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Trump to pardon Steve Bannon after scamming his supporters into paying for border wall: CNN
January 19, 2021
Former White House aide to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon is said to be getting a pardon according to CNN and Bloomberg news. It was a last-minute decision in the final hours of his presidency.
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<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/steve-bannon-arrested-indicted.html" target="_blank">Bannon scammed Trump's supporters </a>out of millions of dollars to contribute to the wall on the U.S. and Mexico border. Bannon and his allies pocketed the cash. Bannon was arrested on Aug. 20 while aboard a luxary yacht off the coast of Connecticut and was freed on a $5 million bond. </p><p>"This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall," he proclaimed leaving the court. </p>
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Trump conspiracy theorists excited he'll declare martial law before Biden inauguration
January 19, 2021
There is a slew of conspiracy theories that all come to a head on Wednesday. One claims that cell phones will somehow stop working, protests are planned, and attacks are rumored. The latest conspiracy is that President Donald Trump will declare martial law before President-elect Joe Biden can be inaugurated, using the Emergency Broadcast System to announce it.
CNN.com reported that the QAnon crowd on Parler is flocking to fake posts from spoofed accounts.
<p>"Nothing can stop this," says a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/tech/parler-online-violence/index.html" target="_blank">Telegram</a> account pretending to be Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten. "They can no longer hide in the shadows." </p><p>"Last hours," it said about 20 minutes later. It then posted photos of soldiers in uniform behind a Washington, D.C. fence saying, "Stay in your homes."</p><p>Among those most ardent Trump cultists who believe that the election was stolen, there is a belief that a reckoning is coming on Wednesday. Some kind of war will break out and the outgoing president will rise to power. </p><p>"After the [Jan. 6] riot, similar groups of people had faith that they could hang back and wait because Trump and the military would take action," said CNN.com. "But given the way conspiracy theories work generally, and the way they have proliferated after the riot, it is easy to imagine these theories spinning out in new ways once it is clear no such action is coming. Much of the discussion around martial law online ultimately connects to QAnon, which has long had a promise of and a lust for blood. But the people who are excitedly discussing the possibility of a military takeover may not know the origins of their obsession. And the phenomenon does not appear to be confined to a niche corner of the internet."</p><p>Trump fans are warning their followers to stock up on food because martial law will begin. One YouTube star who purports to have an alien mother and alien daughter has more than 3.5 million views on a video saying Trump signed the Insurrection Act. Another video with 1.7 million views says as much as 85 percent of Congress could be arrested. </p><p>TikTok too has thousands of videos seen by tens of thousands of viewers about the same conspiracies. Many seem excited about the prospect of the downfall of America while others are rushing to bring it about. </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/tech/martial-law-trump-conspiracy-theory/index.html" target="_blank">Read the full report from CNN.com. </a></p>
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On CNN Tuesday, Mary Trump, the outgoing president's niece and a clinical psychologist, broke down her uncle's state of mind in the final hours of his presidency.
"President Trump did not acknowledge he won't be president anymore [in his latest video]," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "He did not concede or say President-elect Biden's name and, of course, he's not going to the inauguration. He acknowledges he's become what he loathes, which is a loser. What do you think he's going through now?"
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"This is probably the worst day of his life, because the clock is ticking and he's running out of time," said Trump. "The other thing I just want to point out about that speech, it was reminiscing of a video he made after the insurrection saying the movement is just beginning, which seems like a bit of a threat to me. My hope is that he be as contained as possible. He's going to do whatever he can or believes he can to change the narrative, and I think we're going to see that play out with some of these pardons in excess of 100, if I'm hearing that correctly, and some of these pardons will be quite horrific, some of them will be strategic."</p><p>
"But the bottom line is he's out of there," she added. "I mean, he's been out of there, you know, metaphorically speaking, for a long time. He's not been doing the job. As of 12:00 or earlier, he's heading down to Florida and he no longer has powers and protections of the Oval Office, and he knows it."</p><p>
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