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DOJ seeks to block Jan. 6 defendants from attending Trump inauguration

The DOJ cannot get more Evil

One Jan. 6 defendant who has not been sentenced yet was granted approval to travel to D.C. for the inauguration

By Alec Schemmel Fox News December 19, 2024 3:13pm EST

Attorneys at the Department of Justice are urging federal judges to reject petitions from at least two Jan. 6 defendants who are asking that they be allowed to return to the nation's capital for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Cindy Young, convicted of four misdemeanors for her involvement in the riot at the Capitol, and Russell Taylor, who pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge, both petitioned the courts to allow them to return to Washington, D.C., despite provisions of their sentences requiring them to stay away.

"Contrary to Young’s self designation that she ‘poses no threat of danger to the community,’ Young presents a danger to the D.C. community, including the very law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021," U.S. attorneys said in response to Young's petition. The federal attorneys cited calls from Young "for retribution against those involved in January 6 prosecutions" and argued that she has failed "to recognize the seriousness of her actions."

A request from Taylor, who was invited to attend the inauguration by members of Utah's congressional delegation, is also being challenged by attorneys at the Department of Justice who argue that the serious nature of his crimes should preclude him from being able to "return to the scene of the crime."

"He is asking for the Court to bless his desire to return to the scene of the crime, and the Court should not look past his criminal conduct the last time he was on Capitol grounds," the U.S. attorneys wrote in a filing to U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth. The attorneys added in their court filing that, while they had granted previous travel requests to other defendants involved in the Capitol siege, those approvals were to support people's continued employment, and the requests did not involve travel to the nation's capital.

However, another Jan. 6 defendant, Eric Peterson, who was convicted of a misdemeanor in November for his involvement in the Capitol riot but has yet to be sentenced, was given approval by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to travel to the District for Trump's swearing-in ceremony, according to Peterson's criminal case docket. Notably, the docket did not include any responses from the Department of Justice urging Chutkan to deny Peterson's request.

There remains uncertainty around whether Trump will pardon any, some, or all of those defendants who were convicted of crimes as a result of their involvement in the U.S. Capitol siege that occurred in 2021.

Trump has said at times that pardons will be reserved for those who remained peaceful on that fateful day; however, at other points he has suggested a blanket pardon for all those who were convicted. One thing that Trump has been steadfast on is that the pardons will come quickly following his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025.

The Department of Justice declined to comment for this story.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-seeks-block-jan-6-defendants-from-attending-trump-inauguration

House Republicans agree on Plan B government funding bill with Trump's debt limit increase

The partial government shutdown deadline is Friday

By Elizabeth Elkind Fox News

Published December 19, 2024 3:44pm EST

House Republicans have struck a deal on a backup plan for averting a government shutdown by the Friday deadline.

Multiple sources told Fox News Digital that the deal would extend current government funding levels for three months and also suspend the debt limit for two years – something President-elect Trump has demanded.

The bill also includes aid for farmers and roughly $110 billion in disaster relief funding for Americans impacted by storms Helene and Milton.

It would also include certain health care provisions minus reforms to the Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) system that some Republicans and Democrats were pushing for – but others vehemently opposed.

It comes after conservatives led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson's initial government funding plan on Wednesday, prompting fears of a partial government shutdown right before the holidays.

GOP hardliners were furious about what they saw as unrelated measures and policy riders being added to the bill at the last minute.

House Republicans began negotiations for a "clean" bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), but those were also upended when Trump urged GOP lawmakers to pair a CR with action on the debt limit – which was expected to be a contentious battle in the first half of next year.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-agree-plan-b-government-funding-bill-trumps-debt-limit-increase

Well, well, well

Tom Fitton@TomFitton

Former WH lawyer, Pat Philbin confirms he, behind Trump's back, organized threats of mass resignations to successfully thwart Trump from appointing an acting attorney general (@JeffClarkUS) who would seriously investigate 2020 election.

https://x.com/TomFitton/status/1772832739437269072

Philbin is responsible for Jeff Clark is at the DC Bar today, trying to save his license from the lies. And he also testified in front of the DC Bar, probably hurting Jeff Clark even more.12/19/24

From politico.com

11:47 PM · Mar 26, 2024

https://x.com/TomFitton/status/1772832739437269072

Posting article next.

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‘Assured failure’: Ex-White House lawyer provides new details of final days of Trump’s 2020 election gambit

Pat Philbin gave his first public testimony about the chaotic final days of the Trump presidency.

Former deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin shed new light on the frenzied effort by Donald Trump to remake the Justice Department into a tool of his bid to cling to power despite losing the election. Snakes.

By Kyle Cheney 03/26/2024 05:41 PM EDT1/2

Donald Trump’s deputy White House counsel, Pat Philbin, was nervous.It was just a few days until Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress was slated to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, and Trump had suddenly resuscitated a plan to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with Jeffrey Clark, a little known DOJ official who Trump expected to mount a sweeping nationwide effort to help him remain in power.

So Philbin called Clark, a colleague from their days in private practice dating back to the 1990s and tried to talk him out of it.“I tried to explain to him that it was a bad idea for multiple reasons,” Philbin recalled Tuesday at a long-delayed disbarment hearing for Clark. “He would be starting down a path of assured failure … If by some miracle somehow, it worked, there’d be riots in every major city in the country and it was not an outcome the country would accept.”

From Election Night to Jan. 6: A plot grows within Trump’s W.H.

It was Philbin’s first public testimony about the chaotic final days of the Trump presidency since he left the White House.Though Philbin has spoken to both the Jan. 6 select committee and the federal grand jury that indicted Trump for his effort to seize a second term, no transcript or recording of his remarks has even been released.

Philbin’s description of his interactions with Clark shed new light on the frenzied effort by Trump to remake the Justice Department into a tool of his bid to cling to power despite losing the election — a remarkable new account more than three years after a mob of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol in his name. His testimony followed Richard Donoghue, a former acting deputy attorney general.

Together, the two men described a White House that had let down all guardrails, with conspiracy theories about election fraud reaching Trump, who was an eager recipient of even implausible claims of fraud. Clark, too, embraced some of those claims, they said.

Philbin described feeling relief in the first days of January 2021 when he heard that Trump had ditched plans to appoint Clark as acting attorney general.

But he quickly learned in discussions with his boss, Pat Cipollone, and two top DOJ officials — acting attorney general Jeff Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue — that the effort had been revived. The men agreed that Philbin should speak to Clark, owing to their decades long relationship, and attempt to discern what was happening.

Philbin, who testified for about two hours on Tuesday, described Clark as wildly misinformed about claims of election fraud — countenancing a theory about “smart thermostats” being used to manipulate voting machines— and not sufficiently cognizant of the havoc it would wreak on the country if his plan succeeded.But he said Clark seemed “100 percent sincere” in his beliefs.

“I believe that he felt that he essentially had a duty,” Philbin said. “I think Jeff’s view was that there was a real crisis in the country and that he was being given an opportunity to do something about it.”

When Philbin warned Clark that there would be riots in every major American city if Trump reversed the outcome of the election, Clark responded, “Well, Pat, that’s what the Insurrection Act is for,” Philbin recalled.

(So did Philbin he have any problem even though Trump didn't interfere, but there were still riots? So his idea didn't stop riots in DC.)

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/26/white-house-trump-2020-00149195

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Clark, in Philbin’s telling, was referring to a 19th-century federal law that permits the president to use the military to quell civil unrest, an indication that he recognized the grave implications of his efforts.Though it was Philbin’s first time publicly discussing the exchange, the conversation was captured in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump— without naming either Philbin or Clark, though the identities of both speakers were easily discerned. On Tuesday, Philbin was asked to elaborate on this discussion.

“I don’t think I said anything on the phone. I just thought that that showed a lack of judgment,” he said. “Triggering riots in every major city in America, you’ve got to be really sure about what you’re doing and have no alternatives … In my estimation, that was not the sort of situation we were talking about.”

Philbin was the second witness to testify in a disciplinary proceeding that could result in the loss of Clark’s license to practice law.D.C. Bar investigators have charged him with attempting to coerce DOJ leaders to embrace false claims of election fraudin order to pressure state legislators to consider reversing Trump’s defeat in Georgia and other swing states.

Trump, fuming at his DOJ leadership for what he contended was a failure to pursue fraud investigations, repeatedly flirted with appointing Clark as their leader but ultimately backed down amid a mass resignation threat.

Clark has since been charged alongside Trump in Georgia for their efforts to overturn the election, and Clark was identified by Smith as a co-conspirator in the Washington, D.C. case.

Philbin said the mass resignation threat that caused Trump to back down from Clark’s appointment was partially his idea. He recalled that a similar mass resignation threat from his days as a lawyer in the George W. Bush administration over warrantless wiretapping had similarly affected policy decisions.So he said he advised Rosen to take the temperature of DOJ leadership about how they would react if Trump appointed Clark as acting attorney general.

Nearly every top DOJ official indicated they would resign, a significant factor in causing Trump to back off his plan.

Philbin said he sought to convey these realities to Clark in a last-ditch phone call before a confrontational Oval Office meeting with Trump and his top advisers.

“We talked about some of the theories of fraud that were around. They’d been debunked and there wasn’t really any there-there,” Philbin said. “If the president made him acting attorney general … people at DOJ would probably resign, there’s going to be just a massive wave of resignations. People weren’t going to be following him to pursue these theories of fraud.”

Philbin said he was among those who would have resigned.

“It was not a course of action that I could countenance,” Philbin said. “I thought there was not a justification for it. It was a sufficiently bad idea and unjustified interference with the completion of the Electoral College count. I wouldn’t want to be there in the White House any longer participating in that.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/26/white-house-trump-2020-00149195

I detest attorneys, and now I detest them more angrily than before. This asshole and Trump's other attorneys are now responsible for Jeff Clark, John Eastmanand many others being bankrupted and continuously persecuted, because they didn't want to fight if the election was stolen, which they knew it was. Cowards, one and all.

Brian Glenn: The Base Couldn’t Care Less If This Tyrannical Government Stays Funded. On Bannon's War Room

The Congress always says the "Shut Down" of the Federal Government, would hurt the public, but it won't, it will hurt Federal Workers, Congress and Senate, and Park Services, we won't even know it, or even care. Nobody actually goes to the Post Office anymore because they are useless.

6:30

https://rumble.com/embed/v5yo4te/?pub=4

Oops,Brian Glenn: The Base Couldn’t Care Less If This Tyrannical Government Stays Funded. On Bannon's War Room

The Congress always says the "Shut Down" of the Federal Government, would hurt the public, but it won't, it will hurt Federal Workers, Congress and Senate, and Park Services, we won't even know it, or even care. Nobody actually goes to the Post Office anymore because they are useless.

6:30

https://rumble.com/embed/v5yo4te/?pub=4

Darren Beattie: Major Lie of J6Wielded Against The American People And Trump Will Be Exposed

OMG this is so funny, 1/2 way through Darren says, "I feel diminished for even knowing who Cheney and Hutchinson are, I wouldn't even recognize them or know them, in a very dramatic and convincing way, like a Shakespeare play! I laughed so hard, I thought you guys would too. He starts at about 2:45, but the short video is worth a watch.

Actually a really good discussion by Darren.

8:59

https://rumble.com/embed/v5y5leb/?pub=4

I just saw this X posted here, but can't find it now,here's the videothat goes along with it.

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FEMA investigating worker who told staff to bypass homes with Trump signs: Report says

FEMA director Deanne Criswell confirmed to Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., that the agency is actively investigating the actions of supervisor Marn’i Washington.

By Charlotte Hazard

Published: December 19, 2024 5:16pm

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is complying with ongoing investigations into a supervisor who told employees not to help hurricane victims who had Trump signs in front of their homes in Florida, according to reports.

FEMA director Deanne Criswell confirmed to Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., that the agency is actively investigating supervisor Marn’i Washington's actions.For her part, Washington has told media that she was "simply following orders" from higher-ups.

“This employee’s conduct was reprehensible, and this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA,” Criswell wrote in a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire. “The work we do at FEMA is not, has never been, and should never be partisan — emergencies and disasters don’t respect geographic or political boundaries.”

Last month, a whistleblower at FEMA filed a complaint that alleged an agency official in Florida told disaster relief workers to skip houses that had pro-Donald Trump signs in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

The employees were allegedly told in late October that they should skip houses of Trump supporters when canvassing in Lake Placid, Florida.The guidance was allegedly communicated both verbally and in group chat messages, according to The Daily Wire, though the messages have since been deleted.

At least 20 houses were reportedly skipped over based on the guidance, and therefore were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fema-complying-investigations-worker-who-told-staff-pass-homes-trump

Criswell is a liar, same thing happened in Maui, they have not helped people for years