You should call his office and call your two senators too.Fucking Manchin
Joe Biden is now POTUS
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He lied about this. He didn't want to look weak to his fan base but behind the curtains Agent Orange was no different....
surprised they found veins to inject, oh this shit goes into muscle? same comment then
Dude will do time at a country club.
Man if I was any one of the people Trump called out. I would have immediately fired back saying if my constituents believe that I should leave office, then so be it, but I will not be bullied by a treasonous wannabe dictator punk.Trump’s Republican Hit List at CPAC Is a Warning Shot to His Party
In his first public appearance since leaving office, Donald Trump went through, by name, every Republican who supported his second impeachment and called for them to be ousted.
Former President Donald J. Trump speaking on Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
By Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman
ORLANDO, Fla. — After days of insisting they could paper over their intraparty divisions, Republican lawmakers were met with a grim reminder of the challenge ahead on Sunday when former President Donald J. Trump stood before a conservative conference and ominously listed the names of Republicans he is targeting for defeat.
- Feb. 28, 2021Updated 7:57 p.m. ET
As Democrats pursue a liberal agenda in Washington, the former president’s grievances over the 2020 election continue to animate much of his party, more than a month after he left office and nearly four months since he lost the election. Many G.O.P. leaders and activists are more focused on litigating false claims about voting fraud in last year’s campaign, assailing the technology companies that deplatformed Mr. Trump and punishing lawmakers who broke with him over his desperate bid to retain power.
In an address on Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, his first public appearance since he left the White House, Mr. Trump read a sort of hit list of every congressional Republican who voted to impeach him, all but vowing revenge.
“The RINOs that we’re surrounded with will destroy the Republican Party and the American worker and will destroy our country itself,” he said, a reference to the phrase “Republicans In Name Only,” adding that he would be “actively working to elect strong, tough and smart Republican leaders.”
Mr. Trump took special care to single out Representative Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader. He called Ms. Cheney “a warmonger” and said her “poll numbers have dropped faster than any human being I’ve ever seen.” Then he falsely claimed he had helped revive Mr. McConnell’s campaign last year in Kentucky.
Ms. Cheney and Mr. McConnell have harshly criticized Mr. Trump over his role in inciting the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, and Ms. Cheney has repeatedly said that the G.O.P. should cut ties with the former president.
With his refusal to concede defeat and his determination to isolate G.O.P. leaders who criticize him, the former president has effectively denied Republicans from engaging in the sort of reckoning that parties traditionally undertake after they lose power.
Even with Democrats controlling Congress and the White House for the first time in over a decade, many of the Republicans who spoke at the conference here said strikingly little about President Biden or the nearly $2 trillion stimulus measure the House passed early Saturday, which congressional Republicans uniformly opposed.
Mr. Trump was the exception, repeatedly taking aim at the Biden administration. “In just one short month, we have gone from America first to America last,” he said, criticizing the new president on issues ranging from immigration to the Iran nuclear deal. “We all knew that the Biden administration was going to be bad, but none of us even imagined just how bad they would be and how far left they would go.”
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Mr. Trump looked at himself in a mirror, held by an aide, before walking out to speak at CPAC.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Yet even as he dutifully read his scripted attacks on his successor, the former president drew louder applause for pledging to purge his Republican antagonists from the party.
“Get rid of them all,” he said.
Mr. Trump’s attack, and the enthusiastic response to his call for vengeance, illustrated the dilemma Republicans find themselves in.
Mr. Biden does little to energize conservative activists. Indeed, Mr. Trump and other speakers at the event drew more applause for their criticism of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Mr. Biden’s chief public health adviser for the virus and a figure of enmity on the far right, than for their attacks on the president.
The attention surrounding Mr. Trump and his potential plans for the future are forestalling a focused attack on Mr. Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who used his speech on Friday to hail Mr. Trump’s leadership of the party, said in a brief interview that his party’s voters would pivot to the present once Mr. Biden’s agenda became more clear.
“As the American people see the bad ideas that destroy jobs and strip away our liberties, there’s a natural pendulum to politics,” Mr. Cruz said, predicting that Republican activists would “absolutely” pay more attention to the current administration later this year.
Mr. Trump made a specific pitch for people to donate to two committees associated with him, a notable move given that he has been the Republican National Committee’s biggest draw for the last four years. He gave an explicit description of “Trumpism” as a political ideology focused on geopolitical deal-making and immigration restrictions, and painted the Republicans who voted for impeachment as decided outliers in an otherwise united party.
More consequentially for Republicans, the attention-craving Mr. Trump, denied his social media weaponry, knows he can reliably energize the G.O.P. rank-and-file and draw publicity by excoriating his intraparty critics.
In some ways, the former president’s re-emergence at CPAC represented a full-circle moment. He first tested the right’s political waters in 2011 when he appeared at the conference and used his speech to belittle other Republicans and denounce China as a growing power.
To the delight of the party’s current lawmakers, however, Mr. Trump announced on Sunday that he would not create a breakaway right-wing party.
“We’re not starting new parties,” he said of an idea he was privately musing about just last month. Less satisfying to many Republican leaders, at least those ready to move on, was the former president’s musing about a potential run in 2024. “Who knows, I may even decide to beat them for a third time,” he said, bringing attendees to their feet.
Mr. Trump, of course, lost the election last year.
But that did not stop him from repeatedly, and falsely, claiming in his speech that he had won. After mostly sticking to his prepared text for the first hour of his 90-minute speech — and listing what he said were the accomplishments of his tenure — the former president grew animated and angry as he veered off the teleprompter to vent about his loss.
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A man wore a shirt featuring Mr. Trump on Sunday at CPAC. Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
“The Supreme Court didn’t have the guts or the courage to do anything about it,” Mr. Trump said of a body that includes three of his appointees. He was met with chants of “You won, you won!”
At one point, Mr. Trump did something he never did as president — expressly called on people to take the coronavirus vaccines that he had pressed for and hoped would help him in his re-election effort. But he mocked Mr. Biden for stumbling during a CNN town hall event and attacked him over comments the president made about the limited number of vaccines available when he took office.
The former president’s aides had been looking for an opportunity for him to re-emerge and debated whether to put on a rally-type event of their own or take advantage of the forum of CPAC, which relocated to Mr. Trump’s new home state from suburban Washington because Florida has more lenient coronavirus restrictions.
Mr. Trump and his aides worked with him on the speech for several days at his newly built office above the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, his private club near the Atlantic Ocean. Without his Twitter feed, Mr. Trump has been using specific moments — the death of the radio host Rush Limbaugh and Tiger Woods’s car crash — to inject himself into the news cycle.
Outside prepared statements, though, he has said far less since Jan. 20 about the future of the G.O.P. and his own lingering ambitions.
Interviews at CPAC suggested that a number of conservatives, while still supportive of Mr. Trump, are ambivalent about whether he should run again in 2024. That was borne out in the conference’s straw poll, during which the former president enjoyed overwhelming approval — but also more uncertainty about whether he ought to lead the party in three years.
Thirty-two percent of those who participated in the straw poll — a heavily conservative and self-selecting constituency — said they did not want Mr. Trump to run again or were unsure if he should.
A number of would-be candidates, most notably Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, enjoyed rousing receptions at the conference.
Yet Mr. Trump has essentially frozen the field for the moment. And he made clear in his speech that for now, he is serious about a third bid. t
This is new territory for Republicans, who were mostly eager to move on from their losing nominees in 2008 and 2012.
For now, though, Mr. Trump and the 2020 election are far more resonant. From the start on Sunday, the crowd provided Mr. Trump with the adulation he craves, chanting, “We love you! We love you!” at one point. And he made clear that he believes that news organizations, and his supporters, still want the sugar high of his appearances.
After stepping up to the lectern, Mr. Trump, gone for just five weeks, asked the room, “Do you miss me yet?”
Jonathan Martin reported from Orlando, Fla., and Maggie Haberman f
@easy_b @Camille
Yeah right, nigga.
1st off I voted for Biden and Obama twice and I’m telling you @easy_b is the liberal version of a trump cult member
I did too and he damn sho' is. A lot of 'em are and are too blind to see it. Scr8 up shills.
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Goddam socialist. Sometimes it feels like the wealthy in this country are treated like jews in nazi germany.
This sounds like a man who can be redeemed. And as a Christian nation we need to save this man in name the Jesus and white jesus we pray
Cruz looks like a pink whale.
The Georgia Republicans are scared to death of.........
Proud Boys deployed tactical measures in coordinated attack on the Capitol, court documents say
Erin Snodgrass
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo Ethan Nordean, with backward baseball hat and bullhorn, leads members of the far-right group Proud Boys in marching before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster,File
As Donald Trump was delivering his now infamous speech to supporters on the afternoon of January 6, members of the far-right white nationalist group, the Proud Boys, weren't among the thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators listening in the crowd, according to new court documents.
The Proud Boys had already set off for the US Capitol building. They arrived at the east side of the building before noon — more than an hour before Trump finished a speech that would later spur accusations of incitement.
While the majority of Trump supporters in DC that day were listening to the incendiary words of the departing president, the Proud Boys, wearing dark colors, positioned themselves strategically across the Capitol campus to avoid detection, prosecutors say.
They "were not present for any part of the speech, because hearing the speech was not in their plan," legal documents said.
The court documents detail how the group, lacking their leader Enrique Tarrio – who was arrested in DC days before the siege – empowered new members, including Nordean.
A local and national Proud Boys leader based in Seattle, Nordean was reportedly nominated by fellow members to have "war powers" and to take "ultimate leadership of the Proud Boys' activities on January 6, 2021."
"We tried playing nice and by the rules, now you will deal with the monster you created. The spirit of 1776 has resurfaced and has created groups like the Proudboys and we will not be extinguished. We will grow like the flame that fuels us and spread like love that guides us. We are unstoppable, unrelenting and now....unforgiving," Nordean posted on November 27.
Nordean also used his social media following to encourage his supporters to donate money, tactical vests, and other military-style equipment that Proud Boys members could use for the January 6 attack. For weeks leading up to the siege, Nordean communicated with various individuals who said they could provide funding, protective gear, and even bear mace to the group.
Nordean, dressed in all black and wearing a tactical vest, instructed his fellow members on how to use encrypted communications and the military-style equipment they had acquired. He then issued specific orders: "split up into groups, attempt to break into the Capitol building from as many different points as possible, and prevent the Joint Session of Congress from Certifying the Electoral College results," prosecutors said.
When they reached the Capitol building, the Proud Boys did just as they had been instructed. Spread across the campus en masse, members of the organization – along with a growing number of other pro-Trump protesters – forced their way through Capitol Police officers and metal barriers.
It was a Proud Boy — Dominic Pezzola — who broke open a window with a riot shield he had taken from an officer earlier that day. Pezzola has been kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day while he awaits his trial, Politico reported. He is one of the growing number of Capitol rioters arrested that day who have publicly blamed Trump for their participation in the siege.
According to court documents, prior to the assault, certain Proud Boys had discussed their hope to turn the "normies," or non-Proud Boys, loose on January 6, "to incite and inspire them to 'burn that city to ash today,' and 'smash some pigs to dust.'"
In the filing, prosecutors argue that Nordean poses a serious flight risk and danger to the community. Allowing him pretrial release, they argue, would allow him to plan, fundraise for, equip, and lead a group in another attack, a danger that is "unfortunately, quite real."
When officials executed a search warrant against Nordean, they discovered a valid US passport issued to someone who looked like Nordean, the filing said, but none for Nordean himself. Prosecutors said Nordean's explanation for the document's existence in his home was "absurd."
Erin Snodgrass
2 hours ago
In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo Ethan Nordean, with backward baseball hat and bullhorn, leads members of the far-right group Proud Boys in marching before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster,File
- Court documents detailed the weeks-long planning by Proud Boys members ahead of January 6.
- Members of the far-right group were told to dress "incognito" and split up to avoid detection.
- Prior to the siege, members discussed their hope to turn "normies" or non-Proud Boys loose on the Capitol.
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As Donald Trump was delivering his now infamous speech to supporters on the afternoon of January 6, members of the far-right white nationalist group, the Proud Boys, weren't among the thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators listening in the crowd, according to new court documents.
The Proud Boys had already set off for the US Capitol building. They arrived at the east side of the building before noon — more than an hour before Trump finished a speech that would later spur accusations of incitement.
While the majority of Trump supporters in DC that day were listening to the incendiary words of the departing president, the Proud Boys, wearing dark colors, positioned themselves strategically across the Capitol campus to avoid detection, prosecutors say.
They "were not present for any part of the speech, because hearing the speech was not in their plan," legal documents said.
Members of the neo-fascist group spent months fundraising for and planning the group's participation in the Capitol assault, according to a pre-trial detention filing made on Monday for one of the organization's leaders, Ethan Nordean.
The court documents detail how the group, lacking their leader Enrique Tarrio – who was arrested in DC days before the siege – empowered new members, including Nordean.
A local and national Proud Boys leader based in Seattle, Nordean was reportedly nominated by fellow members to have "war powers" and to take "ultimate leadership of the Proud Boys' activities on January 6, 2021."
As early as November 4, Nordean and fellow Proud Boys leaders took to social media in anger over the election, which they believed was stolen, and encouraged both Proud Boys and Proud Boys supporters to join the group in preventing the certification of the Electoral College results, the filing said.
"We tried playing nice and by the rules, now you will deal with the monster you created. The spirit of 1776 has resurfaced and has created groups like the Proudboys and we will not be extinguished. We will grow like the flame that fuels us and spread like love that guides us. We are unstoppable, unrelenting and now....unforgiving," Nordean posted on November 27.
Nordean also used his social media following to encourage his supporters to donate money, tactical vests, and other military-style equipment that Proud Boys members could use for the January 6 attack. For weeks leading up to the siege, Nordean communicated with various individuals who said they could provide funding, protective gear, and even bear mace to the group.
On the morning of January 6, the Proud Boys gathered at the Washington Monument, carrying Baofeng radios – devices made by a Chinese communication equipment manufacturer that are known for being more difficult to monitor or overhear than regular walkie talkies. The night before, members had been instructed to wear plain clothes and to avoid the colors typically worn by Proud Boys.
Nordean, dressed in all black and wearing a tactical vest, instructed his fellow members on how to use encrypted communications and the military-style equipment they had acquired. He then issued specific orders: "split up into groups, attempt to break into the Capitol building from as many different points as possible, and prevent the Joint Session of Congress from Certifying the Electoral College results," prosecutors said.
When they reached the Capitol building, the Proud Boys did just as they had been instructed. Spread across the campus en masse, members of the organization – along with a growing number of other pro-Trump protesters – forced their way through Capitol Police officers and metal barriers.
It was a Proud Boy — Dominic Pezzola — who broke open a window with a riot shield he had taken from an officer earlier that day. Pezzola has been kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day while he awaits his trial, Politico reported. He is one of the growing number of Capitol rioters arrested that day who have publicly blamed Trump for their participation in the siege.
According to court documents, prior to the assault, certain Proud Boys had discussed their hope to turn the "normies," or non-Proud Boys, loose on January 6, "to incite and inspire them to 'burn that city to ash today,' and 'smash some pigs to dust.'"
In the filing, prosecutors argue that Nordean poses a serious flight risk and danger to the community. Allowing him pretrial release, they argue, would allow him to plan, fundraise for, equip, and lead a group in another attack, a danger that is "unfortunately, quite real."
When officials executed a search warrant against Nordean, they discovered a valid US passport issued to someone who looked like Nordean, the filing said, but none for Nordean himself. Prosecutors said Nordean's explanation for the document's existence in his home was "absurd."
Nordean told the agents that his wife had kept her ex-boyfriend's passport as a keepsake and brought the document to the home she now shared with Nordean, where she "just happened" to store the keepsake with her own passport on Nordean's side of the bed.
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Easy is back in the prognosis business.
Who didn’t think they weren’t going to be the first to get it?
Always assess the people hurling insults.
He’s trying to physically turn into the former president. He’s fat. He’s shortening his sentences. At this point Teddy doesn’t realize he’s Hilary Clinton and he will never sniff the presidency. At least Hilary was nominated. Ted won’t even ...
Heidi is a loser too.
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