The torrent of antisemitic vitriol against them have raised concerns that Trump’s base, which has already shown potential for violence, could channel that rhetoric into action.
Friday, August 19, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Alex Jones Endorses 'Someone Way Better Than Trump' - rats deserting sinking ship
https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-endorses-someone-way-better-trump-1734661
Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has stopped supporting former President Donald Trump, announcing he's backing Trump's potential 2024 presidential rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Prohibition to return to Egypt was only temporary
Rabbeinu Bachya (Devarim 17:16) “and the Lord has said to you: “you shall not return again on this way.” This commandment was valid only during the period when it was promulgated. It was intended to ensure that Israelites traveling to Egypt would not learn to copy the abominations practiced in that country as the Torah spells out in detail in Leviticus 18,3. This does not mean that there is a permanent prohibition for Jews to reside in Egypt. Had the Torah intended these words as a permanent prohibition it would be inconceivable that so many Torah scholars, pious individuals, made their home in Egypt after the destruction of the Temple. Even if individual Jews had ignored this prohibition and settled in Egypt, the sages would have spoken out against this and we would have records of their protest. The only people who were forbidden to dwell in Egypt were Jews who left the land of Israel to do so.
What Cheney won: Liz Cheney, roundly defeated in her Wyoming primary, has done a service to the nation
Liz Cheney didn’t survive the Republican primary judgment of 170,000 Wyomingites, who more than two to one backed an election-results-denying lawyer over the GOP elected official who has led the charge to expose and condemn Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the presidency from Joe Biden. But in doing this necessary work, Cheney has earned the thanks of 330 million Americans, including the 28% of adults who identify as Republicans. The only way forward for the party and the nation is biting the wound and extracting the poison of the snake.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
You don’t have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken
But spy cases are rare. More typically, as in the Trump investigation, the act applies to the unauthorized gathering, possessing or transmitting of certain sensitive government information.
Current claims by Trump supporters of the seemingly innocuous nature of the conduct at issue – simply possessing sensitive government documents – miss the point. The driver of the Department of Justice’s concern under Section 793 is the sensitive content and the connection to national defense information, known as “NDI.”
One theory floated by Trump defenders is that by simply handling the materials as president, Trump could have effectively declassified them. It actually doesn’t work that way – presidential declassification requires an override of Executive Order 13526, must be in writing, and must have occurred while Trump was still president – not after. If they had been declassified, they should have been marked as such.
Trump Raid Documents Could Reveal Informants on U.S. Payroll
In the aftermath of the search, the Trump camp insists that President Trump had the right to declassify information, and thus none of the records were classified. Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist who served in intelligence and defense positions in the administration (and who also identifies himself as one of Donald Trump's representatives to the National Archives), told the Just The News podcast that Trump was the "ultimate arbiter" of the classification of a document and thus there could be no wrongdoing.
That characterization is incorrect, experts say, because documents that are covered by statute, and not classified under presidential executive order, cannot be classified or declassified by the president. That includes nuclear secrets (under the Atomic Energy Act) and documents that might identify CIA case officers or agents (under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982). The Washington Post has reported that the documents sought at Mar-a-Lago related to nuclear weapons.
Cheney to launch anti-Trump organization after primary defeat
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/17/cheney-launch-anti-trump-organization-after-defeat-00052344
The new group, which will serve as Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) primary political vehicle as she considers whether to run for president in 2024, does not have an official name yet. An informed guess: The Great Task, which was the name of Cheney’s final ad of the campaign. The phrase is from the last sentence of the Gettysburg Address, and Cheney also referenced it in her concession speech from Jackson, Wyo., on Tuesday night.
Liz Cheney Primary Loss Could Be Her Biggest 2024 Boost Yet: Experts
https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-primary-loss-could-her-biggest-2024-boost-yet-experts-1734243
But while Cheney was unseated, her primary loss is unlikely to be the deathblow that the former president is hoping it will be. Republican strategist Alex Patton told Newsweek that the loss elevates Cheney to the "bonafide leader of the resistance" while also raising her national profile.
Republican strategist Jay Townsend told Newsweek that Cheney's courage to break away from the pack has helped her stand out "in the ocean of cowards populating the Republican caucus in Congress." He said that regardless of Tuesday's defeat, "history will someday regard her as one of the greatest heroes of our time" and that she'll be remembered for her conviction in refusing to back down to Trump and his congressional loyalists.
FBI Sought Documents Trump Hoarded for Years, Including about Russiagate
https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-sought-documents-trump-hoarded-years-including-about-russiagate-1734280
The two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the situation tell Newsweek that while some of the intelligence documents might have dealt with nuclear weapons, that was not the main focus. "Donald Trump kept documents that interested him," one of those officials says, "sometimes Iranian or North Korean nukes, sometimes Ukraine or Russia, some foreign leaders." It wasn't the subject matter per se that was of interest to Justice as it was fear that Trump might "weaponize" the information, including for personal gain, the official says.
"Trump was particularly interested in matters related to the Russia hoax and the wrong-doings of the deep state," one former Trump official tells Newsweek. "I think he felt, and I agree, that these are facts that the American people need to know." The official says Trump may have been planning to use them as part of a 2024 run for the presidency.
The high-level U.S. government officials explain that it was not necessarily the classification level of the documents nor even their subject matter that investigators were focused on.
Trump is Democrat mole destroying the Republoican party
Trump has convinced Republican voters to select candidates primarily on the basis of whether they support his election lies . Which should lead to massive defeats in general elections
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/wyoming-alaska-primary-election-takeaways/index.html
Trump and his allies have spent the spring and summer turning Republican primaries across the political map into bitter fights in which loyalty to the former President was the central factor.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
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