March 20, 2023 Fox News, Trump cultists
“You have to look at Bragg and wonder what his motivation is. Now, is he using federal money to do this investigation? Because then that, then, would be tampering with an election. “Which election? The 2024 presidential election. And is he getting messaging from Washington, D.C., as many in Washington have accused? “That perhaps Biden is behind this because Biden …
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March 20, 2023 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Raw Story reports: Late-night host John Oliver began his Sunday show by highlighting the news that Donald Trump thinks he’s getting arrested on Tuesday. “If you’re wondering how he’s doing right now, don’t worry because, in this video that he released directed toward farmers, it seems like he’s doing great,” Oliver said sarcastically. He showed a clip of the video …
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March 20, 2023 Crime, News
Miami’s NBC affiliate reports: The City of Miami Beach has issued a state of emergency and set an 11:59 p.m. curfew after a tumultuous weekend of deadly shootings. The measures come after a man died and another man was injured in a shooting in South Beach Friday night, and another deadly shooting in Miami Beach early Sunday morning. The state …
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March 20, 2023 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
CNN reports: Atlanta-area prosecutors are considering bringing racketeering and conspiracy charges in connection with Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. Investigators have a large volume of substantial evidence related to a possible conspiracy from inside and outside the state, including recordings of phone calls, emails, text messages, …
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March 20, 2023 Politics, Republicans
The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) extended absence from the Senate has stirred speculation among Republican senators over how much longer the 81-year-old senator will lead the Senate GOP conference. There’s no word yet on McConnell’s date of return, but some lawmakers expect he may not come back to the Senate until mid-April, after the two-week Easter …
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March 20, 2023 Infighting Is Funny, Republicans
The Daily Beast reports: As DeSantis remained silent over the weekend on Trump’s looming legal problems, Trumpworld returned to doing what they do best: hurling even more attacks at the Florida governor. This time around, Trump cronies criticized DeSantis for not denouncing a so-far nonexistent Trump indictment. The uproar on social media left one Trumpworld pundit calling on DeSantis to …
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March 20, 2023 Extremists, Hate Groups
The New York Daily News reports: A masked protester was arrested during clashing demonstrations outside a Manhattan drag story hour hosted by state Attorney General Letitia James on Sunday, cops said. The gold-masked man was taken into custody around 11:30 a.m. after an assault at the protest outside the LGBTQ Community Center on W. 13th St. in Greenwich Village. He …
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March 20, 2023 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: It is the District Attorney of Manhattan who is breaking the law by using the fake and fully discredited testimony (even by the SDNY [Southern District of New York]!) of a convicted liar, felon and jailbird, Michael Cohen, to incredibly persecute, prosecute, and indict a former president, and now leading (by far!) …
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March 20, 2023 Medicine, Science
Reuters reports: Some of the world’s leading makers of flu vaccines say they could make hundreds of millions of bird flu shots for humans within months if a new strain of avian influenza ever jumps across the species divide. One current outbreak of avian flu known as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b has killed record numbers of birds and infected mammals. Human …
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March 20, 2023 Republicans, Trump cultists
NBC News reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged calm Sunday and said Americans should not protest if former President Donald Trump is indicted and arrested in a hush-money investigation in New York, contradicting Trump, who called on his supporters Saturday to “Protest, take our nation back!” “I don’t think people should protest this, no. And I think President Trump, if …
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