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Hugh Hewitt finally blows his top and walks out.
1) This is freaking awesome.
2) The action begins at 60 second mark.
3) Hugh Hewitt used to work for Wash Post.
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From Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱
12:01 PM · Nov 1, 2024
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Good for Hugh, he challenges the propagandists and walks out.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1852380551925076352
How the House would pick the president in the event of an Electoral College tie
(here we go, that’s their plan, details of how to steal it.)
Explainer: If no one gets 270 electoral votes, the House of Representative decides who wins the presidency, with each state delegation getting one vote.
Nov. 1, 2024, 5:00 AM EDT By Ben Kamisar
The election has already been filled with eye-popping and historically unusual events. One other potential scenario looms this fall: the "contingent election" of the president and the vice president that would happen if no one can secure the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidential election.
That has not happened in the modern era, but there are a few conceivable (if unlikely) paths across the Electoral College map that could lead to former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris ending the race tied at 269 electoral votes.
Some of those scenarios include Republicans’ winning all of Nebraska’s votes, an uphill battle because the state doles out a vote to the winner of each of its congressional districts and Harris is favored to win in the Omaha-area 2nd District. (That’s why Republicans briefly, and unsuccessfully, sought to change Nebraska’s rules and make it a winner-take-all state.) And it's much less likely that a third-party candidate will win electoral votes and prevent someone else from getting a majority or that faithless electors will refuse to support a candidate, with the same end result.
In the event of a tie, Congress would decide the next president.
While the process would be hotly contested and historic, Congress has a set process to decide a president in that scenario, which would undoubtedly come after a slew of court challenges in key states aimed at challenging the election results there.
Here's how it would work.
“Each state, regardless of population, casts a single vote for President in a contingent election,” according to the Congressional Research Service. That means the group of House members from each state would choose among the three candidates with the most Electoral College voters, and the candidate with the backing of the majority of states would win.
The newly elected Congress taking office in January would vote in that scenario. So the results of the congressional elections would loom large.
Republicans have majority control of 26 state delegations, while Democrats have majority control of 22 delegations, and two states (Minnesota and North Carolina) are tied. Members of Congress would not be bound to vote for their party’s candidate, but they would surely face immense pressure to do so.
Although Washington, D.C., has three electoral votes in the presidential election, it would not have a vote in the House in a contingent election because it is not a state.
In a contingent election, the vice president is chosen by a full vote of the Senate, with each senator casting his or her own vote for one of the two vice presidential candidates with the most electoral votes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/electoral-college-tie-2024-election-what-happens-rcna175477
Would Justice Department and FBI officials carry out Trump’s prosecutions of his rivals? PANIC IN DC
Former officials fear Trump would force out DOJ and FBI officials who defy him and replace them with loyalists. Chaos, division and paralysis could ensue.1/3NBC panicked over prosecution of democrats.
Oct. 31, 2024, 4:43 PM EDTBy David Rohde and Ken “CIA” Dilanian
Since he entered the 2024 race, Donald Trump has called for the criminal prosecution of at least 16 rival politicians and 15 law enforcement, military and intelligence officials — according to an NBC News review of his public comments — not to mention workers at two federal public health agencies, two tech billionaires, Google and as any lawyers, campaign donors and political operatives who engage in what the former president has called “unscrupulous behavior” in the election.
• A separate recent review by National Public Radio found that Trump had issued threats of prosecution more than 100 times.
• But could Trump actually carry out prosecutions of such unprecedented breadth and sweep? And, if so, how would it work?
• To understand how that might play out, NBC News interviewed multiple current and former Justice Department and FBI officials, as well as legal experts.
All agreed that what Trump is proposing would shatter 50 years of post-Watergate norms dictating that federal prosecutors don’t take orders from the president regarding criminal investigations. Those rules were designed to prevent a repeat of the abuses of Richard Nixon, who improperly used the Justice Department to punish his political enemies.
But there are ways around the guardrails, the current and former officials said, making it possible for Trump to transform the department into an instrument through which to exact revenge on his political opponents.
“A corrupt U.S. attorney with one corrupt prosecutor can do enormous damage,” said Joyce Vance, who was the U.S. attorney in Alabama and is an NBC News legal analyst.
A new president appoints roughly 300 senior Justice Department officials, including the U.S. attorneys who run offices across the country. All 300 must be confirmed by the Senate, but multiple former Justice Department officials said they fear Trump would install partisans willing to do his bidding.
The U.S. attorneys typically rely on lower-level career prosecutors to do critical investigative work behind the scenes. They can’t be easily fired under current guidelines. But those who resist going along with investigations would face enormous pressure. Some might resign.
In situations where there was resistance, Trump could appoint a special counsel to carry out prosecutions he calls for.
“My fear is that what happens is that the good people will resign,” said Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor and NBC News legal analyst. “Who do they replace them with? People who will go along with illegal orders.”
One of Trump’s more far-reaching proposals, known as Schedule F, calls for the reclassifying the roughly 50,000 career civil servants across the federal government so they can be hired, promoted and fired by Trump and his inner circle.
Even if Trump didn’t take such a drastic step, the officials and experts said, the likely outcome of the upheaval would be an even more extreme version of the chaos, division and protracted legal battles that marked his first term. That would slow the work of the Justice Department, which conducts prosecutions nationwide and oversees the FBI; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; all federal prisons; and multiple other federal law enforcement agencies.
“It’s a recipe for bringing to a standstill all of the unquestionably essential national security work that needs to be done by DOJ and FBI,” warned a former Justice Department official who asked not to be named, citing fear of retaliation.
A former U.S. attorney who asked not to be named added that a version of that chaos is already unfolding in Trump’s transition team, where hard-line Trump supporters are calling for unprecedented use of the Justice Department and the FBI and more mainstream Republicans are resisting such steps.
(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/will-justice-department-fbi-officials-carry-trumps-prosecutions-rivals-rcna175650
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“Inside Trump transition planning,” the former U.S. attorney said, “there is a battle raging between the normies and the freaks.”
A central focus of a second Trump administration
Both Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, have said the Justice Department would be a core focus of a second Trump administration. Campaigning in Georgia on Oct. 11, Vance said the attorney general would be more important than his own role as vice president.
“The most important person in government, I think, after the president for this cycle is going to be the attorney general,” said Vance, who claimed the current Justice Department is the “most corrupt” in U.S. history and said Trump would need to “clean house” there.
Current and former Justice Department officials flatly dismissed Vance’s claims of corruption, citing the Biden Justice Department’s prosecutions of prominent Democrats, including Hunter Biden, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and New York Mayor Eric Adams. Democrats have said they believe Trump would look to appoint an attorney general who would drop the pending federal cases against him — for his alleged role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol and mishandling of classified documents — brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
A draft list of a dozen people whom Trump might nominate as attorney general included U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, ABC News recently reported. Cannon threw out the classified documents case against Trump, a ruling that was harshly criticized by legal experts and praised by Trump. He called Cannon a “brilliant woman” and dismissed the charges as a “scam case.”
Another name on the list of potential attorney generals was Jeffrey Clark, a mid-level Justice Department official who backed Trump’s false claims of 2020 election fraud. Days before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Trump’s attempt to install Clark as acting attorney general failed when the entire senior leadership of the Justice Department threatened to resign, citing fears that public trust in the neutrality of the department would be irrevocably damaged.
Another option Trump’s more hard-line legal advisers have discussed is to appoint a series of acting attorneys general who wouldn’t need confirmation from the Senate. Under current federal law, an acting attorney general can serve 210 days at a time.
Mike Davis, a Republican lawyer and former senior Senate staffer, said in an appearance on conservative influencer Benny Johnson’s show that he would carry out a “three-week reign of terror” as Trump’s acting attorney general and then be pardoned by Trump, Politico reported.
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Davis vowed to indict Joe Biden, pardon Jan. 6 defendants — “especially my hero, horn man” — fire “deep state” employees, detain people in the “D.C. gulag” and begin deporting millions of immigrants and putting “kids in cages.” Trump has publicly praised Davis. At a rally this month, he hailed Davis as “tough as hell” and said “we want him in a very high capacity” in a second administration.
Small number of loyalists needed
Vance, the former U.S. attorney in Alabama, said it wouldn’t be difficult for Trump to find 93 people — whose only qualification would be loyalty to him — to serve as the U.S attorneys, or the top federal prosecutors, in states across the country.
“You can bring them in from outside — they don’t have to live in the district or the state,” Vance said. “Trump could easily just appoint his most loyal, most malleable folks.”
She added that placing allies in top Justice Department positions would be enough for Trump to carry out his prosecutions. “You don’t have to corrupt the entire office to do a prosecution,” she said. “All you have to do is hire three or four people, find some folks at the FBI, the Secret Service, who want to play ball." (they are explaining everything Bidan did and is still doing)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/will-justice-department-fbi-officials-carry-trumps-prosecutions-rivals-rcna175650
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Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at the NYU School of Law, said that “it saddens me to say” but “there’s no question” that Trump would be able to find lawyers willing to carry out his wishes in the Justice Department.
Gillers praised bar associations for disbarring several lawyers involved in Trump’s effortto overturn the 2020 election results, such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, for making false statements in court. But he believes that wouldn’t be enough of a deterrent.
“You’re dealing with 1.3 million American lawyers,” Gillers said. “No doubt he will find 1,000 who will endorse his goals and seek to achieve them.”
Gillers argued that the Justice Department was different from other federal agencies because of its role in instilling confidence that the American legal system is fair. (WTF, these people lie their asses off)
“The administration of justice is different than the administration of agriculture,” he said. “The administration of law should not be corrupted by politics.”
Gillers harshly criticized the Supreme Court’s recent immunity ruling, which said all actions by the president involving the Justice Department were “absolutely immune” from criminal prosecution. For the first time in American history, he said, a president can order an attorney general to prosecute his political enemies without fear of being criminally investigated for abusing his powers.
“The opinion is arrogant at the expense of the Constitution,” Gillers said. “These five people have rewritten the meaning of the separation of powers in a democratic system, and that is repugnant.”
Trump would also have the power to appoint a special counsel who could, theoretically, carry out investigations of purported corruption that span the country, legal experts said.
Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, noted that if a prosecution’s evidence were extremely weak, a jury could acquit a defendant no matter the jurisdiction.
Somin argued that federal prosecutions, even if they result in acquittals, can drag on for years and severely damage a person’s professional reputation and ability to get a job.
“For many people, just getting charged and prosecuted is a serious burden,” he said. (Yeah, exactly what they are still doing to PDJT)
Justice Department officials have risen to the occasion and defied presidential overreach in the past. During the Watergate scandal, the attorney general and the deputy attorney general resigned when Nixon asked them to fire special counsel Archibald Cox in what became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre.”
And the episode with Clark, the election denier, in which a group of senior Justice Department officials — all Republicans — blocked his appointment as acting attorney general by threatening to resign, provides some measure of hope for veterans of the department.
But the former Justice Department and FBI officials said it’s hard to envision that U.S. law enforcement wouldn’t be severely hampered by what would be likely to ensue in a second Trump administration.
“Let’s assume that you have the numbers. You go in and just whack a good portion of the workforce,” the former Justice Department official said. “I don’t care who you put in — it’s no longer a functioning institution."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/will-justice-department-fbi-officials-carry-trumps-prosecutions-rivals-rcna175650
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When you're voting this week, remember that in 2022, Nancy Pelosi opened a liquor store in the U.S. House where congress and staff can buy alcohol with their taxpayer-funded expense accounts.
11:23 AM · Nov 1, 2024
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Kash Patel LIVE From Trump Bus Tour: "We've Got A Thunderdome Version Of A Crowd Here Supporting Donald J. Trump"
11:51 AM · Nov 1, 2024
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https://x.com/Bannons_WarRoom/status/1852378017047134422
Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
And lawyer up, @JenaGriswold
The evidence strongly indicates you’ve committed a felony.
You helped put Tina Peters in prison for 9 years for much less.
Kyle Clark @KyleClark·23h
NEW: Trump campaign demands Colorado Secretary of State @JenaGriswold (D)temporarily halt processing of mail ballots and re-secure voting systems in counties impacted by her office's leak of voting system passwords online. #copolitics
9:50 PM · Oct 31, 2024
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https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1852166298211438790
Polis Colorado governor make excuses and lies for Jena, says leaked voting machine passwords have been updated
Nov. 1, 2024
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced today that the voting machine passwords that were accidentally leaked on a state website have been updated.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a news release, “All of the passwords in affected counties have been changed," and she thanked Polis "for deploying extra state resources to help in this effort.”
“Colorado has countless layers of security to ensure our elections are free and fair, and every eligible voter should know their ballot will be counted as cast," Griswold added.
The passwords were left on a spreadsheet online, Griswold said earlier this week. The disclosure did not pose a security threat to Colorado's elections and it did not impact how ballots are counted, she said. The password changes were made out of an abundance of caution, their offices said, and after Trump's campaign sent a letter to her office to demand security measures be instituted after the error.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/harris-trump-michigan-wisconsin-rally-election-live-updates-rcna177531#rcrd61893
anons how likely is that they changed all the passwords on all their machines overnight? I doubt this seriously
There's no way Jena or CO completed all those requirements in Trump's letter, Polis saying the passwords were updated, overnight is Bullshit and it doesn't fulfill the law and what's required.
Trump's Attorney is going to have a fight with them for sure, this is not even close to be finished.
I hope a whistleblower in the CO government lets loose the most damning evidence on the Polis, Jena and all othersincluding judges that have been cheating for years.
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
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EPIC 😂😭😂
A woman showed up at a Trump rally dressed as a triggered 2016 liberal.🤣
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2:12 AM · Nov 1, 2024
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https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1852232121089200574
perfect Halloween Trump Rally
Good for him, at least he's trying to be truthful, they gave him a rash of shit when he came out with analysis a couple of weeks ago that was friendly to Trump. he's calling out GOP pollsters, when the ones that are doing it at left wingers