Babbitt was a “truly incredible person”, he said. Trump recorded a video last month praising Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot dead by a police officer as she tried to break into the speaker’s lobby, where Congress members were hiding in fear of their lives.
But in recent months Trump has emerged as an unashamed champion of the insurrectionists, calling them “great people” and a “loving crowd”, and lamenting that they are now being “persecuted so unfairly”. Initially he condemned the violence at the US Capitol on 6 January. Far from cooling on the subject, he has continued to amplify the false claim in ever more brazen terms. Since Joe Biden was inaugurated on 20 January, Trump has dug himself deeper into his big lie about the “rigged election” that was stolen from him. “In 2024 the strain on the fabric could turn into a tear.” “In 2020 Donald Trump put a huge strain on the fabric of this democracy, on the country,” said Ben Ginsberg, a leading election lawyer who represented four of the last six Republican presidential nominees. The Guardian has spoken to leading Republican election experts, specialists in voting practices, democracy advocates and election officials in swing states, all of whom fear that McConnell’s warning is coming true. The stage is being set for a spectacle that could, in 2024, make last year’s unprecedented assault on American democracy look like a dress rehearsal.
The machinations are unfolding right across the US at all levels of government, from the local precinct, through counties and states, to the national stage of Congress. N/A.View image in fullscreen Trump holds a rally in Perry, Georgia, in September. Apparently, of all the job seekers Trump officials could have chosen, hers was the top resume. She claims to have qualified that by putting an "N/A" next to it, without explanation. She also lists a juris doctor degree from the Quinnipiac University School of Law, which the school says she never earned. Patton, on the other hand, lists "Yale" as an alma mater on her LinkedIn, "but HUD officials couldn't explain why," the New York Daily News reported. The Obama appointee she'd replace, Holly Leicht, had previously worked for a parks advocacy group and in the department that manages affordable housing for New York City. God help us when the next big storm hits. This was also the office responsible for stepping in to correct the Christie administration's foibles in rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy. In her new title, Patton would manage billions in federal funding for public housing authorities, including rental vouchers for low income people, block grants that fund housing inspections, senior citizen programs and homeless assistance. She also ran Donald Jr.'s foundation, currently under investigation for funneling charity money from donors to the Trump Organization - used by Trump to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself and pay off lawsuits. To this we now add Patton's experience in planning upscale events: Trump celebrity golf tournaments and Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding. After all, her boss also has zero experience in housing, and insists against all academic evidence that poverty is merely a state of mind. housing job, report says Countless candidates with distinguished professional experience in government or housing would have qualified for this top housing job in New Jersey. Trump gives son's wedding planner top N.J.