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To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer
Trump-Carroll Defamation Trial: Jury Orders Trump to Pay Carroll $83.3 Million for Years of Defamation
E. Jean Carroll, arriving at the courthouse on Friday, had testified that Donald J. Trump’s repeated taunts and lashing out had mobilized many of his supporters, leading to an onslaught of attacks.
NY Times May 2023: Donald Trump Sexually Abused and Defamed E. Jean Carroll, Jury Finds (Video), NY Times: Read the Completed Jury Verdict Form in the Trump-Carroll Case
In an artist’s sketch, former President Trump walks out of court during closing arguments Friday in New York.
January 6 United States Capitol attack
"On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep Trump in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. The attack was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the election results from being certified. According to the House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of a seven-part plan by Trump to overturn the election. Within 36 hours of the event, five people had died: one was shot by Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer. ... Rioters also assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters, and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm. A gallows was erected west of the Capitol, and some rioters chanted 'Hang Mike Pence' after he rejected false claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the election results. ... On August 1, 2023, following a special counsel investigation, Trump was indicted on four charges. More than 1,200 persons have been charged with federal crimes arising from the attack. As of December 2023, 728 defendants had pleaded guilty, while another 166 defendants had been convicted at trial; a total of 745 defendants have been sentenced. ..."
W - January 6 United States Capitol attack (Video), W - Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
"Two years ago, on January 6, 2021, a crowd of thousands attacked the United States Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of the 2020 election results, spurred on by false claims the election had been “rigged” against Republican incumbent Donald Trump. More than 2,000 people entered the Capitol building, smashing windows, ransacking offices, defecating in public spaces and searching for members of Congress. The assault was ultimately unsuccessful but it has set off alarm bells about the stability of US democracy and the growing influence of anti-democratic elements within the Republican Party. ..."
Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
YouTube: Three years later: The Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot and its lasting impact on America's Democracy., Jan. 6 panel releases never-before-seen footage of Trump recording message to Capitol rioters
FBI poster seeking information on violence at the Capitol Building published January 6, 2021
Michigan Supreme Court Decides Trump Can Stay on Ballot
"The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for Donald J. Trump to appear on the state’s primary ballot, a victory for the former president in a battleground state.
The state’s top court upheld an appeals court decision that found that the former president could appear on the ballot despite questions about his eligibility to hold elected office because of his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Michigan decision followed a bombshell ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which on Dec. 19 determined in a 4-3 opinion that Mr. Trump should be removed from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. ..."
The Michigan Hall of Justice building in Lansing, where the state Supreme Court considered whether former President Donald J. Trump was eligible to appear on the primary ballot.
Trump Ineligible to Hold Office, Colorado Supreme Court Rules
"Colorado’s top court ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald J. Trump is disqualified from holding office again because he engaged in insurrection with his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, an explosive ruling that is likely to put the basic contours of the 2024 election in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Colorado Supreme Court was the first in the nation to find that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — which disqualifies people who engage in insurrection against the Constitution after taking an oath to support it — applies to Mr. Trump, an argument that his opponents have been making around the country. The ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Mr. Trump’s name from the state’s Republican primary ballot. It does not address the general election. ..."
***NY Times - Principles at Stake in Push to Disqualify Trump: Democracy and Rule of Law
*****NY Times - Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case on Trump’s Immunity Defense for Now
Trump ‘Could Tip an Already Fragile World Order Into Chaos’
"Two weeks ago, The Washington Post published 'A Trump Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable. We Should Stop Pretending,' by Robert Kagan. Four days later, The Times published 'Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His First,' by Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, one in an ongoing series of articles. On the same day, The Atlantic released the online version of its January/February 2024 issue; it included 24 essays under the headline 'If Trump Wins.' While the domestic danger posed by a second Trump administration is immediate and pressing, Russia, China, North Korea and Iran — sometimes referred to as the 'alliance of autocracies'' — have an interest in weakening the global influence of the United States and in fracturing its ties to democracies around the globe. ..."
At Trump’s Fraud Trial, a Courtroom Artist With a Different View
"... But several courtroom artists — an anachronistic group that continues to use chalky pastels to draw scenes from camera-free courtrooms to sell to TV stations and newspapers — were on it, erasing Mr. Trump’s pupils from their sketches. 'He’s nodding off!' the artist Isabelle Brourman whispered to a colleague. Ms. Brourman, a 30-year-old newcomer, was not part of the dwindling coterie of commercial courtroom artists who make their livings selling cinematic, sometimes vaguely expressionistic trial drawings to news outlets. She is there for a different kind of art project: A mixed media artist, she has found herself drawn to big trials... "
Ms. Brourman collapses different scenes from the trial into panorama-like drawings, with many of the key figures plainly visible. Some of her sketches show Justice Arthur F. Engoron, who is presiding over the case; Mr. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen; and Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka.
Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans
"Former President Donald J. Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.
The plans would sharply restrict both legal and illegal immigration in a multitude of ways.
Mr. Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including banning entry by people from certain Muslim-majority nations and reimposing a Covid 19-era policy of refusing asylum claims — though this time he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.
He plans to scour the country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions per year.
To help speed mass deportations, Mr. Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due process hearings. ..."
Jill Stein Announces Third-Party Bid for President
"Jill Stein, who ran unsuccessfully for president on the Green Party ticket in 2012 and 2016, will run again in 2024, she announced on Thursday — adding yet another name to the field even as the two major parties appear almost certain to nominate the same two candidates who ran in 2020. ... The group of third-party candidates could significantly complicate what looks likely to be a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump. Some of Mr. Biden’s allies, worried that third-party candidates could siphon support from him in swing states and make a Trump victory more likely, have been working aggressively to undermine those campaigns. ..."
2016 August: Jill Stein, 2016 September: “The Spoiler” Speaks, 2016 September: Jill Stein’s Ideas Are Terrible. She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For
Jill Stein will be running to the left of President Biden and is joining a group of third-party candidates who are making some Democrats fearful that they could siphon support from his re-election bid.
Judge Rules Trump Committed Fraud, Stripping Control of Key Properties
"A New York judge ruled on Tuesday that
Donald J. Trump persistently committed fraud by inflating the value of
his assets, and stripped the former president of control over some of
his signature New York properties. The
surprising decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron is a major victory for
Attorney General Letitia James in her lawsuit against Mr. Trump,
effectively deciding that no trial was needed to determine that he had
fraudulently secured favorable terms on loans and insurance deals. Ms.
James has argued that Mr. Trump inflated the value of his properties by
as much as $2.2 billion and is seeking a penalty of about $250 million
in a trial scheduled to begin as early as Monday. ..."
***NY Times: Trump’s Lawyers Try to Grasp the Implications of Judge’s Fraud Ruling
NY Times: Ruling Against Trump Cuts to the Heart of His Identity
NY Times: Read the Judge’s Ruling in the Trump Fraud Case
The Key Players in Trump’s Plot to Upend the Election, Mapped
"Upending the outcome of a free and fair presidential election is no minor endeavor. It requires time, energy, money and, especially, an awful lot of people willing to do the wrong thing — or at least go along with it. The network of people who allegedly helped Donald Trump try, without success, to stay in power more than two and a half years ago may seem hopelessly chaotic, but there was a method to the madness. American elections are, by design, entrusted to the states and therefore decentralized. ..."
Belligerence and hostility: Trump’s mugshot defines modern US politics
"Mugshots define eras. Bugsy Siegel peering malevolently from beneath his fedora in a 1928 booking photo summed up the perverse romance of gangsters in the prohibition age. Nearly half a century later, mugshots of David Bowie, elegantly dressed but dead-eyed after his arrest for drug possession, and a dishevelled Janis Joplin, detained for 'vulgar and indecent language', spoke to the shock waves created by 1960s counterculture. ..."
TRUMP ACCUSED OF LEADING PUSH TO OVERTURN GEORGIA VOTE
Opinion | The Editorial Board - What if, Knowing What They Know Now, Republicans Don’t Vote for Donald Trump? “After three other criminal indictments were filed against him, Donald Trump was accused on Monday of racketeering. In a new indictment, Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., charged him with leading what was effectively a criminal gang to overturn the 2020 presidential election in that state. The grand jury indictment says Mr. Trump and 18 others violated the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO law, established by the federal government and more than 30 states and used to crack down on Mafia protection rackets, biker gangs and insider trading schemes. The Georgia indictment alleges that Mr. Trump often behaved like a mob boss, pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to decertify the Georgia election and holding a White House meeting to discuss seizing voting equipment. ...”
JAN. 6 RIOT ‘FUELED BY LIES,’ INDICTMENT SAYS
"Former President Donald J. Trump was indicted on Tuesday in connection with his widespread efforts to overturn the 2020 election following a sprawling federal investigation into his attempts to cling to power after losing the presidency. The indictment, filed by the special counsel Jack Smith in Federal District Court in Washington, accuses Mr. Trump of three conspiracies: one to defraud the United States; a second to obstruct an official government proceeding, the certification of the Electoral College vote; and a third to deprive people of a civil right, the right to have their votes counted. Mr. Trump was also charged with a fourth count of obstructing or attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. ...”
Justice Dept. Unseals Indictment Against Trump
NY Times: Here are some of the charges Trump faces.
***NY Times: Trump’s Case Puts the Justice System on Trial, in a Test of Public Credibility
***NY Times: Opinion | Trump Left the Justice Dept. No Choice
***NY Times: Worldwide, Trump’s Latest Legal Woes Draw Outrage, and Shrug
As Ukraine Makes Inroads in Bakhmut, Devastation Still Reigns
"With the furious battle for the city of Bakhmut raging at their backs, a squad of Ukrainian soldiers tore through an open field, racing to get out of range of falling Russian artillery. But before they could make it to safety, they said, they got a flat tire. The three soldiers — known by the call signs Omar, Chip and Bandit — had spent the day on Friday taking part in Ukrainian offensive operations on the edge of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, blasting Russian tanks and armored vehicles. But after surviving another brutal day of battle, they worried that the punctured tire might doom them. Omar, 36, hopped out of the car and used a screwdriver to put a plug in the hole. Within moments, they were off again. ...”
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, left, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany traded compliments in front of reporters on Sunday.
Trump’s Second-Term Goal: Shattering the Norms He Didn’t Already Break
"In little over an hour, Donald J. Trump suggested the United States should default on its debts for the first time in history, injected doubt over the country’s commitment to defending Ukraine from Russia’s invasion, dangled pardons for most of the Capitol rioters convicted of crimes, and refused to say he would abide by the results of the next presidential election. The second-term vision Mr. Trump sketched out at a CNN town-hall event on Wednesday would represent a sharp departure from core American values that have been at the bedrock of the nation for decades: its creditworthiness, its credibility with international allies and its adherence to the rule of law at home. Mr. Trump’s provocations were hardly shocking. ...”
Trump Is Found Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation
"A Manhattan jury on Tuesday found former President Donald J. Trump liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of the magazine writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages in a widely watched civil trial that sought to apply the accountability of the #MeToo era to a dominant political figure. The federal jury of six men and three women returned its verdict shortly after 3 p.m. after deliberating for only a few hours. The jury found that Ms. Carroll had not proved, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Mr. Trump had raped her, as she had long claimed. ...”
******Vanity Fair: The Stunning Clarity of the E. Jean Carroll–Donald Trump Verdict
NY Times: New York Law Gave Jurors Three Types of Battery to Consider in Trump Case
NY Times: Read the Filled-Out Jury Verdict Form in the Trump-Carroll Case
GRAND JURY VOTES TO INDICT TRUMP
"What We Know About the Indictment of Donald Trump, and What Comes Next - “Donald J. Trump was indicted in Manhattan on Thursday, becoming the first American president, current or former, to be charged with a crime. His indictment was handed up by a grand jury which has been hearing evidence about Mr. Trump for months. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which brought the charges, is focused on the former president’s involvement in the payment of hush money to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with him. Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s fixer at the time, made the payment during the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. The office of the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, issued a statement on Thursday evening saying that Mr. Trump had been indicted, and that his lawyers had been contacted to arrange a surrender. ...”
Ukrainians in a Hidden Command Post See Bakhmut Going Their Way
"Hidden in the bowels of an unmarked building, set well back from the fighting, a command center directing operations in the city of Bakhmut was high-tech and humming. Soldiers monitored video screens with live feeds of destroyed buildings and a cratered battlefield. Six weeks after coming to help defend Bakhmut, the men of the Adam Tactical Group, one of Ukraine’s most effective battle units, were quietly confident they had turned the tide against Russian troops trying to encircle and capture it. ‘The enemy exhausted all its reserves,’ the commander, Col. Yevhen Mezhevikin, 40, said on Tuesday, straddling a chair as artillery, air defense and intelligence-gathering teams worked around him. Through wave after wave of Russian assault and tenacious Ukrainian defense, Bakhmut has, over eight months, become a central battlefield of Russia’s invasion despite limited strategic significance. ...”
The military operations of a major Ukrainian battle group defending the city of Bakhmut from an unnamed location in eastern Ukraine.
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