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Southern Baptist Leader Axed For “Marital Indiscretions”

The Christian Post reports: The executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware has resigned after the organization became aware of “marital indiscretions,” also leading to his termination as a vice president with a Southern Baptist Convention’s missions agency. The Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware leadership sent a letter to the network’s member churches Friday informing them that Michael Crawford resigned …

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Anti-LGBTQ Texas GOP Rep Jailed On DUI Charge

The Texas Tribune reports: State Sen. Charles Schwertner was arrested early Tuesday morning on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, according to Travis County sheriff’s office records. Schwertner, a Georgetown Republican, was booked into the Travis County jail at 2:12 a.m. and charged with driving while intoxicated. Records showed Schwertner was still in Travis County sheriff’s custody most of Tuesday morning. …

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National Enquirer Sold To Indicted Ex-MoviePass Exec

CNBC reports: The National Enquirer, the tabloid at the center of several scandals involving former President Donald Trump, will be sold to a joint venture involving Theodore Farnsworth, the former MoviePass chairman who has been criminally charged with securities fraud. The deal’s price wasn’t disclosed, but Farnsworth, founder of Icon Publishing, told The New York Times that it was a …

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Santos Admits $500K Campaign Loan Wasn’t “Personal”

The Daily Beast reports: Late Tuesday afternoon, Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed. However, while the newly amended filing told us where the funds did not come from, …

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Vatican Investigates Alleged Sex Party At UK Cathedral

The Guardian reports: The Vatican is investigating rumours of a “sex party” at a British cathedral which is alleged to have happened during lockdown. As part of an investigation into the circumstances of Robert Byrne’s resignation as the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, the Catholic church is looking into claims one of his priests invited worshipers to a private party …

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Fox Has Disappeared Schlapps Since Groping Allegation

Media Matters reports: Frequent Fox News guests Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes have disappeared from Fox’s airwaves in the two weeks since The Daily Beast published a January 5 story about a GOP staffer who said that Matt, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, “fondled” his crotch. Although FoxNews.com has published one article about the accusation, the Schlapps …

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Schlapp: I Never Groped That Man And I Might Sue

“This anonymous complaint demonstrates the accuser’s real agenda, working in concert with Daily Beast to attack and harm the Schlapp family. “The complaint is false, and the Schlapp family is suffering unbearable pain and stress due to the false allegation from an anonymous individual. “No family should have to go through this and the Schlapps and their legal team as …

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Santos Spends Another Day Fleeing Reporters [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Controversial Rep. George Santos (R-NY) dodged reporters in the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, in what has become a common scene for the embattled congressman. “You’re accused of fabricating almost every single part of your life. Why do you do it? Why do you deserve to represent the people of New York?” says ABC’s Congressional correspondent …

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Protesters Rally Outside Santos’ Queens Office [VIDEO]

The Washington Examiner reports: Around 150 protesters gathered outside what is supposed to be Rep. George Santos’s (R-NY) in-district office Saturday to urge the truth-challenged lawmaker to resign. “His office is not set up,” protester Tanbir Chowdhury told CBS2. “You wouldn’t know that this is your current Congress member’s office right now.” “We are only focused on removing George Santos …

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Christian Walker: “Predator” Schlapp Should Resign

The Daily Beast reports: Herschel Walker’s son is calling for the resignation of CPAC’s Matt Schlapp following allegations that Schlapp groped a campaign staffer for the Republican candidate. “Typical predator,” Christian Walker said in a video Saturday. “Preys on this poor little staffer who’s just trying to work his way up in Republican politics, then gets assaulted by one of …

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Nation’s Second-Most Famous Liar Gets Sworn-In

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: After the vote for speaker, the members of the House officially were sworn in. That includes New York Republican George Santos. During the multiple days of voting for the House speaker, Santos dodged reporters in Washington, refusing to answer questions about numerous lies regarding his education, employment and family history. Santos is under criminal …

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CPAC Board: Libs Are Trying To Cancel Matt Schlapp

NBC News reports: On Friday evening, after this story was published, two ACU board members issued a statement standing by Schlapp. “We stand squarely behind Matt Schlapp, and the ACU Board of Directors has full confidence in his leadership of the organization,” said Charlie Gerow and Carolyn Meadows, the first and second vice chairs of the board. “We have both …

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NY Republicans Already Plotting Successor To Santos

The far-right Washington Times reports: Rep.-elect George Santos hasn’t been sworn in yet as a freshman congressman, but prominent GOP leaders in New York are already mulling potential replacements in hopes he can be forced to resign. The list includes Assemblyman Mike Durso, Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips and former Assemblyman Mike LiPetri, GOP sources told The Washington Times. If …

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GOP Long Island DA Opens Investigation Into Santos

Newsday reports: Anne Donnelly, the Republican district attorney for Nassau County, has opened an investigation into GOP rep-elect George Santos. Donnelly, a longtime Nassau prosecutor who took office at the beginning of the year, told Newsday in a statement: “The residents of Nassau County must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress. No one is above the law and …

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Santos Tries To Explain Away Mysterious Sudden Wealth

Semafor reports: As an example of his work, he said a client might want to sell a plane or a boat. “I’m not going to go list it and broker it,” he said. “What I will do is I will go look out there within my Rolodex and be like: ‘Hey, are you looking for a plane?’ ‘Are you looking …

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Homocon Rep-Elect: I Really Am Wealthy Now [Video]

City & State reports: “Did I embellish my resume? Yes, I did. And I’m sorry. And it shouldn’t be done,” Santos told City & State Monday night, in the first on-camera interview since a number of stories were published revealing that Santos habitually lied and misled voters about who he was and what he did. Santos also, for the first …

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Dems Demand Resignation Of Confessed Liar Santos

The Hill reports: Democrats are calling for Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign his newly won Long Island House seat after the incoming lawmaker admitted to lying about about his professional and educational background. Santos flipped a House seat for the GOP in November to represent parts of Long Island and Queens, helping the party capture a narrow majority in the …

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More Freaky Details Emerge About Homocon Rep

Talking Points Memo reports: Rep.-elect George Santos’ “family firm” that supposedly managed $80 million in assets was initially registered at a gynecologist’s office in a Florida office park. Santos and several of his colleagues have ties to an alleged multimillion-dollar “ponzi scheme” and a complex network of companies. Among his associates, we found a businessman who claims to have the …

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NY Post: GOP Leadership Knew Santos Was A Phony

The New York Post reports: Senior House Republicans were so keenly aware of alleged inaccuracies and embellishments in Rep-elect George Santos’s professional biography, that the topic became a “running joke,” multiple insiders close to House GOP leadership told The Post. “As far as questions about George in general, that was always something that was brought up whenever we talked about …

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Another Mountain Of Lies Were Told By Homocon Rep

The New York Times reports: Peter Hamilton met Mr. Santos near the start of 2014, he said. He recalled how Mr. Santos, who claimed to be an N.Y.U. graduate, had not recognized the name of the business school he said he had attended. Nonetheless, Mr. Hamilton found him charismatic and intelligent. He did not hesitate when Mr. Santos said that …

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