Recent warnings about the likelihood of future January 6-like riots across the nation, including one from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) should not be ignored, Charlie Sykes writes in The Bulwark Monday. Sykes points to an Associated Press story from last Friday outlining ex-President Trump’s growing embrace of QAnon conspiracy theories including photo of The Donald published on his Truth Social platform last Tuesday in which he wears a pin with the words, “The Storm is Coming.”
According to QAnon lore, AP says, “storm” refers to Trump’s “final victory in which he returns to power” and his opponents will be “tried and potentially executed on television.” Trump has published “dozens of Q-related posts” recently, “in contrast to 2020” when he claimed he did not know much about the group.
Read Sykes’ commentary here: https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/this-storm-is-coming (subscription required).
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Rubio Defends Cannon (FRI 9/16/22)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is defending U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon’s rulings on the Justice Department’s investigation of sensitive government documents seized from ex-President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club, saying “attacks against her are just the latest example of hypocrisy from leftists and their media enablers who believe the only time it is acceptable to attack a judge is that if that judge rules against what they want,” per Salon.
Rubio, according to the online magazine, “appears to have served as Cannon’s sponsor” and asked her to apply for the judicial nomination in 2019, after the senator helped create a bipartisan judicial advisory commission that vetted her background. Cannon, who was born in Colombia to a mother who fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba, according to Wikipedia, was confirmed by a bipartisan Senate on November 12, 2020.
Thanks largely to Cannon, the investigation many pundits thought would end Trump’s political career, may at the very least instead help propel the former president to the 2024 Republican Party nomination.
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