Joe Jervis

CO GOP Chair Ejects “Unfair” Reporter From Event

The Colorado Sun reports: A Colorado Sun politics reporter was escorted out of the state GOP assembly by a sheriff’s deputy Saturday after being told that party Chairman Dave Williams found her “current reporting to be very unfair.” Reporter Sandra Fish, who has covered politics since 1982, received a text at 3:45 a.m. Saturday from a Colorado Republican Party event …

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Trump: I’m Like Nelson Mandela And It “Will Be My Great Honor” To Go To “Clink” For Breaking Gag Order

Newsweek reports: Amid Donald Trump’s upcoming New York hush money trial, the former president compared himself to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela on Saturday night, sparking ridicule across social media. Trump took to Truth Social, his social media platform, to criticize the case and the gag order as the former president said he would gladly go to jail and become a …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Dwayne Johnson will not endorse any presidential candidate this year, he confirmed during an interview with Fox News. It’s a change of pace for the celebrity, who publicly endorsed Joe Biden for president during the 2020 election. Fox News’ Will Cain asked Johnson if he was happy with the state of America, to which Johnson answered: “No.” “Today’s …

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OH Sec Of State Raises Ballot Access Issue For Biden

ABC News reports: There could be potential general election ballot access concerns for President Joe Biden in Ohio, the state’s Secretary of State’s office said in a letter to Ohio Democratic Chair Liz Walters on Friday. In the letter, obtained by ABC News, legal counsel for Secretary of State Frank LaRose sought clarification for “an apparent conflict in Ohio law” …

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CNN Panelist Wonders If “Svelte” Trump Is On Ozempic

“He’s looking rather svelte. And that caught the eye, as you can imagine, of many on social media and elsewhere. And there has been a lot of chatter about whether he is on the big ‘O.’ “And by that, I mean, Ozempic, to the point where The New York Times, my employer, actually ended up writing to the campaign to …

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Habba Laughs And Jokes About Key Bridge Disaster

Mediaite reports: Trump lawyer Alina Habba laughed and joked with podcast hosts as they played video of the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse and spun conspiracy theories about the cause of the disaster. Habba was a guest on a recent edition of the Patrick Bet-David-hosted PBD Podcast for nearly two hours, during which she dispensed a familiar menu of patter about …

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WaPo: GOP Senate Candidate Lied About War Wound

The Washington Post reports: Tim Sheehy, a charismatic former Navy SEAL who is the Republican candidate in a U.S. Senate race in Montana that could determine control of the chamber, has cited a gunshot wound he received in combat that he said left a bullet in his right arm as evidence of his toughness. “I got thick skin — though …

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Kinzinger: Kennedy Has Been “Hijacked By MAGA”

The Hill reports: Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign has been “hijacked by MAGA” Friday. Kennedy referred to rioters in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as “activists” and suggested they were victims of an “outrageous miscarriage of justice,” in a Thursday statement. “His campaign has been hijacked by …

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Watters: No Difference Between Gay And Transgender

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters on Friday claimed there is no difference between being gay and being transgender. “We adopted a young child, and at age five, he was playing with dolls, and everybody knew he was gay, or was going to be gay. And it’s not like all of a sudden we took him to …

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Pelosi Signs Call To Halt Weapons Transfers To Israel

Axios reports: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signed onto a call by progressive members of Congress for the U.S. to stop transferring weapons to Israel over a strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza. It’s a significant break with Israel by a long-standing supporter that underscores growing fissures between Democrats and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The …

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Giuliani: God Sends “Communist States” Earthquakes

“We left the communist state of New York and then we were in the state of Connecticut and we just escaped all of the earthquakes. And then we got to Massachusetts, which probably had some earthquakes. Then we got to New Hampshire and there were no earthquakes. Which is telling me that somebody is sending us a message that communist …

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Police Seek Suspect In Arson At Bernie Sanders’ Office

The Associated Press reports: Police in Vermont are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire Friday outside the office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. The small blaze caused minor damages but no injuries. Authorities say an unknown male suspect sprayed what they described as a possible accelerant on the office door, set it on fire and fled. They said …

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Perkins Lands National Show, Mike Johnson To Guest

From the Family Research Council’s website: On Friday, Salem Radio Network announced the launch of “This Week on the Hill,” a compelling and informative radio/TV program set to debut on April 13th, 2024 on the Salem Radio Network, Salem News Channel, Salem Podcast Network, and Townhall.com. The show will be hosted by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and will …

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Trump’s Doctor Is A Member Of His NJ Golf Club

The Washington Post reports: And after relying on a longtime personal doctor and then two White House physicians who had attested to his well-being in office, Trump turned to an unknown: Bruce A. Aronwald, a 64-year-old osteopathic physician from New Jersey — and a longtime member of Trump’s Bedminster golf club. Trump began his political career in 2015 by releasing …

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Biden Campaign Reports Record $90M Raised In March

The Hill reports: The Biden campaign on Saturday announced a staggering haul of $90 million in the month of March, buoyed by a major New York City fundraiser and another strong month of grassroots donations. The campaign closed out the first quarter of 2024 having raised $187 million total, and it enters the second quarter of the year with $192 …

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RFK Jr. Statement Claims Rioters “Carried No Weapons”

CNN reports: In a formal written statement on Friday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the wildly inaccurate claim that the participants in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol “carried no weapons” – and then, three hours later, said he was retracting the claim because he had learned he was incorrect.The claim that all of …

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Michael Knowles: Every Adult Involved In “Grave Evil” Of Surrogacy Should Be “Imprisoned For Life, At Least”

“The entire industry of surrogacy — purchasing children, allowing two men, in particular, or two women or a single to create a child with the intention of depriving that child of his mother or father, this is obviously very, very evil and should be illegal, of course. “Selling one’s eggs, selling one’s sperm, this obviously should be illegal. They are …

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Rioters Claim They’ve Sued Cops For Excessive Force

Newsweek reports: A group of January 6 defendants has filed a class action lawsuit against 21 Capitol Police officers and officials for “millions of dollars in damages,” inmate Edward Jacob (Jake) Lang told the conservative cable channel Real America’s Voice on Friday. Lang, who describes himself as a “January 6 political prisoner,” was arrested soon after the attack on the …

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Trump Again Seeks Recusal Of Judge In NYC Trial

NBC News reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump have again asked the judge presiding over his upcoming criminal trial to recuse himself from the former president’s case, this time citing an “unacceptable appearance of impropriety.” In a court filing made public Friday night, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove contended Judge Juan Merchan has a conflict of interest because his …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Apart from a sticky synergy stunt at the Bachelor mansion, the 100th episode of “9-1-1” didn’t feature any emergencies that rival the most off-the-wall disasters the show has experienced during its seven-season run. But it did conclude with potentially the most shocking moment the Ryan Murphy-produced first-responder show has ever seen: a kiss between the ostensibly straight Evan …

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