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--Report typos and corrections to: .A new book from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claims that former planned to blockade himself in the White House and refuse to leave despite his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. that White House aides told Haberman that Trump said multiple times that he would not leave the White House to make way for Biden, even though Trump had lost every court challenge and of the election."I'm just not going to leave," Trump told one aide who spoke with Haberman."We're never leaving," Trump told a separate aide. "How can you leave when you won an election?"READ MORE: One source also told Haberman that they heard Trump apparently rebuking RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel about the possibility of leaving the White House, and he asked her, "Why should I leave if they stole it from me?"Additionally, Haberman reports that Trump initially seemed to accept that he actually did lose to Biden in the immediate aftermath of his defeat, as he also told aides that "we did our best" and "I thought we had it" about the failed re-election effort.However, the twice-impeached former president's tone gradually shifted and he became intent on staying in the White House while defiantly claiming the election had been stolen from him despite no evidence to support this claim.Haberman's book, titled "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," is due to be released on October 4th.Federal investigators are seeking information from Women for America First, which hosted the “Save America Rally,” as part of a wide-ranging probe into fundraising by the Trump campaign after the election, the alternate electors scheme and the Jan. 6 rally headlined by President Trump, which set the stage for the attack on the US Capitol.Attorney Harmeet Dhillon on Friday night that Women for America First was among clients that had been “served w/ extremely broad subpoenas, or warrants for phone/device.”Amy Kremer, the organization’s chair, Dhillon on Saturday morning, writing, “I can confirm this.”The and have previously reported that the federal grand jury investigation is focusing on political fundraising by Trump through a political action committee set up after the 2020 election that promoted baseless election fraud claims. The Post also reported that at least one of the subpoenas sought information “about the plan to submit slates of phony electors claiming Trump won pivotal states.The two outlets reported that the subpoenas were sent to former White House and Trump campaign staffers, with the Times naming William B. Harrison, a former White House aide who now works for Trump’s personal office; Julie Radford, chief of staff to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka; Nicholas Luna, another personal aide to Trump; and Sean Dollman, the chief financial officer of the 2020 campaign. The Times and Post reported that the subpoenas are seeking communications with lawyers involved in the fake electors scheme.The revelation that Women for America First is among the entities that have received subpoenas, search warrants or a combination of the two adds a new dimension to the grand jury investigation. Dhillon told Carlson during an appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Friday that three of her law firm’s clients received search warrants or subpoenas from what she called “the ‘Capitol siege’ section of the United States Department of Justice’s DC office.”“They ask for all communications dating from a month before the election ’til two months after the election,” Dhillon said. “And they ask for all communications regarding dozens of people. And the categories are alternate electors, fundraising around irregularities around the election, and also a rally that happened before the January 6th situation at the Capitol — the Save America Rally.”The news sent a ripple through the far-right media ecosystem. After turning himself in to authorities in Manhattan on of defrauding donors to a scheme to build a border wall, former White House strategist Steve Bannon appeared on Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s on Friday, and claimed “there were 35 senior members of MAGA, Republican supporters of Donald Trump — the FBI rolled in on ’em.” In her interview with Carlson later on Friday, Dhillon placed the figure at “50 approximately.”Kirk characterized Bannon’s statement as a “bombshell” and said that his guest “broke news” in a clip out to promote the interview.Trump allies have framed the grand jury investigation as part of a persecution campaign by Democrats and the FBI against conservatives.Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor and a figurehead in the election denier movement, amplified the persecution theme in an interview with Bannon on Saturday.“Really, what this latest thing, too, Steve is, I think you broke yesterday — really what it is, it’s basically, when they put out all these subpoenas, when they do all these things to all these different people, they’re basically telling you to sit down and shut up,” he said.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who was part of a group of Republican lawmakers who met with Trump in December 2020 to discuss a dubious legal theory positing that Vice President Mike Pence could single-handedly reject Biden electors and preemptively sought a pardon, told Bannon she had spoken to some of the individuals who received subpoenas on Friday.“They’re building a conspiracy theory, a spider web,” Greene said. “They’re trying to lie about all of us and say that we were doing something on January 6th that we absolutely were not. Everything that we did was legal.” Greene went on to complain that the government is “trying to create a conspiracy that we were waging an insurrection — and we absolutely were not.”Speaking with Greene, Bannon fumed, “This is all intimidation tactics. They think they’re going to scare people. And they’re not scaring people. They’re making our resolve — we’ve got steely resolve now. You’re not going to scare anybody. You’re not going to intimidate anybody. We’re going to break you. We’re going to break you. The FBI, we’re going to break you. We’re going to win a sweeping victory on November the 8th, and then we’re going to cut off your money.”President Joe Biden made a speech at the Pentagon about Sept. 11 and spoke out against the kind of extremism that led terrorists to fly into American buildings, killing thousands. He told the crowd outside of the building that the most important thing that they can do is to continue to push back against the forces that are trying to undermine democracy. While the anti-democratic forces may have been al Qaeda 21 years ago. Today, there is a fear that , militia groups, white supremacist organizations and neo-Nazis are growing in power and conducting their own attacks. One group plotted to kidnap and assassinate a governor, ram their cars into protesters, , and threaten local officials, election workers and federal judges."I think Biden's speech actually hit the mark in terms of " said former FBI deputy director of counterintelligence Frank Figliuzz. "That is to call out conduct against democracy, and offer somebody another option, which is membership in another group, a group called civil society. A group called a democratic republic. You've got to call it out when you see it. And then you've got to offer an alternative. That is an anti-radicalization strategy."He went on to say that after Sept. 11, a lot changed and the country came together. and the Capitol was attacked by our own people. "The question is, here we are on the anniversary of 9/11," he continued. "Sept. 11 was about an external threat. It was about a nation who was resilient, who came together, took a punch to the gut, recovered, and showed resolve so it would not happen again. We saw an incredible shift in our intelligence community. The FBI remade itself to fight that external threat. Laws were passed, including the Patriot Act, with many different rules and operation techniques. Agencies were created, the Department of Homeland Security, a massive organization, with new authorities and responsibilities. Jan. 6 happens, internal threat, not external threat. No new agencies. No new laws. We still don't have a domestic terrorism law on the books. The threat is us. It's a different, more challenging threat."Vice President Kamala Harris noted in an NBC interview that there are 11 people who don't believe in American democracy running for an office to conduct a democratic process. "There is an irony here. Isn't this ironic that it's our own system, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly that causes that reticence of our law enforcement, understandably, because of our constitutional rights and liberties, to actually take action before the bomb goes off? Before the insurrection, before the violence occurs. ," explained Figliuzzi. "And that's the challenge here."When it comes to Harris's comments, Figliuzzi cited listing off that were law enforcement, elected officials and members of the military. "Law enforcement officers, , who were quick to deny, if there's any glimmer of hope there, that they have any active role or that they actually aligned with the Oath Keepers anymore. But that is the inside threat," he closed. "Our own system that we have to figure out how to deal with in order to get through this. America has to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. We are still young. We are still experimental. This is not a fait accompli. This is not a given. We've got to fight for democracy, if that's what we want to be."See the full conversation below&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Copyright © 2022 Raw Story Media, Inc. 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--Report typos and corrections to: .A new book from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claims that former planned to blockade himself in the White House and refuse to leave despite his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. that White House aides told Haberman that Trump said multiple times that he would not leave the White House to make way for Biden, even though Trump had lost every court challenge and of the election."I'm just not going to leave," Trump told one aide who spoke with Haberman."We're never leaving," Trump told a separate aide. "How can you leave when you won...

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