Friday, January 08, 2021

TWITTER HITLER DICTATORS PERMANENTLY SUSPENDS TRUMPS ACCOUNT

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

 2020 AMERICAN ELECTION RESULTS BY STATE TRUMP VS LOSER LIBERAL SLEEPY (SLOPPY JOE) BIDEN.

ON D-69 OF THE TRUMP WIN OF THE PRESIDENCY. SAT JAN 09, 21.

Key dates for the Electoral College and what they mean-AEIdeas-DECEMBER 14,20

What are the key dates for the workings of the Electoral College?

November 3 — Election Day

Election Day is November 3. We may or may not know the winner of the presidential contest on election night, but we certainly will not have a final tally and certified results until weeks later. States vary widely in the time they allot for certifying their election results. Some may give a final certification the week after Election Day. Others may take over 30 days. And there is the possibility of recounts and judicial contests of elections which could extend the time to determine an official winner of a state.
Ballots are passed out to 16 Electors on the Michigan Senate floor for them to cast their formal votes for the president and vice president of the United States in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

December 8 — Safe Harbor

December 14 — The meeting of the Electors

Two key dates loom in December. On December 14, presidential electors must have been selected by the states and will meet as a group in their states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president. But December 8 is also a significant date, the so-called “safe harbor” date. The Electoral Count Act sets this date as an important date for states to make their official selection of electors, as those electoral votes will be given greater protection from challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January. The Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore assigned great significance to this date in Bush v. Gore.

January 3 — The convening of the new Congress

January 6 — Congress counts the votes

January 20 — Inauguration Day. The new presidential term begins at noon.

On January 3rd, the new Congress will take office, and on January 6th it will meet to count the electoral votes and declare a president- and vice president-elect. On January 20th at noon, the current presidential term will end and the next one will begin.This is excerpted from the new fourth edition of After the People Vote, edited by John Fortier, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of AEI’s Election Watch team.John C. Fortier-AEI Adjunct Scholar-SENOIRFELLOWKarlyn Bowman-Senior Fellow

ITS 6.40PM-FRI JAN 08,2021. AND TWITTER HAS JUST PERMANENTLY SUSPENDED PRESIDENT OF AMERICA DONALD JOHN TRUMPS TWITTER ACCOUNT. THIS TELLS YOU HOW MUCH POWER A BUSINESS HAS OVER EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA. THESE DICTATOR HITLERS SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES HAS TO BE CONTROLLED INSTEAD OF CONTROLLING AMERICA.

Tweet no more: Twitter permanently bans Trump, citing ‘incitement of violence’US president locked out of his favorite platform in final days in office, as he faces growing blowback for encouraging mob that attacked US Capitol-By Agencies and TOI staff-JAN 9,21-Today, 1:52 am

The US leader who became famous for his tweeting was permanently banned from the platform Friday, with Twitter citing the “risk of further incitement of violence.”The social platform had been under growing pressure to take further action against Trump following Wednesday’s deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. Twitter initially suspended Trump’s account for 12 hours after he posted a video that repeated false claims about election fraud and praised the rioters who stormed the Capitol.The company said: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”Twitter’s move deprives Trump of a potent tool he has used to communicate directly with the American people for more than a decade. He has used Twitter to announce policy changes, challenge opponents, insult enemies, praise his allies (and himself), and spread misinformation.Twitter has long given Trump and other world leaders broad exemptions from its rules against personal attacks, hate speech and other behaviors. But in a lengthy explanation posted on its blog Friday, the company said recent Trump tweets amounted to glorification of violence when read in the context of the Capitol riot and plans circulating online for future armed protests around the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.In those tweets, Trump stated that he will not be attending the inauguration and referred to his supporters as “American Patriots,” saying they will have “a GIANT VOICE long into the future.” Twitter said these statements “are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so.”Facebook and Instagram have also barred Trump from posting, though so far only temporarily, saying the ban will last at least until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.Twitter had long grappled with how to handle its most prominent — and divisive — user.For years, since long before he was president, Trump used Twitter as a personal megaphone to build his personal brand, appeal to his supporters and attack his rivals of the moment. In the process, regardless of the facts at hand, he often created his own version of reality — from birtherism to climate-change denial to exaggerations about voter fraud.Last May the platform began attaching warnings to some of his tweets, while placing various limitations on others to prevent the spread of false claims. Facebook has followed suit.Since the US election in November Trump has repeatedly harnessed the power of social media to spread falsehoods about election integrity and the results of the presidential race.Also Friday, Twitter permanently banned two Trump loyalists — former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell — as part of a broader purge of accounts promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory. Twitter said it will take action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm.Former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, left, listens to Sidney Powell, both lawyers for US President Donald Trump, during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, November 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)“Given the renewed potential for violence surrounding this type of behavior in the coming days, we will permanently suspend accounts that are solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content,” Twitter said in an emailed statement. The company also said Trump attorney Lin Wood was permanently suspended Tuesday for violating its rules, but provided no additional details.The company says that when it determines a group or campaign is engaged in “coordinated harmful activity,” it may suspend accounts that it finds primarily encourages that behavior.Social media companies have been under intensified pressure to crack down on hate speech since a violent mob egged on by Trump stormed the Capitol. Dozens of QAnon social media accounts were hyping up Trump’s Jan. 6 rally in the heart of Washington, expressing hope that it could lead to the overturn of the election results.On Friday, the advocacy coalition Stop Hate for Profit launched a campaign to pressure the major platforms, including YouTube owner Google, to kick Trump off their services for good. The organization, which includes the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, Free Press and Color of Change, said it will call for an advertiser boycott if the platforms don’t take action by Jan. 20, the date of Biden’s inauguration.Other tech companies also acted against Trump’s accounts, citing threats of violence. Snapchat locked Trump’s account “indefinitely.” Twitch, the live-streaming site owned by Amazon and used by Trump’s campaign to stream speeches, disabled Trump’s account until he leaves office. E-commerce company Shopify shut down two online Trump memorabilia stores.YouTube announced more general changes that will penalize accounts spreading misinformation about voter fraud in the 2020 election, with repeat offenders facing permanent removal. Reddit on Friday banned a forum for Trump supporters, called “donaldtrump.”

White House: Impeachment will only further divide country-Draft impeachment document accuses Trump of ‘incitement of insurrection’Resolution circulated by Dems says US president betrayed trust by actions this week, ‘gravely endangered’ national security; Murkowski first GOP senator to call on Trump to resign-By TOI staff and Agencies-9 January 2021, 1:28 am

A draft resolution of the new impeachment effort against US President Donald Trump that has been circled by Democratic lawmakers accuses him of “incitement of insurrection” through his actions on the day of the breach of the US Capitol by a violent mob this week.The draft, obtained by CNN, NBC News and other American media outlets, says Trump “engaged in High Crimes and Misdemeanors by willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”It states that “Incited by President Trump, a mob unlawfully breached the Capitol, injured law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress and the Vice President, interfered with the Joint Session’s solemn constitutional duty to certify the election results, and engaged in violent, deadly, destructive, and seditious acts.”By doing so, the document charges, Trump “gravely endangered” the security of the US, “threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coordinate branch of government.“He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.”JUST IN: 4-page draft article of impeachment against President Trump that Reps. Raskin, Lieu, Cicilline are planning to introduce Monday: "Incitement of insurrection" pic.twitter.com/6OADfzdQEe — MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 8, 2021-The White House, in its first comments on the matter, said Friday: “As President Trump said yesterday, this is a time for healing and unity as one nation. A politically motivated impeachment against a president with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great country.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned earlier that Democrats will launch impeachment proceedings unless Trump leaves willingly, or Vice President Mike Pence invokes the 25th Amendment, where the cabinet removes the president.“If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action,” Pelosi wrote.In other astonishing comments, Pelosi also revealed she had spoken Friday with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley about “preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”“The situation of this unhinged President could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy,” Pelosi wrote.Meanwhile Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska became the first Republican member of the Senate to call for Trump’s resignation.Murkowski said in a telephone interview Friday: “I want him out. He has caused enough damage… He needs to get out. He needs to do the good thing, but I don’t think he’s capable of doing a good thing.”She also questioned whether she wanted to remain a Republican. “If the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me,” she said.Democrats in the House of Representatives, who already impeached Trump in a traumatic, partisan vote in 2019, said the unprecedented second impeachment of the president could be ready next week.“We can act very quickly when we want to,” Representative Katherine Clark told CNN.Whether Republican leaders of the Senate would then agree to hold a lightning-fast impeachment trial before the January 20 transition is another matter.Trump would be the only president to be impeached twice. The House impeached him in late 2019, but the Republican-led Senate acquitted him. Removal from office could also prevent Trump from running for president in 2024, or ever holding the presidency again.Trump, meanwhile, announced that he will skip the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going,” he tweeted.The statement — while not a surprise from the most divisive president in decades — scuppered any idea that Trump might seek to spend his remaining 12 days in the White House helping his Democratic successor to calm tensions.Not since 1869 has an outgoing US president missed the inauguration of the incoming leader, a ceremony symbolizing the peaceful transfer of power.But two days after Trump incited followers to storm Congress, his presidency is in freefall, with allies walking away and calls for his removal accelerating.Trump, whose incitement of crowds assaulting Congress capped relentless efforts to overturn Biden’s November 3 election win, finally conceded defeat on Thursday and appealed for calm.“A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power,” Trump said in a short video.However, the evidently reluctant concession, in which Trump failed to congratulate Biden or directly admit defeat, was too little, too late to calm outrage over his role in the Capitol invasion.Five people died in the mayhem, including one woman who was shot dead and a Capitol Police officer who was pronounced dead from his injuries on Thursday. Flags over the Capitol were lowered to half-mast on Friday.Senator Ben Sasse, one Republican who says he will “definitely consider” impeachment, recommended that Trump at minimum step back and let his vice president run the show in the dying days.“I think the less the president does over the next 12 days the better,” he told NPR radio.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos became the second cabinet member to quit the government, telling Trump in a letter Thursday that such “behavior was unconscionable for our country.” Earlier, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced she was departing over the “entirely avoidable” violence. A string of lower level officials have also left.According to reports, the only reason the trickle hasn’t turned into a flood is the decision by senior figures to try and maintain stability during the transition to Biden.Trump, however, appears to have lost the grip he once exercised on both the Republican party and his own staff as he rampaged through four years of one of the most turbulent presidencies in US history.Speaking to CNN, retired Marine Corps general John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff for 18 months, said the cabinet should consider the 25th Amendment but believed the president had already been put into a box.“He can give all the orders he wants but no one is going to break the law,” Kelly said.Biden, who won seven million votes more than Trump, as well as a decisive majority in the vital state-by-state Electoral College, will be sworn in on the Capitol Steps under huge security.And Biden will immediately face extraordinary challenges, starting with his core campaign promise that he can “heal” the nation.The Democrat has been wary of endorsing impeachment.“If we were six months out, we should be doing everything to get him out of office. Impeaching him again, trying to evoke the 25th Amendment, whatever it took,” Biden said Friday. “But I am focused now on us taking control as president and vice president on the 20th and to get our agenda moving as quickly as we can.”Impeachment of the president could present the incoming Democrat with an even more polarized landscape, further complicating the task of reuniting the country.At the same time, the crisis has sparked such revulsion in Congress on both sides of the aisle that Biden may come into office with an unexpectedly bipartisan tailwind.On Thursday, he accused Trump of mounting an “all-out assault on the institutions of our democracy” and called the assault on Congress “one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.”

Analysis-Legal bar may be too high to charge Trump for inciting Washington riot-While president used incendiary rhetoric addressing supporters before storming of US Capitol, prosecutors would have difficult job proving he intended for violence to ensue-By Mark Sherman and Zeke Miller-JAN 9,21-Today, 11:42 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump’s top White House lawyer has repeatedly warned the president that he could be held responsible for inciting Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol, but the standard for legal liability is high under court decisions reaching back 50 years.The admonitions from presidential counsel Pat Cipollone were delivered in part to prompt Trump to condemn the violence that was carried out in his name and acknowledge that he will leave office in less than two weeks, according to White House aides. They were not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations and spoke on condition of anonymity.Trump did just that in a video from White House on Thursday. President-elect Joe Biden is to be inaugurated on Jan. 20.But the promise of a wide-ranging, aggressive investigation by federal prosecutors into Wednesday’s events has raised the question of Trump’s role in the mayhem just as he faces the imminent loss of the protection from legal liability that the Oval Office has given him for the past four years.The legal issue is whether Trump or any of the speakers at Wednesday’s rally near the White House that preceded the assault on the Capitol incited violence and whether they knew their words would have that effect.That’s the standard the Supreme Court laid out in its 1969 decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which overturned the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader."You'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength," says Trump, before demanding that Congress try to overthrow the election results pic.twitter.com/EXvUDv0U3e — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 6, 2021-Trump urged the crowd to march on the Capitol, even promising to go with them, though he didn’t in the end. He said “you’ll never take our country back with weakness.” Trump’s words followed a speech by his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in which the former New York City mayor said, “Let’s have trial by combat.”Many in the crowd then set out for the Capitol, where a mob broke through police barriers, smashed windows and paraded through the halls, sending lawmakers into hiding-A police officer died from injuries suffered during the siege, and a rioter was shot to death by Capitol Police. Three other people died after “medical emergencies” related to the breach.Former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason wrote in The Washington Post on Friday that Trump’s actions should be investigated.“We want to avoid the risk of criminalizing political differences. But that understanding has nothing to do with what happened at the Capitol. It’s impossible to characterize Trump’s incitement of the riot as having anything to do with the legitimate exercise of his executive power — just the opposite,” Eliason wrote.Trump could be in violation of several federal laws, Eliason wrote, including prohibitions on aiding a rebellion, which has a maximum prison term of 10 years, and conspiring with others to prevent laws from being enforced, which calls for 20 years in prison. The mob that invaded the Capitol interfered with Congress’ counting of the electoral votes and certification of Biden’s victory.Andrew Koppelman, a constitutional law professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, said it would be difficult to prove Trump intended for violence to ensue at the Capitol.“It looks to me like Trump was culpably reckless. But it seems to me the Brandenburg standard requires intention,” Koppleman said.He said Giuliani’s exhortation sounded more like a metaphor than an incitement to violence. “It’s like the word fight. It’s often used as a metaphor. ‘Senator X is a fighter. He will fight for you,’” Koppelman said.That’s where context comes in, said Stanford University law professor Sirin Sinnar.“Officials can always say that they intended peaceful protests, not violence. But the context here is significant, including the fact that the crowd was shouting ‘fight for Trump!’ during his speech and that right-wing militant groups like the Proud Boys in town for the protests were already fighting with police,” Sinnar wrote in an email.In the atmosphere in which Trump was speaking Wednesday, Sinnar said, “The violence was entirely foreseeable.”Federal judges have taken a hard line against the federal anti-riot law and its speech restrictions that prosecutors have tried to use in recent years. The federal appeals court in Virginia last year narrowed the Anti-Riot Act, with a maximum prison term of five years, because it swept up constitutionally protected speech. The court found that invalid parts of the law that encompassed speech tending to “encourage” or “promote” a riot, as well as speech “urging” others to riot or involving mere advocacy of violence.The same court upheld the convictions of two members of a white supremacist group who admitted they punched and kicked counter-demonstrators during the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.In 2019, a federal trial judge in California struck down the entire anti-riot law, enacted in 1968, dismissing charges against members of the white supremacist Rise Above Movement. The Justice Department has appealed that ruling.

FBI not investigating anyone for incitement or insurrection-Police, FBI carry out widespread arrests after storming of US Capitol-Those facing federal charges include West Virginia lawmaker, suspect who constructed bombs made to act like ‘homemade napalm’ and man who broke into Pelosi’s office-By TOI staff and Agencies-JAN 9,21-Today, 11:30 pm

The US Justice Department announced Friday that it has indicted 15 people involved in the assault on Congress, including one man accused of possessing bombs made to act like “homemade napalm.”The department said it had arrested several suspects, including Richard Barnett, a supporter of US President Donald Trump who invaded the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and another man found with 11 styrofoam-enhanced Molotov cocktails in his truck.Others whose charges were unsealed include a man alleged to have entered the US Capitol with a loaded handgun, another who is accused of punching an officer, and a West Virginia state legislator who took part in storming the Congress, said Ken Cole, a federal prosecutor with the Washington US attorney’s office.Cole said that not all the charges over Wednesday’s violence had been unsealed and that more were in the pipeline as the FBI investigates.“This investigation has the highest priority,” he said, with “hundreds” of Justice Department investigators working the case.More charges and arrests were expected.Dozens of people have already been arrested and charged by local Washington police, but the charges announced by Cole Friday were on the federal level, and potentially carry heftier punishment.But he said the FBI was not investigating anyone on possible “incitement” or “insurrection” charges.Some people have called for Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and others to be charged with incitement for openly encouraging the president’s supporters to take action just hours before the mob stormed the Capitol.-Investigating Trump-However, on Thursday, the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin indicated that Trump could face charges of inciting the riot.“We are looking at all actors here, not only the people that went into the building, but . . . were there others that maybe assisted or facilitated or played some ancillary role in this. We will look at every actor and all criminal charges,” he said, according to the Washington Post.Asked if that included Trump, he replied: “We are looking at all actors here, and anyone that had a role, if the evidence fits the element of a crime, they’re going to be charged.”Sherwin also said investigators were trying to determine if national security had been compromised with the theft of documents and computers from the ransacked lawmakers’ offices.He said an investigation could take “several days to flesh out exactly what happened, what was stolen, what wasn’t.”Trump’s top White House lawyer has repeatedly warned the president that he could be held responsible for inciting Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol, officials said.The admonitions from presidential counsel Pat Cipollone were delivered in part to prompt Trump to condemn the violence that was carried out in his name and acknowledge that he will leave office in less than two weeks, according to White House aides. They were not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations and spoke on condition of anonymity.Trump urged the crowd to march on the Capitol, even promising to go with them, though he didn’t in the end. He said “you’ll never take our country back with weakness.” Trump’s words followed a speech by his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in which the former New York City mayor said, “Let’s have trial by combat.”Many in the crowd then set out for the Capitol, where a mob broke through police barriers, smashed windows and paraded through the halls, sending lawmakers into hiding.-Homicide charges for killing officer-A police officer died from injuries suffered during the siege, and a rioter was shot to death by Capitol Police. Three other people died after “medical emergencies” related to the breach.The US Capitol Police said in a statement that Officer Brian D. Sicknick was injured “while physically engaging with protesters” during the Wednesday riot. He is the fifth person to die because of the Capitol protest and violence.During the struggle at the Capitol, Sicknick, 42, was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, two law enforcement officials said. The officials could not discuss the ongoing investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.Reports said Federal prosecutors had opened a homicide investigation into his death.Lawmaker charged-Among those facing charges is West Virginia state lawmaker Derrick Evans accused of entering a restricted area of the US Capitol after he livestreamed himself rushing into the building with a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters.His lawyer, John Bryan, said he hadn’t seen the complaint against Evans and couldn’t comment. He did not say if Evans had been taken into custody, but television station WSAZ posted a video on Twitter showing FBI agents escorting the handcuffed lawmaker from a home. #BREAKING WV Delegate Derrick Evans has been taken into federal custody.He’s charged after allegedly entering a restricted area of the US Capitol with rioters Wednesday.A woman saying he was his grandmother came out telling us to leave as he was put in a car. #WSAZ pic.twitter.com/wK2RqFcaF7— Chad Hedrick (@WSAZChadHedrick) January 8, 2021-“He’s a fine man. And thank you, Mr. Trump, for inviting a riot at the White House,” a woman identifying herself as Evans’ grandmother told station reporters as her grandson was being taken into custody.Legislators from at least seven other states traveled to Washington, D.C., to back Trump and demonstrate against the counting of electoral votes confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. It’s unknown if any other elected official joined the attack on the Capitol.A growing number of Republicans and Democrats said they want to expel Evans from the legislature if he does not resign. Bryan said late Thursday that the delegate did not commit a crime and doesn’t plan to resign.No one in the office of West Virginia Republican House leader Roger Hanshaw responded to an email requesting comment.In his now-deleted video, widely shared online, Evans is clamoring inside a jampacked Capitol building doorway, trying with others to push his way inside. He hollers along with other Trump loyalists and fist-bumps a law enforcement officer who let them in.Evans’ lawyer has said he was acting as an amateur journalist recording the day’s events and that he was not involved in violence.After pushing into the building, video shows Evans milling around the Capitol Rotunda, where historic paintings depict the republic’s founding, and imploring others to not vandalize artwork and busts. Some of the pieces were later vandalized.“Our house!” Evans yells inside Capitol halls. “I don’t know where we’re going. I’m following the crowd.”

ANTIFA AND A ROGUE EX WOMAN OFFICER STARTED THE WASHINGTON RIOTS-NOT TRUMP SUPPORTING PROTESTERS

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

 2020 AMERICAN ELECTION RESULTS BY STATE TRUMP VS LOSER LIBERAL SLEEPY (SLOPPY JOE) BIDEN.

ON D-68 OF THE TRUMP WIN OF THE PRESIDENCY. FRI JAN 08, 21.

Key dates for the Electoral College and what they mean-AEIdeas-DECEMBER 14,20

What are the key dates for the workings of the Electoral College?

November 3 — Election Day

Election Day is November 3. We may or may not know the winner of the presidential contest on election night, but we certainly will not have a final tally and certified results until weeks later. States vary widely in the time they allot for certifying their election results. Some may give a final certification the week after Election Day. Others may take over 30 days. And there is the possibility of recounts and judicial contests of elections which could extend the time to determine an official winner of a state.
Ballots are passed out to 16 Electors on the Michigan Senate floor for them to cast their formal votes for the president and vice president of the United States in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

December 8 — Safe Harbor

December 14 — The meeting of the Electors

Two key dates loom in December. On December 14, presidential electors must have been selected by the states and will meet as a group in their states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president. But December 8 is also a significant date, the so-called “safe harbor” date. The Electoral Count Act sets this date as an important date for states to make their official selection of electors, as those electoral votes will be given greater protection from challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January. The Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore assigned great significance to this date in Bush v. Gore.

January 3 — The convening of the new Congress

January 6 — Congress counts the votes

January 20 — Inauguration Day. The new presidential term begins at noon.

On January 3rd, the new Congress will take office, and on January 6th it will meet to count the electoral votes and declare a president- and vice president-elect. On January 20th at noon, the current presidential term will end and the next one will begin.This is excerpted from the new fourth edition of After the People Vote, edited by John Fortier, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of AEI’s Election Watch team.John C. Fortier-AEI Adjunct Scholar-SENOIRFELLOWKarlyn Bowman-Senior Fellow

ITS 1.31PM-JAN 8,21-AND TRUMP WILL NOT BE ATTENDING BIDENS INAUGURATION ON JAN 20,21. MELANIA AND DONALD JOHN TRUMPY AND BARON WILL BE LEAVING FOR THEIR NEW HOME IN FLORIDA ON JAN 19,21. WAY TO GO TRUMP FAMILY. BUT I'M STILL NOT GIVING UP THAT TRUMP WILL STILL BECOME THE PRESIDENT FOR A SECOND 4 YEARS. UNTIL BIDEN IS SIGNED IN ON JAN 20,21. I'M NOT JUMPING SHIP. I AM A LOYAL TRUMP FOLLOWER.NO MATTER HOW MANY JUMP SHIP. MY TRUMPY IS A SOLID ISRAEL SUPPORTER. AND I SUPPORT TRUMP FOR MAKING JERUSALEM ISRAELS ETERNAL-FOREVER CAPITAL.NO MATTER HOW THE REPUBLICANS AND EVERY DEMOLIBNUTCASE MEDIA WANTS HIM IMPEACHED OR 25TH AMENDMENTED. TO FORCE HIM OUT OF OFFICE FOR THE LAST 12 DAYS YET. THEIR WORRIED HE WILL GIVE ISRAEL A BREAK AND BOMB-BOMB-BOMB-IRAN. OR MAYBE NUJKE RUSSIA OR CHINA. THE MEDIA CLAIM TRUMPS TO BLAME AND MUST BE ARRESTED. I SAY ALL THE HITLER DEMOLIBNUTCASE MEDIA MEMBERS SHOULD ALL BE ARRESTED FOR COMING AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OF THEIR COUNTRY.TRUMP SHOULD ROUND UP ALL THE DEMOLIBNUT CASE MEDIA AND ARREST ALL HIS HATERS. THEN SHUT DOWN ALL THESE HITLER LEFT-LIBERAL MEDIA NUTJOBS INCLUDING TWITTER AND FACEBOOK FOR SENSORING THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. THESE SOCIAL MEDIA POWER HUNGRY SENSOR HITLERS. MUST BE CONTROLLED BY DONALD JOHN TRUMP. SO IT COULD BE SENSOR FREE. FOR CHRISTANS AND CONSERVATIVES. AND TRUMPY COULD SAY ANYTHING HE WANTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA IF HE OWNED FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. OR IF GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF THESE HITLERS.TRUMP COULD BAN ALL DEMOLIBNUTS. THEN THEY COULD KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE SENSORED TO SHUT UP YOUR FREE SPEACH. I HOPE DONALD J BECOMES PRESIDENT YET IN THE NEXT 12 DAYS YET. THERE ARRESTING WHO ENTERED THE WHITEHOUSE DURING THE PROTESTS. THE HITLER MEDIA INSIST TRUMP IS TO BLAME FOR THE 3 HEART ATTACK DEATHS AND THE LADY WHO GOT SHOT ENTERING THE WHITEHOUSE WINDOW. AND THE HITLER MEDIA LEFTARDS ARE SAYING THE SECURITY WAS UNFIT. IF THATS THE CASE. WHY DID THEY SHOOT THE WOMAN AND KILL HER. FOR ENTERING THE WHITEHOUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION. OH HITLER MEDIA LETS ANSWER THAT QUESTION ON AIR-THAT THE WHITEHOUSE SECURITY WAS DOING THEIR JOB AND WELL. INSTEAD THE WHITEHOUSE SECURITY SHOULD LOCK UP ALL THE WHITEHOUSE MEDIA FOR COMING AGAINST A PRESIDENT OF THEIR OWN COUNTRY. THEN THE WHITEHOUSE SECURITY COULD SHUT THE HITLER MEDIA UP FOR CALLING ON TRUMP TO RESIGN OR BE IMPEACHED. JUST ANOTHER FRAUD MEDIA HITLER PROPAGANDA STUNT. TO GET RID OF THE CURRENT LEGAL PRESIDENT OF AMERICA DONALD JOHN TRUMPY. ITS 2.04PM .I JUST FOUND OUT THERE WERE OVER A MILLION PEOPLE AT THAT PROTEST EVENT IN WASHINGTON. THE MAIN CHARACTERS THAT ENTERED THE WHITEHOUSE HAD A FUR HAT WITH HORNS STICKING UP WITH TATTOOS. FOR A FACT IT WAS AN ANTIFA MEMBER. A LOT OF THEM WERE WEARING RIFFLES. THEY WERE ALSO LET UP TO THE WHITEHOUSE. SO THIS WAS A SETUP TO DISCREDIT TRUMP SUPPORTERS. BY THE DEMOLIBNUTCASES. AND PROBABLY THE DEMOCRATS IN GOVERNMENT. PILOUSY-SCHUMER-SHIFTY SCHIFF AND ALL THE REST. INCLUDING MUSLIM BARACK OBAMA AND HILLARY CLINTON. AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER-ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT CROWD. SO IT WAS ANTIFA AND A ROGUE WOMAN EX OFFICER SUPPORTER THAT WAS KILLED ENTERING THE WHITEHOUSE.IT SURE WASN'T THE MILLION PEACE PROTESTERS WITH TRUMP SUPPORTERS. THE PROTESTERS WERE PROTESTING THE HITLER CHEATING DEMOLIBNUTS STEALING THE PRESIDENCY FROM TRUMP.ITS 2.31PM.   

REBUILDING THE THIRD TEMPLE

DC RIOTS AND THE 3RD TEMPLE 

 CHaos in Capitol Hill is Trump’s ‘King Saul Moment’ explains Rabbi-by David Sidman | Jan 7, 2021 | Biblical News

CHAOS IS TRUMPS SAUL

Now go, attack Amalek, and proscribe all that belongs to him.( Samuel 15:3 (The Israel BibleTM)-A peaceful Trump rally in Washington DC seemed to have spiraled  out of control as several alleged ‘Trump supporters’ stormed barricades outside Congress, where lawmakers were convening to vote to certify the Electoral College of the 2020 US election. The Library of Congress was evacuated due to violent clashes.The melee left resulted in four dead and 52 arrests.#BREAKING: Four dead, 52 arrested after chaos on Capitol Hill https://t.co/kIhgiH0Dpg pic.twitter.com/d4nFhtVBpi — The Hill (@thehill) January 7, 2021-The aftermath of Wednesday night’s events shocked the entire political apparatus.I’m inside the Capitol for @USATODAY. The aftermath of Trump rioters storming the building is jarring Glass everywhere, dust blankets the ground, broken benches turned on their side, used medical kit with an IV & AED machine that was used on a woman who was squeezed in the chaos pic.twitter.com/aafYiH6GpD-— Christal Hayes (@Journo_Christal) January 7, 2021-Author, lecturer, and columnist Rabbi Isser Zalman Weisberg offers a Biblical perspective on the rally and the election certification process in America as a whole. He calls the fight for transparent elections a “battle between the forces of clarity and the forces of darkness and confusion.”The rabbi explains that the “inspiration for our side is the Torah – which righteous Jews, Christians and Muslims turn to for guidance. The other side’s inspiration comes from the primordial serpent – whose greatest weapon is falsehood and the manipulation of the minds.” The serpent he is referring to is the character in Genesis who convinced Eve to eat from the Tree of Life.And the serpent said to the woman, “You are not going to die, (Genesis 3:4)-He referred to the events on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as “another example of how the party of darkness of confusion under the leadership of the serpent.”

USA TODAY-Why the 25th Amendment continues to be raised to remove Trump from power-Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY-Fri, January 8, 2021, 9:51 AM EST

WASHINGTON – In the more than 50 years since the Constitution was amended to create a way to remove a president unable to do his job, the process has never been triggered.But throughout Donald Trump's presidency, the 25th Amendment has come up again and again as a possible means of removing Trump to put Vice President Mike Pence in charge.With days left in his tenure, the amendment was mentioned again after Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol on Wednesday to protest the results of the presidential election that Joe Biden won.The head of the National Association of Manufactures said Trump incited the violence in an attempt to retain power and Pence should consider triggering the amendment to preserve democracy."This is sedition and should be treated as such," said Jay Timmons, the group's president and CEO.He was joined by a growing chorus of calls that included the head of the left-leaning advocacy group Public Citizen, the head of the NAACP and Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican."President Trump should resign or be removed from office by his Cabinet, or by the Congress," Scott said in a series of tweets.Hundreds of political scientists have signed a letter saying Trump should be immediately removed either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.Here's what you need to know:What is the 25th Amendment? The amendment, ratified in 1967, created a legal mechanism for designating a head of state when the president is disabled or dead. It also formalized the historical practice for the vice president to permanently take over if the president dies or resigns, and gives the president and Congress shared power to replace a vice president.Why was it written? John F. Kennedy’s assassination brought renewed interest to presidential succession questions. Lyndon B. Johnson’s ascension to the presidency meant that – for the 16th time – the country had no vice president. And there was no tested way of dealing with a severe presidential illness. Johnson previously had suffered a heart attack and the next two people in line to be president were the 71-year-old speaker of the House and the 86-year-old president pro tempore of the Senate.Has it been used before? Gerald Ford followed the first two sections of the amendment when becoming Richard Nixon’s vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned and when he become president after Nixon’s resignation. The amendment’s third section, which allows for a president to temporarily cede power and duties to a vice president, was used once after Ronald Reagan underwent surgery in 1985 and similarly when George W. Bush was under anesthesia in 2002 and 2007. The fourth section, a process for removing a president when others believe he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” has never been used.When did the author intend the 4th section to be invoked? Late former Sen. Birch Bayh wrote in his book “One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Disability and Succession” that he knew the most controversial aspect of the amendment he authored would be how to handle the rare instances when a president’s team disputed his ability to serve.“You know, fellows, we've talked about this problem a hundred times,” Bayh recounted, telling his aides when they were in the final stages of negotiation. “The only time it would present itself – the only time the president would say 'I'm well and able' and the vice president and cabinet would disagree – would be if the president was as nutty as a fruit cake.”Why the renewed interest? The amendment got new attention after Trump's inauguration and re-emerged as a top talker after some of Trump's controversial comments and actions, or because of inside reports about the workings of the White House.In 2017, for example, Trump triggered questions about his stability when he tweeted he has a bigger "nuclear button" than Kim Jong Un of North Korea.Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” painted a picture of a president not up to the job.“It's not unreasonable to say this is 25th Amendment kind of stuff,” Wolff said in a 2018 appearance on NBC’s "Meet the Press."In an opinion piece published anonymously by the New York Times in 2018, a former top aide at the Department of Homeland Security wrote that Cabinet members had "whispered" about invoking the 25th Amendment because of Trump's increasing erratic behavior.Soon after, the New York Times reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed invoking the 25th Amendment when the White House had been plunged into chaos after the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Rosenstein called the story "inaccurate and factually incorrect."Andrew McCabe, former acting director of the FBI, said in 2019 that the suggestion came up more than once and was so serious it was discussed with FBI lawyers.The Justice Department disputed McCabe's characterization of discussions about the 25th Amendment but did not deny that they had taken place.When Trump contracted COVID-19 last year, the amendment was mentioned as a backup if his condition worsened and the disease affected his thinking.How could the 25th Amendment be triggered? The vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could declare the president unable to “discharge the powers and duties of his office.” If the president disputes that determination, two-thirds of both the House and the Senate must vote to put the vice president in charge.In addition, lawmakers can designate through legislation an alternative group – other than the Cabinet – that the vice president could work with to declare a president unable to serve.Is the amendment clear on what qualifies as an inability to serve? No. And Jay Berman, one of the Bayh aides who worked on the amendment, said that was intentional.“It didn’t settle the issue of what it is,” he said in an interview. “It provided a mechanism for addressing the issue.”Would a psychiatrist or other doctor need to weigh in? Bayh assumed the vice president would consult with medical experts, but the drafters never felt comfortable that the decision would be made solely by a group of doctors, according to Berman. Section 4 was not intended to overturn the verdict of the electoral system, or to be a substitute for impeachment, Berman said.“It was certainly on our mind that the impeachment proceeding was still something that was available in the case of a president that had violated his oath or hadn’t performed his duties,” he said. “That truly should be the first line of defense in any case where there’s an issue about removing the president.”Is it likely to be used? Pence has never indicated that he questioned Trump’s ability to be president.In 2019, Pence called "any suggestion" of triggering the amendment "absurd."Despite Pence’s unfailing loyalty to Trump, however, the president rebuked him Wednesday after Pence said he would not break the law and use his constitutional position as president of the Senate to try to stop Congress from counting the electoral votes.Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution,” Trump tweeted in a post that Twitter removed Wednesday evening.Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican, said Wednesday's violence "was the inevitable and ugly outcome of the President’s addiction to constantly stoking division.""Today, the United States Capitol — the world’s greatest symbol of self-government — was ransacked while the leader of the free world cowered behind his keyboard — tweeting against his Vice President for fulfilling the duties of his oath to the Constitution," Sasse tweeted.He didn't suggest Pence should replace Trump for the remainder of his term, but Florida Rep. Charlie Crist did.“The 25th Amendment allows for the removal of a President,” tweeted Crist, a former GOP governor who became a Democrat in 2012. “It's time to remove the President.”This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 25th Amendment simplified: What to know about removing a president.

USA TODAY-An 'angry' Pence navigates the fallout of his rupture with Trump over election, Capitol riots-Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY-Fri, January 8, 2021, 12:32 PM EST

WASHINGTON – Before leaving office, President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – to his vice president.In President Donald Trump’s final days, he has presented similar honors to California Rep. Devin Nunes, one of his most vocal supporters during impeachment, and to three professional golfers.To his vice president, Trump bestowed the label of coward.The staunchly loyal Mike Pence was excoriated by Trump on Wednesday for his refusal to illegally intervene to prevent Congress from certifying the results for the presidential election that Trump lost.“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution,” Trump tweeted in a post that Twitter removed Wednesday evening.Blocked: President Trump blocked from posting to Facebook, Instagram 'indefinitely' Trump has also barred Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, from the White House.“He’s blaming me for advice to VP,” Short told RealClearPolitics.'Never seen Pence as angry' Pence has not spoken publicly about the rift.But Sen. Jim Inhofe told the Tulsa World on Wednesday that he’s “never seen Pence as angry as he was today.”The Oklahoma Republican told USA TODAY he talked to Pence about Trump's rebuke. Pence, he said, was “very upset” with Trump.Trump’s public denunciation of his vice president is unprecedented in the history of the modern vice presidency, according to scholars. And it comes after more than four years of Pence showing extreme deference to Trump, leading critics to deride him as an obsequious enabler of a volatile president.“(Trump’s) turning on Pence is particularly striking given Vice President Pence's loyalty to the president which some, myself included, would regard as having been excessive in the history of the office,” said vice presidential scholar Joel Goldstein.The break adds to uncertainty about what’s in store for the remainder of Trump’s term, particularly in the aftermath of the violence that engulfed Washington on Wednesday when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.A person close to Pence who was not authorized to speak publicly said that while Pence’s team expected Trump to be upset, his behavior was “a shock to all of us.” The person said it’s “really unclear” how the dynamic between the president and vice president will work going forward.While some speculated Trump might step down at the last minute so Pence could issue a pardon to him, that's even less likely now, said Todd Belt, a presidential expert at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.'This is our house': Lawmakers prepared to fight or be killed as Trump mob attacked US CapitoL-The 25th Amendment-Calls have increased for Pence to replace Trump through the 25th Amendment, which includes a never-used mechanism for a vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to seize control from a president.25th Amendment: Why it continues to be raised to remove Trump from power-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday said Pence should immediately invoke the amendment.Schumer said he and Pelosi tried to call Pence Thursday morning. But after being kept on hold for 25 minutes, an aide told them Pence would not come to the phone, Schumer said."We have not yet heard back from the Vice President," they said in a joint statement Thursday night.Pence's office did not respond to a request for comment.U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (R) (D-CA) talks with Vice President Mike Pence during the joint session of Congress on January 07, 2021 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's win.U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (R) (D-CA) talks with Vice President Mike Pence during the joint session of Congress on January 07, 2021 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's win.Multiple media reports have said conversations about invoking the amendment have taken place among senior officials.An administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity Thursday morning said the prospect of invoking the 25th Amendment had not been brought to the vice president.Trump had spent much of Tuesday afternoon in the Oval Office with Pence, trying to persuade his No. 2 to bend to his will. Trump and his allies also leaned on those close to Pence.Pence had promised to thoroughly study the issue. Over the past two weeks, he put together a legal team, consulted with experts on congressional rules and thought about what the founding fathers intended.Besides being a lawyer by training, Pence is a self-proclaimed student of history who has said he gets "chills" when he visits Independence Hall.In the lengthy letter Pence released shortly before he began presiding over Congress’ counting of the electoral votes Wednesday, he referenced his reverence for the Constitution and said he was bound by his oath of office to uphold it.Trump tweeted his disdain for Pence’s position as the supporters he had addressed at an earlier rally responded to Trump’s call to march to the Capitol.“For Trump, Pence was there to be a loyal servant, as was everyone else,” Belt said.'Courage,' his daughter tweeted-When rioters broke through the perimeter and rampaged the building, Pence, his wife and older daughter were whisked away to a secure location by the Secret Service.Trump did not reach out to inquire about their safety, according to a person close to Pence. But he did hear from lawmakers asking him to call on the rioters to leave the Capitol – which he did in a tweet.Pence’s daughter later issued what could be read as a rebuke of Trump.“Courage,” Charlotte Pence Bond tweeted as she recirculated the end of her father’s letter of explanation, which concluded: “So Help Me God.”'Hard to believe': Capitol Police security breakdown prompts calls for chief's resignation-After the Capitol was secured and lawmakers finished counting the votes, a stoic Pence announced his and Trump’s election defeat at 3:41 a.m.Pence bowed his head and closed his eyes as the Senate chaplain, in a closing prayer, said the “quagmire of dysfunction that threatened our democracy” and led to a loss of lives and desecration of the Capitol has “reminded us that words matter.”The C-SPAN camera recording the moment for history turned toward Pence, capturing a slight nod of his head, when the chaplain said God has “strengthened our resolve to protect and defend the Constitution.”“Amen,” the devoutly Christian Pence softly said at the conclusion of the prayer.Doing 'his duty' Since signing on as Trump’s running mate in 2016, Pence has tried to strike a balance between remaining loyal to Trump while not parroting his most divisive rhetoric and unfounded claims.Pence did not support an unsuccessful lawsuit aimed at giving him the authority to decide which states’ Electoral College votes to count. But he “welcomed” the efforts of lawmakers to “use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence.”Pence described his actions as making sure all “legal votes” are counted without acknowledging that states and courts have found no widespread irregularities in the election-Pence deserves credit for standing firm this week, said public affairs professor William Inboden, who worked for President George W. Bush. But merely upholding his oath of office when he did not have the power to act otherwise “should not be mistaken as a profile in courage or principle,” he added.Pence must continue to do his duty, amid “Trump’s madness and demagoguery,” to try to hold the executive office of the president together for the next 13 days.“After January 20,” Inboden said, “Pence will have ample time to reflect on the loyalty he showed to Trump for four years – and what it cost.”Contributing: Ledyard King and Christal Hayes, USA TODAY-This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Pence's break with Trump comes amid 25th Amendment talk, Capitol riots.

Reuters-Canada PM Trudeau says there could well be an election soon, doesn't want one-JAN 8,21

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made clear for the first time on Friday there could well be an election this year, indicating his government is preparing for a vote he insists he does not want.Trudeau's Liberal Party only controls a minority of seats in the House of Commons, which means he needs the support of opposition parties to govern and can be brought down if they unite against him.Trudeau, who says his priority is tackling the coronavirus epidemic, has previously sidestepped questions about an election, saying merely that one was theoretically possible."Obviously, we are in a minority government, and that could well happen," he told Montreal's CHOU 1450 AM radio station when asked about the chances of a vote in the coming months."Our priority as a government is going to be helping people get through this pandemic ... it's not in our interests to have an election," he added. The last election was in October 2019.Asked about the prime minister's comments, a government official said Trudeau had made clear many times that he "doesn't necessarily get to chose when an election is going to come. Canadians want to see their government there for them and that's what we're focused on".The official requested anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the situation.A string of recent opinion polls suggests that the Liberals, while ahead of their Conservative rivals, would most likely fall short of winning a majority.Liberal insiders told Reuters last month that a snap election was likely at some point in 2021 rather than at the scheduled end of Trudeau's four-year term in 2023.(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and Nick Zieminski)

BLACK GAY BOY HITLERS CLINTON CNN DON LEMON THINKS HES SO COOL.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

 2020 AMERICAN ELECTION RESULTS BY STATE TRUMP VS LOSER LIBERAL SLEEPY (SLOPPY JOE) BIDEN.

ON D-68 OF THE TRUMP WIN OF THE PRESIDENCY. FRI JAN 08, 21.

Key dates for the Electoral College and what they mean-AEIdeas-DECEMBER 14,20

What are the key dates for the workings of the Electoral College?

November 3 — Election Day

Election Day is November 3. We may or may not know the winner of the presidential contest on election night, but we certainly will not have a final tally and certified results until weeks later. States vary widely in the time they allot for certifying their election results. Some may give a final certification the week after Election Day. Others may take over 30 days. And there is the possibility of recounts and judicial contests of elections which could extend the time to determine an official winner of a state.
Ballots are passed out to 16 Electors on the Michigan Senate floor for them to cast their formal votes for the president and vice president of the United States in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

December 8 — Safe Harbor

December 14 — The meeting of the Electors

Two key dates loom in December. On December 14, presidential electors must have been selected by the states and will meet as a group in their states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president. But December 8 is also a significant date, the so-called “safe harbor” date. The Electoral Count Act sets this date as an important date for states to make their official selection of electors, as those electoral votes will be given greater protection from challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January. The Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore assigned great significance to this date in Bush v. Gore.

January 3 — The convening of the new Congress

January 6 — Congress counts the votes

January 20 — Inauguration Day. The new presidential term begins at noon.

On January 3rd, the new Congress will take office, and on January 6th it will meet to count the electoral votes and declare a president- and vice president-elect. On January 20th at noon, the current presidential term will end and the next one will begin.This is excerpted from the new fourth edition of After the People Vote, edited by John Fortier, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of AEI’s Election Watch team.John C. Fortier-AEI Adjunct Scholar-SENOIRFELLOWKarlyn Bowman-Senior Fellow

THIS BLACK GAY HITLER DON LEMON AT THE CLINTON HITLER NEWS NETWORK-CNN. THINKS HES A BLACK COOL DUDE. PUTTIN DOWN THE TRUMP SUPPORTERS-TRUMP AND THE GOP. HITLERS CNN WAS COMPLAINING ALL DAY ABOUT THE BLACK RACIST-BIGOTS BLACK LIVES MATTER. NOT GETTING SPECIAL TREATMENT. LIKE THE TRUMP SUPPORTERS AT THE WHITEHOUSE PEACEFUL PROTEST LAST NIGHT. HITLERS CNN WERE ALL CRYING AND COMPLAINING. I SAY WHY ARE ALL THE JAILS MOSTLY FILLED WITH BLACK GANG BANGON DRUG DEALERS-LOOTIN-RIOTING-BURNING CRIMINALS. THATS WHY THE WHITEHOUSE WHO KNEW WHAT THESE BLACK RACIST BLACK LIVES MATTER AND ANTIFA RACIST SO CALLED PEACEFUL PROTESTING CRIMINALS ARE ALL ABOUT. THIS IS WHY THE NATIONAL GUARD WAS CALLED IN HITLERS NEWS NETWORK CNN. TO KEEP A BUNCH OF BLACK RACIST CRIMINALS IN CONTROL. OR THE JAILS WOULD BE EVENN FULLER OF BLACKS. THEN THE BLACK CRIMINALS AND HITLERS CNN COULD CLAIM RACISM AGAINST BLACKS. IF THEY WEREN'T A BUNCH OF GANG BANGON-DRUG DEALIN PIMPS. THE JAILS WOULD NOT BE FILLED WITH BLACKLIVESMATTER AND ANTIFA CRIMINALS. PUT THAT IN YOUR GAY BLACK PIPE AND SMOKE IT CLINTON HITLERS CNN DON LEMON.   

 

Criminal Justice System: Corrections


The correctional branch of the criminal justice system involves a network of agencies that administer prisons and programs like parole and probation boards in a given jurisdiction.

  • There are 3 million people in jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth and crime. Between 1980 and 2015, the number of people incarcerated increased from roughly 500,000 to 2.2. million.
  • Despite making up close to 5% of the global population, the U.S. has nearly 25% of the world’s prison population.
  • 32% of the US population is represented by African Americans and Hispanics, compared to 56% of the US incarcerated population being represented by African Americans and Hispanics.
    • In 2014, African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population.
    • African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites.
    • The imprisonment rate for African American women is 2x that of white women.
    • Nationwide, African American children represent 32% of children who are arrested, 42% of children who are detained, and 52% of children whose cases are judicially waived to criminal court. African American children represent 14% of the population.
  • 7% of adults in the US are under correctional supervision. That equates to one out of every 37 adults in the United States.
  • In 2012 alone, the United States spent nearly $81 billion on corrections.
    • Spending on prisons and jails has increased at triple the rate of spending on Pre‐K‐12 public education in the last thirty years.
  • Prisons are overpopulated. Since 1970, our incarcerated population has increased by 700%.
  • Since 1991 the rate of violent crime in the United States has fallen by about 20%, while the number of people in prison or jail has risen by 50%.
  • If African Americans and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates as whites, prison and jail populations would decline by almost 40%.
  • $80 billion taxpayer dollars are spent on our current prison system, accounting for one out of every 15-state general fund discretionary dollars (2nd fastest-growing category for state budgets).

Thursday, January 07, 2021

BOTH NUTJOB GEORGIA LIBS WIN. AND ELECTORAL VOTES CONTINUED

2020 AMERICAN ELECTION RESULTS BY STATE TRUMP VS LOSER LIBERAL SLEEPY (SLOPPY JOE) BIDEN.

ON D-67 OF THE TRUMP WIN OF THE PRESIDENCY. THU JAN 07,21.

Key dates for the Electoral College and what they mean-AEIdeas-DECEMBER 14,20

What are the key dates for the workings of the Electoral College?

November 3 — Election Day

Election Day is November 3. We may or may not know the winner of the presidential contest on election night, but we certainly will not have a final tally and certified results until weeks later. States vary widely in the time they allot for certifying their election results. Some may give a final certification the week after Election Day. Others may take over 30 days. And there is the possibility of recounts and judicial contests of elections which could extend the time to determine an official winner of a state.
Ballots are passed out to 16 Electors on the Michigan Senate floor for them to cast their formal votes for the president and vice president of the United States in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

December 8 — Safe Harbor

December 14 — The meeting of the Electors

Two key dates loom in December. On December 14, presidential electors must have been selected by the states and will meet as a group in their states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president. But December 8 is also a significant date, the so-called “safe harbor” date. The Electoral Count Act sets this date as an important date for states to make their official selection of electors, as those electoral votes will be given greater protection from challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January. The Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore assigned great significance to this date in Bush v. Gore.

January 3 — The convening of the new Congress

January 6 — Congress counts the votes

January 20 — Inauguration Day. The new presidential term begins at noon.

On January 3rd, the new Congress will take office, and on January 6th it will meet to count the electoral votes and declare a president- and vice president-elect. On January 20th at noon, the current presidential term will end and the next one will begin.This is excerpted from the new fourth edition of After the People Vote, edited by John Fortier, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of AEI’s Election Watch team.John C. Fortier-AEI Adjunct Scholar-SENOIRFELLOWKarlyn Bowman-Senior Fellow

ITS 11.40PM-AND SINCE 8PM THE HOUSE AND SENATE HAVE BEEN DEBATING (THE FINISH FROM THIS AFTERNOON)-AND NOW THE ELECTORAL VOTE CONTINUES-AND NOW ARKANSAS-6, CALIFORNIA-55, COLORADO-9, CONNECTICUT-7, DELAWARE-3, DIS OF COLUM-3, FLORIDA-29, GEORGIA-16, (76 GOP VOTE AGAINST) (OBJECTION NO GOOD), HAWAII-4, IDAHO-4, ILLINOIS-20, INDIANA-11, IOWA-6, KANSAS-6, KENTUCKY-8, SO FAR BIDEN 128, TRUMP 82, LOUISIANA-8, MAINE-B-3-T-1-4, MARYLAND-10, MASSACHUSETTS-11, MICHIGAN-16, (71 GOP VOTE AGAINST) (OBJECTION DENIED), MINNESOTA-10, MISSISSIPPI-6 SO FAR BIDEN 178 TRUMP 97, MISSOURI-10, MONTANA-3, NEBRASKA-T-4-B-1-5, NEVADA-6, (56 GOP VOTE AGAINST) (OBJECTION DENIED), NEW HAMPSHIRE-4, NEW JERSEY-14, NEW MEXICO-5, NEW YORK-29, NORTH CAROLINA-15, NORTH DAKOTA-3, OHIO-18, OKLAHOMA-7, SO FAR BIDEN 237 TRUMP 157, OREGON-7, PENNSYLVANIA-20, (81 GOP VOTE AGAINST) (OBJECTION UPHELD)-2 HOUR DEBATE, ITS 12.16AM JAN 7,2021. THE SENATE IS WRAPPING IT UP FOR THE NIGHT. THEY WILL CONTINUE TOMORROW OR TODAY JAN 7,21. ITS 7.11AM AND DURING THE NIGHT THEY FINISHED OFF THE OTHER ELECTORAL VOTE COUNTS-RHODE ISLAND-4, SOUTH CAROLINA-9, SOUTH DAKOTA-3, TENNESSEE-11, TEXAS-38, UTAH-6, VERMONT-3, VIRGINIA-13, WASHINGTON-12, WEST VIRGINIA-5, WISCONSIN-10, WYOMING-3, FINAL TOTALS BIDEN 306-DONALD J TRUMP 232. CLINTON HITLER COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK CNN IS LEADING THE WAY TO CALL FOR IMPEACHING OR DECLARING THE 25TH AMENDMENT AGAINST TRUMP - EVEN THOUGH THERES ONLY 13 DAYS LEFT TILL BIDEN TAKES OVER.ITS 7.23AM-JAN 7,2021.

ITS 9AM-AND THE MEDIA IS HAVING A HAY DAY BLAMING TRUMP FOR THE 3 HEART ATTACKS I BELIEVE AND ONE LADY SHOT AND KILLED ENTERING THE WHITEHOUSE WINDOW. AND THE DEMOLIBNUTCASE MEDIA IS ALL OVER THE MOB MENTALITY AND INSURRECTION BY TRUMP. THEIR ALL PLAYING THIS TO THE HILT. 5 WHITEHOUSE MEMBERS RESIGNED OVER YESTERDAYS PROTESTS. AND THE MEDIA IS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WHITEHOUSE SECURITY. THE MEDIA ALSO STILL CALL YESTERDAY A COUP BY TRUMP AGAINST SLEEPY SLOPPY JOE BIDEN.  

Explained: What is the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution that could be used to remove Trump? 25th Amendment US Constitution: In the aftermath of Donald Trump supporters storming the US Capitol, many have urged Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.Written by Udit Misra , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: January 7, 2021 11:23:02 am

In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump supporters storming the US Capitol building, which houses both the US Senate as well as the House of Representatives, there are calls by many to either impeach President Trump or invoke the 25th Amendment.What is the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution? This amendment lays out how a US president and vice president may be succeeded or replaced.According to Cornell Law School, “The Twenty-fifth Amendment was an effort to resolve some of the continuing issues revolving about the office of the President; that is, what happens upon the death, removal, or resignation of the President and what is the course to follow if for some reason the President becomes disabled to such a degree that he cannot fulfill his responsibilities.”The amendment has four sections.According to Encyclopedia Britannica, while the first section codified the traditionally observed process of succession in the event of the death of the president—that the vice president would succeed to the office—it also introduced a change regarding the ascent of the vice president to president should the latter resign from office.“In the event of resignation, the vice president would assume the title and position of president—not acting president—effectively prohibiting the departing president from returning to office,” states Britannica.The second section of the amendment addresses vacancies in the office of the vice president.The third section of the amendment set forth the formal process for determining the capacity of the president to discharge the powers and duties of office.If the president is able to declare his/her inability, then the vice president takes over as the acting president.In case the president is unable to declare his/her incompetence, the fourth section of the amendment requires the vice president and the cabinet to jointly ascertain this and if they do so, then the vice president immediately assumes the position of acting president.It is this fourth section of the 25th Amendment that many are asking Vice President Pence to invoke against President Trump.When was it introduced and has it been used in the past? In the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 25th Amendment was proposed by Congress on July 6, 1965, and ratified by the states on February 10, 1967.According to Cornell Law School, “The Watergate scandal of the 1970s saw the application of these procedures, first when Gerald Ford replaced Spiro Agnew as Vice President, then when he replaced Richard Nixon as President, and then when Nelson Rockefeller filled the resulting vacancy to become the Vice President.”However, the fourth section of the 25th Amendment has never been invoked.Trump has repeatedly asserted, although without any valid evidence, that the presidential election in November, in which he lost to Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden, was rigged.

The Hill-Democratic lawmakers call for Pence to invoke 25th Amendment, remove Trump from office-Joseph Choi 16 hrs ago

Democratic lawmakers called on Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment on Wednesday and remove President Trump from office, blaming the president for inciting the rioters that violently breached the Capitol building.Mike Pence wearing a suit and tie: Democratic lawmakers call for Pence to invoke 25th Amendment, remove Trump from office © Getty Images Democratic lawmakers call for Pence to invoke 25th Amendment, remove Trump from office"Dear @VP @Mike_Pence: You need to start the 25th Amendment. @realDonaldTrump is detached from reality," wrote Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)Dear @VP @Mike_Pence: You need to start the 25th Amendment. @realDonaldTrump is detached from reality. https://t.co/FkGBte8ZxB- Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 6, 2021-Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) tweeted, "Donald J. Trump should immediately be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate as soon as Congress reconvenes. This is dangerous & unacceptable."Donald J. Trump should immediately be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate as soon as Congress reconvenes.This is dangerous & unacceptable.- Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) January 6, 2021-Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) wrote: "This is outrageous, and the president caused it. We should impeach and convict him tomorrow."This is outrageous, and the president caused it. We should impeach and convict him tomorrow. - David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) January 6, 2021-Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) appeared to agree, sharing on Twitter that she was drawing up articles on impeachment."Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate," wrote Omar. "We can't allow him to remain in office, it's a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath."I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment.Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.We can't allow him to remain in office, it's a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath.- Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 6, 2021-Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) simply tweeted out, "Impeach," after the Capitol was secured by authorities.Impeach.- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2021-In a statement, Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) similarly called for Trump's removal from office, calling the rioters "domestic terrorists.""The President has been encouraging these domestic terrorists since before the election," said Wexton. "He could have stopped them at any moment, but instead he whipped them into a frenzy and sicced them on the Capitol.""The Cabinet must remove him today or the House must impeach."The 25th Amendment states:"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power at the beginning of last year, though he was acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate.In an unprecedented move, the National Association of Manufacturers released a statement on Wednesday supporting the proposed move."Vice President Pence, who was evacuated from the Capitol, should seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy," the organization said in its statement."This is not the vision of America that manufacturers believe in and work so hard to defend. Across America today, millions of manufacturing workers are helping our nation fight the deadly pandemic that has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives," it added.

Shocked by US Capitol attack, Rivlin urges Israelis to protect their democracy-President calls on population to abide by new lockdown due to begin Friday 12:01 a.m., says it’s needed so we don’t ‘kill each other’-By Judah Ari Gross-jan 7,21-Today, 5:35 pm

President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday called on Israelis to not fall victim to the types of internal divisions that led to the attack on the US Capitol building the day before.“Over recent years, with all of the election campaigns that we have had, and the painful questions that have been on the Israeli public agenda, the distance between us has grown perhaps greater than ever. But we must ensure that even if the gaps are deep, our democracy will protect us as a people, as a society and as a state,” he said.“The pictures of the disturbances from Capitol Hill are shocking. They remind us all that democracy, even when it is strong and deeply rooted, is not to be taken for granted,” Rivlin said.On Wednesday, a mob of loyalists to US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC, interrupting the effort by Congress to certify the President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory in November. Such a process has generally been a perfunctory matter, but due to Trump’s repeated, unsupported claims of voter fraud, the certification became a heated issue, drawing thousands of protesters.Over the course of Wednesday afternoon and evening, some supporters of the president occupied both chambers of Congress, vandalizing the building, looting property from the Capitol and congresspeople’s offices and clashing with police officers.Washington police chief Robert Contee said 52 people were arrested Wednesday, 26 of them on the grounds of the Capitol, for curfew violations, unlawful entry and weapons charges. He also said two pipe bombs had been discovered near the Capitol, one at Democratic Party offices and the other at Republican Party offices. One woman died.After several hours, Capitol Police officers cleared the building, allowing Congress to certify the results of the election.In his statement, Rivlin congratulated Biden on the certification of his victory.“I am sure that President-elect Biden will continue to strengthen the relations between us and the United States of America, our closest friend and the greatest democracy in the world,” Rivlin said.The president’s comments came hours before Israel was due to enter a national lockdown in light of a growing coronavirus outbreak.“I call on all public leaders — in all towns, from all segments of society, political leaders and spiritual leaders, mayors, heads of civil society organizations — please do your duty and stop the threat of anarchy. The lockdown, with all its restrictions as decided by the government, applies to us all,” he said.“We are going into lockdown so as not to kill each other!” Rivlin warned.The lockdown is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. Friday, at which time existing restrictions will be tightened and enforced, with schools and nonessential businesses closed down for two weeks, in accordance with a vote by cabinet ministers on Tuesday night.Checkpoints will be set up on major highways and within towns and cities, with thousands of police officers operating them. Police will also work to ensure compliance with existing rules that limit Israelis from venturing beyond a kilometer from their homes, except for essential reasons, which have largely gone ignored and under-enforced.To encourage Israelis to embrace the lockdown, Rivlin released a Hebrew-language video, explaining the need for the new restrictions.“We are going into lockdown because the coronavirus wards and the hospital ICUs are close to overload. We are going into lockdown to protect our children. We, all of us and without exceptions, must follow its rules. All segments of society: Jews and Arabs, secular, religious and ultra-Orthodox,” he said.Rivlin warned that failing to do so amounted to “anarchy,” which the country had to avoid.“Disobeying the law, particularly the coronavirus regulations — and even more so, calling on others to disobey — is not only undermining our joint efforts to limit the spread of the disease, it is a tragedy that will remain with us, leading — heaven forbid — to deepening the schisms that have opened between the different groups in our society,” he said.Throughout the pandemic, segments of the country’s ultra-Orthodox and Arab populations have been found to flout the coronavirus restrictions, leading to harsh criticisms of those communities and their leaders.Rivlin hailed the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine — over 1.5 million Israelis have been inoculated as of Thursday — as a way for the country to return to normalcy.“There will be better days. We have gone through bad times in the past and overcome them. The effect of the vaccine is close at hand, and we will return to normality. Until then, we must be patient and disciplined, and do everything we can to minimize infection. God bless you all, my dear ones,” Rivlin said.

Yahoo News-Capitol riot was false-flag operation by leftists, Trump backers claim, with no basis-Caitlin Dickson·Reporter-Thu, January 7, 2021, 12:17 AM EST

As an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, vandalizing offices, occupying the House and Senate chambers and sending legislators and staffers running for cover, several of President Trump’s key allies knew just where to cast the blame: on the loose-knit movement of left-wing agitators known as “antifa,” a favorite bogeyman of Trump and the right wing for the last several years.They were undeterred by video showing rioters in MAGA hats, carrying Trump 2020 flags, descending on the Capitol from a rally near the White House where Trump himself had exhorted them to disrupt the counting of Electoral College votes submitted by the states, the final step in certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. To them, that just showed that the insurrection was actually a leftist false-flag operation meant to embarrass the president’s peaceful supporters.One of the first to push this narrative was Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican and part of a small group of Trump loyalists who’d pledged to challenge the Electoral College results from several states during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress in an ill-fated final attempt to undo Trump’s defeat. “Rumor: ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats,” Brooks tweeted from the locked-down Capitol where he was taking cover from the mob. “Time will tell what truth is.”Yet it was Brooks himself, addressing Trump supporters at the rally that morning, who had dramatically removed his camouflage cap and replaced it with a bright red one emblazoned with the words “Fire Pelosi” and urged fellow Republicans in Congress to back the effort to overturn the election results, declaring, “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”When the House eventually reconvened Wednesday evening, one of those colleagues, the firebrand Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, declared on the floor that he had seen “some pretty compelling evidence from a facial-recognition company showing that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters, they were masquerading as Trump supporters, and in fact were members of the violent terrorist group antifa.”Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, refers to a loosely-connected movement of militant left-wing activists who believe that using violence is justified in fighting white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other fascist or racist groups. Extremism experts and federal law enforcement officials have made clear that the threat of violence from white supremacists and other domestic extremist groups far outweighs that posed by anti-fascist activists. But Trump and his supporters have turned “antifa” into an all-purpose slur against any left-wing protests or demonstrations. This has the advantage that since antifa barely exists in any organized form, as FBI Director Chris Wray has testified, there is no one speaking for it to dispute or correct the charge. Over the summer, Trump sought to baselessly blame these “radical leftists” for any acts of violence or property damage that occurred during the largely peaceful wave of nationwide protests against police brutality and racism, and even vowed to formally label antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, despite having no legal authority to do so.As Trump’s supporters began converging on Washington Tuesday, Trump appeared to start laying the groundwork to blame antifa for any unlawful activities that might take place the next day. “Antifa is a Terrorist Organization, stay out of Washington. Law enforcement is watching you very closely!” he tweeted Tuesday evening. Not long after, the White House issued a (largely performative) memo calling on the Secretary of State to consider designating the amorphous group as foreign terrorists.Lawyer and Trump ally Lin Wood, who has become a devout proponent of the president’s baseless and conspiratorial voter fraud allegations, tweeted out several pixelated photos and screenshots Wednesday afternoon which he touted as proof that “Trump supporters are peaceful” and antifa was responsible for storming the U.S. Capitol. One particularly egregious example featured an edited split screen of two images which he described as “Indisputable photographic evidence that antifa violently broke into Congress today to inflict harm & do damage. NOT @realDonaldTrump supporters.”Quite the opposite. In one photo is a man who had already been widely identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known promoter of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. The other shows Matthew Heimbach, a longtime neo-Nazi and prominent figure in the white nationalist movement, with his arm around another man. While the photo of Angeli appears to have at least been taken during Wednesday’s siege on Congress, a reverse image search of the Heimbach photo suggests it was pulled from a 2018 post on an antifascist blog dedicated to exposing neo-nazis and white supremacists.Several others have latched onto the false-flag narrative, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, televangelist and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns, and Fox News political analyst Brit Hume, as well as some popular QAnon promoters with large Twitter followings. Franklin Graham, a leading Trump supporter among evangelicals, also raised the specter of antifa, without evidence.Zack Vorhies, a self-described former YouTube and Google engineer-turned-whistleblower, who according to Vice is also a QAnon fan and anti-vaxxer, posted an interview with a man outside the Capitol who claims to have overheard antifa activists “dressed as Trump supporters” discussing how to make Trump fans look bad before smashing a window. The video had received over 100,000 views in just four hours.Of course, it’s impossible to know the identity and ideology of every single person who participated in Wednesday’s violence. But for weeks, the President has been urging his supporters from around the country to descend on Washington for what he promised would be a “wild” day of protests.At least three different pro-Trump groups obtained permits for protests that were scheduled to take place throughout the day Wednesday, while many others promoted the demonstrations online and coordinated caravans of Trump fans traveling to D.C. to show their support.Among those who’d publicly promised to gather in Washington on Wednesday were right-wing militia groups like the Oath Keepers and members of the Proud Boys, a self-described male chauvinist group with white nationalist ties that has been involved in a number of violent confrontations with counter-protesters and police at previous protests in D.C. and around the country.In fact, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio last week suggested that members of the far-right group would dress in all black for the occasion, a look typically associated with members of antifa.“[T]he Proud Boys will turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th but, this time, with a twist,” Tarrio wrote on Parler. “We will be incognito and we will spread across downtown DC in smaller teams.”While others were trying to divert the blame for the chaos that took place on Wednesday, Tarrio and others seemed to embrace it.“This is no longer Washington DC...This is the City of The People of the United States of America!” Tarrio posted on Parler this afternoon as images of the besieged Capitol building began flooding social media and TV news. “Come and Take it!” Tarrio, who was arrested in D.C. earlier this week on charges stemming from an earlier incident of vandalism at a historically Black church, and ordered by a judge to stay away from the city, directed his followers to another account that appeared to be posting live photos and videos from inside the Capitol.A separate account for @TheProudBoys posted a photo of a massive crowd of Trump supporters in D.C. with the caption “Doesn't look like they're destroying the capital. Looks like they're liberating it. God bless America and all her patriots.”Another Parler account promoting the “Stop the Steal” slogan used by Trump devotees protesting the election posted, “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR DEMOCRATS.”_____

Congress reconvenes to certify Biden’s victory just hours after pro-Trump rioters storm US Capitol-Griffin Connolly-Wed, January 6, 2021, 8:15 PM EST

The US House and Senate are back in session at the Capitol to certify the 2020 election results after an hours-long security crisis that saw hundreds of pro-Trump rioters overpower police to storm the building and interrupt official proceedings.“The violence was quelled. The Capitol was secured, and the people's work continues,” Vice President Mike Pence said as he gaveled the Senate back into session.Lawmakers will pick up where they left off around 2pm Wednesday afternoon by resuming consideration of a motion co-signed by dozens of Republican lawmakers to block the Electoral College votes in Arizona.Arizona is one of five states whose election results Republicans have planned to challenge to wipe away President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and keep Donald Trump in power for four more years.The cadre of Trump loyalists has cited widespread “election fraud” but has never once provided evidence that such fraud existed, with state and federal courts dismissing case after case over the last several weeks.Each chamber needs a majority of members to vote in favour of the objections to throw out the results. At the beginning of the day, 24 GOP senators (less than a quarter of the chamber) and roughly 150 House Republicans (out of 435 total House members) had pledged to support the objections, leaving the objections far short of a majority. It is unclear whether the riot at the Capitol, which Democrats and even many Republicans have blamed on Mr Trump for inciting, has changed any Republicans’ minds about how they will vote.Speaker Nancy Pelosi characterised the mayhem in Washington on Wednesday as a “time of great sadness” as she notified her colleagues that they would be summoned back to the Capitol to complete the American people’s business.“Today, a shameful assault was made on our democracy. It was anointed at the highest level of government. It cannot, however, deter us from our responsibility to validate the election of Joe Biden,” the speaker wrote in a Dear Colleague letter on Wednesday evening.Mr Pence will continue presiding over the joint session when each chamber completes debating and voting on Congressman Paul Gosar and Senator Ted Cruz’ objection to Arizona’s electoral tally.Mr Pence has defied Mr Trump’s pleas to block the electoral results and keep him in power.Earlier on Wednesday, the president made a final desperate plea to his vice president to block the certification of Mr Biden’s victory.“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval,” the president tweeted, repeating his false assertions of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.“All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!” Mr Trump wrote.The scene at the Capitol earlier on Wednesday felt like something out of a movie or video game as throngs of protesters descended on an overwhelmed US Capitol Police force, shattered windows, and stormed through the halls and both chambers of Congress.At least one woman was shot and killed and several USCP officers were injured amid the chaos as rioters breached the Capitol building.Tear gas was deployed to disperse rioters who burst into various offices in the Capitol — including Ms Pelosi’s — and romped through the House and Senate chambers for a time.They stole podiums and congressional leaders’ mail. One rioter even left a menacing note on the speaker’s desk: “We will not back down,” he wrote in red Sharpie in all capital letters on a manilla folder.Calls have surged on Capitol Hill for Mr Trump to removed from office over his involvement in the riots.At a “Save America March” on the Ellipse just south of the White House early on Wednesday afternoon, the president encouraged thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol, telling them to be “strong.”“We will never give up,” Mr Trump said to roars of applause. “We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that’s what this is all about.”The president remained defiant throughout the day, refusing to concede the election. He also did not outright condemn the pro-Trump rioters he himself had encouraged to gather at the Capitol. In a video posted to Twitter that has since been taken down by the social media platform, Mr Trump told the rioters he “loves” them, although he urged them to “go home.”“You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order,” he said.It wasn’t just Democrats on Capitol Hill who were incensed with the president for his inflammatory rhetoric that fueled Wednesday’s violence.While no Republican lawmakers have so far issued public statements about removing Mr Trump from office, several have explicitly denounced him for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol.Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-highest ranking House Republican, placed the blame for Wednesday’s mayhem squarely on the outgoing president’s shoulders.“We just had a violent mob assault the US Capitol. ... No question the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob. He lit the flame,” Ms Cheney said.Senator Mitt Romney went a step further, saying that the Republicans who support Mr Trump’s bid to throw out the Electoral College results are equally complicit in perpetrating the insurrection staged on Wednesday at the Capitol.“What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy,” the Utah Republican said.

Associated Press-Warnock, Ossoff win in Georgia, handing Dems Senate control-STEVE PEOPLES, BILL BARROW and RUSS BYNUM-Wed, January 6, 2021, 2:42 AM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats — and with them, the U.S. Senate majority — as final votes were counted Wednesday, serving President Donald Trump a stunning defeat in his turbulent final days in office while dramatically improving the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s progressive agenda.Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Democratic challengers who represented the diversity of their party’s evolving coalition, defeated Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler two months after Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992.Warnock, who served as pastor for the same Atlanta church where civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached, becomes the first African American from Georgia elected to the Senate. And Ossoff becomes the state’s first Jewish senator and, at 33 years old, the Senate’s youngest member.This week’s elections were expected to mark the formal finale to the tempestuous 2020 election season, although the Democrats' resounding success was overshadowed by chaos and violence in Washington, where angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Biden's victory.Wednesday's unprecedented siege drew fierce criticism of Trump's leadership from within his own party, and combined with the bad day in Georgia, marked one of the darkest days of his divisive presidency.Still, the Democrats' twin victories in Georgia represented a striking shift in the state's politics as the swelling number of diverse, college-educated voters flex their power in the heart of the Deep South. They also cemented the transformation of Georgia, once a solidly Republican state, into one of the nation’s premier battlegrounds for the foreseeable future.In an emotional address early Wednesday, Warnock vowed to work for all Georgians whether they voted for him or not, citing his personal experience with the American dream. His mother, he said, used to pick “somebody else’s cotton” as a teenager.“The other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” he said. “Tonight, we proved with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.”Loeffler, who remains a senator until the results of Tuesday's election are finalized, returned to Washington on Wednesday morning to join a small group of senators planning to challenge Congress’ vote to certify Biden’s victory. She didn't get a chance to vocalize her objection before the violent protesters stormed the Capitol.Georgia’s other runoff election pitted Perdue, a 71-year-old former business executive who held his Senate seat until his term expired Sunday, against Ossoff, a former congressional aide and journalist.“This campaign has been about health and jobs and justice for the people of this state — for all the people of this state,” Ossoff said in a speech broadcast on social media Wednesday morning. “Whether you were for me, or against me, I’ll be for you in the U.S. Senate. I will serve all the people of the state.”Trump’s false claims of voter fraud cast a dark shadow over the runoff elections, which were held only because no candidate hit the 50% threshold in the general election. He raised the prospect of voter fraud as votes were being cast and likened the Republicans who run Georgia’s election system to “chickens with their heads cut off” during a Wednesday rally in Washington.Gabriel Sterling, a top official with the Georgia secretary of state’s office and a Republican, said there was “no evidence of any irregularities.”“The biggest thing we’ve seen is from the president’s fertile mind of finding fraud where none exists,” he said.Both contests tested whether the political coalition that fueled Biden’s November victory was an anti-Trump anomaly or part of a new electoral landscape. To win in Tuesday’s elections — and in the future — Democrats needed strong African American support.AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,700 voters in Tuesday’s contests, found that Black voters made up roughly 30% of the electorate, and almost all of them — 94% — backed Ossoff and Warnock. The Democrats also relied on the backing of younger voters, people earning less than $50,000 annually and newcomers to the state.The Republican coalition backing Loeffler and Perdue was the mirror opposite: white, older, wealthier and longtime Georgia residents.The coalition closely resembles the one that narrowly handed Georgia’s Electoral College votes to Biden in November, making him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in almost three decades.Trump’s claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, while meritless, resonated with Republican voters in Georgia. About 7 in 10 agreed with his false assertion that Biden was not the legitimately elected president, AP VoteCast found.Election officials across the country, including the Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, as well as Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed that there was no widespread fraud in the November election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, where three Trump-nominated justices preside.Publicly and privately, some Republicans acknowledged that Trump’s monthslong push to undermine the integrity of the nation’s electoral system may have contributed to the GOP’s losses in Georgia.“It turns out that telling the voters that the election was rigged is not a great way to turn out your voters,” said Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican and a frequent Trump critic.Even with Trump’s claims, voters in both parties were drawn to the polls because of the high stakes. AP VoteCast found that 6 in 10 Georgia voters say Senate party control was the most important factor in their vote.Turnout exceeded both sides’ expectations. Ultimately, more people cast ballots in the runoffs than voted in Georgia’s 2016 presidential election.Former President Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, issued a statement praising the election of Georgia’s first African American senator and his ability to improve divisions in Washington.“Georgia’s first Black senator will make the (Senate) chamber more reflective of our country as a whole and open the door for a Congress that can forego gridlock for gridlock’s sake to focus instead on the many crises facing our nation,” Obama said.___Peoples reported from New York. Bynum reported from Savannah, Ga. Associated Press writers Haleluya Hadero, Angie Wang, Sophia Tulp, Ben Nadler and Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Rabbis in DC and beyond rush to calm congregants after deadly riot at US Capitol-Violent, pro-Trump mob brings knee-jerk recall of historic anti-Semitism; rabbis send soothing prayers while also doing some soul searching about long-term stability in the US-By Gabe Friedman and Shira Feder-jan 7,21-Today, 5:04 pm

JTA — Ruth Friedman could tell that Wednesday’s pro-Trump protests in Washington, DC, might be volatile when she boarded a plane home to DC from her grandmother’s funeral on Tuesday.The flight was full of people in MAGA gear on their way to Washington to protest the results of the presidential election, as US President Donald Trump had urged them to. As the plane landed, she recalled, one man shouted “Who’s here to support President Trump?” Other people on the flight cheered and chanted “USA! USA!”“I felt pretty freaked out because I’m Jewish,” said Friedman, who helps lead Ohev Sholom – The National Synagogue in Washington, DC, an Orthodox congregation. “I really just tried to keep my head down. I really was genuinely afraid to engage.”But by Wednesday afternoon, Friedman said she recognized that her congregants would need her to grapple with the violent protests during which Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building. She just hadn’t yet figured out how.“My only real message right now is prayers for safety. I think it’s too early for me to know what an actual message [to congregants] would be because this is so representative of so many problems on so many different levels,” Friedman said. “So I would just like to focus on the immediate, we are praying for safety, and not try to have a grander message right now.”Rabbis and other Jewish spiritual leaders in Washington and beyond took a range of approaches on Wednesday to help their communities come to terms with the scenes they saw playing out on their TVs. Some rabbis recorded brief video messages to convey a sense of hope — and to confirm that they were safe — while others attempted to organize impromptu events for congregants. T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, a liberal rabbinic group, put together a structured event of song, Torah commentary and political dialogue that gathered over 500 people on Zoom.Friedman’s colleague, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, sent psalms to worried congregants who reached out to him throughout the day, tailored to their specific concerns.“We try and see what peoples’ anxieties are and apply the proper psalm for that situation,” he said. “There’s a lot of anxiety in our country right now, and so people are looking to our tradition for meaning and for guidance.”The disorientation was pronounced throughout DC, where Mayor Muriel Bowser imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. Friday. The city’s Kesher Israel Orthodox synagogue canceled its nightly service, which has been held outdoors throughout the coronavirus pandemic, even as Rabbi Hyim Shafner said things felt normal in the Georgetown neighborhood where his synagogue is located, and in the Foggy Bottom and Dupont Circle neighborhoods where many of his congregation members live.“The coffee shops were occupied and people were shopping. It’s less than a mile from the White House but it’s a different world,” he said.Still, he couldn’t let the day go by without communicating with his congregation. In an email to synagogue members, he noted how the week’s Torah portion — about how the Egyptian Pharoah enslaved Jews after feeling that they were growing too powerful — connected to the moment.In an interview, he said his faith in the safety of the country, particularly for Jews, was rattled.“I’m watching the Capitol and people are smashing the windows, climbing in and sitting in the seats of the Senate … with their feet up on the desk. There’s something incredibly disquieting about that, as I’m sure it was for many Americans,” he said. “But I think as a Jew we have to also see that in another light and say, ‘Oh, maybe the sands under our feet are not as solid as we always assume them to be.’”Other local Jews worried about the immediate safety of their rabbis and synagogue buildings. Rabbis Aaron Alexander and Lauren Holtzblatt of the city’s Adas Israel Congregation rushed to go live on Facebook at 5 p.m., after footage of protesters flipping over tables and breaking windows had widely circulated on social media.“Unfortunately, we’ve done a number of these livecasts over the past 10 months,” Holtzblatt told the hundreds of people watching, many of them Jews concerned about violence spreading.“Our first reaction was to go live immediately,” Alexander told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency over the phone, “so people can not only read our words but can see our faces.” He noted that many have reached out to him to check on the synagogue building, which remains safe and empty but is being continually monitored.Love from DC-A quick word from Rabbis Holtzblatt & Alexander from Washington, D.C.Posted by Adas Israel Congregation – Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021“We’re all sort of holding our breath,” Alexander said. “Some [rioters] will be leaving the city, some people will refuse to leave the Capitol area and some people will go back to their hotels.”In an email to JTA, Holtzblatt said her community was “very concerned” about what happened at the Capitol and noted that she is praying for a peaceful transfer of power.Other rabbis sounded similar notes. Temple in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside of the city, held a virtual “gathering for democracy.” During the T’ruah event, titled “Standing Up for Democracy: A Gathering for Prayer & Action,” Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR in Los Angeles offered a stinging rebuke of Trump, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and white supremacists whom she said have “been taught that God loves them more.”The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly released a statement calling on “all American political and religious leaders” to condemn the day’s events. The Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis released a prayer for peace.From his synagogue in Washington, Shafner, an Orthodox rabbi, said he felt like the American Jewish consciousness could shift as a result of the day’s events.“We feel obviously very safe in America, I think we feel like America’s different, it’s a great democracy,” he said. “We have to also remember that we are visitors here in America. Is it really different? I don’t know. I hope it is. But these are the moments when I think there should be self-doubt.”

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