Day: October 18, 2022

Russians in Revolt as Deadly Plane Crash Proves Their Army Is ‘Weak’

Post author By Mike Nova
Post date October 18, 2022

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ReutersThree children were among the 13 people killed in their own homes late Monday when Russia’s ’roided up war machine resulted in a military plane incinerating a residential building in the Krasnodar region. Russian officials say those affected by the catastrophe should focus on positive thinking, and head back to work Tuesday in “a good mood.”The questionable advice comes as ordinary Russians, perhaps for the first time since Moscow launched its full-scale war against Ukraine on Feb. 23, ar

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The Mar-a-Lago mole strikes again and this time they might actually have a name

Post author By Mike Nova
Post date October 18, 2022

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It’s been a super crappy week for Donald Trump.

In addition to the January 6 committee subpoenaing him at the end of its final televised hearing yesterday (drama!), New York state attorney general Letitia James filed a junction to appoint an independent monitor to keep an extra close eye on the Trump Organization as her civil fraud case against the ex-president prepares to go to trial. And on top of all that, the Mar-a-Lago mole is making headlines again.

On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that someone from within Trump’s inner circle told the feds that they were specifically ordered by the ex-president himself to move several boxes of documents into his private residence inside Mar-a-Lago.

The Post also reported that the FBI undercovered CCTV footage showing longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta carrying boxes out of a storage room at Mar-a-Lago after the Justice Department had already issued a subpoena demanding the ex-president immediately return of all classified documents.

39-year-old Nauta previously served as a White House valet before going to work for Trump at Mar-a-Lago after he left office. On August 8, FBI agents executed a search warrant on the Florida compound where they retrieved over 100 classified documents the ex-president still had not returned.

While we still don’t know exactly who the Mar-a-Lago mole is, it sure seems like it was Nauta. In addition to the information reported by Washington Post, the New York Times added:

As part of its investigation, the Justice Department has interviewed Mr. Nauta on several occasions, according to one of the people. Those interviews started before the F.B.I. executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8 and carted off more than 11,000 documents, including about 100 that bore classification markings. Mr. Nauta has answered questions but is not formally cooperating with the investigation of Mr. Trump’s handling of the documents.

His lawyer, Stanley Woodward Jr., declined to comment. Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, accused the Biden administration of “colluding with the media through targeted leaks in an overt and illegal act of intimidation and tampering.”

Now, some tweets…

Walt Nauta is going to be famous.

— News Junky 📰💉 (@LaResistance01) October 13, 2022

I’m sure Trump will tell us this was a fake scene with hired actors and directed by the FBI. Or that Walt Nauta is low level and he never met him despite the 100 photos of them together and him moving boxes for him at MAL

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 13, 2022

“Walt Nauta? Never heard of him. Must have been a coffee boy…” – Trump tomorrow

— GM ?? (@WasOnceLou) October 13, 2022

At this very moment, TDG loyalists are being interrogated in the basement of Mar a Lago, in a desperate attempt to uncover the “mole”. https://t.co/uiHDuOxdls

— James Wooten (@rantonstupidity) October 13, 2022

I wonder if Walt Nauta was the dude who had to clean the ketchup off the walls.

— watertigernyc ? (@watertigernyc) October 14, 2022

Old enough to remember Trump wanting to know who the “leaker” was — and now you’ve given him a name. Walt Nauta should do best to remain on a first floor.

— Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) October 13, 2022

I hope the DOJ is providing some protection for this Walt Nauta guy.

— Demotage (@Demotage) October 14, 2022

How soon before Donald Trump dismisses his longtime employee Walt Nauta as, “Someone who only moved a few boxes for me for a very brief period of time,” or something like that?

Protect this brave guy! Keep him away from windows and staircases, if you catch my drift! pic.twitter.com/x51d1KYv8p

— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) October 13, 2022

If there was/is a mole at Mar-a-Lago, I hope it’s the omelette bar chef.

— Dextrosity (@thedextrosity) October 12, 2022

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Editorial: The maybe-final Jan. 6 hearing makes clear the magnitude of Trump’s crime

Post author By Mike Nova
Post date October 18, 2022

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In his last tweet of Jan. 6, as order was restored in the Capitol and his mob was cleared out, President Donald Trump extolled the violent ransacking.

“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”

Of course, the day will be forever remembered not for the supposed heroism of “great patriots,” but for the shame that the then-president brought on himself for subverting the rule of law and democracy.

What will also be forever remembered is how Trump was unanimously subpoenaed by the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee after its nine members presented their findings that he knew all along that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, but tried every which way to cling to power. From asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 more votes, to mounting phony court challenges, to cobbling together fake slates of electors to pressuring VP Mike Pence to violate his oath, to the final step of attacking Congress.

New evidence from the Secret Service and cabinet secretaries Mike Pompeo and Elaine Chao underlines Trump’s overwhelming complicity in the sacking of the seat of government to try to cling to power.

Of course, even after the subpoena, there’s next to no hope that the committee will ever hear from Trump under oath, as he — a man unfit for power in 2016, 2020, 2024 and any other year — will duck and stall and then invoke the Fifth Amendment at every turn. Should Republicans prevail in next month’s midterms, the Jan. 6 panel will be shuttered.

Thursday, we also heard of possible criminal referrals of Trump’s core conspirators and saw a remarkable video from Fort McNair of Congress’ bipartisan, bicameral leaders captured by Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of the House speaker, as they took refuge from the mob. As Trump said, “Remember this day forever!”

— The New York Daily News/TNS