Play Card Game – Enabled

Ken Cuccinelli, again Emerging as Public Face, and Irritant, of Homeland Security 2025? If the White House adviser Stephen Miller is the architect of Mr. Trump’s effort to restrict both legal and illegal immigration, Mr. Cuccinelli has emerged as its public face. As a state senator, Cuccinelli introduced a proposal that would have sheltered employers who fired employees for not speaking English. Learn More

Trump’s ‘deep-state’ warrior

Trump has repeatedly blasted an alleged “Deep State” in the intelligence community, repeatedly accusing career officials of seeking to undermine his administration from the inside despite no evidence to back up his claims. In between his turns in government, Grenell had a public affairs consulting firm called Capitol Media Partners. One of the firm’s clients, according to the financial disclosure that Grenell filed when he became an ambassador, was Arthur J. Finkelstein, the late Republican political consultant whose international clients included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary. Learn More

Under the guidance of Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell, the “Election Integrity Network” has built what it calls “permanent election integrity infrastructure” in swing states staffed with people fully committed to election conspiracies. After recruiting thousands of election workers and poll watchers in the 2022 cycle, Election Integrity Network coalitions are now mobilizing far-right activists to advance restrictive voting policies in key states. Mitchell supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including joining the infamous call when the president urged Georgia’s top election official to “find” 11,780 votes. The Nework is the progeny of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), the $45 million MAGA institution led by former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. In states like Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, CPI’s Election Integrity Network has organized coalitions of election conspiracy theorists, drawing from national groups like Tea Party Patriots and Heritage Action, as well as a range of fringe state-based groups, like Audit the Vote PA and Stand Up Michigan, and with support from local, state, and national GOP officials and entities. Learn More

Guilfoyle’s leaked text messages show her bragging about having raised $3 million for the rally that fueled the Capitol riot and, per ProPublica, “represent the strongest indication yet that members of the Trump family circle were directly involved in the financing and organization of the rally.”

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Joker: Former President Donald Trump:
“. . . lie and attack, win no matter what . . .” “I’m telling you the single biggest issue, as bad as the border is and it’s horrible, horrible what they’re doing, they’re destroying our country — but as bad as that is, the single biggest issue — the issue that gets the most pull, the most respect, the biggest cheers — is talking about the election fraud of the 2020 presidential election.” - Donald Trump, October 10, 2021 “There’s hostility to lying, and there should be.” – Bob Woodward Learn More

November 2021: Jared Kushner advising Trump to 'pursue his legal remedies' to the election.

June 2022: Next was Mr. Kushner. In his video he was pressed by Representative Liz Cheney, the committee’s vice chairwoman, about whether he was aware that the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, had been threatening to resign because Mr. Trump was making increasingly outlandish efforts to stay in power.

He added that he knew that Mr. Cipollone and “the team were always saying, ‘Oh we are going to resign, we are not going to be there if this happens, if that happens.’ So I kind of took it up to just be whining, to be honest with you.”

Ms. Cheney: “Whining,” she said. “There’s a reason why people serving in our government take an oath to the constitution. As our founding fathers recognized, democracy is fragile. The people in positions of public trust are duty bound to defend it, to step forward when action is required.

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After the 2020 election, Flynn, a high-profile figure in the QAnon community, said that President Trump should deploy the military to 'rerun an election' in battleground states that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden. In late May 2021, the disgraced former general reportedly voiced his support for a Burmese military-style coup scenario to return Trump to power. Just weeks before the November 2022 election, a group backed by Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Flynn and Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne is challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of Georgia voters . And today former national security adviser is fusing deranged political ideas with a mangled version of the Christian faith. Learn More

Huckabee:“The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary.”

June 29, 2017 Press briefing in response to a question.

Trump: “So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Just knock the hell .... I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise."

Feb. 2016 Cedar Rapids, Iowa rally.

Trump, inciting the insurrectionists: “And we fight. We fight like hell. And, if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

Jan. 6, 2021 “You’ve got two camps right now of people who should speak out and haven’t. The first camp knows Trump is a dangerous and vindictive man but doesn’t want to upend their lives by provoking his ire. The second camp is more nakedly transactional." - Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration Learn More

"Law-and-order" Republicans: It was a “normal tourist visit." FBI: “The Capitol [is] essentially a crime scene”. Capitol Insurrectionist: “We wait and take orders from our president.” Insurrectionist Lonnie Coffman of Alabama brought to the Capitol a truckload of weapons and a Texas man was convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, helmet and body armor. Cassidy Hutchinson, former White House aide: The president knew the crowd on Jan. 6 was armed, but wanted to loosen security. Mr. Trump: Planned to lead a march to the Capitol on Jan. 6 but wanted it to look spontaneous, the Jan. 6 committee revealed. Learn More

Ingraham: Two Tales of A City (under Siege):

As the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol unfolded, Meadows received texts from Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade, as well as Hannity, according to the newly released communications.

“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” Ingraham wrote. “This is hurting all of us."

Ingraham’s private missives, however, differed starkly from what she said on her show later that evening, when she began whitewashing the violence of the day and claiming the attacks were “antithetical” to the Trump movement.

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