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 #Jan6

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;

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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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Also Related on BackChannels

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/02/02/united-states-of-america-basic-training/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/01/19/gop-and-the-ridiculous-traitorous-mister-trump/.

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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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