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Trump rails at DOJ 'fascists and Marxists' over looming charges: 'I did nothing wrong -- fight!'
June 06, 2023
Donald Trump raged against investigators as an indictment looms over his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House, and he urged his followers to "fight" on his behalf.
Lawyers for the former president met with the Department of Justice on Monday to argue against an indictment in the Mar-a-Lago case, and Trump issued a denial the following morning insisting that he had not broken any laws and misleadingly compared his handling of sensitive materials to President Joe Biden and former vice president Mike Pence.
"The Marxists and Fascists in the DOJ & FBI are going after me at a level and speed never seen before in our Country, and I did nothing wrong," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Joe Biden kept (keeps) thousand of documents, in many locations, some illegally taken from skiffs while he was a Senator, a big portion of which were classified. He didn’t want to give them back, and still doesn’t. Nothing happens to him, with same reasonable prosecutor who correctly exonerated Mike Pence. I have a much different prosecutor, a Trump hater!"
Trump accused the Department of Justice of targeting him because Republicans were investigating Biden and his son, and to prevent him from winning a second term after losing in 2020.
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"It’s all about ELECTION INTERFERENCE," Trump posted. "They don’t want to run against me. I ran twice, I did much better the second time, getting millions and millions more votes than the first, a record for a sitting President, and am leading Biden in the polls, by a lot. They are the Party of Disinformation! They are using the DOJ & FBI against me to Rigg the 2024 Election. They’ll hit Hunter [Biden] with something small to make their strike on me look 'fair.' Nothing about these Fascists is fair or honest. FIGHT!"
"They are also going after me as RETRIBUTION for the Republicans in Congress going after them," Trump added. "The difference is, they have created major crimes, I have created none!"
The FBI conducted a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in August after the National Archives determined the former president had not returned all government documents, as required by law, and investigators found dozens of boxes filled with sensitive materials after Trump's lawyers had provided sworn certification that all those records had been returned.
Special counsel Jack Smith obtained a recording showing that Trump knew he had retained classified material after leaving office and suggested he would like to share that information but knew his authority was limited to declassify records since he was no longer president.
Biden's attorneys discovered the president had classified materials from his time as vice president and immediately returned them to the National Archives, and he permitted a search of his private residence in Delaware that turned up additional documents that were also returned.
Attorneys for Pence also found classified materials at the former vice president's residence in Indiana, which were immediately returned to the National Archives, and the DOJ closed its investigation of that matter and found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Republicans in Georgia are bracing for a new round of bitter infighting over a proposal being pitched by a hard-right faction of the party to block Republicans the group deems "traitors" from serving in office.
According to the AJC, Georgia Republican Assembly head Alex Johnson on Monday night tried to rally support for the proposal while also assailing what he called the "paid political class" for trying to kill it.
“Right now, they buy the seats,” he fumed. “Do we get a seat at the table or are we left with whoever bought the primaries?”
The proposal in question would give the roughly 1,500 delegates in the Georgia Republican Party the power to veto any candidate from representing the party in a general election, even if they receive the most votes in a primary race.
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However, even some right-wing Republicans who are sympathetic to the plan are now lobbying against it because they fear it could easily backfire on their own ideological allies.
Former Republican Georgia state legislator Philip Singleton tells the AJC that the establishment wing of the party could enact a takeover of the state party apparatus and then use the proposal to block far-right candidates from running under the GOP banner.
"This rule is like the Georgia GOP jumping into a lion’s den, pulling the lion’s tail and waiting to see who will get bit,” he said. “My bet is everyone.”
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Fox News and Fox Business have a long history of promoting outrage over fake "problems" — most notably, the nonexistent War on Christmas. And Fox News' Harris Faulkner was clearly going for maximum outrage when she claimed that people of faith are being persecuted for saying grace in restaurants.
Guest-hosting "Fox News Tonight" on Monday, June 5, Faulkner (who hosts "The Faulkner Focus" during the day) told viewers, "For those of us who believe, we must be bold in our faith right now. When you gather in public spaces, pray thankfully over your food — even when the server gives you the stink eye or tells the manager that your peaceful grace is triggering them."
Faulkner continued, "I had it happen to me. I've been asked to leave a restaurant for openly bowing my head in prayer hands — in America. It's all good. They don't deserve my money anyway."
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It wasn't long before Twitter users called Faulkner out for trying to drive fake outrage with a non-issue.
Twitter user Isaac Bailey, @ijbailey, posted, "Evidence? I have prayed over my food a thousand times in a thousand restaurants all across this country, and this has not happened to me even once. I haven’t heard it happen to any grace-saying person I know. Name names if this is true."
@Ebyrdstarr posted, "If, IF, there is anything remotely true in this story, I guarantee it was something Faulkner or another member of her party said to the server that led to them being asked to leave."
Twitter user Keith England wrote, "Wonder what her 'prayer hands' have to say about bearing false witness? Funny how conservative 'Christians' all feel perfectly entitled to ignore that particular commandment at will."
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@GhawinRiver argued, "Here's how I know there's more to this story, if indeed it's not an outright lie. Faulkner is a multimillionaire. If that were even REMOTELY true, she'd be suing, loudly, and publicly, because people that rich can casually do that even if nothing happened, much less if it did."
@GhawinRiver added, "Further, not only would she be suing, every right-wing law firm in the country would be chasing her down and setting off a bidding war to represent her because that'd be an open-shut case and an easy win."
Twitter user @penumbra_w, who is Catholic, did have an unpleasant experience saying grace in a restaurant — only the offenders weren't atheists, but the type of evangelical Christian nationalists Fox News caters to.
@Penumbra_w posted, "This is pure projection. When I was a kid, my Catholic family said grace in a restaurant in Georgia. We were verbally attacked by evangelicals (RIGHT WING NUT JOBS) for making the Sign of the Cross — we were called un-Christian. From then on, we didn't cross ourselves in public."
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