#capitol riot probe

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Nearly two-thirds — 62% — of Americans in a new poll said that former President Trump should not be allowed to serve as President again if he is convicted of a “serious” crime.

The Yahoo News-YouGov poll found that a slightly smaller majority — 52% — said they believe that Trump has committed a serious crime at some point in his life.

The former president is facing a litany of investigations, including the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into an alleged hush money payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election and the Justice Department’s dual investigations into his handling of classified documents and role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Just over half — 52% — also said that they considered falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star to be a serious crime. Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan criminal probe in early April. He pleaded not guilty.

Some 66% also said that conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election was a serious crime, while 63% and 64% each said the same of attempting to obstruct the certification of the election and of inciting or aiding an insurrection against the federal government.

Further, 63% said they considered taking highly classified documents from the White House and obstructing efforts to retrieve them to be a serious crime.

Trump’s lawyers were spotted meeting with federal prosecutors on the classified documents case Monday, after CNN reported last week that the prosecution had obtained a recording of the former president discussing a classified document that remained in his possession in July 2021.

He reportedly appeared to acknowledge that the document was still classified on the recording, telling two authors that he couldn’t show them the document because they lacked security clearances.

However, despite his legal woes, a large portion Americans in the poll said that the various investigations into Trump don’t affect their opinion of the former president. Among respondents, 43% said they have the same opinion of him as before, while 34% said they feel more negative about Trump and 13% said they feel more positive.

Trump remains the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination amid a growing field of opponents. He sits more than 30 points ahead of his closest competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a recent polling average from FiveThirtyEight.

The Yahoo News poll was conducted May 25-30 with 1,520 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[gamer2002]

[yxngmxxchi]

what the government, courts, news sees in their favorite son:

What the "ladies" see in huntr biden:

What Joe Biden Sees in his Son:

[brojames-glorytogodvideos]

Coming US Civil War if Trump Charged w/ Crimes

The January 6 House Committee Hearings are laser-focused on the crimes of Donald J. Trump, but will Attorney General Garland pursue criminal prosecution? The pressure on Garland from Democrats will be relentless, but criminal charges against Trump will bring certain civil conflict. // Our website.. GloryToGodVideos.com

[rudrjobdesk]

Mockery of justice: Former US Prez Donald Trump slams US Congress probe into Capitol Hill riots

Mockery of justice: Former US Prez Donald Trump slams US Congress probe into Capitol Hill riots

Former US President Donald Trump slammed the US Congress-led probe into the 2021 Capitol Hill riots on Monday and called the panel a “mockery of justice” and a “Kangaroo Court hoping to distract the American people from the great pain they are experiencing.” Trump said this in his first extended reaction to the probe Monday evening, with a rambling 12-page statement. Appearing in a pre-recorded…

[globalcourant]

US Capitol riot probe puts Trump at heart of 'attempted coup'

US Capitol riot probe puts Trump at heart of ‘attempted coup’

A congressional panel investigating last year’s mob assault on the US Capitol laid out its case on Thursday that Donald Trump and his claims of a stolen election were at the heart of what amounted to an “attempted coup” to remain in power. In a prime-time presentation of its findings from a year-long probe, the special committee sought to persuade a divided country of the existence of a…

[incorrectbatfam]

Jason's reaction to coming back from the dead after dying around 2015 and coming back in 2019 or even 2020 (Tim is about 20 and Jason is about 3 years older so Jason was born in 2000)

Jason: So what did I miss when I was... you know...

Damian: Unalive?

Jason: Come again?

Damian: We can't say the d-word anymore.

Jason: Okay... what else happened between 2016 and now?

Damian: David Bowie, Brexit vote, Pokémon, phones explode.

Barbara: Women marching, global warming, Russian hacking probe.

Harper: Venezuela, Stormy Daniels, Thanos dusting, Meghan Markle.

Duke: Hong Kong protests, Miles Morales, black hole photo.

Jason: Wait slow down—

Cullen: Parasite, quarantine, murder hornets, Cas and Dean.

Tim: Bitcoin, war in Ukraine, riot at the Capitol.

Cass: Algorithms, HRT, England lost their old queen.

Dick: Barbenheimer, free Palestine—hold on Jason, that’s not all!

Jason: *cocking his gun and leaving*

Everyone:

Steph: We didn’t start the fire.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Special counsel Jack Smith has informed former President Donald Trump by letter that he is a target in his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.

Trump also confirmed the development in a post on his Truth Social platform.

The letter, which sources said was transmitted to Trump's attorneys in recent days, indicates that yet another indictment of the former president could be imminent -- though it is not immediately clear what kind of charges he could ultimately face.

Target letters are typically given to subjects in a criminal investigation to put them on notice that they are facing the prospect of indictment.

Multiple sources tell ABC News that allies, aides and attorneys for the former president have been working to determine if anyone else received a target letter from the special counsel regarding the election probe.

"We can't find anyone," a source said Tuesday afternoon.

An attorney for Trump's former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told ABC News that the former New York City mayor had not received a letter as of Tuesday afternoon.

Trump previously received a target letter from Smith before he was indicted by a grand jury in Florida for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House and his alleged efforts to obstruct the government's investigation.

Smith took control of the sprawling Justice Department investigation into the failed efforts by Trump and his allies to thwart his election loss upon his appointment as special counsel in November of last year, and in recent months dozens of witnesses have appeared to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C.

According to sources, prosecutors have questioned witnesses specifically about the efforts to put forward false slates of so-called false electors that were to have cast electoral college votes during the certification for Trump in key swing states that he lost to President Joe Biden.

Investigators have also sought information on Trump's actions and his state of mind in the days leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, temporarily disrupting the certification and causing lawmakers and former Vice President Pence to flee the building.

Trump was indicted last month on 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after Smith's prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The former president has also pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment from the Manhattan district attorney charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election.

[simply-ivanka]

A bombshell new report alleges that just days before the GOP took over the House majority in 2022, over 100 encrypted files relating to the January 6th Capitol riot probe were mysteriously deleted. 

In a new interview with Fox News, the chairman of the House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, described the revelation as bringing the investigation into a 'new phase.' 

Loudermilk alleges that a forensics team found that 117 files had been either deleted or encrypted on January 1, 2023, shortly before the Republicans took over the investigation that had previously been led by Rep. Bennie Thompson and Rep. Liz Cheney. 

[originalleftist]

Members of Congress who investigated Trump expect to be arrested if Trump wins.

This is where we are. It is not a joke. It is not a game. It is not hyperbole. It is not business as usual, it is not another election, and there is no "both sides".

If Trump wins, anyone who has ever spoken or acted against him, and is not prepared to face prison and death for democracy, had best flee the country by Inauguration Day, and take their families with them.

[foreverlogical]

A new report in the Washington Post sheds some light on why it has taken so long to investigate former President Donald Trump's incitement of deadly riots at the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021.

Specifically, the Post reports that top officials at the United States Department of Justice and the FBI "quashed a plan by prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office to directly investigate Trump associates for any links to the riot, deeming it premature."

Although Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray were not the ones who quashed the plan by prosecutors, they did embrace the strategy that critics of the plan recommended by holding the rioters themselves and then slowly moving up the chain if the evidenced justified doing so.

"In the weeks before Jan. 6, Trump supporters boasted publicly that they had submitted fake electors on his behalf, but the Justice Department declined to investigate the matter in February 2021," the newspaper writes. "The department did not actively probe the effort for nearly a year, and the FBI did not open an investigation of the electors scheme until April 2022, about 15 months after the attack."

The Post's sources say that efforts to investigate potential Trump involvement in the riots was planned by J.P. Cooney, the head of the fraud and public corruption section at the U.S. attorney’s office, who wanted to start with Trump ally Roger Stone and "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander, whom he believed had planned a violent response to the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election.

However, others in the department viewed Cooney's efforts as "premature," reports the Post, because he could not turn up enough evidence to definitively link Stone to a crime.

[globalcourant]

Landmark hearing into Capitol riot probe kicks off in US

Landmark hearing into Capitol riot probe kicks off in US

Fast News US House panel investigating January 6 insurrection and Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn 2020 election opens prime-time hearing, declaring lies that led to riots put “two and half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.” US Capitol riot probe chief says rioters acted at the “encouragement” of then-president Donald Trump and the assault was a “culmination of an attempted…