#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
"The Capitol Visitor’s Center has reported Rep. Rich McCormick to the House sergeant at arms accusing him of “unsafe actions” while on a tour of the Capitol’s dome & doing pull-ups on railings suspended 100s of ft above the ground.
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
In the years after the undisclosed trip to #Alaska, #Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. #Alito has never recused himself.
"We don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ,” the House speaker said. His office later noted that DOJ already has the raw footage.
“The #Colorado#Republican Party says it has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the unprecedented state Supreme Court ruling that removed Donald #Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot.” #14thAmendment
GOP Rep. Mike Turner, chair of the House Intel Committee, tells CNN that Russian propaganda has taken hold among some of his #Republican colleagues.
"We see directly coming from #Russia ... communications that are anti-#Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor."
8 #Republican senators announced Fri they would boycott #Democratic#legislative priorities & nominations as payback for #Trump’s #guilty#verdict.
In a joint statement, the senators said they would not “allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the presidential nomination from the Republican Party of the USA, who is in the top three in terms of popularity among Republican supporters, promises to recognize the Russian occupation of Ukraine and block its path to NATO if elected president.
Say it with me: Everything out of their mouths is a lie and/or projection/confession.
“A judge ruled that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted 9 times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence”
The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.
Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, #Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory #voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.
#Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over #Trump attacks on #law
Federal DC Judge #ReggieWalton warned Trump’s attacks on #HushMoney trial judge & others could lead to #violence.
The Republican-appointed judge denounced Trump’s attacks against the judge presiding over his hush money trial in Manhattan & his daughter, calling them assaults on the #RuleOfLaw that could lead to violence & #tyranny.
In the year since #RoeVWade was overturned, the #Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points & messages on #abortion in an attempt to make its anti-abortion policies sound less #extreme. #Conservatives are even considering moving away from the term “#ProLife,” fearing that voters have newly negative associations w/the label.
“The embattled chairman of the #Republican Party of #Florida was censured and stripped of his duties and salary on Sunday, decisions that all but ousted him from the party’s top post as he faces a criminal investigation into an accusation that he sexually assaulted a woman.”
This election story reads like every conversation on Fedi.
"#Missouri’s attorney general race is an unusually #Jewish one: Will Scharf, a #Republican former prosecutor trying to unseat incumbent Republican Andrew Bailey, wraps tefillin every day; Elad Gross, a Jewish former assistant attorney general on the other side of the ballot, is married to a founder of multiple local Jewish nonprofits.
These biographical details hardly figured in the race until this month, when a fourth candidate — #Democratic Rep. Sarah Unsicker — floated a #conspiracy theory developed by a known right-wing troll that Scharf and Gross were #Israeli sleeper agents on a mission to destroy #American#democracy."
Manafort is a convicted felon. It’s not just that he’s a Kremlin agent who was paid $10 million/year by Oleg Derispaska starting in 2006 to advance Putin’s interests in the United States. It’s not just that he knowingly colluded with the Kremlin in 2016 bypassing proprietary data to Russian intelligence in mid-campaign.
Rapist Donald to Rehire Confessed Money Launderer Who Conspired with his Business Partner, a Russian spy, wanted by the FBI.
WaPo reported the criminal defendant Donald has hired the convicted felon, national security threat Manafort as a campaign adviser. The rapist pardoned Manafort in 2020 after he was convicted in 2018 on Obstruction of justice, bank fraud & tax charges.
Reward: The #FBI is offering a #reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to the #arrest of Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime Manafort business associate, a Russian intelligence agent.
#Republican Party officials have selected #Houston to host their party’s 2028 presidential convention, approving the location during a closed meeting on Friday.
Bullied By Her Own Party, a #Wisconsin Election Official's #GOP Roots Mean Nothing in Volatile New Climate
In the face of repeated calls to back Donald Trump's bogus claims that the 2020 #election was stolen, Marge Bostelmann of the Wisconsin #Elections Commission remains resolute: “I’m a #Republican who stands up for the truth and not for a lie.”
In 2006, …Donald #Trump met the adult-film star #StormyDaniels. According to Daniels, things got intimate. (“The sex was nothing crazy,” she would go on to say.) A decade later, Trump was running for President, as a kind of #Republican uber-family man, drawing crucial support from #conservative, #evangelical voters. Daniels decided to go public: her encounter w/ Trump had taken place while he was already married to his third wife, Melania.
Speaker Mike Johnson says he's blurring Jan. 6 footage so rioters don't get charged (www.nbcnews.com)
"We don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ,” the House speaker said. His office later noted that DOJ already has the raw footage.
Trump's competitor promises to give part of Ukraine to Russia and block Kyiv's accession to NATO (www.pravda.com.ua)
Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the presidential nomination from the Republican Party of the USA, who is in the top three in terms of popularity among Republican supporters, promises to recognize the Russian occupation of Ukraine and block its path to NATO if elected president.
Republicans Wanted a Hunter Biden Special Counsel. They’re Pissed They Actually Got One (www.rollingstone.com)
David Weiss will now have the ability to “prosecute federal crimes in any federal judicial district arising from” his probe into the president’s son