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Marge Traitor Greene going after McConnell



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Marge Greene tonight was asked by Alex Jones, “who is more evil, AOC or Mitch McConnell?” She goes with Mitch: “Mitch McConnell lies to your face .. he’s married to Elaine Chao, and they are bought and paid for by China.”


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4:22 PM · Feb 20, 2022

In failed bid to unseat opponent, Republican candidate sought help from Russian intelligence

PROVIDENCE — H. Russell Taub, the onetime Republican congressional candidate who was imprisoned for defrauding political donors three years ago, illegally sought help from Russian intelligence in his failed bid to unseat U.S. Rep. David Cicilline in 2016, the Federal Election Commission has found.

A few months before the November 2016 general election, Taub sent a direct message to a Twitter account known to be used by the GRU, Russia’s main intelligence agency, according to a recently released FEC filing. In the message to Guccifer 2.0, Taub asked for a list of Republican donors, saying, “I could use your help to defeat cicilline.” Taub provided an email address and later received a dossier that included opposition research reports, polling data and other information about his incumbent Democratic opponent in the 1st Congressional District race.

Taub, 33, violated federal campaign law “by knowingly soliciting, accepting or receiving a prohibited in-kind foreign national contribution in the form of opposition research related to the candidate’s opponent,” the FEC concluded.

Taub admitted wrongdoing as part of a settlement agreement with the FEC, but he was excused from paying a $31,000 fine due to “financial hardship” and the restitution he must pay for his previous conviction. If he’s found to have misrepresented his finances, the fine will be reinstated.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/failed-bid-unseat-cicilline-republican-195841453.html

Merrick Garland Confirms DOJ Probe Of Trump Document Theft

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has confirmed that the Justice Department is taking a look at the handling of records associated with the presidential administration of Donald Trump. It was in a recent letter to leaders of the House Oversight Committee that National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) head David S. Ferriero wrote that “[because] NARA identified classified information in the boxes [recovered from Mar-a-Lago], NARA staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice.” (The Archives recently recovered 15 boxes of records that had been improperly taken to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after his time in office ended.) Now, Garland says in reference to this matter that the Justice Department “will do what we always do under these circumstances: look at the facts of the law and take it from there.”

A federal law known as the Presidential Records Act requires the preservation and eventual delivery to the National Archives of a whole host of records from presidential administrations — and it would appear that mishandling classified information is a whole additional issue on top of that. Former Watergate special prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said in a recent appearance on MSNBC that potential consequences for this ordeal could include Trump being barred from ever holding public office again. Trump has also been on the rhetorical hook for destroying records — or trying to, at least — throughout his time in office. Some items from the Trump era that were obtained by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot had been torn up by the now former president, marking yet another example of the ex-commander-in-chief’s flagrant disregard for the law, as though it simply doesn’t apply to him.

Federal authorities are also looking into a multi-state scheme to essentially falsify electoral votes for Trump in states that Biden won. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco confirmed, regarding referrals from state authorities about the matter, that the Justice Department “received those referrals,” adding: “Our prosecutors are looking at those and I can’t say anything more on ongoing investigations.” Basically, that effort involved drawing up false claims that certain Trump supporters were the legitimate electoral college members from seven states where Biden was actually victorious, with documentation of these false claims sent to federal authorities. Excuses for the endeavor included the notion that the faked electoral votes would have helped maintain the viability of legal challenges to the presidential election outcome, but by the time that legitimate members of the electoral college cast their votes, it was clear that there was no real-world evidence that the outcome could be legitimately changed.

Felonies could be among the criminal offenses perpetrated by those involved in the elector scheme. .............

Read more: https://bipartisanreport.com/2022/02/22/merrick-garland-confirms-doj-probe-of-trump-document-theft/


Garland: "We will do what we always do under these circumstance: look at the facts of the law and take it from there."

He could have just shredded them, no?

Coulda.

Blast from the past:

https://able2know.org/topic/335784-1

Robert Gentel

Sat 30 Jul, 2016 03:23 pm

Donald Trump’s slander of Captain Humayun Khan’s family is horrifying, even for Trump

What kind of person is Donald Trump?

Quote:

The most emotional moment of the Democratic National Convention was the speech by Khizr Khan, the bereaved father of Army Captain Humayun Khan. With his wife Ghazala by his side, Khan recalled his son’s character, his faith, his patriotism — and, ultimately, his courageous death in the service of the country he loved, and the fellow soldiers he was protecting.

On ABC this morning, Trump responded to Khan’s speech. I don’t know what I expected from Trump. Maybe he would show some gentleness. Maybe he would show some empathy. Maybe he would refuse to comment. Maybe he would attack Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s foreign policy leadership. All of those responses would have been fine.

Trump’s actual response, though, wasn’t fine.

"If you look at his wife, she was standing there," he said, on national television. "She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."

This wasn’t a slip of the tongue. In an interview with Maureen Dowd, Trump took the same tack. "I’d like to hear his wife say something," he said.

Let’s be very clear about what Trump is doing here: as ABC wrote, he’s suggesting "Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim." This is bullshit. It is flatly, verifiably, false. But that’s almost beside the point.

Trump listened to a speech by the bereaved father of a fallen Muslim soldier and used it to slander the fallen soldier’s family. That was his response. That is his character.

At this point, I honestly don’t know what to say. I don’t have new language for this, I haven’t found another way of saying this isn’t okay, this isn’t kind, this isn’t decent. Instead, I’ll note James Fallows’s response. He quotes Joseph Welch, speaking to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954.

"Until this moment," he said, "I think I never really gauged your cruelty."

If you would like to see Ghazala Khan speak, you can do so in this interview she gave to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. As Fallows writes, she breaks down sobbing while speaking of her son. It suggests she let her husband give the DNC speech for a simple reason: she remains overwhelmed by grief.

This is the woman Trump decided to slander. This is the gauge of his cruelty.

This isn't partisan. This isn't left vs. right. Mitt Romney never would have said this. John McCain never would have said this. George W. Bush never would have said this. John Kerry never would have said this. This is what I mean when I write that the 2016 election isn't simply Democrat vs. Republican, but normal vs. abnormal.

Dude, I respectfully request you take five minutes and learn the very simple task of shrinking your images. It kind of sux when you post these humongous things when it’s so easy to fix. If I can do it, anyone can.

It's always fun when former members return.