So did New York Signature Bank.OUCH
“Deutsche Bank, which has been Mr. Trump’s primary lender for two decades, has decided not to do business with Mr. Trump or his company in the future”
Sherrod BrownI didn't like either candidate. I just chose what I thought was the lesser of two evils. Not the best decision but hind site is 20/20. Unfortunately, the way things are set up most of the time either the democrat or the republican candidates are the only ones who can afford to run. So the entire "game" is rigged.
I would be shocked if a "regular" person would ever make it far in that "game" since money seems to be at the core.
A doctor and outspoken critic of the coronavirus vaccine was among those who entered the Capitol building last week during the siege that disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
Simone Gold gained national attention in July when she and other physicians appeared in front of the Supreme Court for a sparsely attended news conference to decry pandemic lockdowns and criticize government efforts to stop the spread of the disease. Video of the event, organized by conservative activists, was retweeted by the president and viewed by millions before social media platforms took it down.
Gold confirmed to The Washington Post that she is the person pictured carrying a bullhorn on the Capitol grounds Wednesday in FBI and D.C. police bulletins seeking more information about individuals who were present.
Although dozens of Capitol Police officers were injured when they were overrun by pro-Trump protesters and one later died as a result, Gold said she did not witness any violence.
“I can certainly speak to the place that I was, and it most emphatically was not a riot,” the California resident said in a phone interview Monday. “Where I was, was incredibly peaceful.”
Gold confirmed that she went inside the Capitol, saying she followed a crowd and assumed that it was legal to do so. She said she has not been contacted by anyone in law enforcement.
After Trump supporters gathered on the Capitol grounds, tensions soon boiled over and an angry mob assaulted the building, breaking through doors and windows. Vice President Pence was moved to a secure location in the complex. Police sought to evacuate lawmakers and their staffers, but some locked down in rooms behind makeshift barricades.
Gold said she traveled to Washington to speak at a “Rally for Health Freedom” on the East side of the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon. She attended the rally along with John Strand, the communications director for America’s Frontline Doctors, a group she founded last year to speak out against the government’s efforts to contain the coronavirus. Strand is pictured next to her in the photos circulated by the FBI and D.C. police.
Asked for comment, Strand wrote in a statement to The Post that he was at the event to assist Gold and “ensure her safety.”
Gold and about a dozen others were expected to speak after President Trump addressed supporters gathered for a large rally near the White House. But Gold said that as she was about to give her speech at 1 p.m., someone in the crowd told her that all speeches were canceled.
Gold said she followed the crowd up the steps and into the building. She estimated she was inside the Capitol for about 20 minutes before police ushered everyone out. She used some of that time to give the speech she had planned to make earlier.
A 30-second video of a person who appeared to be Gold speaking on the tiled Rotunda floor has been circulating on social media. Gold confirmed to The Post that the video depicts her. In the video, two police officers stand behind Gold, appearing to gesture at her and others in an attempt to get them to leave.
In the echo of the Rotunda, most of her words are inaudible in the video, other than “I’m a mom” and “massive medical establishment.”
Gold said she gave the same speech she delivered the previous day at a rally in the District’s Freedom Plaza, where Trump supporters were beginning to gather ahead of the “Stop the Steal” events. During that speech, she referred to the coronavirus vaccine as an “experimental, biological agent deceptively named a vaccine.”
The coronavirus vaccines have been tested, and federal regulators have authorized their use. They have been administered to nearly 9 million Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Gold first gained notoriety for an open letter to the president in May in which she called lockdowns imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus “a mass casualty incident.” She claimed that as a hospital physician she had seen hydroxychloroquine work as a treatment against the deadly virus.
The following month, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs that Trump had repeatedly promoted for treatment of covid-19.
Federal health officials, citing scientific evidence, said that the drug is “unlikely to be effective” for covid-19 and that any potential benefits are outweighed by safety risks, including heart problems.
Gold’s letter led to her participation in the event in July, organized with the support of the Tea Party Patriots group and featuring her group, America’s Frontline Doctors. The participants’ speeches were live-streamed by the conservative media outlet Breitbart and viewed online more than 14 million times — fueled by a tweet by Donald Trump Jr. and multiple retweets by the president, which have since been deleted. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube later removed the video.
Gold told The Post she worked as an emergency room physician for two hospitals at the time but was “promptly fired” after the event and has not worked as a doctor since.
Gold said she was worried that photos of her inside the Capitol would distract from her advocacy work with America’s Frontline Doctors.
“I do regret being there,” Gold said.
Take her license to practice medicine
That's too nice..........prison for all of them.Take her license to practice medicine
Simple
She's obviously a danger
Gold and about a dozen others were expected to speak after President Trump addressed supporters gathered for a large rally near the White House. But Gold said that as she was about to give her speech at 1 p.m., someone in the crowd told her that all speeches were canceled.
While I agreeFuck Republicans
They are a fucking bain on Society
Really, they are
I've been watching them all my fucking life
They fucking suck
A simple sad, fucking fact
I don't care so much on criminalityAlternate take
Why Trump can't be prosecuted
Many analysts have suggested that President Trump ought to be criminally prosecuted for his part in the deadly events of January 6. It won’t happen. Courts, convicting defendants of murder, have declared that one who endangers others “for his diversion merely” manifests a “depraved mind, regardless of human life.” That may be Trump. But he would, as the saying goes, get off on a technicality.
As a moral matter, I believe there is little doubt that Trump is guilty. He is to blame for five deaths, including that of a police officer. He inflamed the mob that attacked the Capitol, and then made no effort to stop them when he was the only one they would have listened to. The violence was the culmination of a campaign of deliberate lies and conspiracy theories about a stolen election, promoting hysteria that was likely sooner or later to get somebody killed. His presidency has been a gift to America’s enemies. Impeachment is amply warranted. But criminal prosecution is different.
There are two criminal law doctrines that point toward the wrong he committed. But in order for him to be convicted, they would have to operate in tandem. In his case, they don’t.
“Depraved-heart murder” raises, to the first degree, homicides in which the defendant does not intend the death he causes, but, as one court put it, “engages in conduct which manifests a depraved indifference to the value of human life.” Speeding through crowded streets for the thrill of it is a paradigmatic case.
Trump’s speech does not fit that description, but his behavior once the violence started fits it all too well.
He evidently sent the angry crowd toward the Capitol without any clear idea of what they would do when they got there. His speech was full of lies, but that isn’t a crime. He vaguely told them to “fight like Hell,” but that’s a familiar political metaphor that doesn’t ordinarily connote physical violence. Trump thought that mass mobilization would induce members of Congress to change their positions, but that doesn’t necessarily involve illegality. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has offered the same notion to explain how he expects to enact political nonstarters like “Medicare for All.”
That’s why (as the Justice Department concluded) his speech isn’t punishable as incitement. Under the First Amendment, incitement can be punished only if it intentionally calls for lawbreaking that is likely to occur. Trump did not advocate lawbreaking. What ensued probably surprised him as much as anyone. It would not have happened except for the remarkable, unpredictable failure of the Capitol Police. If the mere knowledge that some lawbreaking would probably happen were enough to punish speech, we would be locking up Black Lives Matter organizers.
Once it was clear that violence was occurring, however, he could not be bothered to stop it, even though he was in contact with the trapped senators. He was on the phone with one of them, cajoling him to slow down the vote counting. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) reports that senior White House aides told him Trump was “delighted” when he saw the rioters forcing their way into the building and “confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was.” Aides and legislators begged him to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol, either by tweeting or by calling in to Fox News. Vice President Mike Pence and his family were in danger. Trump didn’t seem to care.
But depraved indifference homicide normally requires that the actor actually do something. In such cases, death is caused by “the intentional doing of an uncalled-for act in callous disregard of its likely harmful effects on others.” Trump could not have anticipated that the crowd would surge into the Capitol, and anyway recklessness is not sufficient to punish incitement.
A second legal doctrine holds that, although there is ordinarily no duty to rescue those who are in peril, it’s different if you are the one who placed the victim in danger. If you push someone into the lake, you had best pull them out again, or else you’re a murderer. But even though Trump had a moral obligation to stop the destruction, he didn’t specifically command the mob. So, he committed no crime.
In short, there’s no way to merge depraved heart indifference (present here) with a duty to rescue those you have placed in peril (also present here).
This is not a happy conclusion. Trump embodies the wrongs that both of these doctrines target. He behaved despicably. In a just universe, he would be punished.
On the other hand, criminal law is narrowly limited for good reason. A defendant must be proven to have violated some preexisting, clearly defined prohibition. It is not enough to show that he is nasty. A world in which the state is free to punish those it deems nasty would be frightening. Trump is immune from prosecution because of the very institutions, limiting the abuse of political power, that he has struggled against throughout his presidency.
Why Trump can’t be prosecuted
If the mere knowledge that some lawbreaking would probably happen were enough to punish speech, we would be locking up Black Lives Matter organizers.thehill.com
I see all these articles about worries about upcoming primaries as well as a lot of other selfish concerns affecting how they vote. I haven't seen anyone mentioning the Oath of Office they swore influencing their actions.This doesn't sound good for Stinky.
House GOP leaders are not whipping their colleagues to tell them to vote against the impeachment resolution tomorrow, per aides. They will let members vote their conscience, a marked departure from the approach in 2019 when GOP leaders pushed their members to fall in line