There's a secret message buried in Trump's pardons everyone seems to have missed

There was a kind of "soft" launch overnight for former President Donald Trump's new social media site, TRUTH Social, but apparently, there are so many bugs that it may stall the actual launch.

Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell wrote an extensive thread on Twitter detailing the problems with the website from the terms of service to security and the accounts.

The website aims to allow people to post anything they want, regardless of whether or not it is true. It purports to welcome "varied opinions" so that families can come together.

Harwell pointed out that it's clear how angry Trump was that he lost his Twitter account because the Trump Media & Technology Group promotes his massive Twitter following in three slides and how many followers it had during the peak.

It was just a few months ago that top Trump aide Jason Miller launched his own social media site for conservatives called GETTR. He celebrates the new Trump site, saying that it will help contribute to bringing down Twitter and Facebook.

"Now Facebook and Twitter will lose even more market share," said Miller in a statement.

Meanwhile, the terms of service for Trump's site has a few problems that could apply to the ex-president himself. As the Post's Aaron Schaffer pointed out, it bans the "excessive use of capital letters," something that Trump was known to do frequently on Twitter.

As the social media site is gearing up for the launch, Harwell noted that he was able to create an account registering @MikePence. "The site hasn't even launched yet and it's already this vulnerable," he said.

DailyDot writer Mikael Thalen was able to register the name @DonaldTrump, as Trump's account is @DonaldJTrump.

By about 11 p.m. EST, the former president's account on his own social media site had already been hacked, according to a Washington Post reporter. The avatar is the photo of him with his favorite taco bowl and a photo posted is of a hog with what appears to be a growth on its posterior.

Then, shortly after, the entire site seemed to have problems. Harwell tweeted a screen capture of the Account Settings saying, "You can no longer use your account, and your profile and other data are no longer accessible. You can still log in to request a backup of your data until the data is fully removed, but we will retain some data to prevent you from evading the suspension."

Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News Wednesday evening that they intend to do a full launch in early 2022 and that the site is currently in beta testing.

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward pointed out seven conspiratorial actions taken by Donald Trump and Steve Bannon to conduct a "Watergate-style" subversion of the election process, which he said should fall under investigation by a special counsel.

Woodward said he and Washington Post colleague Robert Costa uncovered those actions while reporting on their book, "Peril," but he told CNN's "New Day" that he only recently understood how those potential crimes set in motion the violent attempt to overturn Trump's election loss on Jan. 6.

"I just looked back at what we have in the book, and quite directly have we have the dots [but] we didn't connect them, though they're there," Woodward said, "and they're seven conspiratorial actions by Trump and Bannon, essentially, to subvert and destroy the process of certifying who the next president is going to be, and when you think about it, it's just like Watergate. It's a destruction of the process that we want to trust, and the -- I'm sorry, my memory is not great on this -- can I go through some of those conspiratorial actions?"

"First of all, on Dec. 30, Bannon talks to Trump and says, 'You've got to make a dramatic return to Washington,'" Woodward continued. "Trump is in Mar-A-Lago, he's going to have the New Year's Eve party down there, but he comes back, and Bannon says to Trump, 'You've got to call Vice President Pence off the ski slopes where they, Pence's staff and advisers, have stashed him away because they know in a week he's going to have to certify or decide what he's going to do about who the next president is, and then Bannon says to Trump, Jan. 6 is the moment of reckoning here, and if we can challenge the legitimacy of Biden, it casts a shadow over the Biden presidency, and then he says, 'We are going to kill the Biden presidency in the crib.' The violent language, of course, it was manifest, the violence itself, on Jan. 6."

"Then on Jan. 5, as Liz Cheney was pointing out, Bannon meets with others, including Rudy Giuliani and their phony Republicans, to block the certification of Biden, and then you put all this in and Trump put out a phony statement at the time -- this is on the public record -- saying he and Pence agreed that Pence has the power to walk away and essentially get Trump certified as president," Woodward added. "But that's totally untrue. So, anyway, we have a very clear-cut case, I would suspect it is quite possible that Attorney General Merrick Garland will appoint a special counsel to look at this, because the evidence is so clear for a massive Watergate-style attempt to destroy the process of electing a president."

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Former co-host of "The View," Meghan McCain alleged that there was a toxic work environment at her ABC show because Joy Behar said she didn't miss McCain while she was on maternity leave.

But in a TMZ exclusive, ABC is pushing back on McCain's claims, with sources telling the site that the network is furious about her new "tell-all" memoir that trashes the show.

"We're told there are many points of dissent -- for instance, ABC execs say the notion Meghan left on her own volition is wrong, and ditto for her claim everybody except her was oozing toxicity," said the report. "Our sources tell us Meghan was essentially forced out of her role after an internal investigation into the environment she describes -- which we're told was, in fact, real ... but mostly due to Meghan's behavior on and off camera, not her coworkers' -- other way around."

ABC chief Kim Godwin is said to have done an extensive investigation in which she met with everyone connected to the show, including talent and the staff. Over and over it was indicated that Meghan was the source of the in-fighting. At one point, Godwin had to host an emergency Zoom meeting to deal with the problem.

The fights that ultimately made it to air are documented, but those working with the show tag Meghan as the instigator, more often than not. When she wasn't, her bitterness perpetuated around it, keeping the conflict going.

"As for her departure ... our sources didn't have details on the negotiations behind the exit, but we're told the bottom line is it wasn't simply her decision after hitting a breaking point. The network was ready to move on too," said TMZ.

ABC felt that James Goldston didn't fire McCain earlier because he was terrified of conservative backlash.

Now that she's gone, however, the tone of the show has changed completely, said the report, noting that it can even be seen on air.

Read the full report at TMZ.