Trump Praised Senders of Death Threats to Georgia Officials as 'My People'

[Kid Berwyn]

‘LACKING IN EMPATHY’

Trump Praised Senders of Death Threats to Georgia Officials as ‘My People’ as He Demanded Recount: Report

By Tom Boggioni
Raw Story, 6 September 2021

According to a report from the Daily Beast, as Donald Trump raged at Georgia election officials to find votes for him following his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, state administrators were being deluged with death threats that led to calls to the White House pleading for the former president to call off the dogs.

The Beast’s Jose Pagliery and Asawin Suebsaeng report that they have acquired hundreds of internal emails from Georgia officials immediately calling for an investigation into Trump’s meddling as well as concerned administrators sharing death threats they believed to should be taken seriously.

The report states, “There were death threats promising to make the Boston bombings look like child’s play.’ Impassioned pleas for Georgia’s top elections official to stand firm in the face of pressure from Trump to break the law. And an alarmed state official demanding an immediate investigation into Donald Trump’s ‘solicitation to commit election fraud.'”

Of note is the revelation that calls to Trump about the threats of violence fell upon deaf ears in the White House with Pagliery and Suebsaeng writing, “According to a former senior administration official and another source close to the former president, Trump was repeatedly briefed in the White House on the deluge of death threats directed at Georgia’s Republican officials. The 45th U.S. president’s reactions were—predictably—lacking in empathy.”

According to one ex-official, “There was this one time I heard [Trump] suggest they might be exaggerating the kind of threats they were getting. But more often, he’d make fun of them and say they were bad people who were getting what they deserved.”

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Source: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/09/trump-praised-senders-of-death-threats-to-georgia-officials-as-my-people-as-he-demanded-recount-report/

OriginSource: https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-documents-show-internal-discord-during-georgia-recount-fiasco?ref=home

There’s more wrong above than a lack of empathy.

[Boomerproud]

1. Lacking in empathy?

Ummmm...okay.🙄😡

[Wounded Bear]

6. Paranoid psychotic asshole fit better?

[Kid Berwyn]

7. How Trump described watching the returning fallen at Dover AFB...

Lucian K. Truscott observed:

All this is just more willful ignorance contained within his usual fog of lies. But it was his description of the grief of families meeting the bodies of their dead at Dover Air Force Base that was most illustrative of his abject disdain for human life. “They scream, like I’ve never seen anything before. They’ll break through military barriers. They’ll run to the coffin and jump on top of the coffin. Crying mothers and wives. Crying desperately.”

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/19/america-is-being-held-hostage-by-a-bloody-madman-and-hes-in-the-white-house/

[Botany]

2. "And an alarmed state official demanding an immediate investigation into Donald Trump's ...

‘solicitation to commit election fraud.”

Donald Trump: 'I just want to find 11,780 votes'

And Trump used these lies to whip up the 1/6/21 Capitol attack/coup attempt and in getting
his Georgia MAGA Morons to send death threats to Georgia election workers.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Evidence to convict, right there.

Timeline: What Georgia prosecutors are looking at as they investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the election

By Marshall Cohen, Jason Morris and Christopher Hickey, CNN
Illustration by Will Mullery, CNN
CNN, August 5, 2021

Washington (CNN) – Prosecutors in Georgia are still investigating whether former President Donald Trump broke any laws when he tried to overturn his 2020 defeat in the hotly contested state. The probe ramped up earlier this year, with a grand jury convening in Atlanta.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has said the criminal investigation includes potential “solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local governmental bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to the election’s administration.”

Months after the election, new information is still coming to light about Trump’s potentially unlawful effort to overturn the results. Recent reports indicate that he considered installing a loyalist as acting attorney general at the Justice Department — someone who agreed with Trump’s false claims about voter fraud and was prepared to pressure election officials in Georgia to overturn the results.

Trump has claimed he didn’t do anything wrong and that the state investigation is politically motivated. Willis, who is a Democrat, was elected to her post last year.

Here’s a breakdown of what Georgia prosecutors will likely scrutinize as they piece together the timeline of Trump’s public pressure campaign, his private calls to state officials overseeing the election, related litigation and more.

Continues (with Interactive Timelines for those who give a damn about treason)…

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/08/politics/trump-georgia-2020-election/

Thanks for the data, Botany! Seems Justice is grinding its wheels in the usual manner.

[Botany]

10. "Evidence to convict, right there."

Yup! Can you find me 11,780 votes? That was not Trump's first time doing a "shake down"
old school mob style phone call.

[hlthe2b]

3. Of the may disgusting poses TFG constantly displayed, that both fists up stance always

just epitomized his nastiness and idiocy.

He is so horrible that he deserves every bad thing that can happen to him. Will we live to see it happen? Sometimes I wonder.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Positive Visualization: Art to Make America Great!!!!

Dumpy is more into fabric swatches more than fine art, but this installation should be his future.

An Anarchist Art Collective Transformed a Trump Tower Hotel Suite Into a Prison Cell for the President

The guerrilla art project turned a luxury suite into a 24-hour art pop-up, with a Trump lookalike jailed inside a prison cell with live rats.

Sarah Cascone
Artnet, April 2, 2018

Is Donald Trump a prisoner of his own gilded cage? One anarchist art collective seems to think so.

Operating with the utmost secrecy, the anonymous group INDECLINE infiltrated Trump International Hotel and Tower last week and turned a $1,000-a-night suite into a radical art installation titled “The People’s Prison,” locking a Donald Trump impersonator in a cage full of live rats. The room was transformed into a jail with bleak cement walls featuring the work of 13 artists, each of whom painted a portrait of an American activist or revolutionary on an American flag.

“ We were inspired by the Russia investigation. The walls are kind of closing in for Trump,” an INDECLINE member told artnet News of the project, the culmination of six month’s planning. “We wanted to imprison him within his castle.”

“Throughout American history, there’s been a very vibrant political resistance culture,” he added, pointing to the portraits of Hunter S. Thompson, Betty Friedan, Muhammad Ali, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, and others. “Trump is the antithesis of what actually makes America great. So we wanted to surround him with these people. This is the America that we’re proud of, this is part of our history that we are inspired by, these are the people we look to as an example in these turbulent times.”

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https://news.artnet.com/art-world/indecline-trump-hotel-art-installation-1257095

An ignorant, depraved con man deserves the best of the worst.



Traitors, more so.

[young_at_heart]

4. I still marvel that so many considered him "presidential"

How is it possible that so many are "fine" with him??

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Television and Hypnosis

GE-NBC and then COMCAST featured the asshole prime time weekly for 15 years, making him “friends” with a big chunk of the country.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ljD3yBFNuEUC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=television+makes+audience+feel+stars+are+family&source=bl&ots=A9NmJVs8cM&sig=ACfU3U3VzfEga2KSbQ0D__iODPJ7x6Zjlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiH-MvEjO3yAhWIVc0KHVrpBP8Q6AF6BAgPEAM#v=onepage&q=television%20makes%20audience%20feel%20stars%20are%20family&f=false

Here’s 2 red cents on der Scheissnozzle und Trumpnosis:

Hypnotist Richard Barker Shows How Trumpnosis, Donald Trump's Form of Covert Hypnosis, Affects Millions Around the World

NEWS PROVIDED BY
Richard Barker, Incredible Hypnotist
Mar 29, 2016, 08:35 ET

ORLANDO, Fla., March 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Hypnotist Richard Barker has just released research surrounding mass hypnosis and has coined the phrase "Trumpnosis".

Trumpnosis.com has been receiving lots of interest as of late. Covert hypnosis means having access to people's subconscious mind and altering the way they behave and think in a disguised or somewhat hidden way. Some popular covert hypnosis techniques used to align someone's behavior and thoughts to the desired outcome of the hypnotists are displayed during mass hypnosis.

Barker typically refers to mass hypnosis as "Trumpnosis", since he states, "Mr. Trump displays it so well". The media have also made comments regarding the Hypnotizing of a nation and questioned what is happening to America. Through the words and actions of an individual, can we influence and suggest a nation to think a certain way? Richard Barker who is known as the 'Incredible Hypnotist' thinks so. Barker said, "Everything we do and see must first start with a thought process. We don't see the world; we think it. If your thoughts are influenced by a master Hypnotist to think in a certain way on a mass level, this is 'Trumpnosis'".

Mass Hypnotism can apply to everything and be everywhere – in families, in schools and in politics. The influence and use of repetition on crowds is identified through Mr. Trump's speeches and is seen to influence even the most enlightened minds. The power is due to the fact that the repeated statements are embedded in those profound regions of our subconscious mind.

Donald Trump successfully uses techniques such as pacing and leading, anchoring, verbal confusion, repetition and so on. He successfully bypasses the critical factor in minds of some people and has the ability to turn off the rational thinking. By using certain words and behavior, a speaker can very quickly establish a rapport with an audience. Repeated exposure to the same speaker can result in them being viewed with admiration, bordering on worship. Every word uttered is accepted as the complete truth.

“ Through the words he has used, both now and in the past, he has placed others into a hypnotic state without them knowing," says Barker. "Trump's speeches contains hypnosis techniques of hypnotic anchoring, pacing and leading, critical factor bypass and so on."

Hypnotist Richard Barker insists, "All you need to remember is that most people's needs are based on their instincts. Understanding people's instincts, especially in a mass gathering, is one of the key goals of mass hypnosis. Trumpnosis is a vehicle for enabling large groups of people to have an altered belief system."

Richard Barker is a World Renowned Professional Hypnotist. He has spent the last 20 years working with thousands of clients across the world. Richard Barker has recently appeared on NBC's The Today Show, CBS' The Late Late Show with James Corden, FOX's Good Day LA and News channels for FOX and ABC http://incrediblehypnotist.com

He has written a new book focusing on Persuasion and Suggestion titled, "Selling Hypnotically. The Art Of Suggestion" http://sellinghypnotically.com

Source (press release for news, public use distribution and publication): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hypnotist-richard-barker-shows-how-trumpnosis-donald-trumps-form-of-covert-hypnosis-affects-millions-around-the-world-300242345.html

I thank the immense buxom of Melanie that not everyone can be hypnotized.

[young_at_heart]

15. THANK YOU!

Hypnosis (covert) has always been a theory of mine. That information is absolutely frightening!

[MagickMuffin]

18. This all started with "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"

This is where I was first introduced to trump. Not that I watched that program, I despised it. But being a channel surfer I came across him. Entertainment Tonight would cater to him. Media exposure!

Then there was the Miss America & Miss Teen Beauty Pageants, that he got to control. More media exposure.

And then we have the WWE (and not the mind set of intellectuals) that he got involved with. More media exposure.

And then finally all the Apprentice programing. More and more media exposure. Mostly people influenced by him is from media exposure.

[turbinetree]

5. You know this malignant asshole could in some respects be charged with attempt

to commit a crime......as an Accessory....and this F should be locked up....

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/accessory#:~:text=Definition,an%20accessory%20after%20the%20fact).

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Hope it's conspiracy.

Trump led the effort to overthrow the Constitution.



Trump Told Crowd ‘You Will Never Take Back Our Country With Weakness’

As Congress prepared to certify the victory of his successor, President Trump railed against the election and helped set in motion hours of violence.

Maggie Haberman
The New York Times, Jan. 6, 2021

Excerpt...

“We want to be so respectful of everybody,” Mr. Trump said, before calling his political opponents bad people. “And we are going to have to fight much harder. And Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a sad day for our country. Because you’re sworn to uphold our Constitution.”

Calling the outcome of the election “this egregious assault on our democracy,” he said his supporters should “walk down to the Capitol. And we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we are probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you will never take back our country with weakness.”

Mr. Trump did not in fact travel with the supporters he urged to go fight for him; he returned to the White House, and berated aides about how the scene had appeared, before taking to Twitter to attack Mr. Pence for his stand.

Before Mr. Trump took the stage, his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, addressed the crowd and called for “trial by combat” against the Democrats to win the election.

Continue...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/trump-speech-incite.html

Yes. Lock him.

[kentuck]

9. He is a threat to society.

You know it. I know it. And Bob Dole knows it.

[Botany]

13. "He is a threat to society." You think?

When he was trying to strong arm Georgia's Sec. of State's office TFG said to them "Big things are gonna
happen on 1/6/21.

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Knowledge Is Power

The Big Money Behind the Big Lie

Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.

By Jane Mayer
The New Yorker, August 2, 2021

Excerpt…

Many experts on democratic governance, however, believe that efforts to upend long-settled election practices are what truly threaten to rip the country apart. Chad Campbell, a Democrat who was the minority leader in the Arizona House of Representatives until 2014, when he left to become a consultant in Phoenix, has been shocked by the state’s anti-democratic turn. For several years, he sat next to Karen Fann when she was a member of the House, and in his view she’s gone from being a traditional Republican lawmaker to being a member of “Trump’s cult of personality.” He said, “I don’t know if she believes it or not, or which would be worse.” Arizona, he added, is in the midst of a “nonviolent overthrow in some ways—it’s subtle, and not in people’s face because it’s not happening with weapons. But it’s still a complete overthrow of democracy. They’re trying to disenfranchise everyone who is not older white guys.”

Arizona is hardly the only place where attacks on the electoral process are under way: a well-funded national movement has been exploiting Trump’s claims of fraud in order to promote alterations to the way that ballots are cast and counted in forty-nine states, eighteen of which have passed new voting laws in the past six months. Republican-dominated legislatures have also stripped secretaries of state and other independent election officials of their power. The chair of Arizona’s Republican Party, Kelli Ward, has referred to the state’s audit as a “domino,” and has expressed hope that it will inspire similar challenges elsewhere.

Ralph Neas has been involved in voting-rights battles since the nineteen-eighties, when, as a Republican, he served as the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. He has overseen a study of the Arizona audit for the nonpartisan Century Foundation, and he told me that, though the audit is a “farce,” it may nonetheless have “extraordinary consequences.” He said, “The Maricopa County audit exposes exactly what the Big Lie is all about. If they come up with an analysis that discredits the 2020 election results in Arizona, it will be replicated in other states, furthering more chaos. That will enable new legislation. Millions of Americans could be disenfranchised, helping Donald Trump to be elected again in 2024. That’s the bottom line. Maricopa County is the prism through which to view everything. It’s not so much about 2020—it’s about 2022 and 2024. This is a coördinated national effort to distort not just what happened in 2020 but to regain the House of Representatives and the Presidency.”

Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the country’s foremost election-law experts, told me, “I’m scared shitless.” Referring to the array of new laws passed by Republican state legislatures since the 2020 election, he said, “It’s not just about voter suppression. What I’m really worried about is election subversion. Election officials are being put in place who will mess with the count.”

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie

As you know, Dole was maimed fighting fascists in World War 2.

Who knew today’s GOP, in large part, would support so many of the same goals?

[marble falls]

14. That photo shows someone going down and deteriorating.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. Portrait of Dorian Trump

Source: https://impermanent-art.tumblr.com/post/183135494126/the-picture-of-donald-trump-a-collaborative

Trumpian Cult Sociopathy

by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press, January 7, 2021

Excerpt…

As Mary Trump, Trump’s niece, a mental health professional, outlined in her remarkable book, “Too Much is Never Enough,” Trump is clinically insane, and not in a kooky way, but in a cruel way. She characterized him as “a high-functioning sociopath” with symptoms that include “a lack of empathy, a facility for lying, an indifference to right and wrong, abusive behavior and a lack of interest in the rights of others,” something she felt had been handed down from his pro-Nazi slumlord father to Trump.

According to the psychiatric diagnosis texts, the most troubling feature of the sociopath (75 percent are males) is his inability to respond positively to treatment; that is, inability to change.

There is a reason that cult leaders of the brand allowed to proliferate in the 1970s and still a big problem tend to be sociopaths, and it is because they do not shy away from a callous use of psychological manipulation to deceive and exploit “followers.” Another area where the sociopath is operative is in abusive marriages, where cruel and manipulative psychological means are used to induce “codependency” in a spouse such that she will defend her abuser’s behavior.

What we all witnessed in Trump’s Sunday phone call was classic Mafia technique, using a position of power to cajole a person to bend to the will of the “boss,” even if that means breaking the law and placing oneself into jeopardy. There usually is little more than a cold pat on the back for such a person once they’ve agreed to self-destruct in such a way.

Such Trump methods are directly responsible for the senators and congressmen who were willing to throw their lives and reputations in the trash by backing a protest of the Electoral College results.

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https://www.fcnp.com/2021/01/07/trumpian-cult-sociopathy/

He really does not look well, like his followers.

[marble falls]

26. The really, really crazy part ...

... is the portrait under the bed is hugely worse.

[Jetheels]

16. How many committees and investigations will there need to be in order to prosecute tfg?

Geeez, I thought I saw and heard with my own eyes and ears crime upon crime being committed by tfg daily, and in full view of the entire country and world. Did I just imagine it all? Why’s tfg not in prison (Guantanamo) already? Tfg’s weekly rallies and daily Twitter feed non stop inciting violence. It was all out in the open. Certainly there were other republicans part of the coup plot, but I watched the damn thing in real time, I watched tfg inciting, whipping up hate, directing his sheep, how much more evidence is needed. Two decades on, they are just starting pretrial hearings for the 9/11 plotters!? How slow do the wheels of justice turn? Oh, but how long did it take to investigate Hillary’s emails? Seriously asking these questions because I’m really not understanding how things are supposed to work. An entire lifetime of crime and no one can find just one in which to prosecute? Wtf. I don’t get it.

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Need more than a superconductor spreadsheet to track it all.

Just one example though could put the guy behind bars for ever.

Trump reportedly hid details of his meetings with Putin from his own administration

House Democrats are already promising to launch an investigation into Trump’s secret dealings with Russia.

By Amanda Sakuma
Vic, Jan 13, 2019

President Donald Trump hid details of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, going so far on one occasion as to seize his interpreter’s notes to prevent them from reaching the public, according to a new report published Saturday.

Washington Post reporter Greg Miller outlines how Trump went through “extraordinary lengths” to conceal the contents of his conversations with the leader of one of America’s biggest adversaries. On at least one occasion, during a meeting with Russian officials and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Hamburg in 2017, Trump asked his linguist to not share details about what had transpired.

Even high-ranking officials within Trump’s own administration were unaware of specifics discussed between the two leaders, The Post reports. They only found out about possible subterfuge after an unnamed White House advisor and another unnamed senior State Department official specifically sought out the notes from Trump’s interpreter — but the records weren’t there:

As a result, U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in classified files, of Trump’s face-to-face interactions with the Russian leader at five locations over the past two years. Such a gap would be unusual in any presidency, let alone one that Russia sought to install through what U.S. intelligence agencies have described as an unprecedented campaign of election interference.

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https://www.vox.com/2019/1/13/18180749/trump-secret-russia-putin-meetings

Agree completely, jetheels: While the Unstable Moron should be held to account for ALL of his criminality, the charge of treason trumps.

[struggle4progress]

17. Somebody reading that might think The Don was a heartless thug

[Kid Berwyn]

25. Absolutely. It's also important to point out he's a NAZI.

Commentary:

Trump takes tactics from Hitler’s playbook

Bill McCann, contributing columnist
Austin American Statesman

Excerpt…

From the moment Trump announced his candidacy in 2015 he has raised fears and sought scapegoats to get supporters to find someone else to blame for their problems. He characterized immigrants as “criminals, drug dealers and rapists” and promised to ban Muslims from entering the country. He has engaged in race baiting and sided with white supremacists. Hitler was a white supremacist whose scapegoats included Jews.

Trump has cozied up to authoritarian leaders in Brazil, North Korea, Poland, Turkey and Russia. Like Hitler, Trump has attacked the legitimate news media as the “enemy of the people.” Accurate reporting that puts Trump in a bad light is always “fake” news.

Anyone who has studied Hitler will recall he loved big crowds and revved them up with rants packed with propaganda and lies. He thought if you told a big lie often enough, people would believe it. Trump loves rallies too. Plus, he has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims as president, telling some of the same big lies again and again, according to Washington Post fact checkers.

Hitler attacked and undermined the courts and the electoral process. So has Trump. Even before the outcome of the 2016 presidential election Trump warned it was rigged. He is doing the same thing ahead of the November 2020 election.

In a desperate effort to rekindle his faltering reelection campaign, Trump has ratcheted up his fear-mongering rhetoric in recent months amid the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread public protests in cities following killings of unarmed Black people by police. His Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore was a Hitlerian attempt to fire up white Americans against anti-racism protesters in cities around the country. He inaccurately called protesters “far-left fascists.” Fascists are, in fact, far-right authoritarians like Hitler.

In July, Trump ordered anonymous federal forces to Portland, Ore., and threatened to send them to other Democrat-run cities. The heavily-armed forces arrived under the guise of protecting federal buildings from protesters, but the forces really were window dressing for Trump’s “law and order” reelection campaign pitch and to get campaign ad videos. The federal agents mistreated peaceful protesters and did everything but goosestep through city streets. They mostly inflamed the protests.

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https://www.statesman.com/story/special/2020/08/13/commentary-trump-takes-tactics-from-hitlerrsquos-playbook/113764796/

[H2O Man]

21. Recommended.

It goes far, far beyond a lack of empathy ..... it's the delight in cruelty. Sociopath, by definition.

[monkeyman1]

22. dear DEPT.

would the called dept of justice please get off their fat ass's & lock this pos up ! more that crap to put this public pain in the ass away !! do your damn job !

thank you , pissed off voter's & your employer's!!!!!!

[marble falls]

27. New caption ...

"Attica! Attica! Attica!"