Steve Thomas

Pillaging. That's the word that comes to mind. I don't care if you do think he is the God-King. Whatever documents or pictures or statues or mementos that Donald Trump helped himself to during the four short years that he occupied the Oval Office, didn't belong to him. They belong to the people of the United States. I would also like to know who helped Trump go through all these boxes of documents. He doesn't read, and he sure as hell doesn't understand what he does read, so who was going through all this paperwork to decide what to cart off? I shudder to think it might have been someone like that Stephen Miller guy. Steve Thomas

Kirk, If the U.S. Government were wiretapping foreign leaders, and Trump got a hold of those wiretaps and was blackmailing those leaders (or anyone else for that matter), by dribbling that information out a little bit at a time, he could keep the money flowing for a long time. Steve Thomas

Rob Reiner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1557923647779749897 Rob Reiner @robreiner "Crowning a lifetime of Criminality, Donald Trump led an armed mob to overthrow the United States Government then stole America’s nuclear secrets. An Indictment can’t come soon enough for this treasonous MF." 9:55 PM · Aug 11, 2022·Twitter for iPhone Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC · 12h "Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953:" Steve Thomas

It has been reported that the FBI was searching for nuclear weapons documents, but in their search, they found signals intelligence. One example of SIGINT, or signals intelligence, is intercepted phone calls. One possibility, is that Trump stole some intercepted phone calls, and was blackmailing someone with whatever was on those tapes. Trump is now saying that he welcomes the release of the inventory of what the FBI seized. Is he calling Merrick Garland's bluff? Steve Thomas

Merrick Garland and the Justice Department are very smart about how they are playing this. Donald Trump said that any attempt by by the Justice Department anywhere in the country for any reason would produce an uprising that would make January 6th pale in comparison. By picking a topic that will be easily provable, it will take some of the wind out of the Trump supporters' sails, i.e. the theft of classified materials. The government will charge it. Trump will deny it. Documents will be produced that say, "Here it is in black and white." Then, when the government moves to charge him with something more serious later on, some of his supporters will say, "Hmmm, maybe he's not so lily white after all.. Look at how he lied about the documents thing." Steve Thomas

Armed subject attempting to breach Cincinnati FBI office leads to pursuit, police situation CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — https://www.wlwt.com/article/shots-fired-clinton-county-pursuit-suspect-police-shooting/40869695# A pursuit and ongoing police situation in Clinton County has shut down two highways and prompted an area lockdown Thursday. It all started after a potential threat was made at a FBI building in Cincinnati. According to FBI Cincinnati, it started around 9 a.m. when a person showed up to the office in Kenwood and attempted to breach the visitor screening facility. An alarm went on and FBI special agents responded before the subject fled north onto I-71 leading Ohio State Highway Patrol on a pursuit into Clinton County. Clinton County Emergency Management Agency officials said law enforcement has exchanged shots with the male subject who is described as wearing a gray shirt and body armor. The a-hole clowns like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene have to stop with their inflammatory rhetoric. These numbskulls that they are talking to can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy. Somebody's going to get killed. Steve Thomas

BetoMedia @BetoMedia Tonight, in Mineral Wells, Texas When a @GregAbbott_TX supporter laughs, yes, laughs out loud so everyone could hear, while Beto described the massacre of 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Beto quite appropriately lets loose with a MF. Yep. It was a pretty good one too. “It may be funny to you. MF, but it’s not funny to me.” https://twitter.com/BetoMedia/status/1557536616431980544

You can trust Donald Trump. He's a man of his word. Under oath, he pledged 440 times that he wouldn't say anything that would incriminate himself. And he didn't. So there. Steve Thomas

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy73pk/fbi-warrant-judge-reinhart-doxxed "Far-right extremists on pro-Donald Trump message boards and social networks are making violent, antisemitic threats against the judge who reportedly signed the warrant that allowed the FBI to search the former president's Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. Multiple members of these toxic online communities are even posting what appears to be Judge Bruce Reinhart’s home address, phone numbers, and names of his family members alongside threats of extreme violence. “This is the piece of dooky judge who approved FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago,” a user wrote on the pro-Trump message board formerly known as TheDonald. “I see a rope around his neck.” Responding, another user wrote: “Idgaf [I don’t give a xxxx] anymore. Name? Address? Put that dooky all up on here.” Moments later, a different member replied with what appears to be Reinhart’s current address, phone numbers, previous addresses, and names of possible relatives." Let's find out if he has children... where they go to school, where they live... EVERYTHING,” one person wrote on a message board where the judge’s address was posted." Steve Thomas

Donald Trump and his allies are now saying that the FBI planted the evidence that they took from Mar-A-Lago. That's why they made everyone leave while they conducted their search. They didn't want anyone to see what they were planting. "Backpacks" full of stuff, according to Fox News. One of Trump's lawyers even said that there was nothing there to find in the first place. At the same time, mistrust and paranoia is running rampant in Trumpworld as they try to find the dirty rat who snitched and ratted them out to the FBI. It seems like those two thoughts are mutually exclusive, but hey, who am I to judge? Steve Thomas

“This is their message”: Trump and GOP immediately rush to fundraise off FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago Republicans wasted no time trying to turn their performative outrage into solicitations for donor cash By Igor Derysh 8/9/22 https://www.salon.com/2022/08/09/this-is-their-message-and-immediately-rush-to-fundraise-off-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago “Trump's Save America PAC sent out a fundraising text on Tuesday morning. "It's time for EVERY PATRIOT to step up and stand against the Left's reckless WITCH HUNTS and political persecution of President Trump!" the landing page soliciting donations says. "Please rush in a donation IMMEDIATELY to publicly stand with President Trump against this NEVERENDING WITCH HUNT!" The Republican National Committee wasted no time Monday night using the raid to solicit donations, sending out a text linking to their WinRed page. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL: UNPRECEDENTED move Biden's FBI RAIDS Pres. Trump's home. Time to take back Congress," the text said. "Never has there been a more important time to take back our country and STAND FOR FREEDOM," the landing page says. "We're counting on YOU! Donate ANY AMOUNT RIGHT NOW to show your support for the GOP to take back Congress and STOP JOE BIDEN."” Damn! I missed it by 4 3/4 minutes. Steve Thomas

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Posted by Bart Kamp in the Reopen the Kennedy Case Forum 4/13/20 https://reopenkennedycase.forumotion.net/t2167-dal-tex “From the Harry Livingstone archive. Just uploaded. 33 pages with notes, correspondence and directories on DalTEx” https://drive.google.com/file/d/11L4jaVbP-q_XXk2kg5pYVlLXzj2o7spq/view?usp=sharing Steve Thomas

I'm starting a lottery. How long do you think it will be before Trump sends out a fundraising letter? Steve Thomas

Revisiting the preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan By DeNeen L. Brown | April 10, 2018 The Salt Lake City Tribune https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2018/04/10/revisiting-the-preacher-who-used-christianity-to-revive-the-ku-klux-klan/ “It was approaching midnight on Oct. 16, 1915, when Methodist preacher William Joseph Simmons and at least 15 other men climbed Stone Mountain in Georgia. They built an altar, set fire to a cross, took an oath of allegiance to the “Invisible Empire” and announced the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. Beneath a makeshift altar glowing in the flickering flames of the burning cross, they laid a U.S. flag, a sword and a Holy Bible. Restricting membership to white Christians, the Klan wore white robes to symbolize “purity,” burned crosses to signify “the Light of Christ” and picked selective scriptures from the Bible to preach white supremacy. The Invisible Empire’s comeback was aided by Hollywood’s first blockbuster, D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation,” which glamorized the Klan. Simmons believed Christianity supported white supremacy, Kelly J. Baker, author of the book, “The Gospel According to the Klan,” said in an interview. “He and other Klan leaders would look to Christianity to find support for racism. Even liberal Protestant churches supported white supremacy. That seemed the natural order of things. Just as people used biblical texts to support slavery.” “Hate in God’s Name,” a 2017 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says that white supremacist groups often invoke scripture from the Old and New Testament. “This is particularly applicable to Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members,” the report says, “Christian Identity adherents and some neo-Nazis. White supremacists believe mainstream religions, including Christian denominations and their institutions, have fallen astray from God and are under the control and influence of Satan. As a result, white supremacists interpret scriptures and spiritual parables through the lens of racial discrimination and hate. In this way, they can justify their beliefs (which are vile and deplorable) as good, moral and responsible.”” Welcome to Christian nationalism. Steve Thomas

Trump rambles for 108 minutes in CPAC Speech filled with 'unapologetic fascism'. By Bob Brigham https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-fascism/ "Michael Hardy, senior editor at the Texas Monthly, was one of the local journalists covering the speech. He said that line had "echoes of the poopoo 'stab in the back theory' of losing WW1." Trump went on to call for a military takeover of San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Portland. "Trump's rhetoric is significantly more extreme than even a few years ago," Hardy said. "This might be most frightening speech I've ever heard. Full-on, unapologetic fascism. Trump has either been reading Mein Kampf or having someone read it to him."" Trump also talked about hiring 10,000 police and instituting a national "stop and frisk" policy. He also talked about creating "internment camps", or tent cities for the homeless all over the country. He got his loudest applause when he said we need to abolish the Department of Education. Steve Thomas

Trump Begs Supporters to Donate for ‘Upcoming’ Lawsuit Against CNN THE GRIFT NEVER ENDS by Zachary Petrizzo Politics Aug. 05, 2022 https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-begs-supporters-to-donate-for-upcoming-lawsuit-against-cnn?ref=home?ref=home It’s been over a week since former President Donald Trump pledged that he would be filing a lawsuit against CNN. Yet, instead of court documents being filed, Trump appears to be more preoccupied with begging followers to send in money to “support” the so far non-existent legal action. A new fundraising message sent out from the ex-president on Friday said: “I’m calling on my best and most dedicated supporters to add their names to stand with me in my impending LAWSUIT against Fake News CNN.” “Add your name IMMEDIATELY to show your support for my upcoming lawsuit against Fake News CNN,” the email continued, linking to a donations page. It was one of two CNN-inspired fundraising messages sent out. Last Wednesday, the former president threatened to sue the cable network and sent them a letter titled, “Notice of Intent to Bring Civil Action for Defamation.” Trump touting a potential CNN lawsuit comes as the Republican National Committee has said they will stop paying the ex-president’s legal bills upon him declaring his candidacy for president. Neither CNN nor a Trump spokesperson returned The Daily Beast’s request for comment on Friday evening. Steve Thomas

Far-right GOP congressional candidate lobs ageist insult at opponent while running to represent The Villages By Matthew Chapman August 05, 2022 https://www.rawstory.com/far-right-gop-congressional-candidate-lobs-ageist-insult-at-opponent-while-running-to-represent-the-villages/ "Now in her second bid for Congress, this time in a primary fight against Rep. Dan Webster (R-FL), (Laura) Loomer has found a new oddball line of attack. Her opponent, she claims, is so feeble he wears a Life Alert necklace with a button to alert emergency responders if he has a fall," reported Will Sommer. "'We don’t need members of Congress who are walking around wearing Life Alert necklaces, too sick to vote,' Loomer told The Daily Beast,..” “ this is an unusual choice of attack in a congressional district that includes The Villages, an infamous, sprawling retirement community that backed former President Donald Trump roughly 2 to 1,...” The politics of anger and insults. They don't care who they hurt. Steve Thomas

'It's a biblical issue': Michigan town votes to defund library they say was 'grooming' kids by Brad Reed https://www.rawstory.com/defund-libraries/ “A town in Michigan has voted to defund its own library because it was supposedly "grooming" children for sexual abuse. Bridge Michigan reports that voters in Jamestown Township, Michigan overwhelmingly voted against a measure that would have raised revenue to continue funding the town library. The voters' revolt against the library began because it features books that contain LGBTQ-related themes, which local residents say is akin to "indoctrinating" children. Amanda Ensing, an organizer for the Jamestown Conservatives group, told Bridge Michigan that she was proud to defund her own town's library “They are trying to groom our children to believe that it’s OK to have these sinful desires,” she said of the town librarians. “It’s not a political issue, it’s a Biblical issue.”” That'll show 'em. We won't have schools or libraries anymore. Long Live Christian Nationalism! Steve Thomas

Vince, I had read that Fritz recommended that, but one of the Secret Service agents nixed that idea in that planning meeting on the 21st. At the time, I was trying to determine if it was Sorrells or Lawson. Steve Thomas

Vince, In one of the docs you provided, it says, - QUOTE - - ENDQUOTE - I was interested in this "tail car" I've never looked into that. In the joint report filed with Curry by Batchelor, Lumpkin and Stevenson, it says: [Report from Charles Batchelor to Chief J. E. Curry, November 30, 1963] Page 21 of 70 Portal to Texas History https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338584/m1/21/?q=Stevenson On page 21 pf Batchelor's report, it says that Lawson asked for a police car to bring up the tail end of the motorcade. Lumpkin offered to have Captain Fritz ride in this car, and Lawson said, no, he wanted a police car with flashing red lights and uniformed officers. (For some reason, the Forum software will not let me copy and paste in little paragraph, but you can read it here: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338584/m1/21/?q=Stevenson Ray Lunday was the Assistant Chief of Police for the Traffic Division, and was assigned the Security for Love Field. I don’t find a Report from Ray H. Lunday in the Portal to Texas History, so I don’t know who he assigned to that rear “tail car”, or whether a Secret Service Agent rode in it. He did not testify before the Warren Commission. Purdue Lawrence Deposition Exhibit# 2 only covers the motorcycle assignments. (20H489) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1137#relPageId=509 I had never heard about this "rear police vehicle", and whether it had a Secret Service Agent in it. I went through the Secret Service Reports in Volume XVIII of the Hearings and Exhibits, and I didn't find anyone who mentions it. There's a memo from Rowley that covers the White House Detail coverage of the motorcade, but that coverage seems to stop at the follow-up car behind the Vice-President's car. (18H810) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1135#relPageId=824&search=lunday (18H810). Steve Thomas

John, At 12:49, Captain Cecil Talbert said that he was at the old Purse Company Building on the east side of Houston. https://www.jfk-assassination.net/dpdtapes/ 15 (Capt. C.E. Talbert) 15 is at the scene. We -- the building's the old Purse Company on the east side of Houston. Somebody cut off the back side, will you? Make sure nobody leaves there. Six minutes earlier, at 12:43, on Channel 2 of the Dispatch Tapes, he was recommending to the Dispatcher, that the search area be extended out one or two. blocks from the area of Elm and Houston. Steve Thomas

Pat, Look at the dates on the bottom left-hand corner of the first two Crime Scene Search Section documents you provided. Steve Thomas

House panels: DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/02/secret-service-texts-jan-6-dhs-interfered-house-committees “Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general’s office interfered with efforts to recover erased Secret Service texts from the time of the US Capitol attack and attempted to cover up their actions, two House committees said in a letter on Monday. Taken together, the new revelations appear to show that the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and the DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts it knew were missing, and then sought to hide the fact that it had decided not to pursue that evidence. The inspector general’s office had initially sought to retrieve the lost texts from across the DHS – spanning both the Secret Service as well as the former DHS secretary Chad Wolf and his deputy, Ken Cuccinelli – as part of its internal review into January 6. But six weeks after the inspector general’s office first requested Secret Service communications from the time of the Capitol attack, that effort was shut down by Thomas Kait, the deputy inspector general for inspections and evaluations, the House committees said.” “The House committees also disclosed they had learned that Kait and other senior officials manipulated a memo, authored on 4 February 2022, that originally criticized the DHS for refusing to cooperate with its investigation and emphasized the need to review certain texts. By the time that Kait and other senior officials had finished with the memo, the House committee said, mentions about the erased texts from the Secret Service or the DHS secretary had been removed and instead praised the agency for its response to the internal review. The memo went from being a stinging rebuke that said “most DHS components have not provided the requested information” to saying “we received a timely and consolidated response from each component”, the House committees said.” The cover-up always turns out to be worse than the crime. Steve Thomas

Trump Endorses ‘Eric’ In U.S. Senate Race In Missouri. But There Are 2 Erics. Both Republicans have claimed the former president's endorsement. By Nick Visser Aug 1, 2022 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-endorses-eric-missouri-senate_n_62e85c6ce4b07f8376723cb6 “I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslides victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” The endorsement was so unclear that both Erics claimed Trump’s support moments after the email went out. Now, nobody knows who to vote for. Way to go Donny! Good job! Steve Thomas