A Tues evening fundraising email from #Trump’s campaign &signed in his name arrived w/the subj, "They were authorized to shoot me!" & said of the #Biden admin, "You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable ... Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger."
Trump also wrote on TruthSocial:
"Joe Biden's DOJ, in their Illegal & UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE."
4 months after the #FBI raided #MarALago, Trump’s attys discovered 4 docs marked #classified in his personal bedroom.
That revelation was among several cited by US District Judge Beryl Howell in a newly unsealed 2023 opinion that found prosecutors had presented compelling #evidence that #Trump#knowingly stashed #NationalSecurity docs in his home & then tried to conceal them when the #DOJ tried to retrieve them.
Throughout the opinion, Howell — who was chief judge of the Washington, DC federal district court at the time — described w/varying degrees of incredulity how 4 documents w/ classification markings could have been discovered in #Trump’s private quarters months after prosecutors had subpoenaed them & the #FBI conducted its own exhaustive search of the property.
🚨🚨 🚨 "Trump’s DEMENTED PLAN has MAJOR RAMIFICATIONS"
"Trumps violent rhetoric is leading to THOUSANDS OF IMMEDIATE DEATH THREATS against judges and their families. Michael Popok explores pro-Trump MAGA websites and social media platforms where death threats are posted every minute of every day against law enforcement and judges just after Trump uses 'call to arms' violent rhetoric to attack his judges, just like what happened on Jan6."
"The good news is—actions like this by the #USA or #European countries taken under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby or #Israel itself smell of sheer panic and desperation," the renowned author said.
"Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé - a staunch critic of Zionism - was detained & interrogated this week by FBI agents as he entered the US.
"They had a long phone conversation with someone... & after copying everything on my phone allowed me to enter."
Actions like this taken under pressure from Israel "smell of sheer panic & desperation in reaction to Israel's becoming very soon a pariah state", said Pappé.
"Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé - a staunch critic of Zionism - was detained & interrogated this week by FBI agents as he entered the US.
"They had a long phone conversation with someone... & after copying everything on my phone allowed me to enter."
Actions like this taken under pressure from Israel "smell of sheer panic & desperation in reaction to Israel's becoming very soon a pariah state", said Pappé.
Cross-examination of #MichaelCohen resumes, an opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony & perhaps trip up or provoke the state’s key witness. The questioning of Cohen, #Trump’s fmr fixer, is the beginning of the end of Trump’s #criminal trial, which began April 15 & might conclude before Memorial Day weekend at this pace.
#Blanche is now asking about the #FBI search of #MichaelCohen’s phones & his hotel room & office in April 2018, & the investigation into taxi medallions that Cohen had. Cohen walks through his partnership w/a man who cooperated w/the investigation, calmly & coherently. Jurors are paying close attention.
Cohen is knowledgeable & articulate about the ins & outs of the NYC taxi industry, even providing the exact number of the medallions allowing taxis to operate.
#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
#MichaelCohen describes the #FBI’s raid on his Park Ave hotel room in April 2018. He says federal agents took his cell phones — including the one w/the recording on it that jurors already heard — & many of his documents. He says he was frightened, despondent & angry.
This was a major news event at the time, & now Cohen can reflect on his feelings about it in front of a courtroom full of reporters. He says he received a call from #Trump after the raid.
#MichaelCohen is testifying again after the court took a short break. “Distraught, nervous, concerned” are the emotions he describes having felt as he met at the Loews Regency on Park Ave w/a new lawyer, Robert Costello, a #criminal defense lawyer who Cohen had been told was very close w/ #RudyGiuliani. This was immediately after the #FBI raided his hotel room there, & so Cohen’s emotions were in tumult.
Costello has said that Cohen appeared suicidal at this meeting.
Just submitted a #FOIA to the #FBI to try and see if they did have any investigation into potential retaliation for the sentencing of the "Atlanta 3" hackers who were linked to Legion of Doom. #hacking#hackers#history