GOP statements on Trump indictment clash with initial Jan. 6 remarks

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4138110-gop-statements-trump-indictment-jan-6-remarks/

The epitome of that shift has been Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who said Trump bore responsibility for the riot shortly after the rampage before careening back to the former president’s corner in the weeks that followed. He cemented that position Tuesday, when he accused the DOJ using the indictment of trying to “distract” from investigations into President Biden and his family.

“[J]ust yesterday a new poll showed President Trump is without a doubt Biden’s leading political opponent. Everyone in America could see what was going to come next: DOJ’s attempt to distract from the news and attack the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, President Trump,” McCarthy wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

‘Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era

 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387

“It shouldn’t surprise anybody that real people with real money — the big donors who have historically funded the party apparatus — don’t want to invest in these clowns who have taken over and subsumed the Republican Party,” said Jeff Timmer, the former executive director of the once-vaunted Michigan GOP and a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project.

VERY NORMAL! LEPROSY CASES SURGING IN FLORIDA, GOVERNMENT SAYS

 https://futurism.com/neoscope/leprosy-cases-surging-in-florida

But the CDC says incidences have more than doubled in southeastern America over the past decade, with Central Florida becoming a particular flashpoint: the region lays claim to 81 percent of cases throughout the state and nearly one fifth of all reported leprosy cases across the country.

How MAGA Reacted to Donald Trump's Third Indictment

 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-indictment-maga-support-1817448

Representative Matt Gaetz, along with Greene, has renewed calls to defund the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith following the indictment announcement. Also taking to Twitter to defend the former president, he wrote: "Jack Smith and his indictment will forever go down in history as a total disgrace to the United States of America. President Trump defended our democracy, and we have an obligation to defend him against the Deep State's crusade to destroy our movement."

MSNBC Panel Stunned by Trump Lawyer’s ‘Admission’ on Fox News

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-panel-stunned-by-trump-lawyer-john-lauros-admission-on-fox-news?ref=home

“What President Trump said is, ‘Let’s go with option D,'” Lauro said on The Ingraham Angle. “Let’s just halt, let’s just pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make a determination as to whether or not the elections were handled fairly. That’s constitutional law. That’s not an issue of criminal activity.”

Lauro said basically the same thing on Newsmax a bit later.

MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell was surprised at the revelation.

“That is a Trump criminal defense lawyer quoting Donald Trump committing a crime,” he said. “Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer tonight added information to Jack Smith’s 42-page description of Donald Trump’s crimes. The conversation that John Lauro just described appears on page 34 of the indictment against his client.”

‘Jack Smith Has Made Sure That the System of Laws Still Holds’

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-roundup-00109391

It’s important for any democratic nation to hold criminal behavior accountable, to show that our Constitution and institutions and law will be defended when assaulted. It would have been better if Republicans in the Senate had risen to the occasion shortly after Jan. 6 and voted to convict Trump when he was impeached. But some accountability is better than none, and it is important for our civic health that, as someone once said, our democracy doesn’t present the sorry spectacle of justice without a sword or unable to use a sword. The willingness to stand for justice and the rule of law matters. So the indictment seems to me an important civic moment for the nation, if not necessarily a decisive one for our immediate politics.

Trump's attorney tells NPR how he plans to defend against the latest charges

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191627739/trump-charges-indictment-attorney-jan-6-probe

It's embedded in the statute that they have to prove corrupt intent under 18 U.S.C. 1512, which is the obstruction statute. And corrupt intent means that you don't believe in, not only that you don't believe in the position that you're advancing, but you're doing it for a corrupt purpose, you're doing it to obstruct a government function rather than a truth-seeking function. And here, what we will argue to the jury, and we'll win, is that President Trump was arguing for the truth to come out in that election cycle rather than the truth to be denied. Even at the end, when he asked Mike Pence to pause the voting, he asked that it be sent back to the states so that the states, in exercising their truth-seeking function, could either audit or recertify.

Legal scholars pan Alan Dershowitz’s defense of Trump

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/dershowitz-trump-legal-analysis/index.html

CNN legal analyst Ross Garber, one of the leading impeachment experts in the country, also rejected Dershowitz’s reasoning. In recent years, Garber defended four Republican governors who faced potential impeachment, three of whom eventually resigned from office.

“I’m not sure of anybody who’s defended more impeachments than I have, and even I think Dershowitz is wrong on this,” Garber said Monday on CNN. “I don’t think you need a technical criminal violation for there to be an impeachable offense, and there are lots of reasons for that.”

One reason, Garber explained, was that there weren’t many criminal statutes on the books when the Constitution was adopted. Another reason came from history, Garber said: The phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors,” was used in England before the framers included it in the US Constitution, and it wasn’t understood to require a criminal offense for impeachment.

Devon Archer to Tucker Carlson: Hunter Biden speakerphone calls with father were ‘abuse of soft power’

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4133902-devon-archer-to-tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-speakerphone-calls-with-father-were-abuse-of-soft-power/

Last year, Archer was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after he was convicted of defrauding a Native American tribe. He has not yet been ordered to report to prison, and a letter from the Department of Justice over the weekend said Archer’s counsel plans to appeal.

Ex-AG William Barr says Justice Department has ‘legitimate case’ in latest Trump indictment

 https://nypost.com/2023/08/02/william-barr-reacts-to-latest-trump-indictment-legitimate-case/

Former AG William Barr said the Department of Justice is not abusing power in its case against Trump.

“They’re not attacking his first amendment rights, he can say whatever he wants he can even lie and tell people the election was stolen when he knew better, but that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy. All conspiracies involve speech and all fraud involves speech,” he said. “Free speech does not give you the right for fraudulent conspiracy.”

Barr said he wasn’t sure initially, but has since “come to believe that [Trump] knew well that he had lost the [2020] election.

“And, now, what I think is important is, the government has assumed the burden of proving that. The government, in their indictment, takes the position that he had actual knowledge that he had lost the election and the election wasn’t stolen through fraud,” Barr told Collins.

Chareidim and the reality of propaganda

 Have just tried to have a fact based discussion with a close relative from NY but whenever I asked the source of her beliefs it came down to Yated or Ben Shapiro

When I said it was simple propaganda with no relationship to established facts she responded - well all your information that disagrees with my perspective  is from Left wing propaganda. 

It is important to note that all English Chareidi  publication are mouthpieces for the Republican conservative perspective

Despite some nonsense written recently by Jonthan Rosenblum lamenting the lack of open debate in colleges. Mishpacha does not attempt to present all aspect of issues. Its token liberal lost his column a number of months ago. There is absolutely no free discussion in Chareidi sources. Binah magazine  is not embarrassed to publish anti-vaxxer nonsense. Mishpacha published a column presenting RFK jr as a serious presidential candidate - a Republican fantasy

Therefore it should not be surprising that Trump is presented as a hero who has been crucified by the senile and corrupt Biden family. Any appeal to established facts or legal norms is rejected as woke propaganda

Trump campaign likens Jan. 6 indictment to Nazi Germany

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-753356

"The persecution of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union, and other dictatorial and authoritarian regimes," the campaign said, with a spokesperson of the former president saying that the investigation into Trump is "un-American," according to an Associated Press article. 

"This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the ongoing pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Justice Department to interfere in the 2024 presidential election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins.”

Six Things We Learned From the New Trump Indictment

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/six-things-we-learned-from-the-new-trump-indictment?ref=home?ref=home

Trump Was Trying to Delay Election Certification During the Jan. 6 Attack

During and After Violence at the Capitol, Trump and Giuliani Kept Pressuring GOP Lawmakers to Delay Certification

Trump Loyalists Welcomed Possibility of Widespread Violence and Suggested Martial Law

Trump Personally Reinserted Language Attacking Pence Into His Jan. 6 Speech

Trump Privately Said He’d “Give” a National Security Crisis “To The Next Guy”

Mike Pence Took ‘Contemporaneous Notes’ of a Damning Meeting With Trump.

The Death of Dilbert and False Claims of White Victimhood

 https://time.com/6259311/dilbert-racism-scott-adams/

The poll involved a small sample size and deployed a question loaded with language born from acts of racial trolling. “It’s OK to be white,” has recently appeared on Neo Nazi and alt-right groups’ flyers and websites and in some of their real-world speeches. Some of those polled may have recognized it. Rasmussen doesn’t appear to have asked why respondents agreed(53%), disagreed (26%), or were not sure (21%). Then there’s the fact that Rasmussen has a tendency not only to consistently produce results that vary widely from other polls querying similar things, but to lean consistently to the right and do so most significantly when conservative candidates or ideas are trailing elsewhere. Those are just a few of the issues the political scientist and political-behavior expert Alan Abramowitz warned of in an October 2016 blog post titled “Don’t Trust Rasmussen Polls.”