The self-styled prince at the heart of an alleged conspiracy-fuelled plot to attack #Germany 's parliament and topple the government rejected the accusations made against him as his trial opened. The group of alleged conspirators, which includes a former politician and ex-army officers, is accused of preparing a "treasonous undertaking" to storm the Bundestag and take MPs hostage. Nick Holdsworth reports from Berlin. #coup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5N3gzAHMo
Since we now know Alito was flying his flag upside down at the time, let’s review one of the plans the coup plotters had involving him.
This interview by criminal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give #Alito time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.
Crimal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give #scotus#Alito time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Speaker Pelosi reconvening Congress.
"Do you see what is happening? Do you? Congressmen and women are going to New York for Trump to undermine our justice system and push MAGA to reject a guilty verdict.
Now they’re going after Merrick Garland…the US AG.
The coup is in motion. It never really stopped, but it’s running wide open.
They are conditioning the cult followers to cease believing that our judicial system…or our government, period…has any legitimacy. They are training them to reject law and order…and to disregard anyone but Trump and/or other MAGA leaders.
Trump, at a rally in Waukesha, #Wisconsin, called for tougher action against campus protests & again suggested some of the protesters were paid actors. He called on college presidents to “remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the locals & take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”
A #Biden adviser said: "Donald #Trump has repeatedly fanned the flames & encouraged #CivilInrest as a political strategy, & it has repeatedly failed to be effective."
The campus #protests pose a dilemma for Biden as the pace of the general election campaign quickens. Trump’s stance is simple enough for a bumper sticker: “People have to respect #law & order in this country,” he wrote in a post on Tues.
unless they’re his supporters aiding his [#coup, beating police, & looking to hang his VP]
Remember, the judge ruled, to instruct the jury, that all of Fox’s statements were false. But Dominion still has the right to make its case. So they are going to present the statements, from their first opening, in all their lurid detail. Fox has to just sit there and take it.
Fox purposefully lied to Americans continually, knowing criminal suspect Donald lost. Fox helped him spread #TheBigLie and launch the insurrection.
Ex-soldier, conspiracy theorist, astrologer and anti-vaxxer among the first of 27 people on trial for trying to violently topple the German government – led by Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss
One of the largest legal proceedings in German history is due to start on Monday with the first of three trials of a group of far-right conspiracists who planned to violently overthrowthe country’s parliament.
So sprawling is the network, so extensive their plans, that for a mixture of logistical and security reasons, the 27 people due in the dock have been split into three separate groups.
On Monday a group of nine, identified as the “military wing” behind the group ringleader, the self-proclaimed Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss, 72, will be the first to go on trial in the southern city of Stuttgart on terrorism charges.
Nine others, including Reuss and other prominent members, go on trial in Frankfurt on 21 May.
Prince Reuss, an antisemitic businessman, descended from a formerly aristocratic family, founded the group with the express wish to violently eliminate the state order.
In the event of the coup’s success, he was due to be declared provisional head of a new German state, which would have redrawn the country according to its 1937 borders.
According to federal prosecutors, the group planned to enter the Reichstag in Berlin with armed support to arrest members of the Bundestag or parliament with the intention of “overthrowing the system”.
So, with snipers aiming at students from the rooftops, Genocide Joe in the Executive doing a little light mass murder for oil, the Supreme Court completely bought, legalized bribery locking up Congress, half the country's state National Guards being pledged to support Trump, the press owned by Murdoch & Co., I think it's time that I once again pointed out that the GOP is executing a successful coup by number.
Wake up, people. This is an emergency. This is what authoritarian thugs and terrorists do.Trump is targeting the President of the United States.
Thank you to the more than 1.5 million people who took the time to read this message. I am not leaving this alone. I write about coups. This life-size image of President Biden imagines the sitting president of the United States as a victim of an authoritarian takeover.
“To use the authority of the Dept of #Justice to overturn the election, based on a #lie, w/ no concerns that the dept had no evidence of fraud that affected the election — & Mr. Clark didn’t have any evidence either — what Mr. Clark was attempting to do was essentially a #coup at the #DOJ,” said Hamilton P. ‘Phil’ Fox III, lead prosecuting atty for the DC Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel.
Meanwhile, #CAA, the talent agency that helped broker the deal w/ #NBCNews, cut ties w/ #RonnaMcDaniel Tues, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the matter, telling the fmr #RNC chief & #political operative she needed to consult w/ an attorney to represent her in exit discussions.
"In January, NBC News laid off dozens of employees1 and ended Mehdi Hasan’s MSNBC show. Two and a half months later, the company hired former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst with a reported salary of $300,000 per year."
"Ronna McDaniel’s hiring illustrates the normalization of the insurrection and coup among the media and political class. …
By reducing the attempted coup and insurrection to mere 'partisan politics,' NBC is misleading the American people about the stakes in 2024 by denying the reality of what happened in 2020."
#Ginni#Gitmo#Thomas is a qanon fascist, she worked really hard to overthrow the government and the election, end America and install a tyrant, rapist, fraud, and coup leader. Ginni is a disgrace to America. Call out her crimes and her fraud everyday.
We see you Ginni. We see what you did. Your BFF Ken #Chesebro and you directed and advised #Coup plotter Mark Meadows.
Dear fascist coup plotter Ginni,
Sedition you say, Ginni?
Many republicans have been convicted of seditious conspiracy and Trump, Meadows and fellow criminals have been arrested and charged with many felonies in 4 jurisdictions. Many election crimes by your friends Ginni, DoJ is probably watching you.