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[Link] Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn after nuclear file reportedly found

Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com

Mar-a-Lago – the Palm Beach resort and residence where Donald Trump reportedly stored nuclear secrets among a trove of highly classified documents for 18 months since leaving the White House – is a magnet for foreign spies, former intelligence officials have warned.

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[Link] Trump Tried to Call a Jan. 6 Committee Witness and DOJ Has Been Notified

Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com

Former President Donald Trump called a witness to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, the committee’s top Republican said Tuesday—a potentially illegal act that the committee has shared with the Justice Department.  Wyoming Rep.

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[Link] ‘The walls are closing in’: Trump reels from week of political setbacks

Read: 23/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

The last time Donald Trump heard such hammer blows, they were from renovations at Mar-a-Lago that displeased the former president. But not even that sound would have left his ears ringing like last week’s avalanche of bad news that some believe nudged a criminal indictment one step closer.

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[Link] ‘It Has Gone Too Far’: Don Jr. Begged His Dad to Stop the Jan. 6 Rioters

Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com

As the Capitol riot was unfolding, some of the biggest names in the conservative movement were working their connections in the White House to get former President Donald Trump to do something—anything—to stop it.

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[Link] Ex-National Guard Official Accuses Army of ‘Stalinist’ Lies About Jan. 6

Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com

A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and covering up their roles in delaying a military response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Col. Earl Matthews, a senior National Security Council and Army official who was the top attorney for the D.C.

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[Link] Ex-defense secretary sues over withheld material from Trump era memoir

Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The former US defense secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the defense department that material is being improperly withheld from him as he seeks to publish an “unvarnished and candid memoir” of his time in Donald Trump’s cabinet.

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[Link] Jan. 6 Organizers Used Burner Phones to Talk to Trump Family: Report

Read: 24/11/2021 www.vice.com

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reportedly told an aide to pick up three burner phones and said it was “of the utmost importance” to use cash.

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[Link] Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed Ousting Trump After Jan. 6, Book Says

Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com

Two of the Cabinet members closest to former President Donald Trump had multiple conversations about whether to remove him from office using the 25th Amendment, according to a new book released Tuesday.

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[Link] Michael Flynn Wants to Outlaw All Religions Except Christianity Now

Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com

Disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn claimed this weekend that if the U.S. wants to be one nation under God, then it needs to outlaw all religions aside from Christianity.

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[Link] The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense

Read: 9/11/2021 slate.com

As the California state bar considers whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings against John Eastman for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former dean of Chapman Law School has begun to mount a defense of his infamous legal memo on the “January 6 scenario.

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[Link] NRA Shell Companies Funneled Up to $35 Million to GOP Candidates, Lawsuit Says

Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com

The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Giffords, the gun safety advocacy group started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly, filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday in D.C.

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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact

Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com

The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One.  Arizona Democrat Rep.

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[Link] Tucker Carlson Made a Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ and it Looks Completely Unhinged

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s come to this: Fox News and Tucker Carlson are producing a new documentary on the Capitol riot that appears to portray the insurrection as a false flag operation against Trump supporters.

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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.

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[Link] Black Democratic Party Chair Says He Got Lynching Threat For Criticizing Trump

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Ross Wilburn says he received multiple threats, including one that threatened to lynch him, after he wrote an op-ed that criticized former President Donald Trump.

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[Link] Trump Supporters Have Already Turned on the Cyber Ninjas

Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company that conducted the bogus election ‘audit’ in Arizona over the last six months, says he won’t be conducting any more recounts—unless God tells him to.

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[Link] Trump demands Pulitzer board rescind awards for Russia interference reporting

Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Donald Trump has again demanded the Pulitzer prize board rescind the prize for national reporting awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018, for exposing Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.

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[Link] Trump Called to Insist His Penis Didn’t Look Like a Toadstool, Press Sec Says

Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. For a former press secretary who held zero briefings during her 9-month tenure, Stephanie Grisham certainly has a lot to say about the culture of the Trump White House in her new book, namely that it was a pit of sexual harassment.

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[Link] Biden sets himself apart by placing Afghanistan blame at predecessors’ feet

Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

Victory speeches are easy; conceding defeat is much harder. On Tuesday, Joe Biden tacitly blamed his predecessors for the failure of America’s longest war but implied that, against all odds, one winner had emerged: him.

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[Link] Mexico Embraces Afghan Refugees As Its Soldiers Beat Asylum Seekers Traveling by Caravan

Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY — In southern Mexico, a Central American migrant crumpled to the ground as a senior official with the national immigration agency stomped on the man’s face wearing a military-style boot.

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[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.

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[Link] Trump Booed at His Own Rally For Telling His Supporters to Get Vaccinated

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The reason? Trump told people to go get vaccinated.

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[Link] Monsoon Rains Just Washed Away Trump's 'Impenetrable' Border Wall

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

The damage caused by the recent rains is the latest in a series of incidents that have exposed flaws in the construction of the wall, which cost U.S. taxpayers–not Mexico, as Trump had repeatedly promised–an estimated $15 billion. 

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[Link] Rudy Giuliani is being investigated by the FBI over a film he was trying to make about the Bidens and Ukraine, report says

Read: 9/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into Rudy Giuliani over a film project he was working on about the Biden family and Ukraine, Mother Jones reported Thursday.

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[Link] The Supreme Court Needs to Be Cut Down to Size

Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com

Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesOpinion ColumnistOn Tuesday, the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States sat for its third public meeting.

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[Link] In Nearly All Other Democracies, This Is Not Normal

Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com

Mr. Pildes has spent his career as a legal scholar analyzing the intersection of politics and law and how that affects our democracy.

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[Link] Top Republicans move to protect Trump from Capitol attack fallout

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Top Republicans in Congress are embarking on a new campaign of revisionism seven months after the attack on the Capitol, absolving Donald Trump of responsibility and blaming the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, for the 6 January insurrection perpetrated by a mob of Trump supporters.

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[Link] Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy

Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com

Since the arrest and indictment of Daniel Hale on charges that he leaked the documents that formed the basis for The Intercept’s series “The Drone Papers,” as well as documents about the government’s secret watchlisting system, I have wanted to speak publicly about this unjust prosecution.

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