Mike Pence must testify about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, judge rules

The DCN response: I love it, keeps getting gooder and gooder.

A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling.

But the judge said – in a ruling that remains under seal – that Pence can still decline to answer questions related to his actions on January 6 itself, when he was serving as president of the Senate for the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to one of the sources.In the lead-up to the congressional certification vote, Pence faced enormous pressure from Trump and his allies to disrupt lawmakers’ plans to validate Joe Biden’s win. As president of the Senate, Pence was tasked with presiding over the certification proceedings.

Trump’s conversations with Pence in the days surrounding the insurrection have been of keen interest to investigators probing the attack. Though Pence declined to testify before the House January 6 committee that investigated the insurrection, people in Trump’s orbit told the committee about a heated phone call he had with Pence the day of the attack in which he lobbed insults at his vice president.

Pence and Trump did not speak during the attack on the Capitol itself, in which many of Trump’s supporters angrily sought him out, and Pence narrowly escaped the mob heading to the Senate floor. (Source)

Biden blocks attempt by Trump to withhold White House documents from Jan. 6 probe

The Political Agitator’s response: Trump need to go to jail so it will all end. Dude is nothing but a bully.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration formally rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold White House documents from a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a letter Friday to the National Archives obtained by USA TODAY, White House Counsel Dana Remus wrote that "President Biden has determined that any assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interest of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents."

"As President Biden has stated," Remus continued, "the insurrection that took place on January 6, and the extraordinary events surrounding it, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again."

The White House has said that it would not be appropriate for Biden to assert executive privilege to block the release of documents sought by the January 6 Select Committee, a bipartisan House panel.

"The president is dedicated to ensuring that something like [Jan. 6] could never happen again, which is why the administration is cooperating with ongoing investigations including the January 6 Select Committee to bring to light what happened as a part of this process," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday. "The President has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not warranted for the first set of documents from the Trump White House that had been provided to us by the National Archives." (Read more)

Trump plans to sue to keep White House records on Capitol attack secret

The Political Agitator’s response: So why does Trump want to block the records if he feels like the attack was justifiable? I’ll wait!

Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records from his administration to the House select committee scrutinizing the 6 January attack on the Capitol by claiming executive privilege, potentially touching off an extended legal battle over disclosure.

The former president also expects top aides – former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, strategist Steve Bannon and defense department aide Kash Patel – to defy select committee subpoenas for records and testimony.

Trump’s moves to try to resist the select committee, informed by a source familiar with his planning, are likely to lead to constitutional clashes in court that would test the power of Congress’s oversight authority over the executive branch.

The former president said in recent days that he would cite executive privilege to thwart House select committee investigators seeking to compel his top aides to testify about 6 January and what he knew of plans to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win.

But the sharpening contours of Trump’s intention to stonewall the select committee mark a new turning point as he seeks to keep a grip on the rapidly escalating investigation into the events of 6 January that left five dead and about 140 others injured. (Read more)

Letitia James Subpoenaed Trump Over $21.5M Shady Tax Dodge

Former President Trump, who’s under criminal investigation for potential fraud at his business, has had one particular New York property examined quite closely, as newly released subpoenas reveal. Investigators associated with the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance have examined the question of whether Trump fraudulently adjusted the value of a conservation easement on the property in question — which is in Westchester County, New York, and is known as the Seven Springs estate — thereby obtaining a tax break. Trump took a $21.1 million tax deduction in 2015 over the easement.

The subpoenas had not previously been available publicly. As reported by The Daily Beast in reference to the newly released subpoenas, “Investigators asked for a trove of documents related to Donald Trump’s failed attempts to develop a luxury golf course on a 212-acre, forested estate that spans across those three towns and includes several mansions.” The subpoenas went out to those towns in which the property sits. The towns, named Bedford, New Castle, and North Castle, complied with the demands for documents. (Read more)

Justice Department sues Trump ally Roger Stone, alleging millions in unpaid taxes

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday sued Roger Stone, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, accusing Stone and his wife of owing nearly $2 million in unpaid income taxes.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says the couple underpaid their income taxes by $1,590,361 from 2007 to 2011. It further says Stone did not pay his full tax bill in 2018, coming up $407,036 short.

Source: Justice Department sues Trump ally Roger Stone, alleging millions in unpaid taxes

Harris lambasts Trump call with Georgia officials as ‘bold abuse of power’

The Political Agitator’s response: And The DCN Super Ignant Award goes to . . . Make no damn sense! White Supremacy at its BEST!

(CNN)Vice President-elect Kamala Harris slammed President Donald Trump and his call pushing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes to overturn the election results, a “bald-faced, bold abuse of power,” in Savannah, Georgia, on Sunday.

Harris took the stage at a drive-thru rally campaigning for democratic Senate runoff candidates and addressed the crowd on the stunning call. Trump assailed Raffensperger for refusing to falsely declare Trump the winner of the election in the Peach State.

“Have y’all heard about that recorded conversation?” Harris asked with cars honking in the audience. “Well it was, yes, certainly, the voice of desperation, most certainly that, and it was a bald, bald-faced, bold abuse of power by the President of the United States.”

Harris’ remarks were the first on-camera reaction from the incoming administration to the bombshell call obtained by CNN and first reported by the Washington Post on Sunday afternoon. (Read more)

Joe Biden 290 Donald Trump 232

Biden wins Georgia but loses North Carolina

Biden 284 Trump 214 Won’t He Do It?

Went out just like he came in!

ABC host says White House blocked Fauci from appearing on show

The Political Agitator’s response: I have been waiting on the fall out of Donald John Trump and Dr. Fauci. He is one of the few who are still hanging on the team.

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The White House refused to allow Anthony Fauci or any of the medical experts on the coronavirus task force to appear on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ host Jon Karl said Sunday. Why it matters: President Trump has previously faced criticism for silencing Fauci, and White House officials have refused to answer basic questions about President Trump’s COVID test results, as it scrambles to respond to an outbreak within its own ranks. (Read more)

Donald John Trump Says He Will Kiss Everyone Men, Beautiful Women A Big Fat Kiss

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Now this is the best video of djt I have seen yet. I see why his supporters love him. He love them so much that he want to them to have what he has except Affordable Health Care and other things that matter. The only thing djt want to matter to them is that he is King djt!

Fauci rips new Trump campaign ad, says it uses his comments ‘out of context’

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday he was “taken out of context” in a new Trump campaign ad that features his comments “without my permission.”

“In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed nor do I now endorse any political candidates,” Fauci said in a statement to NBC News. “The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials.”

That ad, titled “Carefully,” was released Saturday and promotes the president’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It followed his discharge from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after he was stricken with the virus. In the ad, a clip of Fauci plays in which the infectious disease expert says he “can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more.”

That comment, however, came from a March interview Fauci conducted with Fox News in which the expert is speaking about the whole of government response, not specifically Trump’s efforts.

“We’re talking about all hands on deck,” Fauci said. “I, as one of many people on a team, I’m not the only person. Since the beginning, that we even recognized what this was, I have been devoting almost full time on this. I’m down at the White House virtually every day with the task force. It’s every single day. So, I can’t imagine that under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more.” (Read more)

Trump Campaign Ad Uses Quote Misleadingly to Suggest Fauci Endorses WH Pandemic Response

The Political Agitator’s response: This is nothing new, Donald John Trump and team just lie, lie, lie!

Donald Trump‘s re-election campaign released its first advertisement addressing the president’s COVID-19 infection, but the video uses a quote from Anthony Fauci misleadingly to make it appear he praises Trump’s response to the pandemic.

The Trump campaign ad aired during the NBA Finals Friday night. The ad touts Trump for “sparing no expense” and getting senior citizens “life saving drugs in record time.” A brief video clip in the ad portrays Fauci, the government’s top expert on infectious diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, discussing the amount of hours that he personally (not Trump) was putting in at the beginning of the pandemic.

The Fauci quote, “I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more,” comes from a March interview on the Fox News show Life, Liberty and Levin. In the interview, Fauci discussed the hours he and other members of the Task Force—of which Trump was not a member—put in to adequately respond to the virus outbreak in the United States. (Read more)

Trump Playing Stimulus Card

Do you see what I see?

So Trump is playing the Stimulus Card because he think that will make Black Folk vote for him.

What tickles the hell out of me is that some White Folk talking about that Democrats ain’t getting their stimulus check as is they don’t want one. I bet these same White Folk didn’t send theirs back when they received the 1st one.

But these folk ain’t racist though.

And lastly they work on the same jobs that Black Folk work so obviously they are getting paid whey more money than Black Folk doing the same job since they don’t need monies when it comes to unemployment and other problems that may exist.

So Trump gonna say no more discussion about Stimulus until he win the election but then turn around and want to talk about it now.

Un the Hell Sta ble!

And his supporters shaking my damn heads.

Trump Set The Bar

Somebody said the bar was set low.

I said ain’t no damn bar.

Ain’t been a bar in the past 3 – 4 years.

Trump and Taxes

And just like that we aren’t talking about his taxes anymore?

John McClancy I agree!

But what is it to talk about? Action need to be taken by those who are in authority.

Some say it is illegal and some say it is not he just used tax code to his advantage.

Since I don’t do taxes and not in authoritative position,

I am waiting!