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Drumpf back on FB

Two years ago, after Trump used social media to incite a bloody insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, he was suspended from virtually every social media platform. Now he's back, with Twitter as well as Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announcing that he will be allowed back on their platforms imminently.

We know what will happen next. Lies, hate, and conspiracy theories will spew forth from Trump and spread out of control, scarily, and likely provoking more violence.

Clearly, Twitter and Meta should reverse those decisions. However, since that appears unlikely, we need to prepare a response — and this is a moment that Inequality Media was built for.

We're one of the only progressive organizations that has built a following large enough to go toe-to-toe with the right-wing conspiracy theorists who flourish on Facebook. In addition, the data show that we're not just preaching to the choir. We have an unusually large following of persuadable and independent-leaning conservatives who in fact tend to engage with our content at an even higher rate.

With Trump — and his volcano of hate and lies — coming back on Facebook and Twitter, we must ramp up our capacity for eye-catching videos and graphics to counter the lies and minimize the damage. Will you make a donation today to help fund Inequality Media and beat back Trump's lies and conspiracy theories?

Trump is far worse than an ugly politician. He’s a dangerous traitor to American democracy.

When Trump was banned from Facebook, the company promised not to allow him back unless he no longer posed "serious risk to public safety." However, over the last two years, his posts on Truth Social, the platform he owns, have gotten more extreme and dangerous, openly embracing the violent QAnon conspiracy and Holocaust deniers while making ever more outlandish false claims about the 2020 election being stolen.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs and the U.K.’s former deputy prime minister, wrote in announcing the decision that “The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying — the good, the bad, and the ugly — so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box.”

With due respect to Nick Clegg, this is rubbish.

Worse yet, Facebook says it has a “policy” of not fact-checking political candidates, so it will make no effort to correct Trump’s future lies on its platform, because Trump has declared himself a candidate for president in 2024.

We’ve seen the violence that Trump can and will provoke given a megaphone this huge, and we need to fight back by countering his lies and inoculating the public against his most dangerous falsehoods. We're using scientifically tested messaging tactics to develop and deploy the most effective content for shifting public opinion, and we know it's working. But we rely on donors like you to help make this work.

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+  President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday will take place in a U.S. Capitol on high alert, with memories fresh of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the building by supporters of his predecessor, Donald Tr*mp. + The crowd inside the Capitol will be a fraction of the hundreds of members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, top government officials and guests who typically attend, to allow for more social distancing in a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 572,000 Americans. + But security will be higher than usual, even for what is officially designated a "National Special Security Event," with the Secret Service in charge of security. + The white-domed building is still surrounded by a black steel mesh fence with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops from 18 states plus the District of Columbia on duty in the city, the vestiges of a much larger force put in place after Tr*mp supporters stormed the building as Congress was voting to certify Biden's election victory.

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+ The charges in the case include conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, and unauthorized entry to a Secret Service-restricted area — in some cases with weapons. + The new indictment appears to be the third major conspiracy case lodged by prosecutors in connection with events at the Capitol on Jan. 6. + While the two other large conspiracy cases focus on groups known as the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers that allegedly stormed the Capitol building, only one of those charged in the new case is accused of actually entering the Capitol.  Instead, prosecutors allege that the remainder crossed police lines and went onto the Capitol’s Upper West Terrace. + Two men charged in the new indictment, Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor, were among organizers of a Virginia Women for Tr*mp rally held outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 5, endorsing Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

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+ “This is a very ongoing investigation and there's a lot more to come," Wray said during an oversight hearing held by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. "I would expect to see more charges — some of them maybe more serious charges." + Wray testified that the FBI considered the attack an act of "domestic terrorism." He said he understands why Democratic lawmakers have called the attack an "insurrection," but said it would not be appropriate for him to use that word because of the effect it could have on pending criminal cases. + "In my role as FBI director, because that's a term that has legal meaning, I really have to be careful about using words like that," Wray said. + Democratic lawmakers repeatedly grilled Wray, appointed by Tr*mp in 2017,

over what they said were intelligence failures that left law enforcement ill-prepared for the deadly attack.  "The FBI's inaction in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 is simply baffling," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said. + "It is hard to tell whether FBI headquarters merely missed the evidence — which had been flagged by your field offices and was available online for all the world to see — or whether the Bureau saw the intelligence, underestimated the threat, and simply failed to act,"  Nadler said. + Wray responded that on Jan. 5 an FBI field office in Virginia issued an explicit warning, sent to U.S. Capitol Police, that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence.  Wray added that "almost none" of the 500 people charged so far with participating in the attack had been under FBI investigation previously, suggesting it would have been difficult for the FBI to have monitored them in advance. + "You can be darn sure that we are going to be looking hard at how we can do better, how we can do more, how we can do things differently in terms of collecting and disseminating" intelligence, Wray said. + Asked whether the FBI was investigating Tr*mp or his associate Roger Stone, Wray said he could neither confirm nor deny any FBI investigation. + "I'm talking about Mr. Big, Number One," said Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, referring to Trump. "Have you gone after the people who incited the riot?" + Wray responded: "I don't think it would be appropriate for me to be discussing whether or not we are or aren't investigating specific individuals."

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+ Yogananda Pittman told the leaders Thursday in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that the board that oversees her department has so far declined to extend an emergency declaration required by the Pentagon to keep Guardsmen who have assisted Capitol officers since the riot. + Pittman said she needed the leaders' assistance with the three-member Capitol Police Board, which reports to them. She said the board has sent her a list of actions it wants her to implement, though she said it was unclear whether the points were orders or just recommendations. + The letter underscored the confusion over how best to secure the Capitol after a dismal lack of protection in January and biting criticism for law enforcement's handling of the invasion.

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 + A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post that contradicts a senior official’s declaration the bureau had no intelligence indicating anyone at last week’s demonstrations in support of Pres-ident Tr*mp planned to do harm. ... + “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating, ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.’  ” ... + Yet even with that information in hand, the report’s unidentified author expressed concern that the FBI might be encroaching on free-speech rights. The warning is the starkest evidence yet of the sizable intelligence failure that preceded the mayhem, which claimed the lives of five people, although one law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid disciplinary action, said the failure was not one of intelligence but of acting on the intelligence.

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+ Fani Willis built her career trying homicide cases in Atlanta. She now finds herself doing what most Republican Senators were trying to avoid: weighing whether to punish Tr*mp for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. ... + According to a letter sent on Wednesday to top Georgia state officials informing them of her campaign interference investigation, Willis is focused on the solicitation of election fraud, false statements, conspiracy and racketeering. She doesn’t specifically name Tr*mp, but the subject of the investigation is clear. + ”It has come to our attention via media reports that contacts were made by subjects of the investigation with other agencies that could be investigating this

matter, including the Secretary of State, the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern District of Georgia,” she wrote. + Tr*mp called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, urging the election official to find 11,780 votes -- one more than he needed to beat Joe Biden.  A recording of the hour-long call was made public. Raffensperger’s office declined to comment.  + Willis’ investigation comes days after Raffensperger announced his own probe of attempts to alter the result of the vote.Several of Georgia’s laws related to election fraud are misdemeanors, punishable by as long as a year in jail.  A conspiracy charge is a felony, according to Kay Levine, a law professor at Emory University.  She said Tr*mp’s call to Raffensperger seems to be evidence of solicitation.... + Kay Levine, a law professor at Emory University, said the conspiracy didn’t have to be successful in order to be charged. + While the public is aware of the Raffensperger call, other evidence might also emerge, she said. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who is sitting in judgment of Trump’s conduct in the Senate impeachment trial, called Raffensperger in November, in what appeared to be a quest to find out if some Biden votes could be disqualified.House impeachment managers concluded their case in the Senate on Thursday and while some Republicans said the Democrats’ presentation was very effective, there was little sign that enough of them would be moved to convict Trump. At least 17 GOP votes are needed to reach the two-thirds majority necessary for conviction.

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+ Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), for example, is overseeing the proceedings, while also serving as a "juror."  He's also, incidentally, a witness to the crime. In fact, in this case, each of the jurors are witnesses, which in a normal trial would never be permissible. + And because the usual rules and procedures of an American trial do not apply to the Senate's impeachment proceedings, it stands to reason that there will be dramatic differences in how senators approach their responsibilities. But by any sensible measure, it's tough to defend tactics like these. + [Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz] were seen going into a meeting with Tr*mp's lawyers after the trial wrapped for the day.

"We were discussing their strategy for tomorrow and we were sharing our thoughts in terms of where the argument was and where it should go," Cruz, who's said he'll vote to acquit the former president, told reporters afterward. + [Defense attorney David] Schoen said they discussed "procedure."  Clearly, procedural considerations were not the sole focus. Not only did Cruz concede that the GOP senators offered ideas about what the defense attorneys should say, but members of Team Trump publicly thanked the Republicans for their recommendations. + Or put another way, using the loose terms applied to the impeachment process, this is a trial in which three jurors huddled in private with defense attorneys, offering guidance on how best to persuade other jurors. + There's no reason to believe anyone involved will face any sanctions as a result of this, but don't be too quick to dismiss the private chat as unimportant. For one thing, David Schoen seems a little too eager to have it both ways. He's repeatedly suggested, for example, that an impeachment trial should be seen as an actual trial -- with due process in the House, literal criminal charges, etc. -- only to turn around and have private, in-person communications with a trio of jurors. + For another, it's no small matter that Graham, Lee, and Cruz apparently thought such a meeting was necessary. If Donald Tr*mp's acquittal were inevitable, and the House impeachment managers' presentation changed nothing, why bother directing the former president's defense attorneys?

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+ U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) noted the “panic-stricken” pleas from police officers overwhelmed by the mob, coming at the same time as Tr*mp was calling up senators to demand they decertify the election.“Presumably, since we were at that point being evacuated, and I think he was told that, there was some awareness of the events. What I hope the defense does is explain that.” ... + Tr*mp’s delayed response to the attack on the Capitol has been detailed in news reports that he was delighted by the spectacle as he watched it unfold on television. + Democratic House impeachment managers also noted a tweet sent out by

Tr*mp, minutes after his vice president Mike Pence was evacuated from the senate, saying, “Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.” + The argument that Tr*mp was derelict in duty as president and commander in chief by failing to take action to stop the riot — or even urge his supporters to go home — is what National Review columnist Andy McCarthy says is the strongest argument that Tr*mp should be convicted.

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+ According to the contents of the Feb. 10 letter, reviewed by USA TODAY, prosecutors are investigating solicitation of election fraud, false statements, conspiracy, oath of office violations, racketeering and violence associated with threats to the election process. ... + In a phone call Jan. 2, Tr*mp pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to reverse his loss.  "So look, all I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state," Tr*mp told Raffensperger according to audio of that call. + Separately, Tr*mp also urged a Georgia election investigator in a phone call in December to "find the fraud."  Tr*mp called the state’s lead election

investigator shortly before Christmas as officials were looking into allegations of fraud in Cobb County. The call was first reported by The Washington Post, which did not identify the name of the investigator. + A Georgia official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters confirmed the details of the call to USA TODAY.  The action by the Fulton County district attorney was first reported by The New York Times. + Disclosure of the Georgia investigation comes on the second day of Tr*mp's impeachment trial in the Senate. He is accused of inciting a deadly riot at the Capitol where Tr*mp supporters sought to forcibly halt the certification of the election of President Joe Biden after months of Tr*mp claiming there was widespread election fraud -- even though his own Justice Department found no evidence of such fraud. + Tr*mp made reference to Raffensperger during the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the Capitol attack and defended his telephone call with the secretary of state.

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+ The nine impeachment managers presenting the charge against the former pres-ident argue that he betrayed his oath of office by inciting his followers to storm the Capitol.  Tr8mp’s lawyers counter that he didn’t prod his supporters to violence and simply exercised his First Amendment rights. ... + Representative David Cicilline tore into Tr*mp, saying he did nothing to protect lawmakers from the mob at the Capitol for hours and contended that the president was initially “delighted” by the attack. ... + Representative Joaquin Castro, another of the House managers, said all Tr*mp had to do was to intervene earlier than he did to say “stop, go home.”“Tr*mp left everyone in this Capitol for dead,” Castro said. ... + South Dakota Senator John Thune, the No. 2 GOP leader, wouldn’t rule out voting to convict Tr*mp and said Wednesday’s presentation by Democratic House impeachment managers was “very effective.”

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+ Vice President Mike Pence being hustled out of the Senate chamber as rioters approached. Rep. Dan Kildee telling fellow House members to remove their congressional pins so rioters wouldn't identify them. Ashli Babbit crumpling to the floor after being shot and killed. + In a series of harrowing video and audio clips capturing various vantage points of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, House managers prosecuting former Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp at Wednesday's impeachment trial said the proof of Tr*mp's guilt was in watching and listening. + "Anyone they got their hands on they would have killed," Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic delegate from the Virgin Islands and a House prosecutor, said as

she showed some of the videos of the assault. + Dozens of clips, several from previously undisclosed security cameras, showed in vivid detail the violence police officers faced at the Capitol and just how close high-ranking U.S. officials and their staff were to coming face-to-face with the mob. + “They were talking about assassinating the vice president of the United States,” Plaskett said as she guided senators who will decide Tr*mp's guilt from moment to moment during the assault that killed five people, including U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. + “They did it because Donald Tr*mp sent them," she said. He put a "target on their backs and his mob broke into the Capitol to hunt them down."

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+ In a speech Thursday (6-24-2021)), former Vice President Mike Pence broke from former pres-ident Donald Tr*mp by saying he did his constitutional duty when he led the certification of the election results. + At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, Pence defended his actions on January 6, the day a pro-Tr*mp mob breached the Capitol and forced lawmakers to evacuate.  Some members of the mob believed the vice president could stop the certification, as Tr*mp had claimed, and were chanting: "Hang Mike Pence." + "Now there are those in our party who believe that in my position as presiding officer over the joint session that I possessed the authority to reject or return electoral votes certified by the states," Pence said. "But the Constitution provides the vice president with no such authority before the joint session of Congress." + He added: "And the truth is there is almost no idea more un-American than the idea that one person could choose the president. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. And I will always be proud that we did our part on that tragic day to reconvene the Congress and fulfilled our duty under the Constitution and the laws of the United States."

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+ An accused January 6 rioter says he only stormed the U.S. Capitol because former pres-ident Donald Tr*mp told his supporters to do so. + Anthony Antonio has been charged with a number of counts connected to the Capitol insurrection, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, and destruction of government property. + Antonio told CNN on Friday morning (6-11-2021) that he only stormed the Capitol after Tr*mp said to go there during his speech at the "Stop the Steal" rally being held before the riot. + "He called people to Washington, D.C., that day.  He said march down to the Capitol.  I personally would not have marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and walked to the Capitol, on the grass of the Capitol," Antonio said. + "I told you were I was supposed to go. I was supposed to go to Freedom Plaza, that was my plan ... if [Tr*mp] didn't say 'go down to the Capitol,' I wouldn't have gone down to the Capitol."

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+ Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.  As a result of a plea deal, he will face a substantially lower sentence and fine, which Judge Randolph Ross estimated could range between 15 months and 21 months in prison, though that could be subject to change.  Hodgkins also will pay $2,000 in restitution, the judge said. + In April, a self-described member of the Oath Keepers militia group became the first Capitol rioter to plead guilty to the charges against him and enter into a plea agreement with the government.  That agreement requires the man, Jon Schaffer, to fully cooperate with the government's investigation. + Last month, another assistant U.S attorney told a judge she had put in a request for a plea offer in the case against Couy Griffin, a New Mexico elected official and founder of the group "Cowboys for Tr*mp." + Hodgkins was arrested in February in Florida after a tipster first identified him to the FBI. He was originally charged with four additional felonies, which were dismissed as part of the plea deal, said Mona Sedky, the DOJ prosecutor in the case. + According to charging documents, Hodgkins was caught on surveillance footage inside the Senate chamber carrying a red "Tr*mp 2020" flag. He was

seen standing near the main desk where other individuals, including self-described "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley, were "shouting, praying, and commanding the attention of others in the Senate Chamber," according to the document," to which Hodgkins "rais[ed] his flag in salute."  Hodgkins was also captured on video putting on protective eye goggles as well as latex gloves while standing near a desk with papers on it, according to the documents. + During the court hearing, Hodgkins said the gloves were part of a first aid kit he carried, and that he had attempted to offer first aid to another individual, who ultimately refused care. + Hodgkins told investigators that he had traveled to Washington, D.C., from Florida, according to court documents, but Hodgkins denied that he participated in the more violent conduct that he witnessed happening around him, which he said included "breaking windows, individuals engaged in a knife fight, and other injured individuals," the document said.   Hodgkins is scheduled to be sentenced July 19. 

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+ Fresh off the defeat, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set up a June vote on another crucial priority — an elections overhaul bill that confronts restrictive new voting laws emerging in several key states after Donald Tr*mp's loss in the 2020 presidential election to Biden. + The ambitious elections bill has been seen as a defining test case for changing the Senate filibuster rules that require the 60-vote hurdle in the evenly split chamber.  Democrats see the legislation as a vital step toward protecting voting systems, but Republicans are unlikely to give it much support. + The stunning GOP rebuke of the proposed bipartisan commission on the Capitol riot, on a 54-35 vote, accelerated the argument, showing Democrats — and perhaps the broader public — how intense partisan loyalties are likely to make it difficult for Biden's party to strike bipartisan compromises on elections reforms, infrastructure or other parts of his agenda. ... + The filibuster is a Senate procedural rule that requires a vote by 60 of the 100 senators to cut off debate and advance a bill. With the Senate divided

50-50, Democrats would need the support of 10 Republicans to move most bills. The vote on advancing legislation to create a commission to investigate the insurrection highlighted how reluctant the GOP will be to cooperate. + While some senators prefer to stick to the long-standing rules, despite the often cumbersome process, others say the time has come to lower the threshold to 51 votes. The vice president of the party in the White House — currently Kamala Harris — is able to break a tie. + “I will tell you that when it comes to voting rights and democracy, we have to defend the democracy, not the Senate,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., a leading proponent of the elections and voting rights bill, said ahead of Friday's vote. + Overhauling the filibuster would require the support of a majority of senators, but not all Democrats are ready to do so. Two centrists, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, are holdouts against any efforts to alter the filibuster, preferring to stick with the current practice, which typically requires bipartisan compromise. + But in a rare joint statement as tensions rose ahead of Friday's vote, Manchin and Sinema expressed exasperation with Republicans, imploring their colleagues not to stand in the way of a bipartisan commission to investigate the assault by a mob loyal to Tr*mp seeking to overturn Biden's election.

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