Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

Trump Demanded El Mencho’s Head. Mexico Suffers the Violence. "The spasm of violence came amid a heavy-handed pressure campaign by the Trump administration, which for the past year has explicitly blamed Sheinbaum’s government for allowing traffickers to flood the U.S. with fentanyl and other drugs. President Donald Trump has previously insinuated that the government of Mexico is captured by trafficking networks, and  threatened unilateral military action  to stop the flow of drugs."

The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Reporting Two journalists, former CNN host Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort, were arrested Friday after covering a  recent protest at a Minneapolis-area church . According to the Department of Justice, Lemon’s crime was a start-to-finish livestream reporting on the protest, beginning with an organizing meeting and concluding with the protest itself at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.  See more at highlighted link above.

Authoritarianism: How You Know It When You See It

Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post | CNN Politics : Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election and reinstate him to power Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories.

Kanye, Trump and the return of overt American antisemitism - The Washington Post : Antisemitism watchers say the millennia-old prejudice has not been so overt in American life in decades.

Trump attacks American Jews, says they must 'get their act together' on Israel 'before it's too late' He is not the POTUS who has done the most for Israel.  He is antisemitic according to his actions, his words, and Michael Cohen.  We have to stop Christian Nationalism in the USA.  That means voting blue this November.  Many of the GOP in this race are election deniers, and insurrection supporting Christian Nationalists.  If you don't want a Hitler-era USA, you have to vote blue.

'Terrifying' That Imposter, Secret Files Both at Mar-a-Lago: Ex-CIA Agent

What We Learned From the Documents Taken From Trump's Home - The New York Times : Items removed from Mar-a-Lago included files marked as top secret and meant to be viewed only in secure government facilities, according to a copy of the warrant.

Exclusive: Retired Republican judge says January 6 was 'well-developed plan' by Trump to cling to power - CNNPolitics : Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican who is testifying at Thursday's January 6 committee hearing, will provide a sharp condemnation of former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election, saying Trump and his allies "instigated" a war on democracy "so that he could cling to power," according to a written statement he intends to submit for the committee's record obtained exclusively by CNN.

The Proud Boys' Jan. 6 Sedition Hearings Begin With Implications For Trump | HuffPost Latest News : The seditious conspiracy case concerns the group's alleged outsize role in the insurrection, and may illuminate their connections to Trump and his allies.

Email shows fake Trump electors in Georgia told to conduct plan in ‘secrecy’ : Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!

Trump Didn't Think Hanging Mike Pence on Jan. 6 Was Bad Idea: Report - Rolling Stone

Ex-Defense Secretary: Trump Told Pentagon To Shoot George Floyd Protesters | HuffPost Latest News : Mark Esper writes that Trump wanted to "just shoot them in the legs or something."

Ivanka Trump 'Incriminated' Her Father With 1/6 Testimony: Glenn Kirschner : The former president's eldest daughter testified before the House select committee on Tuesday, with the chair saying her testimony had "significant value."

White House Records Recovered From Trump At Mar-a-Lago Contained Classified Information | HuffPost Latest News : The National Archives said it also discovered records that had been torn up and taped back together.

Trump’s SPAC Investors Do Not Know What They Are Buying

‘We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis’: A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S. | Religion Dispatches

Mnuchin and Pompeo discussed removing Trump after Capitol attack, book claims | Donald Trump | The Guardian : Two cabinet members considered invoking the 25th amendment, new book by the ABC White House correspondent says

Trump seeking to block hundreds of pages of documents from Jan. 6 committee, court filing shows - The Washington Post : Some of the materials Trump is trying to withhold include emails, call logs, briefing lists and the draft of a speech for the Jan. 6 Save America March. He is an unmitigated schmuck.

Biden does not plan to shield Trump docs in Jan. 6 probe