Despite shaky polling, Republicans still have to be favored to take the Senate. That said, awful candidates take what would be a slam dunk and create a legitimate question mark. But really, we've done this in almost every wave. 1/https://t.co/eHvDFsOyNM
— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) July 15, 2022
Friday, July 15, 2022
I am sure this will piss off the liberals around here!
I suspect they will demand that Trende has "gone off the deep end" and is now a "crazy" rightwinger.
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Well, Trende does well to argue as he does, but there is also this:
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AXIOS
17 hours ago - Politics & Policy
GOP fears Senate debacle
by Josh Kraushaar
Top Republicans, once confident about winning control of the Senate in the midterms, fear they'll blow it after nominating several deeply flawed candidates in winnable states, according to conversations with GOP strategists, pollsters and other officials.
Why it matters:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been sounding this alarm for months: electing fringe candidates with checkered pasts could squander a golden chance to reclaim power. Now, McConnell is left hoping for a red wave so wide and powerful that candidate quality is irrelevant.
What they're saying:
"The environment is excellent for us. We just can't fumble the ball on the five-yard line," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a top McConnell lieutenant, told Axios.
"Many of these candidates are first-time candidates, so they’re still adapting to the political environments they’re in," added Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), another member of GOP leadership.
What's happening:
In several crucial Senate races, polling, fundraising and news coverage tell a similar story. The Republicans are on the defensive rather than surfing the national wave of dissatisfaction with Democrats.
Here are the states Republicans are watching with trepidation:
Georgia:
A new poll of the Georgia Senate race, conducted by both Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio and Biden pollster John Anzalone for the AARP, shows Sen. Raphael Warnock leading Republican Herschel Walker 50% to 47%.
The same poll shows Republican Gov. Brian Kemp with a seven-point advantage over Democrat Stacey Abrams, and President Biden underwater with a 34% approval rating.
Walker's personal flaws have made him an outlier: The Daily Beast last week reported that the former football great fathered several secret children and lied to his campaign staff about it — with the story quoting Walker's own aides calling the candidate a "serious liability."
Pennsylvania:
The same pollsters found Mehmet Oz, the Trump-backed GOP nominee, losing to Democrat John Fetterman by six points, while holding a dismal unfavorability rating of 63%.
Oz has been criticized by Fetterman as a "carpetbagger" from New Jersey and has gone dark on the airwaves since emerging from a bruising GOP primary in May.
Arizona:
After receiving Trump’s endorsement, Blake Masters has surged ahead in primary polls.
But he has a lengthy track record of controversial writings, from lamenting American involvement in World War II as a college student to name-checking the Unabomber as an underappreciated thinker in a podcast during his current campaign.
Masters is also one of the few Republicans to openly embrace a national abortion ban, which could be a liability in a state that narrowly swung to Biden in 2020.
Missouri:
Senate GOP leaders are perhaps most concerned about the likelihood that former Gov. Eric Greitens, whose personal scandals include allegations of domestic and sexual abuse, will prevail in the Aug. 2 primary.
Greitens received backlash last month after posting a campaign ad brandishing a rifle and simulating a SEAL raid on RINOs — "Republicans in name only."
Ohio: A USA Today-Suffolk University survey showed Republican nominee J.D. Vance statistically tied with Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in a state Trump comfortably carried twice.
Ryan’s campaign has spent $6.4 million on television ads since winning the primary, while Vance hasn’t spent any money on TV spots since emerging as the GOP nominee.
What to watch:
Keep an eye on this week’s Q2 fundraising reports to see if these GOP nominees can keep pace financially with their Democratic counterparts, who have released historic fundraising numbers in the run-up to the deadline.
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You're welcome!
And this may ultimately be far more important than either of the two articles just mentioned:
Bloomberg Opinion
The Justice Department Should Indict Donald Trump
by Jonathan Bernstein
uly 15, 2022 at 6:30 AM CDT
Prosecutors have to balance the threat to the nation from indicting a former president against the threat of not doing so. Given the facts, it’s just not that hard a choice.
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As former President Donald Trump moves toward formally announcing his 2024 candidacy for another term in the White House, it’s becoming more and more obvious that he should be prosecuted for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
This isn’t something that should be undertaken lightly.
Attempting to imprison a former president — especially one who is a leading candidate for the presidential nomination of his party — is something that should be reserved for the gravest circumstances. People will say that the rule of law requires presidents to be prosecuted just as any other citizen would be, but it really is more complicated than that.
The Justice Department says that it investigates crimes, not people, and that’s the way it should be. Nobody should want the Justice Department to be turned against the leaders of out-parties for offenses that would never have been charged against anyone else. The justice system depends on prosecutors using their discretion properly, so that the immense power of the government isn’t used to hound people over trivial or technical details, and that really needs to apply even more to political leaders — especially from the party that does not control the White House.
That’s why it’s so awful that Trump encourages chants to “lock up” his political opponents.
I’m also only somewhat impressed by arguments about deterring future presidents from committing crimes. It’s not clear to me that the possibility of prosecution and imprisonment would ever be the main thing keeping presidents from breaking the law. Political consequences are paramount to most presidents, who have spent most of their lives trying to reach the White House. Trump may not care that he was impeached twice and provoked the first-ever same-party conviction votes in the Senate, but if so he’s probably unique among presidents in that way. I suspect that Richard Nixon cared more that he was driven out of the presidency and politically humiliated than he would have been about a prison term.
And yet …
Trump didn’t commit ordinary crimes (well, he probably did, and that weighs on all of this too, but it’s not the main thing). He attempted to overturn an election that he had lost, and used the presidency to do so. That’s become clearer and clearer as the House committee investigating the assault on the US Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021 has presented its case.
Experts seem to believe that the evidence is there and that conviction is likely for Trump’s efforts
to pressure election officials to falsify results,
to gin up slates of fake electors and
to provoke the Capitol mob.
And it’s highly relevant that Trump to this day, long after the election, continues to try to overturn the legitimate result. Prosecutors should take it into account if a person constantly takes to the biggest stages and in effect brags about his crimes and promises to commit them again if he has the chance.
The possibility that Trump supporters would respond to an indictment with violence or political sabotage should not constrain prosecutors. It’s one thing to work hard to preserve the ideal of equal justice under the law. It’s another to be cowed by extra-constitutional threats.
There’s a fair argument that the proper venue for all of this was Congress, and that impeachment, conviction and disqualification from holding further office would have been sufficient. But whether it’s correct or not, that ship has sailed.
If all of this sounds as if the ultimate decision by the Justice Department will be political in nature … well, that’s correct.
Prosecutors have to balance the threat to the nation from indicting a former president against the threat to the nation of not doing so.
Given the facts we’ve seen, it’s just not that hard a choice.
Trump’s crimes are too important, and too dangerous, to ignore.
Trump’s crimes are too important, and too dangerous, to ignore.
Yet they cannot even be defined. That would be a great fucking start, pederast.
I apologize to our readers for the fact that rrb lowers the discussion here to his usual level of meaningless expletives.
Read the article again, rrb, and you will see several definitions of what Trump did wrong.
Bernstein said:
"If all of this sounds as if the ultimate decision by the Justice Department will be political in nature … well, that’s correct.
"Prosecutors have to balance the threat to the nation from indicting a former president against the threat to the nation of not doing so.
"Given the facts we’ve seen, it’s just not that hard a choice."
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IN OTHER WORDS,
Trump’s crimes are too important, and too dangerous, to ignore by arguing that his trial will be political.
Of course it will. His crimes are political in nature, and so of course the verdict on him must entail political judgments.
He will be adjuged guilty or not guilty of committing political crime or crimes.
You just lost again
The Indiana doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old girl from Ohio who had been sexually assaulted did not commit any violations of federal privacy law, the doctor’s employer has announced.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, of Indiana University Health, was launched into the national spotlight following reports on Fox News. She provided the 10-year-old Ohio girl with a medical abortion on June 30. The girl had reportedly sought treatment in Indiana because Ohio bans abortions after six weeks; according to Bernard, who spoke to the Indianapolis Star for a July 1 story, the girl was six weeks and three days pregnant.
On Wednesday, Fox News had reported that Bernard was under investigation for violating the young girl’s privacy in contravention of HIPAA, the federal privacy law.
On Friday, IU Health issued an unambiguous vindication of the doctor.
“As part of IU Health’s commitment to patient privacy and compliance with privacy laws, IU Health routinely initiates reviews, including the matters in the news concerning Dr. Caitlin Bernard,” the emailed statement said. “Pursuant to its policy, IU Health conducted an investigation with the full cooperation of Dr. Bernard and other IU Health team members. IU Health’s investigation found Dr. Bernard in compliance with privacy laws.”
Conservative media and right-wing pundits questioned the veracity of the story following a Washington Post fact check.
Indiana’s Republican attorney general, Todd Rokita, told Fox News’ Jesse Watters that his office was investigating whether Bernard violated any reporting laws. Indiana law requires any adult who believes that child abuse is taking place report the alleged abuse to either law enforcement or child services. State law also requires that doctors report every abortion that is provided in the state within 30 days of the procedure, and within three days if the patient is under 16 years old.
On Thursday, local Fox affiliate WXIN reported that it had obtained Bernard’s Termination of Pregnancy Report (TPR) through a public records request. The TPR showed that Bernard filed her reports on July 2, two days after the June 30 abortion.
Rokita’s office had sent a letter that same day to Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) asking the governor to order the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) to comply with Rokita’s request for the TPR. In that letter, Rokita said the IDOH had not responded to his request, which is office made on July 11.
Other right-wing pundits and conservative media had been questioning the veracity of Bernard’s story for days, following a Washington Post effort to fact-check the details of the Indianapolis Star story.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost told Fox News on July 12 that there had been “not a whisper” of evidence to back up the story of the 10-year-old girl.
However, as the Columbus Dispatch reported on Wednesday, a police report about the rape was generated by Ohio police on June 22 following a referral from the victim’s mother. Gerson Fuentes, 27, has been charged with the assault.
On Friday, a woman identifying herself as the victim’s mother expressed support for Gerson, according to WXIN, citing a Telemundo report.
“Everything they are saying against him is a lie,” she reportedly said. Gerson, a Guatemalan national allegedly in the U.S. illegally, is being held on $2 million bond.
On Thursday, legal experts who examined relevant facts and law told Law&Crime that they saw no evidence of crime by Bernard — but they did see evidence of a “political witch hunt” by the attorney general.
Representatives for Rokita and Bernard did not immediately respond to Law&Crime’s requests for comment.
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Read the article again, rrb, and you will see several definitions of what Trump did wrong.
I'm not looking for 'definitions' from some nickel dick 'journalist' in the DNC steno pool.
I'm looking for legal crimes committed/actual laws broken and the subsequent charges. From the DOJ.
You're impressed by leftist asshat rhetoric. Me? Not so much.
Reverend
Why are you not apologizing for IMMEDIATELY trying to appease your personal deep seeded hateful obsession with the "bad orange man" ???
Why attack Rat?
I have seen this behavior before with a roommate who was drug addict. You cannot quit your own destructive behavior and you attack everyone else around you.
Reverend.
"Trump’s crimes"
Please post the USC
INDIANAPOLIS—Republicans knew the minute Roe v. Wade was overturned that they had a political problem, particularly with moderates in the suburbs who they need to vote for GOP candidates in the midterms.
The unfolding story of a 10-year-old rape victim who crossed state lines from Ohio for an abortion in Indiana is confirming just how damaging the issue may be.
“Oh, God no,” one prominent Republican strategist said, after members of his party suggested the victim should have carried the pregnancy to term. “Very bad,” said another. Or as one anti-abortion rights Indiana Republican strategist put it, “I’m not touching this story with a 10-foot-pole wrapped in a blanket wrapped in a whatever.”
In the three weeks since the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe, Republicans poised for a winning midterm election have strained to keep public attention squarely on President Joe Biden’s weak job approval ratings and on inflation, fearful that abortion — a deeply felt issue that polls poorly for conservatives — could lift Democratic turnout and push moderates away from the GOP.
The case has become an instant flashpoint in the nation’s abortion wars, alarming Republicans as they try to use abortion to rally base voters without alienating the majority of Americans who say abortion should remain legal in at least some circumstances.
But the case of the pregnant 10-year-old has laid bare how uncontrollable GOP messaging around abortion may be. Not only were right-wing media outlets and Republican politicians who cast doubt on the story forced to backtrack once the facts of the case were confirmed, but the hits to Republicans appear likely to keep coming.
On Thursday, Jim Bopp, the National Right to Life Committee’s general counsel, inflamed the issue when he told POLITICO that the 10-year-old girl should have carried her pregnancy to term – a statement he later said resulted in him receiving death threats.
National Right to Life official: 10-year-old should have had baby
BY MEGAN MESSERLY AND ADAM WREN
Despite what GOP leaders and strategists would prefer, the story is unlikely to fade quickly. Later this month, Indiana’s state legislature plans to convene a special session explicitly to pass new curbs on abortion, likely becoming the first state to do so in the wake of the Dobbs decision that reversed the national right to abortion enshrined by Roe in 1973.
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“These are the kind of things that are going to breathe life into the Democrats’ hopes of maintaining some sort of coalition,” said John Thomas, a Republican strategist who works on House campaigns across the country. “I don’t think this is the dominant issue as we’re going into November, but these kinds of unforced errors are lifelines for the Democrats.”
Thomas said the Indiana case has already come up in at least one race he is working on and that he has advised candidates that, “You try to avoid the topic. You try to pivot to another issue.”
“Every day that we’re talking about anything but Biden’s cost of living is a wasted day politically,” said Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist. “You know, we’ve got a historic opportunity here this November, and let’s not blow it.”
Another national GOP strategist who works on several high-profile campaigns said Bopps’ comments could highlight exactly the parts of anti-abortion legislation that make moderate voters squeamish.
“The overall goal of the pro-life cause is to save lives and while I think his comments are well-intended, they don’t reflect the realities of this case or the electorate,” the strategist said. “His comments open the door for swing district Republicans to be labeled as extremists, eroding the gains we have made with suburban women that will be crucial to winning in 2022 and 2024.”
For weeks, the widely held expectation among both Democratic and Republican political professionals had been that Roe would almost certainly not be enough to stop Republicans from gaining a majority in the House in November, but that it could limit their gains, scaring off moderates and suburban women.
ELECTIONS
‘The dog that caught the car’: Republicans brace for the impact of reversing Roe
Suburban women elected Sleepy Joe Biden π΄
Funny thing here...
According to every poll...
Almost nobody actually puts "abortion" in their top 2-3 issues for the upcoming election... and even fewer put the Jan 6th (less than 1% saw it as a top two issue for them)...
Economy, crime, inflation, immigration, etc... all seem more important to people right now.
But all the libs here want to talk about is Trump, Jan 6th, and Dobbs?
A black woman is going to get Trump and drive rrb insane π³
ATLANTA — In the latest sign that she is moving rapidly in her investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has sent so-called “target” letters to prominent Georgia Republicans informing them they could be indicted for their role in a scheme to appoint alternate electors pledged to the former president despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state, according to legal sources familiar with the matter.
The move by Willis, a Democrat, could have major political implications in a crucial battleground state with high-profile races for governor and the U.S. Senate this fall. Among the recipients of the target letters, the sources said, are GOP state Sen. Burt Jones, Gov. Brian Kemp’s running mate for lieutenant governor, David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, and state Sen. Brandon Beach.
We will keep the Senate
LOL. Good luck with that alky.
Fani seems like Lydia, a black woman you'd love to beat the shit out of every fucking day.
But all the libs here want to talk about is Trump, Jan 6th, and Dobbs?
Because that's all they have. Fabricated bullshit.
Everything else they've touched has been an unmitigated disaster.
And their fear of Trump is palpable.
Reverend.
"Trump’s crimes"
Please post the USC
I stand by my statements. What I said to rrb is not nearly as bad as what he said. Everything I have put here on this thread is reasoned argument, not invective.
Most of what you others have put here in opposition is mere invective.
Very good news π
On 11 July, Oleksii Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said that the advantage in the Russian army’s numbers is offset by Ukrainian missile and artillery accuracy.
Quote: "The numeric advantage of the Russian army is levelled by Ukrainian missile and artillery accuracy. Western weapons supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already changing the course of the war. And we are only just getting started!"
We will not allow Putin to prevail.
Just like during the cold War
Ohio 10-year-old's alleged illegal immigrant rapist, 27, was listed as minor in abortionist’s report to state
Ohio 10-year-old's mother appeared to defend alleged rapist, 27-year-old illegal immigrant Gerson Fuentes, to reporter
Everything I have put here on this thread is reasoned argument, not invective.
It's regurgitated from some asswipe in the drive-by media. Likely sourced from that fucking queef Goddard. May he die in a fire.
Ohio 10-year-old's alleged illegal immigrant rapist, 27, was listed as minor in abortionist’s report to state
Looks like the alky jumps the gun and LOSES AGAIN.
LMAO.
THWAP!!!
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Your new RINO list ✨️
The eight conservatives repeatedly condemned the election fraud claims.
The group consists of former Sen. John Danforth (R-Mo.); longtime Republican lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg; former federal Judge Thomas Griffith; David Hoppe, chief of staff to former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.); former federal judge J. Michael Luttig; former federal judge Michael McConnell; Theodore Olson, solicitor general under former President George W. Bush; and former Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.).
Speaker Paul Ryan
They don't hate Trump
They swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America πΊπΈ
Looks like the alky jumps the gun and LOSES AGAIN.
LMAO.
THWAP!!!
I also note he and pedo are awfully quiet after Dementia Joe fist bumped Khashoggi‘s killer today.
That how fucking desperate the Donks are to get gas prices down and try to save them from a November shellacking
To be a Republican these days, we adjust both the Pledge of Allegiance and even some of the Ten Commandments in order to remain viable within the party. So ...
“I pledge allegiance first and foremost to King Donald J. Trump and, second, to the the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.”
Bidenomics
Stocks rallied on Friday as traders digested a fresh batch of bank earnings and strong economic data, which alleviated some worries that the Federal Reserve may hike by 100 basis points to subdue rising inflation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average popped 566 points, or 1.85%. The S&P 500 jumped 1.63% and the Nasdaq Composite added 1.53%
Bidenomics
Dow Rises Nearly 600 Points on Retail Spending Data
American shoppers lifted their spending in June despite high inflation and economic uncertainty.
C.H. Truth said...
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There is nothing legitimate or useful in spamming every fucking thread with the same stuff...
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Will it does appear to trigger the spam filter
which him and roger then accuse others of COWARDLY DELETING and/or CENSORING
or in other words clueless
and not even a clue that they are clueless
ROFLMFAO !!!
Manchin Denies Killing Climate Provisions of Spending Bill
July 15, 2022 at 1:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 138 Comments
In a radio interview, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) denied last night’s reports that he killed the climate and tax portions of the Democratic spending package.
Said Manchin: “I said, ‘Chuck, can we just wait until the inflation figures come out in July? Until basically the Fed rate — the Reserve, are they going to raise interest? How much more, and how much damage is that going to be? And then make a decision what we can do and how much we can do?’ He took that as a ‘no,’ I guess, and came out with this big thing last night.”
He added: “And I don’t know why they did that. I guess to try to put pressure on me, but they’ve been doing that for over a year now. It doesn’t make any sense at all. As far as I’m concerned, I want climate, I want an energy policy.”
New York Times: “Privately, Senate Democratic staff members seethed and sobbed on Thursday night, after more than a year of working nights and weekends to scale back, water down, trim and tailor the climate legislation to Mr. Manchin’s exact specifications, only to have it rejected inches from the finish line.”
Playbook: “Now, the question becomes: Is the damage already done — and have Democrats run out of patience and grace for Manchin.
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Sounds like Manchin may still come around. Or maybe not.
That how fucking desperate the Donks are to get gas prices down and try to save them from a November shellacking
Well the Mexican president (aka taco according to Jill) asked Joe to let Americans know they can cross the border and get gas for $2 a gallon cheaper.
Putin hasn't apparently hit the Mexican prices yet
This bill would make it impossible to stage another insurrection based upon the 1876 law.
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a series of provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, a move aimed at clarifying the role of the vice president and Congress in confirming the winner of a presidential election in the wake of Jan. 6. The working group is finalizing legislation and expects to release text as early as next week.
“We’re very close. We’ve got a few technical issues that we need to iron out, and I’m very hopeful that we’ll have a bill early next week — or bills,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters Wednesday. “That’s one of the issues that we’re deciding: whether it’s better to introduce more than one bill or one bill.”
The working group met Wednesday afternoon to hash out the remaining issues and are close to a deal they hope both parties can support. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have both blessed the bipartisan talks aimed at closing loopholes in election law. And Collins anticipates broad support for what they introduce, saying the group has gotten input from the transition councils of both former President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama’s administrations.
For once there is bipartisan support!
An attempted filibuster would fail because enough Republicans have gotten their minds back.
No, not just over and over and over and over, etc.
No, I answered Ch's Trende thread article with an article by Kraushaar that I think is superior.
Bidenomics Dow
Down 3.5 Trillion in Retirement savings .
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31,230.70 -5,354.36 (-14.64%)year to date"
Roger is a clown.
Reverend.
"Trump’s crimes"
Please post the USC
Not waiting, just mocking .
Five thirty eight says the same thing as I did
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s 2022 midterm forecast! We’ve got a bit of a split diagnosis in this election: Republicans are favored to win the House, while the Senate is more of a mixed bag. How can this be? Well, as editor-in-chief Nate Silver writes in his overview of the forecast, the national environment doesn’t look good for Democrats, which is why we expect Republicans to make gains in the House. But in the Senate, candidate quality matters a lot more, and this could prove to be a silver lining for Democrats. It’s a similar story in the 36 races for governor.
But on your statement
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) claimed that he didn't close the door to a climate and energy package with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, but that he's ready to support a plan to lower prescription drugs costs this month.
Before August it will help keep the Senate
A live look at the economy…
LOL!!
PayCut President
Coward in the face of The Saudis.
He is begging for thier oil, he should apppologize to the Canadian π¨π¦ & US πΊπΈ Oil/ Gas producers.
And let them produce.
Cali , true and funny.
LOL @ the alky. So desperate to give Joey Sprinkles a "win," he credits him for the one day modest stock market gains.
This is how we know that the alky does not occupy a space within the investor class like most of us do.
Leave the investing to us alky.
You focus on getting yourself that elusive door code to fweedom, 'k?
LOL.
To be a Republican these days, we adjust both the Pledge of Allegiance and even some of the Ten Commandments in order to remain viable within the party. So ...
I know lots of Republicans...
Not a one has done anything remoting like this? In fact most of them have little concern with Trump (although that would change if he declares his candidacy).
But I do know liberals who cannot let go of the bad orange man.
You and the Reverend are examples alpha and beta!
True RRB.
"LOL @ the alky. So desperate to give Joey Sprinkles a "win," he credits him for the one day modest stock market gains.
This is how we know that the alky does not occupy a space within the investor class like most of us do.
Leave the investing to us alky."
When Alky did invest he bankrupted Lydia.
My wife and I bought I-Bonds the Maximum allow by the US Treasury.
Why does the US Treasury have a $20,000 cap?
They need the money, Biden c a n remove the Cap.
Next Thursday will be interesting
January 6 committee sets prime-time hearing for Thursday
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has announced its next hearing for 8 pm eastern time on Thursday, July 21.
Just in: Jan. 6 committee formally announces eighth hearing on Thursday, July 21 at 8p ET
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The lawmakers are expected to explore what Donald Trump was doing as the Capitol was attacked.
I hoped that he would do this π
President Biden said from Jeddah on Friday that he raised the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi with Saudi Crown Prime Mohammed bin Salman.
Why it matters: U.S. intelligence concluded MBS was responsible for Khashoggi's murder — an allegation the Saudi crown prince denies.
Biden is facing outrage from Democrats and others over the first bump he gave MBS on Friday.Biden once vowed to make the kingdom a "pariah," and U.S.-Saudi relations have been strained over a number of issues, including the murder Khashoggi.
What they're saying: "I was straightforward and direct in discussing" Khashoggi's murder," Biden said.
"I made my view crystal clear...I'll always stand up for our values," he added.
They tortured him and cut his body into pieces
Bidenomics!
Dow Jumps 650 Points on Upbeat Economic Data.
They tortured him and cut his body into pieces
He was moose-limb brudderhood, a constant critic of America, and an all-around asshole like you, alky.
Personally I would've just put two into the back of his head and dropped him into a very deep hole.
Cutting him up? Too much work.
When Alky did invest he bankrupted Lydia.
And then he beat her to a bloody pulp when she complained.
That's called "alkynomics."
LOL.
HE loses HER $$$, SHE get's HER ass kicked.
A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a series of provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, a move aimed at clarifying the role of the vice president and Congress in confirming the winner of a presidential election in the wake of Jan. 6. The working group is finalizing legislation and expects to release text as early as next week.
Interesting...
If Democrats are already claiming it would be a "CRIME" for a Vice President to not certify the results...
Why would we need new "legislation" on the subject?
Can you explain that genius?
No, I answered Ch's Trende thread article with an article by Kraushaar that I think is superior.
Then the very next comment?
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"I made my view crystal clear...I'll always stand up for our values," he added.
And then he proceeded to suck MBS's balls for more oil.
Joe's values.
When Alky did invest he bankrupted Lydia.
The blog’s Coo..STAN…Za, put it in the human fund
Joe's values.
And if you don’t like these values he has others
No Way...
‘Wait, she HAD a speechwriter?!’ Kamala Harris’ chief speechwriter calling it quits after just 4 months on the job and LOL
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/07/15/wait-she-had-a-speechwriter-kamala-harris-chief-speechwriter-calling-it-quits-after-just-4-months-on-the-job-and-lol/
More Fallout for Democrats From 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Story
The controversial story of a 10-year-old rape victim who was transported from Ohio to Indiana to procure an abortion has been very clarifying. First reported by pro-abortion leftists around the world, the story was picked up by PJ Media’s Megan Fox, who was the first reporter to ask questions about the sizable gaps in the narrative. Megan’s outstanding research arguably began the pressure campaign that ultimately produced an announcement of the arrest of the illegal alien rapist three weeks after the crime was first referred to police.
Why did the arrest take so long? It’s certainly possible investigators wanted to make sure the case was rock-solid before making an arrest. Or was law enforcement dragging its feet on arresting an illegal alien in a high-profile, barbaric case until the spotlight the pro-aborts had shined on it was focused elsewhere?
But more importantly, the left has just lost another one of its major talking points as the post-Dobbs landscape takes shape: no one will force pregnant children to carry babies to term. Sorry, handmaids: barely-pubescent raped girls will not be experiencing the “forced birth” you’ve all been screeching about.
One of the many fishy aspects of this story is that the victim was transported across state lines to procure an abortion, even though Ohio’s new heartbeat law would have permitted the procedure to take place within the state. The law allows abortion in Ohio when medically necessary: “‘Medical necessity’ means a medical condition of a pregnant woman that, in the reasonable judgment of the physician who is attending the woman, so complicates the pregnancy that it necessitates the immediate performance or inducement of an abortion.”
This basically rules out forcing any pregnant girl to carry a pregnancy to term. How young is too young to have a baby? This will have to be established, and the medical community will come to a consensus. A momentous change like overturning Roe v. Wade will naturally take some time to sort out. But the tragic Ohio case has just given it a big nudge.
Still another piece of fallout is that Indiana is now investigating the doctor who performed the abortion, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, for failure to report the rape of a minor — something she’s been investigated for before. And not only that, even the mainstream media has been shamed into reporting the investigation. Good: it’s long past time the abortion industry took responsibility for reporting abusers consistently and in accordance with the law.
Was the poor victim unnecessarily transported across state lines for the procedure just so an activist doctor would have a headline? Let’s pray that, for the sake of the child, that’s not the case. Perhaps the Ohio doctors were just overly wary of the newly triggered heartbeat law. But going forward, it’s now clearly established that children don’t need to travel out of states with laws like Ohio’s to terminate pregnancies.
The tragedy of rape and abortion is that the mother did not choose the pregnancy, but that’s also not the baby’s fault. I don’t believe there is a good answer in situations like that. But when you add in the loss of life or health of the mother, then the scales tip further to one sad side than the other. Pro-life absolutism is unlikely to become law in any state.
At any rate, pro-abortion leftists wanted to shine the spotlight on this story, and now they’re getting what they asked for. Good.
Ch aka Scott really would like for us to stop talking about TRUMP, the president he has syncophantishly supported through thick and thin and through all his outrageous criminalities for all this time.
That's why we SHOULD keep talking about TRUMP over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ...etc., etc. , etc.. lol lol lol
And, speaking of YOU KNOW WHO,
Prosecutor Weighs Calling TRUMP to Testify
July 15, 2022 at 4:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 64 Comments
“The Atlanta-area district attorney leading a wide-ranging criminal investigation into election interference by Donald Trump is weighing whether to call the former president before a special grand jury,”
USA Today reports.
Oh, bring him on, bring him on!!!!
That's called "alkynomics."
LOL.
HE loses HER $$$, SHE get's HER ass kicked."
Yep.
I tricked James again .
Reverend.
"Trump’s crimes"
Please post the USC
The future looks awesome
Journalists Tow Camper Behind Electric Truck, End in Stunning Failure When They Only Make it 85 Miles
LOL
Biden pointed out that 10 year old as the Gold Standard of his Values.
It actually is.
Child Rape , ok with Joe.
Illegal committing the Crime.
Mother did not report the multiple rapes of her the 9 year old daughter.
The mandatory reporter that performed the abortion , did not report.
So , yeah, this is a win for Joe.
How is his Son Pedo- Pete and Joe's " c#nt wife?
Caliphate4vr said...
More Fallout for Democrats From 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Story
The controversial story of a 10-year-old rape victim who was transported from Ohio to Indiana to procure an abortion has been very clarifying.
and of course the lying POS immediately tries to change the topic back to Trump
raping 10 year olds too close to home for him ??
very clarifying
and consistent
and boring
the president he has syncophantishly supported through thick and thin and through all his outrageous criminalities for all this time.
Wow...
Six years of investigations, thousands (if not tens of thousands) of man hours put in, tens of millions of dollars... all to prove your crazy concept that the bad orange man that haunts your nightmares...
Just must be a criminal.
Yet here is stands.
Not in jail.
Not charged with any crimes.
Still beating Joe Biden in head to head matchups (and Harris by more).
From Russian collusion to Election campaign laws to Stormy Daniels to Tax fraud to Financial fraud to treason to obstruction of justice to obstruction of congress to obstruction of whatever...
When does it end, Reverend?
When does the basic American constitutional bill of rights principles come into play here and you stop harassing the man and stop your hatred and anger over the FACT THAT THE FUCKING LOSER YOU VOTED FOR IS RUINING THE COUNTRY!
syncophantishly
I saw that and I immediately thought you were responding to alky
I guess the POS "pastor" is now making up words too
very impressive
guess he must have been rattled by the rape story
and panicked
sycophantishly
Roger and James have abandoned Biden on his failed War.
sycophantishly
Still not a word pedo, oh great grammarian
Newsweek
"Russia Cozies Up to Saudi Arabia as Biden Faces Struggle to Get More Oil"
The "Oil" He needs is in Canada π¨π¦ and the US πΊπΈ.
Caliphate4vr said...
sycophantishly
Still not a word pedo, oh great grammarian
not a word used in ordinary conversation, but if you are trying to put on airs and fucked it up like he did previously
ROFLMFAO !!!
and you know he always posts corrections when he knows he mispells somethin
I often do now too just to avoid his idiotic anal corrections
* something
Stephen Moore
https://twitter.com/StephenMoore/status/1547646624117112832
62% of top Biden appointees have no business experience.
The average business experience of top Biden appointees is only 2.4 years.
No wonder our economy is in rough shape.
unfuckingbelievable
no that's not a real word "pastor"
just the correct word
OPINION:
The next January 6 panel's hearing will be another blockbuster
Opinion by Fred Wertheimer and Norman Eisen
Updated 11:27 AM ET, Fri July 15, 2022
(CNN)The House select committee's January 6 hearings have so far exceeded all of our expectations. They have told the American people a gripping story of Trump's attempted coup -- one packed with new details that seem to have swayed public opinion.
The committee's task for its next hearing is to continue confronting its toughest obstacle: amassing conclusive evidence of Trump's intent to overturn the 2020 election on January 6.
As veterans of congressional investigations with over a half-century of experience between us, our expectations were high before these hearings began. After all, the January 6 committee was addressing the country's first attempted coup led by a president, the first attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812 and the greatest domestic attack on our democracy and country since the Civil War. There could be no more important topic.
We also had high expectations given the exceptional track record of the committee members, including Reps. Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, who led the first and second impeachments against Trump; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, whose experience stretches back to Watergate; the incomparable Rep. Liz Cheney; and the decades-long congressional experience of Chairman Bennie Thompson. To that was added a skillful and productive (and large) staff of over 50 people who have spent a year poring over more than 125,000 records and conducting more than 1,000 interviews.
The result has been a blockbuster series of seven hearings -- we would argue the most important ones we've seen in a half century.
Indeed, the content of the January 6 hearings may be even more important than the ones on Watergate, because the focus today strikes at the heart of our democracy: the peaceful transfer of power based upon the vote of the people.
What's more, the attempt to overturn the 2020 election came from within the innermost sanctum of our democracy, the Oval Office.
The hearings opened with the baseline of a federal judge's findings that Trump was likely involved in at least two potential crimes:
conspiracy to defraud the United States
and obstruction of Congress.
The hearings have materially advanced the proof of these offenses beyond a reasonable doubt.
In the first five hearings, the committee methodically established that Trump knew he lost the election, with the likes of former Attorney General Bill Barr testifying that he told the former president that his claims of election theft were "bulls**t."
The committee showed that Trump sought to procure nonexistent votes, with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger testifying about Trump's pressure to get him to "find 11,780 votes."
The hearings substantiated Trump's direct involvement in procuring an alternate slate of fraudulent electors through the testimony of live witnesses like Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers and videotaped ones from Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel.
And they documented Trump's efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the electoral votes through testimony from Republican stalwarts like Pence's counsel Greg Jacob and his former Chief of Staff Marc Short.
All of that was done through witnesses who were Republicans and former Trump allies.
Throughout the first five hearings, the committee drew a striking road map of the elements of Trump's potential crimes. To us, it brought to mind the famous Watergate "road map" that laid out the Nixon administration's transgressions.
Then came the John Dean of these hearings, 26-year old former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson. Her blockbuster testimony in the sixth hearing and the evidence that followed in the seventh introduced a new element to the allegations of conspiracy and obstruction: violent intent.
Hutchinson provided context for Trump's state of mind on January 6, testifying that he wanted to allow armed attendees at his rally at the Ellipse to bypass security and requested that rhetoric calling for supporters to march to the Capitol and effectively fight for Trump be included in his draft speech.
Bojan Pancevski
https://twitter.com/bopanc/status/1547905474569220104
Remember the Steele Dossier about Trump's alleged Russia links? ICYMI here is@AlanCullison's definitive investigation exposing it as a bunch of gossip peppered with lurid anecdotes supplied by Washington-based PR men and not "Kremlin insiders"
https://wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-backstory-of-how-the-steele-dossier-was-created-11652103582
and somehow Adam Schiff and the FBI and Mueller "couldn't" figure that out in over 2 years
right
Washington DC swamp has killed democracy
and roger bought every drop
hook, line and sinker
* and the lying POS ignorant "pastor"
The seventh hearing deepened this story of Trump's violent intent, explaining its origins in a December 18 Oval Office meeting with his most extreme supporters followed by the now-notorious December 19 "will be wild" tweet, which acted as a "siren" setting us on the path to the conflagration that was January 6.
That brings us to what we can expect from Tuesday's hearing: Trump's state of mind when the violence was consummated: the 187 minutes before he responded to the events at the Capitol.
We can expect to hear about the way he targeted Pence that day and his negligent inaction while the mob made its way inside the Capitol.
We may also hear more about the member of the White House support staff whom Trump tried to contact, and from Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary. They and other witnesses can shed further light on Trump's state of mind and his refusal to call to stop the violence for several hours, despite numerous Trump allies urging him to do so.
This will build on existing evidence that Trump violated the federal criminal prohibitions on conspiring to defraud the United States and to obstruct Congress by further filling in the intent piece.
Then, it will be in the hands of prosecutors to follow the road map of proof that the committee has laid out -- including Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Her special grand jury investigation was already moving along, and these hearings have surely advanced it by repeatedly citing proof of Trump's interactions with Georgia election officials.
While that will be largely out of the committee's hands, any additional hearings they have and their final report can certainly put a finer point on the superb work they have already done building the foundation for prosecutions. That can take the form of crystallizing the roadmap, compiling the evidence and getting it on paper, or even taking steps to issue a formal analysis of state and federal crimes or a criminal referral.
No Talent ,
"62% of top Biden appointees have no business experience.
The average business experience of top Biden appointees is only 2.4 years.
No wonder our economy is in rough shape.
unfuckingbelievable"
Great post James's Fucking Daddy
He might be called to testify under oath about "All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."
She is thinking about it.
55 times President Trump is mentioned on this thread.
That seems obsessive.
Charlie Kirk
https://mobile.twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1547400339975913472
If a leak showing @DonaldJTrumpJr doing even a fraction of the disgusting things we're seeing from Hunter Biden, do you think the Democrat Media Machine would be as silent as they are right now?
What was it $31 MILLION dollars from China
and 10% for the big guy
if they can figure out who that is
regardless, actual physical proof
while the show trial is showing us how corrupt Washington DC is
in prime time
with little interest
On Friday, USA TODAY reported that Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is considering calling former President Donald Trump himself to testify to a grand jury as part of her probe into the efforts by Trump and his allies to interfere in the Georgia presidential election in 2020.
"Last year, Willis disclosed that local prosecutors had launched a wide-ranging investigation of possible election fraud, false statements, conspiracy, oath of office violations, racketeering and violence associated with threats to the election process," said the report. "A major focus of the inquiry has been Trump's Jan. 2, 2021, telephone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the former president urged the state official to tilt the 2020 statewide vote in his favor."
During the course of that call, Trump famously told Raffensperger, "All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state." Many experts have called this illegal, but have mixed opinions on how easy it would be to charge the former president with a crime for it.
This comes as Willis is also investigating the slate of fake "electors" convened by Trump supporters to try to usurp the actual electors appointed by Biden's victory — one of many such slates around the country in swing states that President Joe Biden won. Willis has already subpoenaed the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, David Shafer, as part of that investigation, and warned him he could be indicted as part of that probe.
IN OTHER NEWS: 8-year-old shot dead by younger brother while mom napped
According to the report, "Willis also is examining a November 2021 call in which Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a prominent Trump ally, allegedly asked Raffensperger whether he had the authority to disqualify mail-in ballots from certain areas of the state. Graham, who has since been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury, has denied wrongdoing and his lawyers have said they will be challenging the subpoena."
All of this is in parallel to investigations by the Justice Department, as well as the work of the House Select Committee on January 6, which is exploring efforts to overturn the election along with the attack on the U.S. Capitol as parts of a continuous scheme.
Anonymous said...
55 times President Trump is mentioned on this thread.
That seems obsessive.
He's probably close to setting off ANOTHER spam filter
and then blaming others
what a fucking self-righteous asshole
There's one other thing the committee should do both with the eighth hearing and its work to follow. That is to point out that, in a sense, the conspiracy they have ably articulated has not ended.
The mob dispersed on January 6 and Trump left the White House, but he and his enablers continue to push the outrageous lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
There are over 100 Trump adherents running for federal and state office, over 200 pieces of legislation based on the election fraud lie and the Supreme Court is set to take up a case that could allow state legislators to do the kinds of things that Trump and his allies sought.
With all of this, we face not only a constitutional crisis, but also an existential one.
The good news is that a bipartisan coalition came together to beat back Trump's conspiracy in 2020, and we can do it again.
It's important for the committee to analyze and galvanize this effort. Thankfully, they've already begun talking about the ongoing crisis.
If they bring the same energy and excellence to expanding on this problem and its solutions as they have to their work thus far, that will be another important contribution.
We hope to see it.
* assholes - I forgot alky is doing the same
and the count goes on !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
57, 58, 59 etc
Yep, it's important that it be said over and over and over and over and over and over and over and etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum...
(CNN)The House select committee's January 6 hearings have so far exceeded all of our expectations. They have told the American people a gripping story of Trump's attempted coup -- one packed with new details that seem to have swayed public opinion.
Well he is right there...
Before the committee hearings about two thirds believed that the hearings were necessary. Now about two thirds believe that we should move on to more important things.
Before the committee hearings about two thirds believed it was going to be fair and non-partisan. Now about two thirds believe it is unfair and partisan.
The last episode didn't even garner 6 million viewers.
So they have had effect on public opinion. Just a negativ one!
In my mind... they have far exceeded my expectations. I expected a train wreck... but I never expected the tide to turn as bad as it did on Pelosi, Cheney, and gang! Bravo to them!
Next Thursday prime time
They already had him.
Next week
(CNN)Whether or not Donald Trump ends up facing criminal charges, the House committee probing the US Capitol insurrection has scored a critical win over the ex-President by thwarting his effort to cover up the true horror of that day of infamy.
The committee takes center stage in Washington again this week with its Tuesday televised hearing amid indications it will seek to make a direct connection between Trump and the far-right extremists who helped rioters smash their way into the halls of Congress on January 6, 2021.
This comes after the committee landed telling blows last week by securing testimony behind closed doors from ex-White House counsel Pat Cipollone and as Trump lifted his questionable executive privilege claim covering former aide Steve Bannon. It was revealed on Monday that Trump's attorney, Justin Clark, spoke to the FBI two weeks ago.
Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice will call a Grand Jury and get him.
And Georgia π¬πͺ
Public opinion is irrelevant.
College Democrats of America (CDA)
https://mobile.twitter.com/CollegeDems/status/1548037219608248320
In 2019, Joe Biden vowed that we would finally teach dictators a lesson by penalizing Saudi Arabia. “We were going to, in fact, make them pay the price, and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.”
What happened to holding Saudi Arabia accountable for their war crimes?
Axios
@axios
Biden shared a fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after arriving in the Gulf kingdom for a high-stakes visit. https://axios.com/2022/07/15/biden-visit-saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-photo
fist bump and begging for foreign oil
That's showing him Joe
Well he's probably not physically able to but at least he didn't give him an Obama bow
For comparison purposes...
Over 200 million people watched the Watergate hearings...
over 45 million watched Trump's State of the Union address...
about 6 million people are watching the Jan 6th hearings...
That says it all!!!!!
While that will be largely out of the committee's hands, any additional hearings they have and their final report can certainly put a finer point on the superb work they have already done building the foundation for prosecutions. That can take the form of crystallizing the roadmap, compiling the evidence and getting it on paper, or even taking steps to issue a formal analysis of state and federal crimes or a criminal referral.
There's one other thing the committee should do both with the eighth hearing and its work to follow. That is to point out that, in a sense, the conspiracy they have ably articulated has not ended.
The mob dispersed on January 6 and Trump left the White House, but he and his enablers continue to push the outrageous lie that the 2020 election was stolen. There are over 100 Trump adherents running for federal and state office, over 200 pieces of legislation based on the election fraud lie and the Supreme Court is set to take up a case that could allow state legislators to do the kinds of things that Trump and his allies sought. With all of this, we face not only a constitutional crisis, but also an existential one.
The good news is that a bipartisan coalition came together to beat back Trump's conspiracy in 2020, and we can do it again. It's important for the committee to analyze and galvanize this effort. Thankfully, they've already begun talking about the ongoing crisis. If they bring the same energy and excellence to expanding on this problem and its solutions as they have to their work thus far, that will be another important contribution. We hope to see it.
The ratings π are irrelevant π΄ insane π³ rhetoric
Scott the bottom line is that the committee has provided sufficient evidence and after next Thursday .
The DOJ and Georgia will be getting your hero π
Accusations are still not evidence
Chase Geiser
https://twitter.com/realchasegeiser/status/1547964238525636617
Here’s Ray Epps’ alleged family business twitter account.
If he’s such a Trump supporter, why is 1 of the 3 liked tweets a Hillary Clinton tweet?
That is odd
as is flying all the way to Washington DC to see Trump speak and then not going to his speach
but rather directly to Congress
after spending the previous day telling people to go inside
very odd
but the NYT and Schiff support him
now extremely odd
and somehow the NYT couldn't even ask him basic questions in a very extended "interview"
hmmmmm
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
For comparison purposes...
Over 200 million people watched the Watergate hearings...
over 45 million watched Trump's State of the Union address...
about 6 million people are watching the Jan 6th hearings..
probably 45 are in roger's facility
he must hog the remote
and give stink eyes
45 - AAAHHHHH that's Trump !!!!
sorry roger
Alky and ped James called these high values .
"fist bump and begging for foreign oil
That's showing him Joe"
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1548015272539275266
Sooo... Build Back Better includes begging for oil from Saudis... got it.
Well there's too much traffic coming up from the border to drive down and fill-up on cheap Mexican gas
But thank the Mexican president anyways
And this will be addressed next Thursday prime time hearing. The final one got 20 million viewers but next week it will get a lot more attention.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security on Friday briefed all nine members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack about his finding that the Secret Service deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
While lawmakers were tight-lipped about what they heard, the closed-door briefing with the inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, came two days after his office sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees stating that Secret Service agents erased messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 “as part of a device-replacement program.” The deletion came after the watchdog office requested records from the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack, the letter said.
For the Jan. 6 panel, the watchdog’s finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Donald Trump’s actions during the insurrection.
Dereliction of duty
Has every one of these hearings so far resulted in a lower Biden approval rating ?
full speed ahead !!!
well at least the democrats are glad Joe nad Hunter's exposed criminal activity are not on the agenda
and the media has an excuse not to cover that
though that's a VERY weak excuse
Yep, that could loom LARGE.
Dereliction of duty,
dereliction of duty,
dereliction of duty,
over and over and over...
ONLY for people with VERY HIGH IQ"S
---------------------
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Spot the difference
----------------------
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1548041301236465665
extremely hard to spot
maybe the media will catch the difference
The DOJ and Georgia will be getting your hero
Well Roger...
For your sake, you better be right!
Remember the countdown on the sidebar of the block
If Trump is not in jail in 52 days as you guaranteed...
You agreed to leave the blog!
Remember?
Yep, that could loom LARGE.
Dereliction of duty,
dereliction of duty,
dereliction of duty,
over and over and over...
Sure...
for that 1.7% of the population watching them...
The other 98.3%
Not so much, huh?
chuckle...
Salty Cracker
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/SaltyCracker9/status/1547962963818033160
After coughing his airborne aids all over his creepy hands, he immediately shook the hands of the hospital staff. Science.
Quote Tweet
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Biden breaks down in uncontrollable HACKING fit in Israel, leaves crowd GASPING
He's setting the example ?
embarrassing
of course the rest of the world already knew
notice how roger and the "pastor" always repeat endlessly
like a broken record
like Biden
must be a broken phonograph
Julie Kelly πΊπΈ
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1548060675808694283
Absolutely insane. Reffitt never even went inside the building, didn’t assault anyone, and was charged months later with a firearms charge (based on photo of a holster).
This DC US Atty office is out of control
Rob Legare
Prosecutors are asking for the longest prison term in the Jan 6 prosecution for Guy Reffitt, the first Jan 6 defendant convicted at trial.
15 years in prison.
Reffitt is asking for 2 years.
Sentencing hearing set for August 1. twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews…
The swamp is destroying democracy and the rule of law
and protecting the Biden Crime Family
abetted by rabid democrats
like here
1939 Germany comes to mind
* no justice in Washington DC with those judges and juries
and Biden's DOJ
https://nordot.app/920755652188176384?c=592622757532812385
The Federalist
July 15, 2022 4:45 PM
Somebody at the Secret Service has some explaining to do. It ought to be done promptly and under oath.
The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, of which the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) is a component, has told the House select January 6 committee that text messages sent by USSS agents around the time of the Capitol riot have been erased and are not retrievable. Inspector general Joseph V. Cuffari said he has learned that the erasure occurred “as part of a device replacement program.” Yet Cuffari maintains that the texts were erased after his office commenced an investigation into the USSS’s performance in connection with the riot and, more importantly, after he requested that the agency provide him with relevant electronic communications
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/secret-service-erases-message-data-pertinent-to-january-6/
The Intercept is the first one to expose the Secret Service π³.
But their portrait of an unhinged nut is amazing.
Tuesday’s hearing, the committee showed that Trump carefully planned to incite the mob to march on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when Congress was meeting to certify the election results. In fact, the leaders of the rally held outside the White House on January 6 knew in advance that Trump was planning to urge the crowd to go to the Capitol. “POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol,” said Kylie Jane Kremer, a rally organizer, in a January 4, 2021, text message shown by the committee.
The committee also showed that Trump decided to incite the insurrection after all of his other illicit efforts to overturn the election had failed. Tuesday’s hearing focused in part on a bizarre meeting at the White House on December 18, 2020, in which Trump surrounded himself with conspiracy theorists, including attorney Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, to discuss seizing voting machines. Pat Cipollone, Trump’s former White House lawyer, testified about how he fought the crazed ideas coming from the people whispering to Trump in his final days in the White House. Right after the marathon meeting ended in the middle of the night, Trump began to incite an insurrection. At 1:42 a.m. on December 19, he wrote a tweet urging his supporters to come to Washington. “Be there, will be wild.”
Tuesday’s astonishing hearing added to the portrait of an unhinged Trump that was sketched by Hutchinson in her June 28 hearing. Hutchinson, a key aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, disclosed that Trump knew that some in the crowd on January 6 were armed and still urged them to go to the Capitol. She also revealed that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol to lead the crowd and that he tried to grab the steering wheel from a Secret Service agent when his detail refused to take him there.
The hearings of the January 6 committee, including Hutchinson’s testimony, have been must-see television, depicting Trump as a psychopath and a criminal who sought to turn the U.S. into a dictatorship.
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/trump-criminal-jan-6-committee/
52 days Roger...
Then your time on this blog is done!
By your own agreement!
Scott, Roger will not man up and keep his word.
Biden is bringing back Covid to scare the weak minded.
π These liars.
C.H. Truth said...
52 days Roger...
Then your time on this blog is done!
By your own agreement!
Maybe he can step it up and take a job as Kamala's speech writer
WIN/WIN !!!
Joe begs for Saudi Arabia oil.
Can Roger and/or James tell us Why?
Dereliction of duty.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol announced on Friday that it will hold a hearing at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 21.
The hearing, which is aimed at reaching a broad U.S. television audience during prime viewing hours, will be the eighth and final scheduled public one to take place, although the committee has suggested it could hold more in August.
Some committee members, including Republican U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, have argued that former President Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for allegedly encouraging the attack on the Capitol by his supporters, in which several people died.
The hearing is expected to be led by Democratic Representative Elaine Luria and Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger. It will focus on Trump's actions on Jan. 6, specifically between his departure from the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol and his eventual call for rioters to return home three hours later.
Bidenomics killing Americans Dreams
"Americans are canceling deals to buy homes at the highest rate since the start of the Covid pandemic."
DHS inspector general told Jan. 6 panel he went to Mayorkas about Secret Service cooperation
Updated Jul 15, 2022
(CNN) - The Department of Homeland Security inspector general on Friday briefed all nine members of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack about the Secret Service erasing text messages from the day of the riot and the day before.
The inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, met with the committee behind closed doors two days after sending a letter to lawmakers informing them that the text messages were erased after the watchdog agency asked for records related to its electronic communications as part of its ongoing investigation around the Capitol attack.
The committee now plans to reach out to Secret Service officials to ask about the erasure of text messages from the day of the US Capitol attack and the day before, including the agency's process for cleaning out files to see if that policy was followed, the committee Chair Bennie Thompson told CNN.
January 6 committee members expressed concern after the meeting about the different version of events between the inspector general and Secret Service and stressed they wanted to hear from the agency itself.
Cuffari told the committee that the Secret Service did not conduct its own after-action review regarding January 6 and chose to rely on the inspector general investigation, according to a source familiar with the briefing. The inspector general told the committee that the Secret Service has not been fully cooperative with his probe.
Cuffari's description left the impression that the Secret Service had been "footdragging," the source said. The inspector general told the committee they were not getting full access to personnel and records.
Cuffari said he brought the issue to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas more than once and was told to keep trying to get the information. Ultimately, Cuffari decided to go to Congress because he could not get anywhere within DHS with his concerns. Separately, a law enforcement official told CNN about Cuffari going to Mayorkas.
DHS said in a statement that it "has ensured and will continue to ensure that both the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol have the information they have requested."
Thompson told CNN the IG said during their meeting that the Secret Service has not been fully cooperative.
"Well, they have not been fully cooperating," the Mississippi Democrat said, adding: "We've had limited engagement with Secret Service. We'll follow up with some additional engagement now that we've met with the IG."
Thompson said that the committee will work "to try to ascertain if those texts can be resurrected."
The congressman previously told CNN after the meeting that the committee needs to interview Secret Service officials to get their take on what happened with the text messages that got deleted on January 5 and 6, 2021.
"Now that we have the IG's view of what has happened. We now need to talk to the Secret Service. And our expectation is to reach out to them directly," Thompson said. "One of the things we have to make sure is that what Secret Service is saying and what the IG is saying, that those two issues are in fact one and the same. And so now that we have it, we'll ask for the physical information. And we'll make a decision ourselves."
Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who serves on the January 6 committee, told CNN that there seem to be some "contradictory statements" between the Homeland Security inspector general and the Secret Service about whether the text messages from the Secret Service on January 5 and 6, 2021, are actually gone.
OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys," Cuffari added. "This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced."
A DHS official provided CNN a timeline of when the IG was informed by Secret Service of the missing information caused by the data transfer. In a statement Thursday night, Secret Service had said the IG first requested information on February 26, 2021, but it did not specify when the agency acknowledged the problem.
According to the DHS official, the Secret Service notified the IG of the migration issue on multiple occasions, starting on May 4, 2021, then again on December 14, 2021 and in February 2022.
In the statement Thursday night, the Secret Service said the inspector general's allegation regarding a lack of cooperation is "neither correct nor new."
"To the contrary, DHS OIG has previously alleged that its employees were not granted appropriate and timely access to materials due to attorney review. DHS has repeatedly and publicly debunked this allegation, including in response to OIG's last two semi-annual reports to Congress. It is unclear why OIG is raising this issue again," the statement said.
After initially asking for records from more than 20 people in February, the IG then returned to request more records for additional people, according to the law enforcement official. There were no text messages for the new request because they had been lost in the system transfer, the law enforcement official said. The official also said the agency was informed about the transition and sent guidance about how to preserve phone records from the IT department.
CNN law enforcement analyst Jonathan Wackrow, who worked for the Secret Service for 14 years, said it would make sense for the inspector general to be doing the review after January 6. From the Secret Service view, both the President and vice president were kept safe, so the agency would not consider that an incident to review in an after-action report, Wackrow said.
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Secret Service hit with Friday night subpoena from J6 select committee
Bob Brigham
July 15, 2022
The U.S. Secret Service has been subpoenaed by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Chair Benny Thompson (D-MS) sent a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray.
Thompson wrote, “The Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a ‘device-replacement program.’ In a statement issued July 14, 2022, the USSS stated that it ‘began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost.’ However, according to that USSS statement, ‘none of the texts it [DHS Office of Inspector General] was seeking had been lost in the migration.’"
“Accordingly, the Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021.”
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