Sunday Memes!

Today, Katie Benner of the New York Times broke the story that former president Trump tried to use the Department of Justice to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Five emails provided to Congress show Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, asking the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, in December, to investigate rumors of voter fraud. One of the fantastical stories Meadows wanted investigated was the story that “people in Italy had used military technology and satellites to remotely tamper with voting machines in the United States and switch votes for Mr. Trump to votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr.”

The Department of Justice is not the president’s to command. It is supposed to enforce the laws of the United States and administer justice. The office of the president has its own lawyer—the White House counsel—and the president can also have their own personal representation. That Trump tried to use our own Department of Justice to overturn the will of the American voters is eye-popping.

But that was not the only news of the day. We also learned that the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, told Trump advisor Steven Bannon on a public show that had he not been able to block a great deal of mail-in voting in 2020, Biden would have won Texas.

We also learned that Oregon Representative Mike Nearman, who was already in trouble for opening the doors of the Oregon Capitol to anti–coronavirus restriction rioters on December 21, held a meeting beforehand, on December 16, to plot the event. An attendee filmed the talk, which set up “Operation Hall Pass.” That operation ultimately opened the Oregon capitol building to far-right rioters, who endangered the entire legislature. The video, which shows Nearman winking and nodding at setting up the invasion, has raised questions about whether other Republicans worked with insurrectionists in other settings.

Finally, tRump returned to the public stage Saturday with a rambling, 85-minute long speech to the NC Republican Party convention. It was typical Trump — lie piled upon lie piled upon lie. Trump’s Frontotemporal Dementia was on display as he shuffled to and from the podium, stumbled over simple words and phrases, and lied.

Remember Trump’s appearance at West Point when, because of his FTD, he could barely negotiate walking down a ramp? One ridiculous point from his NC speech came when he claimed that the day of his speech at West Point had been cold, cloudy, rainy and the ramp was covered in ice. IN FACT, it was a bright, sunny, warm day without a drop of rain or pellet of ice in sight. Video here:
http://liberalsoutherner.com/2021/06/trump-gets-back-on-the-campaign-trail-with-speech-in-north-carolina-makes-an-ass-of-himself-as-usual/