Trump Could Pay $156,000 For Every J*** 6 R****r’s Defense, But So Far Has Spent Zero
Nov 25, 2021 22:31:13 #
Thu, November 25, 2021, 7:00 AM
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump could pay $156,000 in legal expenses for every person arrested thus far in the J*** 6 assault on the Capitol using the $105 million he has collected by spreading the same lies he used to incite the attack, but so far has not helped a single one of the nearly 700 r****rs.
“Many people who went there that day are disappointed by his lack of support,” said one defense lawyer on the condition of anonymity so as not to hurt his J*** 6 client’s case. “If President Trump was ever going to step up and step in, the time to do it is right now.”
Albert Watkins, the lawyer for the self-described “Q***n Shaman” who last week was sentenced to three and half years in federal prison for his role in the attack, was far more blunt speaking to reporters afterward about what Trump should do.
“I’d tell him, ’You know what? You’ve got a few fucking things to do. Including clearing this fucking mess up and taking care of a lot of the jackasses that you fucked up because of J****** 6,’” he said.
In all, 670 of Trump’s J*** 6 mob face permanent criminal records and five- and six-figure legal bills for believing Trump’s lies that the 2020 p**********l e******n had been stolen from him, and acting on his requests that they do something about it.
Cynthia Hughes, who is collecting money to help J*** 6 defendants — her “Patriot Freedom Project” web site offers visitors the opportunity to make a “1*6 Thanksgiving Pledge” — appeared on Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast and urged Trump to act.
“They’re disappointed they haven’t heard from him. They’re disappointed he hasn’t spoken out,” she said on Nov. 13. “President Trump, I need to hear from you. I need to hear from you immediately, because we need your help, and we need to know that you’re behind us. That you support these people that support you.”
Trump, though, appears to have done nothing to support his followers, outside of the occasional public statement claiming they are being “persecuted” by his successor’s administration.
In a March 25 Fox News appearance, he claimed: “They’re persecuting a lot of those people.” And in a Sept. 16 statement, he wrote: “Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the J****** 6th protest concerning the R****d P**********l E******n.”
Federal E******n Commission records, meanwhile, show that through the first half of this year, Trump had not paid for anyone’s legal costs related to J*** 6, other than possibly his own. Through June 30, Trump’s “Save America” political committee had paid $206,480 to E******ns, LLC, the firm co-founded by Justin Clark, one of the lawyers representing Trump in its dealings with the House J*** 6 c*******e.
How much of that money precisely went toward his attempts to keep secret his involvement in that day’s attack cannot be determined through public records, and neither Trump’s office nor Clark responded to HuffPost queries.
In all, 140 police officers were injured by Trump’s mob, with five officers dying over a period of weeks in addition to four Trump supporters who died that day.
But Trump, both during his impeachment for inciting the attack as well as in comments afterwards, has refused to take any responsibility for what happened — even though he himself invited his followers to descend on the Capitol on that particular date and at his rally urged them to march on the Capitol to “fight like hell” to persuade then-Vice President Mike Pence to install Trump into a second term.
A pro-Trump mob confronts U.S. C*****l p****e outside the Senate chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on J*** 6 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A pro-Trump mob confronts U.S. C*****l p****e outside the Senate chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on J*** 6 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A number of those arrested in the weeks and months afterward have cited Trump’s exhortations as the main reason they came to Washington and wound up illegally entering the Capitol.
The “Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, actually requested that Trump pardon him before he left office on Jan. 20. Trump ignored that request, but did pardon Bannon, who helped Trump incite the J*** 6 assault, on unrelated theft and fraud charges in the final hours of his presidency.
“Trump has not offered to pay, much less paid, legal fees,” Watkins said. “To be fair, he wasn’t asked to pay legal fees.”
FEC records show Trump has spent millions of Save America’s dollars to raise more money, well over a million on legal fees and hundreds of thousands on staff to maintain his public visibility with press releases and political rallies. He has also managed to funnel $180,000 back into his own businesses, including over $150,000 in rent for a lightly used office at his Trump Tower building in Manhattan.
The $105 million Save America had available at the end of June has likely grown to at least $125 million, meaning Trump has probably raised enough money from his donors to pay all of the legal expenses of all 2,000 or so of his supporters who could wind up being charged, if the average legal bill is $62,500 or less. Precise figures for Save America’s fundraising and spending for the second half of 2021 will not be available until January.
Trump became the first president in 232 years of U.S. e******ns to refuse to turn over power peacefully to his successor.
He spent weeks attacking the legitimacy of the Nov. 3, 2020, contest that he lost, starting his lies in the predawn hours of Nov. 4 that he had really won in a “landslide” and that his victory was being “stolen” from him. Those falsehoods continued through a long string of failed lawsuits challenging the results in a handful of states.
Trump and some of his advisers even discussed using the military by invoking the I**********n Act or declaring martial law to retain power despite having lost the e******n, including by seizing v****g machines and ordering “re-v**es” in states narrowly won by Democrat Joe Biden.
But military leaders had earlier made it clear they would not involve themselves in the political process, so after the E*******l College finally v**ed on Dec. 14, making Biden’s win official, Trump instead turned to a last-ditch scheme to pressure his own vice president into canceling the b****ts of millions of v**ers in several states Biden won and declaring Trump the winner during the pro forma c***********l c***********n of the e******n results on J*** 6.
Trump asked his followers to come to Washington that day and then told the tens of thousands who showed up to march on the Capitol to intimidate Pence into doing what Trump wanted. “When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules,” Trump said.
The mob of supporters he incited attempted to do his bidding by storming the building. They even chanted “Hang Mike Pence” after the vice president refused to comply with Trump’s demands.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump could pay $156,000 in legal expenses for every person arrested thus far in the J*** 6 assault on the Capitol using the $105 million he has collected by spreading the same lies he used to incite the attack, but so far has not helped a single one of the nearly 700 r****rs.
“Many people who went there that day are disappointed by his lack of support,” said one defense lawyer on the condition of anonymity so as not to hurt his J*** 6 client’s case. “If President Trump was ever going to step up and step in, the time to do it is right now.”
Albert Watkins, the lawyer for the self-described “Q***n Shaman” who last week was sentenced to three and half years in federal prison for his role in the attack, was far more blunt speaking to reporters afterward about what Trump should do.
“I’d tell him, ’You know what? You’ve got a few fucking things to do. Including clearing this fucking mess up and taking care of a lot of the jackasses that you fucked up because of J****** 6,’” he said.
In all, 670 of Trump’s J*** 6 mob face permanent criminal records and five- and six-figure legal bills for believing Trump’s lies that the 2020 p**********l e******n had been stolen from him, and acting on his requests that they do something about it.
Cynthia Hughes, who is collecting money to help J*** 6 defendants — her “Patriot Freedom Project” web site offers visitors the opportunity to make a “1*6 Thanksgiving Pledge” — appeared on Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast and urged Trump to act.
“They’re disappointed they haven’t heard from him. They’re disappointed he hasn’t spoken out,” she said on Nov. 13. “President Trump, I need to hear from you. I need to hear from you immediately, because we need your help, and we need to know that you’re behind us. That you support these people that support you.”
Trump, though, appears to have done nothing to support his followers, outside of the occasional public statement claiming they are being “persecuted” by his successor’s administration.
In a March 25 Fox News appearance, he claimed: “They’re persecuting a lot of those people.” And in a Sept. 16 statement, he wrote: “Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the J****** 6th protest concerning the R****d P**********l E******n.”
Federal E******n Commission records, meanwhile, show that through the first half of this year, Trump had not paid for anyone’s legal costs related to J*** 6, other than possibly his own. Through June 30, Trump’s “Save America” political committee had paid $206,480 to E******ns, LLC, the firm co-founded by Justin Clark, one of the lawyers representing Trump in its dealings with the House J*** 6 c*******e.
How much of that money precisely went toward his attempts to keep secret his involvement in that day’s attack cannot be determined through public records, and neither Trump’s office nor Clark responded to HuffPost queries.
In all, 140 police officers were injured by Trump’s mob, with five officers dying over a period of weeks in addition to four Trump supporters who died that day.
But Trump, both during his impeachment for inciting the attack as well as in comments afterwards, has refused to take any responsibility for what happened — even though he himself invited his followers to descend on the Capitol on that particular date and at his rally urged them to march on the Capitol to “fight like hell” to persuade then-Vice President Mike Pence to install Trump into a second term.
A pro-Trump mob confronts U.S. C*****l p****e outside the Senate chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on J*** 6 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A pro-Trump mob confronts U.S. C*****l p****e outside the Senate chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on J*** 6 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A number of those arrested in the weeks and months afterward have cited Trump’s exhortations as the main reason they came to Washington and wound up illegally entering the Capitol.
The “Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, actually requested that Trump pardon him before he left office on Jan. 20. Trump ignored that request, but did pardon Bannon, who helped Trump incite the J*** 6 assault, on unrelated theft and fraud charges in the final hours of his presidency.
“Trump has not offered to pay, much less paid, legal fees,” Watkins said. “To be fair, he wasn’t asked to pay legal fees.”
FEC records show Trump has spent millions of Save America’s dollars to raise more money, well over a million on legal fees and hundreds of thousands on staff to maintain his public visibility with press releases and political rallies. He has also managed to funnel $180,000 back into his own businesses, including over $150,000 in rent for a lightly used office at his Trump Tower building in Manhattan.
The $105 million Save America had available at the end of June has likely grown to at least $125 million, meaning Trump has probably raised enough money from his donors to pay all of the legal expenses of all 2,000 or so of his supporters who could wind up being charged, if the average legal bill is $62,500 or less. Precise figures for Save America’s fundraising and spending for the second half of 2021 will not be available until January.
Trump became the first president in 232 years of U.S. e******ns to refuse to turn over power peacefully to his successor.
He spent weeks attacking the legitimacy of the Nov. 3, 2020, contest that he lost, starting his lies in the predawn hours of Nov. 4 that he had really won in a “landslide” and that his victory was being “stolen” from him. Those falsehoods continued through a long string of failed lawsuits challenging the results in a handful of states.
Trump and some of his advisers even discussed using the military by invoking the I**********n Act or declaring martial law to retain power despite having lost the e******n, including by seizing v****g machines and ordering “re-v**es” in states narrowly won by Democrat Joe Biden.
But military leaders had earlier made it clear they would not involve themselves in the political process, so after the E*******l College finally v**ed on Dec. 14, making Biden’s win official, Trump instead turned to a last-ditch scheme to pressure his own vice president into canceling the b****ts of millions of v**ers in several states Biden won and declaring Trump the winner during the pro forma c***********l c***********n of the e******n results on J*** 6.
Trump asked his followers to come to Washington that day and then told the tens of thousands who showed up to march on the Capitol to intimidate Pence into doing what Trump wanted. “When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules,” Trump said.
The mob of supporters he incited attempted to do his bidding by storming the building. They even chanted “Hang Mike Pence” after the vice president refused to comply with Trump’s demands.
Nov 25, 2021 22:49:11 #
microphor
Loc: Home is TN
Michael10 wrote:
Thu, November 25, 2021, 7:00 AM br br WASHINGTON ... (show quote)
How many times are going to post the same damn thing
Nov 25, 2021 22:53:02 #
microphor wrote:
How many times are going to post the same damn thing
As many times as necessary to get it through you head, Trump doesn't care about anyone except trump.
Nov 25, 2021 22:55:36 #
Nov 25, 2021 22:58:20 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
microphor wrote:
How many times are going to post the same damn thing
He’s like a spoiled brat. Seeks attention with childish points. Might as well ask why Harris helped bail out r****r, l**ters, and criminals who assaulted cops.
Nov 25, 2021 23:03:18 #
microphor
Loc: Home is TN
Michael10 wrote:
As many times as necessary to get it through you head, Trump doesn't care about anyone except trump.
The only head you need to get through is yours! Don't believe that he instigated a r**t of any sort. "Go peacefully and patrioctally"!
Nov 25, 2021 23:05:26 #
microphor wrote:
The only head you need to get through is yours! Don't believe that he instigated a r**t of any sort. "Go peacefully and patrioctally"!
"Fight like hell" I'll be there with you.
Nov 25, 2021 23:22:27 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
Michael10 wrote:
"Fight like hell" I'll be there with you.
You do know Biden, Clinton, Maxine Waters, and countless other politicians have used that slogan or one very much like that? You’re hypocrite and a liar.
Nov 25, 2021 23:23:23 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
This kids a hero. Sure can handle a gun way better than that pussy prosecutor.
Nov 25, 2021 23:24:26 #
proud republican
Loc: RED CALIFORNIA
Michael10 wrote:
"Fight like hell" I'll be there with you.
'Fight like hell' is overused sentence...Dems been saying it a lot!!
Nov 25, 2021 23:30:41 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
proud republican wrote:
'Fight like hell's is overused sentence...Dems been saying it a lot!!
It’s a childish and ridiculous quote to point at as the reason for a r**t. They have nothing else. They can’t even admit the guy they put in charge is a weak, demented, corrupt, fool. They always default to Trump. Dumbest people in the country. When lying is seen as a virtue it’s easy for progressives to post stupid stuff.
Nov 25, 2021 23:53:25 #
microphor
Loc: Home is TN
Michael10 wrote:
"Fight like hell" I'll be there with you.
Well I guess that explains why l*****t started attacking Trump supporters in restaurants, parking lots, crossing streets eating lunch, they took what Maxine Waterworks said literally, like you're taking this statement literally.
Nov 26, 2021 03:51:18 #
Michael10 wrote:
Thu, November 25, 2021, 7:00 AM br br WASHINGTON ... (show quote)
It's almost as though Trump doesn't support their actions... Weird...
Nov 26, 2021 09:13:23 #
Michael10 wrote:
Thu, November 25, 2021, 7:00 AM br br WASHINGTON ... (show quote)
You guys all read from the same compost pile!! Lol zombie herd think!
Nov 26, 2021 11:32:48 #
microphor wrote:
How many times are going to post the same damn thing
It needs to be and get posted as many times as it takes to bring facts home every conservative i**********nist trys like hell to deny ,fails and falls flat faster than beer in the sun.
It has become this generations pearl harbor and needs to stay in the forefront as long as needed.
Also.
Not one of drumpfs rallies have been paid for, or his Ghouliani defacto liar/ lawyer and a mob of i**********nists are hoping for monetary input? That's friggin hilarious.
As well as el cheapo,as if his own issues are not more pressing, so as to need every cent tiny hands can steal. with business booming and all.
Que the pundit parade.
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