Levin Report What Other Kind of Insurrections Is Trump Going to Incite Over the Next Nine Days? The president is worrisomely visiting Alamo, Texas on Tuesday.
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Time was, a sitting president’s final nine days in office were considered fairly inconsequential.As lame ducks, they‘d probably push through some last-minute policies and issue some pardons, but largely it was a relatively quiet week-and-change spent preparing to move out and welcome the next guy.Then there’s Donald Trump.At present, he’s currently facing the possibility of being forcibly removed from office by either the 25th Amendment or impeachment and the reason is that because he’s a violent demagogue who can‘t be trusted not to incite his mob of extremist followers—even without access to his social media accounts.
On Tuesday, for example, he’ll be visiting the border town of Alamo, Texas, to supposedly highlight his work on the border wall.Except, for one thing, the odds are extremely high that given the opportunity to speak in public, he’ll go off-script and reference his deep and abiding “love” for the people who stormed the Capitol last week, and rile those exact people up by continuing to insist the election was stolen from him, a baseless claim he has refused to drop.
For another, it sure sounds like the location was selected to send a not-at-all-subtle message to his supporters.“Trump’s decision to travel to Alamo—named after the San Antonio mission where a small group of Texans fighting for independence against the Mexican government were defeated after a 13-day siege—serve[s] as a symbol of his defiance as he faces the most volatile end of any presidency in modern history,” wrote the Associated Press.On Twitter, retired reporter Michael Dresser was less circumspect about the president’s intentions, writing :
“If anyone doesn’t grasp the violent significance of Trump going to Alamo, Texas, Tuesday, they are not thinking at all.He’s planning Round 2.Why, I’m asked? Good question.
The town is named for the San Antonio mission of ‘Remember the Alamo’ fame.It’s a rallying cry.
The town is set amid a thick concentration of Border Patrol officers, whom Trump has cultivated as his personal SS since 2015.Not only are these agents fiercely loyal to Trump and his racial doctrines, they fear [that] Biden will seek to overhaul or abolish their agency and hold them accountable for their abuses.They are desperate and Trump will work them into a frenzy…I hope this turns out to be a paranoid fantasy on my part but after Wednesday I’ll take the chance of embarrassment.
I hope the forces of constitutional order are anticipating all possibilities.”
Meanwhile the FBI has reportedly sent a memo to law enforcement agencies warning of potential protests at Capitols across the country beginning January 16, as well as a threat from an armed group to travel to Washington, D.C., on the 16th and “stage an uprising if Congress removes…Trump from office,” according to a senior law enforcement official.Per NBC News:
The senior law enforcement official says the FBI’s National Crisis Coordination Center distributed the update to law enforcement agencies as a summary of threat information they’ve received following last Wednesday’s deadly mob attack on the Capitol.While the memo discusses possible threats discussed by online actors for Jan.16 through the inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden on Jan.20, it doesn’t mean that law enforcement agencies expect violent mass protests or confrontations in every state.
For instance, a spokesperson for the FBI in Boston says, “At this point in time, the FBI Boston Division is not in possession of any intelligence indicating any planned, armed protests at the four state capitals in our area of responsibility.
(ME, MA, NH, and RI) from January 17–20, 2021.
The spokesperson added, “As always, we are in constant communication with our law enforcement partners and will share any actionable intelligence.”
Advertisement So that’s somewhat comforting, though people would probably be a lot less tense if Donald Trump had no access to power whatsoever, or the ability to whip his base into a violent frenzy.
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As a reminder, that group includes Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who was reportedly clubbed in the head with a fire extinguisher by the president’s supporters.
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While Trump’s most gullible supporters might think otherwise, one of the major reasons—if not the only reason—he ran for president was surely to attract publicity for his brand.As writer Elizabeth Spiers pointed out today, Trump never actually thought he would win, but then he did—presumably thinking a term or two in the White House would help his business even more—and then, ironically, “made his brand so untouchable in the last two weeks of his presidency that it’s unlikely any big [company] will ever do business with him again.”
Advertisement One organization that doesn’t want anything to do with him is the PGA Championship, whose organizers have nixed plans to hold the event at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey golf club in 2022.The move will not only be a financial blow but clearly one to Trump’s ego, probably nearly as devastating as being kicked off Twitter, given that his favorite pastimes are unhinged rants on social media and hitting the links to cheat .
“It’s become clear that conducting the PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster would be detrimental to the PGA of America brand and would put at risk the PGA’s ability to deliver our many programs and sustain the longevity of our mission,” PGA of America president Jim Richerson said in a video posted to the organization’s website.“Our board has thus made the decision to exercise our right to terminate the contract to hold the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster.”
https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/1348726442817855496 The PGA decision was followed by an announcement on Monday by R&A, the group that oversees golf in the U.K., saying it has no plans to return its flagship British Open to Trump’s course in Turnberry, Scotland.Other businesses who don’t want to touch the outgoing president with a 2,000-foot pole include Shopify, which hosted the Trump Organization’s online store and, as The Washington Post notes , citing Trump’s annual financial disclosures, generated roughly $900,000 in income for his company in 2019; and the real estate brokerage firm JLL, which said Friday it will no longer represent the Trump Organization in its attempt to sell the president’s Washington hotel, which, per the Post , has “consistently run half-empty during its four years of existence.”
Let’s hear it for the ex-wives!
Larry Rendell Brock knows what we’re talking about :
The FBI arrested a North Texas man Sunday in connection with last week’s riots at the U.S.Capitol.
Larry Rendell Brock, of Grapevine, was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building and violent entry and disorderly conduct.Brock, 53, lived at an apartment complex along Main Street in Grapevine and surrendered to FBI agents Sunday after agreeing to meet them at the Grapevine Police Department, officials said.
In an arrest affidavit, an FBI agent said that Brock’s ex-wife was among those who contacted the bureau telling investigators, “I just know that when I saw this was happening, I was afraid he would be there.
I think you already know he was there.It is such a good picture and I recognize his patch,” the affidavit said.
Advertisement Brock confirmed to The New Yorker on Saturday that the image of a man on the Senate floor wearing tactical gear and carrying a set of zip-tie handcuffs was indeed him.He claimed that he only wore the gear because he “didn’t want to get stabbed or hurt,” potentially by “BLM and antifa.” Of the handcuffs, he insisted that he merely found them on the floor and picked them up thinking he would “give them to an officer” when he saw one, an excuse so convenient that some people—not us, of course, but some people—might say it sounds made up.
Area rioter forgot to think about his all-organic food diet before attempting fascist coup
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