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i am still mad about trump trying to steal the election. what would happen if trump had succeeded? it would have gotten worse. we would certainly be a dictatorship if trump could have gotten away with it. he should be in jail for that. the next person might be smarter than trump and pull it off. trump has crapped on everything great about america for the trump brand. if you cannot see it then you guys in denial need to get a better education of if you had one you need to pay attention and study and learn something.

you guys are the insanity. you claim to be loving christians but it is a damn lie.America is for everyone and not just a few haters on the right. you guys always want to hurt someone. you lie. then you lie again. you do not have to care for the gay lifestyle. i do not. but they are humans and deserve love just like everyone. i like to think iam when some of you maga's die they turn the burners up a little more in hell.

Is America Already in a Civil War? An expert in militant Christian nationalism weighs in: “There are little fires all around us” A supporter of Donald Trump holds up a cross outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Federal Courthouse during his arraignment in Miami. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The indictment of Donald Trump revealed that the far-right passions that spilled over into violence on Jan. 6 have not cooled, so much as remained at a simmer. And that a big news event can stoke them immediately back to a boil. Brad Onishi is an expert on what’s fueling extremism from the religious right, which is acting increasingly as though it’s ready for combat. He’s the author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism — and What Comes Next. An audio version of the book, published in print earlier this year, will be released June 20. For fans of Onishi’s work, audio is a familiar format. He’s also the co-host of Straight White American Jesus, a hit indie podcast in which he and a fellow professor of religion, Dan Miller, offer listeners an irreverent breakdown of news at the intersection of politics and religion. Onishi, who is half-Japanese, was raised in Southern California and spent much of his young adulthood in a predominately white evangelical mega church, where he even served as a pastor. But his academic exploration of religion, and years abroad at Oxford University, drew him away from that congregation, and deepened a drive to decode and deconstruct evangelical culture for secular audiences. Now a professor at the University of San Francisco, Onishi describes the religious underpinnings of Jan. 6 in his book and the harrowing realization that — had his life followed its previous path — he could easily have found himself on the ground in Washington, D.C., along with other members of his former church. This past week, Onishi watched with alarm as the drama over Trump’s second arraignment unfolded. The fact that the grounds of the courthouse in Miami didn’t see a replay of the violence of Jan. 6 is cold comfort to Onishi. “We now live in a country where this type of political violence is something we have to prepare for,” he tells Rolling Stone. “All that resentment, all that rage is still there, and it’s not going anywhere, anytime soon.” In an extended interview, Onishi discussed the dark implications of America’s political and religious unrest, and the warning signs that the nation is already in a low-level civil war. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. There was plenty of loose talk about political violence following Trump’s federal indictment. What sticks with you from the past several days?We may not have seen a huge, violent confrontation in Miami. But there are little fires everywhere that are pointing us toward deep civil unrest and deep mistrust in our public square. I have a sheet in front of me with more than a dozen instances of people — elected officials, right-wing media figures, mega pastors — and some of them said, we’re in “a war phase,” or it’s time for “an eye for an eye.” There’s one mega pastor, Kent Christmas, who said the reason that Muslims have been successful in taking control is they’re willing to die for their faith, and asking Christians, “Are you willing to do that too?” I’m struck that you’re describing overlaps between extreme statements by far-right politicians and far-right religious figures, without a clear division.It’s another instance of how Christian nationalism is pervasive in right-wing American politics at the moment. Looking at these quotes alone, it’s hard to tell who’s speaking. Is it a Republican official? Is it a Fox News host? Is it a pastor? They sound eerily similar — even if some of the buzzwords are different. How do you define Christian nationalism, and why is race so central to this ideology?Christian nationalists want Christian people in the United States to be privileged. That ideology [at the extreme] says that only Christians should be citizens, or that the church should have a veto on American law and policy. But if you want to privilege Christians, that means secular people, Muslims, Buddhists, etc., have to accept a second-class position in the country. Their justification is an “appeal to history” that says this is a Christian nation, founded for Christians, by Christians. There’s a lot of complexity when we talk about the faith of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison. But all of that is done away with in favor of a simple story that says America was founded on Judeo-Christian values, and therefore it should continue that way without any challenge. White Christian nationalism is a reactionary movement. What are they seeking to restore?There is a nostalgia for a time, supposedly, when the United States was following its “covenant with God” as an exceptional nation on Earth. When you ask a lot of Christian nationalists — and this is where the white part comes in — when is the modern period when they would say things were good? They’ll say the 1950s. And you’ll ask, “The time before the Civil Rights Movement? Before the Civil Rights Act? Before the Voting Rights Act? Before immigration reform? Before the legalization of no-fault divorce all over the land? Before the Loving case protected interracial marriage in all 50 states?” I could go on and on, but their answer is, “Yes.” So making America “great again” is a dark agenda at its core?Their nostalgia is for a time when America was the “city on a hill.” The narrative now is that that city on the hill has been overrun by interlopers, and those for whom the country was never intended. So maybe we need to “build a wall” around the city, because it needs protection — too many folks have gotten in and ruined it and eroded the order that we need in the country. When I hear these folks talk about “freedom,” it is not at all a freedom as secular Americans mean it — to follow your bliss. It’s freedom to live by God’s order.Totally. “Freedom” is living out your role in God’s hierarchy. And so when other people don’t do that, just by existing, they’re making you less free. They may see the trans person, for example, as not living according to their God-given gender. So just by being on the subway, or being in their kids’ school, they’re making them less free, because the order is all out of whack. And therefore they need to do something about it. They need to go tear down displays at Target or put forth anti-trans legislation. I think it’s helpful for people to understand this idea of the “covenant with God.” It’s as though the United States were another chosen nation, in the manner of Israel?Very much so. The Christian nationalist nostalgia is based in the idea of American exceptionalism. But many Christian nationalists see the United States as exceptional, not only in its Constitution, but as literally chosen by God to play a unique role in human history — as a kind of New Israel that the world has never seen before. And they see that special status as threatened?The fear is that we’re on the precipice of an apocalypse, but that seems to be much more focused on the end of the United States, rather than the end of the world. And they feel as if they’re fighting the tides of history, and therefore extreme action is justified. Many of the Christian nationalists we’ve reported on see themselves as fighting demonic forces, and they blame Satan for disrupting the order that they believe they’re entitled to.Yes. It is sense of a cosmic war between good and evil. Many Christians believe that they are characters in an epic, and that the ending hasn’t been written yet in terms happens to the United States. One of the dangers is that, when you talk about a cosmic war between good and evil, your political opponents are not opponents. They’re not people who have different ideas about policies. They become agents of the devil; they become demons. And it’s really hard to have a democracy where one side sees their political opponent in a mayoral race or in a congressional race as literally sent from Satan — as a demon who hates the country and is trying to destroy it. You’ve described white Christian nationalism as a will-to-power, and that the endgame is to achieve their goals … by any means necessary.If you’re a person who is convinced that the United States is under threat by a Luciferian regime, comprised of Marxist globalist secularists, feminists, the LGBTQ community, and so on, democracy is not your sacred value. The goal is for you to be the extension of God on Earth. And therefore the goal is for power, or “dominion” — to have the ability to shape the country and its social and political order in the ways you think God wants. If democratic processes get in the way of that, they may be a problem, not a solution. There has been an impulse in white Christian nationalist circles for a generation that says, “We may not have the majority and democracy may not be on our side. So we’re gonna have to find ways around it, and ways through it. Because the goal is for us is to be in charge. We founded the nation, and we should be in control of the nation.” Does that help us understand the comfort that the religious right has with Trump, where they see his authoritarian impulses as papering over a personal lack of godliness or goodness?Donald Trump’s authoritarianism is a welcome aspect of his persona, because it signifies that he is someone who will brutalize the people that need to be brutalized. They don’t need somebody who shares their faith as much as they need somebody who will destroy the people that they see as destroying America. Mike Pence? George W. Bush? Mike Huckabee? Did these guys ever have the stones to do that? Donald Trump, from Day One, promised that he did. And in many ways, during his administration, he delivered. There seems to have been a sea change in evangelical culture. It has gone from, the Rapture is coming, so you secularists can have your sinful world — to wanting to seize control of the government and mainstream culture and remake it in God’s name.This is a shift worth noticing. It’s no longer that we expect Christ to return and therefore we have to prepare. It’s In order for Christ to return, we need to prepare by taking power and dominion. We’re in a place now with Sean Feucht, and Lance Wallnau and, and Rob McCoy where you almost don’t want the world to end tomorrow, because you really want to win the battle on Earth first. You want power. Matthew 28, to this crowd, is not about converting souls. It’s about controlling nations. You write about Jan. 6 as the “first violent battle” in what a lot of Christian nationalists are seeing as a coming civil war. What does this rising tide of Christian nationalism mean for people who are accustomed to American politics working through the normal democratic means?There is plenty of evidence that Jan. 6 is seen as an “Alamo moment,” something to be remembered and something that should inspire further action. But I think if we wait to see a new Civil War in terms of North versus South, then we’re going to miss a lot — because there are little fires everywhere all around us. What do you mean by “little fires”?There are extra-judicial acts of violence that are menacing our public square. During the 2022 midterm elections, we had men with AR-15s sitting outside of ballot drop boxes in Arizona. We have people who are disabling, through terrorist acts, power grids in order to stop a drag queen story or to stop a gay brunch. Figures such as Kyle Rittenhouse or Daniel Perry are seen as heroes of those who are willing to do everything they can to put the social order back in place. Last year at Pride in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, dozens of Patriot Front members were arrested seconds before they were able to descend upon the Pride event. I interviewed people who were there and believed they were seconds away from unspeakable violence. In Glendale, California, there was a violent eruption between parents who were protesting and counter-protesting LGBTQ curriculum, books and materials in L.A. schools. There are little fires everywhere that portend the kind of American conflict that we’re discussing. Rhetorically, I’m noticing overlap between Christian nationalists and the “western chauvinism” that militant groups like the Proud Boys use to justify violence. It’s disturbing.There are natural points of resonance between them. White Christian nationalists tend to be very patriarchal. There are many Christian nationalist pastors today that would say, God has put everything on men: the church, the country, and the family, and it is up to men to answer that call through authoritative, assertive, unabashed, unashamed leadership and aggression. When we look at the kinds of “men’s conferences” happening through churches, we see men are going on retreats, and not only praying together and studying the Bible, but they are engaging in war games, where they’re simulating a war that they themselves will have to fight in, where they’re training their teenagers to be holy warriors. So that kind of masculinity in a white Christian nationalist space is going to find natural resonances with the alt-right, and misogynists, and in many cases openly racist figures. I don’t think that’s a mistake. I don’t think that’s an accident. I don’t think it’s a one-off. They certainly share the same bigotry against LGBTQ Americans.I went to a protest at a Calvary Chapel Church here in the Bay Area. There was a speaker, Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, who’s vehemently anti-LGBTQ. There were 45 or 50 people outside protesting. Across the street, there were Proud Boys, and some folks wearing Nazi paraphernalia, who were there to make sure the protesters didn’t get “out of line.” There’s a scenario where the folks from church could have walked out of their service, and seen the Proud Boys, and have said: “Hey, guys, we love you, we want you to be Christian, but we don’t want you here to protect us. Please don’t come here with your Nazi paraphernalia and your Proud Boy vest.” But the opposite happened. They were waving to the Proud Boys, inviting them to lunch and thanking them for being there. To me, that is a good example of how these groups are often finding themselves on the same side. They are co-belligerents fighting in the same war. And they’re finding that they have a lot of the same values. So why not work together? Play this forward for me. Where do you see this going?I’m really scared because I feel like they have their enemy, they have their “other” that they’re gonna demonize. Trump said it the night after he was indicted; he said it in his speech in Georgia, when he talked about trans issues. For those who didn’t catch it, Trump mused about how his fans barely respond to promises to cut taxes anymore, but when he talks about restricting trans rights, they hoot and holler and go wild.The KKK put up flyers in Kentucky — talking not about Black people, not about Jewish people, not Catholic people. The flyers are now about trans kids. To me that’s a really clear indication of where we’re headed. And by next summer, when we’re back in the meat grinder of election season, it’s going to be worse than it’s ever been.

you mean versus full tilt radical right where you guys hate everything and often bring violence on them at an alarming rate.

so the babylon bee is a satire site where they make fun of libs. so this is all bull other than the beer and he welcomes gays to come to a bar and feel safe to have a drink. the hate is strong in maga's but like the rest of their stuff it appears to be a lie.

poor ol MAGA's want something to be right to only end up like fools. like the american flag versus the pride flag. always going off half cocked only to find out out it is another wingnut lie. well unless you are a maga then you probably believe all the lies........................

you MAGA boys will believe anything..................lol. but then yall voted for trump right IAM?

Open in app or online the GOP's latest “Biden scandal” collapses into another clownshoes cluster**** can't anyone around here do a proper fake scandal any more? Jeff Tiedrich Jun 15 Share stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “guys, we got him now. Joe Biden’s going down. the whole Biden Crime Family is going down.” that’s right, the Republican party has a brand new Biden scandal to sell you. here it is, in a nutshell: when Joe Biden was vice president, he took a $5 million bribe and the FBI has seventeen audiotapes that prove it. Upgrade to paid the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex has been screeching about it for a month now, in a desperate bid to distract the rubes from Donald Trump’s indictment for actual crimes. first, James Comer held a press conference where he promised to leave no imaginary stone unturned. he vowed to subpoena the entire world, if necessary. next, they took poor old 162-year-old Chuck Grassley — a man so far into his dotage that he longer knows which end is up — and shoved him in front of a camera to deliver an incoherent word salad punctuated with numerous allegedlys. and then, the strangest ******* thing happened: wingnut media actually started to push back and ask questions. here’s some Newsmax bobblehead actually getting James Comer to admit that “we don't know if they're legit or not.” I don’t know what triggered this. is the far-right media ecosystem finally getting tired of all the defamation suits? from there, things began to unravel pretty quickly. here’s somehow-unindicted-sex-trafficker Matt Gaetz on somehow-still-not-in-prison-yet Steve Bannon’s podcast, equivocating at the twice speed of light: here’s Ron Johnson, a man who never met a conspiracy theory he couldn’t exploit: and finally, we circle back to 174-year-old Chuck Grassley, screaming the quiet part out loud: holy s***. I have one question: so, if this whole deal is such a mystery and no one can confirm anything, why don’t we just find this FBI agent and have him tell his story firsthand? easy peasy lemon squeezy, right? well … we can’t, because, according to Esteemed Counsellor Rudolph J. Covidfart, Esquire, the FBI agent is … umm … err … dead. and just like that, the latest huge scandal that would finally take down the entire Biden Crime Family collapsed like a big stupid house of cards. the Republican party is a ******* joke and has degraded to the point where none of these clownshoes doofuses know how to gin up a proper fake scandal any more. it almost makes you nostalgic for the days of 34 Benghazi investigations. everyone is entitled to my own opinion is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid

“What about Donald Trump being responsible for his own actions? What about his absconding with intel secrets? What about the former president facing retribution for his lifetime of shameful and illegal behavior?”

well hell leroy i cannot sit around the house in a nice summer dress with out you bitching and moaning about it. and again i have seen you be an ass to several folks on here. several. you have been an ass with me so why is it ok for you and not for everybody else? see you have this problem you hold people accountable but give yourself a pass on the very same things you complain about others. this is the truth and you know it.

i doubt i vote for him but as long as he calls out trump i will support him all i can. by the way how many indictments is trump up to? close to seventy so far and we still have jawja and other things coming up. and the maga's would rather burn the country down than admit they were used by trump and knew better. it is such an ugly look and their in no honor involved. but it is a witch hunt......................lol

see iam? this makes you a hypocrite. you call me out all the time whining about me being mean to trump but you do the same thing as well. repeatedly. see how that works?

if this is true then i have no problem with him. in fact i like he tells it like it is. as long as he calls out mistruths and the bull i am all for it. i wonder if the maga's hate him?

Ivanka Trump May Reportedly Be Ready to Make the Ultimate Move in Separating Herself from the Trump Family Delilah Gray 2–3 minutes If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Ivanka Trump’s relationship with her father Donald Trump has been a big topic of conversation in the political world. She was once one of his biggest confidantes until everything went sour for the once high-power family, and within the past few years, she seems to have tried harder than ever to get her old image back. More from SheKnows Donald Trump Is Reportedly Using His Possible Prison Sentence for Financial Gain Now, viral claims are circling the internet that the Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life author may have just made the ultimate move of separating herself from the Trump family: by officially changing her last name to Kushner. Recently, Newsweek Misinformation Watch looked into the viral claims, and while she has slowly but surely separated herself from the Trumps, she hasn’t made the ultimate move yet. Click here to read the full article. These rumors started soon after the viral Business Insider article was published in late May called “Call Her Ivanka Kushner,” which talked about how she’s working on being known more as a Kushner than a Trump. The article even said, “She hasn’t changed her name, but Ivanka Trump’s image has undergone a major makeover in recent years, as she has slowly separated herself from her father’s brand.” However, with the major changes she’s made, we wouldn’t be surprised if she made this move in the near future. Along with her family-oriented social media posts, Ivanka has made almost all of her public appearances about her family and her husband Jared Kushner, which many speculate is a strategic move to be seen as a Kushner instead.

A 9-year-old girl at a school track and field event was left 'shaking and sobbing' after a man accused her of being trans and demanded her disqualification, mom says Joshua Zitser ~3 minutes Starting line at a track and field event.Getty Images A Canadian girl, 9, was brought to tears by a man who insisted she was trans, her parents said. It happened at a regional track and field competition for elementary school kids, per Castanet. The parents say the man, who has denied the allegations, wanted their daughter disqualified. A 9-year-old girl was yelled at during a regional track and field event in British Columbia, Canada, on Sunday by a man who insisted she was trans and that she should be disqualified from competing, her parents said, according to local news outlet Castanet. The child's mothers, who chose not to disclose their daughter's name, told Castanet that the girl was competing in a shot put event at Kelowna's Apple Bowl when the grandfather of another participant began to yell at her. Heidi Starr, one of her mothers, told the local news outlet: "Right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, 'Hey, this is supposed to be a girls' event, and why are you letting boys compete.'" The girl's mother clarified that her daughter is cisgender, meaning she was assigned female at birth and still identifies as a girl. She mentioned that her daughter has a pixie haircut, adding that the man also pointed and shouted at another girl with short hair. According to a Facebook post shared by Starr, the man insisted her child was "definitely trans" and called for her to be disqualified from competing in the school competition. He also demanded to see certification proving that their daughter was indeed a girl, the Facebook post said. The incident left the girl "visibly shaking and sobbing," said Starr, according to the New York Post. The man denied the allegations, saying the women twisted his words to "satisfy an agenda." But the superintendent of Central Okanagan School District, Kevin Kaardal, told Castanet that the incident was "totally unacceptable" and that the district was taking steps to ensure that the man cannot attend future school events. The school district did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. The local police service, Kelowna RCMP, said in a statement Tuesday that it is investigating the incident, but would not provide further information due to privacy laws. Starr told the New York Post that she hopes the situation shines a light on "how awful and extreme" anti-trans rhetoric has become. She added: "This is proof that this has nothing to do with protecting children."

it seems you boys upset with the flag kinda forgot the american flag was and does fly over the white house. so just another nothing burger to demonize the dems. many on here in fact did that...............

Why the White House and Fox News are fighting over gay pride David Knowles·Senior EditorWed, June 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM CDT 5–7 minutes President Biden at a Pride Month celebration on the South Lawn of the White House, June 10. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) Tensions between the Biden administration and Fox News over Saturday’s Pride Month celebration at the White House boiled over this week, with the White House accusing the conservative network of lying about the meaning of a flag displayed at the event. “@FoxNews is characteristically lying through their teeth,” deputy press secretary Andrew Bates wrote in a tweet that linked to a Fox News piece that read: “White House flew controversial new transgender flag that promotes grooming and pedophilia, say critics.” In the article, Fox News reporter Kerry Byrne said critics of the flag told the network “it appears to reference a cult of pedophilia infecting many institutions and represents an unwanted takeover of traditional gay symbolism.” Bates added that “Fox never even communicated the malicious and discredited foundation of this article to the White House. Then they lie about whether we responded at all.” Fox News deleted the tweet and reframed the article to focus on how the transgender flag “troubles some critics in the gay community.” The Progress Pride Flag The Progress Pride Flag displayed from the balcony of the White House. (Anna Rose Layden/Reuters) The Biden administration hung what is known as the Progress Pride Flag at the White House to mark Pride Month. On its website, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group, explained the flag’s origin. “The Progress Pride Flag evolved from the Philadelphia Pride Flag and was created by Daniel Quasar. Quasar added a white, pink, and light-blue stripe to represent the Trans community,” the group said. “While the black and brown stripes still represented communities of color, the black stripe is also a nod to the thousands of individuals that the community lost during the HIV/AIDS crisis in 1980s and 1990s. Since its creation, the flag has become very popular.” Flag code violation? Conservatives upset over the display of the Progress Pride Flag also claimed its placement had violated the U.S. Flag Code, which requires the “flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.” Fox News ran a story on those critics on Sunday, quoting Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, who echoed the conservative belief that transgender people are "targeting children." “To advance revolutionary transgender agenda targeting children, Biden violates basic tenet of US Flag Code and disrespects every American service member buried under its colors,” Fitton wrote on Twitter. But an American flag was also being flown atop the White House, claiming the highest spot on the property. Topless trans activist Rose Montoya at the Queerties Awards in Los Angeles, Feb. 28. (Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images) At a time when conservatives have gone after private companies like Bud Light and Target for their promotion of gay and transgender rights, and Fox News airs regular segments promoting those boycotts, the decision for the White House to proudly champion those causes has been, for some, controversial. That controversy was fanned when transgender activist and model Rose Montoya was photographed topless at the White House event. Fox News and other conservative outlets published multiple articles about the incident. The White House released a statement barring Montoya from attending future events. “The behavior was simply unacceptable. We’ve been very clear about that,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday. “It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families. So, you know, we’re going to continue to be clear on that, and that type of behavior is, as I said, unacceptable. It’s inappropriate, it’s disrespectful. And it really does not reflect the event that we hosted to celebrate the LGBTQ+ families.” In an Instagram video, Montoya defended her support of “freeing the nipple.” “Conservatives are trying to use the video of me topless at the White House to try to call the community groomers, etcetera,” she said. “And I would just like to say that, first of all, going topless in Washington, D.C., is legal, and I fully support the movement in freeing the nipple because why is my chest now deemed inappropriate or illegal when I show it off, however, before coming out as trans it was not?” ‘Wannabe dictator’ Tensions between the network and the White House were also exacerbated Thursday, when Fox News briefly ran a chyron that accompanied their coverage of former President Donald Trump's arraignment on felony counts stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified documents. “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested,” the chyron read. Fox News explained Thursday that it had removed that description “immediately.” Asked Thursday to respond to the chyron, Jean-Pierre referenced the $787 million judgement against the company in the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. “There are probably about 787 million things that I can say about this,” she said. “That was wrong what we saw last night, but I don’t think I’m going to get into it.”

The facts of Brandon Miller's actions on Jan. 15 from video, testimony about fatal shooting Nick Kelly, The Tuscaloosa News 10–12 minutes Former Alabama basketball player Brandon Miller − a projected lottery pick in the June 22 NBA Draft − has not been charged with a crime in the aftermath of the Jan. 15 fatal shooting on the Strip. Instead, he served as a witness. But once his name was brought up in a preliminary bond hearing, Miller became the person talked about most on a national level surrounding the case. The police investigator testified in the Feb. 21 hearing for Michael Davis and former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles that Miller, the SEC player of the year as a freshman, had been at the scene of the fatal shooting of Jamea Harris, a 23-year-old woman from Birmingham. The police investigator also testified the gun investigators claim was used to kill Harris was retrieved from the back of Miller’s car. Jim Standridge, Miller's attorney, responded the day after the hearing, stating Miller “had no knowledge of any intent to use any weapon” on Jan. 15 and that Miller never touched the gun, was not involved in its exchange and “never knew that illegal activity involving the gun would occur.” “Further, it is our understanding that the weapon was concealed under some clothing in the back seat of his car,” Standridge wrote in a statement in February. Miles was arrested and charged with capital murder alongside Davis, who is not affiliated with UA. Investigators said the gun used to kill Harris belonged to Miles, 21, and that Davis, now 21, pulled the trigger, per court documents. A grand jury indicted Miles and Davis on capital murder charges in March. As part of an investigation into the events that led to Harris’ death, The Tuscaloosa News has reviewed 205 pages of a transcript from the preliminary hearing and spent dozens of hours examining surveillance video from 12 cameras near the Strip, including Twelve25, the Houndstooth and Publix. Based on information gathered from those sources, here are the facts we know about Miller's actions on Jan. 15. BRANDON MILLER: Alabama basketball's Brandon Miller on shooting death: 'Whole situation is just really heartbreaking' DARIUS MILES: Details from Darius Miles hearing in capital murder case in which he's denied bond Before the shooting Miles, Davis and Jaden Bradley, a former Alabama basketball player who transferred to Arizona in the offseason, went into Twelve25, a sports bar, around midnight, but Miller did not. Miller dropped Miles off but didn’t go into Twelve25 because the line was too long, the police investigator testified. Miller went to a restaurant to eat, his attorney said. The area outside Twelve25 on the Strip in Tuscaloosa where Darius Miles, Jamea Harris, Cedric Johnson and more waited in line in the early hours of Jan. 15. This photo was taken on May 25. While Miles was in Twelve25, he texted Miller: “how long u goin be,” the police investigator testified. Before picking up Miles, Miller gave another companion a ride home, per Standridge. At 1:35:52 a.m., Miles left Twelve25, then crossed University Boulevard toward Grace Street. Bradley and Davis also left and walked a few steps behind him. A black four-door Jeep Wrangler, holding Harris, her boyfriend Cedric Johnson and her cousin Asia Humphrey, sat at the stop sign at the end of Grace Street in front of University Boulevard. At that time, Humphrey was the driver, Harris sat in the front passenger seat and Johnson sat in the back left passenger seat. Miles walked past the Jeep, but Davis did not. He stopped to the front left of it and danced for a few seconds, then approached the back left window, where Johnson sat. The intersection of Grace Street and University Boulevard where the Jeep parked for six minutes across the street from Twelve25. This is where the Jeep sat when Michael Davis approached to talk to them the first time at 1:36 a.m. on Jan. 15. This photo was taken on May 25. According to Johnson's statement to police, these three things happened: Davis was attempting to talk to Harris, but she refused to talk to him; Johnson told Davis that Harris has a boyfriend and to move along; And Davis also asked him if he knew who he was and what he could do to him. Humphrey, however, testified she didn’t hear any threats, saying all she heard was a statement from Davis: “I don’t want your girl.” Davis had to be tugged back by Bradley. Miles walked back to the Jeep and stepped between Davis and the vehicle. Davis and Bradley started to back away at 1:37:20 a.m. as Miles continued to talk to the occupants of the Jeep. At 1:37:22 a.m., Harris can be seen on video handing something from the front passenger seat to the back seat. Johnson told police it was food. Miles told police he saw a gun passed back to Johnson, and he got Davis away because of the gun. Based on surveillance video, the Tuscaloosa News could not determine what the item was. At 1:37:25 a.m., Miles turned from the window, then he, Davis and Bradley walked down Grace Street away from University Boulevard. Miller was not present for any of the interaction that occurred at the Jeep, which is confirmed by surveillance video and police investigator testimony. Miles texts Miller after the exchange at the Jeep At 1:38 a.m., Miles texted Miller again, asking to bring him his joint, which the police investigator testified meant Miles’ gun. Miles also texted that someone “rl jus got da fakin.” Mary Turner, Miles’ attorney, explained in court that "fakin" meant threatening, citing Urban Dictionary. Miller’s attorney said Miller was already on his way to pick up Miles when receiving the text asking for the gun. Miller arrives on Grace Street Miller’s Dodge Charger pulled up behind Bradley’s Dodge Challenger on Grace Street, facing University Boulevard, at 1:43:40 a.m. Miles had already gotten out of Bradley’s car and walked toward Davis and Skylar Essex, who is Miles’ girlfriend; Davis and Essex were closer to University Boulevard. Surveillance video viewed by The Tuscaloosa News never shows Miller outside of his car, but the police investigator testified he was the driver. Bradley's car and Miller's car pulled ahead a few car lengths on Grace Street while Miles went to meet up with Essex and Davis. Then they return to the two cars. At 1:44:17 a.m., Miles left Essex by Bradley’s car as Miles and Davis went to Miller’s car. They opened the back right door of the car and went behind it. Surveillance video does not show what happened once the car door was open, but the police investigator testified that Miles told the location of the gun to Davis, who grabbed it. The police investigator also testified that Miles acknowledged he and Davis went to Miller's car to get Miles' gun. The police obtained dash-cam footage and audio from Miller's car in a search warrant. The police investigator said that, on the dash-cam footage/audio, Davis did not make any threats about doing harm or shooting or killing anyone in the black Jeep. Here’s what Miles and Davis said while behind the door, per the police investigator: “The heat is in the hat,” one said. “Is there one in the head?” the other replied. “You know it is,” the other said. After about eight seconds behind the car door, Davis and Miles walked in different directions. Davis went between two buildings; Miles walked back to Bradley's car and moved Essex to a side road behind the Houndstooth parking lot. Davis had told Miles to get Essex to go home, the police investigator testified. Miles then looked into Bradley’s car through the front passenger window. Meanwhile, Miller moved his car toward the right side of the road to give more room for cars passing on the other side. Bradley had done something similar earlier. Then, Miles walked back and again looked into Miller’s car at 1:45:17 a.m. The Jeep, headlights off, pulled up behind Miller’s car at 1:45:31 a.m. Next, Miles kept walking, eventually passing the Jeep being driven by Johnson before Miles turned to go between the two buildings where Davis had gone. Davis emerged from between the two buildings and walked past Miles a few steps off Grace Street. Then Davis jogged onto Grace Street behind the Jeep. By 1:45:37 a.m., Davis reached the driver’s door where Johnson was sitting. Then Davis squared up, raised his arm and a muzzle flash appeared. Surveillance video did not make clear whether that flash came from a gun inside the Jeep or from the gun Davis held. Humphrey testified she doesn’t know who shot first. Michael Davis and Cedric Johnson exchanged fire on the other side of this pole at 1:45:38 a.m. on Jan. 15. Johnson sat in the Jeep facing toward University. This photo was taken on May 25. Shots fired into Miller’s windshield After Davis and the Jeep exchanged gunfire, Davis stumbled backward into a pole. Then, he got up and continued shooting as he ran across Grace Street in front of Miller’s car as Miller was trying to drive away. The police investigator testified that two bullets hit Miller’s windshield. At least one Davis fired can be clearly seen hitting the windshield on the passenger side from surveillance video. Once Davis stopped shooting and broke into a sprint, Miller started driving toward University Boulevard but the right side of the Jeep and the left side of Miller's car bumped each other as the two vehicles kept moving. At 1:45:57 a.m., the Jeep turned left onto University Boulevard toward the Walk of Champions. At 1:46:00 a.m., Miller’s Charger turned right onto University Boulevard and drove off camera. Miller’s attorney said as soon as Miller was notified someone had been injured and police wanted to speak with him, Miller cooperated fully with law enforcement's investigation. "I never lose sight of the fact that a family lost one of their loved ones that night," Miller said March 8 in his first public comments. "This whole situation is just really heartbreaking.” Nick Kelly covers Alabama football and men's basketball for The Tuscaloosa News/USA TODAY Network. Reach him via email: nkelly@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter: @_NickKelly This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Brandon Miller: Video, testimony facts of actions from fatal shooting before anyone starts in on me i am posting the news and have no agenda ok? thank you

now we are misfits and mutants as well as communists, socialists, marxists, and human scum. but do tell me more about how divisive the left is lol https://t.co/2K2qhHvRfx

Trump Names A Baffling New Enemy In Latest Unhinged All-Caps Rant Ed Mazza ~2 minutes Donald Trump has found another enemy, and this one might be his most mysterious choice of villain yet. The former president fired off an all-caps post on his flailing Truth Social website attacking many of his usual suspects, including “the radical left” and “marxists & communists.” But this rant included a new target: Mutants. Donald Trump vs. Mutants Donald Trump vs. Mutants Trump has a longtime habit of demonizing just about any person or group for even mild criticism. But even so, it’s not clear who or what he meant by “mutants.” The reaction on Twitter ranged from amused to baffled: now we are misfits and mutants as well as communists, socialists, marxists, and human scum. but do tell me more about how divisive the left is lol https://t.co/2K2qhHvRfx — just a girl (@JustASaneGirl) June 14, 2023 Mutants? Finally, Emperor Trump sees me. — Gentleman-Esquire, GED (@autarchofTexas) June 14, 2023 Trump is calling pro-democracy people names including "Mutants.' The all caps rant is his panic tell. Rs are starting to peel away from him, so he claims the opposite- being indicted is a fundraising win. It's all falling apart. The only thing he has is R support & it's cracking. pic.twitter.com/Ac9eRNZsxt — Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) June 14, 2023

the problem with chris is his old bridge gate mess and other tricks he has pulled. maybe he has decided to be upfront. i love how he just blisters trump.

i laugh in your face dude. you guys think you make me feel bad getting high? you with your booze and bear and wife beaters? you guys want to make it look like i stay high 24 7 have at it. as usual you are lying. making stuff up to try to validate your opinion which sucks. if you do not have the facts just make em up right mickey? that mostly what most of you guys do.