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Originally posted by sdy:
Let's hope this "awakening" keeps growing

I'm convinced that these "little" rulings and actions will all add up big in the next 7 months. From my viewpoint, things are rolling ahead to deal with "election interference" and ballot fraud in general.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Rebuking the judge should work out well for Smith.


Trump prosecutor signals appeal in classified documents case, rebukes judge

https://www.washingtonexaminer...fied-documents-case/

FIFY
https://www.washingtonexaminer...fied-documents-case/

JP

Another small win heading towards November.

Remember how DEMs maneuvered to change election laws & procedures in 2020? There have been reports that the 2020 presidential election was lost long before election day because the rules in key states were adjusted to allow drop boxes, enable mail in voting w little/no signature matching, Zuckerburg funded individuals running some election offices, etc.

Now:

Former Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Republicans would be “changing the rules” in the middle of an election when discussing former President Donald Trump and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen calling on the state legislature to assign it’s Electoral College votes with the winner-take-all standard.

Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “If that changes and we don’t know that it will, the state legislature is going to look at it, but if that changes, that takes away Biden’s best path to win because if you get, if he wins Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, then loses the other swing states and no longer picks up the one in, Nebraska that’s 269.”

Messina said, “This is what the modern Republican Party has become, they’re now changing the rules in the middle trying to benefit themselves. This is the hell that Donald Trump hath wrought.”

He continued, “In the middle of this changing the rules 200 days before the election is ridiculous. I think you’re right. I think there are real simulation problems when you look at the map, that one electoral vote really matters in the combination of other things. Then you need another state. The easiest pathway to victory has always been the Midwestern three states combined with Nebraska.”

Messina added, “Something tells me they’re not going to get away with this easy. There will be a national outcry for trying to change the rules here.”

The masters of cheating complaining about rule changing

Wife Of Judge In Trump 'Hush Money' Trial Worked For AG Letitia James

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ked-ag-letitia-james

Lara Merchan, the wife of the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” case in Manhattan, once worked for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the massive $350 million civil fraud case against the former president, with the revelation reviving claims of bias and calls for the judge’s recusal.

Records reviewed by The Epoch Times show that Ms. Merchan worked for 21 years as a Special Assistant to the AG in New York, including three years under Ms. James. She changed jobs over two years ago.

Judge Juan Merchan is presiding over a separate criminal trial involving President Trump in New York, in which the former president is accused of falsifying business records in order to conceal a $130,000 “hush money” payoff to an adult performer to stay quiet about their alleged affair.

The former president has also alleged that the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, has a partisan interest in the case because she leads a political marketing firm and has represented President Trump’s political opponents, receiving millions from them.

Judge Merchan imposed a gag order against President Trump in the case and, on April 1, expanded it to include family members of the judge and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Judge Merchan has already declined to recuse himself from the case.

In the case, Mr. Bragg charged President Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records, alleging a scheme to influence the 2016 election with payments meant to bury unfavorable news coverage of the alleged affair with the adult performer, which the former president has denied.

The trial has been set for April 15, and in less than two weeks, the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president will take place in Manhattan.

More at link

That’s not going to be a real trial

It is political theater by a phony wearing a robe

Link

New Biden rule aims to protect US federal employees if Trump is elected

Joe Biden’s administration issued a new rule on Thursday making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees, hoping to head off the risk that if Donald Trump wins back the White House in November he won’t be able to bully and decimate the workforce as he imposes the radical ideologies he’s been pushing on the campaign trail, escalating what he did while in office.

New regulations coming out of the government’s chief human resources agency, the Office of Personnel Management, will bar career civil servants from being reclassified as political appointees or as other at-will workers – who are more easily dismissed from their jobs.

The move comes in response to so-called “Schedule F”, an executive order Trump issued in 2020 that sought to allow for reclassifying tens of thousands of the 2.2m federal employees and thus reduce their job security protections.
Biden nullified Schedule F upon taking office. But if Trump were to win the election for the Republicans and revive it during a second administration, he could dramatically increase number of federal employees – around 4,000 – who are considered political appointees and typically change with each new president.

In a statement issued Thursday, Biden called the rule a “step toward combatting corruption and partisan interference to ensure civil servants are able to focus on the most important task at hand: delivering for the American people”.

The potential effects of the change are wide-reaching because the number of federal employees who might have been affected by Schedule F under Trump is unclear.

The National Treasury Employee Union used freedom of information requests to obtain documents suggesting that workers such as office managers and specialists in human resources and cybersecurity might have been among those subject to reclassification.

The Biden administration’s new rule moves to counter a future Schedule F order by spelling out procedural requirements for reclassifying federal employees and clarifying that civil service protections accrued by employees can’t be taken away, regardless of job type. It also makes clear that policymaking classifications apply to noncareer, political appointments.

“It will now be much harder for any president to arbitrarily remove the nonpartisan professionals who staff our federal agencies just to make room for hand-picked partisan loyalists,” said Doreen Greenwald, president of National Treasury Employees Union, in a statement.

Groups advocating for ethical government, and liberal think tanks and activists, praise the rule. They viewed cementing federal worker protections as a top priority given that replacing existing government employees with new, more conservative alternatives is key to the conservative Heritage Foundation’s nearly 1,000-page playbook known as Project 2025.

That plan calls for vetting and potentially firing scores of federal workers and recruiting conservative replacements to wipe out what leading Republicans have long decried as the “deep state” governmental bureaucracy that allegedly worked against Trump from the inside. This is a debunked concept that even Trump acolyte Steve Bannon has dismissed as untrue despite being part of the hard right movement that first aggressively promoted the idea and continues to market it.

Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which has led a coalition of nearly 30 advocacy organizations supporting the rule, called it “extraordinarily strong” and said it can effectively counter the “highly resourced, anti-democratic groups” behind Project 2025.

“This is not a wonky issue, even though it may be billed that way at times,” Perryman said. “This is really foundational to how we can ensure that the government delivers for people and, for us, that’s what a democracy is about.”

The final rule, which runs to 237 pages, is being published in the federal registry and set to formally take effect next month.

Trump as president could direct the Office of Personnel Management to draft new rules, although those would face legal challenges.

Rob Shriver, deputy director of the Office of Personnel Management, said the new rule ensures the protections “cannot be erased by a technical, HR process” that “Schedule F sought to do”.

“This rule is about making sure the American public can continue to count on federal workers to apply their skills and expertise in carrying out their jobs, no matter their personal political beliefs,” Shriver said on a call with reporters.

My county just switched to sequential serialized ballots for this November.

https://www.keranews.org/gover...wing-party-line-vote

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Tarrant County will use prenumbered, sequential ballots in the Nov. 5 presidential elections following a party-line vote of the Tarrant County Election Board.

After the vote, County Judge Tim O’Hare said using prenumbered ballots was a top request from constituents, along with lowering property taxes.

“The more you can do, within reason, where people have trust that this (election) is accurate, it truly reflects the vote, I think we’re all the better,” O’Hare said.

Democratic Party Election Chair Crystal Gayden was the lone vote against purchasing the prenumbered ballots. O’Hare, Republican Party Chair Bo French and Sheriff Bill Waybourn, all Republicans, voted yes to the change. Elections Administrator Clint Ludwig recused himself from the vote, saying he did not want to vote on an agenda item that directed him to perform a task.

Both Gayden and O’Hare acknowledged that the decision fell along party lines. O’Hare questioned Democrats’ opposition to the change.

“I think the question I would have to ask of the Democrats is, why don’t you want this? Because I know it’s not because you’re doing everything you can to save $39,000.”

Following the vote, Gayden said she wasn’t convinced that elections would be made more secure using prenumbered ballots.

“Our system has shown and proven, election cycle after election cycle, that there is no need to put in additional measures because it’s not broken,” Gayden said.

Fani Willis accused of illegal recording, Nathan Wade accused of contempt

https://justthenews.com/govern...llis-and-nathan-wade

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is accused of illegally recording a phone conversation while Nathan Wade, her former special prosecutor and lover, is separately facing contempt of court proceedings in his divorce case.

Attorney Christopher Kachouroff, who is representing Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd, said that Willis recorded a phone call she had with one of his Maryland-based colleagues, who was unaware that she was taping, Newsweek reported Thursday.

Maryland requires two-party consent to be recorded, and recording a private conversation without consent from both people involved may be punishable by up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine.

Separately, Wade's estranged wife, Jocelyn Wade, filed contempt of court proceedings against him on Wednesday after he allegedly failed to pay for her urgent medical procedures or help support their children.

Wade has told his children to seek financial support from their mother, who needs money for an endoscopy, colonoscopy, and ultrasound, according to local outlet Fox 5 Atlanta.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...ump-case/ar-BB1kLH9l

This report says Willis will not replace Wade. She will take the lead herself.

In a significant move along these lines, according to a source close to her, Willis has decided to play a leading courtroom role herself in the sprawling conspiracy case against Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants.

Instead of replacing Wade with another lawyer from inside or outside the office, Willis is stepping up her own role in quarterbacking the case, CBS News has learned. She has already plunged into the nuts and bolts of trial strategy, including starting to lay out how evidence, including witnesses and documents, will be presented, a process known as "order of proof."

At the same time, she is thinking about how to communicate the stakes of a case about protecting the democratic rights of Georgians — a far more abstract concept than typical murder or gang prosecutions — to a Fulton County jury.

Moreover, according to one knowledgeable source, Willis will now be the primary point of contact for defense lawyers in any future plea negotiations, a role that Wade had previously played. "If defendants come to us and they decide that they want to resolve their case, I'm always open-minded and reasonable, and we will listen to those explanations," she told CNN last week. "Now those conversations will be with me and not Mr. Wade."

Perhaps most consequentially, she is gaming out her own role in trying the case. Her appearance in the courtroom will not just be symbolic. Willis is seriously considering handling opening statements for the prosecution and examining key witnesses herself, according to sources familiar with her thinking, who requested anonymity to speak freely about her approach to the case.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...estimony/ar-BB1kZTSZ

A former Georgia election official has said there were a series of errors in administering the 2020 election in the state, in what may present a challenge for Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Donald Trump over alleged election interference.

Mark Wingate, who served on the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections, gave testimony on Monday during the DC disbarment trial of Trump's former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark.

During that testimony, he was asked why he voted against certifying the 2020 election twice. He claimed there were missing custody documents, no surveillance tapes of drop boxes and a string of other errors.

In his testimony, Wingate said there were more people on the voting roll in Fulton County than there were citizens of voting age. He also said chain of custody documents, which monitor the movement of absentee ballots, were not provided by the department.

"How can I trust as a board member to certify this election when I cannot receive even a sampling, anything at all, with regards to chain of custody document?" he said.

He said he requested surveillance tapes of drop boxes where people posted their ballots but they were not provided.

He said there were a "huge number" of absentee-by-mail ballots and that he was concerned about the functionality of the platform used to verify them.

Wingate previously stated in a July 2023 affidavit that there was no signature verification on absentee-by-mail ballot in the election and made other similar claims.

more detail on the Wade contempt of court

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...cusation/ar-BB1l3ulh

Wade's estranged wife, Jocelyn Wade, has filed contempt of court proceedings against her ex-husband. Nathan Wade filed for divorce from his then wife in November 2021 and the couple reached a temporary agreement in January 2024.

But according to the filing, submitted on Wednesday, Nathan Wade allegedly violated an agreement to pay for her medical expenses until further order of the court. It said Jocelyn Wade needs $4,400 for "an endoscopy, colonoscopy, and ultrasound, due to severe physical symptoms she has been enduring."

However, it says Nathan Wade has not paid this and has instead told her to pay the healthcare provider and said he would reimburse her. However, the filing says this is impossible for Jocelyn Wade because she has been paying for her daughter's rent and living expenses.

It also alleges he has not financially supported his children in the way that he promised, putting further financial pressure on Jocelyn Wade.

remember back in January there was action to make Wade testify in the divorce case. and maybe even Willis. At the 11th hour there was a settlement w the wife

This blowhard has been on my shit list for more than a decade.

Dirty RINO Karl Rove Viciously Attacks President Trump After Saying He Will Pardon J6 Defendants — ‘Not Hostages, They Are Thugs… Sons of Bitches’

In an interview on MSNBC’s The Beat, former Senior Adviser to President George W. Bush, Karl Rove, launched a scathing critique of Donald Trump’s pledge to pardon individuals charged for their roles in the January 6 Capitol event.

Last month, Donald Trump declared that his initial actions on his third presidency would include pardoning individuals who protested the 2020 election results at the US Capitol, whom he referred to as “hostages” in a post on Truth Social.

“My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!” Trump wrote.

RINO Rove claimed that Trump’s actions to pardon innocent Americans who were unfairly treated should render him unfit for the nation’s highest office.

“What those people did when they violently attacked the capital in order to stop a constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College is a stain on our history,” said Rove.

“Every one of those sons of b*tches who did that, we ought to find them, try them, and send them to jail. One of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Trump has now said, I’m going to pardon those people because they’re hostages. No, they’re not. They’re thugs. There were people, some of them had automatic weapons at a hotel in Virginia, hoping to be able to be called up.

“And so, why Trump has done this is beyond me. If he had said, ‘You know what? I trust our jury system. I trust law enforcement. Anybody who assaulted the Capitol ought to be…’ I mean, he said it once or twice, but now he’s appearing in a video with people who assaulted police officers with an intent to take the Capitol by force. Look, I’m a Republican. I don’t want to have a Democratic president.

“I want to have a Republican president. But we’re facing, as a country, a decision, and everybody gets to make it as to what leadership we’re going to have. To me, it is a mistake on the part of the Trump campaign to allow the President’s impulses to identify himself with the people who assaulted the Capitol rather than with those who stand for law and order.”

The Biden regime is still using the FBI to round up, indict, harass, threaten, and ruin patriotic Americans who attended the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.

The Biden DOJ is now arresting Americans who stood outside the building, committed no crimes, but were standing in the unidentified “restricted ground” around the US Capitol that day.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) joined Chris Salcedo on Newsmax recently to discuss the government operation on January 6, 2021.

Rep. Higgins told Salcedo that “at least 200” FBI agents dressed as Trump supporters were in the crowd on January 6, 2021. It was a government operation.

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“I want to have a Republican president. But we’re facing, as a country, a decision, and everybody gets to make it as to what leadership we’re going to have. To me, it is a mistake on the part of the Trump campaign to allow the President’s impulses to identify himself with the people who assaulted the Capitol rather than with those who stand for law and order.”

This asshole is going to vote for Biden instead of Trump, just like his buddies the Bushes and Romney.

The govt. treatment of the Jan 6th participants is a huge stain in American history.

After going back through several pages of this thread, and reading the linked news articles, all I can say is this...

"I no longer recognize the country I was born and raised in!"

Jesus cannot return soon enough!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
This blowhard has been on my shit list for more than a decade.

Rove is and always has been a clown.

some good news

Billionaire donors plan to shower Trump with millions in April: 'fundraising juggernaut'

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ndraising-juggernaut

Big-money donors are beginning to coalesce around former President Donald Trump after he has become the presumptive GOP nominee as he attempts to close the cash-on-hand gap with President Biden, who recently set a high-dollar fundraising record.

This weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump will take part in what is being billed as an "Inaugural Leadership Dinner" that includes several Republican high-profile donors and signals the beginning of a major push to cut into Biden’s cash-on-hand lead.

The event will be led by hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson and will be co-chaired by hedge fund tycoon Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, oil tycoon Harold Hamm, hotelier Robert Bigelow and casino mogul Steve Wynn.

Bigelow and Hamm had previously funneled money to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his ill-fated presidential run against Trump in the primary. Hamm previously donated to former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley's presidential campaign as well.

Scott Bessent, founder of the investment firm Key Square Group and former chief investment officer at George Soros’s Soros Fund Management, will also be co-hosting the event. Bessent has been rumored to be a potential cabinet nominee in a second Trump administration.

The event will also be attended by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Strategas Jason Trennert, one of Wall Street’s top thought leaders.

Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts and New York Jets co-owner Woody Johnson are also expected to be involved along with Wilbur Ross, Trump’s former secretary of commerce.

The event tops out at the "Chairman Level," which costs $824,600 and includes seating at the former president’s table.

"Now that President Trump won the primaries, defeating all 10 contenders by a landslide, I think it’s time for Republicans to unite behind him," Paulsen recently told Bloomberg. "For that reason, I’m hosting this inaugural event to galvanize the broad support there is for the president."

The event comes after President Biden raised at least $26 million in a star-studded event with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Many expect Trump’s fundraising haul to eclipse that record-setting figure and possibly raise around $43 million.

On April 10, Trump will hold a fundraising luncheon in the swing state of Georgia with former Georgia Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Top GOP donors are expected to attend, including Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, poultry industry executive Tommy Bagwell, beverage sector executive Don Leebern III and Buckhead advocate Bill White.

On that same day, Trump will be holding a fundraiser in Orlando, Florida, with attorney Dan Newlin.

"President Donald J. Trump has again created a fundraising juggernaut among Republicans. While he has been the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party for less than a month, the RNC and Trump campaign are one unified operation and focused on victory," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement this week.

"We’re raising funds and making strategic investments to get out the vote and protect the ballot. We are going to win BIG in just 31 weeks," Whatley predicted.

Fox News Digital confirmed Trump and the RNC brought in $65.6 million in March and ended the month with $93.1 million in cash on hand. The figures include money raised by a number of fundraising committees.

The Biden campaign reported raising $53 million in February, ending the month with $155 million on hand.

While Trump trails with cash on hand, The New York Times reported in February that Trump leads Biden when it comes to small-dollar donors who gave less than $200.

^^^^^
Cheery news indeed!

Indeed, I would be proud to donate a big cow poo to the demorats..

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Originally posted by parabellum:
This blowhard has been on my shit list for more than a decade.

I used to respect Rove so much. Now I look at the visceral, irrational hate he spews and I realize he has a lot to hide and Rove, like Bill Maher and many others on the Left, along with fellow RINOs such as Pierre Delecto, are scared to death that Trump can expose and prosecute them.

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