Infighting Is Funny

The Guardian reports: The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has urged his supporters to protest at the state capitol when Republicans in the House of Representatives take up historic impeachment proceedings against him. The state House has set a Saturday vote to consider impeaching Paxton and suspending him from office over allegations of bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of …

PBS NewsHour reports: Under the Texas constitution and law, impeaching a state official is similar to the process on the federal level: the action starts in the state House. In this case, the five-member House General Investigating Committee voted unanimously Thursday to send 20 articles of impeachment to the full chamber. The next step is a vote by the 149-member …

“Honestly, some of his attacks against me. He’s moving to the left, attacking me, for example, for opposing an immigration amnesty that he supported when he was president for illegal aliens. “And I did oppose that because I don’t support amnesty. He also attacked me for voting against one of the bloated omnibus spending bills that he supported as president. …

The Texas Tribune reports: In an unprecedented move, a Texas House committee voted Thursday to recommend that Attorney General Ken Paxton be impeached and removed from office, citing a yearslong pattern of alleged misconduct and lawbreaking that investigators detailed one day earlier. During a specially called meeting Thursday afternoon, the House General Investigating Committee voted unanimously to refer articles of …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ talking points about a Republican “culture of losing” have been interpreted generally as a jab at Donald Trump, but they apparently go beyond the former President. Conservative talk show host Erick Erickson asked the Florida Governor and freshly minted presidential candidate about what makes him a better option than Nikki Haley, Mike Pence and …

Posted minutes ago to Trump’s Truth Social account: I’d like to personally congratulate “Rob” DeSanctimonious on finally announcing that he will be entering the race for President of the United States. Hopefully he will get the full experience of being attacked by the Marxists, Communists, and Radical Left Lunatics of our Country, without which he will never know the kind …

The Associated Press reports: Texas lawmakers revealed Tuesday a monthslong corruption investigation into Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, going public with the probe shortly after Paxton accused the GOP House speaker of being drunk on the job. Hours after Paxton’s claim, House Speaker Dade Phelan announced the House General Investigating Committee has been looking into “alleged illegal conduct” by Paxton. …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Laura Ingraham on FoxNews just did a hit piece on me (there go her ratings!) showing some polls which indicate that Ron DeSanctimonious may do better against Biden than I would, when actually polls show that I do MUCH better against Biden than “Rob.” The poll your looking at now, which has me doing …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Bruce Castor, the former Montgomery County district attorney and county commissioner who represented former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial, filed an eight-page motion in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court on Tuesday, asking to no longer represent former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a civil suit. Castor summed up his gripe about Giuliani succinctly: …

Florida Politics reports: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hammering Gov. Ron DeSantis over his “personal vendetta” against Disney, which took another sharp turn Thursday when the company canceled plans to spend $1 billion to bring more than 2,000 workers to the Sunshine State. “He took an issue that was a winning issue that we all agreed on, which was parental …

“You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing. Biden, Trump and me, and I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president — Biden and me, based on all the data in the swing states, which is not great for the former president and probably insurmountable because people aren’t …

Florida Playbook reports: Never Back Down PAC last night went after Trump in real-time. The organization live-tweeted the town hall and, just as importantly, faulted Trump for focusing on the 2020 election and Jan. 6 insurrection. The group circulated a CNN clip from a focus group that listened to the town hall that said “Watch Trump supporters at Trump’s townhall …

Rolling Stone reports: The revelation that Kanye West campaign insider Milo Yiannopoulos charged the Marjorie Taylor Green congressional campaign $7,000 for the purchase of Ye24.com — the website of the Nazi-loving rapper’s prospective 2024 presidential campaign — is rotten news for the MAGA lawmaker from Georgia. Wednesday morning, Greene sent out a statement from her consultant Isaiah Wartman, whose credit …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Rupert Murdoch, “Worst Republican Speaker ever” Paul Ryan, RINO KARL ROVE, The Wall Street Globalist Journal, and the rapidly disintegrating FoxNews, have gone all out, over the last 3 months, pushing and promoting Ron DeSanctimonious, a man who, without the help and Endorsement of President Donald J. Trump, would now be working at a …

Laura Loomer writes on her Twitter account: Here’s the invoice (I blurred out all personal information so I don’t doxx anyone) that proves @mtgreenee’s general consultant Isaiah Wartman purchased the Ye24 domain for Milo (Kanye’s campaign manager). Milo’s number is registered to the domain, and it shows it was purchased November 22, 2022, the SAME EXACT DAY of President Trump’s …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ six-figure support from The Walt Disney Co. over the years could be a 2024 issue. The Stand For America PAC, which supports Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, calls on DeSantis to “return the more than $100,000 his campaign and affiliated PACs have taken from Disney over the years.” “DeSantis, who currently faces a lawsuit …

Media Matters reports: Fox News has leaked to The New York Times private text messages that Tucker Carlson has sent and allegedly this is the smoking gun. So, Fox News leaked these messages to try to say, hey, see, we were dealing with something here, that Tucker Carlson is a bad guy, he’s a racist. It’s bad enough that we …

“I’ve been watching the censorship happening, even in conservative mainstream media. You saw what Fox did to Tucker Carlson last week and the week before that, it was Dan Bongino, and, you know, the people who would actually question some of that narrative. “Is it a brilliant plan to send $130 billion to Ukraine, one of the most corrupt nations …

The Associated Press reports: The competition between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is intensifying as the former president is scheduling a return trip to Iowa on the same day that the Florida governor was already going to be in the state that will kick off the Republican contest for the White House. A Trump campaign official said Saturday that the …

Florida Politics reports: The most powerful Republican in Congress is speaking out against Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ war with The Walt Disney Co., which includes threats of a prison near Disney World. On CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California urged DeSantis to find a productive solution, specifically mentioning the Governor’s prison threat as unhelpful. “This is a big …