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Exhibit A of Trump’s Recklessness

August 12, 2022 at 8:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

David Rohde: “For Americans who wish to look, their worst fears about Donald Trump are being confirmed. He recklessly handled some of the country’s most important secrets, including, apparently, information related to nuclear weapons. Tens of millions of Americans, undoubtedly, will continue to believe his conspiracy theories. But the steady compilation of facts by the January 6th committee, the Justice Department, and the F.B.I. is creating a post-November, 2020, record of negligence that exceeds Trump’s actions earlier in his tenure.”

“The Mar-a-Lago search warrant showed that Trump has grown more rash, thoughtless, and heedless—and more unfit than ever for the Presidency.”

GOP Escalates Dark Rhetoric After FBI Search

August 12, 2022 at 8:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republicans in Congress who are relying on Donald Trump to excite voters in the fall elections are not only defending the former president against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home but politically capitalizing on it with grave and potentially dangerous rhetoric against the nation’s justice system,” the AP reports.

“The party that once stood staunchly for law-and-order has dramatically reversed course, stirring up opposition to the FBI and tapping into political grievances and far-right conspiracies that fed the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

“It’s all part of the GOP’s election year strategy to harness voter outrage over the unprecedented search, quickly and unequivocally set in motion as Trump hosted a dozen Republicans for dinner of steak and scallops at his private Bedminster club the day after the FBI action.”

House Passes Major Part of Biden’s Agenda

August 12, 2022 at 5:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The House of Representatives passed a $740 billion budget reconciliation bill — including climate, health and tax measures — that comprises the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda.

Every single Democrat voted in favor of the bill.

New York Times: “The legislation would pour more than $370 billion into climate and energy programs aimed at helping the United States cut greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. It would also extend for three years expanded subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, as well as fulfill a long-held Democratic goal to lower the cost of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to directly negotiate prices and capping the annual out-of-pocket cost for recipients at $2,000.”

“The package would be financed largely by tax increases, including a new tax on company stock buybacks and a 15 percent corporate minimum tax for wealthy companies. Initial analyses of the legislation found that it could reduce the nation’s deficit by as much as $300 billion over a decade.”

The bill now goes to Biden for his signature.

The bill is a massive accomplishment for Democrats and was thought to be dead just a few weeks ago.

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GOP Plans to Sabotage the Inflation Reduction Act

August 12, 2022 at 4:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

House Republicans are planning to try to open up Democrats’ $740 billion tax, climate and health care bill to a legal challenge after it passes, Axios reports.

Here’s the plan: Republicans plan to vote by proxy en masse today in the hopes of denying Democrats a physical quorum and opening up the Inflation Reduction Act to a legal challenge.

Drew Hammill, an aide to Speaker Nancy Pelosi responds: “Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have clearly ruled that the House resolution establishing proxy voting is a legislative act that is covered by Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause.”

Judge Unseals Trump Search Warrant

August 12, 2022 at 4:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago this week has now been officially unsealed.

NBC News: “The property receipt of items recovered by FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort shows that agents recovered a trove of top secret and other heavily classified documents.”

As noted earlier, Donald Trump is under investigation for potential obstruction of justice and Espionage Act violations.

Wisconsin GOP Leader Fires 2020 Election Investigator

August 12, 2022 at 3:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) fired Michael Gableman on Friday, “more than a year after he hired the former Supreme Court justice to probe the 2020 election and three days after Vos barely survived a primary challenge Gableman supported,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Associated Press: “The firing of Michael Gableman capped a 14-month ride that began when Vos hired him to look into the election under pressure from Trump. But as the probe progressed under bipartisan criticism, Vos’ relationship soured with both Trump and Gableman.”

It May Not Matter If Info Seized from Trump Was Classified

August 12, 2022 at 3:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump is now arguing that he used his authority to declassify the material seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago before he left office.

But the New York Times reports none of the three criminal laws cited in the search warrant “turn on whether information was deemed to be unclassified.”

More from the New York Times: “Two of the laws that a search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago this week referenced — Sections 1519 and 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code — make the taking or concealment of government records a crime regardless of whether they had anything to do with national security.”

“For another, laws against taking or hoarding material with restricted national-security information — which generally carry heavier penalties than theft of ordinary documents — do not always line up with whether the files are technically classified.”

Three Statutes Triggered the Trump Search Warrant

August 12, 2022 at 3:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Breitbart and the New York Times reports that Donald Trump is under investigation for:

  • 18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation
  • 18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
  • 18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigation

Guess Who Leaked the Search Warrant?

August 12, 2022 at 2:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The leak of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and property receipt was apparently received simultaneously by the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and Breitbart, CNN reports.

Breitbart published the names of the FBI agents who conducted the search, which potentially opens them up to threats and harassment.

FBI Recovered 11 Sets of Classified Documents in Search

August 12, 2022 at 1:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Monday removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret and meant to be only available in special government facilities,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The FBI agents took around 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Mr. Trump’s ally Roger Stone, a list of items removed from the property shows.”

“Also included in the list was information about the ‘President of France.’”

“The list includes references to one set of documents marked as ‘Various classified/TS/SCI documents,’ an abbreviation that refers to top-secret/sensitive compartmented information. It also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents.“

This information was apparently leaked and not authorized by the judge overseeing the search warrant.

Shooter Was Prolific Contributor to Trump’s Social Network

August 12, 2022 at 12:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In the minutes after an armed man in body armor tried to breach an FBI field office in Cincinnati, an account with the suspect’s name, Ricky Shiffer, posted to former president Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social: ‘If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the FBI, the New York Times reports.

“The Shiffer account appeared to be one of Truth Social’s most prolific posters, writing 374 messages there in the past eight days — mostly to echo Trump’s lies about election fraud and, in the hours after FBI agents searched Trump’s Florida home, calling for all-out war.”

White House Stays Silent on Mar-a-Lago Search

August 12, 2022 at 12:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “The White House approach is part of a concerted effort to make sure the law enforcement operation is not seen as partisan.”

Alabama Governor Hasn’t Been Seen In a Week

August 12, 2022 at 12:39 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Amid rumors about her deteriorating health, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) hasn’t been seen in a week and her office refuses to say where she is, AL.com reports.

Trump’s Ex-CFO Will Go On Trial

August 12, 2022 at 12:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A Manhattan state court judge on Friday declined to throw out the criminal case against Donald Trump’s family business and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, clearing the way for a trial in the case scheduled for the fall,” the New York Times reports.

“The decision marked the latest legal blow to Donald Trump in a week full of them.”

Republicans Contort Themselves In Defense of Trump

August 12, 2022 at 12:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republicans who days ago united in preemptive defense of Donald Trump are struggling to stay on the same page following new questions about documents that the former president was holding at his Florida residence,” Politico reports.

“The FBI’s daylong search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this week, personally approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland, sparked near-universal GOP outrage and allegations of a politicized Justice Department. In the wake of reports that the search was tied to concerns Trump may have improperly taken highly classified White House documents related to nuclear weapons and so-called special access operations, however, Republicans are politically diverging.”

Salman Rushdie Stabbed On Stage

August 12, 2022 at 12:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The author Salman Rushdie, who spent years under police protection after Iranian officials called for his execution, was attacked and stabbed in the neck on Friday while onstage in Chautauqua, near Erie in western New York,” the New York Times reports.

China’s Xi Jinping Plans to Meet With Biden

August 12, 2022 at 12:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Chinese officials are making plans for Xi Jinping to visit Southeast Asia and meet face-to-face with President Biden in November, the Wall Street Journal reports. 

It would mark the Chinese leader’s first international trip in nearly three years.

Trump Claims Obama Had Nuclear Documents

August 12, 2022 at 11:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump attempts to deflect in a new statement: “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”

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