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Michael de Adder, Washington Post :: [Robert Scott Horton]
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Letters From An American
Tonight, just before midnight, the state of Georgia indicted former president Donald J. Trump and 18 others for multiple crimes committed in that state as they tried to steal the 2020 presidential election. A special-purpose grand jury made up of citizens in Fulton County, Georgia, examined evidence and heard from 75 witnesses in the case, and issued a report in January that recommended indictments. A regular grand jury took the final report of the special grand jury into consideration and brought an indictment.
“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost” the 2020 presidential election, the indictment reads, ”and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.”
The indictment alleges that those involved in the “criminal enterprise” “constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.”
That is, while claiming to investigate voter fraud, they allegedly committed election fraud.
And that effort has run them afoul of a number of laws, including the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which is broader than federal anti-racketeering laws and carries a mandatory five-year prison term.
Those charged fall into several categories. Trump allies who operated out of the White House include lawyers Rudy Giuliani (who recently conceded in a lawsuit that he lied about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss having stuffed ballot boxes), John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, and Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Those operating in Georgia to push the scheme to manufacture a false slate of Trump electors to challenge the real Biden electors include lawyer Ray Stallings Smith III, who tried to sell the idea to legislators; Philadelphia political operative Michael Roman; former Georgia Republican chair David James Shafer, who led the fake elector meeting; and Shawn Micah Tresher Still, currently a state senator, who was the secretary of the fake elector meeting.
Those trying to intimidate election worker and witness Ruby Freeman include Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a police chaplain from Illinois; Harrison William Prescott Floyd, executive director of Black Voices for Trump; and Trevian C. Kutti, a publicist for the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Those allegedly stealing data from the voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia, and spreading it across the country in an attempt to find weaknesses in the systems that might have opened the way to fraud include Trump lawyer Sidney Powell; former Coffee County Republican Committee chair Cathleen Alston Latham; businessman Scott Graham Hall; and Coffee County election director Misty Hampton, also known as Emily Misty Hayes.
The document also referred to 30 unindicted co-conspirators.
Trump has called the case against him in Georgia partisan and launched a series of attacks on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Today, Willis told a reporter who asked about Trump’s accusations of partisanship: “I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. That's how decisions are made in every case. To date, this office has indicted, since I’ve been sitting as the district attorney, over 12,000 cases. This is the eleventh RICO indictment. We follow the same process. We look at the facts. We look at the law. And we bring charges."
The defendants have until noon on August 25 to surrender themselves to authorities.
Letters From An American
Heather Cox Richardson
#Robert Scott Horton#Washington Post#Michael de Adder#political cartoon#Letters From An American#Heather Cox Richardson#Fani Willis#RICO#Georgia#Indicted#TFG
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Michael de Adder | Drowning their sorrows | Nov. 11, 2022
#us politics#trump#elon musk#putin#russia#cartoon#michael de adder#drowning their sorrows#the washington post
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The winning team in the Philippines.
Filipinos need to boycott and even quit Facebook. Frankly, everybody should leave Facebook.
And with Elon Musk taking over Twitter soon, it’s time to ditch that platform as well.
Tech oligarchs with their unregulated media should not be allowed to exercise unlimited influence on democratic societies.
#philippines#election#bongbong marcos#mark zuckerberg#facebook#fb#facebook disinformation#quit facebook#leave facebook#delete facebook#regulate social media#michael de adder
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Michael de Adder's THE deEP STATE.
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Photo ID: Political cartoon showing a façade (fake front) to the Supreme Court of the United States, and behind the façade is a Christian church.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
#scotus#stop forced childbirth#feminism#feminist#politics#political cartoon#political cartoons#supreme courts#dobbs
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Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million more in damages, jury awards
Cartoon by Michael De Adder
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Rather than truth, give me ratings | Michael de Adder
#fox news#the big lie#trump#rupert murdoch#tucker carlson#sean hannity#ratings#pandering to a right-wing audience#cartoon#michael de adder
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Michael de Adder @deAdder :: Tucker in Russia
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
February 7, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
FEB 8, 2024
Amidst the Republican meltdown in Washington, a disturbing pattern is emerging.
Under pressure from former president Donald Trump, Republican senators today killed the $118 billion Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act that provided funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and humanitarian assistance for Gaza and also included protections for the border that Republicans themselves had demanded.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), one of the team of senators who had negotiated the bill, called out the Republicans who had staged photo ops at the border and insisted that Congress must address the rise in migration across the border… until Trump told them the opposite: “After all those trips to the desert, after all those press conferences, it turns out this crisis isn’t much of a crisis after all. Sunday morning, it’s a real crisis,” she said. “Monday morning it magically disappeared.”
After four months of Senate negotiations over the bill produced a strong bipartisan agreement, Trump pulled the rug out from under a measure that gave the Republicans much of what they wanted, partly because he wanted the issue of immigration and the border to run on in 2024, it seems, but also to demonstrate that he could command Congress to do his bidding.
It appears that Trump is trying to turn the Republican Party into an instrument he can use as he wishes.
Senator James Lankford (R-OK), whom Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tapped to negotiate the bill, today told the Senate that four weeks ago a right-wing media personality had told him “flat out—before they knew any of the contents of the bill, any of the content, nothing was out at that point—that told me flat out, ‘If you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you, because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election.’”
Lankford added, “[They] have been faithful to their promise and have done everything they can to destroy me in the past several weeks.” (MAGA radio host Jesse Kelly later claimed he was the person to whom Lankford referred, and called the Oklahoma senator a “eunuch.”)
It is not a normal part of our political system to have members of Congress deciding what laws to support on the basis of threats.
In Politico today, Burgess Everett reported that Trump-aligned MAGA Republican senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) are calling for McConnell to step down because he backed the national security measure with the border fixes MAGA demanded, suggesting that negotiating with Democrats is off-limits. Trump has consistently called for McConnell to be replaced with someone friendlier to him.
Senators aligned with Trump—Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), and J.D. Vance (R-OH), as well as Cruz and Lee—took a stand against the national security measure, creating such pressure that McConnell’s supporters quietly turned against it. Everett noted that the rapid about-face Senate Republicans made over the national security measure “is evidence of a major drift away from McConnell’s style of Republicanism and toward Trump’s.”
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said, “I have a difficult time understanding again how anyone else in the future is going to want to be on that negotiating team—on anything—if we are going to be against it.” She said: “I’ve gone through the multiple stages of grief. Today I’m just pissed off.”
Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party is showing as well in his attempt to take over the Republican National Committee, in particular a plan to replace as its chair his hand-picked loyalist Ronna McDaniel, who has ties to the old party, with someone even closer to him. Since 2016, “[t]hey’ve merged the DNA of the president’s campaign and the RNC,” a Republican operative told Matt Dixon, Olympia Sonnier, and Katherine Doyle of NBC News.
Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer reported yesterday in the Washington Post that Republicans are afraid to stand up to Trump out of fear that he will retaliate against them. In Politico today, Peder Schaefer described how in Republican-dominated Wyoming, Democrats are afraid to admit their political affiliation out of concern for their safety.
Yesterday, Politico’s Adam Wren pointed out that Trump has spent much of the last week attacking elections officials in Indiana for helping former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who is running against him for the Republican presidential nomination. He is apparently working with loyalist Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) to push the lie that Haley had forgotten to fill out the paperwork to get onto the Republican primary ballot and that election officials were cheating to get her onto it.
Officials say that these baseless accusations are an attempt to sow distrust of the 2024 election.
“Trump is reinforcing a narrative where the only acceptable outcome is his victory, thus preemptively delegitimizing any electoral defeat,” Evansville attorney and former Indiana Republican delegate Joshua Claybourn told Wren. “It sets the stage for yet another crisis of legitimacy in the November general election.”
Mike Murphy, a former Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives, offered Wren a different theory about Trump’s actions: “The bottom line is he’s completely unhinged. He is literally off his rocker.”
But there is a method behind the madness. Trump’s actions are not those designed to win an election by getting a majority of the votes. They are the tools someone who cannot win a majority uses to seize power.
Trump’s base is shrinking as his actions become more extreme, but he has a big megaphone, and it is getting bigger. As Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova pointed out in the Washington Post today, Putin’s awarding of an interview to right-wing former Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson in Moscow this week “demonstrated Putin’s interest in building bridges to the disruptive MAGA element of the Republican Party, and it seemed to reflect the Kremlin’s hope that Donald Trump would return to the presidency and that Republicans would continue to block U.S. military aid to Ukraine.”
Yesterday, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced, and more than 60 House Republicans co-sponsored, a resolution denying that Trump had engaged in insurrection in his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Former District of Columbia police officer Michael Fanone, who was badly hurt on January 6, said the resolution was “a slap in the face to those of us who almost lost everything defending the Capitol on January 6th, including protecting some of the very Members of Congress who are now attempting to rewrite history to exonerate former President Trump.
“But no piece of paper signed by a group of spineless extremists will ever change the facts about that dark day:” he wrote, “the insurrection was violent, it was deadly and it will happen again if we do not expunge the MAGA ideology that stoked the flames of insurrection in the first place. Rep. Matt Gaetz and every supporter of this resolution must be held accountable for their lies and un-American efforts to undermine our democracy.”
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
#Letters From An American#Heather Cox Richardson#Putin#War in Ukraine#War in Israel#US House of Representatives#US Congress#insurrection#Russia#MAGA extremists#Michael de Adder
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Opinion | Untruth social | Twitter under Elon Musk
A cartoon by Michael de Adder
This is pretty much how I imagine Twitter will be once Elon Musk takes over. 😬
#twitter#elon musk#untruth social#twitter under elon musk#cartoon#michael de adder#the washington post
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Cumpleaños 🎂
Feliz 69 aniversario Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (Consett, Durham, Inglaterra, 6 de enero de 1955) es un actor, comediante y escritor británico.
Interpretó los papeles principales en las comedias "Blackadder" (1983-1989) y "Mr. Bean" (1990-1995), y la serie de películas "Johnny English" (2003-2018).
Atkinson saltó a la fama por primera vez en el programa de comedia de sketches de la BBC Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979-1982), recibiendo el premio de televisión de la Academia Británica de 1981 a la mejor interpretación de entretenimiento, y The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), donde interpretó un sketch.
Las parodias posteriores en el escenario han presentado actuaciones en solitario y colaboraciones.
El menor de cuatro hijos, sus padres eran Eric Atkinson, un granjero y consejero empresarial, y Ella May (de soltera Bainbridge), quienes se casaron el 29 de junio de 1945.3 Sus tres hermanos mayores son Paul, que murió cuando era un bebé, Rodney, economista y político euroescéptico que perdió por un estrecho margen el liderato del Partido de la Independencia del Reino Unido (UKIP) en 2000, y Rupert.
Atkinson fue criado como anglicano y estudió en la Durham Choristers School, St. Bees School, y en las universidades de Oxford y Newcastle, donde obtuvo el grado de Ingeniería Eléctrica, que completó posteriormente con un máster en el Queen's College de Oxford, la misma facultad de la que fue alumno su padre y de la que es Miembro Honorario desde 2006.
En 1983 escribió, en colaboración con el guionista Richard Curtis, la famosa comedia "La víbora negra"
Ha obtenido diversos premios, como el Emmy y el BAFTA por las categorías de programas televisivos de entretenimiento. Actuó en varias películas, como "Hot Shots 2", "Scooby Doo" y una de las secuelas de James Bond: "Nunca digas nunca jamás" (1983), y las diversas encarnaciones de la serie de televisión "La víbora negra" (1983), "Funny Business" (1992) y "Bean" (1997) le dieron el salto a la fama.
En 2001 formó parte de un reparto coral en "Ratas a la carrera", junto con John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg y Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Es un apasionado de los coches deportivos. Ha sufrido dos accidentes de tráfico: en 2008 chocó contra otro automóvil y en 2011 se estrelló contra un árbol cuando conducía su McLaren F1 en Cambridgeshire.
En 2012, participó en la ceremonia de apertura de los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres.
En junio de 2015, Atkinson vendió el McLaren por 8 000 000 de libras, tras haber sido el único propietario, con un recorrido de 41 000 millas y dos accidentes.
En 2022 protagonizó la serie de "Man vs. Bee" para Netflix con 9 capítulos.
Y en 2023 protagonizó "Wonka" la nueva adaptación del chocolatero más famoso de la historia y compartirá protagonismo con Timothée Chalamet, Keegan-Michael Key y Sally Hawkins.
En 1990 se casó con la maquilladora de la BBC TV Sunetra Sastry (1957), de padre hindú y madre inglesa, a la que conoció mientras rodaba su serie "Black Adder" en 1986.
El 9 de septiembre de 1993 nació en Londres su hijo Benjamin Atkinson, que actualmente es militar, ya que estudió en la Real Academia Militar de Sandurst de Londres. Dos años después, en 1995, nacería su hija Lilly Atkinson, actualmente actriz y cantante de burlesque, que tras el divorcio de sus padres adoptó el apellido de su madre, pasándose a llamar Lilly Sastry.
Actualmente es pareja de la actriz Louise Ford (nacida en noviembre de 1984), tras separarse de Sunetra Sastry en 2014. Tiene una hija con Ford, nacida a principios de diciembre de 2017 y llamada Isla Atkinson.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/02/michael-deadder-cartoon-charles-saunders/
Here's a cartoon strip from The Washington Post by Michael de Adder about a dear friend of his, and how his friend went from being a John Doe to having a memorial stone set at his gravesite.
His friend was Charles Saunders, who wrote the graphic novel IMARO.
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