Republicans Cheer As Congressional Candidate Demands Fauci’s Execution By Firing Squad excerpt: "Oklahoma GOP Chair John Bennett, who is running for Congress, said he wants to put Dr. Anthony Fauci in front of a firing squad ― and the crowd at a campaign event clapped and cheered. “We’re fighting communist Democrats, establishment RINOs!” Bennett ranted in a video that Right Wing Watch shared online Tuesday, which has now gone viral. “We’re fighting against a system that stole the election in 2020 and nobody had been held accountable,” Bennett continued, parroting former President Donald Trump’s baseless election fraud claims. “We’re in a war with bureaucrats that have forced vaccine mandates on us, mask mandates on us.”"
Trump Issues Bizarre Statement Attacking Both George And Kellyanne Conway excerpt: "In the statement tweeted by his spokesperson on Thursday, Trump shared a screenshot of a tweet from a conservative commentator that asked, “Is George Conway ok...?” with a picture of the lawyer looking flustered on CNN. “No, he’s mentally ill, a very sick man,” Trump wrote before blaming his former adviser. “I don’t know what Kellyanne did to him, but it must have been really bad. She has totally destroyed this guy―his mind is completely shot,” Trump’s statement read."
Despite losing the election by 7 million votes nationally and 306-232 in the Electoral College, Trump became the first president in more than two centuries of elections to refuse to hand over power peacefully. His incitement of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol — his last-ditch attempt to remain in office ― killed five, including one police officer, injured another 140 officers and preceded four police suicides. Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant figure in the Republican Party and is openly speaking about running for the presidency again in 2024. part of a news article posted on Yahoo News . And why the 14 th Amendment could be used to prevent Trump from running for office in 2024
Oklahoma GOP chair John Bennett is a suck-ass sycophant, as are many, many others. If the republicans win the house and / or the senate---any semblance of democracy in the US---will be gone.
but yet the Dems snooze....while the poll tax gets reimplemented. Yeah, the Dems are the fascists......sigh.
Trump demands VA Sec’s five-year-old texts in statement repeating false spy claims excerpt: "Former president Donald Trump is now accusing VA Secretary Denis McDonough of trying to “overturn the 2016 election” when he was then-president Barack Obama’s chief of staff in late 2016 and early 2017. The twice-impeached ex-president made the bizarre allegations in a statement in which he repeated false allegations that the Obama administration “spied” on his campaign, transition team, and the White House — with the latter allegedly occurring after Mr Trump was occupying the White House as president. “Unlike my Chief of Staff, which show patriotic Americans concerned about illegal and massive Election Fraud in 2020, I say bad things would be revealed,” he said Mr Trump’s ex-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is currently suing the House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol to prevent release of phone records and text messages from the period leading up to the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814."
A second Oath Keeper pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot excerpt: "A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and agreed to cooperate with the government. Brian Ulrich entered his guilty plea at a virtual hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The 44-year-old from Guyton, Ga., is the second Oath Keeper to plead guilty to sedition charges in the highest-profile case to emerge from the federal investigation into the Capitol riot. Ulrich is one of 11 Oath Keepers, including the group's founder Stewart Rhodes, to be charged with seditious conspiracy and other crimes for allegedly plotting to use force to prevent Congress' Jan. 6 certification of President Biden's election win. Now, five months before the case is set to go trial, prosecutors have secured the cooperation of two members of the alleged conspiracy to help build their prosecution against the remaining defendants."
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/29/tru...earing-he-cant-find-subpoenaed-documents.html excerpt: "A New York judge Friday denied a request by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to lift a contempt of court finding despite the submission of new sworn affidavits from Trump and his attorneys that argue he has complied with a subpoena from the state attorney general. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said that the new affidavits attesting to Trump's and others' inability to locate documents sought by Attorney General Letitia James were not sufficient to purge Trump of being held in contempt. Engoron's order was issued at a hearing called on such short notice that it was not publicly announced by the court. The hearing came four days after Engoron found Trump in contempt for failing to turn over documents to James by the March 31 deadline set by the judge for compliance to the subpoena."
New York Man Sentenced to Jail Time After His Own Phone Recording Undermined Claim That He Didn't See Violence on Jan. 6 excerpt: "On Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell sentenced Vuksanaj to three years of probation, and tacked on 42 days of intermittent jail time as a condition of that probation to be served in three increments of 14 days each within the first year of his probation. The judge further sentenced Vuksanaj to three months of home detention and a $2,000 fine. Prosecutors had asked for three months in jail and three years of probation. Vuksanaj had requested a sentence of probation only."
Judge rejects Trump's affidavit saying he doesn't have documents sought by New York's attorney general | CNN Politics excerpt: "After a brief telephonic hearing Friday morning, the judge denied Trump’s motion to purge the contempt. “Mr. Trump’s personal affidavit is completely devoid of any useful detail. Notably, it fails to state where he kept his files, how his files were stored in the regular course of business, who had access to such files, what, if any, the retention policy was for such files, and, importantly, where he believes such files are currently located,” he wrote. The judge also found the sworn statement from Trump’s attorney unsatisfactory. The judge previously said Trump could end the contempt if he complied with the subpoena or him or his attorneys detailed their efforts to search for documents sought by the subpoena. He called Trump’s lawyer’s earlier response “boilerplate.” In the sworn statement signed April 27, Trump wrote, “To the best of my knowledge, (i) I do not have any of the documents requested in the subpoena dated December 1, 2021 in my personal possession.” He said any records would be in the possession of the Trump Organization and he has authorized them to comply with the subpoena. The former President has also appealed that order."
Trump says he knows business and taxes better than anyone, yet he says he doesn't know where his records are located when subpoenaed by a prosecutor.
Trump is similar to Kevin Trudeau who owed the government millions in fines for his deceptive marketing tactics. He had the money to pay it but chose to stay in jail instead of paying. After being the self-proclaimed memory expert and selling his memory aids on infomercials in the 1990's, Trudeau told the judge he didn't couldn't remember where his money was located.
The Disney fiasco could have ominous consequences for Florida’s government, major credit agency warns excerpt: "“[The bill] creates ambiguity around which entity or entities will ultimately repay bondholders, which carries adverse consequences for RCID's credit quality and was a significant factor in the Negative Watch,” said Fitch. The bill text indicates that dissolved districts can re-form, implying one potential resolution to the conflict that Florida and Disney must now untangle. It’s possible that Florida will move to create a new, less powerful district that will continue to take in revenue and provide municipal services."
The Disney fiasco could have ominous consequences for Florida’s government, major credit agency warns excerpt: "DeSantis has acknowledged the ambiguity around the bill, claiming that further legislation will clarify the state’s intention. “People will [ask about Disney's] services and utilities,” he said at a press conference on Friday. “We're going to take care of all that. Don't worry. We have everything thought out.”"