Trump lawyers warn Supreme Court of ‘chaos and bedlam’ if states are allowed to bar him from 2024 ballot
“Former President Donald Trump is urging the US Supreme Court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that removed him from that state’s ballot.
The brief submitted by Trump’s attorneys Thursday to the high court sets out their arguments for why the state court erred when it issued the unprecedented decision last month.
“The Court should reverse the Colorado decision because President Trump is not even subject to section 3, as the President is not an ‘officer of the United States’ under the Constitution. And even if President Trump were subject to section 3 he did not ‘engage in’ anything that qualifies as ‘insurrection,’” Trump’s attorneys argued.
The efforts, Trump team argues, “promise to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials follow Colorado’s lead and exclude the likely Republican presidential nominee from their ballots.”
The Colorado Supreme Court last month said Trump is constitutionally ineligible to run in 2024 because the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding office covers his conduct on January 6, 2021.
The US Supreme Court agreed earlier this month to hear the case, accepting an appeal brought by Trump. The justices are separately involved in other matters that could impact the federal criminal case against the former president.
Threats fly as Jim Jordan’s bid to be US House Speaker turns ugly
Several Republicans told reporters they had been subject to a pressure campaign by supporters of Mr Jordan, who lost a second vote for the gavel on Wednesday.
Republican lawmakers say they have been targeted by intimidation tactics, including death threats, from allies of Jim Jordan as his bid for the US House of Representatives speakership falters.
Dangerous!
And someone messed around and found out
Man killed during FBI raid in connection with threats against Biden, other officials
This is terrifying!
Why is this tweet still up?
I have asked @elonmusk @lindayacc and @TwitterSafety several times and have reported it to @Twitter @TwitterSupport
This sounds a lot like January 6!
They don’t even try to hide it now!
Kari Lake Issues NRA Warning Over Donald Trump Indictment: ‘Not a Threat’
“”If you want to get to President Trump you’re going to have to go through me, and you’re going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me. And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card carrying members of the NRA. That’s not a threat, that’s a public service announcement,” she said, referring to the 74.2 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020.”
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right
“Violent themes were becoming a staple of Republican campaign rhetoric well before the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search unleashed a fresh torrent of inciteful messaging.“
Joe Scarborough and others laughed at this in 2009:
“Scarborough keeps digging”
“SCARBOROUGH KEEPS DIGGING…. Joe Scarborough’s on-air commentary is nearly always disheartening, but this morning was especially frustrating.
I can appreciate why the former far-right Republican congressman is feeling a little sheepish right now. Yesterday, Media Matters released a video showing reactions from conservative media personalities in April to a report from the Department of Homeland Security, warning law enforcement about the potential for violence from fringe radicals. The clip montage shows Scarborough not only dismissing the DHS report, but laughing hysterically at the very idea behind the report. He told his national television audience that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano “has gone nuts.”
Of course, in light of the recent killings at the hand of some of these right-wing extremists, Scarborough’s laughter and dismissive attitude appears especially misguided now.”
January 6, 2021 Joe Scarborough?
Alabama Representative Mike Rogers proves Violence works for the GOP:
The difference between Republicans and MAGA Republicans is violence
“Experts in many fields — domestic violent extremism, civil conflict, democracy studies — are concerned about the likelihood that political violence will soon break out in the United States. Nearly 90 percent of Americans are concerned, too, according to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll conducted after the politically-motivated assault on Paul Pelosi.
Our group of clinicians and researchers approaches political violence as a public health problem. Like violence generally, political violence passes the Satcher test for health problems: It kills and injures people and has important adverse effects across entire populations.”
If you say enough ugly things about someone then perhaps someone may be motivated to do something to someone?
John Avlon called it:
This is BAD!
Now They’re Calling for Violence
“Trump loyalists have reacted to the search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago residence with unhinged fury.”
Rhetoric inspires some to ACT,
FBI shooting: Man accused of attacking Ohio field office already known to authorities before attack
“A social media account bearing Shiffer’s name appears to have referenced an attempt to storm an FBI office that day. It also made a “call to arms” — and called for violence against the agency — after the FBI executed a search warrant Monday at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. Authorities have not confirmed the account belongs to the suspect.”
Sad (He lost thank goodness!)
GOP Senate Candidate Eric Greitens Calls For ‘RINO Hunting’ in Alarming Campaign Ad
EXPLAINER: How platforms dealt with ‘RINO hunting’ video
“YouTube said in an email Tuesday that Greiten’s video did not violate its policies.”
YouTube finally took the video down:
The car becomes the weapon
Poll: Most voters say Trump is tearing the country apart
TRUMP HATE MAP
Violence in the name of Trump
THIS:
This thread:
This is sad:
August?
October 31, 2020
Biden campaign cancels Texas event after Trump supporters surround bus on interstate
April 17, 2020
May 1, 2020
October 8, 2020
FBI uncovers plot to kidnap Michigan governor
Whitmer conspiracy allegations tied to boogaloo movement
“Fringe anti-government groups in Michigan have agitated for months against what they have claimed are illegal orders the state government put in place to contain the coronavirus. The groups got a boost in April when Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MICHIGAN,” which some online extremist movements at the time took as a call to arms.
Amy Cooter, a sociology professor and militia expert at Vanderbilt University, said Wolverine Watchmen is “a relatively new group that was spurred to action specifically by the pandemic and by Whitmer’s response to it.”
“I absolutely believe that Trump plays a role in encouraging actions like this, in calling individuals to be members of groups like this in the first place and encouraging folks to show up in person to protests — by stoking fears and making them feel like it is their responsibility to do something about it,” Cooter said.”
A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans
‘Proud Boys – Stand back, stand by’ Trump sidesteps white supremacist condemnation
Proud Boys celebrate after Trump’s debate call-out
Kyle Rittenhouse and his militia defense ignores that private paramilitaries are illegal
Former DHS Official: Trump Pouring ‘Fuel On The Fire’ Of Domestic Extremism
These stories have to STOP happening!
Assistant Texas attorney general loses job after report surfaces racist tweets
People Choke???
U.S. political divide becomes increasingly violent, rattling activists and police
2016:
Violence on the Campaign Trail
Now
Charlottesville (“Both Sides”)
The Unite the Right trial is exposing the chasm between who plans White nationalism’s battles and who does the fighting
Portland was Charlottesville without the torches
What Happened in Portland? Here’s What We Know
“A man was shot and killed after supporters of President Trump clashed with counterprotesters.”
The 17-year-old suspect in the shooting at Kenosha protests sat front row at a Trump rally in January
Police arrest woman who allegedly drove into protesters in Indiana hit-and-run
Ari Weil Protesters hit by cars recently highlight a dangerous far-right trend in America
‘I would be very careful in the middle of the street’: Drivers have hit protesters 66 times since May 27
‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.
This tweet is wrong on so many levels!
President Trump tweets ‘antifa’ conspiracy theory that originated on anonymous blog
Roofing company workers forced onto ground, held at gunpoint by man who thought they were Antifa
Republican Senators Suffer Sudden Onset of Hysterical Blindness
Others agree with me
There is lying and then there is LYING!
Avlon: Why it matters that former military leaders spoke out
Chainsaw-wielding racist gets boosted by a top Trump aide as race protests sweep the nation
Man in custody after allegedly chasing McAllen protesters with chainsaw
Why Trump Is So Obsessed With Antifa
As Trump blames antifa, protest records show scant evidence
Our View: To President Trump: You should resign now
George is DEAD! He didn’t get to have this day.
Trump Is Using the Military to Hide His Weakness
George Floyd protests: Don’t deploy active duty American troops to battle Americans
Trump Has Flooded DC With Law Enforcement Officers Who Won’t Identify Themselves
Trump Gave Police Permission to Be Brutal
Shocking uses of force by police captured on video
“Mad Dog” is Mad!
Someone else agrees with Mattis
Current Secretary of Defense might be a former one by Friday night?
Rubber Bullets Used at Protests Can Blind, Maim, or Even Kill
Man injured by Austin police in protests is Texas State student, university says
She lost an eye to a rubber bullet:
When you tweet “Enemy of the People” 60 times!
You get this:
WOW!
A letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Defense Secretary Esper on Trump church photo op: ‘I didn’t know where I was going’
I Cannot Remain Silent
The Atlantic Daily: Trump’s Photo Op
US Park Police denies using tear gas on peaceful protesters. Evidence suggests otherwise.
WOW!
Ya Think?
Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John’s church near White House
All for a Campaign Ad!
Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op
First Amendment Rights—If You Agree With the President
Trump says he will deploy military if state officials can’t contain protest violence
What Is The Insurrection Act That Trump Is Threatening To Invoke?
The Mayor of Washington, DC
Trump wants us to go back to 1932!
LISTEN FOR YOURSELF: Trump’s ‘Unhinged’ Rant to Governors on Protests
Donald Trump Phone Call Transcript With Governors After Protests: “You Have to Dominate” & “Most of You Are Weak”
Whitmer: Trump ‘determined to sow the seeds of hatred and division’
Trump calls governors ‘weak,’ urges them to use force against unruly protests
Some people listened now
13 men charged in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
1932
The Forgotten March
“On July 28, 1932, Gen. Douglas MacArthur stood on the Ellipse south of the White House in his uniform and stiff leather boots. As more than 200 cavalrymen, about 400 infantrymen and five tanks assembled nearby, he told Washington’s police chief that he would “break the back” of the enemy.”
https://www.npca.org/articles/1915-the-forgotten-march
Our military leaders know the law
Pentagon officials express concern as Trump threatens to use military to ‘dominate’ protestors
If only Trump knew The Law?
The Posse Comitatus Act
And 1963! Dogs???
Birmingham Campaign of 1963
Twitter Hides Trump’s Tweet About Minneapolis, Saying It Glorifies Violence
‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’: Trump quotes Miami police chief’s notorious 1967 warning
Police Criticize Trump for Urging Officers Not to Be ‘Too Nice’ With Suspects
As America burns, riots play into Trump’s hands
Where was the teargas when this happened?
You’ve seen the photo of Ohio protesters. Here’s the story behind it.
As Protests and Violence Spill Over, Trump Shrinks Back
This is well done!
As cities burned, Trump stayed silent — other than tweeting fuel on the fire
You get THIS
A reporter’s cry on live TV: ‘I’m getting shot! I’m getting shot!’
When Trump keeps tweeting this:
39 TIMES!
“Enemy of the People” 54 Times!
So this happens
The Audacity of Hate
What is the ‘boogaloo’? How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream
White supremacist propaganda spreading, anti-bias group says
Racially-motivated violent extremists elevated to “national threat priority,” FBI director says
This HAS to stop happening!
ADL Condemns President Trump’s Racist Tweets and His Use of Israel and Jews as a Shield
Anti-Semitism is rising in the U.S. — and many Jews blame Trump
Trump’s anti-Semitic attacks on American Jews keep coming
Some Democrats urge Trump to more strongly condemn anti-Semitism in wake of Monsey attack
We know @realDonaldTrump can never speak out about bigotry and hate, be it anti-Semitic (Soros! – they seem to forget Adelstein) or Muslims (Squad!) or Refugees (Dirtying up our cities! – Tucker Carlson) Has to keep that base of nativist bigots (Wall!)
Trump’s anti-Semitism Czar Thinks American Jews Should Be Thanking the President
Iowa woman sentenced to 25 years in hate attacks on 2 kids
Frank Figliuzzi – White nationalist domestic terrorism is rising — rethinking how we label it can help the FBI stop it
25 Jewish members of Congress call on Trump to fire Stephen Miller over leaked emails
Leaked Emails Fuel Calls For Stephen Miller To Leave White House
Calling the Press the Enemy of the People is a Dangerous thing for Trump to say.
I am afraid someone is going to get hurt!
Let’s Be Serious — Trump Doesn’t Mind These Incitements to Kill Journalists
Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort
Midwest meme maker is a favorite of President Trump
Shoot Them in the Legs, Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War
Homeland Security Dept. Affirms Threat of White Supremacy After Years of Prodding
Image
Trump often blames mass shootings on mental health. When the perpetrator is Muslim, he blames Islam.
DONALD TRUMP SHARES CAMPAIGN VIDEO FEATURING IMAGE USED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP
Mazel Tov, Trump. You’ve Revived the Jewish Left.
Trump and racism: What do the data say?
The Brookings Cafeteria podcast last week discussed the role President Trump’s racist rhetoric has played in encouraging violence in America.
First, Donald Trump’s support in the 2016 campaign was clearly driven by racism, sexism, and xenophobia. While some observers have explained Trump’s success as a result of economic anxiety, the data demonstrate that
anti-immigrant sentiment, racism, and sexism are much more strongly related to support for Trump.Even more alarmingly, there is a clear correlation between Trump campaign events and incidents of prejudiced violence. FBI data show that since Trump’s election there has been
an anomalous spike in hate crimes concentrated in counties where Trump won by larger margins. It was the second-largest uptick in hate crimes in the 25 years for which data are available, second only to the spike after September 11, 2001.Though hate crimes are typically most frequent in the summer, in 2016 they peaked in the fourth quarter (October-December). This new, higher rate of hate crimes continued throughout 2017.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/08/14/trump-and-racism-what-do-the-data-say/
The association between Trump and hate crimes is not limited to the election itself. Another study, based on data collected by the Anti-Defamation League, shows that counties that hosted a Trump campaign rally in 2016 saw hate crime rates more than double compared to similar counties that did not host a rally.
The Christian Right is Radicalizing White People I Love
‘Start exercising’: Trump insults rally protester for ‘serious weight problem’
Police Keep Arresting Young White Men For Trying to Copycat El Paso
Police made quick arrest of Ohio man because they feared mass shooting threats were legitimate, records show
‘A good 100 kills would be nice.’ Another Florida man arrested for mass shooting threats
‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 36 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.
Trump’s Pile of Rubble
The shining city on a hill is an ugly pile of rubble.
Even on this most tragic of weeks for so many families, Trump was obsessing on himself, on his crowd size compared with Beto, and on whether he was getting enough obeisance from Ohio pols.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/opinion/sunday/trump-picture-baby-el-paso.html
Trump’s influence is spreading like a virus
Are the Proud Boys Done or Are They Just Getting Started?
The 598 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List
The Left Needs a Language Potent Enough to Counter Trump
Ohio man charged after saying Ocasio-Cortez ‘should be shot,’ illegally stockpiling ammunition
Here’s the data on white supremacist terrorism the Trump administration has been ‘unable or unwilling’ to give to Congress
Pope Francis again warns against nationalism, says recent speeches sound like ‘Hitler in 1934’
Bill Weld says Trump has blood on his hands
Trump says Democrats will call ‘anybody’ racist. Here’s a list of people and things he’s labeled that way.
https://limbaugh2020.com/trump-is-a-racist/
Media must stop quibbling about ‘white supremacy’ vs. ‘white nationalism’
Why mourning the El Paso shootings will undermine Trump’s immigration rhetoric
“There’s Blood on Your Little Hands”: Trump’s Visit to El Paso Energizes His Opponents
Trump made his visits to Dayton and El Paso all about him
The ugliness of politics is on full display right now
My Fellow Republicans Must Stand Against the Alt-Right Virus Infecting America
Should We Create a Federal Crime of ‘Domestic Terrorism’?
How the Trail of American White Supremacy Led to El Paso
Pittsburgh!
Here’s what we know so far about Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect
He blamed Jews for helping migrant caravans
On his Gab.com account, Bowers claimed Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans. He shared a video that another Gab.com user posted, purportedly of a Jewish refugee advocacy group HIAS on the US-Mexico border. Another post that Bowers commented on described HIAS’ overall efforts as “sugar-coated evil.”
He called those in migrant caravans ‘invaders’
According to his posts, Bowers believed that those in the migrant caravans were violent because they were attempting to leave countries that had high levels of violence. And Bowers repeatedly called them “invaders” on his Gab posts. “I have noticed a change in people saying ‘illegals’ that now say ‘invaders’,” read one post, six days before the shooting. “I like this.”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/27/us/synagogue-attack-suspect-robert-bowers-profile/index.html
Exclusive: White House rebuffed attempts by DHS to make combating domestic terrorism a higher priority
Pipe-bomber Cesar Sayoc’s lawyers named Trump in their defense. They won’t be the only ones.
Trump’s Habit of Contradicting Himself After a Tragedy
He’s Getting Worse
‘We don’t want him here’: Trump to face protests and skepticism as he visits El Paso and Dayton after mass shootings
El Paso says Donald Trump still owes $569,204 for his February rally
‘We were safe until he started talking’: El Paso residents respond to President Trump
“We were safe until he started talking,” John Smith-Davis, 47, a retired Army veteran, said as he mourned with his friends at a memorial near the Walmart where a gunman opened fire Saturday. “He made us a target with his hateful rhetoric.”
Veronica Sanchez, a 23-year-old dental assistant, put it more succinctly: “He has said enough.”
El Paso, whose 680,000 people are mostly Latino and mostly Democrats, has long viewed Trump warily — and his most forceful statement since the massacre that has now claimed 22 lives there did little to change that.
“From my perspective, he is not welcome here,” Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, whose district includes a wide swath of the city, said Monday in an interview on MSNBC. “Words have consequences. The president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated.”
A string of officials in El Paso and across the nation have condemned Trump for his steady flow of racist rhetoric, including his repeated warnings about an immigrant “invasion”— the same term used in a manifesto posted to 8chan believed to be written by the shooter.
“We have a president right now who traffics in this hatred, who incites this violence, who calls Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, calls asylum seekers animals and an infestation,” Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic presidential candidate who represented El Paso in Congress, said Sunday at a vigil.
Trump Is a White Nationalist Who Inspires Terrorism
Obama urges Americans to reject language from leaders that ‘normalizes racist sentiments’ in pointed statement
Obama Still Sounds Like a President
Obama Urges Americans To Reject Language That ‘Feeds A Climate Of Fear’
President Trump Address on Mass Shootings
‘The headline was bad’: New York Times amends front page on Trump’s response to mass shootings after backlash
I wonder who “Feeds a Climate of Fear”?
Reaction To Trump’s Remarks On Two Mass Shootings
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748247221/reaction-to-trumps-remarks-on-two-mass-shootings
I wonder who spoke of an INFESTATION of INVADERS?
Donald Trump and Fox News Warned of a Migrant “Invasion” Before El Paso Gunman Struck
Invasion? Where have we heard that venomous, ridiculous word before? Where have we seen it? Donald Trump’s own Facebook ads about immigration.
How the Trump Campaign Used Facebook Ads to Amplify His ‘Invasion’ Claim
Teleprompter Trump meets Twitter Trump as the president responds to mass slayings
Here’s the British bigot who Trump retweets
‘He failed to mention Latinos’: El Paso residents outraged by Trump’s speech
El Paso congresswoman to Trump: Don’t come here
On July 3rd:
Trump Needs His Base to Burn With Anger
August 3rd:
El Paso Shooting Suspect’s Manifesto Echoes Trump’s Language
‘How do you stop these people?’: Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric looms over El Paso massacre
Booker: ‘There is a complicity in the president’s hatred’
Trump, Tax Cuts and Terrorism
Top Ohio Republican calls on lawmaker to resign after ‘shocking’ comments about Dayton shooting
Trump is leading our country to destruction
There is no excuse for supporting this president
After pair of mass shootings, Trump remains out of sight
Whites Commit Three-Quarters of Extremist Murders—but You Can’t Call Them Terrorists
DONALD TRUMP’S RALLIES ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY VIOLENT
Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes
Right-wing violence has ‘accelerated’ in the US since Trump took office
Say something often enough and people start believing it.
Words have consequences @realDonaldTrump
A man assaulted a boy for ‘disrespecting’ the national anthem. His lawyer says Trump told him to do it.
Cesar Sayoc: Man who sent pipe bombs to Trump critics jailed for 20 years
The Trump Supporter Who Mailed Bombs To Democrats Has Been Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison
In a sentencing memo filed last month, Sayoc’s attorneys said the 57-year-old former pizza deliverer became radicalized via a daily consumption of Trump’s tweets, Fox News, and conspiracy theories on the internet.
They said Sayoc sent the packages because he believed that “prominent Democrats were actively working to hurt him, other Trump supporters, and the country as a whole” — an idea that was reinforced by what he heard on Fox News and from the president himself.
When Trump announced he was running for president, Sayoc “enthusiastically supported him” and began watching Fox News religiously and planning his day around watching Fox & Friends in the morning and primetime host Sean Hannity in the evening, his attorneys said.
“We believe that the president’s rhetoric contributed to Mr. Sayoc’s actions in this offense,” Sayoc’s attorney Ian Howard Marcus Amelkin told the court Monday.
Here’s how many times Trump attacked pipe bomb targets
The mail-bomb suspect’s van, annotated
Trump says he ‘could tone up’ rhetoric after mail-bomb arrest
Promoting love and unity goes against Trump’s political brand
