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Trump Delusional

22 Monday Apr 2024

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This much must be understood about Donald Trump: he may actually believe his own bullshit.

Within the framework of the Malignant Narcissistic Process, the necessity of lying and the related greater manipulation of others becomes clear: the malignant narcissist lies to cover over emotional damage and put in its place an undamaged and unassailable heroic self. The suspect felon in the courtroom may well believe in concert with his own invention that the proceedings are fake, politically motivated, and fixed–and he, so brave and glorious, should be out campaigning for the next Presidency of the United States of America. Now bent, delusional, and twisted, Donald John Trump, four-time indicted felony suspect, may know where he is physically and resent the power detaining him, holding him in trial, but he has no apprehension as to what he has done before the law, to others, and to his own life.

America has no king and doesn’t want one.

The foremost notable argument against having a king has come to us from Thomas Paine in his pamphlet Common Sense (1775-6). Says Wikipedia, “Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776,[2] at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation.”

All may read today online the foundational expressions of America’s assumptions, ethics, principles, and values: Declaration of Independence; 1789 Constitution and Amendments; etc.

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For the purposes of political psychology: BackChannels: Malignant Narcissism & Concepts, Coins, and Terms.

For having at hand a condensed Trump saga and conclusion: Essential Trump Tour Guide & #AmericanTraitor #DonaldJohnTrump.

I’ve tired of all things Trump.

It helps to understand him, of course, and then with reason–and perhaps even prayer–help him along to where he belongs, i.e., an asylum or prison or both.

AI art found on X and fit to BackChannels conclusions about the delusional Donald John Trump.

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Put Yourself (Briefly, Please) in Trump’s Mind

15 Monday Apr 2024

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Put yourself in Trump’s mind-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/10/malignant-narcissistic-process-distilled/. Most of your life has been spent in the shadow of a traumatic “narcissistic mortification” that you do not wish to experience ever again–and you determine you never will. First, you forget about it, pack it away, didn’t happen; then, you come out swinging, a good guy, unassailable, courageous, heroic–and to prove it, you will roll the dice! 🙂 (awful cliche). Your realpolitik is pretty tough–nasty environment–but your image is gold and you are in with all of the in-crowds! You brag up a storm; snow the bankers; charm and screw the subcontractors. The better part of human nature and prudence takes its course and you need cash, a lot of it, and it turns out you have been noticed all along, boychik.

–https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/trump-czechoslovakia-communism-spying;

–https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/

Lucky you!

You have a “roof” and a dragon (unlimited “resources” long before “Game of Thrones”) and plenty of “narcissistic supply”. Whether or not you can pay the freight or stay out of trouble, the high is like no other–Y-O-U! own the world!

The Dragon wants to get you to take the both of you a little higher and, well, you are an executive and the very image of American gold-leafed success–just one more step.

How hard could it be?

We should know more about the lives–and demons–associated with healthy leaders, but the evil get our attention and we have powerful concept, methods, and tools for getting “behind the curtains” and finding what the malignant narcissist has tried to cover as well as avoid all of his life, i.e., his humiliation before authority.

So Trump sits in court, a “stable genius”–a horse’s ass for countless others–found out and subject to the control of power more powerful–also more possessed of integrity–than himself.

I think he knows he has been played for criminal political power–call it the #MoscowSystem for #PiratesMurderersAndThieves–and not only will millions of others not look at him as they once had but he may not look at himself as he once had. So he yawns in court. He’ll make noises about a “rigged game”, but he’s delusional, and it’s not–and the #AmericanPublic in vast majority knows that that, finally, is the truth.

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“Essential Trump Tour Guide: the Trump saga condensed by its dimensions: Failure; Malignant Narcissism; Russian Real Estate Entanglements; Russian Money; Collusion: Traitor.

Dive in.

For disappointed Trump Republicans, consider a reset on your own methods of discerning truth or your own motivations for accepting baseless and outrageous accusations and claims–and come to some understanding about Malignant Narcissism and related criminal and politically criminal psychology.

For United States Military and Police: be true to your oath as well as quintessential American ethics, principles, traditions, and values: America’s Founding Fathers produce by 1789 a remarkable guidance for a secular democratic republic, truly one nation with justice and liberty for all. Never forget for one minute that you are the defense and security for the most advanced and greatest complex integrated and essentially classically humanist political system on the planet (well, France might be healthier at the moment–but we’ll show them how it’s done). 🙂

Good American citizens fight for the same things but play each to their own abilities and strengths.

Essential Trump Tour Guide

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Medvedev: Muscovy Clown and Kremlinal

15 Friday Mar 2024

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In a recent Tweet, the high and not so mighty Dmitry Medvedev, chair of the Security Council of Russia, referred to Ukrainian President Zelensky as a “provincial clown”. After so many years of accumulating material about Russia, I had quite a bit to pack into one riposte–>

Provincial clown?

Look in the mirror.

For , this has been ’s work in its support of dictatorship-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2018/02/24/war-east-west-abomination-syria-bombing-hospitals/ -of the lust for the wealth of others and the power to steal it: #StormInMoscow-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/05/03/reference-journalist-alexander-zhilin-operation-storm-in-moscow-aka-moscow-apartment-bombings/ (you bombed in the dead of night as part of an obscene political theater) and here you will destroy what doesn’t shoot back: https://youtu.be/a245RkGUXfk; https://youtu.be/c1xFSCDy8Jo; https://youtu.be/q2nfuIP2tU0; https://youtu.be/8_XCe86resg. Your #JewHate traces back to about here: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/ -and your own #RussianNazism does too. Regarding ’s sideshow: you know of #WhiteRussianLoyalist #MaxErwinVonScheubnerRichter-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/.

In the end, the darkness you believe surrounds you–that paranoia–is your own and fixed by a reliably delusional, grandiose, messianic, and malign narcissism that has no other purpose than the want of adoration (narcissistic supply).

As an X-Pression–>

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Essential Trump Tour Guide

15 Friday Mar 2024

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All in one X-pression–>

Failure–https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/09/27/djt-the-success-at-failing-two-tweets/;
Malignant Narcissism–https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/10/malignant-narcissistic-process-distilled/;
Rus Real Estate–https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/10/09/trumps-america-in-retrospect-russian-real-estate-entanglements/;
Russian Money–https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/;
Collusion–https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/12/07/trumps-russian-collusion-no-delusion-probably/;
Traitor-Fraudulent #2020ElectionDenial, Fraudulent Electoral College Ballots ready to replace authentic ones-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/02/14/americantraitor-donaldjohntrump/.

#MikePence’s refusal to stop on effectively stopped ’s #Jan6RealSteal. , who appears not to understand either or , had lied to his base and the every step of the way to the last election–and he hasn’t changed one bit. As a and #PoliticalCriminal slow-walking toward his grand jury reviewed #4FelonyCases91Counts, he’s incapable of serving other than his projected image.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/; https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-little-moscow-sunny-isles-miami-russian-money-real-estate-2022-3.

On X–>

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X-Pression: Trump’s Ignoble Republican ‘New Nobility’

12 Tuesday Mar 2024

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Hash for Shameful Traitorous Republicans

– Americans In Name Only.
#TAKs – Trump’s Ass Kissers.

Latent Political Impact

Adult responsible Democrats and Republicans, critically thinking, reasoning, and reasonable in the constructing and fine tuning of good public policy, appear slow to comprehend how deep the attack on America’s way of life, domestic tranquility, and defense and moral strength among nations has gone. In fact, a portion of today’s GOP has traded its conservative Constitutional moorings for a reactionary feudal-medieval position in time and is fast floating away from the desires, hopes, and ideals of ordinary Americans who would not allow themselves to be dumb.

For Republicans, where are “the adults in the room”?

Where is the push-back from conservatives who should be mad as hell as regards the selfish and piratical theft of their democracy?

#FeloniousTrump #4FelonyCases91Counts well may be called #AmericanTraitorTrump–and no conservative Republican dares call him out to his face.

We have seen the brazen and greedy–where are the brave and free among the much less visible virtuous?

A Note on Nobility and Virtue

In Putin’s world, the fire sale of state assets into the pockets of former Communist Party nomenklatura had been set up by the mid-1980s as insurance and precaution against the possibility of bankrupting the state (hunt around in Karen Dawisha’s work for the scholarship). “A New Nobility” appears intended for the KGB/FSB and associated oligarchy that would become wealthy enough to live as it pleased without concerns for the development of Russia and its people. Private estates built on private wealth and power would become as unassailable as those who owned them. Putin would return Russia to feudal-medieval barbarism and the patrimonial authoritarianism in which the test of sovereignty and dominion would be the ability to destroy persons and property as alike and at will and with impunity.

For the west, that world awaits only inaction or passive and tacit popular American approval at the polls.

Anyone who is not constrained may wield power with a hammer and the fear of it, but in the better liberal democracies of the world, all hew to the ideals, laws, and principles of democratic order by constitution and by legal code, centuries of it and fine tuned by conflict, reason, and struggle for the greater good.

Whatever “the nobility”–who would themselves represent law in each their respective domains–may think of themselves, there are those around them–or placed beneath them–who judge quietly, perhaps sullenly, but with determination to set right the wrongs of merely vulgar power. The dimensions that matter: awareness and comprehension; compassion and empathy; good conscience and intents; courage and fortitude; goodness in spirit; good grooming and manners; inherent grace, justice, and magnanimity.

Most Cogent on BackChannels: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/12/07/trumps-russian-collusion-no-delusion-probably/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/02/14/americantraitor-donaldjohntrump/.

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Hey, Suzie Qz: Perfect “X”–>New Consideration for the Peace of Westphalia

03 Sunday Mar 2024

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Suzie Qz posted this on X today as appropriate to Trump’s #RevoltingGOP and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s role in the reactionary subversion of America’s guiding principles and values:

The response that came to me yielded two additional:

If you would be passionate about the survival of American democracy, be at least curious about the Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia that served to end it while also revolutionizing European diplomacy, redefining the assumptive principles of sovereignty, and forever modifying relationships between powers and the management of their affairs beneath an umbrella greater than themselves. This one treaty would then set a part of the stage for America’s own revolutionary departure from the power known to kings.

Before the Westphalia settlement, there was no recognizable diplomatic profession. Spies, irregular envoys, and heralds citing scripture or handing out ringing declamations were the usual route that princes chose to alert one another to the start of war. After Westphalia, the diplomatic craft was practiced by a kind of well-born guild, with members who were adept at melding reason, precedent, and law with quiet allusion to the implication of armed compunction.

Nathan, James A. Soldiers, Statecraft, and history: Coercive Diplomacy and International Order. 1 ed. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002 — cited: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1146&context=the_histories–Patton, Steven. “The Peace of Westphalia and its Affects on International Relations, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.” The Histories 10:1 (91-99), 2019.

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VladimirPutin #ParanoidMalignantNarcissist

16 Friday Feb 2024

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On Elon Musk’s X platform, all Xpression may as well be flushed down the digital river of tweeted communications: the appearance is brief and the flood mighty.

Countermeasure: copy-paste and blog the message as well.

Prompt: Vladimir Putin’s laughable statement: “We did not initiate this war [in Ukraine]. Rather, we are striving to end it.”

Vladimir Putin using Viktor Yanukovych as his lackey had sorely abused Ukrainian business with time-honored mafia methods, i.e., plain skimming theft in the end:

https://www.occrp.org/en/yanukovychleaks-national-project/; https://www.occrp.org/uk/yanukovychleaks-national-project/.

A popular turn toward Europe against the will of the Kremlin’s puppet and a related “Revolution of Dignity” ensued.

Euromaidan2014.

#RussianInvades – https://euromaidanpress.com/2014/12/07/fsb-colonel-girkin-tells-details-of-how-russia-invaded-ukraine-in-twice-censored-interview/; https://www.brookings.edu/articles/watch-out-for-little-green-men/.

& #RussianNazis spread chaos, degradation, deprivation, and desperation worldwide, and then cover their crimes with lies, specifically baseless accusations, deflections, denials, erasures of collective memory, fabrications, and omissions of facts.

Regarding #EvilMirroring and : https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/06/28/a-dark-mirror-in-language/.

#DarkMirrorInLanguage #MedievalVModern #PhantomOfTheSoviet

Thematically Related

’s shared basic psychology: Malignant Narcissism and Process. The lies told by both represent the “Covering” of deeply seated humiliation (“Narcissistic Mortification”) and the fear of its repeat. The psyche creates an alternative undamaged courageous-heroic self, and that becomes the leader’s principle project both in its assertion and its defense (in the psychology, “Splitting” or, together, “Covering/Splitting”). Complementary observation, term, or trope: “delusional, grandiose, messianic ideation absent of normal boundaries or limits, i.e., the parameters of conscience” (so I quote myself). The end of the process for the Russian dictator and the American wanna-be dictator: “Unlimited Narcissistic Supply”, i.e., the validating infinite love of millions without end in sight.

Putin rose to power on a false-flag operation, the “Moscow Apartment Bombings” (also reference David Satter’s “The Unsolved Mystery Behind the Act of Terror That Brought Putin to Power”, National Review, August 17, 2016 or on this blog “Reference: Journalist, Alexander Zhilin, Operation Storm in Moscow AKA Moscow Apartment Bombings” – May 3, 2023 ); Trump, by contrast, appears to have run fairly for 2016 but then attempted to rig the 2020 election with the Big Lie that it had been stolen while he, in fact, he had lined up fraudulent election ballots to steal it for himself–he had hoped to order Mike Pence to interrupt the count, have authentic ballots replaced, and then reclaim power with the now apparent intent to functionally disestablish America’s democracy as well as the NATO security umbrella against the rapacious and politically absolute enemies of freedom.

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#AmericanTraitor #DonaldJohnTrump

14 Wednesday Feb 2024

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After years of blogging defined by “collect, select, and opine”, I have found with the national and global obsessions with “#FeloniousTrump” (“#4FelonyCases91Counts”)–so I frequently refer to him on Elon Musk’s X post-Twitter platform–a certain saturation. I have tired of Donald John Trump’s image and voice, his skewed anti-democratic American political stances, his now infamously malign and surreal (delusional, grandiose, messianic) narcissistic psychology, his paranoia and related lies and lying, and the uncritical and other than Christian self-righteous viciousness of his fan base. 

I have seen enough as well of the Hitler-Stalin Trump-Puntin (#TrumpPutin) dance and related intents, and would wish not only fellow Americans but Europeans and others free of them and all similar political criminals and elevated crackpots. 

Instead of writing (much), I’ve chosen to produce a page of reference with two of Liz Cheney’s YouTube videos at the base. Before one reaches them: excerpts form suggested reference.

Motivation

Donald Trump has failed perhaps more than his share of bank loans and debts, and he has had to deal with a rough world, one often lawless beyond his own reach. The pressures must get “up there” with always incessant needs for cash. Well, he found his cash, and much of it in concentration.

Trump’s Business and Banking Failures; Trump Rescued by Russian Money; Trump’s Russian Real Estate Entanglements; Trump’s Malignant Narcissism.

Moscow is in Russia; Little Moscow: Miami Beach, Florida.

Malice Aforethought: Trump’s Fake Electors Scheme

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/trump-fake-elector-scheme-case-tracker; https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-electors-205d1fc6a02e1225c8c51214980a1232; https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jan-6-investigation-fake-electors-608932d4771f6e2e3c5efb3fdcd8fcce; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/politics/fake-electors-explained-trump-jan-6.html. Addendum: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-supreme-court-immunity-arizona-fake-electors-rcna149359.

Malice Aforethought: Trump Compromises Capitol Defense for January 6, 2021

https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-hindered-dc-national-guard-response-to-insurrection-attempt-report-2021-1; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-report-details-sweeping-failures-around-jan-6-attack; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/politics/capitol-riot-security.html; https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/956842958/what-we-know-so-far-a-timeline-of-security-at-the-capitol-on-january-6; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/january-6-senate-investigation/2021/06/08/a8cc5b1e-c7d4-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/january-6-senate-investigation/2021/06/08/a8cc5b1e-c7d4-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html; https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riots-hearing-security-officials-a9ecf8efd4d76f02d5ab9c7a01c5bdb1;

Trumpolini

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-capitol-probes-season-finale-focus-trump-supporters-three-hour-rage-2022-07-21; https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/politics/fact-check-trump-january-6/index.html; https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probe-uncovers-new-details-trumps-inaction/story?id=106131854; https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/17/trump-refuses-to-say-what-he-did-during-the-jan–6-attack-unfolded-at-the-u-s–capitol; https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/7/21/jan-6-live-news-panel-to-examine-trumps-conduct-during-riots; https://time.com/6199490/trump-jan-6-oath-dereliction-duty/; https://www.courthousenews.com/jan-6-hearing-to-focus-on-trumps-inaction-during-capitol-riot/; https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-panel-hearing-3e3dc618ed8cee37147cf6a792c0c0fa; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/politics/trump-jan-6.html; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lit-that-fire-of-capitol-insurrection-jan-6-committee-report-says; https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64071723; https://www.voanews.com/a/final-report-on-jan-6-attack-points-finger-at-trump-/6888552.html; https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/21/jan-6-panel-trump-attack-00047130.

2020 Election Affirmation

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/trumps-failed-efforts-overturn-election-numbers/4130307001; https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/2020-election-electoral-college-vote/index.html; https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/19/936647882/georgia-releases-hand-recount-results-affirming-bidens-lead; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/biden-electoral-college.html; https://www.michigan.gov/sos/resources/news/2021/02/12/statewide-election-audit-process-affirms-presidential-election-outcome; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maricopa-county-election-cyber-ninjas-fraud-trump-senate/2022/01/05/9bc64ace-6e50-11ec-aaa8-35d1865a6977_story.html; https://madison.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/wisconsin-fake-electors-settlement/article_69073b5a-9452-11ee-a516-37d30bea32bc.html; etc.

2020 Election Denial

For former President of the United States Trump: https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-lies-debunked-4fc26546b07962fdbf9d66e739fbb50d; https://www.reuters.com/world/us/who-allegedly-conspired-with-trump-overturn-2020-election-2023-08-02/; https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/trump-election-lies-fact-check.html; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-repeats-false-election-fraud-claims-during-speech-in-washington; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/07/trump-refuses-to-accept-election-results-says-it-is-far-from-over.html;

For present Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: https://apnews.com/article/congress-house-speaker-2024-election-certification-8cd7c5a9e6ae69635bbb4624cc78e5c5; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/mike-johnson-trump-january-6-democracy-threat-election-denier; https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/07/johnson-election-denier-nonsense-biden-2020-election-00134184; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-who-denied-2020-election-loss-announces-new-white-house-run;

As a bipartisan effort, the report does not delve into the root causes of the attack, including Trump’s role as he called for his supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn his election defeat that day. It does not call the attack an insurrection, even though it was. And it comes two weeks after Republicans blocked a bipartisan, independent commission that would investigate the insurrection more broadly.

“This report is important in the fact that it allows us to make some immediate improvements to the security situation here in the Capitol,” said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which conducted the probe along with the Senate Rules Committee. “But it does not answer some of the bigger questions that we need to face, quite frankly, as a country and as a democracy.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-report-details-sweeping-failures-around-jan-6-attack

But the DHS and the FBI do not create an intelligence report focused specifically on the upcoming pro-Trump rally. That’s important because these reports go beyond raw intelligence — they validate information and put it into context that would help local law enforcement develop a plan. These threat assessments or intelligence bulletins are typically written as a matter of course ahead of high-profile events. It’s not clear why this didn’t happen.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/956842958/what-we-know-so-far-a-timeline-of-security-at-the-capitol-on-january-6

“There were significant, widespread and unacceptable breakdowns in the intelligence gathering. .?.?. The failure to adequately assess the threat of violence on that day contributed significantly to the breach of the Capitol,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the homeland security panel, told reporters. “The attack was, quite frankly, planned in plain sight.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/january-6-senate-investigation/2021/06/08/a8cc5b1e-c7d4-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html

Sources said Scavino told Smith’s investigators that as the violence began to escalate that day, Trump “was just not interested” in doing more to stop it.

Sources also said former Trump aide Nick Luna told federal investigators that when Trump was informed that then-Vice President Mike Pence had to be rushed to a secure location, Trump responded, “So what?” — which sources said Luna saw as an unexpected willingness by Trump to let potential harm come to a longtime loyalist.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probe-uncovers-new-details-trumps-inaction/story?id=106131854

As he pushed to overturn the election, Trump relied on a band of outside allies who undertook what federal prosecutors have called a “criminal scheme” to fraudulently overturn the 2020 results instead of relying on the advice of attorneys in the White House who urged him to accept his loss to Biden./Trump was asked in the interview why he didn’t listen to those lawyers.

“I didn’t respect them,” Trump said.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/17/trump-refuses-to-say-what-he-did-during-the-jan–6-attack-unfolded-at-the-u-s–capitol

In public, he made more than 800 inaccurate claims about the election from the time the polls began closing on Nov. 3, 2020, to the end of his presidency, according to a database compiled by The Washington Post. Dozens of times, he simply characterized the election as “rigged,” “stolen” or “a hoax,” and flatly and falsely declared he had won — even as a mountain of evidence proved otherwise. Other falsehoods were more specific about the voting and ballot-counting process, contained unproven allegations and promoted conspiracy theories.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/trump-election-lies-fact-check.html

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Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights

  Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/

Addendum-Additional Reference Online-From March 28, 2024 and Forward

Protess, Ben, Alan Feuer, Danny Hakim. “Catch Up on Where the Trump Investigations Stand.” The New York Times, March 20, 2024.

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