Ruby Freeman had been publicly targeted by the Trump campaign, the right-wing media outrage machine, and now… Kanye West’s publicist?
Continue reading “Kanye West’s Publicist Reportedly Pressured Election Worker To Confess To Non-Existent Crime”Trump Coup Plot Now Includes Kanye’s Weirdo Publicist
Here is yet another story from the range of conspiracies and criminal plots that were afoot last winter to overthrow the government of the United States and keep Donald Trump in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman was one of those innocent bystanders who became the target of death threats and harassment tied to a conspiracy theory that she had helped steal the presidential election in Georgia for Joe Biden.
On January 4th 2021 – two days before the Capitol insurrection – a woman named Trevian Kutti knocked on Freeman’s door and told her she was in danger. If Freeman didn’t confess to the truth of Trump’s election rigging charges within 48 hours unidentified persons would come to her home and Freeman along with members of her family would be sent to jail.
Kutti is a publicist and head of Trevian Worldwide, a PR firm. As of 2018 she is also the “Director of Operations” for Kanye West, a friend and political ally of Trump. (Just before signing on with West Kutti had been PR Director for R Kelly. But she quit that job as sex trafficking and assault accusations piled up.) She was there as West’s employee but only identified herself as the emissary of a “high profile” individual with an urgent message and an offer of help.
Continue reading “Trump Coup Plot Now Includes Kanye’s Weirdo Publicist”Gaetz And Bannon Talk About Unleashing ‘Shock Troops’ If Trump Wins 2024, ‘Or Before’
Top Trump allies Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon mulled a plan on Thursday to establish thousands of “shock troops” to go after their political enemies.
Continue reading “Gaetz And Bannon Talk About Unleashing ‘Shock Troops’ If Trump Wins 2024, ‘Or Before’”Supreme Court Lets Texas Six-Week Abortion Ban Stand But Opens It To Lawsuits
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that abortion providers in Texas can sue certain state officials to preemptively block the state’s six-week abortion ban. However, the law will stay in effect for now.
Continue reading “Supreme Court Lets Texas Six-Week Abortion Ban Stand But Opens It To Lawsuits”Meadows Apparently Screwed Up Turning Over Trump-Era Records To National Archives
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
Good Job
The National Archives is working with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to get his Trump-era phone and email records from his personal accounts that he was supposed to turn over at the end of Trump’s term.
- Speaking of Meadows’ records, the ex-Trump official has already voluntarily handed over his texts and emails to the House Jan. 6 select committee, according to CNN–even though he’s suing them and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to dodge the panel’s subpoena.
- The Jan. 6 committee’s already gotten “a number of extremely interesting, non-privileged documents” from Meadows, according to committee vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY).
Jan. 6 Rally Organizer Served Lawsuit Right After Long Jan. 6 Panel Hearing
Ali Alexander, the “Stop the Steal” leader behind the pre-insurrection Trump rally on Jan. 6, was confronted by a process server who served him a civil lawsuit outside the federal building where he had testified in front of the House Jan. 6 select committee for eight hours yesterday:
- It’s unclear what the lawsuit is about exactly or who filed it.
- Right before he went into the building for the deposition earlier that day, Alexander told reporters that he’s provided “tons of evidence” to the committee that he claims exonerates him, the Republican lawmakers tied to his rally and Trump.
Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 False Flag Operator Is A Tucker Carlson Fan
As part of his crusade to whitewash the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Fox host Tucker Carlson has been floating a baseless conspiracy theory that the insurrectionists were actually undercover government agents. As such, Carlson presented a photo of an insurrectionist during one of his programs, and a lawyer on his show declared that the insurrectionist was “clearly a law enforcement officer.”
- Except no, the man in question is actually a local quasi-celebrity in St. Louis known as “Rally Runner” who runs who runs around the city’s baseball stadium to strengthen “the spirit for the Cardinals to get the energy to win.” And his Facebook profile shows he’s a big fan of Carlson’s who posts videos like “Tucker Drops Nuke on Fauci Worshippers.”
- When HuffPost confronted the lawyer on Carlson’s show who claimed “Rally Runner” was an undercover agent with the outlet’s findings, the lawyer told HuffPost that if he’s wrong, “so be it, bro” and “I don’t give a shit about being wrong.”
You can watch the Rally Runner do his thing here:
Appeals Court Shoots Down Trump’s Attempt To Block Jan. 6 Subpoena
A three-judge panel on the D.C. federal appeals court unanimously rejected the former president’s effort to keep the National Archives from releasing Trump-era White House documents to the House Jan. 6 committee yesterday.
Senate Clears Final Hurdle To Staving Off Debt Ceiling Crisis
The Senate passed a crucial bill on Thursday that would allow Democrats to raise the debt ceiling by a simple majority. The measure passed after 14 Republican senators voted with the Democrats and broke the filibuster.
Mighty Convenient
The FBI’s National Use-of-Force Data Collection program is in danger of being dissolved thanks to police and federal agencies refusing to send the data needed to keep it afloat, according to the Government Accountability Office.
NYC Non-Citizens Now Allowed To Vote In Local Elections
The New York City Council approved legislation yesterday allowing any adult who’s lived in the city for at least 30 days and is a legal permanent resident in the U.S. (including DACA recipients) to vote in elections for mayor, city council, borough president and other city elections.
Must Read
“Many parents of school shooters ignore glaring warning signs. This one didn’t.” – The Washington Post
Starbucks Cafe Unionizes For First Time
A Starbucks cafe in Elmwood, New York became the first Starbucks shop in the U.S. to form a union yesterday.
- Here’s the moment when the Starbucks employees found out they had the votes to unionize:
Jonah Hill Boosts Climate Change Legislation On Jimmy Fallon
The comedian took a moment during his interview with late night host Jimmy Fallon to tout the National Climate Emergency Act last night (Fallon didn’t seem super thrilled).
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Report: Meadows Provided Jan. 6 Committee Messages With ‘Wide Range’ Of People During Attack
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly produced text messages and emails that show he was “exchanging with a wide range of individuals while the attack was underway” to the Jan. 6 committee, according to CNN.
Continue reading “Report: Meadows Provided Jan. 6 Committee Messages With ‘Wide Range’ Of People During Attack”Where Things Stand: Trump Did Chris Christie So Damn Dirty
I could read and write all day every day about those days in late September 2020 when Trump became the superspreader-in-chief. It almost feels like an obligation to do so, that we may inoculate ourselves against the potential claims of future historians that we were a blind, gullible, clueless people. Yes, we were, but not nearly as much as this episode suggests. We knew. We got it. The White House COVID outbreak with Trump at its center was very, very bad, and we understood that much in real time, not only in retrospect.
But now we have a new or more precisely an updated account of the shitshow, from someone who was neck deep in the shit at the time. Poor Chris Christie. He was done wrong so many times by Trump. He was the toadiest toady. There was the hostage video. There was this unforgettable headline: “Trump Uses Chris Christie As ‘Manservant’ To Fetch His McDonald’s.” There was Christie being unceremoniously dumped as the head of the transition. But in none of those episodes did Trump try to kill Christie.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Trump Did Chris Christie So Damn Dirty”Big Loss for Trump
Federal appeals court finds Trump’s claims of executive privilege to block a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee to be utterly without merit.
Appeals Court Smacks Down Trump Effort To Block Jan. 6 Probe
A D.C. federal appeals court denied Trump’s attempt to block the Jan. 6 investigation, allowing a subpoena for White House records about the Jan. 6 insurrection to proceed.
Continue reading “Appeals Court Smacks Down Trump Effort To Block Jan. 6 Probe”Listen To This: Filibuster Progress?!
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss Congress finally being on the verge of getting a filibuster carveout… but not for what you think.
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