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Former Trump Org. executive Barbara Res told CNN on Sunday that she thinks that, to some extent, Donald Trump is actually enjoying all of the legal battles that he's experiencing.
Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Res conceded that Trump is likely feeling the pressure from the investigations, "but not the kind of pressure that a normal person would feel. I don't think he's fearing jail or anything like that. He knows that there's a lot going on, and what he's trying to do is make the most of it with his, you know, incitement of violence and is carrying on about the Russian state and things like that. Trying to feed his base and get and get some mileage out of it."
When asked if Trump was also feeding his ego, Res chuckled, saying, "I guess so." She explained that, to some extent, that's always a factor when it involves Trump.
"And you know the way he spins this somewhat involves the ego to the sense that he is so great, so powerful, so wonderful that his enemies are doing everything they could possibly do to bring him down," Res said. "But of course, they won't."
CNN host Fredricka Whitfield asked if he's dealing with so much and pressing to accuse others of what he's accused of doing, why he doesn't simply lay low.
Res chuckled, "Donald Trump laying low is like the oxymoron of all time. He never lays low. Of course, he's not going to lay low now. I mean, you know, if there were any possibility that this could have a negative effect on him, he would immediately run to twist it around and just spin it, and that's what he's doing. But he likes what he's doing. I think he's enjoying this to an extent."
She went on to say that as an executive vice president for the Trump Org. nothing happened without Trump being involved. Res explained that Trump would describe the outcome he wanted and people working for him understood that they were being asked to do whatever it would take to get the desired outcome.
See the full interview with Res below or at the link here.
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Fringe conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has continued with his shows despite owing over a billion dollars to the families of Sandy Hook victims after he lost several defamation cases. On Sunday, he issued a violent prophecy while discussing former President Donald Trump's recent rally in Waco, Texas.
"When Trump came out against nuclear war, I still had issues with him," Jones told his audience on Sunday. "But I said he was better than DeSantis. He just went way ahead of DeSantis, and we'll open the phones up. I know a lot of you are pissed at Trump. I've been pissed as well and — but with Trump, it's not a lesser of two evils. You know what you've got, he's got problems, but the deep state really hates him. He did a lot of good stuff. Do we just sit here and let them install somebody else or falsely put Trump in prison? He's really fighting the deep state and they see him as a threat to their power. They see him as a rival."
But that's when Jones issued his prognostication that should concern the Secret Service.
"If it looks like he's about to win again, I think they're gonna shoot him," continued Jones. "I think they're gonna blow his airplane up. And he even said that last week. He said, 'well, I'm gonna go ahead and just walk right in front of everybody in Manhattan in handcuffs. If I get killed, so what? I'll be a martyr.' So, he is in that fully committed mode. I want the globalist off our backs, and if Trump'll do it, great. But gut, gut level, I know that if he's able to get in, which I think they'll kill him, I actually think he won't be able to get in. I'll be honest with you right now."
While there have been plenty of liberal commentators that predict or even fantasize about Trump's arrest, it's rare to see anyone willing to publicly predict that kind of violence.
After Trump spoke in Texas on Saturday, Jones said he got "chills" because Trump talked about the deep state in the city of Waco. It's most known for a cult being raided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Cult leader David Koresh (a.k.a. David Wayne Howell), was being investigated for his involvement "in the illegal manufacture and possession of machineguns and the illegal manufacture and possession of destructive devices, including bombs and grenades," the ATF explains.
Jones' predictions are similar to what Koresh told his followers beginning in 1992.
"In Koresh's theology, the government, particularly the federal law enforcement agencies, were the 'Assyrians' or the 'Babylonians' who were bent on destroying the true believers — the Branch Davidians," the Justice Department report says. "Koresh had predicted to his followers well before the February 28 ATF raid that law enforcement agents planned to kill him and his followers. Koresh planned for the predicted apocalyptic showdown with the government by massively arming himself and his followers beginning in early 1992 and continuing through early 1993. Koresh was fascinated with guns. Former compound members have described the shooting practice, the conversion of semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic, the sewing of specially designed vests with pockets for extra ammunition clips, and the early morning para-military drills for the males in the compound."
Koresh had convinced his followers that he was the "son of God" and "the key to their eternal salvation," said one former agent featured in a recent Netflix documentary. The group was also convinced the end of the world was coming. There was further concern that Koresh was molesting the children in the cult. So, when the ATF moved in, it was almost as if Koresh's prophecy were coming true, and it just reinforced his prophecies.
They had "136 firearms, including assault rifles and handguns, 700+ magazines for those firearms, 200,000+ rounds of ammunition, 110 upper and lower receivers for AR15/M16 rifles, grenade-launcher attachments for AR15/M16 rifles, 400+ empty M31 rifle grenades, along with black powder and other explosive chemicals."
The ATF moved in to arrest Koresh, but he used the cult's women and children as barriers while his male members tried to protect the group by opening fire on government agents. Netflix recently produced a documentary on the incident, which was among its top videos in the United States for Netflix viewers the week it was released.
The action was so significant for anti-government radicals that it inspired Timothy McVeigh, who blew up the Oklahoma City Murrah federal building two years after the Waco incident. The building is where the ATF was housed. Waco has since become a symbol for violent right-wing extremists.
Mary Trump, the former president's niece, warned that the location was not picked by accident.
“It's a ploy to remind his cult of the infamous Waco siege of 1993, where an anti-government cult battled the FBI. Scores of people died. He wants the same violent chaos to rescue him from justice," she said.
Jones is following that same script by predicting that the American government, what he refers to as the "deep state," is going to kill Trump.
See the Jones clip below or at the link here.
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Among the many lies that Donald Trump told during his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, was his ongoing claim that he kept his promise to build a wall on the southern border and force Mexico to pay for it. It didn't happen before he left office on Jan. 20, 2021.
CNN's Daniel Dale listed off a few of the lies that Trump told his Texas audience, but the main one was that he both built the wall and somehow still needed to finish the job.
"I built hundreds of miles of wall and completed that task totally as promised," Trump told the audience. "And then I began to add even more wall in areas where it was needed."
If he "completed that task totally as promised," why was it necessary to "add even more wall?"
Trump built a small piece of his so-called "wall," which he claimed would be a concrete wall along the entire 2,000-mile border of the U.S. and Mexico. It turned out to be more like a fence. A 2020 BBC fact-check explained that George W. Bush and previous congresses had funded a lot of the structure and maintenance of it.
He got about $5 billion from Congress for the fence, and he took an additional $10 billion from the Department of Defense budget, the fact-check continued. As of the time Trump left office, there were about 40 miles of his fencing that had been built, FactCheck.org explained.
An unpublished memo from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was leaked in March 2022, The Washington Post reported. Among the details that were revealed were that the so-called "impenetrable" Trump border wall had been crossed more than 3,200 times before Trump left office. Agents confessed that there were people slicing through the steel with a saw that could be purchased at a big box store.
A New York Times photo of one stretch of fence Trump built shows it starting at some point along a hill and going along to the other side. One could simply walk around the fence.
See Dale's comments below or at the link here.
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