Police raided a small Kansas newspaper. Soon after, its co-owner collapsed and died.
TOPEKA — Marion police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures.
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen individuals when her team presents its case before a grand jury next week. Several individuals involved in the voting systems breach in Coffee County are among those who may face charges in the sprawling criminal probe.
Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.
Trump allies attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud.
While Trump’s January 2021 call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and effort to put forward fake slates of electors have long been considered key pillars of Willis’ criminal probe, the voting system breach in Coffee County quietly emerged as an area of focus for investigators roughly one year ago. Since then, new evidence has slowly been uncovered about the role of Trump’s attorneys, the operatives they hired and how the breach, as well as others like it in other key states, factored into broader plans for overturning the election.
Together, the text messages and other court documents show how Trump lawyers and a group of hired operatives sought to access Coffee County’s voting systems in the days before January 6, 2021, as the former president’s allies continued a desperate hunt for any evidence of widespread fraud they could use to delay certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Last year, a former Trump official testified under oath to the House January 6 select committee that plans to access voting systems in Georgia were discussed in meetings at the White House, including during an Oval Office meeting on December 18, 2020, that included Trump.
Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a “written invitation” to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages obtained by CNN.
But if they can prosecute Donald Trump for taking numerous direct actions to try stay in office after losing an election, they can prosecute anyone for taking numerous direct actions to try stay in office after losing an election. And this would be very dangerous because [picks up phone that is not ringing or vibrating] whoops gotta take this bye!
Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
OK Ron has said if I don’t tell everyone I did this he will. He is still cackling nearly an hour later. In my defense, I was really trying to be nice and not complain as we are trying to keep the grocery budget down. Just not to this amount.
So we decided to have burgers for supper. Ron normally has some frozen for when we want them but don’t want to go out to the store to get hamburger. But Ron had gone shopping today filling the cupboards and cabinets with food stuffs. He bought two packages of new hamburger as that seems to be are new meat of choice in hard times.
So as supper neared, we talked about what to have, and we both agreed on hamburgers and salad. We used to have french fries with meals such as this, but both of us have lost the taste for such heavy meals and we are both diabetics. As Ron got the meat ready I got all the salad stuff and burger fixings out. I take great pride in how I build a hamburger.
For me I take the thinnest part of the bun, and set it aside. I take the thickest part and add a bit of mustard to it. It might be brown mustard or yellow depending on mood. Then I add several large pickle slices, normally I trim them to just beyond the shape of the bun. Then I add a few lettuce leaves, torn to fit but not shredded. I always like a lot of lettuce so a use a few instead of one.
Then I add the meat and season to taste, closing the bun and enjoying a well-built tasty burger. However I missed a step this time that caused Ron no amount of amusement and me a bunch of red-faced oh crap.
In my defense I was trying to listen to a podcast on the current political situation and was not really paying attention to what I was doing, but Ron is correct, it was hilarious what happened next. Just don’t tell him I agree, I am trying to maintain my innocence with subterfuge and obstruction, you know the republican way.
As I was eating the first burger and enjoying my bowl of salad I noticed the burger was lacking a burger taste. I looked at it and thought “Wow Ron really made these burgers thin”. But I figured that was all he had in the package and as we are on a budget I thought why complain when he is doing the best he can. After all the bun and stuff tasted great, just less than burgerish.
I got to the last three bits when I took a look at the bun in my hand. I thought the burger was really skimpy, in fact I couldn’t see it. I went over to Ron and mentioned I knew we were on a budget but why make burgers so skimpy as to hardly taste them.
As we were talking and he seemed confused, I looked over at the counter … and there were my two hamburgers sitting on the plate Ron had brought them in from the grill on. Oh shit! Talk about foot in mouth eating crow! I had made two perfect burgers with no hamburgers in them, and ate most all of the one without stopping to investigate or complain why it seemed burger less tasting.
Ron is still laughing and I know he will not let this go, he will use this against me for the next dozen times I point out something I think he may have been mistaken on. He is still gloating even though I gave him my second well dressed bun, this time with a hamburger in it hoping that would sooth his need to take glee at my discomfort and small unfortunate once in a long time misstep. Sadly that is not to be, he informed me that if I did not write this for all my viewers to see how utterly clueless and goofy I can be, he would. I prefer my version to his so I am taking my lumps with grace and going off to bed. Hugs
I am not a religious person. I do not believe in the supernatural nor in any deity. I am a confirmed heathen. I enjoy being a heathen and do not hide it. But by My Dogs That Love Gravy, I do appreciate and respect this man, this person Rev. Ed Trevors! I respect him, I support a lot of what he says as is clear in that I repost his videos. I think I could sit in his congregation and hear a sermon of his with no anger or disgust. I could spend a happy pleasant afternoon in chat with him. I wouldn’t believe in his deity or in their holy book, but I do believe in his message of inclusion. It is one I not only support but want to amplify.
I want to make one thing very clear on this site, my Play Time (that some days doesn’t feel much like playing or fun), I am against hate, bigotry, discrimination, and abuse of others. Notice in that list I did not include religion, faith, personal codes of conduct, worship, or any particular deity / religion. When I joined the military I took an oath to support the constitution of the US and its principles, which I still believe in. One of those rights was for people to worship their own gods in ways that did not harm others and government wouldn’t / couldn’t form a preference for any religion over any other, including simply having none.
Notice in the above paragraph I did not include being able to force others to worship and live as you do. I am against that and the hate churches that preach that. I post a lot against them. Just as I don’t insist everyone have same-sex relations just as I do, I fight against heterosexuals who insist others must have the opposite sex relations they do. I support trans rights, but I don’t insist all cis people must be trans, must dress as the gender they don’t identify with. When you break it down into those terms you see clearly what the bigot haters are trying to do, what they want to force the world into, a mold of them, just like them and only them. And they misuse their religion and deity to do this.
Which leads me back to the Rev Ed Trevors. Here is someone that understand his faith is not justification to harm others. His faith is not a weapon to use to hurt those who are different from him. Instead he uses his faith as a guide on how to live his life and treat others. Just as I do with the Christians who come to my Play Time I respect and admire him. Those people are welcome and deserve our respect, and that goes for any faith that comes here with the same ideas of respect. Hugs
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