#Jan. 6

[follow-up-news]

Former President Donald Trump was "fundamentally" acting as a private candidate for office and not as president of the United States when he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss, special counsel Jack Smith's team argued in a filing on Wednesday that revealed new details of the scheme at the heart of Trump's federal election interference case. The filing asserts that Trump knew that the claims he was spreading about the 2020 election were lies, with Smith's team arguing that Trump didn't believe his own falsehoods but instead spread them as part of his broader scheme to stay in power. As officers were being brutally assaulted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Smith's team says, Trump was scrolling Twitter, according to an analysis by an FBI expert that is among the revelations in the new filing. "The phone’s activity logs show that the defendant was using his phone, and in particular, using the Twitter application, consistently throughout the day after he returned from the Ellipse speech," Smith's team wrote. The filing also elaborates on the Smith team's prior claim that a member of Trump's campaign encouraged rioting at the TCF Center in Detroit, where a pro-Trump mob tried to stop the counting of votes in what was America's largest majority-Black city on Nov. 4, 2021, the day after the election. "Make them riot," an unnamed campaign employee texted a colleague, according to the filing. "Do it!!!" The filing is a response to the Supreme Court ruling that Trump had immunity for some actions he took as president and that prosecutors could not use his official acts in their case. Smith's team argued the 2024 Republican presidential nominee "must stand trial for his private crimes as would any other citizen" and a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against him in August adjusting Smith's case to comply with the Supreme Court's order. Trump "resorted to crimes to try to stay in office" after his loss, Smith's team wrote in Wednesday's filing, arguing that he launched "a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."

[thingstrumperssay]

Trump's getting indicted again today. I think for January 6th? And on my birthday too!

Thank you for the gift, Jack Smith!

[sbrown82]

This country is DONE!!!!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Non-striking driver Dan Sheridan watches some 4,000 Transport Workers Union members demonstrating at City Hall, January 6, 1953. Transit strikes were common up to around the 1980s.

Photo: Paul Rice for the NY Journal-American via the Harry Ransom Center, U. of Texas

[newsrepertoire]

I wonder if House Republicans will commemorate the two year anniversary of a failed fascist coup by still failing to get a Speaker elected

[awesomecooperlove]

🤪😜😝

[nando161mando]

‘NCIS’ Actor Arrested for Allegedly Storming Capitol on Jan. 6

[mitchipedia]

Michael Fanone, a former Washington, D.C., police officer who suffered a heart attack after being repeatedly tasered by one of Trump’s followers on Jan. 6, said Americans cannot afford to forget what happened that day. “Wake the fuck up, America,” he told HuffPost. “This is who Donald Trump is, a sick motherfucker who fetishizes violence committed on his behalf.”

[robpegoraro]

Former area resident encounters belated accountability

Respect to a dozen New Yorkers who showed up and did the work that certain judges and senators seem incapable of doing.

Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses. This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony…

[follow-up-news]

A judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected the former president's claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about domestic voter fraud that he repeated in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack. There is “no reason to believe” that Trump's purported worries about foreign influence in the 2020 election “animated his concerns at the time,” Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote, adding that Trump's theories that such evidence would be relevant to his criminal case "do not withstand scrutiny." Trump's team had asked Chutkan to compel prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office to provide them with additional evidence, including "all information" about foreign interference and influence efforts in the 2020 election. It's part of the Trump team's attempt to present Trump's concerns about mass voter fraud — which were roundly rejected by independent arbiters and courts — as "reasonable" and grounded in reality. The defense has maintained that Trump’s false election fraud claims “were plausible and maintained in good faith” and “not unreasonable at the time,” even though many Jan. 6 defendants have since lamented that they were gullible enough to believe Trump’s lies, like Trump’s false claim on Jan. 6 that 139% of voters had cast ballots in the majority-Black city of Detroit.

[sbrown82]

This is the most corrupt Supreme Court I’ve ever seen!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Air mail was still rather exotic in the 1940s. In this picture, postal service officials and spectators turned out to witness a Sikorsky helicopter as it landed at the 23rd Street Skyport, January 6, 1947. It was the first shuttle flight carrying air mail from La Guardia Field. Two helicopters made six trips each between the airport and the skyport.

Photo: Joe Caneva for the AP

[bighermie]

This is how the left, main stream media and Democrats fell about THE TRUTH.