(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . GOP Shenanigans: Helen was not a Witch, she was Rudy's mother, as dead as his witnesses [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-15 Previous Guy wants to make it a search & seizure beef rather than theft and obstruction which are the real charges, because he thinks because of his power to cloud men’s minds, he declassified everything he touches. And the GOP will defend it to the bitter end, so the 11th commandment covering fealty to the POTUS nominee will have an additional Commandment to cover 45’s conviction. All will be moot if J6 gets repeated and martial law happens after a couple of Red State legislatures subvert the popular vote. And surprise, surprise the witness with the evidence about Biden improprieties is now conveniently dead, Gym (Jordan). x A late 2020 email sent to Mark Meadows about a plan Trump allies hoped could impose martial law after the election was cc'd to "Helen" and "Lucy." "Helen" was actually Rudy Giuliani. https://t.co/acv6kCesmN — Hunter Walker (@hunterw) June 15, 2023 Rudy Giuliani used an email address with the name “Helen” in some of his communications about his efforts to oppose former President Trump’s 2020 election loss. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and personal attorney to Trump, has discussed his use of the email address “rhelen0528@gmail.com” in court appearances as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against him by Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, two Georgia election workers. According to court documents made public on Thursday, the address is one of seven that is at the center of a fight over documents in the case. Giuliani’s mother, who passed away in 2002, was named Helen In an email to TPM, Giuliani’s attorney, Joe Sibley, pointed to this fact when asked why Giuliani was not using an email address with his own name. “I don’t usually respond to inquiries on these cases and I can’t comment on much, but I can tell you that the email address you’re referring to is based on his mother’s name ‘Helen’ and that email address was the main email used by him to communicate with pretty much everyone before the DOJ seized his devices, so there is nothing unusual about him using that email to communicate with anyone at that time,” Sibley wrote. “That was my main Gmail account since I had Gmail,” Giuliani said in a deposition on March 1, 2023. “And somehow others were created for specific purposes, but that would cover 95 percent of any email I had and probably every important one.” [...] The address also appeared in the lawsuit against former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that was filed by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack. A message included in that case indicates Giuliani, as “rhelen0528,” was cc-ed on discussions about an executive order that some Trump allies believed could be used as a pretext to seize voting machines and even impose martial law following Trump’s election loss. During that earlier suit, Meadows attempted to fight the committee’s subpoena seeking his testimony, personal communications, and other documents. The suit included an April 2022 memorandum in which the committee argued against Meadows’ efforts to resist the subpoena and positioned him as a “key player” in the election fight. To make their point, staffers and lawyers for the committee submitted an email that Phil Waldron sent to an address associated with Meadows. In that message, which cc-ed the Giuliani alias and was dated December 22, 2020, Waldron, an Army colonel who worked with Trump allies on efforts to overturn the election, indicated he had talked with Meadows at the White House about plans involving Executive Order 13848, which was a fixation for election dead enders who saw it as a path to martial law. talkingpointsmemo.com/... x Trump Reportedly Left Restaurant Without Paying Any Bills After Telling His Supporters ‘Food For Everyone!’https://t.co/h0EaPvNGu4 — Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 16, 2023 x folks, he wants the classified documents back https://t.co/DklzfLFPkr — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 15, 2023 x Fitton: Trump fully cooperated pic.twitter.com/bKQz6ae3sQ — Acyn (@Acyn) June 15, 2023 x Republicans have little recourse for saving Trump from the federal justice system to which he's now beholden. Instead, they're embarking on a political revenge campaign in a bid to prove their loyalty and muddy the waters in the court of public opinion. https://t.co/w1sQ8OnufK — Axios (@axios) June 16, 2023 Former President Trump's allies in Congress have begun furiously pulling on every lever available to ensure his enemies — from federal prosecutors to President Biden himself — pay a price for his historic indictment. Why it matters: Republicans have little recourse for saving Trump from the federal justice system to which he's now beholden. Instead, they're embarking on a political revenge campaign in a bid to prove their loyalty to Trump and muddy the waters in the court of public opinion. Driving the news: House GOP leadership backed a resolution — which ultimately failed on the floor — that would have censured Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and fined him $16 million for his investigations into Trump's ties to Russia as former chair of the Intelligence Committee. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is demanding information from the Justice Department about the scope of special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents probe and the FBI's execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has backed the push for "accountability," claiming — misleadingly — that DOJ has held Trump to a different standard than Biden when it comes to classified documents. Zoom in: The power of the purse is the most meaningful tool House Republicans have to exact revenge on the Justice Department and FBI. Jordan is urging his staff to work with the Appropriations Committee to include policy riders in any budget bill that could slash DOJ or FBI funding. McCarthy has signaled support for using the appropriations process to eliminate funding for the FBI's new headquarters, which Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told Axios is a "fairly obvious" step. signaled support for using the appropriations process to eliminate funding for the FBI's new headquarters, which Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told Axios is a "fairly obvious" step. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has proposed defunding the special counsel's office, while other Republicans have called for using the "Holman Rule" to cut the salary of top FBI officials. www.axios.com/... x NEW: @OpenSecretsDC investigation reveals Publix heiress Julie Fancelli used a charity to steer even more money to “dark money” groups involved in the pro-Trump rally on January 6th before the Capitol attack—with $1.3 million to Moms for America https://t.co/BMJ7fQMPH0 pic.twitter.com/dBMxixjvEM — Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) June 15, 2023 x “The problem for Republicans is that the claims — the bribery scheme, the connections to the energy firm and the alleged recordings — have all either been discredited or are unverified.” Ouch Read @TheMessenger on the House GOP’s flailing flopshttps://t.co/NjEcJaduvz — Ian Sams (@IanSams46) June 15, 2023 The House Republican investigation into President Joe Biden and his family is surrounded in smoke — accusations of a bribery scheme, alleged recordings of the president and claims that he should be “hauled out of the White House in handcuffs.” But for all the haze around their probe of the Bidens, the GOP has so far been unable to point to any fire that directly implicates the president in wrongdoing. Instead, the tactic by Republican leaders has been to play up the possibility that Biden acted criminally, while continuing to search for evidence that proves their claims. “There’s so much smoke, it’s hard to imagine there’s not an overwhelming amount of fire,” Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told The Messenger. The House Oversight Committee is leading the charge, where Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman, and Republicans are looking into claims that then-Vice President Biden participated in a bribery scheme in exchange for foreign policy decisions. The complaint stems from a tip submitted by a paid FBI informant who, using second-hand information, claimed Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, paid $10 million in total to two members of the Biden family to lobby for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company. themessenger.com/... x New, w/@hunterw: Bernie Kerik asked Mark Meadows for $5 to $8 Million for a plan to reverse Trump's 2020 defeat https://t.co/0QKTBzS5rw — Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) June 15, 2023 [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/15/2175696/-GOP-Shenanigans-Helen-was-not-a-Witch-she-was-Rudy-s-mother-as-dead-as-his-witnesses Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/