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Incoming administration staffers are being warned to weigh the threat of a pricey legal defense and consider purchasing a form of legal insurance that would provide them a lawyer if needed, a protection that many now consider part of doing business under a Trump administration. Via NBC News: In a cautionary move, Trump’s transition has briefed some incoming administration staff members on the need to price and buy professional liability insurance, according to two people familiar with the warnings.

As the world dreads Trump taking his oath of office, a trending topic on Twitter was "MEGA" or "MAKE ELON GO AWAY." President Musk's new responsibilities in America is hurting one of the companies that made him a billionaire. As reported earlier, 1 In 4 Americans Won't Buy A Tesla Cybertruck.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U. S. Capitol riot, including people convicted of seditious conspiracy and assaulting police officers, using his clemency powers on his first day back in office to undo the massive prosecution of the unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump’s action, just hours after his return to the White House, paves the way for the release from prison of dozens of people found guilty of violent attacks on police, as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of plotting to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Trump lost the 2020 election to former President Joe Biden. Read More: ‘He’s at the Apex of Power Now’: A Preview of Trump’s Second Term The pardons are a culmination of Trump’s yearslong campaign to rewrite the history of the Jan.

As the gentle reader assuredly remembers, the Orange Felon and his MAGA moronic minions started fighting to proof The Big Lie in courts all across the country. They spent millions of dollars, filed hundreds and thousands of lawsuits and never won a single case. Most people might have thought that would all go away now since the Very Bad Thing happened, but most people would be wrong. When Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos hired his good buddy, Michael Gableman, to be the special counsel in a proble into the 2020 elections, one of the more absurd things Gableman came up with was accusing nursing home residents of voting even they were incompetent.

At a January 19th rally, Trump confessed the 2024 election was rigged and that Elon Musk helped him win. In the video above, watch Trump praise Musk, "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide." In another confession during the January 19th event, Trump told the crowd how he gets to preside over the Olympics and World Cup: "It’s only because they rigged the election that I’ll be your president representing you there." [embed eid="63929" /] We Are All Jasmine Crockett Rep.