U.S. Capital — On Monday, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol released a map detailing how the Trump campaign and allies used false claims of election fraud to raise millions of dollars from the former president’s supporters, money that was then used to line the pockets of entities with close ties to Trump.
During the second day of hearings, which centered on how Trump accepted false claims the election was stolen even though close administration and campaign aides knew that wasn’t the case, California Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren laid out the fundraising road plan.
According to her, the Trump campaign, “used these false claims of election fraud to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters who were told their donations were for the legal fight in the courts. But the Trump campaign didn’t use the money for that. The ‘Big Lie’ was also a big ripoff.”
The committee’s findings were presented in a video shown at the end of the hearing, and it was shown that the Trump campaign had promoted the idea of a rigged election despite the fact that dozens of legal challenges based on the same claims had been dismissed by judges, including some appointed by Trump.
Emails urging the former president’s followers to “fight back” against a “left-wing mob” undermining the election were sent at a rate of up to 25 per day between November 3, 2020 and January 6, 2021. Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel for the House subcommittee, claims that the missives asked for donations to a “Election Defense Fund” to pay for lawsuits linked to the election.
However, in a private interview, former Trump campaign worker Hanna Allred said, “I don’t believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund.” Gary Coby, the former digital director for the Trump campaign, said in separate testimony that the Election Defense Fund was a marketing tactic.
According to Wick, the former president and his associates raised $250 million on the back of claims that the election was stolen from Trump. Of this total, approximately $100 million was contributed in the first week after the election. According to Wick, the final email fundraising communication for the Trump campaign was sent 30 minutes after the mob of former president’s supporters first invaded the Capitol building on January 6.
Most of the funds went to Save America PAC, which Trump founded a week after the 2020 election, rather than to legal challenges to the results. The committee discovered that the former president’s major political body, his PAC, donated millions to pro-Trump groups such as: To the Conservative Partnership Institute, where former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is a senior partner.
$1 million to the Conservative Partnership Institute, where former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is senior partner One million dollars to the America First Policy Institute, a think tank that employs a number of former Trump administration officials include former SBA administrator Linda McMahon, former senior counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, and former acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf. Two hundred and four thousand and eight hundred and fifty dollars to the Trump Hotel Collection
A sum of $5,000,000 was paid to Event Strategies Inc., the corporation responsible for organizing the January 6 event at the Ellipse. Lofgren told CNN after Monday’s hearing that Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was a top fundraising official with the Trump campaign, was paid a $60,000 speaking fee for introducing her fiancé at the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse, following which supporters of the former president marched down to the Capitol.
A video of the event indicates that after less than three minutes of remarks, Guilfoyle gave way to Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s elder son.
Lofgren said during the hearing, “The Trump campaign and its surrogates misled contributors as to where their donations would go and what they would be used for, so not only was there the ‘Big Lie,’ but there was the big swindle.” “Donors have a right to transparency on the use of their money. And they certainly didn’t deserve what President Trump and his administration did to them.”
Reports of fundraising totals released by the Trump campaign are in line with the committee’s findings. Campaign, Republican National Committee, Trump Victory, and Trump Make America Great Again joint committees, plus the Save America PAC, reported a total of $207.5 million in contributions since the election on November 3, 2020.
Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien, who was supposed to testify on Monday but missed it because his wife went into labor, stated at the time that Trump’s supporters are “committed to fighting for the rightful, lawful conclusion of the 2020 general election.”
According to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission from late November 2020 through the end of the year, the Save America PAC started 2021 with more than $31 million in the bank.
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On Oct. 28 (UPI) — Her office sent a statement on Friday saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, had been attacked by a home invader.
At a press conference held by the San Francisco Police Department, the suspect, 42-year-old David Depape, was named as the attacker. According to Sgt. William Scott, when police arrived, they saw Depape with a hammer and Paul Pelosi, 82, holding onto it.
Then, Depape took the hammer from Paul Pelosi and started hitting him with it until police arrived and took him into custody.
According to reports from CNN, NBC, and the New York Times, citing unnamed law enforcement officials, the assailant entered the couple’s San Francisco home early on Friday morning looking for the Speaker.
After being arrested, Depape was taken into custody and lodged in the San Francisco County Jail on “many other felony” counts, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary, and more.
“Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy,” the assailant asked Paul Pelosi, according to the sources.
Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was “violently assaulted,” according to a statement released by Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., through spokesman Drew Hammill.
“The attacker is currently in police custody, and the circumstances surrounding the attack are being probed. Mr. Pelosi has been hospitalized and is receiving top-notch care; he is anticipated to make a full recovery “the report indicated.
According to Hammill, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was not in the Bay Area at the time.
The Speaker and her family “request privacy at this time” and “express gratitude to the first responders and medical personnel involved.”
Forensics in San Francisco At 2:27 a.m. PDT, according to Sergeant Adam Lobsinger, police were called to the Pelosi home. Paul Pelosi was rushed to the hospital, and the suspect was taken into jail.
Vice President Joe Biden issued the following statement through White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre:
“The president is praying for Paul Pelosi and for Speaker Pelosi’s whole family. This morning he called Speaker Pelosi to express his support after this horrible attack. He is also very glad that a full recovery is expected. The president continues to condemn all violence and asks that the family’s desire for privacy be respected.”
If she loses to Democrat Katie Hobbs in Arizona on November 8, Republican gubernatorial contender Kari Lake has declined to declare if she will accept defeat.
Lake refused to accept the election results many times when asked by CNN’s “State of the Union” moderator Dana Bash on Sunday. Lake insisted that she was going to win the election.
Lake declared, “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result,” simultaneously saying that Hobbs was a racist.
Bash questioned Lake, “If you lose, will you accept that?” throughout the conversation.
Lake repeated, “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that results.”
Originally, on October 12, Arizona PBS was going to have a televised discussion between Lake and Hobbs, but Hobbs bowed out, claiming that Lake was “just interested in making a spectacle” and labeling Lake a “conspiracy theorist.”
“Kari Lake has made it clear time and time again that she’s not interested in having substantive, in depth conversations about the issues that matter to Arizonians,” Hobbs told Bash on Sunday’s CNN broadcast. “She only wants a scenario where she can control the dialogue, and she’s refused to sit down in a one-on-one lengthy conversation to really clarify with Arizonians where she is on the issues.”
After the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission, which had collaborated with PBS to host the debate, backed out, Arizona PBS had planned to interview Lake this Wednesday instead of holding the debate.
Lake has worked with Fox News before. At present, Hobbs is Arizona’s Secretary of State. On Thursday, a Fox 10 Phoenix/InsiderAdvantage survey showed that Lake had a four-point lead over Hobbs in the campaign for governor.
In addition to having the endorsement of the former president, Trump ally and Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga), Lake also has the backing of MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.
She also helps promote Trump’s false allegations that significant voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election, despite the fact that the Justice Department has found no evidence to support such accusations.
According to Lake, both Trump and Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, have “BDE,” or “big dick energy.”
DeSantis, she continued, “has BDE;” she didn’t know if the audience was familiar with the term. Does anyone have any idea what that means? Ask your kids about it later.”
On Friday, the Justice Department issued a partially redacted search warrant affidavit detailing the reasons FBI investigators visited the Florida property of former President Donald Trump this month.
As part of an ongoing criminal investigation into whether or not Trump illegally removed White House records before he left office in 2021, a search was done. In order to safeguard witnesses and the legitimacy of the inquiry, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart mandated the release of the affidavit while allowing for redactions.
Probable cause is stated for both the existence of classified materials at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and for the existence of “evidence of obstruction” there.
The statement also said there was reasonable suspicion that “evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other goods illegally possessed” would be located at Trump’s residence.
After leaving office, presidents are obligated to provide the National Archives with a large quantity of paperwork. Since last year, the National Archives and Records Administration has been pestering Trump to return documents that belong in the archives.
On Friday, an affidavit was made public claiming that federal officials suspected Trump was hiding secret materials after reviewing several boxes of Trump’s donated records to the archives. Several of the papers contained the “HSC” marks that denote top secret information.
According to the affidavit, the National Archives sent the case to the FBI in February. The FBI wanted to know who took the documents from the White House without permission, how they got there, and if Mar-a-Lago was a legitimate storage facility.
There are many potential violations of federal law listed in the affidavit, including a law that makes it illegal to steal materials relevant to national defense and not return them to the United States government. Any person who violates 18 U.S.C. 793 (e) is subject to a 10-year prison sentence and penalties.
The affidavit also refers to 18 U.S.C. 1519, which provides that anybody who obstructs justice may be subject to a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 20 years.
According to the affidavit, the government made numerous attempts to obtain the files months before the search was conducted.
On June 8th, the government addressed a letter to Trump’s legal team reiterating that “Mar-a-Lago does not have a safe place permitted for the preservation of sensitive material.” All White House items and the secure location where they are being housed were requested in the letter.
The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others, had requested that Reinhart unseal the search papers in the interest of openness and transparency.
The Justice Department persuaded Reinhart, he said on Thursday, that certain parts of the affidavit should remain sealed because their release would reveal “(1) the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties, (2) the investigation’s strategy direction, scope, sources, and methods, and (3) grand jury information.”
According to Reinhart’s analysis, the government proved its case that the withheld information is little and necessary to safeguard the operation.
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