Rudy Is F**ked

Donald Trump's on again, off again personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, is in trouble like never before.

Rolling Stone is reporting that federal prosecutors working with special counsel Jack Smith want to know exactly how drunk Rudy was on election night when he suggested Trump just flat out lie and claim he won, and then plotted to overturn the election results.

"I think the mayor was definitely intoxicated, but I do not know his level of intoxication when he spoke with the president," testified Jason Miller, former aide to Trump, when asked at the January 6th investigation.

In addition, this week a federal judge ruled that Rudy was liable for defaming two Georgia election workers claiming they purposely mishandled a suitcase full of illegal ballots, and "passed around a thumb drive like vials of heroin." 

In July, he admitted he lied about the two election workers.

Drowning in legal bills, Rudy begged Trump to help him financially, but Trump, who notoriously stiffs people who work for him, refused.

New Polls: Large Majority of Americans Agree Jan 6 Was Trump's Fault and He Interfered in GA Vote Count

According to a brand new Associated Press / NORC poll, a whopping 64% of U.S. adults agree Donald J. Trump did indeed interfere in Georgia's election vote count. 51% said his actions were illegal; 13% say they were unethical. Only 15% said he did nothing wrong. The poll gives "undecided" 20%. 

This means that if all undecided voters changed their minds and said he did nothing wrong, that would still only add up to 35%. And 64% still agree he interfered.

The same poll states that 65% of U.S. adults agree that his role in inciting the violent riots on January 6, 2021 was either illegal or unethical.

A recent ABC News / Ipsos poll also says 63% of American adults agree the charges against Trump from the Georgia Grand Jury are either serious or somewhat serious.

This is not the news Donald or his ever-shrinking base of apologists wanted to hear.

It seems that the public -- even those who don't pay much attention to the news -- is finally figuring out he acted illegally in sending rioters to the Capitol and brow-beating Georgia's secretary of state into "finding 11,780 votes" that were never cast for him. 

Trump is blowing through his campaign donations and those of the Republican party on his legal bills. His rallies are getting smaller. Even Fox is refusing to carry his grievance-filled, woe-is-me rallies. More and more of his top advisors and cohorts like Mike Pence and Bill Barr are speaking out and clearly stating his tired claims of voter fraud are "bullshit."

The Countdown Has Begun

August 25 at twelve noon is the deadline for Convicted Sexual Predator and current Criminal Defendant Trump to travel to the Fulton County Jail, surrender, get arrested, booked, fingerprinted, and take a mug shot. Same with all 18 of his criminal co-defendants.

“Unless somebody tells me differently, we are following our normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status, we’ll have a mugshot ready for you,” Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat said recently.

The sweeping 41-count indictment also names lawyers John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis and Ray Smith, as well as several others. All were charged with violating Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) law.

As of this moment, all 19 defendants will be tried together, and the trial is scheduled to begin in the next six months. Whether or not that schedule stays intact remains to be seen.

Trump's Georgia Indictment Summary (:60 Second Read)

Monday night, Fani Willis, Fulton County, Georgia's District Attorney, enumerated the latest indictment charges against Donald J. Trump.

This is a much bigger, wide-ranging indictment that includes Trump and 18 of his cohorts, including Rudy Giuliani (former Trump lawyer); John Eastman (who planned, promoted and assisted Trump in the fake electors scheme); Mark Meadows (former chief of staff); Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell (who pushed baseless claims of voter fraud); and others, plus 30 unindicted conspirators. 

The indictment describes the group as "a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury."

The indictment charges Trump with the following felony counts:

• Violating the Georgia RICO Act
• Three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by public officer
• Conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer
• Two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree
• Two counts of conspiracy to commit false statements and writings
• Conspiracy to commit filing false documents
• Two counts of false statements and writings
• Filing false documents. 

Summary of all Trump's indictments:

FIRST Indictment: Falsifying financial records / hush money payoffs.

SECOND Indictment: Stealing classified documents / lying about them.

THIRD Indictment: Inciting riots at the Capitol after losing the election.

FOURTH Indictment: Sending forged documents to Congress (fake electors scheme); attempting to overturn his Georgia election loss in a phone call to Raffensperger telling him to "find 11,780" non-existent votes; intimidating election workers.

Trump and the other criminal defendants must turn themselves in by noon on August 25.

Trump will be arrested, fingerprinted, and get a mug shot.

A One-Minute Summary of Trump's Indictment in the Classified Documents Probe

Here is a one-minute read summarizing the 49-page full indictment in Jack Smith's classified documents probe.  If you'd like to read the entire, unedited indictment, it is here.

Trump stored scores of boxes at Mar a Lago despite having no authorization to do so.  He stored them in a shower, bathroom, ballroom, office, and a storage room.  

When the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the unlawful retention of the documents, a grand jury issued a subpoena ordering him to turn over all documents with classified markings.  Trump endeavored to obstruct the FBI and grand jury's subpoena by suggesting his lawyer simply state he didn't have any; having assistant Waltine Nauta move and hide cases of documents; providing just some of the documents to the FBI and claiming that was it; having his lawyer sign a certification claiming that all documents called for had been produced.

After stalling for a year, he turned over 38 more classified documents.

On Aug 8, 2022, with a court-ordered search warrant, the FBI recovered another 102 classified documents.

After his presidential term ended, the Secret Service provided security for Trump at Mar a Lago, but was not responsible for the boxes or their contents.  Trump did not inform the Secret Service he had classified documents at the premises.  After his term ended, he was no longer authorized to possess or retain classified materials.

A storage room containing multiple boxes of documents could be reached by multiple outside entrances including the pool area and a doorway that was usually kept open.

In May of 2021 multiple boxes containing government documents and classified documents were taken to Trump's Bedminster NJ golf resort, which also was a non-authorized location. 

In July of 2021, Trump sat for an interview with a writer, publisher, and two of his aides at his Bedminster Club, and proceeded to show off some military documents describing a plan of attack against "Country A." Trump admitted at this time that "this is secret information... See, as president I could have declassified it.  Now I can't you know, but this is still a secret."  At this time, the writer, publisher, and his two assistants did not have security clearances.

In May of 2022, Trump was told by two of his then-attorneys that they needed to search through the boxes and return all classified documents.  Trump responded by saying, "I don't want anybody looking through my boxes.  What happens if we don't respond at all?  Wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here?  Well look, isn't it better if there are no documents?"

In June of 2022, another Trump attorney signed a certification that all classified documents had been returned.  This was blatantly false; the signing attorney had not even reviewed the demands of the subpoena, nor the boxes or folders containing documents.

In July of 2022, the FBI and grand jury reviewed surveillance video and saw dozens of boxes being moved from one location to another.

In summary, Trump, his assistants and attorneys lied to the FBI, claiming they did not have the documents requested; multiple boxes were moved and hidden; he returned just some documents while claiming he was fully cooperating; he made false, misleading statements, and provided a false certification that all classified documents had been returned.

Trump's Buried in Legal Troubles Now

Thursday night, Donald Trump was indicted on 7 counts in the Special Counsel's  classified documents probe, including violations of the Espionage Act and Conspiracy to Obstruct. His aide at the White House and at Mara Lago, Walt Nauta, was also indicted on Friday.

But as bad as that was for him, matters got even worse.

There's audio tape of him admitting he took classified documents of secret military plans to attack Iran after leaving the White House, and admitting he knows he cannot declassify them any longer.  This destroys his prior claims that anything he takes is magically, automatically declassified, and he knows it.  

Then on Friday morning, two more of his lawyers, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, quit in disgust. 

This, just four days before Donald is scheduled to appear in a Miami courtroom to be formally charged.

All this while even more criminal charges are pending. Special Counsel Jack Smith still is readying indictments regarding Trump's inciting of the January 6th riots at the Capitol. And in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating and will soon indict Trump on his attempts to force Georgia officials to overturn the will of that state's voters by concocting 11,780 non-existent votes for himself.

His indictment in Georgia will probably happen during late July or early August. 

Republican Jackass of the Week

For so many reasons, it's Jim Jordan (more commonly known as Gym Jordan because of all the sexual abuse violations he ignored when he was an Ohio State wrestling coach).

But he wins our Jackass Award this week because as chairman of his inappropriately named* Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, his star witnesses who claimed to be "whistleblowers" within the FBI, turned out to have taken money from a Trump operative.

That's right, they weren't whistleblowers at all. Just paid stooges to say what Trump and Jordan wanted to hear.

Both suspended FBI special agents Garret O’Boyle and Steve Friend admitted they’d taken money from Kash Patel, a former advisor to Donald Trump. Worse, their security credentials were revoked for participating in the January 6th Capitol riots incited by Trump.

In addition, Jordan made the bizarre claim that he didn't have to turn over so-called evidence provided by these paid shills to Democrats on the committee because it came from a whistleblower.

That's not a thing.

Democratic Representative Linda Sanchez of California taught him, “That’s not how committees work.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) stated that Jordan was violating committee rules by refusing to turn over evidence. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) gave Jordan the actual rules and instructed Jordan that neither he nor the alleged whistleblowers get to invent their own rules.

(*This subcommittee was formed to demonstrate how the federal government has alleged biases in law enforcement agencies, and is unfairly persecuting poor Republicans, as if investigating Trump for his long list of crimes is "persecution."  Seems like they're doing the persecuting on federal and state levels when they ban books, fire teachers, ban abortions, criminalize women who travel to free states to seek abortions, etc.)