Originally posted by Bashar Teg
lulz what an embarrassment
Speaking of embarrassing, here is a video a MAGA posted to Gab of himself getting ready for Trump's speech the other night.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Speaking of embarrassing, here is a video a MAGA posted to Gab of himself getting ready for Trump's speech the other night.
Is...is that Bada?
Trump administration subpoenaed Apple for lawmakers' data -New York Times
The U.S. Justice Department under former President Donald Trump subpoenaed Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee in an attempt to find out who was behind leaks of classified information, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
The records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those of Representative Adam Schiff, then the panel’s top Democrat and now its chairman, the Times said. -snip
Whirly, you were spot on in your claims again.
He Did Not Stop There
Trump's DOJ spied on his own White House counsel too:
"Last month, Apple told Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel to Donald J. Trump, that the Justice Department had subpoenaed information about an account that belonged to him in February 2018, and that the government barred the company from telling him at the time, according to two people briefed on the matter.
McGahn's wife received a similar notice from Apple, said one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
The disclosure that agents secretly collected data of a sitting White House counsel is striking as it comes amid a political backlash to revelations about Trump-era seizures of data of reporters and Democrats in Congress. The president's top lawyer is also a chief point of contact between the White House and the Justice Department."
Once again, it is all about projection with them.
Originally posted by Adam_PoEit's all coming out
Trump's DOJ spied on his own White House counsel too:"Last month, Apple told Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel to Donald J. Trump, that the Justice Department had subpoenaed information about an account that belonged to him in February 2018, and that the government barred the company from telling him at the time, according to two people briefed on the matter.
McGahn's wife received a similar notice from Apple, said one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
The disclosure that agents secretly collected data of a sitting White House counsel is striking as it comes amid a political backlash to revelations about Trump-era seizures of data of reporters and Democrats in Congress. The president's top lawyer is also a chief point of contact between the White House and the Justice Department."
Once again, it is all about projection with them.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Trump and Supporters Fall for Internet ScamSince February, 21-year-old food-delivery driver Josh Hall has posed as political figures and their families on Twitter, including five of Trump's relatives.
Hall pretended to be Trump's brother Robert Trump, Trump's 14-year-old son Barron Trump, and White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah L. Birx among others, collectively amassing more than 160,000 followers.
Using their identities, he gained attention by mixing off-color political commentary with wild conspiracy theories, including one that the government wanted to implant Americans with microchips, and another that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999, was alive and about to replace Mike Pence as vice president.
"There was no nefarious intention behind it," Hall said. "I was just trying to rally other MAGA supporters and have fun."
Many of those "Make America Great Again" followers appeared to believe the posts. Records also show that some accounts served another purpose: directing people to give Hall money.
They promoted a fundraiser for a political group Hall created called "Gay Voices for Trump." In an interview, he admitted that the group does not exist. The fund-raiser brought in more than $7,300.
A GoFundMe spokeswoman said that the organizer behind the fund-raiser had withdrawn the money. She said GoFundMe was now investigating how the funds were used and that the company would give refunds to any donors who requested one.
Hall said he became interested in politics in 2016 when he was a teenager, energized by Mr. Trump. "I kind of thought he was like a clown at first," he said. "But the more I heard him talk, I realized: Yeah, he says kind of off-the-wall things, but I do agree with what he's saying."
He dreamed of becoming a conservative talk-radio host, he said, so he opted against college and decided to instead build a persona online. He sparred with liberals on Twitter, created a "public figure" page on Facebook, and self-published a 49-page e-book on Amazon called Hall Nation that detailed his "38 essential rules to live life in order to be happy and successful." (The first rule? "Insults are a good thing."😉
Offline, he was not so successful. He struggled to hold a job, including stints as a hotel clerk and sandwich maker. Most recently, he delivered food for DoorDash.
But online, he started to develop a small following. In January, he asked followers to help him pay for a lawyer, saying "a Planned Parenthood-loving radical leftist" whom he used to date had accused him of harassment. He also began selling T-shirts that said "Josh Hall did nothing wrong." He raised $815 on GoFundMe. Court documents indicate he is using a public defender. A hearing in the case is scheduled for later this month.
Posing as Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois whose prison sentence had just been commuted by Trump, Hall tweeted, "OBAMA STARTED THE CORONAVIRUS." The account eventually drew more than 26,000 followers.
Posing as Dr. Birx, the White House official working on the pandemic, Hall tweeted, "The media is lying to you about this virus." The pandemic was "plotted by the powers that be to crash our economy in hopes that Trump will pay for it in November."
Posing as Robert Trump, the terminally-ill brother of Donald Trump, Hall tweeted, "The coronavirus was planned and released onto the world by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." This account collected more than 77,000 followers from July to August.
Not long after, Hall started messaging Trump supporters as Robert Trump, asking them to donate to a fund-raiser for his fake group, Gay Voices for Trump, according to screenshots posted online by two people who received the messages.
"Hey patriot. Would really appreciate if you have a couple of bucks to spare to organization," he wrote, according to one screenshot.
In August, Robert Trump died. The news drew scrutiny to his fake Robert Trump account, and some of its followers began to suspect that Hall was behind it, given the pattern of tweets between the profiles. In response, Hall said on Twitter that the fake account was run by "a close political friend of mine" who "did not know about Mr. Trump's serious condition."
He then began impersonating different Trump relatives, including Trump's nephew Fred Trump III; Trump's sister and a federal judge Maryanne Trump-Barry, Trump's teenage son Barron.
Posing as Barron, Hall tweeted, "COVID is a scam," and "Q is real. The more the media delegitimizes it, the more it shows that they're scared," attracting more than 34,000 followers in eight days.
Posing as the father of vice president-elect Kamala Harris, Hall tweeted, "My daughter is not who she portrays herself to be. She is dangerous for our democracy."
Posing as Trump's sister Elizabeth Trump-Grau, Hall tweeted, "This election inspired me to break my silence. My brother Don won this election," collecting about 20,000 followers in 24 hours.
Hall delighted many of his followers with dozens more juvenile and bizarre tweets, including claims that Biden is a pathological liar, Harris is a communist, and Michelle Obama is a man.
On November 20th, Hall said he woke up and checked the Trump's Twitter account, as he did most mornings. "I was like shellshocked," he said.
He quickly began bragging on Snapchat that Trump had retweeted his fake account.
"I'm a big Trump supporter, but I'm thinking, 'He's got to know that that's a parody,'" he said. "How does he not know?"
Within hours, the account was outed as a fake.
The Trump Organization, which has spoken on behalf of the Trump family members in the past, did not respond to requests for comment. The White House declined to comment.
A spokesman for Twitter said the company took down all of Hall's accounts for violating its rules on impersonation and evading a previous ban from the site.
Federal authorities have arrested Hall, 22, for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his "Gay Voices for Trump" scheme.
Last year, Hall boasted that he launched a GoFundMe campaign for the non-existent group. He also started dummy social media accounts for members of the Trump family, and used them to post QAnon conspiracy theories as a means of attracting attention to the GoFundMe. By December, he had raised $7,384.
"Joshua Hall impersonated family members of Trump on social media to fraudulently induce hundreds of victims to donate to a political organization that did not exist, and then pocketed those funds for his own use," U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement. "We thank the FBI for their partnership in the investigation of this case, and we remain dedicated to rooting out and prosecuting fraud wherever we find it."
Hall is facing up to 20 years in federal prison.