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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An unpublished memo from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was leaked in March 2022, The Washington Post reported.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.
Fact-checker zings Trump www.youtube.com
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22 horrifying photos and videos of the Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia tornadoes — and how to help
March 26, 2023
President Joe Biden declared Mississippi a natural disaster area after an EF-4 tornado blazed through Rolling Fork on Friday. Sunday, the state is expected to experience even more tornadoes. In his statement, he said that he's been in close contact with the state's Republican governor and the disaster declaration will help aid in the cleanup and services to the people in the state.
The “city is gone,” said Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson similarly told CNN, “The police department is destroyed. City Hall is destroyed. The county courthouse is damaged. The fire department is devastated. There’s no grocery store that’s operable in the community.”
While tornado season is generally in the spring for the middle part of the country, there have always been storms that spin up in the southeastern United States in late winter and early spring. Since 2000, a larger number of tornadoes have been hitting Mississippi, according to data from The Clarion-Ledger Tornado Archives. Since 2000, there have been at least five years that had over 100 tornadoes in the state. Since 1950, tornadoes in the state have cost $2,959,066,730 in property damage and $96,974,500 in crop damage.
The New York Times reported that among the youngest known victims was 1-year-old Riley Herndon, whose close family lived near Wren for generations. They've been in the city for so long that they named the street after them. Today, they're mourning their baby.
Using a satellite map above the city of Rolling Fork, and comparing that with the photo of the same town after the tornado, the path the tornado took is clearly visible.
After 26 people died in Mississippi and Alabama, a “large and extremely dangerous tornado” struck south of LaGrange, Georgia, on Sunday morning, CNN reported, citing the weather service in Atlanta. The weather service is warning of another outbreak predicted for the rest of Sunday.
"As many as 100 homes were damaged, with 30 to 40 'completely destroyed,'" the report said, citing Troup County Emergency Management Director Zachary Steele.
Bill Newsom, the Sharkey County Board of Supervisors told CNN's Jim Acosta, that the tornado took out their tornado warning system. So, as storms begin on Sunday, there's no way to warn people in the city.
Those that often help in the event of disasters are jumping to help. Chef Jose Andreas' World Central Kitchen is sending its team to the region to bring meals to families in both Mississippi and Alabama. Donations can be sent here.
A list of the various United Way branches in Mississippi can be found here. Donations to the Mississippi Red Cross can be sent here. The Mississippi Animal Rescue League can be found here, and the Stone County Humane Society can be found here.
The United Way of Central Alabama can be found here. The Red Cross of Alabama can be found here. The Alabama SPCA can be found here.
To help those in Georgia, you can give to the Georgia United Way branch of your choice, the Georgia Red Cross, or the Northwest Georgia ASPCA.
At one point, as the massive storm approached Amory, Mississippi, the meteorologist paused to pray for the town, knowing that it was going to be horrific.
The Twitter account of Ash Pro, a Christian animal rescue activist posted videos of animals in crates being put on planes to take them to safety. She said that they were traumatized but are on their way to a safer place.
One video of the tornado moving through Silver City was posted as the tornado was growing in strength. Silver City is almost three hours southwest of Amory and Wren.
You can see more of the Mississippi storm below or at the link here.
Rolling Fork, MS Tornado Survivor Describes Hearing Children Screaming For Help After Tornado www.youtube.com
Footage of Alabama can be seen below or at the link here.
You can see footage of the Georgia storm below or at the link here.
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Jan. 6 grand jury witnesses are being asked what 'national security levers' Trump was trying to pull
March 26, 2023
CBS News revealed a smidgen of news nested in a shocking episode of "Face the Nation," in which Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) blamed Democrats for Donald Trump celebrating Jan. 6 attackers at his Waco, Texas rally over the weekend.
After, however, reporter Robert Costa noted that special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 attacks had taken a turn.
"Based on our reporting, the special counsel is tightening his investigation around former President Trump when it comes to January 6, now compelling some of his top aides and allies to testify under oath about their private conversations with Trump," he explained. "That means there's no privilege, no executive privilege they can cite to try to block any kind of testimony on those issues."
This has been a losing battle for a number of officials that attempted to assert executive privilege during the House Select Committee's investigation into the insurrection and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Ultimately, Congress voted to hold a few of those subpoenaed in contempt of Congress and those proceedings are moving forward despite the House changing hands to the GOP.
"We know the special counsel is looking into a possible conspiracy case against Trump and people around him about trying to block the congressional proceedings on January 6," Costa continued. "We're going to potentially hear now from Mark Meadows. Robert O'Brien, the former national security adviser, John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence."
Costa went on to say that witnesses brought to the grand jury are being asked about the kind of "national security levers Trump was asking about in those final days."
Some of the militia members had said over chats that it was important that they riot so that it would give Trump what he needed to declare the Insurrection Act of 1807 or declare martial law. That would then allow him to deploy the military, seize voting machines, and ultimately allow him to stay in office. Trump had toyed with the idea during the summer of 2020 during the protests of the slaying of George Floyd.
Costa also brought up the document theft case, which is also being investigated by the special counsel. He noted that it's extremely rare for a judge to call in a defendant's lawyer to testify. As legal analysts explained this week, it only happens if there is enough evidence that a crime was committed. It means that a judge believes that's exactly what happened.
"Evan Corcoran, Trump's lawyer in this case, [is] now being told to come in, and he did come in for hours on Friday," Costa said. "And he didn't just talk about his broad view. He had to share audio files, notes, details about all of his conversations with Trump about how Trump handled those federal requests about classified documents. Think back to the Mar-a-Lago FBI search last summer. Corcoran was pressed about what was Trump doing at that intense time. And that really gives the prosecutors a prism into what really happened."
Costa later added more details on Twitter about the information he's gathered.
"Sources directly familiar with witnesses and questions tell me it's clear Special Counsel is now 'tightening' the Jan. 6 probe around Trump and his inner circle, with focus on infamous 12-18-20 Oval [Office meeting], and efforts to push national security, DOJ official," he tweeted. "Witnesses have been pressed in recent weeks about [Rudy] Giuliani, [Sidney] Powell and others who sought to use levers of government to stop the certification of the election… and sources directly involved believe a case on conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding could be in works."
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