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Former GOP lawmaker rips party for following 'basement dwellers' down election conspiracy rabbit hole
September 29, 2022
On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), a top staffer to the House Select Committee on January 6, broke down why he came out with a book about what he had seen — and scorched his longtime party for believing conspiracy theories about the election.
Riggleman previously was the source of the revelation that there was a brief White House switchboard call to one of the Capitol rioters — a leak that reportedly angered members of the committee.
"Fear, you know, really fear," said Riggleman, when host Nicolle Wallace asked him why he wrote the book. "You know, it's been 14 months and I think part of it was intensely personal, you know, what had happened to me. The fact is the military and the government has trained me at a level to do this that's pretty neat, you know, and this is my kind of thing. And I love data ... the data shows the committee is in an incredibly strong position and they're going in the right direction and I wanted to prove to people, listen, the littlest pieces of data, what people are doing right now, we need more resources and a new way of looking at this problem."
Riggleman added that he didn't want to be accused of sitting on important information about possible wrongdoing in the Trump White House — a constant source of controversy for top reporters who release books on the administration — and added that the whole experience "terrified" him: "We have a diseased system and we've got to get out in front of it."
"And it's only on one side. It's on the Republican side," agreed Wallace. "I think there's something that former Republicans feel more — they see — they see how far the party has fallen and how dangerous they can be. Is that part of what you feel?"
"How dare they, right?" said Riggleman. "I think that's what it is, is how dare somebody make things up to win regardless, right? Try to destroy our institutions because you believe in some troll farm nonsense coming from, you know, basement dwellers, you know, talking about Stop the Steal conspiracy theories. That's all based on another basement dweller like Roger Stone ... got to Ginni Thomas, got to members of Congress, got to senators. I don't think what hasn't come out — I was very careful about that, just the hundreds of links attached to these text messages. Videos that would just shock the country. You'd be like, there's no way a sitting member would send these videos."
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Experts slam Judge Cannon's latest pro-Trump ruling: ‘Hilarious, corrupt, shameless, and obvious’
September 29, 2022
Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon generated controversy again on Thursday after ruling for Donald Trump's lawyers on a case management plan for Special Master Raymond Dearie.
Dearie had given Trump a Sept. 30 deadline to attest to what was seized at Mar-a-Lago, but Cannon over-ruled the special master she appointed and said the former president would first have a chance to review the seized documents, which may include 200,000 pages.
That wasn't the only way she delayed the case. She set a new deadline of Oct. 5 to finalize a document review vendor, a step Dearie had hoped would have only taken one or two days.
Legal experts were once again stunned by Judge Cannon.
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"Oy," wrote former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann. "Judge Cannon tinkers badly with (and with typos) Judge Dearie's scheduling order, relieving Trump of obligation to say whether docs were planted, even though she had wanted a clear inventory of what was found."
"She is such a disgrace," Weissmann added.
"It seems being slapped down herself by the 11th circuit didn’t make Judge Cannon any more circumspect," Loyola Law Prof. Jessica Levinson wrote.
National security reporter Marcy Wheeler wrote, "holy hell this woman has no shame."
"Cannon is basically jumping up and down on a scale that her Special Master is supposed to still own," Wheeler said. "It is hilarious, corrupt, shameless, and obvious."
"This is a minor win for Trump’s team, because now they don’t have to essentially disavow their dubious claims that the FBI planted evidence," former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti wrote. "But this doesn’t change the difficult position Trump is in. He still has to take a position regarding every seized document."
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Conservative who gave Trump 'a chance' wants to move on after seeing him 'wallow in self-pity' for four years
September 29, 2022
A columnist whose newspaper in Ohio was one of the few in America to endorse former President Donald Trump in 2016 now says it's time for the GOP to move on in 2024.
Writing in the Washington Post, contributing columnist Gary Abernathy said that he doesn't regret giving Trump "a chance" in the 2016 race because he thought he could provide a much needed shakeup in Washington D.C.
However, he writes that he eventually came to be dismayed by Trump's self-destructive behavior that played right into the hands of his political opponents.
"Instead of ignoring the pettiness and focusing on his agenda, Trump wallowed in self-pity," Abernathy writes. "Instead of trying to expand his base, Trump chose to alienate even more Americans."
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The columnist says that all of this was reinforced by Trump's actions after the 2020 election that culminated in the attacks on the United States Capitol building.
"Worst of all, when most Americans finally decided that Trump was never going to rise to the occasion and rejected him at the ballot box in 2020, he refused to accept the verdict, incited a riot at the Capitol and encouraged endless election challenges in state after state," he writes. "Trump had his chance, and he blew it. He should move on, as should his supporters."
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