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☆ Donald Trump snubbed Ron DeSantis, icing him out of the lineup for his Florida rally
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump left Ron DeSantis off the guest list for his Florida rally, days out from the midterms. Trump's announcement was "an elbow to Ron's throat," a source close to DeSantis told Politico. Another unnamed source close to DeSantis told the outlet that the rally announcement was "an elbow to Ron's throat." "This is an event President Trump is holding as part of a series of stops he is making for Republican Senate candidates," they said. Representatives for Trump, DeSantis, and Rubio did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

☆ Roger Stone cautioned Ron DeSantis that it would be 'ingratitude and treachery' to run against Trump in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Roger Stone told Ron DeSantis that it would be "ingratitude and treachery" to run against Trump. He also hit out at DeSantis' wife, comparing her to Lady Macbeth. Ron DeSantis that it would be treacherous for him to run against Trump in 2024. In the post, Stone also hit out at DeSantis' wife, Casey DeSantis. "Have you ever noticed how much Ron DeSantis' wife Casey is like Lady Macbeth?"

☆ Conservatives and anti-vaxxers are frantically lobbying Elon Musk to lift Twitter bans on their idols after he took over
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An assortment of conservatives are lobbying Elon Musk to undo Twitter bans on prominent allies. Musk has said he opposes permanent bans and plans to roll back moderation on Twitter. But Twitter is enforcing legal sanctions on the networks in the EU and UK which prevents people seeing their content. Twitter has said it never shadowbans anybody, though Musk said Friday he was "digging in" to the allegations. Evolutionary biologist and podcaster Bret Weinstein, who has long questioned COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, also called for Musk to reinstate anti-vaxxer Dr Robert Malone.

☆ Pro-Trump rally speaker says that 'angel of death' is coming for Lindsey Graham and Democrats before end of the year
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A pro-Trump rally speaker said the "angel of death" was coming for various politicians before 2023. The speaker showed an image of people including Lindsey Graham, Joe Biden, and the Clintons. "The angel of death is coming to visit these people. The image said, "the Angel of Death is coming for them by year-end," and "treason will be written on them for ALL ETERNITY." The two-day "ReAwaken America" rally also featured speeches by Eric Trump, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump was ordered on Friday to testify under oath and provide documents to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. Such testimony could be made public and become part of a final report by the special panel. 1/3 Police clear the U.S. Capitol Building with tear gas as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather outside, in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2021. read morePRIOR PRESIDENTIAL TESTIMONYThe committee made clear that congressional testimony by a former or sitting president was not unprecedented. The rioters were attempting to stop Congress' formal certification of Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.

☆ New video shows Roger Stone warning Trump will get his 'brains beat in' if he runs for president again
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A video shows Roger Stone saying Donald Trump would get his "fucking brains beat in" if he runs for president again. The footage from January 20, 2021, the day President Joe Biden was inaugurated, shows Stone sitting in a moving vehicle while on the telephone. "I'm done with this president," Stone, who worked on Trump's 2016 campaign, can be heard saying in the clip. "Run again, you'll get your fucking brains beat in." Stone talked about ejecting Jared Kushner from Miami in the clip and called Ivanka Trump an "abortionist bitch."

☆ Roger Stone said he would 'eject' Jared Kushner from Miami while ranting about not getting a second pardon. 'You want to fight? Let's fight'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Roger Stone wanted a second pardon to protect him from January 6 repercussions, according to The Daily Beast. He will be leaving very quickly," Stone says of Jared Kushner. Filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen told The Daily Beast that Stone held Donald Trump and Jared Kushner responsible for him not getting the additional pardon. The filmakers were unclear on who he was directing that remark towards, according to the Daily Beast. He wanted a second pardon after the riot.

☆ New video shows Roger Stone telling Trump supporters that 'the key thing to do is claim victory' after the election, no matter the outcome
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New footage shows Roger Stone telling Trump supporters to declare victory even if Trump loses. Stone was seen on November 1, 2020, telling protesters that "possession is nine-tenths of the law." But when that happens the key thing to do is to claim victory," Stone said. But when that happens the key thing to do is to claim victory," Stone said. Stone released a statement via Telegram on Thursday categorically denying any claims that he tried to overturn the 2020 election.

Share this -Link copiedCommittee votes to subpoena Trump The committee voted on Thursday unanimously to subpoena Trump. Trump would not be the first president to be subpoenaed, nor would he be the first former president subpoenaed by Congress. "Even before the networks called the race for President Biden on Nov. 7th, his chances of pulling out a victory were virtually nonexistent, and President Trump knew it," Kinzinger said. “At times, President Trump acknowledged the reality of his loss. “What did President Trump know?

That's based on a Secret Service email from 9:09 a.m. "The head of the President’s Secret Service protective detail, Robert Engel, was specifically aware of the large crowds outside the magnetometers," Schiff said. A Secret Service report at 7:58 a.m. said, "Some members of the crowd are wearing ballistic helmets, body armor carrying radio equipment and military grade backpacks." On Dec. 26, a Secret Service field office relayed a tip that had been received by the FBI, Schiff said. Trump would not be the first president to be subpoenaed, nor would he be the first former president subpoenaed by Congress.

☆ Trump planned to prematurely declare victory as early as 4 months before Election Day 2020, Jan. 6 committee claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The January 6 committee claimed Trump hatched plans to prematurely declare victory months before the 2020 election. The 2020 election was uniquely susceptible to premature victory claims due to the sheer amount of mail-in ballots. The California Democrat also presented evidence that Steve Bannon had "advanced knowledge" of Trump's intent to declare victory on election night regardless of the outcome of the 2020 presidential race. Trump did eventually follow-through with a plan to prematurely declare victory. For weeks before the 2020 election, officials and journalists warned it might take more time to predict a winner.

☆ Explainer: Does Trump have to comply with the Jan. 6 committee subpoena?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Andy Sullivan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterNevertheless, the subpoena will add to Trump's growing list of legal woes. An 1857 law says failure to comply with a congressional subpoena for testimony or documents is punishable by one to 12 months imprisonment. Another former Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, has also been charged with contempt of Congress and faces trial in November. Federal prosecutors have opted not to charge two other former Trump aides, Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, after the House voted to hold them in contempt. Senior Democratic lawmakers discussed invoking inherent contempt during Trump's two impeachment trials, issuing daily fines instead of imprisoning witnesses.

Decades later, prosecutors should be thinking about whether that same statute could be used against former President Donald Trump, his inner circle and even Giuliani himself. First, there was an allegedly criminal effort to win the presidency, including through a foreign-influence campaign. Third, there was the allegedly criminal effort to monetize the presidency, including by using Trump’s hotels and golf clubs in ways that may constitute corruption. Fifth, there was the allegedly criminal effort to protect Trump’s future political prospects by obstructing the House’s Jan. 6 commission. Sixth, and finally, there was the allegedly criminal effort to conceal state secrets at Mar-a-Lago — although Trump’s reasons for holding onto confidential documents remain unclear.

The Jan. 6 committee's ninth and likely final investigative hearing Thursday will feature new testimony and evidence, including Secret Service records and surveillance video. ET, will not include any live witnesses, a committee aide said. All nine committee members are expected to lead segments of the hearing. That’s a departure from this summer when each of the eight hearings featured only a few panel members at a time. Part of the committee's charge is to issue legislative recommendations to prevent another Jan. 6 attack, and some panel members Thursday will present on the ongoing threats to democracy that remain.

☆ Next Jan. 6 committee hearing will reveal 'pretty surprising' new material, Rep. Zoe Lofgren says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The committee's ninth public hearing will touch on the "close ties between people in Trump world and some of these extremist groups," Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said in a CNN interview. "There's some new material that, you know, I found as we got into it, pretty surprising." Later that same week, the committee interviewed Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for about 3.5 hours. Thomas was not videotaped during her interview with the committee, Lofgren said over the weekend in an MSNBC interview. The committee also faces an end-of-the-year deadline to submit a final report to the president and Congress containing its findings.

☆ The Justice Department's sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz seems stalled, attorneys say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +21 min

Those included a stalking charge for falsely smearing a political rival as a pedophile, identity theft and sex trafficking the same 17-year-old who is the alleged victim in the Gaetz case. The alleged victim, who turned 18 in December 2017, did not answer requests for comment from NBC News. Also according to that plea agreement, the alleged victim falsely claimed she was of age on her SeekingArrangement profile. The Gaetz investigation became public in March 2021, after The New York Times reported the general contours of the investigation. The potential witnesses in the federal government’s inquiry into Gaetz is not limited to Greenberg, the alleged victim and Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend.

☆ Roger Stone sought a second pardon from Donald Trump after the January 6 Capitol riot: New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Stone, a Trump confidante, sought a second pardon from the former president after the Capitol riot. Stone had a prison sentence commuted by Trump before he left the White House. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyRoger Stone sought a second pardon from former President Donald Trump after the Capitol riot, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Stone asked Schoen to "plug" his request for a pardon when he spoke to Trump, per the outlet. "Fuck the voting, let's get right to the violence," Stone can be heard saying to his associates during a car ride.

The committee had been planning to hold another hearing on Wednesday but postponed it due to the hurricane approaching Florida. “Nothing provided by the Jan. 6 committee can be considered credible, or unedited or not manipulated," Stone told NBC News Tuesday. The committee has also obtained a trove of Secret Service documents from the period around the Jan. 6 attack. "I think it’s certainly something that will be explored," at the hearing, said the committee member who requested anonymity. “We all swore the same oath to the Constitution,” Cheney told NBC News in a statement, responding to the GOP criticism she’s faced.

☆ Watch: Filmmaker says video shows Roger Stone revealing how 'stop the steal' would work
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Christoffer Gulbrandsen, one of the filmmakers who followed Trump ally Roger Stone for 3 years and is sharing some of the footage with the January 6 House select committee, says that Roger Stone revealed how the 'stop the steal' campaign to overturn the 2020 election would work months before election day.

☆ 'Fuck the vote': Roger Stone doubles down on claim that CNN documentary footage of him saying 'let's get right to the violence' during 2020 election is a 'deep fake'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Taylor Ardrey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Roger Stone claims that the documentary footage of calling for violence before the 2020 election is "deep fake." Stone said the footage obtained by CNN is a "deep fake." It comes after clips obtained by the outlet show him saying: "Fuck the voting, let's get right to the violence." The footage, taken by Danish filmmakers Frederik Marbell and Christoffer Guldbrandsen, was filmed as they trailed Stone on and off for three years, according to CNN. "Fuck the voting, let's get right to the violence," the former Trump adviser could be heard saying in a clip, per CNN.

☆ Roger Stone is heard saying 'let's get right to the violence' in unearthed footage from 2020 election handed over to January 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

New footage obtained by CNN shows Roger Stone calling for violence before the 2020 election. In the footage, Stone is also heard saying "fuck voting" and "you see antifa, shoot to kill." "Fuck the voting, let's get right to the violence," Stone is heard saying. In a statement shared with CNN, Stone claimed that the videos were doctored. In December 2020, within the last month of the Trump presidency, the former president pardoned Stone, who had been convicted of multiple felonies in 2019.

☆ House Jan. 6 panel postpones hearing set for Wednesday due to Hurricane Ian
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

US Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot speaks during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 13, 2022. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is postponing its next public hearing due to a major hurricane, the leaders of the panel announced Tuesday. "In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow's proceedings," Thompson and Cheney said. The delay came after Hurricane Ian, a Category 3 storm expected to wallop Florida with high winds and heavy rainfall, made landfall in Cuba. The committee also faces an end-of-the-year deadline to submit a final report to the president and Congress containing its findings and recommendations.

☆ 'F**k the voting, let's get right to the violence': CNN obtains documentary clips of Trump ally
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

A Danish documentary film crew has shared multiple pieces of footage with CNN and the House select committee investigating the January 6 attacks at the US Capitol that show Roger Stone leading up to Election Day.

☆ Alex Jones' billion-dollar judgement: The conspiracy theorist has turned career-ending setbacks into profit windfalls, but this could be too much to overcome
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Ashley Collman | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

Robbie Parker was later falsely called a crisis actor, and the Parkers are among those who sued Alex Jones for defamation. Longtime informal adviser to Donald Trump, Roger Stone (right), and and Alex Jones (left) speak to reporters in December 2018. Picture showing a computer screen displaying the Twitter account of Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones taken on August 15, 2018 in Washington DC. "Alex Jones is likely to continue being Alex Jones, which means he's likely to try all kinds of shenanigans to avoid accountability," said Holt. "The money awarded in damages does not repair what Alex Jones has done to those parents' lives, but it could be a step towards dismantling the toxic empire that Alex Jones has built around his brand."

☆ The GOP's American psychosis didn't start with Trump. It won't end with him, either.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( David Corn | David Corn Is A Veteran Washington Journalist | Political Commentator. He Is The Washington Bureau Chief For Mother Jones Magazine | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +15 min

This piece has been adapted from "American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy,” by David Corn. Some reporters feared Goldwater supporters were about to storm the stage and physically attack the governor. The Republican Party — those then in control of it — thought otherwise. They were guided by what Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway once called “alternative facts.” For many of the Capitol Hill assailants, Trump and his paranoia had become a theology. Excerpted from "American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy."

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