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Looks like there’s no indictment today. Aw, drat. But that hasn’t stopped the GOP from unleashing a firestorm of lies and invective to protect their golden goose.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham warned that arresting disgraced former president Donald Trump would “blow up our country,” and “is a bunch of B.S.” Without having the foggiest idea what the first Trump indictment might include, Graham also claimed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is a “George Soros-backed prosecutor,” because his 2021 election campaign was partially funded by Color of Change PAC. They love to pull out George Soros—sorry, (((George))) (((Soros)))—when the going gets tough!
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also downplayed the allegations against Trump and called the D.A.’s investigation “just political.” Following comments like the ones from McCarthy and Graham, on top of yesterday’s conspiracy theory-ridden, threatening letter to Bragg from three House GOP chairmen, demanding Bragg sit for sworn testimony, Bragg issued a statement today insisting that he and his office “will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process, nor will we let baseless accusations deter us from fairly applying the law.”
- By sheer coincidence, definitely having nothing to do with the GOP becoming an overtly violent party, someone called a bomb threat into a New York City courthouse just as a lower Manhattan judge was about to start proceedings in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s unrelated financial-fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump. The courthouse was temporarily closed and searched, after which it was determined that the threat was unfounded. NYPD announced it had increased uniformed presence throughout the city but stressed that there were “no credible threats,” at this time, though they remained prepared for protests and counterprotests.
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No amount of weak protests from Trump’s gang of allies will help him outrun the law, but the mainstream media and even powerful elected politicians also seem to have learned nothing from the past seven years.
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As Trump nears criminal indictment, the political hand wringing about whether or not this will be the moment the GOP finally breaks with the former president is in full effect. Are we really doing this again? For the one-thousandth time? If the past seven years have taught us anything it’s that there’s no “breaking point” when the Republican Party will say enough is enough, and expel him from the party, especially if it would require caving to the libs. (If Trump ever proposed increasing taxes, though…)
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In fact, much of the discourse surrounding Trump’s looming indictment(s) feels like deja vu. The Democratic Party’s resident lump of coal, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), said he thought an indictment would “just embolden” Trump and could have “the reverse effect of what people might be thinking.” Wow, we’ve never heard that one before, Joe! Truly groundbreaking stuff. As with all of his myriad crimes, the fact that Trump could invariably use justified legal consequences as a fundraising tool is not a good reason not to prosecute him! This isn’t difficult!
When it comes to Trump, how he handles accountability, and how the Republican Party then handles him, we’ve seen all of this before. Sarah Longwell, a vocal GOP critic of Trump and Founder of the Republican Accountability Project said that if Republicans fail to break with the malignant Trump at a time like this, “they’ll have no one to blame but themselves when Trump is the nominee again.” Sound’s a lot like Lindsey Graham’s famous May 2016 tweet “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it,” doesn’t it? And we all know what happened next.
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Fox News producer Abby Grossberg alleged in a new lawsuit that Fox lawyers tried to get her to take the fall for the network’s repeated airing of conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems by coercing her into giving misleading testimony in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Grossberg alleges that Fox News lawyers coached her and she felt “pressured not to name names or implicate others, in particular prominent male on-air personalities and Fox News executives.” Both Fox and Dominion presented their arguments before Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis. The Judge appeared to be skeptical of Fox’s arguments that they were reporting on Dominion neutrally and do not meet the criteria for “actual malice”, for good fucking reason! Davis said, “To me, it doesn’t seem intellectually honest that you apply actual malice and say there’s neutral reporting privilege…How can you be neutral if you’re knowingly doing false things?” Dominion’s lawyers now have presented ample internal Fox communications that prove the network repeatedly spread slanderous falsehoods and hosted guests who did the same out of fear of losing viewers to its far-right competitors like Newsmax.
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DOJ prosecutors in the special counsel’s office have procured “compelling” preliminary evidence that disgraced former president Trump knowingly, intentionally misled his own attorneys about his personal retention of classified White House materials.
A new United Nations report estimates that 43,000 Somalians died last year in the country’s longest drought on record, half of whom are estimated to have been children.
A federal judge ruled against Donald Trump on Monday in his efforts to keep key evidence out of his civil rape trial brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
The city of Torrance, CA, has paid a man in Redondo Beach $750,000 after two police officers allegedly spray-painted a swastika inside his car in 2020. An investigation of the incident led to the discovery of rampant racism and homophobia among Torrance police officers, resulting in prosecutors dismissing dozens of felony cases.
The Georgia state senate passed SB 140 today, which denies transgender youth gender-affirming care and imposes harsh penalties on doctors who attempt to provide such care. The bill now heads to Gov. Brian Kemp for a hateful signature.
Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer has gone two-feet-in on his self-appointed role to investigate every unhinged claim about president Biden and his family, even going so far as to lament that the president’s late son Beau was never investigated. Just a uniquely horrible guy!
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in court today (NOT for the jade eggs you put in your vagina, this time) in response to a lawsuit filed by a 76-year-old retired optometrist who claims Paltrow violently crashed into him while skiing in 2016.
Three former employees of a Virginia mental hospital in Virginia were arrested and charged with second-degree murder last Thursday over the death of a Black man who was transported to the facility from jail earlier this month, and the videotape of the incident was released today.
European Union antitrust regulators raided the Austrian energy company Red Bull on the suspicion that the company is abusing its dominant market share.
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Bonner General Health hospital in Sandpoint, ID, announced on Friday that it will no longer provide labor, delivery, and a host of other obstetrician services, citing increasing criminalization of physicians and the inability to retain pediatricians as major contributing factors. Bonner General is the only hospital in a 50-mile radius, and the residents of Sandpoint will now be forced to travel for hours to receive this basic and essential care. The hospital’s leadership made a statement saying that the decision to eliminate the obstetrics unit came from the “political climate” in Idaho, which has caused “highly respected, talented physicians” to leave the state entirely. They continued, “The Idaho legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care.” The Dobbs decision legalized a state ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and Idaho is one of six states that prosecutes doctors for providing the procedure. The Idaho legislature is also terminating its maternal mortality review committee.
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