insanity: Harvard law professor'
'Constitutional law expert Lawrence Tribe tweeted this Sunday that Donald Trump's legal team should get him to plead insanity if he goes to trial.'
I don't see Trump agreeing to this but, hey, could happen (my words). What do you think?
An Insanity Plea for Trump? Professor Tribe says, 'Yes'.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-legal-team-should-have-him-plead-insanity-harvard-law-professor/'Trump's legal team should have him plead insanity: Harvard law professor'
'Constitutional law expert Lawrence Tribe tweeted this Sunday that Donald Trump's legal team should get him to plead insanity if he goes to trial.'
I don't see Trump agreeing to this but, hey, could happen (my words). What do you think?
December 25, 2022
'Trump rages at special counsel Jack Smith and calls Biden 'mentally disabled' as he wishes 'everyone' a Merry Christmas'
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, Peeps. P.S. Trump is losing his shit.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-blows-up-on-mentally-disabled-biden/'Trump rages at special counsel Jack Smith and calls Biden 'mentally disabled' as he wishes 'everyone' a Merry Christmas'
December 21, 2022
'...Today the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol held its final public hearing...Exactly two years ago today, on December 19, 2020, when it became clear that his campaign lawyers had lost their legal challenges and the real electors had filed their electoral slates, Trump tweeted to his supporters to urge them to come to Washington, D.C., on January 6...Immediately, they interpreted his tweet as an order to come to Washington to keep him in office, with violence if necessary, and they planned accordingly.
The committee establishes that Trump fully intended to go with his supporters to the Capitol. This is a very big deal indeed: the president traditionally cannot go to the chambers of Congress without a formal invitation...A White House security official said, “[W]e were all in a state of shock…we all knew what that implicated and what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else…. I—I don’t know if you want to use the word “insurrection,” “coup,” whatever.”
...historian of authoritarians Ruth Ben-Ghiat noted that a leader launching a new regime needs to be present at the front of his cheering troops to mark his success...Fittingly, on December 15, the Coup d’État Project of theCline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois, which maintains the world’s largest registry of coups, attempted coups, and coup conspiracies since World War II, reclassified the events of January 6 as an attempted “auto-coup.”'
What do 12/19/2020 and 12/19/2022 have in common?
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2022'...Today the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol held its final public hearing...Exactly two years ago today, on December 19, 2020, when it became clear that his campaign lawyers had lost their legal challenges and the real electors had filed their electoral slates, Trump tweeted to his supporters to urge them to come to Washington, D.C., on January 6...Immediately, they interpreted his tweet as an order to come to Washington to keep him in office, with violence if necessary, and they planned accordingly.
The committee establishes that Trump fully intended to go with his supporters to the Capitol. This is a very big deal indeed: the president traditionally cannot go to the chambers of Congress without a formal invitation...A White House security official said, “[W]e were all in a state of shock…we all knew what that implicated and what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else…. I—I don’t know if you want to use the word “insurrection,” “coup,” whatever.”
...historian of authoritarians Ruth Ben-Ghiat noted that a leader launching a new regime needs to be present at the front of his cheering troops to mark his success...Fittingly, on December 15, the Coup d’État Project of theCline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois, which maintains the world’s largest registry of coups, attempted coups, and coup conspiracies since World War II, reclassified the events of January 6 as an attempted “auto-coup.”'
December 20, 2022
Laurence Tribe: Expect indictments of Trump by March 2023
December 20, 2022
Laurence Tribe: Expect indictments of Trump by March 2023.
December 15, 2022
'...When Donald Trump and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai (who Trump elevated to chairman of the FCC) ruled that the internet was no longer regulated under common carrier rules of Title II (as it had been for a few brief years under Obama), they kept you and me locked into the company that owns the wire that comes into our house. We have no choice...
President Biden’s choice for the open slot on the FCC, Gigi Sohn, is on record wanting Net Neutrality, which could result in ISPs being redefined back to being common carriers. So are the two sitting Democratic FCC commissioners. But they are blocked by the two Republicans, who oppose Net Neutrality...
Call your two senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to approve Gigi Sohn for FCC Commissioner during this final lame duck session of Congress.'
The Hartmann Report: Why Doesn't America Have $10 Broadband?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-doesnt-america-have-10-broadband?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email'...When Donald Trump and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai (who Trump elevated to chairman of the FCC) ruled that the internet was no longer regulated under common carrier rules of Title II (as it had been for a few brief years under Obama), they kept you and me locked into the company that owns the wire that comes into our house. We have no choice...
President Biden’s choice for the open slot on the FCC, Gigi Sohn, is on record wanting Net Neutrality, which could result in ISPs being redefined back to being common carriers. So are the two sitting Democratic FCC commissioners. But they are blocked by the two Republicans, who oppose Net Neutrality...
Call your two senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to approve Gigi Sohn for FCC Commissioner during this final lame duck session of Congress.'
December 7, 2022
Jan 6 Committee to release report week of Dec19
MSNBC Breaking News.
TickTock Traitors.
