FBI Warning About January 6th "War" Threats Appeared On Pro-Trump Message Board

    "WE are the military. And we will be wild. By order of our Commander in Chief," former TheDonald.win user EagleKneivel wrote in late December in a now-deleted post on the site:

    EagleKneivel is apparently referring to President Donald Trump's December 19th tweet, as reported by the New York Times:

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Mr. Trump tweeted on Dec. 19, just one of several of his tweets promoting the day. “Be there, will be wild!”

    On Tuesday, a Washington Post story quoted an internal FBI document quoting and unidentified "online thread" making threats related to pro-Trump protests scheduled for last Wednesday, January 6th: "Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal."

    Research by The Script indicates this threat was posted on January 2, 2021, by EagleKneivel on TheDonald.win:

    This post has since been deleted also, but it is unclear if this was done by the user or the moderators of the TheDonald.win. Efforts to reach the moderators have been unsuccessful so far.

    Another quote in the Post story was by another former TheDonald.win user, Glyff: "if Antifa or BLM get violent, leave them dead in the street":

    This post has also been deleted, but is still available via a Google archive:

    Other deleted posts by EagleKneivel are similarly threatening, among them: "So are you loading magazines and cleaning your weapons, or are you waiting for others to solve your problems?," "We have the 2nd amendment. And a couple hundred million patriots that are going to use it when the inevitable time comes," and "And that is exactly why President Trump wants several million angry patriots within a few hundred yards of the proceedings. And he will have them."

    The FBI has not responded to The Script's request for comment.

Joe Biden Manipulates Video/Audio of Laughter at Trump in Campaign Ad

    The Biden campaign recently released an ad mocking President Trump for the lack of respect shown to him by world leaders. The ad uses clips of Trump addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2018. Trump boasts: “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” Someone in the crowd appears to laugh or react in some manner, and Trump responds directly to that individual with "so true." There is an awkward pause and as Trump smiles and as some laughter builds, he says, "Didn't expect that reaction, but that's OK," and the audience then laughs loudly and some applaud.

     The Biden ad, however, edits the sequence to make it appear as if the audience reacted with an outburst of laughter to Trump's original boast. Here is the original video of the event:

 

    Trump himself has come under fire for tweeting "doctored" video in the past, as well as for various photoshopped images.

Trump in 2011: National Debt 'Going to $22 Trillion', The Country Is 'Going Bad Really Fast', 'Cuts Aren't Enough'

    In 2011, Donald Trump addressed the agreement that then-President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress came to regarding the debt ceiling. Trump used the occasion to warn of the growing national debt, then at $15 trillion and, in his words, "going to $22 trillion." Ironically, the latest report from the US Treasury Department shows the total national debt under President Trump at $22,023,119,533,123.43. Monday, President Trump announced a budget deal with Congress that will reportedly increased federal spending by $320 billion, add $1 trillion per year to the debt, and suspends the debt ceiling until July 2021.

    Among Donald Trump's statements about the 2011 debt ceiling agreement:

"I kept hearing they were gonna cut four trillion, five trillion, maybe even more than that. They didn't -- they didn't get anywhere close. So this doesn't solve the problem and that's the big thing. It doesn't solve the problem."

"...the cuts aren't enough." 

"So this doesn't solve the problem and that's the big thing. It doesn't solve the problem. The country is going bad. It's going bad really fast and they didn't do the cutting that we needed." 

    Trump also addressed President Obama's strategy of pushing the debt ceiling issue past the 2012 elections, a move Trump saw as necessary because otherwise Obama "would lose the election in a landslide." The current deal bumps the debt ceiling issue past the 2020 elections.

    Video of Trump's August 2011 remarks:






    A full transcript of the video is found here:





    The text from that transcript is reproduced below.

    "The debt ceiling deal that we've all been watching over the last three or four weeks and it has been a mess. You do have to give everybody credit for working hard no matter what side you're on. Now I happen to be on the side of people that would not have approved the deal. The reason I wouldn't have approved it is two things. Number one, it doesn't address the Bush tax cuts. So what's gonna happen in a short period of time, taxes are gonna be raised, we don't want taxes raised. It's bad for the country to raise the taxes. So it doesn't address the Bush tax cut. I believe they raise automatically, although nobody's been able to tell me that with great assurance. The other thing and almost more importantly, it gets -- Obama passed the election because the next big issue won't come up until after the election. And I can't believe the Republicans agree to that. I will say this Obama's only point, the only thing I saw him very strong on was the fact that he had to go past the election because he knew if this mess happened before the election, he would lose the election in a landslide, he probably or possibly will lose it anyway, although who knows with the mistakes the Republicans make. But he wanted that to go past the election and he got his wish. I don't like that. I don't think they had to do it. I think that's a real real real mistake. So those are two points, but the other point is the cuts aren't enough. I mean we owe fifteen trillion dollars in a very short period of time, fifteen trillion, nobody ever heard of the word trillion three years ago. Now we owe $15 trillion going to $22 trillion and they didn't cut enough. I kept hearing they were gonna cut four trillion, five trillion, maybe even more than that. They didn't -- they didn't get anywhere close. So this doesn't solve the problem and that's the big thing. It doesn't solve the problem. The country is going bad. It's going bad really fast and they didn't do the cutting that we needed."

Planned Parenthood: Special Olympics Funding Cuts Equals 'White Supremacy'

    This week, abortion provider Planned Parenthood helped promote the idea that cutting the federal government's support of the Special Olympics amounts to "white supremacy."

    Activist Wagatwe Wanjuki, who writes on "gender, race, and inequality," wrote on Twitter, "Betsy DeVos has been wildly effective at pushing our government's white supremacist goals. Ableism is a part of white supremacy. Defunding the Special Olympics is absolutely a part of that." 

    The Planned Parenthood Action Fund Twitter account soon retweeted the sentiment:

    The Trump administration's plan to cut funding for the Special Olympics has been met with derision by Democrats, and has even been widely panned even by Republicans and conservatives, albeit for different reasons. DeVos has cited budget concerns as the motivation for the cut, but Theodore Kupfer of National Review notes:

One problem with not taking deficits seriously is that when you propose unpopular spending cuts, then justify them by referring to “our current budget realities,” people aren’t likely to take your justification seriously.

    Republican senator Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, issued a statement asserting that the cut would not be allowed to stand:

I’m a longtime supporter of the Special Olympics and proud that Missouri is home to the largest Special Olympics training facility in the world. I was just at the World Games and saw, as I have many times before, what a huge impact the organization has on athletes, their families, and their communities. Our Department of Education appropriations bill will not cut funding for the program.

    Financial statements for the Special Olympics for 2017 show that federal grants make up about 10 percent of the group's annual revenues. In that year, total revenues amounted to $148,726,084 including federal grants of $15,461,400.
    In 2018, Politico reported that Betsy DeVos pledged to personally donate a portion of her government salary of approximately $200,000 to the Special Olympics.  DeVos says she support the Special Olympics, but that the federal government cannot support all such worthy causes. In a press release from the Department of Education, DeVos wrote:

The Special Olympics is not a federal program. It's a private organization. I love its work, and I have personally supported its mission. Because of its important work, it is able to raise more than $100 million every year. There are dozens of worthy nonprofits that support students and adults with disabilities that don't get a dime of federal grant money. But given our current budget realities, the federal government cannot fund every worthy program, particularly ones that enjoy robust support from private donations.

Joe Biden on Donald Trump, September 2016: 'He’s Probably A Decent Guy'

   Joe Biden caused an uproar today by referring to Vice President Mike Pence as a "decent guy." He soon had to backpedal after being called out on Twitter by Cynthia Nixon:

   But it turns out in the midst of the 2016 election season, Biden actually said this on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon about none other than Donald Trump himself: “What amazes me about Donald Trump—and he’s probably a decent guy..." 

   And in 2015, Biden bestowed the "decent guy" moniker on Paul Ryan, another Republican widely reviled by Democrats:

Additionally, he said he's hopeful the administration can work with Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, who's expected to serve as next speaker of the House, "toward an accommodation on the budget and on keeping the government open." 

Biden said that Ryan is "a decent guy, and he knows you cannot function, ths government cannot function, without reaching some consensus."

    No word yet if Biden will retract those compliments as well.