Tag: Pres. Donald Trump

This is not the first time former President Donald J. Trump has outright stated that Joe Biden is not mentally fit to hold the position of President. On Wednesday, the former President agreed to a Newsmax interview where he discussed and mourned Rush Limbaugh’s passing.

Apart from praising the life and successes of Rush Limbaugh, the president also discussed the support he’s received since leaving office. This led to a hinting at a possible Presidential run in 2024.

As the interview progressed, the topic turned to recent statements that were made by current President Joe Biden. The discussion became heated and highly critical of President Biden’s statements on a CNN Town Hall in Milwaukee Tuesday.

Biden, when asked about combating COVID, told host Anderson Cooper: ‘It’s one thing to have the vaccine – which we didn’t have when we came into office – but a vaccinator: How do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?’

His comments were immediately seized upon by critics, who pointed out that a vaccine had been available since before Christmas.

‘We were giving millions of shots, millions of doses,’ said Trump on Wednesday, speaking by phone to host Greg Kelly.

‘So he was either not telling the truth or he’s mentally gone. One or the other.

‘Joe Biden’s being killed on that thing. Even the haters said, well wait a minute, this vaccine was announced long before.’

Trump pointed out that Biden himself was vaccinated before his January 20 inauguration.

‘Long before January 20,’ said Trump.

‘He made the statement that we had no vaccine. Literally, quote, we had no vaccine. He is getting lit up on that one. Even the bad ones. Even the ones that aren’t exactly fans, they were saying that was a bad statement.

‘Maybe, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt – could he be joking? Because frankly that was a very dumb statement.’

 

House Democrats intent on prosecuting former President Donald J Trump for being the sole instigator of the January 6 break-in at the Capitol, plan to introduce never-seen-before footage of the riots on Wednesday. This will be the first day of formal arguments and evidence to open the former president’s impeachment trial.

The alleged footage, “pulled from Capitol security cameras and other sources, will supposedly show the rioters’ ‘extreme violence’ from varying vantage points,” aides to the House impeachment team stated.

Democrats continue to maintain this will be an overwhelming display of evidence that Trump directly fueled the rioters and committed “the most heinous constitutional crime possible.”

“The easiest trials to try are the trials where you have the goods. We have the goods,” said a senior aide to the House impeachment team.

According to aides, the brand new footage will also underscore the risk that the violence could have spiraled further “but for the brave action of the officers” securing the building even when they were outnumbered by a pro-Trump mob.

They will also argue that Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6 to a group of his supporters, urging them to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop Joe Biden’s presidency, were “filled with meaning” — and directed at a group he knew included “folks with violent backgrounds.”

The Ongoing Rhetoric and Actions that have Spurred Anger

An unfortunate truth is that individuals who are intent on committing violence will usually find a way. Each day, crimes are seen in any local or national news outfit. In the US there is even has a channel dedicated to showing true crime.

Labeling the group that breached the Capitol simply as Trump-supporters instead of criminal extremists puts targets on most conservatives, which is disingenuous and dangerous.

Moreover, Republicans were told for four years to overlook and not label looters, rioters, and arsonists that burned, abused, and ransacked local businesses, cities, and federal buildings over the last four years. Perhaps the media and lawmakers should check their ongoing rhetoric as well. These narratives continue to fuel the most extreme individuals of any base.

One notable difference with the Capitol incident and others, however, is senators felt threated directly. Now is when violent criminal behavior seems to matter. Apparently, the violence was not so significant when law enforcement officers were being set up and executed or when individuals lost their lives or livelihoods to the abuses that were egged on by Democratic leadership telling left-extremists to fight, resist, and “get in [conservative] faces” for so long. Even when a police precinct was taken over and ‘Chaz’ was established, some Democratic leadership actually approved this behavior.

Bill Maher, “Real Time” host, expressed concerns over former President Donald J. Trump’s silence on President Joe Biden’s first week in office.

During Friday night’s show, Maher repeatedly expressed his concerns about the ‘radio silence’ from the former president since arriving at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 20.

“Does that not alarm you a little?” Maher asked his audience. “It’s like in ‘Jaws’ when the shark went out to sea for a little while. I think it will be back.”

“Where is Trump?” Maher wondered. “It’s like he’s in the ‘Where Are They Now?’ bit. I am so shocked that this guy has been so quiet! Are you not?”

“I just don’t trust that, you know? It’s just so not like him! ‘Radio silence’ is just never a term I associated with Donald Trump,” Maher continued. “He isn’t exactly … ‘fading away gracefully.'”

Guest and CNN commentator, Van Jones, critiqued House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s recent visit to Trump as a “kiss the ring,” moment.

“He’s not giving up control over the Republican Party,” Jones said about Trump. “And I think that it’s going to put a lot of pressure on Republicans who thought they were gonna be able to turn the page. But when Kevin McCarthy, who knows better, decides he’s going to continue to allow Donald Trump to run the party into the ground, that’s not good.”

Donald Trump Jr., along with many supporters saw the positives in the meeting as a way to move forward and recognize the voice of the voters who have been largely devalued and lumped into a singular category of ‘terror supporters’.

Where left leaning elites sense ‘alarm’, conservatives are  looking forward to retaking many of the Republican seats in 2022.

Nearly every Senate Republican declared on Tuesday that putting a former president on trial for impeachment was unconstitutional. This indicated the conviction Democrats were hoping for, would most likely be ‘dead on arrival’.

On Wednesday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporters that she and Senator Tim Kaine  (D-VA) are proposing a censure resolution as an alternative to the upcoming impeachment trial to rebuke former President Donald Trump.

This censure resolution would be “in lieu” of holding the trial. Needing only a maximum of 60 votes instead of the 67 required for conviction, a likely scenario. This would bar former President Trump from ever holding office again.

“It seems to me that there is some value in looking at an alternative to proceeding with the trial. … I realize the two leaders have already locked in a schedule. But it seems to me there is benefit in looking at an alternative that might be able to garner bipartisan support. I don’t know whether it would or not,” said Collins.

A censure resolution, unlike impeachment, would require only 60 votes to pass the Senate, and it would amount to a historic rebuke of Trump. The Senate has censured only one president previously — Andrew Jackson — a decision it reversed three years later.

“I have been talking with a handful of my colleagues, a handful, not 40,” Kaine said. “I think the Paul motion yesterday was completely clarifying that we’re not going to get near 67 votes. So I think there’s maybe a little more interest in could this be an alternative.”

“To do a trial knowing you’ll get 55 votes at the max seems to me to be not the right prioritization of our time right now,” Kaine added.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is vowing to move forward with the trial, wanting to put Republicans on the record about Trump’s rhetoric.

“I would simply say to all of my colleagues: Make no mistake, there will be a trial, and the evidence against the former president will be presented, in living color, for the nation and every one of us to see,” Schumer said.

Democrats will discuss censure resolution if the Senate acquits Trump

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he agreed “completely” with Schumer.

“We have a constitutional responsibility to accept this impeachment article and hold a trial,” Durbin said.

Durbin, however, did acknowledge that Democrats will discuss a censure resolution if they fail to convict Trump. Several senators have suggested the GOP support for conviction is likely capped at five — the number who voted against a bid by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to declare the trial unconstitutional.

The media cheered on the peaceful transition of power to life-long, career politician President Joe Biden and to the first woman, Asian-African-American Vice President Kamala Harris. They were sworn into office on Wednesday afternoon.

Meanwhile, emotional liberals have been celebrating on Twitter with a poorly trending #NotMyPresident (referring to Trump). Mostly Democratic voters are keeping this hashtag alive on the microblogging platform– a return to the pomp and circumstance that traditional long-haul politicians are accustomed to.

As of this writing, Republicans have not cried in the streets, needed safe spaces with coloring books or emotional support animals, set fire to anything, or frankly, paid much attention to the inauguration.

The humor found in the attempted clap-backs from Democratic voters, while others cheered a “return to normalcy,” was that their target audience didn’t care enough to attend or participate in Twitter arguments.

Among the posts on social media, many revolved around “Four years ago you said…”

So, taking a look back at the days surrounding President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, Republicans recall the outrageous claims and behavior of voters nationwide, as well as the meltdowns and divisiveness by media personalities.

Sources say, one, in particular, who stood out was Rachel Maddow, one of the brightest stars of MSNBC.

Big tech companies and Maddow swiftly purged and vilified conservatives’ attempt to seek answers to alleged voter irregularities. However, Maddow pushed the allegations that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia almost immediately after the 45th president took his oath of office.

“Over the closing months of our presidential election and right up through the lame-duck period before the new president was sworn in, we — the American people, had dropped on us a series of news bombs about Russia influencing our election, right? There was the unconfirmed dossier of dirt on Donald Trump that the Russian government had allegedly collected and was allegedly using against him to get him to do their bidding,” Maddow said during the opening segment of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Jan. 26, 2017, less than a week after Trump’s inauguration.

“That unconfirmed super inflammatory dossier of information was reportedly collected by a well-respected former MI6 British intelligence operative. It was published online last month whereupon that former British intelligence operative promptly disappeared,” Maddow continued. “He took himself off the grid. His business partner said he did it for his own safety.”

President Donald J. Trump, holding hands with FLOTUS Melania Trump, gave his final goodbyes to loyal staff members, security, and supporters shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday.

This was his final walk as commander in chief, as he prepared to board Marine One to head to Joint Base Andrews for a farewell speech hours before Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.

Trump was greeted at Joint Base Andrews by cannons firing and the military band playing.

“We’ve accomplished so much together,” Trump said to the small crowd, as his family looked on. “People have no idea how hard this family worked — and they worked for you. They could’ve had a much easier life.”

He continued, “What we have done has been amazing by any standard.” Trump referred to the pandemic as if it was in the past, saying, “As bad as the pandemic was… we did something that is really considered a medical miracle. They’re calling it a miracle, and that was the vaccine. We got the vaccine developed in nine months.”

The outgoing president said, “I will always fight for you. I will be watching, I will be listening and I will tell you the future of the country has never been better.” And concluding by stating that he wished the “new administration great luck and great success.”

Trump said of the new administration, “They have the foundation to do something really spectacular. And again, we put it in a position like it has never been before.”

Trump also thanked Congress, adding, “At least certain elements in Congress.”

He ended his remarks saying, “We will be back in some form. Have a good life — we will see you soon.”

When invited to take the microphone, Melania Trump said, “Being your first lady was my greatest honor. Thank you for your love and your support.”

Trump did not attend the inauguration of the incoming administration. He actually touched down in Mar-a-Lago as the festivities started, reports said.

Based on his statements both to reporters prior to leaving the White House, and again during his farewell speech, one thing is clear: President Trump has not given up on the American people.

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WATCH: McConnell says Trump “Provoked” Mob Attack on U.S. Capitol

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) delivered a speech directly pointing to President Donald Trump as the primary provocateur in the deadly mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. McConnell said, “The last time the Senate convened, we had just reclaimed the Capitol from violent criminals who tried to stop Congress from doing… Continue reading WATCH: McConnell says Trump “Provoked” Mob Attack on U.S. Capitol

Facebook will not allow users to create new events happening near the White House, the U.S. Capitol building, and state capitol buildings leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.

The social media giant’s latest move builds upon its earlier announced preparations for Biden’s inauguration that seek to prevent the platform from being utilized to organize a violent event similar to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

“We are blocking the creation of any new Facebook events happening in close proximity to locations including the White House, the US Capitol building, and any of the state capitol buildings through Inauguration Day,” the company said in a blog post on Friday.

Facebook suspends political advertising as part of preparations for the inauguration

Facebook said among the “additional measures” put up by the tech giant include “our ongoing pause on political advertising.” Facebook said it is ”promoting accurate information about the election and the violence at the Capitol instead of content that our systems predict may be less accurate, delegitimizes the election or portrays the rioters as victims.”

It is also conducting a “secondary review” of all inauguration-related events and will ban those that violate the platform’s rules. 

“We are also restricting some features for people in the US based on signals such as repeat violations of our policies. These restrictions include blocking these accounts from creating live videos or creating an event, Group or Page,” the social media giant said.

The social media giant is also continuing a policy that blocks pages and accounts based outside the United States from creating events located in the country.

That policy was first laid out by Facebook during the 2020 US presidential election.

Social media giant removing content with the ‘stop the steal’ phrase

Facebook earlier this week announced it would delete content containing the phrase “stop the steal” from its platforms under its Coordinating Harm policy.

In November, the social media giant removed a “Stop the Steal” group from its services and banned different related groups and pages.

“We’ve been allowing robust conversations related to the election outcome and that will continue. But with continued attempts to organize events against the outcome of the US presidential election that can lead to violence, and [the] use of the term by those involved in Wednesday’s violence in DC, we’re taking this additional step in the lead up to the inauguration. It may take some time to scale up our enforcement of this new step but we have already removed a significant number of posts,” according to the social media giant.

President Donald Trump released a video message on Wednesday  “unequivocally” condemning the violent mob attack on the U.S. Capitol last week, January 6.

His message comes after the U.S. House of Representatives impeached him for the second time. In the Articles of Impeachment, House Democrats accused the Pres. Trump of “incitement of insurrection” for his role in last week’s deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol.

They noted that on January 6, the president delivered a speech to his supporters repeating “false claims” such as “We won this election, and we won it by a landslide.

House Democrats alleged that the president not only reiterated false claims about election fraud but also “willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged- and foreseeably resulted in- lawless action at the Capitol.”

According to them, Pres. Trump “threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a co-equal branch of government.”

The House voted 232-197 to impeach Pres. Trump with four GOP lawmakers not voting. Ten Republicans joined House Democrats to vote in favor of impeachment.

In his video message on Wednesday, the president did not mention the impeachment. Instead, he emphasized that he “unequivocally condemned the violence” that occurred at the U.S. Capitol that “angered and appalled millions of Americans” and the political spectrum.

Pres. Trump claims those who attack the U.S. Capitol are not his true supporters

“Violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country and no place in our movement. Making America Great Again has always been about defending the rule of law, supporting the men and women of law enforcement, and upholding our nation’s most sacred traditions and values,” said Pres. Trump.

He added, “Mob violence goes against everything I believe in and everything our movement stands for. No true supporter of mine could ever endorse political violence. No true supporter of mine could ever disrespect law enforcement or our great American flag. No true supporter of mine could ever threaten or harass their fellow Americans. If you do any of these things, you are not supporting our movement- you are attacking it. And you are attacking our country. We cannot tolerate it.”

Pres. Trump urged Americans to stop violence, supporters must help promote peace

Furthermore, the president noted that political violence became “out of control” last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He encouraged all Americans to stop the violence because there is no reason for it.

President Donald Trump headed to the Alamo on Tuesday to inspect a portion of the border wall. As he passed the White House press team, POTUS gave a few statements to support his previous announcement that he would like to help create a seamless and calm transition to the new administration as seen here.

When asked, President Trump called the House’s push to impeach him again ‘absolutely ridiculous’ and told the press that he believes what Democrats are doing is increasing the unrest in our country.

The behavior of House Democrats is causing ‘tremendous anger’ among certain groups of individuals who have supported the President during his tenure in office.

Trump called it a “continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics.” Despite denouncing the violence and destruction at the Capitol last week, and making a public statement that “those responsible will be dealt with swiftly,” Democrats and some Republican detractors are ramping up their efforts to push another impeachment.

Prior to boarding Marine One and heading to the Alamo for his border wall inspection, President Trump explained his actions and assured Americans he is carrying on business as usual during his last few days in office.

Multiple reporters pounded him with questions regarding rumors that he would resign before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The President dismissed these questions and insisted that he will not be resigning and will continue to do the job he was elected to do.

Still, the House is voting on Tuesday to demand that Vice President Mike Pence invoke the 25th Amendment. The 25th Amendment to the Constitution addresses what happens to the presidency and vice-presidency if the President or Vice President dies, resigns or becomes incapacitated. Pence has shown no willingness to invoke the Amendment and is content to have the president ride out the remainder of his term.

For that reason, the House has already stated that they will be moving forward with voting on Wednesday to impeach the President a second time. All this comes with only eight days until President Trump is scheduled to leave the office.

The National Guard is stationed outside the Capitol as House Democrats work on bringing articles of impeachment against President Trump.

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