#SpecialCounsel#JackSmith outlined new details of Trump & his allies' sweeping & "increasingly desperate" efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, in a blockbuster court filing aimed at defending Smith's prosecution of Trump following the #SCOTUS’ July #immunity ruling.
#Trump intentionally lied to the public, state election ofcls, & his own VP in an effort to cling to #power after losing the #election, while privately describing some of the claims of election fraud as "#crazy," prosecutors alleged in the 165-pg filing.
👉🏼👉🏼👀 “Special counsel #JackSmith has outlined new details of #Trump and his allies' sweeping and "increasingly desperate" efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, in a blockbuster court filing aimed at defending Smith's prosecution of Trump following the Supreme Court's July immunity ruling.
Bombshell special counsel filing includes new allegations of Trump's 'increasingly desperate' efforts to overturn election Trump privately described claims of voter fraud as "crazy," the filing said.
"I supported Trump in 2016 and 2020, but I won't do it today."
Really, Sharon? What was the straw that broke you? The racism wasn't enough? The 'locker room' talk wasn't enough? The mishandling of COVID wasn't a deal-breaker? Exactly when did you pull your head out of your ass? 🤔
“It’s really rich,” he said, chopping the air w/his hands, “for Democratic leaders to say that Donald #Trump is a unique threat to #democracy when he peacefully gave over power on January the 20th.”
He moved to equate past Democratic complaints about #election outcomes, including invocations of Russian interference in 2016 through FB ads & other means, w/the response in 2020.
Among the #lies#Trump running mate #JDVance told over the course of the #VPdebate w/ Governor #TimWalz, denying his support for a national #AbortionBan may haunt him the longest because it is so easily disproven. Rachel #Maddow shares #Vance's own words contradicting his claims at the #debate, & discusses w/MSNBC colleagues.
There was a reason, he added, that #MikePence was not on the stage as #Trump’s running mate anymore.
And it was worth asking, he said, what that tells the viewers about #JDVance.
“America, I think you’ve got a really clear choice,” #TimWalz said, his eyes getting bigger, “of who’s going to honor that #democracy & who’s going to honor Donald Trump.”
“What President #Trump has said is that there were problems,” #JDVance said when asked about his own past assertion that he would not have certified the 2020 election. “We should fight about those issues, debate those issues, peacefully in the public square. And that’s all I’ve said. And that’s all that Donald Trump has said.”
His debate opponent, #TimWalz, stared at him, unblinking….
But when the #debate turned, near its final frames, to the subject of the 2020 election, #Vance faced a choice: He could validate, once more, #Trump’s relentless #lies about his defeat 4 yrs ago. Or he could try something else in the spirit of moving forward.
It did not seem like a difficult decision for him.
“Remember,” #Vance said of #Trump, “he said that on January the 6th, the protesters ought to protest peacefully. And on January the 20th, what happened? Joe Biden became the president. Donald Trump left the White House.”
He was a teacher, he noted, & a football coach. “I worked wi/kids long enough to know,” he said, “sometimes you really want to win.”
But #Republicans like #Trump were already laying the groundwork to contest the current #election, he continued, & perhaps even to #imprison their political opponents. “A president’s words matter,” #TimWalz said, punctuating his own. “A president’s words matter. People hear that.”
#Iran’s 2018 reserves were $122.5B, before new #sanctions were imposed after #Trump, in 2018, pulled out of an international agreement brokered during #Obama’s admin to restrain Iran’s #nuclear ambitions.
Iran’s crude #oil production rose to 3.3M barrels a day as of Aug, an increase since the end of the Trump admin but still lower than in 2018. Per US #Energy Info Admin, Iran’s oil production in 2020 was just under 2M barrels a day. The #pandemic sent oil production & sales plummeting globally.
“When #Iran shot down an American aircraft in international airspace, Donald Trump tweeted, because that’s the standard #diplomacy of Donald #Trump. And when Iranian missiles did fall near #US troops & they received traumatic brain injuries, Donald Trump wrote it off as headaches.” — #TimWalz This is largely ACCURATE.
#Iran’s production in pandemic stricken 2020 was the lowest in ~40 yrs, the EIA #said.
Experts say that even if #Trump had been reelected, he would have had trouble keeping #sanctions from eroding. In particular, #China has become adept at evading US sanctions by arranging for many buyers of Iranian oil to be small, semi-independent refineries known as “teapots.” Such entities accounted for about ⅕ of China’s worldwide #oil imports, per Reuters.
#Iran attacked a US drone in 2019, but #Trump did NOT hit back. He lost his nerve [#ChickenedOut] at the last minute, acc/to multiple news accounts. Then Iran attacked a US military base in 2020 after Trump ordered the drone killing of Iranian Maj Gen Qasem #Soleimani on Jan 3, 2020. No one was killed, though more than 100 service members suffered from traumatic brain injuries.