Saturday, October 29, 2022

This attack was the result of decades of the political right wing peddling fear and lies and Trump turned it lose.

This has all gone too far. There are reports of men with bullet proof vests and armed with assault rifles standing at ballot drop sites. Average citizens simply carrying out the responsibility of voting has to face down these idiots.

Arizona woman confronts armed people watching ballot drop box (click here for video)
Published: Oct. 26, 2022 at 12:52 AM EDT

October 29, 2022
By Michael Biesecker and Bernard Condon

The man accused (click here) of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist and often rambling posts online, including some that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended former President Donald Trump and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.

David DePape, 42, grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, before leaving about 20 years ago to follow an older girlfriend to San Francisco. A street address listed for DePape in the Bay Area college town of Berkeley led to a post office box at a UPS Store.

DePape was arrested at the Pelosi home early Friday. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she expected to file multiple felony charges, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and elder abuse.

Stepfather Gene DePape said the suspect had lived with him in Canada until he was 14 and had been a quiet boy....

Donald John Trump is an active participant in The Big Lie.

October 27, 2022
By Mark Niesse

Credit...

An auditor from Gwinnett County (click here) who was falsely accused of election fraud in the film “2000 Mules” is suing the movie’s makers, Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, alleging they lied to advance a phony narrative at his expense....

The Big Lie is not simply a spoof on Trump's willingness to be paranoid about the election of 2020. The Big Lie is an active campaign by Trump and the Republicans. When real human beings are being targeted and victimized, this is not a small issue. This is criminal. There is no getting around it. This is political harassment to drive people to destroy, kill and remove the USA Constitution as the Rule of Law in the USA.

A tour de force (click here) exploring the limits of how many suckers there are willing to pay for fantasy.

"True the Vote" is conducting criminal acts and Americans victimized by these bozos are left to handle it themselves. THESE ARE CRIMINALS!

September 14, 2022
By Natalia Contreras 

A defamation and computer fraud lawsuit (click here) filed this week against Texas-based True the Vote asks a judge to essentially determine whether the election integrity group’s campaign against a small election vendor constitutes slanderous lies or a participation in criminal acts.

The suit was brought by Konnech Inc., a small elections logistics company based in Michigan. It alleges that True the Vote and its followers launched a stream of false and racist accusations against the company’s founder, forcing him and his family to flee their home in fear for their lives and damaging the company’s business. The suit cites True the Votes’ public claims that it hacked the company’s servers and accessed the personal information of nearly 2 million U.S. poll workers.

In a rare move, the judge granted Konnech’s request for a temporary restraining order against Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, leaders of True the Vote, a nonprofit organization known for making allegations of voter fraud without evidence to support their claims. Judge Kenneth Hoyt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas found a “substantial likelihood” that Konnech would “suffer irreparable injury” without it. The order also prohibits True the Vote from accessing, or attempting to access, Konnech’s computers or disclosing any of the company’s data and orders the group to disclose more information about the alleged breach....

Trump never had the money to bail out his own media.

October 28, 2022
By Helen Coster and Krystak Hu

...The documents show Truth Social’s early backers (click here) include six businessmen outside of the Silicon Valley mainstream — including two executives from an oil company and a gym chain, several Republican donors, a former U.S. ambassador to Portugal and the head of a mail-order fruitcake company.

The involvement of the previously unnamed financial backers of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) – parent company of social media app Truth Social – shows how Trump tapped his political supporters to launch an outlet aimed at political conservatives and libertarians after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Congress....

I feel a boycott coming on. These are all Texas bozos. They have issues with freedom, they like to control it. They don't care how. It might even take guns.

...According to the documents, (click here) Karl Pfluger (click here), president of Midland, Texas oil and energy company Oryx Midstream Services owned by private equity firm Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, put in $5.3 million in December 2021 and an additional $4.5 million in March 2022. Pfluger is the brother of August Pfluger (click here) (Nothing like having your own media circus as a Texan), a Republican Congressman in Texas and vocal Trump ally who first earned Trump’s endorsement in February 2020.

In a statement to Reuters, August Pfluger’s spokesperson said he doesn’t have a personal investment in Trump Media & Technology Group, adding: “He earned the endorsement of President Trump long before the creation of Truth Social.”

Patrick Walsh, chief executive of the holding company that controls luxury gym brands including TMPL (click here), Palm Beach Sports Clubs (click here), and LIV (click here), invested a total of $6.2 million between December 2021 and February 2022. He had worked with Phillip Juhan (click here), who was the financial chief at fitness chain operator Town Sports International Holdings until Juhan left to take on the same role at TMTG, according to a May SEC filing from DWAC.

It is Texas billionaires backing Trump.

Texas telecom billionaire Kenny Troutt, a vocal Trump supporter, invested $4 million through his money manager Nicholas Merrick (click here) between May and November 2021. He donated $200,000 to the Trump campaign in 2016, and another $925,000 to Trump’s 2020 re-election campaigns, according to publicly available campaign finance data.

Roy Bailey, the chief executive officer of Bailey Deason Capital Investments (click here) in Dallas, Texas and the national co-finance chairman of Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, invested at least $200,000 between May and October 2021.

George Glass
, an Oregon real estate developer and Trump fundraiser who served as U.S. Ambassador to Portugal during the Trump administration, invested $500,000 on Jan. 24, 2022. Another $100,000 was invested the same day by Bob McNutt, the chief executive officer of a mail-order fruitcake company in Corsicana, Texas (click here). McNutt is a longtime Trump supporter.

It is very obvious Glass bought his ticket to ambassador.

Bailey, Pfluger, McNutt, Glass, Walsh and Troutt didn’t reply to requests for comment....