What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[celedhring]

I don't have an English source but apparently 5 European diplomats confirmed anonymously that Fico, Slovakia's Putinist maffia boss (official title Prime Minister) told EU leaders on their recent meeting that he was terrified by Trump's mental state after the two spoke.

Here you have:

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/

[Grey Fox]

I blame Meta and it's ad business. Everything on the web is about creating engagement because that generates revenue.

I use these 3 extensions: privacy badger, ublock origin, adblocker ultimate. I don't think I've seen an ad, on any website, in a decade.

You're the exception. My nephew has a quite licrative business creating content for others so they can extract revenue out of engagement and ads on TikTok and Instagram.

[DGuller]

Looks like Trump today put conservative 2nd amendment people to the real test as to what's more important to them:  Trump or 2nd amendment.  Early indications seem to go in favor of 2nd amendment.

Colour me sceptical. The essence of the far right is to close ranks behind a leader like the good cowardly submissives they are.

I'm skeptical as well, and they've had many cases of dissent only to quickly get on the same script.  That said, guns are a very visceral issue, there is a lot of (mostly irrational) fear there.  Fear of losing gun rights is real, and it's not lost on that crowd that Trump and all his top officials are essentially repealing the second amendment with their comments about the shooting.  Fear is the most powerful emotion, and while usually it's employed to keep the far right together, in this case it could drive a real wedge within their ranks.

[Tamas]

I predict that by the midterms the a Democrats will the be 2nd amendment party and the Reptards calling for gun control.

[viper37]

It's 1776 1860 all over again!

I feell like Trump, or rather his administration, really wants this to happen.  Not join Canada, but push some states to secede.  Any kind of crisis is good to try and have an emergency, suspend habeas corpus, get the army in the streets.

By the time it could happen, they'll have loyalists all over the army.

[viper37]

I blame Meta and it's ad business. Everything on the web is about creating engagement because that generates revenue.

I use these 3 extensions: privacy badger, ublock origin, adblocker ultimate. I don't think I've seen an ad, on any website, in a decade.

No, no, and no.
Only use Ublock Origin, not the 3 together as they will interfere.

Adjust your filters in UBO as necessary, add the extra filters: Open the Dahsboard, Filter list.








In region, you pick the regions you need.

[Zoupa]

 

[HisMajestyBOB]

 

[Jacob]

What's a Trump Account?

[Syt]

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-georgia-elections-office-fulton-county-28e736037521b17197760d2394f0ab43

Search warrant FBI served at elections office near Atlanta seeks records tied to the 2020 elections

ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI on Wednesday searched the election office of a Georgia county that has been central to right-wing conspiracy theories over President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, acting just one week after the Republican leader predicted prosecutions over a contest he has baselessly insisted was tainted by widespread fraud.

The search at Fulton County's main election facility in Union City sought records related to the 2020 election. It appeared to be the most public step by law enforcement to pursue Trump's claims of a stolen election, grievances rejected time and again by courts and state and federal officials, who found no evidence of fraud that would have altered the outcome.

It also unfolds against the backdrop of FBI and Justice Department efforts to investigate perceived political enemies of Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Trump has for years focused on Fulton, Georgia's most populous county and a Democratic stronghold, as a key example of what he claims went wrong in the 2020 election. His pressure campaign there culminated in a sweeping state indictment accusing him and 18 others of illegally trying to overturn the vote.

The search
FBI agents secured an area around the large warehouse building that houses the county elections hub with yellow tape and could be seen loading boxes from the building into trucks. FBI spokesperson Jenna Sellitto confirmed that the boxes contained ballots. Among the 2020 election documents sought are ballots, tabulator tapes from the scanners used to tally the ballots, electronic ballot images and voter rolls.

An FBI spokesperson said agents were "executing a court authorized law enforcement action" at the county's main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta. The spokesperson declined to provide any further information, citing an ongoing matter.

State and county Democratic officials expressed concern about the search and ballot seizures.

"We don't know why they took them, and we don't know where they're taking them to," county Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts said.

The Justice Department had no immediate comment. FBI Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey and U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were seen onsite.

Trump's focus on Fulton County
Trump has long insisted that the 2020 election was stolen even though judges across the country and his own attorney general said they found no evidence of widespread fault that tipped the contest in Democrat Joe Biden's favor.

The president has made Georgia, one of the battleground states he lost in 2020, a central target for his complaints about the election and memorably pushed its secretary of state to help "find" enough votes to overturn the contest.

Last week, in reference to the 2020 election, he asserted that "people will soon be prosecuted for what they did." It was not clear what in particular he was referring to.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in August 2023 obtained an indictment against Trump and 18 others, accusing them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. That case was dismissed in November after courts barred Willis and her office from pursuing it because of an "appearance of impropriety" stemming from a romantic relationship she had with a prosecutor she had hired to lead the case.

The FBI last week moved to replace its top agent in Atlanta, Paul W. Brown, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a non-public personnel decision. It was not immediately clear why the move, which was not publicized by the FBI, was made.

DOJ lawsuit
The warrant is a criminal document, but the Justice Department last month sued the clerk of the Fulton County superior and magistrate courts in federal court seeking access to documents from the 2020 election in the county. The lawsuit said the department sent a letter to the clerk, Che Alexander, but that she had failed to produce the requested documents.

Alexander has filed a motion to dismiss the suit. The Justice Department complaint says that the purpose of its request was "ascertaining Georgia's compliance with various federal election laws." It also says the attorney general is trying to help the State Election Board with its "transparency efforts under Georgia law."

A three-person conservative majority on the State Election Board has repeatedly sought to reopen a case alleging wrongdoing by Fulton County during the 2020 election. It passed a resolution in July seeking assistance from the U.S. attorney general to access voting materials.

The state board sent subpoenas to the county board for various election documents last year and again on Oct. 6. The October subpoena requested "all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County." A fight over the state board's efforts to enforce the 2024 subpoena is currently tied up in court.

The Justice Department sent a letter to the county election board Oct. 30 citing the federal Civil Rights Act and asking for all records responsive to the October subpoena from the State Election Board. Lawyers for the county election board responded about two weeks later, saying that the records are held by the county court clerk. They also attached a letter the clerk sent to the State Election Board saying that the records are under seal in accordance with state law and can't be released without a court order.

The Justice Department said it then sent a letter to Alexander, the clerk, on Nov. 21 requesting the documents and that she failed to respond.

The department is asking a judge to declare that the clerk's "refusal to provide the election records upon a demand by the Attorney General" violates the Civil Rights Act. It is also asking the judge to order Alexander to produce the requested records within five days of a court order.