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The MSM has become a joke, and McAfee’s recent ruling in the GA RICO indictment case profoundly underscores this point. One headline of note, and a prime example, is from Esquire Magazine, which makes a big deal about Judge McAfee’s removal of a few...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 03:25 PM PDT
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The irony is hurtful. I heard it said that it was poetic irony, which is twisted yes, but when did poets become so mean. No, I believe it is just the regular irony. It doesn't require schadenfreude bards to bring down the boom of justice. I understand...
by ghefley
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 06:11 PM PDT
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Chris Sununu said that he would vote for Donald Trump if he was the nominee. I saw a clip in which he had been saying how bad and dangerous it would be for the country if Donald Trump was president as he was advocating for Nikki Haley. However, the...
by Dem
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 05:05 AM PST
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On Friday, Rep. James Comer brought his catastrophic mess of an impeachment inquiry to CNN. Speaking with host Jake Tapper, the chair of the House Oversight Committee couldn’t even be bothered to pretend he had any evidence against President Joe Biden...
by Walter Einenkel
109 comments
on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 03:24 PM PST
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Republican presidential candidate and terrible former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was making his case on Newsmax on Thursday. Christie’s case is that voting for him for president is not voting for Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is a criminal....
by Walter Einenkel
116 comments
on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 01:14 PM PST
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A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
by Clay Bennett
26 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 02:58 PM PST
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Ivanka Trump is set to testify in person as part of her disgraced father’s New York City real estate fraud case. Ivanka’s position in Trump’s business world has always been prominent, and most experts believe her testimony may reveal itself to be...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 30, 2023 at 01:05 PM PDT
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ABC News is reporting that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has made a deal with special counsel Jack Smith to testify in the federal trial�concerning Donald Trump’s schemes to ...
by Mark Sumner
365 comments
on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 02:11 PM PDT
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If only legal motions were like ketchup… On the heels of failing to secure dismissal of the indictment based on his Presidential Immunity, Trump’s legal team must have realized they don’t have all the time in the world. The New York Times The lawyers...
by PvtJarHead
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 01:04 PM PDT
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Minutes ahead of a midnight deadline, Donald Trump’s attorneys made four separate filings in the D.C. District Court of Judge Tanya Chutkan. Each of these represents a separate request to dismiss the indictment Trump is facing for conspiring to...
by Mark Sumner
46 comments
on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 01:03 PM PDT
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Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan temporarily lifted a previously imposed gag order against Donald Trump while she considers a claim from Trump’s attorneys that the order is too ...
by Mark Sumner
96 comments
on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 09:39 AM PDT
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There is no low to which the Republican Party and individual republicans and Fox News will not go. Their hypocrisy is brazen. It's stunning. Every time I think they can not get worse, they do. Making Jim Jordan their speaker nominee is an example....
by Dem
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 07:06 AM PDT
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NJ POLL: "70% of Garden State respondents...would like to show the state’s senior senator the door." THIS is how Democratic voters take care of their corrupt pols. THIS is the OPPOSITE of how Republicans do it. THESE are the VOTERS who put him IN (and kept him in) the U.S. SENATE since 2006. And they want him OUT. Is a man presumed innocent until...
by AlyoshaKaramazov
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on Thu Oct 19, 2023 at 05:43 AM PDT
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1) John Fetterman (D-PA) 2) Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 3) Peter Welch (D-VT) 4) Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) 5) Jon Tester (D-MT) 6) Bob Casey (D-PA) 7) Jacky Rosen (D-NV) 8) Martin Heinrich (D-NM) 9) Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) 10) Cory Booker (D-NJ) 11) Mark Kelly...
by jseal
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 09:08 AM PDT
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U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife were indicted Friday on charges that they took bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car for a range of corrupt acts, including having the Democrat use his influence over foreign affairs to benefit the...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 06:47 AM PDT
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All of those indicted by Fulton County DA Fani Willis are loathsome people. But some stick out more than others, one of those for me is Cathy Latham of Coffee County. She’s the person who lead the break in to the Dominion Voting Machines at the board...
by Merlin196360
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 12:57 PM PDT
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After members of Donald Trump’s White House staff gave testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee in 2021, Yahoo News reported that among the few women remaining on his good side were “former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s executive...
by Mark Sumner
206 comments
on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 10:40 AM PDT
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Accepting a pardon is an admission. With all the talk of trials and pardons for Trump and his loyalists, seldom is there talk about a pardon being an implicit admission of criminality. While we pound away at the media interviewers of former President...
by ReasonaBill
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 12:22 PM PDT
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The main reason that Republicans and other conservative elected officials like to appear on Fox News and Newsmax while staying away from traditional media outlets: Their propaganda wilts under the ...
by Walter Einenkel
163 comments
on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I was reading a truly excellent diary and I felt like I wanted to add onto that: . Lindsey Graham knows that what he has been saying is false. When he started making false allegations and Hunter and Joe Biden and President Biden said something to him...
by Dem
73 comments
on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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- -Prosecutors argued that Trump has violated the gag order four times since Tuesday’s hearing on potential contempt fines for violating the gag order. The judge has still not ruled on that contempt motion. He set a hearing for 2:15 next Wednesday on the...25 comments 110 Recs
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