February 1, 2022
By Jamie Ross
Donald Trump’s doomed attempts to overturn his 2020 election (click here) defeat reportedly included a scheme to take control of voting machines in crucial swing states. A report from The New York Times reveals that Trump pressed his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to ask the Department of Homeland Security if it was legally possible for it to seize control of the machines, and also asked Attorney General William Barr if the Justice Department could carry out the same unprecedented task. The Times states that the Giuliani directive took place six weeks after the election, and the Barr meeting happened shortly before that. According to the report, Barr shot down the suggestion, while Giuliani did reach out to the DHS, only to be told he lacked the authority to take control of the voting machines. Trump’s advisers reportedly wrote two drafts of an executive order authorizing the military to oversee the seizure of the machines, at which point Giuliani is said to have abandoned the plans, and persuaded Trump that the military shouldn’t get involved....
Trump's Texas rally speech is also reasons for impeachment. Pardons are not for sale regardless what is being traded.
Unfortunately, Donald John Trump is using Texans for their extremism to win donations and votes. Many Texans absolutely hate the federal government and are extremist political right wingers so when they hear someone they agree with in a speech or rally, they gather around for the potential of being allowed to secede.
But, Trump's free wheeling speeches are proving more and more reasons why he should still be impeached. The Republicans need to lead the way to impeach and remove his ability to deal whatever power is left to him. In my opinion, if Republicans can't discern this simple level of impeachable offenses and act on it, they don't deserve their seat of power within our governance. It is a matter of honoring and upholding the USA Constitution, not politics.
By Patrick Reis
Donald Trump on Saturday night (click here) positioned himself as a law-and-order hardliner who knew that the key to keeping the country safe was to direct the full might of the state at undocumented immigrants, potential criminals, and anyone else who did not storm the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Near the end of a meandering, 80-plus-minute address to a “Save America” rally crowd in Conroe, Texas, Trump dangled the possibility of pardons for the insurrectionists who participated in a deadly breach of the Capitol aimed at disrupting the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next.
“If I run, and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly,” Trump told a massive crowd, claiming that many people had asked about it....
