“House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday appointed two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee, positioning two close allies of Donald Trump who worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election on a panel that receives sensitive classified briefings and oversees the work of America’s spy agencies.” https://apnews.com/article/868039d95bc245634644514d2a5abe48
— #TheBigLie#NationalSecurity#congress
The new schedule reflects the array of #legal issues that #JudgeCannon has yet to resolve amid efforts by Trump’s legal team to #delay the #TrumpTrial.
‘#Putin Will Do That For Me’: #Trump Drops Campaign Clip Claiming #Russia Will Release @WSJ Reporter Only If He’s Reelected
Trump released a campaign clip on Tues in which he doubled down on the wild claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin will release jailed WSJ reporter #EvanGershkovich if he’s reelected president.
“#EvanGershkovich, the reporter for The Wall Street Journal who is being held by #Russia, will be released almost immediately after the election,” #Trump said in the clip, adding:
“But definitely before I assume office, he will be home. He will be safe. Vladimir #Putin, president of Russia, will do that for me. And I don’t believe he’ll do it for anyone else. And we will be paying nothing. Biden likes to pay massive numbers. We will be paying nothing. Thank you very much.”
…Johnson “has named Reps #ScottPerry PA) & #RonnyJackson (TX) to the House Intelligence Cmte. The #Intel Cmte oversees the entire intelligence community & gets some of the most sensitive intelligence about the #US & its allies.”
#ScottPerry, who coordinated w/ #Trump allies surrounding the #Jan6th attack on the US Capitol, was involved in his own scandal. “Federal judge orders texts, emails on Rep Scott Perry’s phone be turned over to prosecutors in 2020 election probe,” read a CBS headline from 2023. Perry & Jackson’s past scandals led commentators & journalists to react w/both surprise & scorn at #MikeJohnson’s decision to place them on the #Intelligence Cmte.
It's as if #TFG is president, given the current #nationalsecurity threats. These two Reps shouldn't have been able to run for reelection, they & #MAGAMike were part of the sedition caucus. The DOJ hasn't held them accountable for their actions.
SOH Johnson has named Reps Scott Perry & Ronny Jackson to the House Intel. CMTE.
The Intel CMTE oversees the entire intelligence community & gets some of the most sensitive intelligence about the US & its allies.
@KimPerales These traitors should never have been seated and should have had their phones seized immediately. The fact that MAGAt Mike is SOTH is unconscionable. This is mainly because the FBI is compromised and until Wray is replaced and the agency reformed it will be. Many traitors still in there. Who gave him back his security clearance? Why? 🤬 https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/fbi-reinstates-security-clearance-former-employee/index.html
Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November!
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, hatful fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November! #vote
9 #witnesses in the #criminal cases against #Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, & a grant of shares & cash from Trump’s media co.
These pay increases & other benefits often came at delicate moments in the #legal proceedings against #Trump. One aide who was given a plum position on the board of Trump’s social media company, for example, got the seat after he was subpoenaed but before he testified. 👀
Significant changes to a staffer’s work situation, such as bonuses, pay raises, firings or promotions, can be #evidence of a #crime if they come outside the normal course of business.
White-collar defense #lawyers say the situation #Trump finds himself in—…defendant & boss of many of the …primary #witnesses to his alleged #crimes —is not uncommon. Their standard advice is not to provide any unusual benefits or penalties to such employees. Ideally, decisions about employees slated to give #evidence should be made by an independent body….
Not good. "The Proud Boys are back. Four years after the failed effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, the violent all-male extremist group that led the storming of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is rebuilding and regaining strength as Trump campaigns to return to the White House..."
Verdicts in Hong Kong’s biggest trial against democratic opposition come >3 yrs after police arrested 47 #democrats in raids at homes across the city. They were charged w/ #conspiracy to commit subversion under a #NationalSecurity law imposed by #China.
…The defendants are accused of a "vicious plot" to paralyse #government in the fmr British colony & to force the city's leader to resign through a pre-selection ballot in a July 2020 citywide election. The #democrats maintain it was an unofficial attempt to select the strongest candidates in a bid to win a historic majority in #HongKong's legislature.
Beijing in 2020 imposed the sweeping #NationalSecurity#law that led to a spate of #arrests of democratic campaigners as well as closures of #liberal#media outlets & #NGOs. Hong Kong's democratic opposition had sought for decades to pressure Beijing to allow full #democracy in the city.
Starlink terminals continue to be sold in #Russia, used to kill Ukrainians.
Despite assurances from marketplaces that the terminals are not available for ordering and the Russian authorities' ban on using the systems, some sellers are putting the terminals up for sale under a different brand so that they will not be removed from the trading floor.
Only on the Russian marketplace "Ozon" managed to find 12 #Starlink terminals at a price of $1600.
2 BC businesses have been ordered to cease operations by the #Canadian government on #NationalSecurity grounds.
Ottawa has ordered #dissolution of #BluevecTechnologies Inc. & #PegauniTechnology Inc. following a national security review, said Innovation, Science & Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Friday.
He did not say what kind of national security threat the two companies pose, but suggested the #Burnaby based firms received #ForeignInvestment.
The #DOJ policy statement on when officers can use #LethalForce —misrepresented by Trump & his supporters as proof of an assassination plot at #MarALago —was also in the paperwork for the consensual search the #FBI conducted of #POTUS Biden’s Wilmington home, looking for #ClassifiedDocuments.
It appears folks are not yet comfortable calling out the literal nazi pigs, like Trump, Bannon, Flynn, Alito, Kavanaugh, MTG, Josh Hawley et al. There were folks still putting a facade on Hilter and his thugs until the Allies arrived and opened the death camps for the world to see.
Is that how far you're willing to go pretending Trump and company are not nazis?
Citizens have the courage to be truthful about fascist who have already seized the #scotus and the House in Congress.
@skykiss I agree and part of the problem is that major news outlets (looking at you WaPo and NYT) especially ones that have been bought by MAGA billionaires and turned into right wing propaganda machines (Sinclair and CNN for example plus Xitter) are counter programming against the truth as you describe. (1/2)
4 months after the #FBI raided #MarALago, Trump’s attys discovered 4 docs marked #classified in his personal bedroom.
That revelation was among several cited by US District Judge Beryl Howell in a newly unsealed 2023 opinion that found prosecutors had presented compelling #evidence that #Trump#knowingly stashed #NationalSecurity docs in his home & then tried to conceal them when the #DOJ tried to retrieve them.
@lin11c the Corcoran who took accurate & truthful contemporaneous handwritten notes & recorded voice memos when advising Trump to return the classified documents.