Ziemlich langer Artikel, was von der Quelle zu halten ist weiß ich nicht.
Donald Trump soll 2020 das Ministerium für Heimatschutz angestiftet haben die BLM-Proteste als Terrorismus einzuordnen und Beweise zu "finden".
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-antifa-portland-1849718673Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump
A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.
The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.
An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd.
The report describes attempts by top officials to link protesters to an imaginary terrorist plot in an apparent effort to boost Trump’s reelection odds, raising concerns now about the ability of a sitting president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. DHS analysts recounted orders to generate evidence of financial ties between protesters in custody; an effort that, had they not failed, would have seemingly served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa,” an “organization” that even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed.
The DHS report offers a full accounting of the intelligence activities happening behind the scenes of officers’ protest containment; “twisted efforts,” Wyden said, of Trump administration officials promoting “baseless conspiracy theories” to manufacture of a domestic terrorist threat for the president’s “political gain.” The report describes the dossiers generated by DHS as having detailed the past whereabouts and the “friends and followers of the subjects, as well as their interests” — up to and including “First Amendment speech activity.” Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse anyone caught in the streets by default of being an “anarchist extremist” specifically because “sufficient facts” were never found “to support such a characterization.”
One field operations analyst told interviewers that the charts were hastily “thrown together,” adding they “didn’t even know why some of the people were arrested.” In some cases, it was unclear whether the arrests were made by police or by one of the several federal agencies on the ground. The analysts were never provided arrest affidavits or paperwork, a witness told investigators, adding that they “just worked off the assumption that everyone on the list was arrested.” Lawyers who reviewed 43 of the dossiers found it “concerning,” the report says, that 13 of them stemmed from “nonviolent crimes.” These included trespassing, though it was unclear to analysts and investigators whether the cases had “any relationship to federal property,” the report says.
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Derweil tweetete Trump er hätte DeSantis's Wahl "gesichert".
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3731210-trump-claims-without-evidence-he-sent-federal-agents-to-keep-desantis-election-from-being-stolen-in-2018/Trump claims without evidence he sent federal agents to keep DeSantis election from being ‘stolen’ in 2018
Former President Trump claimed without evidence on Thursday that he sent federal agents to Florida in 2018 to keep the state’s gubernatorial election from being “stolen” from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Trump said in a Truth Social post that he helped save DeSantis’s campaign and sent the FBI and U.S. attorneys to the state to stop voter fraud.
He claimed votes were “being stolen” by a “corrupt” election process in Broward County, which is located in the Miami area, and DeSantis’s lead over his Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum, was dropping by 10,000 votes per day.
Trump said he and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) sent the FBI and U.S. attorneys and the “ballot theft” ended immediately, stopping the election from being “stolen.”
Scott, who was running for Senate for the first time in 2018, alleged a couple days after the election that slow counting in Broward County, a strongly Democratic area, was allowing for illegal votes to be inserted in the count, but shared no evidence of this claim.
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) tweeted that Trump “makes stuff up all the time,” but if his claims are true, the DOJ should investigate if he used federal agents to interfere with an election.
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In linken Kreisen heißt es das Justizministerium hätte da schon ein Auge drauf.
Das dortige Auftreten von Roger Stone und den "Proud Boys" wird schon untersucht, wenn auch mit anderem Focus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/florida-jan-6-proud-boys.htmlProsecutors Look at Florida Election Protest as a Model for Jan. 6
The Justice Department is examining ties among the far-right Proud Boys, Roger Stone and others over their roles in 2018 “Stop the Steal” demonstrations.
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Now, four years later, the Justice Department is examining whether the tactics used then served as a model for the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In recent months, prosecutors overseeing the seditious conspiracy case of five members of the Proud Boys have expanded their investigation to examine the role that Jacob Engels — a Florida Proud Boy who accompanied Mr. Stone to Washington for Jan. 6 — played in the 2018 protests, according to a person briefed on the matter.
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Bei der Entscheidung ob der Kongress die Steuerbescheide Trumps sehen darf gibt es auch ein hochinterssantes Detail:
Finanzministerium und die Steuerbehörde (!) wendet sich an das oberste Gericht und bittet darum ihren Bericht weiterzugeben.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/irs-asks-supreme-court-not-to-block-congress-from-getting-trumps-tax-records.htmlIRS asks Supreme Court not to block Congress from getting Trump’s tax records
The IRS and the Treasury Department on Thursday urged the Supreme Court against blocking a lower court ruling requiring the agencies to turn over years of former President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns to Congress.
The IRS and Treasury in a legal brief said that Trump’s emergency request for a delay “cannot satisfy the demanding standard for that extraordinary relief.”
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Das war eigentlich nicht nötig, das IRS hätte einfach die Hände in Schoß legen können und warten was entschieden wird. Stattdessen wenden sie sich an das Gericht und plädieren für die Weitergabe ihrer (für Päsidenten typische) jährlichen Steuerprüfung...
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Ja, ist nicht mehr alles taufrisch. Neben den Neuigkeiten um Twitter hat auch der Niedergang der Crypto-Börse FTX meine Aufmerksam nahezu aufgebraucht.
Da sich letztere auch politisch engagierten und vorzugsweise an Demokraten spendeten veranlasst das die eh schon Verschwörungsaffinen CryptoBros komplett hohl zu drehen...
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