The final chapter has been written of Trump’s misbegotten legal crusade to overturn the 2020 election (below). Read story here. But it’s not over; still to be determined are the defamation lawsuits and disciplinary actions against Trump’s crackpot legal team. Return to The-Ave.US H[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
FBI captures Capitol spy suspect
A Capitol invader who possibly stole a laptop computer from Nancy Pelosi’s office intending to sell it to Russian intelligence services has been caught, the U.K-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Monday, January 18, 2021. Read story here. Riley June Williams, 22, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania [...]
The rise of rightwing militias and what to do about them
It’s no accident that potentially violent rightwing militias have proliferated and become more aggressive during Trump’s time in office. He encouraged them. Before 2016 “these groups operated mainly on the political margins,” two political scientists wrote in a Foreign Affair[...]
Meet a Trump supporter
“A New Mexico county commissioner who heads Cowboys for Trump was arrested Sunday in Washington, D.C.,” Huffington Post reported on Monday, January 18, 2021. Couy Griffin (photo below), who was wanted on an arrest warrant for storming the Capitol on January 6, drove from his home in New Mexi[...]
Twitter blocks GOP rabblerouser
“Twitter temporarily locked newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her personal account on Sunday afternoon after the QAnon follower sent out a slew of tweets that pushed election disinformation and incited supporters of President Donald Trump,'” Huffington Post reported o[...]
January 16th, 2021 - 1:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The car accident that didn’t happen
Suppose I came to you and said, “You just hit my car. The repairs will cost $3,000. Pay me.” You’re bewildered. You didn’t hit my car. You look at my car, and don’t see any dents, dings, or scratches. There’s nothing wrong with it. But then you notice my glazed ey[...]
Support your local police?
From CNN, Thursday, January 14, 2021: “As DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone lay on the ground at the US Capitol building, stunned and injured, he knew a group of rioters were stripping him of his gear. They grabbed spare ammunition, ripped the police radio off his chest a[...]
Death of Capitol rioter busted up a threesome
The MAGA terrorist shot dead by Capitol Police last Wednesday and her husband were members of a “throuple,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail claims. I’m posting this story in keeping with The-Ave.US‘s new editorial ambition of seeking to acquire a reputation as a trashy supe[...]
Trumper claims he beat cop because “I thought he was Antifa”
Peter Francis Stager of Arkansas faces criminal charges “for allegedly beating a Metropolitan Police officer who was guarding an entrance of the U.S. Capitol,” the Daily Beast reported on Thursday, January 14, 2021. Read story here. “Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that [...]
January 14th, 2021 - 1:31 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Data show police 3X as likely to use force on “leftist” protesters
Just about everyone suspects there’s a strong rightwing bias in U.S. policing, manifesting itself in police violence against peaceful demonstrators against racism and police brutality, with coddling of violent rightwing extremists. Now, hard data bears that out. “In the past 10 months, U[...]