'Toontime: This Week in Trump

credit: M. de Adder, San Francisco Chronicle,
BC Idonwanna sez:  That's Democracy lying in the weeds!

More:  A participant in the planning of the Ellipse rally, told Rolling Stone that chief of staff Mark Meadows was involved in the creating the attack on the Capitol including making iy look like they had nothing to do with it. Scott Johnson told the Committee and press interviewers that he overheard Mark Meadows, then-former President Trump’s chief of staff, and Katrina Pierson, Trump’s national campaign spokesperson, talking with Kylie Kremer, the executive director of Women For America First, about plans for a march to the Capitol.  He heard their conversation on a speaker as he drove Kremer between rallies in late December. No one, according to Johnson, wanted to apply for a traceable rally permit, so they settled on holding the event without an official permit that would have cost extra for security. 

 

{25.03.22}There were significant developments this week in Herr Trumpillini's war on democracy. When former Manhattan prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz resigned from the investigation of Trump's fraudulent business dealings, US Person speculated that the reason was a disagreement with Alvin Bragg, the new DA, over whether to prosecute the former president--the first in history--for financial crimes. This week the New York Times published his resignation letter, In it he wrote that Braggs' decision not to bring charges against Trump now to be "misguided and completely contrary to the public interest." Pommerantz told Bragg that there is enough evidence against the reality TV star turned politican to convince an impartial jury of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Further delay, in his opinion, would only make prosecution of his "numerous felonies" more difficult. Bragg has not publicly commented on the letter. His office only restated previous announcements that the prosecution is ongoing under a staff attorney. Pomerantz was brought in by the previous DA, Cyrus Vance, because of his experience in prosecuting mobsters. Pomerantz told Bragg, he could no longer participate in "a grave failure of justice".  Trump's minions continue to adhere to the propaganda line that all investigations into Trumpworld are politically motivated.  A Trump Org spokeswomen smeared Pomerantz, a career federal prosecutor, as a "radical left lawyer".

Trumpillini is not known for his loyalty to associates, and Alabama Repugnant Mo Brooks got a taste of his treachery this week.  Trump withdrew his endorsement of the Representative who is currently running third in his race for a Senate seat.  Angered by the move, Brooks retaliated against his former leader by telling an NBC interviewer that Trump asked him to "rescind" the 2020 election, remove Biden from office, and hold a new special election.  Brooks said he had drawn Trump infamous displeasure when he told him that could not be done under the Constitution.  His berserk request came in September 2021, seven months after Biden's inauguration.  Brooks spoke at the January 6th rally on the Ellipse from which an inflamed mob marched on the Capitol to interfere in the official tally of Electoral College votes. Trump's state of mind seems to swing widely between delusional and cynically corrupt.  

The January 6th Committee will consider more criminal contempt of Congress citations next week. The subjects are two of Herr Trumpillini's most senior aides,  Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro for refusing to comply with their subpoenas for testimony and document production.  The panel is expected to vote unanimously for referring the citations to the full House for a vote and criminal referral to the Department of Justice.  They will join Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows in facing possible criminal prosecution for their failure to cooperate with the investigation of the wide ranging conspiracy to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States  No high level official has been indicted for their participation in events leading to the insurrection, another "grave failure of justice" this country can ill afford, and is a measure of the corruption in high places.