Tag Archives: GOP

Santos To Get Paid For Coming Documentary On Him

The New York Times reports: George Santos, the disgraced former congressman trying to parlay his notoriety into a cottage industry, is now participating in a documentary film project on his colorful lies, life and times. The film is being led by Jenner Furst, a successful documentarian whose projects include a Peabody-award winning documentary about Kalief Browder, a young Bronx man …

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Newt Gingrich Suggests Dem Will Cause A Revolution

The Hill reports: In an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Wednesday, the former Speaker said more than a million Coloradans voted for Trump in the last election and “four lawyers want to block him from being on the ballot.” He said efforts to stop Trump from appearing on the ballot are “a system of establishment arrogance” and “not sustainable.” …

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Watchdog Group Accuses GOP Rep Of Insider Trading

The Daily Beast reports: On Wednesday, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics, accusing Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) of breaking disclosure laws and the STOCK Act when he failed to properly report multiple transactions in the run-up to the 2020 election—including the sale of Boeing stock weeks before a …

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NE Gov Opts Out Of Feeding Poor Kids During Summer

The Nebraska Examiner reports: Gov. Jim Pillen’s administration has decided that Nebraska won’t be participating in a new national child nutrition program that could have delivered an estimated $18 million in grocery-buying benefits next summer to kids and their families. The decision comes despite a monthslong effort by food banks and other advocates to persuade the governor to opt into …

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DeSantis Rejects Ramaswamy’s Colorado “Demand”

First, a reminder of what Ramaswamy said last night: “I pledge to *withdraw* from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately – or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences …

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DeSantis Again Pledges To “Flatten” The Bahamas

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to advance the hypothetical of an attack from the Bahamas by way of illustrating support for Israel’s ongoing operations against Hamas. “Down in Florida, if we were getting rockets fired from the Bahamas to, like, Fort Lauderdale, we would level, we would never ever accept that. I mean, it would be flattened. The …

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Johnson Attended Creepy “Purity Ball” With Daughter

ABC News reports: Years before Mike Johnson would ascend to No. 2 in the presidential line of succession, a German TV news outlet profiled the future speaker of the House and his then-teenage daughter. “This looks like a wedding,” a news reporter says in German in a 2015 n-tv news segment that was unearthed by ABC News. “But they are …

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Court: Vaseline Woman Must Face Defamation Lawsuit

Arizona Central reports: A Maricopa County judge ruled Wednesday that a defamation case against former gubernatorial and current U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake will go forward. Judge Jay Adleman determined that Lake failed to provide enough evidence to get the case dismissed outright under a recently revised state law intending to deter lawsuits that seek to censor or intimidate critics. …

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MTG: “Soon A National Divorce May Be Only Option”

Newsweek reports: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, issued a warning on social media on Wednesday that a “national divorce” between red and blue states is imminent amid the “constitutional crisis” in the U.S. “America is in a constitutional crisis,” Greene wrote Wednesday on X. “The admin is enabling a full scale border invasion and harboring illegal migrants. The …

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Sen. Rick Scott Claims Biden Is Behind Colorado Ruling: “He Can’t Win So He’s Using The Legal System To Steal”

“This is insane. In the US, we don’t allow political hacks to kick their ‘enemies’ off the ballot because they disagree with them. If this is the path that radical Democrats choose to weaponize the courts against conservatives, we are no better than the socialist regimes in Venezuela and Cuba. Joe Biden can’t win an election so he’s trying to …

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Police Search MA Middle School For “Queer” Book

The Berkshire Eagle reports: The plainclothed police officer who entered an eighth grade classroom to search for a book wore a body camera and recorded the incident, leading to more legal questions and concerns. The ACLU and other free speech advocates say they are alarmed by the recording, as well as the entire Dec. 8 incident that took place after …

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POLL: Trump’s Evoking Of Hitler Grows His Support

The Des Moines Register reports: On the campaign trail, he has engaged in harsh rhetoric to describe political enemies as “radical thugs that live like vermin,” said that immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood” of the U.S., touted himself as “the only one who will prevent World War III,” and suggested suspending parts of the Constitution …

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Colorado GOP Chair: The State Supreme Court Can “Go F*ck Themselves,” We Will Just Hold A Caucus Instead

Newsweek reports: The Colorado Republican Party may withdraw from the 2024 presidential primary in protest of the state’s Supreme Court saying Donald Trump is disqualified from running for president again for allegedly engaging in an insurrection on January 6. Dave Williams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said the state could instead have a caucus, instead of an open voting …

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Rioter Arrested After FBI Tip By High School Classmate

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: A tip from a high school classmate led the FBI to arrest a Lakeville man who has been charged with invading the U.S. Capitol during the violent and destructive Jan. 6 insurrection in 2021. Martin James Cudo, 43, was charged with illegal entry of the Capitol with the intent to impede or disrupt the U.S. House …

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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis To Intro Bill That Would Defund States That Disqualify Presidential Candidates

Via press release from GOP Sen. Thom Tillis: Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced he will soon introduce the Constitutional Election Integrity Act, legislation that would prevent state politicians and state entities like the Colorado Supreme Court from disqualifying presidential candidates from the ballot on Constitutional matters that should be decided by only the Supreme Court. The Constitutional Election Integrity …

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Judge Reverses On Removal Of Confederate Memorial, Says Its Supporters Lied About “Disturbed Gravesites”

The Associated Press reports: At a hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston said he issued the temporary injunction Monday after receiving an urgent phone call from the memorial’s supporters saying that gravesites adjacent to the memorial were being desecrated as contractors began work to remove the memorial. He said he toured the site before …

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J.D. Vance: “Poisoning Our Blood” Was About Fentanyl

“First of all, he didn’t say immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country. He said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of the country, which is objectively and obviously true to anybody who looks at the statistics about fentanyl overdoses, and I think just one observation about the press as an organization: you guys seem far more upset about …

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Johnson Blasts Colorado Ruling As A “Partisan Attack”

“Today’s ruling attempting to disqualify President Trump from the Colorado ballot is nothing but a thinly veiled partisan attack. Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen registered to vote should not be denied the right to support our former president and the individual who is the leader in every poll of the Republican primary. We trust the U.S. Supreme Court will …

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DeSantis: DOJ Should Be “Accountable” To President

“Every Republican President in recent times, including Trump, has accepted this idea that agencies like the DOJ and FBI are ‘independent agencies,’ you can’t mess with them, you can’t do anything. “Well, excuse me, that means they’re not accountable to anybody. Every source of power needs to be accountable to somebody that’s elected by you. And if they’re not accountable …

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Texas Lt Gov Threatens To Remove Biden From Ballot

The Daily Beast reports: Dan Patrick, the Republican lieutenant governor of Texas, threatened on Tuesday to remove President Joe Biden from his state’s ballot—seemingly as retribution for a Colorado Supreme Court ruling which booted former President Donald Trump from that state’s 2024 presidential race for engaging in an insurrection on Jan. 6. Patrick made the comments on Fox News, justifying …

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