The warden threw a party in the county jail
The prison band was there, and they began to wail
The band was jumpin', and the joint began to swing
You should've heard them knocked out jailbirds sing
Previous thread below.
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The warden threw a party in the county jail
The prison band was there, and they began to wail
The band was jumpin', and the joint began to swing
You should've heard them knocked out jailbirds sing
Previous thread below.
by Anonymous | reply 573 | January 10, 2022 10:47 PM |
Congress Subpoenas Roger Stone; Stone Reacts by Throwing Trump Aide Katrina Pierson Under the Bus
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 26, 2021 5:32 PM |
[quote]Stone Reacts by Throwing Trump Aide Katrina Pierson Under the Bus
I hope someone has video of this.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 26, 2021 6:01 PM |
Apparently when she's not shoplifting, she's at the gun range.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 26, 2021 6:05 PM |
You messed up the title OP, but I love you for making a new thread. <3
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 26, 2021 6:10 PM |
A thought occurs: maybe these threads are getting paywalled (to say nothing of slowed down) because of the hundreds of Miz Lindsey GIFs and memes. Maybe take 'em over to a dedicated thread? Would anyone really miss them?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 26, 2021 8:13 PM |
Yes r6, Miss Lindsey needs to be celebrated in a commendable way. No sir, she has nothing to do with the treasonous mess. Her phone call to Georgia was asking about the weather, not changing a certified vote count in behalf of Trump. Miss Lindsey will never do that. So make Miss Lindsey "off limits" on DL. And stop posting about LG will fix all of DL loading problems and end the FFs for good. We all can breeze to 600 posts.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 26, 2021 9:00 PM |
Agreed, r6.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 26, 2021 9:02 PM |
Of course r9. And while we are at it, lets end the humor about Trump and his well-meaning family, friends, and good-hearted cohorts.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 26, 2021 9:10 PM |
You don't believe in everything in moderation, do you, r10?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 26, 2021 9:33 PM |
You are welcomed to defend Graham all you want, r12. We are all here to support you. He's the great Senator from SC.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 26, 2021 10:10 PM |
Stop being dramatic, r13. Nobody is defending Graham and you know it. When you post a steady stream of links DL will read it as spam and paywall the thread earlier than usual. As it is, well over a third of the last thread is your posts. I complained in the last thread about the dearth of actual discussion. It's not a big deal, I'd just like the Treason threads to serve a broader purpose than be a repository for links to things that are are only tangentially related.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 26, 2021 10:29 PM |
R14 you make a lot of erroneous assumptions. I haven't posted LG links. You are a control freak trying to scold posters you don't like. There are more than one person who has posted about LG. If you are a LG fan, that's fine.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 26, 2021 10:56 PM |
The locking down of these threads at around 200 posts started before the Lindsey memes. It's Muriel trying to make money through extortion.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 26, 2021 11:04 PM |
Mississippi is "pro life".....while not giving a shit about people who've actually been born
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 26, 2021 11:26 PM |
Because abortion isn't about the kid. It's about controlling the woman. Always has been.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 26, 2021 11:34 PM |
It's steady posting of links (of whatever subject) from one poster, r16. I'm not making assumptions, r15. You're the OP of the last thread and 240 posts were yours. You're the reason the thread paywalled so quickly. The same will happen with this thread. Just trying to be helpful.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 27, 2021 12:03 AM |
^Counting people's posts are creepy. Just use the ignore button.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 27, 2021 12:56 AM |
That doesn't solve the problem, r20.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 27, 2021 12:57 AM |
[quote] Counting people's posts are creepy.
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 27, 2021 1:43 AM |
And I wasn't even going to call him out on that, r23.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 27, 2021 2:01 AM |
The Oh Dear troll and the Counting- Scolding troll make a delightful couple.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 27, 2021 2:15 AM |
[quote]It's Muriel trying to make money through extortion.
Yeah, I live like a FUCKING QUEEN thanks to you miserable cheap bastards.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 27, 2021 7:45 AM |
I thought they were paywalled early to keep out the trolls.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 27, 2021 10:20 AM |
R27 Of course.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 27, 2021 1:02 PM |
An actor playing Judas on the Jesus Christ Superstar tour was arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6. My favorite part of the article was this bit about the federal agents surveilling him:
"Federal investigators watched Beeks -- who goes by the stage name "James T. Justis" -- at two traveling performances of the show in California this month to confirm his identity before his arrest Tuesday."
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 27, 2021 2:43 PM |
^ Jesus Christ, Stupid Star
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 27, 2021 5:25 PM |
‘Freak show caucus’: Acosta responds to Boebert’s remark
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 28, 2021 5:28 AM |
QAnon is bullshit....but his claim that QAnon is a "CIA disinformation campaign" is also bullshit
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 28, 2021 5:37 PM |
And, the Repugs can be in complete disarray and it won't matter because they'll cheat themselves into control of Washington anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 28, 2021 5:40 PM |
^ Arrest that hag
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 28, 2021 5:45 PM |
Lin Wood gets fussy with Sidney Powell. Calls her a grifter.
Yep R12, some of these MAGA Republicans are turning on each other.
Who among them isn't a grifter?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 28, 2021 6:01 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 28, 2021 6:15 PM |
Rep. Ronny "Pills" Jackson: Omicron variant cooked up to rig 2022 elections
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 28, 2021 10:33 PM |
Bannon's Grift, Mark Meadows' Contempt of Congress & Trump's Friends & Family Burner Phone Plan
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 28, 2021 11:28 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 29, 2021 5:38 AM |
Rep. Nancy Mace caught talking out of both sides of her mouth about vaccines
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 29, 2021 2:34 PM |
^Poor thang, her sidewalk earlier in the year was spray painted with disturbing grafiti and she blamed it on Antifa. Her quick video showed a can of spray paint on her kitchen counter. Apparently, she was not charged in Charleston for filing a false police report.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 29, 2021 4:49 PM |
She looks like a huffer.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 29, 2021 5:03 PM |
Yes, I'm sure "antifa" has nothing better to do than go around spray painting some twat's sidewalk
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 29, 2021 5:32 PM |
"Nobody wants to work"....but let's reward anti-vaxxers who aren't working
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 29, 2021 6:45 PM |
Republicans get busted making up a story about Nancy Pelosi
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 29, 2021 7:57 PM |
Prosecutors Push Back on Bannon's Circus; Roger Stone & Alex Jones Prepare to Plead the 5th
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 30, 2021 12:30 AM |
Mark Meadows has complied with the 1/6 committee subpoena, apparently.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 30, 2021 4:59 PM |
Unladylike Twitter catfight erupts between Marge Greene and Nancy Mace
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 30, 2021 5:03 PM |
Where's FCI when you need him?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 30, 2021 5:07 PM |
Trump called his cronies Bannon, Giuliani, Eastman, etc at the Willard Hotel insurrection HQ hours before the Capitol attack, to discuss preventing Biden certification. Question: are all WH calls recorded, or at least monitored by other staff?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 30, 2021 5:24 PM |
Sometimes I have an inner monologue with Dump, where I go off on him and tell him all the stuff we all wish we could tell him.
“Who the fuck do you think you are, asshole?? Trying to steal an election where most of you hate your guts and voted against you! Why do you think 80 million people came out to vote against you? Because they hate you!” And on and on…
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 30, 2021 5:38 PM |
R55 - Republicans in disarray!
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 30, 2021 7:07 PM |
We want them to eat themselves from within.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 30, 2021 7:19 PM |
I pity the poor cross r61.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 30, 2021 8:14 PM |
Do you predict MAGA Marsha will be the VP pick on a 2024 GQP ticket with DJT?
[quote]Politico mentions Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn and Iowa governor Kim Reynolds as potential running mates in the “women” lane. Blackburn is clearly suspect on the loyalty test, since she voted to certify Biden electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania after the Capitol riot, reversing her earlier position favoring an election coup. Like Pence, she panicked when things got real. She would clearly have to make a lot of retroactive noise about the “steal” to overcome that moment of betrayal, roughly equivalent to Peter denying Jesus after the arrest that led to the Crucifixion.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 30, 2021 8:25 PM |
[quote]Mark Meadows has complied with the 1/6 committee subpoena, apparently.
Meadows is dictating the terms of his appearance, just as Republicans did with the Russian investigation:
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 30, 2021 9:59 PM |
Finally! I gave up I’d ever get to post anytime soon in our beloved Treason threads.
Btw- wow do I have a hater. I guess he’d be happy if I just made stuff up. I said my main contact left DC, though she still talks to people. Others are working their asses off trying to get things done in the insanity that is the House right now. I might have some good R on R violence to report after the weekend.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 1, 2021 4:09 AM |
r66, please do report back!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 1, 2021 4:10 AM |
R67 We saw Marj and Mace going at each other. Her and GED Barbie are on a tear against R women, in particular. The C word is used often. Threats. It is ugly. Dems aren’t the only ones fearing their coworkers attacking them. Many Rs are fearful they’ll be physically attacked by another remember of Congress and be hailed as heroes.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 1, 2021 4:19 AM |
R68 - Oh, dear!
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 1, 2021 6:34 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 1, 2021 7:12 AM |
Delicious, R68/FCI. Been missing you, and being able to post in these threads. They stop allowing posts when I am not logged in around 400.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 1, 2021 11:07 AM |
Last thread was put on subscribe before 200 posts. Ridiculous
by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 1, 2021 11:10 AM |
Republicans in disarray!
These two were really going at each other yesterday. CNN reported that Kevin McCarthy pulled them in to his office individually to tell them to dial down the rhetoric, but they were right back at it when they left his office.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 1, 2021 11:12 AM |
Congressional GQP cat fights.
Charles Koch, your ladies are out of control.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 1, 2021 11:24 AM |
Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days before his first debate against Joe Biden. Mark Meadows writes that though he knew each candidate was required “to test negative for the virus within seventy two hours of the start time … Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there”.
Trump, Meadows says in the book, returned a negative result from a different test shortly after the positive.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 1, 2021 11:59 AM |
"MAGA ladies" is in the title of the last thread. The revelations continue.
Texts confirm the alleged 3 million from Publix heiress being used to help fund the Jan. 06 insurrection.
[quote]Literally one of my donors Julie at 3 million,” she added. Guilfoyle was referring to Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a Publix supermarket heir who Guilfoyle had developed a professional relationship with during the campaign. Until now, Wren has been the only person identified as having worked with Fancelli. As ProPublica reported last month, Wren also boasted in private conversations with colleagues of raising $3 million for the events of Jan. 6.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 1, 2021 3:14 PM |
It's been explained why the thread gets paywalled early, r72. r68 - Welcome back, FCI!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 1, 2021 3:54 PM |
The constant complaining about links, news or otherwise, stalking a poster, counting posts, offering nothing of substance yourself, doesn't help, r77.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 1, 2021 4:53 PM |
"Constant", r78? I think not.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 1, 2021 4:56 PM |
BTW, r78, I've been posting in these threads since the first Mueller thread. How long have you?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 1, 2021 4:58 PM |
Now, now let’s not fight amongst ourselves. Let’s leave that to the Republican House delegation.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 1, 2021 5:01 PM |
[quote]ElderLez (Waiting for the mud-wrestling segment )
Just so long as there is no bathing suit competition.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 1, 2021 5:32 PM |
I've let myself go.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 1, 2021 5:33 PM |
Trump tested positive for COVID on the 26th then held this event with Gold Star families on the 27th with NO MASKS. He later blamed them for giving it to him.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 1, 2021 7:30 PM |
^That statement above should be printed in bold type on every Democratic ad in the coming Presidential election if Trump is the Republican candidate.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 1, 2021 7:35 PM |
Our threads have exposed us to the trolls ever since they were getting more sparse.
trolls use to never think about invading our threads.
My hater, though I haven’t trolldar’d it, seems to be a troll. Hey, I’ll make up drama for you if you want. Create your own thread for it.
Expect the news of more intense R on R violence to emerge soon. I know, I know, not shocking news for my troll.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 2, 2021 12:00 AM |
r87 -Part of the problem, FCI, is that with the Mueller investigation we had a rapid daily progression of events to discuss centered on it. And we had the two impeachments and of course Kavanaugh. I think right now there's SO many different things happening that it's hard to focus. I think today's big thing is Roe and the Supreme Court. I'm sure Mitch is getting nice warm fuzzies inside.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 2, 2021 2:28 AM |
Q'ers Lin Wood, Tucker Carlson, and Bongino, with the unusual skull and bruised left eye (Wood's description), are engaged in a big fuss with threatening lawsuits. The Q cracks are widening.
Marsha, Marsha, a Q nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 2, 2021 2:53 PM |
[bold]Georgia election workers suing conspiracy website over ‘campaign of lies’[/bold]
Two Georgia election workers who became the target of conspiracy theories around the 2020 election are suing The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website that published false information about them as part of a sweeping effort to sow doubt about the integrity of the vote.
The election workers, Ruby Freeman, a retired 911 call center worker, and her daughter, Shaye Moss, allege in the lawsuit that Jim and Joe Hoft, twin brothers who operate and write for The Gateway Pundit, conducted “a campaign of lies” that “instigated a deluge of intimidation, harassment, and threats that has forced them to change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety.”
Freeman and her daughter became central figures in some of the many conspiracy theories that circulated among conservatives in the months after the election. Other subjects of similar theories — most notably companies that make voting machines — have also launched lawsuits targeted at media companies that spread misleading or outright evidence-free claims about their roles in the election.
more at link
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 2, 2021 3:07 PM |
R90, that's awesome
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 2, 2021 3:24 PM |
Ireland doesn't go in for booze and dope! (And fast food, and bronzer, and grifting)
by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 3, 2021 12:18 AM |
Jeanne Shaheen just bitch-slapped Tom Cotton (btw, is it me or does he have gayvoice?)
by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 3, 2021 3:34 AM |
Yes, Jeanne! That was awesome. Thanks for posting, R94.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | December 3, 2021 3:41 AM |
Yes, what were they doing there that July 4th. We asked then, we're still asking.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 3, 2021 4:09 AM |
Speaking of T. Cotton, she blames Jerome Powell, hired by Trump at the time, caused the inflation onslaught.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 3, 2021 8:36 AM |
Shit is insane in the House. R on R violence is escalating. Don Bacon (R- who cares) said Marj might get a “public flogging” if she keeps attacking other Rs.
Nancy Mace deserves every bit of shit she gets from the Complete Nut Job Terrorist caucus. As does 99.9% of other republicans.
I need to tell you all a story I found out about why Van Drew switched parties so quickly after the 2018 midterms. Cliff notes- he tried to fuck around with Nancy and found out.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 3, 2021 10:36 AM |
R98 Is me
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 3, 2021 10:36 AM |
This is the stupid shit we have to deal with here at DL more than ever. Do these idiot think this is effective? Do they think we actually believe they’re Dems?
“ Sorry, but the Democratic Party is a bunch of ineffective incrementalists. They are dinosaurs. I became disillusioned with them and made it "Facebook official" last year with a post that stated I was withdrawing my support for them, the party I supported for decades. The party generations before me supported. My grandpa was one of the folks who ran JFK's presidential campaign in Chicago. Unfortunately, I don't see much of that party left. Bunch of old do-nothings now.”
by Anonymous | reply 100 | December 3, 2021 10:44 AM |
r98 - What's the Van Drew story, FCI? He's a snake.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | December 3, 2021 3:07 PM |
Trump Says Only Mobsters Plead the 5th as Trump DOJ Official Jeff Clark Prepares to...Plead the 5th
by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 3, 2021 3:53 PM |
You can't make this shit up.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 3, 2021 3:55 PM |
R100 that person made it “Facebook official.” What more can you ask for? 😂
by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 3, 2021 4:16 PM |
Jeff Clark is not only a DOJ official, he is an attorney, so he's about to recite a litany of invoking the 5th Amendment, question after question. He tried to just issue a statement that the 5th is why he would not cooperate, but the Committee pointed out that he must come and respond to each and every question with that response if he wants to invoke it. Good.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 3, 2021 4:32 PM |
They really want to use the Supreme Court to punish gays
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 3, 2021 6:53 PM |
Once again, Noel Casler nails Trump. He's depiction of Trump at the first debate is exactly what I and many on this board have been saying for a year. But nobody on the National News has had the guts to be this specific.
Does this deserve it's own thread?
by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 3, 2021 7:20 PM |
Missouri sits on a report showing that mask mandates work
by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 3, 2021 9:08 PM |
Republicans focusing on the important things - picking a fight with the Auschwitz Memorial
by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 3, 2021 10:34 PM |
Republicans are scum
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 3, 2021 10:39 PM |
Alabama politics. Katie Britt is running against Mo Brooks in the GQP primary for the open Senate seat. Turbeville won't make an endorsement, but attended a fundraiser.
Of course Lá Sènatrice is involving herself.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 3, 2021 11:10 PM |
Tuberville - whatever
by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 3, 2021 11:16 PM |
^
"It's [distracting from] things the American people want to focus on: stopping inflation, gas prices and others," he said. "Anything that deviates from that causes problems."
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 3, 2021 11:50 PM |
Rep. Jayapal On Calls For Boebert To Be Stripped Of Her Committee Assignments
by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 4, 2021 4:16 AM |
For those too young not to get the movie reference in R117
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 4, 2021 4:32 AM |
Oh - and of course, same goes for Greg Abbott of Texas. ^^
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 4, 2021 4:33 AM |
Charles Koch network rocked by sex scandal.
Grifting Republicans do have their fun.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 4, 2021 12:53 PM |
Murdoch newspaper says Trump, on Fox & Friends, dismisses the claim that Melania doesn't want to return to the WH.
Will she want a new contract $$$$$$?
by Anonymous | reply 122 | December 4, 2021 1:07 PM |
She'll want a new vagina r122.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 4, 2021 1:20 PM |
Well, God knows it’s spit out its share of ping pong balls, r123.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 4, 2021 1:38 PM |
No mass of Melania's blood Christmas trees in the WH this year.
Jill Biden goes for a "polite and safe tone".
by Anonymous | reply 125 | December 4, 2021 7:08 PM |
Long live the treason threads!
by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 4, 2021 7:14 PM |
Very interesting r121, I wonder why Rachel Maddow is not all over this.
These are not two fly by night organizations, they are the most powerful political groups in the world. What a mess.
And this is super shady right here:
AFP has been backed by Koch and Republican-leaning donors for more than 15 years.
Its 990 tax filing for 2020 shows the group raised just over $58 million that year and had net assets of about $3 million by the end of it. AFP, like other similar nonprofits, does not publicly disclose the names of its donors. It finished 2020 with more than $64 million in revenue compared with about $54 million it received in 2019.
The Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, another Koch-backed group, disclosed in its 2020 990 form that it donated $40 million to Americans for Prosperity.
So most of the money is coming from chamber donors which are a different stripe from the political donors. So my question is why are the chamber types being so sloppy here? They are going to get caught up with the Jan 6th money next. Messy stuff.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 4, 2021 7:22 PM |
The collapsing of AFP is a huge opportunity to explain to the average voter how these people block gun reforms and healthcare and basically all regulation including big pharma. These are the groups that do the dirty work.
Meanwhile the carry on affairs and are thrown out every 5 years due to constant and repeated scandals like the one at r121. This is par for the corrupt course.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | December 4, 2021 7:27 PM |
Uh-oh, Ladybug Belle has her eye on Dr. Oz.
[quote]“It’s a good sign for the Republican Party that somebody of his standing and stature would want to run under the Republican banner,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close ally of former President Donald Trump. “He’s got an incredible background and personal story. It’s good news for the Republican Party, and I think he’d be very competitive.”
by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 4, 2021 8:02 PM |
Sidney Powell & gang are very short on ethics. Will her law license be revoked?
by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 4, 2021 9:22 PM |
A "patriot" group of 500 men is marching in D.C. with riot shields
by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 5, 2021 12:36 AM |
R131, see that last little uptick in the graph? It's so strange because you could literally feel that shift if you follow the news. Over the last few weeks, I could tell there was a shift just by the feel of the stories and how they were covering things. It's almost like it's the media playing with it to make sure their complete influence and ability to sink anyone is clear to all those in power.
I hate the fucking media. I can't even say how many times I just respond to the news or some coverage of something by yelling "AND???" because they've totally left out a pertinent part of the information that completely changes the story.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 5, 2021 1:32 AM |
The myth of the liberal media
by Anonymous | reply 134 | December 5, 2021 2:05 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 5, 2021 8:20 PM |
An ex-KKK leader is running for office. Shocker, he's a Trump supporter
by Anonymous | reply 136 | December 5, 2021 9:30 PM |
I'm watching an old episode of the Twilight Zone called He's Alive where a young Dennis Hopper plays a Neo Nazi. All the speeches his character makes sound like MAGA talking points.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 5, 2021 11:12 PM |
All the President's Lackeys: Bannon, Clark, Eastman & the Others. Watergate vs. the Insurrection
by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 5, 2021 11:29 PM |
Florida Republicans Want To Screw Workers By Implementing "Sub Minimum Wage"
by Anonymous | reply 139 | December 6, 2021 12:58 AM |
Republicans are Ebenezer Scrooge
by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 6, 2021 1:03 AM |
$4.25 an hour for the first six months?
by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 6, 2021 1:18 AM |
Home Depot founder, Bernie Marcus, is quite the MAGA funder.
Are lesbians aware of this?
by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 6, 2021 12:54 PM |
Donald Trump’s Media & Tech Company Facing SEC Investigation:
by Anonymous | reply 144 | December 6, 2021 6:02 PM |
Home Depot has turned into Walmart. It’s all about squeezing that last penny out of you while they cut services and staff.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 6, 2021 6:08 PM |
It's been almost a year since Ginni Thomas was out-front cheering on the rally that turned into the Capitol Riot. She's been quiet since early February.
Is the Congressional Investigative Committee on the 1/06 insurrection going to call her for questioning? That doesn't seem out-of-order.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 6, 2021 6:16 PM |
Right-wing media is in an agitated state because Stanford University's student government refuses to fund a Mike Pence lecture.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 6, 2021 6:58 PM |
r66:
[quote]I might have some good R on R violence to report after the weekend.
Any news, FCI?
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 6, 2021 8:51 PM |
R149 Not yet just that news may come out about Marj going after one of the FL R Hispanic congresswomen. It apparently got more heated than Mace and her.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | December 6, 2021 9:34 PM |
Where and when did the skirmish take place r150/FCI?
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 6, 2021 9:40 PM |
R151 I’m not sure.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 6, 2021 9:42 PM |
I wonder if Lee Press-Ons were shed.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 6, 2021 9:44 PM |
^ Or chanclas were thrown
by Anonymous | reply 154 | December 6, 2021 9:46 PM |
Hoods came off, I’m sure.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | December 6, 2021 9:46 PM |
CNN: Pence chief of staff to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee
by Anonymous | reply 157 | December 6, 2021 10:20 PM |
I did not get the scoop about Nunes, though. Damn.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | December 6, 2021 10:34 PM |
House Postpones Flynn & Luna Testimony; Flynn Should be Returned to Active Duty and Court-Martialed
by Anonymous | reply 159 | December 7, 2021 12:57 AM |
Is Nunes trying to get out in front of a scandal?
by Anonymous | reply 161 | December 7, 2021 2:25 AM |
"The Patriot Front matchers must have been FBI - they're not fat enough to be real conservatives!"
by Anonymous | reply 162 | December 7, 2021 3:00 AM |
^Those MAGAt comments are proof of the old sayings, "It takes one to know one" and "Know thyself ".
But it's still yet another batshit, uneducated conspiracy theory.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | December 7, 2021 8:35 AM |
Cottontail heading down the bunny trail with Cancun Boogers & the Lady Gee.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | December 7, 2021 8:52 AM |
Ambitious Nikki Haley made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to visit with Trump. She wants to be the 2024 GQP presidential nominee.
Fellow South Carolinian, Lindsey Graham, can't be pleased with that. Trump will get a piece of Lindsey's mind.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | December 7, 2021 1:22 PM |
But I'll serve it with whipped cream r165!
by Anonymous | reply 166 | December 7, 2021 1:44 PM |
What next? Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Rand Paul will be visiting Mar-a-Lago bringing Trump gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh?
by Anonymous | reply 167 | December 7, 2021 1:51 PM |
Looks Like Trump Admitted To Obstruction Of Justice On National TV
by Anonymous | reply 168 | December 7, 2021 4:00 PM |
Worth repeating:
Every Republican Must Die
by Anonymous | reply 169 | December 7, 2021 4:21 PM |
Trump, Supporters Not Willing To Risk 2024 Outcome With A Fair Election
by Anonymous | reply 170 | December 7, 2021 5:55 PM |
So, we really get to just let all the the fucking Repugs waste time until they steal the 2024 elections and stop the investigation? Where the fuck is Merrick Garland with the federal charges and enforceable subpoenas????
by Anonymous | reply 172 | December 7, 2021 6:03 PM |
Everybody seems to be asking that, r172.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | December 7, 2021 6:05 PM |
Biden to face Putin in video call over Ukraine conflict
by Anonymous | reply 175 | December 7, 2021 6:51 PM |
The reasons cited for Devin Nunes leaving Congress may have credence; however, he may be leaving to get ahead of potential revelations that could connect him, in some way, to deeper elements of the DJT saga of scandal and corruption.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | December 7, 2021 7:18 PM |
R167 bearing gifts of KFC, Diet Coke, and Bronzer.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | December 7, 2021 7:23 PM |
[quote]Garland has suffered criticism in the past for not pursuing charges against former President Donald Trump over the January 6 Capitol riot but the DOJ's announcement may show that the attorney general understands the big picture on GOP strategy.
Newsweek is being overly generous.
The reluctant or dormant pursuit of1/06-related charges against DJT and the co-conspirators and top operatives is not covered under the voting rights challenge in Texas. ALL OF IT needs indictments and court filings.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | December 7, 2021 8:10 PM |
^^^^^
[quote]Mary Trump, the former president's niece, called Garland an "idiot" for not prosecuting her uncle over the Capitol riot, expressing a sentiment shared by some liberals. "I thought the Department of Justice was supposed to be about justice but Merrick Garland seems to have deluded himself into believing that by not pursuing this he's somehow taking the politics out of the Department of Justice," Mary Trump said on Friday.
Mary has a point!
by Anonymous | reply 179 | December 7, 2021 8:23 PM |
I'm sure Nunes will be very succesful as CEO...eye roll. He is a know nothing.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | December 7, 2021 8:42 PM |
Why do you think Trump hired him r180?
Because he is a know nothing. When this ill-starred project fails, he will get the blame. While Trump walks away with the cash.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | December 7, 2021 8:45 PM |
Personally, I have never found Republicans to be in array.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | December 7, 2021 9:04 PM |
Bannon trial date set for July 18.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | December 7, 2021 10:02 PM |
The media keeps reporting anything Trump says. He lost.
Part of the growing GQP divide, he's complaining about Republicans who had voted for the infrastructure bill and the two-month extension regarding the debt ceiling.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | December 7, 2021 10:12 PM |
[quote]The reasons cited for Devin Nunes leaving Congress may have credence; however, he may be leaving to get ahead of potential revelations that could connect him, in some way, to deeper elements of the DJT saga of scandal and corruption.
Why?
It is not like anything is ever going to happen to the Trump family (it never does).
by Anonymous | reply 186 | December 7, 2021 10:36 PM |
Tennessee MAGA-Q Republican, Janice Bowling, wants the 2020 election in the state investigated. Trump and many Republican candidates won handily in the state. It is all about supporting "the big lie".
[quote]More than a year after Democrat Joe Biden's presidential victory and months after multiple audits certifying Biden's win in several other states, some Tennessee lawmakers want the Volunteer State's 2020 election results re-examined. Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, has filed legislation asking the Tennessee secretary of state and the state election commission to investigate the state's 2020 election, including presidential and congressional results. Bowling's initiative will unlikely advance, as the state's Republican leadership expressed little interest in the measure, citing the lack of evidence of voting irregularities in Tennessee during the 2020 election.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | December 7, 2021 10:36 PM |
Mark Short may be "cooperating" with the J6 Committee but he's also coordinating his responses with Trump's team, per MSNBC.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | December 8, 2021 12:29 AM |
Judge Sets Bannon Trial for July; Mark Meadows on the Verge of Being the Next Contempt Referral
by Anonymous | reply 190 | December 8, 2021 12:51 AM |
Republicans Tout Funding That Passed With Zero GOP Votes
by Anonymous | reply 191 | December 8, 2021 2:55 AM |
Did the court not have any availability before July? I mean take your sweet time why don’t ya.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | December 8, 2021 6:54 AM |
The defendant looks like a corpse. He might already be dead for all we know. Time is of the essence here.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | December 8, 2021 6:54 AM |
Poor Lindsay. After all the sucking up and he still gets smacked around. Those two are in an abusive relationship.
I’m sure it’s great being a senator. But I’d rather take my dignity and go get a lobbyist job and tell that pig to shove it. Man that would feel so good it would be worth it.
But then again the senate is a dream job. It really doesn’t get any better than that.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | December 8, 2021 6:56 AM |
[quote]Poor Lindsay. After all the sucking up and he still gets smacked around.
Pics please.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | December 8, 2021 10:23 AM |
(On Jan. 6,) Meijer remembers walking into a small side room and encountering two House Republican colleagues. “They were discussing the Twenty-Fifth Amendment—talking about phone calls they made to the White House, encouraging officials to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment,” Meijer says. “Neither of them voted for impeachment a week later.”
by Anonymous | reply 197 | December 8, 2021 3:28 PM |
Mark Meadows Says God Forced Him To Work For Trump
by Anonymous | reply 198 | December 8, 2021 3:40 PM |
Man, don't you just hate that god guy?
by Anonymous | reply 199 | December 8, 2021 3:42 PM |
Mark, I can relate. God made me molest my sisters and download child porn
by Anonymous | reply 200 | December 8, 2021 3:51 PM |
Jessica Walter eye roll
by Anonymous | reply 201 | December 8, 2021 4:00 PM |
R200—best post of the day!!
by Anonymous | reply 202 | December 8, 2021 5:12 PM |
Whatever happened to the excuse: the Devil made me do it?
by Anonymous | reply 203 | December 8, 2021 6:24 PM |
After testing positive, Trump knowingly spread Covid-19.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | December 8, 2021 6:39 PM |
^ It's so frustrating. Just one more thing we knew all along but had to wait a year for some actual confirmation. And a year later...so what? What are they going to do to him?
by Anonymous | reply 205 | December 8, 2021 6:46 PM |
If someone died on account of his irresponsible actions, I hope the family of that person is currently getting a good lawyer.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | December 8, 2021 7:09 PM |
They wouldn't be able to prove it, r206.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | December 8, 2021 7:10 PM |
2022 election. Georgia will be the center of it all. Again.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | December 8, 2021 7:26 PM |
^2022
by Anonymous | reply 210 | December 8, 2021 7:54 PM |
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday sued House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and all nine members of the House select committee investigating the deadly Capitol riot.
The civil lawsuit came as that select panel moves to hold Meadows in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the probe of the Jan. 6 invasion.
The lawsuit did not immediately indicate what Meadows is suing over.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | December 8, 2021 9:35 PM |
Mark McCUNT.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | December 8, 2021 9:58 PM |
It is evident Meadows is a deep player in the insurrection plot.
Filing a lawsuit against Pelosi & the House Committee is nothing more than a diversion tactic and a delay endeavor that is frivolous.
That 01/06 Committee is loaded with top-level former prosecutors, and has a team of very skilled, specialized lawyers. Meadows trying to sue Congress would get tossed the moment any credible judge sees it.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | December 8, 2021 10:18 PM |
Isn't Meadows the one that cries?
by Anonymous | reply 214 | December 8, 2021 10:27 PM |
Rudy Giuliani, Paul Gosar, and others were partying on the Upper East Side at the New York Young Republican Club’s 109th annual gala.
[quote]Inside the ballroom, by the bar and beneath the chandeliers, one youngish Republican tells another: “I just bought my third AR-15!” A couple Newsmax sleveens slip past.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | December 9, 2021 12:45 AM |
Nikki Haley writes an online book. They all can write a book when planning to run for higher office.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | December 9, 2021 12:58 AM |
Double Huckabuckrating
[quote]Tickets start at $400, but include admission to talks by filmmaker Ron Howard and his actor brother Clint Howard, historian and writer Jon Meacham and conservation photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen, too.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | December 9, 2021 1:05 AM |
I have to ask. Is Meadows stupid?
by Anonymous | reply 220 | December 9, 2021 2:09 AM |
Mark Meadows In Contempt of Congress & With No Viable Executive Privilege, It's Indictment Time
by Anonymous | reply 222 | December 9, 2021 3:12 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 223 | December 9, 2021 2:29 PM |
James also announced today she is ending her campaign for governor in order to run again for AG.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | December 9, 2021 4:22 PM |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Best news in a while. Squeeze that orange pus bag, Lettita!
by Anonymous | reply 226 | December 9, 2021 6:22 PM |
Keilar compares Fox News' coverage of Christmas tree fire and Capitol riot
by Anonymous | reply 227 | December 9, 2021 6:40 PM |
Will taxpayers have to fund religious schools that kick kids out for being gay?
by Anonymous | reply 228 | December 9, 2021 6:49 PM |
Madison, Louie, Blake, the dumbest members of Congress.
All they do is troll
by Anonymous | reply 230 | December 9, 2021 9:43 PM |
[quote]South Carolina’s two U.S. senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, have both received F’s from a coalition of civil rights organizations that evaluated all senators on their views of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the For the People Act, and efforts to eliminate the filibuster. The coalition evaluating senators included the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Action Network, Fighting for Our Vote, the NCNW, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and HIT Strategies.
Graham & Scott deserve Fs for many things. Horrible records on civil and voting rights.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | December 9, 2021 9:59 PM |
Color me shocked...
by Anonymous | reply 232 | December 9, 2021 10:31 PM |
[quote]There was a PowerPoint for the coup
by Anonymous | reply 233 | December 10, 2021 2:41 AM |
NY AG Tish James Subpoenas Trump; Will he Testify or Plead the 5th?
by Anonymous | reply 234 | December 10, 2021 3:45 AM |
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Trump; Announces "Direct Linkage" Between Trump & Capitol Attack
by Anonymous | reply 238 | December 10, 2021 11:40 PM |
Trump's tour with Bill O'Lie-lly is bombing
by Anonymous | reply 239 | December 12, 2021 7:34 PM |
Fat men feuding. Chris Christie ripping on Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | December 12, 2021 10:35 PM |
Trump's 'election lie' allies plea the 5th.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | December 12, 2021 10:45 PM |
Yapping Yapper, Kellyanne Conway, says Trump is contemplating running in 2024. Will the veracity-challenged operative jump back on the grifting bandwagon if he tries?
by Anonymous | reply 244 | December 12, 2021 11:08 PM |
Miss Lindz needs to remove her mouth from Trump's fat ass
by Anonymous | reply 245 | December 13, 2021 12:15 AM |
Mark Meadows Had Plan To Use Military To Overturn 2020 Election
by Anonymous | reply 246 | December 13, 2021 5:02 PM |
Luckily our military leaders were prepared for any attempted takeover by Dump.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | December 13, 2021 5:08 PM |
Tick Tock, Garland...
by Anonymous | reply 248 | December 13, 2021 5:11 PM |
If Graham is the person Joe Manchin is listening to, he should know better than to entertain LG aboard his house boat.
LG appears to be Trump's surrogate for Twitter.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | December 13, 2021 7:48 PM |
More keeps being revealed about Mark Meadows. He was eyebrows deep in the insurrection sludge.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | December 13, 2021 7:57 PM |
A Bay Area man has been charged with assaulting U.S. Capitol police during the Jan. 6 riot.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | December 13, 2021 8:08 PM |
[bold] Rich Reps Reap Reeking Rewards [/bold]
**48 members of Congress and 182 senior-level congressional staffers who have violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law.
**Nearly 75 federal lawmakers who held stocks in COVID-19 vaccine makers Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, or Pfizer in 2020, with many of them buying or selling these stocks in the early weeks of the pandemic.
**15 lawmakers tasked with shaping US defense policy that actively invest in military contractors.
**More than a dozen environmentally-minded Democrats who invest in fossil fuel companies or other corporations with concerning environmental track records.
**Members who regularly chide "the media" but personally pour their money into at least one of the nation's largest news media or social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Comcast, Disney, and the New York Times Co.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | December 13, 2021 8:37 PM |
Junior Mint to Meadows: "He's got to condemn this shit ASAP"
by Anonymous | reply 253 | December 14, 2021 12:17 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 254 | December 14, 2021 12:30 AM |
Don Jr., Hannity, Ingraham and Kilmeade all texted Meadows, pleading with him to get Trump to call off the rioters because of the damage it was doing to the Republican cause.
And the next day, and ever since, they all participated in an orchestrated campaign to minimize and deflect the proceedings.
They have been lying to their viewers about this every day for the last year … and those viewers, if this news penetrates their bubble, won’t give a damn.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | December 14, 2021 12:40 AM |
Charles Koch sells his Montana ranch to Rupert Murdoch.
Charlie didn't find oil on the place? The ranch didn't have enough Virginia trees to destroy? Rupert and son Lachlan want to be cowboys? Can't they do that in Australia? Maybe Australia would want them to pay taxes?
by Anonymous | reply 256 | December 14, 2021 1:26 PM |
Virgin, not Virginia^
by Anonymous | reply 257 | December 14, 2021 1:28 PM |
Wasn't Jr at that same party that Trump was at during that time?
by Anonymous | reply 259 | December 14, 2021 5:11 PM |
[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]
by Anonymous | reply 260 | December 14, 2021 6:05 PM |
Man who brought guns to D.C. and threatened to shoot Nancy Pelosi sentenced to 28 months in prison
by Anonymous | reply 261 | December 14, 2021 10:39 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 262 | December 14, 2021 10:42 PM |
Matt Gaetz associate, Joel Greenberg, is to pay Seminole County, Florida nearly two million in restitution.
No news of Merrick Garland doing anything toward an indictment of Gaetz. The investigation has dragged on for many months and may be dormant. Gaetz must be elated.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | December 14, 2021 11:39 PM |
House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt
by Anonymous | reply 265 | December 15, 2021 3:18 AM |
Well, well. Miz Lindsey was texting Ivanka during the 1/06 riot.
The link in the next post is from the Independent which has an auto-dissing script on DL.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | December 15, 2021 5:18 PM |
[post redacted because independent.co.uk thinks that links to their ridiculous rag are a bad thing. Somebody might want to tell them how the internet works. Or not. We don't really care. They do suck though. Our advice is that you should not click on the link and whatever you do, don't read their truly terrible articles.]
by Anonymous | reply 267 | December 15, 2021 5:19 PM |
Yes, I texted her but it was only to ask who does her hair!
by Anonymous | reply 268 | December 15, 2021 5:29 PM |
A major part of reason why Republicans in Congress have opposed the 1/06 insurrection investigation, is that a bunch of GOP House members and a few GOP Senators, had roles at varying levels, in planning, organizing, and supporting the attack on the Capitol. The Republican legislators are diligently trying to protect their own GOP colleagues.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | December 15, 2021 5:51 PM |
We've known that from the beginning, r269.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | December 15, 2021 6:00 PM |
Braindead Republicans continue their obsession with Critical Race Theory
by Anonymous | reply 271 | December 15, 2021 10:14 PM |
Congress Refers Meadows to DOJ for Prosecution: Here's Why Indicting Meadows is a Legal Layup
by Anonymous | reply 272 | December 16, 2021 1:33 AM |
[quote]Fox News’s programming on vaccines and vaccine mandates has been relentlessly hostile. Yet more than 90 percent of Fox News employees are fully vaccinated, and the company has a vaccine mandate that’s actually stricter than the one President Joe Biden has proposed for large corporations. Hosts tend not to mention this on air and, on the rare occasions that they do, they mislead their audience about it. They are lying to their audience, and anyone paying close attention can see it. These incidents speak to a deep pattern in modern conservatism, a parasitic relationship in which a super-wealthy elite preys on the fears of the conservative base for profit. Last summer, political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson published a book titled Let Them Eat Tweets that diagnosed what they see as the central political strategy of the modern Republican Party. They call it “plutocratic populism”: a "bitter brew of reactionary economic priorities and right-wing racial and cultural appeals.”
by Anonymous | reply 276 | December 16, 2021 9:18 AM |
[quote]There is something about Lindsay.
His stench?
by Anonymous | reply 278 | December 16, 2021 10:19 AM |
Meadows has shown to be quite the ringleader in communications with the insurrection operatives and enablers in Congress.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | December 16, 2021 12:42 PM |
"GYM", 'I didn't heat about grab the wrestlers by the crotch', was aggressive in trying to be on the 1/06 investigative committee to undermine the committee's work. Pelosi knew his agenda and stopped the fast talking little man.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | December 16, 2021 12:52 PM |
hear, not heat ^
Maybe I was in heat.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | December 16, 2021 12:57 PM |
Traitor Hick's
by Anonymous | reply 282 | December 16, 2021 2:56 PM |
Jim Jordan's Text to Mark Meadows & the Crime of Obstructing a Congressional Proceeding
by Anonymous | reply 284 | December 17, 2021 1:00 AM |
10. Rep. Doris Matsui, a Democrat from California: $73,872,062
9. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, a Republican from Indiana: $74,629,062
8. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut: $85,231,232
7. Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah: $85,269,083
6. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia: $93,534,098
5. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California: $96,518,036
4. Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Republican from Florida: $113,384,088
3. Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican from California: $115,850,012
2. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican from Texas: $125,880,292
1. Sen. Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida: $200,327,223
by Anonymous | reply 285 | December 17, 2021 12:10 PM |
9, 4, 3, 2, 1 are wonderful gentleman callers. 5 is my bestie gal.
by Anonymous | reply 286 | December 17, 2021 12:50 PM |
[quote]Did you hear the one about Rep. Paul Gosar's chief of staff trying to catch a Korean plane full of fraudulent ballots in Arizona?
Gosar and staff are strange & sinister.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | December 17, 2021 2:37 PM |
Lawrence: Their Silence Proves Republicans Fear Jan. 6 Committee
by Anonymous | reply 288 | December 17, 2021 3:48 PM |
Funding child care is threatening to grandma? Another example of the stupid utterances of Marsha Blackburn on Fox.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | December 17, 2021 4:52 PM |
Jesus, Marsha, do something with that mop.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | December 17, 2021 5:45 PM |
Looks like she was canoodling in the cloakroom with Ted Cruz.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | December 17, 2021 5:51 PM |
R285, looks like 6 of the 10 are Republicans. And they like to sneer at the "Liberal Elites"
by Anonymous | reply 292 | December 17, 2021 6:08 PM |
WV woman insurrectionist gets only a month in jail.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | December 17, 2021 10:38 PM |
Roger Stone Pleads the 5th Before Congress. Should Congress Immunize Stone & Force Him to Testify?
by Anonymous | reply 295 | December 17, 2021 10:41 PM |
Fox News’ Legal Jeopardy Is Real, but Not for the Most Cited Reasons:
by Anonymous | reply 296 | December 17, 2021 10:44 PM |
Here’s the new, viral video Fox News doesn’t want its viewers to see:
by Anonymous | reply 298 | December 17, 2021 10:50 PM |
R293 Here's an article from The Jerusalem Post.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | December 17, 2021 10:51 PM |
Mississippi Secretary of State takes action against Sidney Powell.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | December 17, 2021 11:03 PM |
Louis DeJoy and his four top executives pay themselves huge bonuses.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | December 18, 2021 12:53 AM |
Florida man gets 5 years for assault in Capitol riot, the longest sentence yet Robert Palmer, of Tampa, was sentenced to 63 months for repeatedly assaulting police officers at the Capitol.
Fuck Him! Look at this mother fucker….
by Anonymous | reply 303 | December 18, 2021 12:54 AM |
They're idiots, r297. I watched them on Chris Hayes and they're trash.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | December 18, 2021 12:58 AM |
The leadership of the USPS Board, Bloom, is a problem.
[quote]Indeed, the postmaster general bought as much as $305,000 in bonds from Bloom’s asset management firm earlier this year, according to DeJoy’s financial disclosure paperwork. Bloom has said he doesn’t benefit from the purchase. The asset purchases and Bloom’s continued support for DeJoy led some Democratic senators to say they wouldn’t support Bloom’s renomination.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | December 18, 2021 1:06 AM |
Can Jennifer Lawrence even see through those eyelashes
by Anonymous | reply 306 | December 18, 2021 1:18 AM |
1/Time to get real. Most of what people perceive as ‘real’ the last five years has been a constructed stage play designed to tear the world apart. It’s a sham. People were duped. Don’t get fooled again. Here are just a few samples.
2/Kanye West wasn’t sincere in his presidential run. He was a GOP plant, run by Republican operatives, as we now know. He did this as part of a cynical psyop on the African American population, and was tight with Thiel, Musk, Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, and Don Jr.
3/Brandon Straka was a former hairdresser and actor recruited to run the “WalkAway” campaign in mid-2018. He is now cooperating with DOJ and has provided “material” information. He was instrumental in the #Jan6 attack and is ratting on his accomplices.
4/Candace Owens, Lauren Boebert, Tomi Lahren, Melissa Carole, and Scott Presler were all actors listed on ExploreTalent.com before their GOP star turns. Cassandra Fairbanks was on a site called leaseyourbody. com selling tattoo space to advertisers.
5/Bitcoin is an instrument of financial warfare, now outlawed in several countries, created by an anonymous actor or actors. Beyond being a bad investment and a Ponzi scheme, it aims to assault the US financial system. It’s been shilled by Ron Paul and Ted Cruz in recent years.
6/Ted Cruz has known Peter Thiel for something like 25 years and they share a common network. Thiel funded the creation of Ethereum, the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency and the foundation for the NFT craze that is wasting the time of so many people right now.
7/Yesterday, Melania Trump announced her new NFT art project, something-something about children, and that it would be run by the Mercer-backed Parler network. This isn’t (just) a grift; it’s part of a coordinated assault on the global financial system, rooted in network effects.
8/Sinema is on the take from cryptocurrency interests; Manchin is getting paid by the coal industry and is close with Trump’s advisors. These two will consistently stymie the president’s agenda and make sure he fails. We give them too much credit in assuming they are democrats.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | December 18, 2021 12:39 PM |
Graham and Smith come together to have a news conference on Biden's social spending plan.
[quote]Smith is unmarried. He is a close friend of former representatives Kristi Noem and Aaron Schock and Representative Markwayne Mullin. Smith is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association. He attends Grace Community Church in Salem, an Assemblies of God Church. He was a board member of the Missouri Community Betterment Association, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), and president of the Salem FFA Association. (Wikipedia)
What could possibly be inferred?
by Anonymous | reply 308 | December 18, 2021 2:47 PM |
That they are both certifiably stupid r308.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | December 18, 2021 3:01 PM |
Is the thread paywalled?
by Anonymous | reply 311 | December 18, 2021 9:32 PM |
[quote]Retired Army Col. Phil Waldron also has close ties to former President Trump’s legal team and served as one of its key witnesses in efforts to reverse the presidential election results. This week, Waldron became known as the person responsible for circulating the document titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN” to Trump’s allies and Republican lawmakers on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Waldron also said he met with Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in the White House “maybe eight to 10 times” after the election, the Washington Post reported. Meadows is a former North Carolina congressman who on Tuesday was found in contempt by the U.S. House for not answering questions about its Jan. 6 inquiry. On the same night, Meadows was scheduled to speak at a Buckhead gala celebrating the formation of Georgia’s new Freedom Caucus.
by Anonymous | reply 312 | December 18, 2021 9:55 PM |
Al Gore was manly. Josh Hawley not so much.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | December 18, 2021 10:09 PM |
Kind of funny that the picture they found was one of him sitting next to.....Dennis (The Menace) Hastert
by Anonymous | reply 314 | December 18, 2021 10:17 PM |
Shoulda known Denny was a child molestor just from the glasses
by Anonymous | reply 315 | December 18, 2021 10:26 PM |
Denny Hastert and Gym Jordan.
Congressional Republicans love their ex-wrestlers turned coaches.
by Anonymous | reply 316 | December 18, 2021 10:39 PM |
Bo Knows Freepers
by Anonymous | reply 319 | December 19, 2021 10:25 PM |
I'm surprised that isn't an extensive Barbie collection in the cases behind the happy couple at R318 . Reminds me of that photo of Pence and his "assistant" he was forced to fire.
by Anonymous | reply 320 | December 19, 2021 11:34 PM |
Trump's Newly Issued "Statement" Suggests that he Knows & Fears that Justice is Coming for Him
by Anonymous | reply 321 | December 20, 2021 2:19 AM |
No wonder AOC is feared by the old white men status quo.
by Anonymous | reply 323 | December 20, 2021 5:27 PM |
Is the thread paywalled?
by Anonymous | reply 325 | December 20, 2021 6:13 PM |
Trump Weaponizes Courts, Again: Sues NY AG Tish James in Effort to Stop Investigation of Trump Org
by Anonymous | reply 326 | December 21, 2021 12:01 AM |
Awfully heady stuff for the young man, r327.
by Anonymous | reply 329 | December 21, 2021 2:25 AM |
The right is a death cult
by Anonymous | reply 330 | December 21, 2021 12:49 PM |
[quote]Behold the Creepy Little Cabal That Tried to Help Trump Overturn the Election in Congress. Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert—the gang's all here!
by Anonymous | reply 331 | December 21, 2021 12:49 PM |
Trump sours on Mo Brooks as the Alabama GQP Senate candidate. He's impressed with Katie Britt.
Brooks did all kinds of insurrection shit in behalf of Trump. Trump-style loyalty is at work.
The truth is Mo Brooks is losing support steadily in Alabama.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | December 21, 2021 7:08 PM |
Can I have a do-over
by Anonymous | reply 333 | December 21, 2021 7:16 PM |
Congress Contemplates Criminal Referrals For Trump and Company for Crimes of January 6
by Anonymous | reply 334 | December 22, 2021 12:33 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 337 | December 22, 2021 5:11 PM |
[quote]BREAKING: President Biden has signed legislation to give the Capitol Police authority to DIRECTLY request the assistance of the National Guard.
[quote]Who else thinks this was NECESSARY!
by Anonymous | reply 338 | December 22, 2021 7:47 PM |
^^^^^^^^^^^^**
I hope this smug, cocksuckers days are numbered. And that number is next to zero.
Congress! Twist this traitorous, slimy-prick into a pretzel.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | December 22, 2021 9:51 PM |
He will refuse
by Anonymous | reply 341 | December 22, 2021 9:56 PM |
And will face no consequences.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | December 22, 2021 9:57 PM |
Because it couldn't possibly be covid.
by Anonymous | reply 344 | December 22, 2021 10:07 PM |
The old anthrax through the churches' fog machines trick.
Yeah, I used that one a few times in my mis-spent youth.
by Anonymous | reply 345 | December 22, 2021 10:26 PM |
R342 Yes, because Merrick Garland doesn't show he is doing anything. Is Christopher Wray's team even interviewing these characters?
by Anonymous | reply 346 | December 22, 2021 11:01 PM |
Biden gets blamed for gas prices being high, but doesn't get the credit when they go down
by Anonymous | reply 347 | December 22, 2021 11:07 PM |
Joe's also not getting credit for the economy:
by Anonymous | reply 348 | December 22, 2021 11:10 PM |
Now they're blaming Biden for "not seeing Omicron coming"? How the hell was he supposed to see Omicron coming? Was he supposed to look into his crystal ball six months ago and see what would be happening now?
I swear the media just gets more and more ridiculous with each passing day.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | December 22, 2021 11:25 PM |
Bible college dropout and stolen valor insurrectionist abandons marriage:
by Anonymous | reply 350 | December 22, 2021 11:55 PM |
But divorce is a SIN! Will God ever forgive Madison?
by Anonymous | reply 351 | December 22, 2021 11:59 PM |
Heeeeeeeee’s Gaaaaaaaay!
This break up was inevitable. Gay, and a broken peen. Poetic justice for this deranged prick.
by Anonymous | reply 352 | December 23, 2021 12:04 AM |
He's not gay. He's a straight sex pest.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | December 23, 2021 12:07 AM |
After his announcement, Maddy immediately called Ms. Cockgobbler, for a list of upcoming cumdump partys.
by Anonymous | reply 354 | December 23, 2021 12:07 AM |
Maybe the soon-to-be-ex doesn't want to get caught in the crossfire
by Anonymous | reply 355 | December 23, 2021 12:35 AM |
This also means she can now be compelled to testify against him.
Not likely, but...just sayin'...
[quote] Bayardelle tells FOX 46 that she “didn’t plan on how much Cawthorn’s political career would impact their relationship.”
[quote] “Madison is amazing – we’ve had an incredible journey together. Our marriage, like every marriage, has had its difficulties. The lifestyle shift into public life has been strenuous, and many aspects of the transition have been unexpected. I want to live in the world he creates, I just don’t want to be married to someone changing the world. While we have agreed to be apart now, we still have a great friendship and there’s no ill-will. Madison is a fighter – he will help save this country.”
[quote] Cawthorn has made headlines for everything including bringing a gun into an airport, to his actions during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. Cawthorn has also faced multiple sexual misconduct allegations in the past. Most recently, Cawthorn released comments possibly provoking another January 6 attack, offered acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse a job, and pushed anti-mask, anti-vaccine rhetoric at a North Carolina school board meeting.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | December 23, 2021 1:16 AM |
Rep. Scott Perry Refuses to Provide Information/Evidence to the Jan. 6 Committee; Subpoena Time
by Anonymous | reply 357 | December 23, 2021 1:28 AM |
[quote]This also means she can now be compelled to testify against him.
Not necessarily.
by Anonymous | reply 358 | December 23, 2021 2:12 AM |
Time for the Military Leadership to Return Mike Flynn to Active Duty and Court-Martial Him
by Anonymous | reply 359 | December 23, 2021 11:01 PM |
FBI reveals there are law enforcement officers in the KKK
by Anonymous | reply 360 | December 23, 2021 11:29 PM |
Fox features Christmas with Marsha.
[quote]For Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., holiday cheer for family and friends during Christmas includes a delicious toffee crunch recipe that she makes herself — something she said she thoroughly enjoys preparing and sharing with others close to her. "Christmas is a very special time for us," she told Fox News Digital in a recent phone interview about the blessed season that she and millions of other Americans celebrate this week. "This is a time to let people know just how much they mean to us, and how important they are to us," she said.
Must try Marsha's delicious toffee crunch.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | December 24, 2021 12:55 AM |
Does Ms. Marsha know that Christmas started out as a pagan holiday?
by Anonymous | reply 363 | December 24, 2021 1:20 AM |
Marsha knows where she can stick her toffee crunch.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | December 24, 2021 3:20 AM |
Legal Expert: DOJ Must Immediately Conduct 'Full-Blown' Jan. 6 Probe
by Anonymous | reply 365 | December 24, 2021 3:20 AM |
MAGATs get caught inventing a New York Times op-ed to make themselves look like victims
by Anonymous | reply 366 | December 24, 2021 4:39 AM |
Garland, Wray, or Barr, Kavanaugh. Picking from that same chummy, metro, judicial societal club, won't get DJT indicted.
The clock is running out.
by Anonymous | reply 367 | December 24, 2021 1:09 PM |
GQP candidates flock to Mar-a-Lago to PAY Trump for the privilege of hosting their campaign events.
by Anonymous | reply 368 | December 24, 2021 2:01 PM |
Is This Seriously Who Republicans Want Representing Georgia Instead Of Raphael Warnock?
by Anonymous | reply 369 | December 24, 2021 2:27 PM |
^^^
I can't.
by Anonymous | reply 371 | December 24, 2021 4:06 PM |
Worth repeating:
Every Republican Must Die.
by Anonymous | reply 372 | December 24, 2021 4:29 PM |
Holiday Justice Recap: Bannon, Meadows, Clark, Perry, Jordan & the Rest of Trump's Corrupt Elves
by Anonymous | reply 374 | December 25, 2021 9:27 PM |
[quote]Alex Jones wife was arrested yesterday for an alleged domestic battery on him.
More Republican family values.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | December 25, 2021 10:43 PM |
[bold] Kelly Morales: [/bold]
1/No one believed my then 12 yr old daughter when she told CPS Alex’s wife had assaulted her.
Alex knew/allowed this & both have mistreated my kids horribly
Alex Jones is my ex & was verbally abusive to my daughter yesterday, his own kid. Christmas Eve.
2/People who have followed me for a long time know that I won a jury but lost my kids in an unjust court that has refused to protect my kids according to the best interest standards.
Alex & his wife have been neglectful and abusive to my kids for years, his wife hit my child…
5/Alex Jones is an abusive, neglectful & cruel man who had been allowed to hide his actions by a court of law.
My kids never should have been taken or put in this situation.
Kids are not profit vehicles for unethical attorneys.
6/This is not an isolated incident. CPS investigators found high risk in Alex Jones’ home twice. Twice.
The attorneys that facilitated this with lies & obstruction of justice belong in jail.
Judge Livingston should be removed from the bench pending Federal indictment.
7/There was a 4 year old in the home when this happened. A 4 year old.
And my child.
My child.
Alex Jones is not an idle victim of abuse. He is a man who has severely emotionally abused his own kids & allowed this woman to assault my child.
And took my kids to be in this.
by Anonymous | reply 376 | December 25, 2021 11:14 PM |
Alex Jones' wife is a hooker? LOL.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | December 26, 2021 7:15 PM |
Anti-vaxxer Podcaster got Covid-19 at a Qanon event. The jokes are writing themselves
by Anonymous | reply 379 | December 26, 2021 8:34 PM |
[quote]Speaking on right-wing commentator Sebastian Gorka's "America First" podcast, Boebert suggested that Rittenhouse has far bigger plans than just a congressional internship. "You know, he's gonna come out and visit some of us, but I think he has bigger intentions than being an intern in Congress," Boebert told
by Anonymous | reply 384 | December 26, 2021 10:12 PM |
Mo Knows Treason
by Anonymous | reply 385 | December 26, 2021 10:13 PM |
Tasteful Friends...
[quote] Neighbors and property records showed the home was purchased by Rocco and Vincenza Tomassetti.
by Anonymous | reply 386 | December 26, 2021 10:58 PM |
What does that have to do with Trump's treason?
by Anonymous | reply 388 | December 26, 2021 11:41 PM |
Good point, r388.
by Anonymous | reply 389 | December 27, 2021 12:27 AM |
[quote]Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is contemplating a call for a special grand jury to determine the charges against the former president for his furtive phone call to Secretary of State Brian Raffensperger, and potentially against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina for a similar call.
by Anonymous | reply 390 | December 27, 2021 1:54 AM |
Arrest Trump AND Miss Lindz
by Anonymous | reply 391 | December 27, 2021 1:57 AM |
Just those two, r391?
by Anonymous | reply 392 | December 27, 2021 2:05 AM |
It's a start.
by Anonymous | reply 393 | December 27, 2021 8:04 AM |
Thinking about the outcome of Musolini & his mistress.
by Anonymous | reply 394 | December 27, 2021 10:09 AM |
Jim Jordan Now In The Crosshairs Of January 6th Committee
by Anonymous | reply 395 | December 27, 2021 5:19 PM |
Troubling donors.
[quote]By the end of 2020, Kofoed had donated more than $800,000 of cash and air travel to Republicans. He then reportedly shepherded Kim Guilfoyle out of D.C. on a private jet on January 6. To top it off, he moved into one of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach homes, right next door to Mar-a-Lago.
by Anonymous | reply 396 | December 27, 2021 6:44 PM |
Oh, shit, r387, not another Amityville Horror.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | December 27, 2021 7:04 PM |
Not every Republican will die, but among those that survine will be a disproportionate amount of long haulers.
by Anonymous | reply 398 | December 27, 2021 7:07 PM |
See r388.
by Anonymous | reply 399 | December 27, 2021 7:19 PM |
Some of the comments:
[quote] Instead of his usual, “I’m not mad at the crew,” Alex goes for, “I’m not mad at my wife.” If you’ve listened to more than a couple of segments of his show, you might find this as funny as I do.
[quote] “In case I hurt her”. Prelude. She will press charges. He’s trying to get in front of it and preempt it. There will be more on this.
[quote] No personal responsibility, someone else is always to blame.
[quote] It’s obvious Alex Jones wasn’t attacked by Jenny Craig.
[quote When a man says my wife is crazy and off her meds it frequently turns out that she is not crazy or off her meds.
by Anonymous | reply 400 | December 27, 2021 8:13 PM |
Hope Hicks is back in the news!
This time she's hooking-up with David McCormick's campaign.
by Anonymous | reply 401 | December 27, 2021 8:21 PM |
^wives beware
by Anonymous | reply 402 | December 27, 2021 8:27 PM |
Speculation Increases About Trump Facing Criminal Charges
by Anonymous | reply 403 | December 27, 2021 8:53 PM |
[quote]This time she's hooking-up with David McCormick
You probably could have stopped there.
by Anonymous | reply 404 | December 27, 2021 9:01 PM |
Trump's getting handouts from the British government
by Anonymous | reply 405 | December 27, 2021 10:55 PM |
[quote] Hit head with bottle, rinse , repeat.
by Anonymous | reply 406 | December 28, 2021 12:29 AM |
See r388
by Anonymous | reply 407 | December 28, 2021 12:32 AM |
We are all Alex Jones' wife
by Anonymous | reply 408 | December 28, 2021 12:54 AM |
Looks like Republicans are okay with government handouts as long as those handouts are going to anti-vaxxer deplorables
by Anonymous | reply 409 | December 28, 2021 1:54 AM |
House Select Committee Investigates 3-Hour Delay In Trump Calling Off the Attack on the US Capitol
by Anonymous | reply 410 | December 28, 2021 2:27 AM |
Marjorie Taylor Green attacks Kwanzaa. One can suppose she won't be lighting candles and partaking of the feast in her rural, northwest Georgia district.
by Anonymous | reply 411 | December 28, 2021 1:27 PM |
^^^Qrossfit Qween has the nerve to label something she doesn't understand a cult.
by Anonymous | reply 412 | December 28, 2021 1:42 PM |
Gosar, Biggs, and Mo Brrooks. Ali Alexander confirms.
Where is the effort to expel these characters from Congress? Merrick Garland? Why no action?
by Anonymous | reply 413 | December 28, 2021 3:11 PM |
Lauren Boebert writes an opinion column for the Denver Post.
Who wrote it for her and who read it to her?
She references a"Woke Defense bill"? Wilderness and public lands protection provisions in a spending bill is being "woke"?
by Anonymous | reply 414 | December 28, 2021 4:31 PM |
Anything any Republican doesn't like is "woke."
by Anonymous | reply 415 | December 28, 2021 4:35 PM |
I hate that the word woke has negative connotations. Same as Antifa. Both are things we should aspire to be, and Republicans have turned them into negatives.
by Anonymous | reply 416 | December 28, 2021 4:39 PM |
Not to mention the dreaded * liberal *
by Anonymous | reply 417 | December 28, 2021 4:45 PM |
The "radical" left.
by Anonymous | reply 418 | December 28, 2021 5:03 PM |
[quote] Lauren Boebert writes an opinion column for the Denver Post. Who wrote it for her and who read it to her?
by Anonymous | reply 419 | December 28, 2021 5:13 PM |
Such a delightful field of GQP primary candidates for Senator. 🙄
Surely, Democrats could deliver some strong candidates across the country that could defeat some of these nitwit, extreme, GQP politicians.
[quote]Greitens resigned as governor in 2018 amid an investigation of an extramarital affair with his St. Louis hairdresser allegedly involving bondage and blackmail and leading to criminal and legislative investigations. The allegation of a photo taken without the woman’s consent for the purposes of blackmail led to a felony criminal charge, which was eventually dropped.
by Anonymous | reply 420 | December 28, 2021 6:08 PM |
Greitens is really gross
by Anonymous | reply 421 | December 28, 2021 7:23 PM |
Falling for the charming power of Lindsey Graham sinks Biden's BBB plan.
[quote]Apparently, Manchin got a phone call from one of his wealthy donors that allied him with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to deny the people of their states (along with every other state) the benefits promised by President Joe Biden’s long-needed infrastructure bill.
by Anonymous | reply 422 | December 28, 2021 7:27 PM |
From Lara Trump to Fox, to Newsmax, to now Mike Lindell. That's progression?
by Anonymous | reply 424 | December 28, 2021 9:47 PM |
Trump Is Begging The Supreme Court To Block January 6th Committee's Document Requests
by Anonymous | reply 425 | December 28, 2021 10:20 PM |
Guess which major political figure has the lowest approval rating?
by Anonymous | reply 427 | December 29, 2021 12:18 AM |
^Who are those 34% that approve of Turtle? Democrats don't like him. Trump MAGAts detest him.
by Anonymous | reply 428 | December 29, 2021 12:31 AM |
The Law's Perception Problem; When Will Justice Come for Meadows, Giuliani, Clark, Trump & Others
by Anonymous | reply 429 | December 29, 2021 2:21 AM |
As much as I despise Mitch McConnell, I can't really see why his approval rating is any lower than any other Republican. Hell, just take your pick. They're all vile pieces of shit.
by Anonymous | reply 430 | December 29, 2021 3:53 AM |
Ironic ES&S voting machines had their own controversy prior. See replies in r427. Interesting comments.
by Anonymous | reply 433 | December 29, 2021 2:43 PM |
R431, I hope he takes those freaks to the cleaners
by Anonymous | reply 434 | December 29, 2021 3:27 PM |
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, invited House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Wednesday to sit for an interview with investigators.
"If he has information he wants to share with us, and is willing to voluntarily come in, I'm not taking the invitation off the table," Thompson said in a phone interview with ABC News.
Earlier this week, McCarthy, who spoke to then-President Donald Trump during the riot, was asked in a local television interview whether he would cooperate with the committee's investigation.
"I don't have anything to add. I have been very public, but I wouldn't hide from anything, other," he said in an interview with KBAK.
"If Leader McCarthy has nothing to hide, he can voluntarily come before the committee," Thompson told ABC News, adding that he would consider sending McCarthy a formal request to appear.
A McCarthy spokesman did not respond to a message seeking comment on Thompson's remarks.
The select committee has formally requested interviews with Reps. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Jordan is of interest to investigators for his conversations with Trump on Jan. 6, while Perry has been linked to unsuccessful efforts to get the Trump Justice Department to investigate claims of election fraud in late 2020.
Both have rejected the committee's requests.
The Mississippi Democrat also told ABC News that the panel could formally invite other GOP lawmakers -- House members or senators -- to appear before the committee in the coming weeks.
McCarthy told at least one colleague that Trump dismissed his request to help stop the riot, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., said in a statement during Trump's second impeachment trial.
In an interview with Fox News in April, McCarthy said Trump "didn't see" the riot was unfolding until they spoke.
"What he ended the call with saying was telling me he'll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did. He put a video out later," McCarthy said.
While committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has said the committee could subpoena McCarthy or other lawmakers who don't voluntarily cooperate with their inquiry, Thompson expressed reservations about doing so.
"If we subpoena them and they choose not to come, I'm not aware of a real vehicle that we can force compliance," Thompson said of lawmakers.
A committee aide subsequently told ABC News the committee has not ruled out issuing subpoenas to sitting lawmakers.
by Anonymous | reply 435 | December 29, 2021 11:30 PM |
House Select Committee Plans Public Hearings, Interim Report, Potential Criminal Referrals for Trump
by Anonymous | reply 436 | December 30, 2021 1:39 AM |
In battleground states and beyond, Republicans are taking hold of the once-overlooked machinery of elections. While the effort is incomplete and uneven, outside experts on democracy and Democrats are sounding alarms, warning that the United States is witnessing a “slow-motion insurrection” with a better chance of success than Trump’s failed power grab last year.
by Anonymous | reply 437 | December 30, 2021 12:51 PM |
Before his twitter ban? He's found other ways.
by Anonymous | reply 439 | December 30, 2021 5:13 PM |
MAGA Marsha, who had her vaccines, is countering Covid spread efforts.
If she goes to the hospital, would she want all medical personnel tending to her, be unvaccinated, untested, and maskless?
by Anonymous | reply 442 | December 30, 2021 5:50 PM |
^r442...spread *prevention* efforts.
by Anonymous | reply 443 | December 30, 2021 5:55 PM |
In the list below, only Larry Hogan would be a candidate I would consider worthy of support. Among the rest, are people as bad or worse than DJT.
by Anonymous | reply 445 | December 30, 2021 7:16 PM |
Congresswoman Openly Advocates End To American Democracy
by Anonymous | reply 446 | December 31, 2021 2:44 AM |
Terrible rich assholes and Scientologists donating to Trump
by Anonymous | reply 447 | January 1, 2022 2:50 AM |
[quote]Wesley Barnett was just as surprised as anyone to learn from news reports that the Jan. 6 Trump rally that turned into a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol was funded by Julia Jenkins Fancelli, an heiress to the fortune of the popular Publix supermarket chain. But Barnett had extra cause for being startled: Fancelli is his aunt.
The women & men who funded the insurrection, then act like they were unaware of how the funds would be used, is an old Mercer technique.
Who gives millions to a group of individuals or a political organization, and have no idea what the agenda is, and how the money is to be spent?
by Anonymous | reply 449 | January 1, 2022 3:59 PM |
[bold] Anti-Vax Leader Traveling Country With Guns, Flamethrower, and Fake Badge in Quest to Arrest Dem Governors [/bold]
Anti-COVID-19 vaccine “Vaccine Police” organization leader Christopher Key, who has proudly claimed he would soon arrest Democrat Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards over vaccine mandates, has set off on a cross-country road trip with a fake badge and high capacity firearms.
In a series of Telegram messages posted over the past week, Key has visited countless state offices and harassed officials over vaccines, masks, and mandates. In a phone conversation with The Daily Beast this past week, Key stated that he has been traveling the country “serving” people with packets of information he believes supports his conspiracy theory that COVID-19 vaccines are “bioweapons.” But it’s not only firearms Key has shown off, he also appears to have access to a flamethrower. “All those bioweapons that we have, that are not vaccines, they all need to be lined up, and they need to be exterminated,” Key said in a video posted in mid-December while brandishing a flamethrower. On Saturday night, when asked about the guns and if he intends to bring them along when conducting the planned arrests, Key told The Daily Beast he is “never about violence.” “I will do it [the citizen arrests] lawfully, and the sheriffs will be with me,” he added.
by Anonymous | reply 450 | January 2, 2022 2:44 AM |
^ Dude sounds batshit crazy
by Anonymous | reply 451 | January 2, 2022 2:55 AM |
Was Trump eating hamberders and drinking covfefe while watching the insurrection?
by Anonymous | reply 452 | January 2, 2022 7:24 PM |
From Trump DOJ Official Pleading the 5th to Congress on Cusp of Subpoenaing its Own: December Recap
by Anonymous | reply 453 | January 2, 2022 8:15 PM |
Breitbart talks about border agents dying "in the line of duty" - neglecting to mention that most died from Covid
by Anonymous | reply 455 | January 2, 2022 9:42 PM |
Even Ted Cruz's own daughter thinks he's full of it
by Anonymous | reply 457 | January 2, 2022 11:53 PM |
Cheney reveals what Trump was doing during January 6 insurrection
by Anonymous | reply 458 | January 3, 2022 12:06 AM |
Celebrating with the Trump clan, Rudy, Mattie & Miss Luckey, Kimberly Guilfoyle & others. No pics of Lá Sènatrice, but she may have been her suite partying in another way for NYE.
by Anonymous | reply 459 | January 3, 2022 12:35 AM |
[post redacted because independent.co.uk thinks that links to their ridiculous rag are a bad thing. Somebody might want to tell them how the internet works. Or not. We don't really care. They do suck though. Our advice is that you should not click on the link and whatever you do, don't read their truly terrible articles.]
by Anonymous | reply 461 | January 3, 2022 1:48 PM |
Ted out here trying to push his daughters into Claudia Conway territory
by Anonymous | reply 463 | January 3, 2022 4:35 PM |
Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers:
by Anonymous | reply 464 | January 3, 2022 5:26 PM |
Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. subpoenaed by NY AG
by Anonymous | reply 465 | January 3, 2022 6:35 PM |
Lindsey must be upset with the predicament of "friend", Joe Biggs, finds himself.
by Anonymous | reply 467 | January 3, 2022 9:00 PM |
Will Facebook and other social media apps be held to account in 2022?
by Anonymous | reply 468 | January 3, 2022 9:07 PM |
Mo update.
It is not smooth sailing in Alabama.
by Anonymous | reply 469 | January 3, 2022 9:16 PM |
Does "respondent" now mean they are also under investigation?
Former President Trump’s eldest son and daughter have refused to comply with subpoenas issued by the New York State attorney general’s office as it conducts a civil investigation into the way the family real estate business valued its holdings.
“A dispute has arisen between the OAG and the Individual Trump Parties regarding the Subpoenas,” a document filed Monday said.
The document, filed jointly by New York Attorney General Letitia James and an attorney for the Trump Organization, said Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump will now be named as respondents in James’ ongoing inquiry, which parallels a criminal investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
by Anonymous | reply 470 | January 3, 2022 9:45 PM |
It’s infuriating how these turds can just ignore subpoenas. Why are they not handcuffed and thrown in jail?
by Anonymous | reply 471 | January 3, 2022 9:49 PM |
Bipartisan Jan. 6 Committee Investigates Trump w/Clear-Eyed Determination and Purpose of Mission
by Anonymous | reply 472 | January 3, 2022 9:49 PM |
Kimberly Guilfoyle & Donald Junior are engaged!
by Anonymous | reply 474 | January 4, 2022 12:38 AM |
Someone needs to change Melania's batteries
by Anonymous | reply 476 | January 4, 2022 12:45 AM |
[quote] Orange County Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby, a leader within the local Republican Party, has died suddenly, a week after telling friends she was very sick with COVID-19.
[quote] She was vocally opposed to COVID restrictions & vaccine mandates. She was 46 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 478 | January 4, 2022 1:57 AM |
^ Twats and prayers!
by Anonymous | reply 479 | January 4, 2022 1:58 AM |
Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary
by Anonymous | reply 480 | January 4, 2022 3:02 AM |
Some right-wingers actually make Trump look good in comparison....
by Anonymous | reply 482 | January 4, 2022 4:17 PM |
De Santis thinks Covid will go away if people don't get tested for it.
That's like saying the obesity epidemic will go away if no one weighs themselves
by Anonymous | reply 484 | January 4, 2022 5:36 PM |
[quote]Lin Wood told CNBC he hosted numerous election conspiracy theorists on his plantation properties in South Carolina after the 2020 presidential election. His guests included fellow Trump allies attorney Sidney Powell, former national security advisor Mike Flynn and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne.
What horrible characters!
by Anonymous | reply 485 | January 4, 2022 5:39 PM |
[quote]“Do I feel sorry for Joe Biden? No!” Watters then said. “I work at Fox! I want to see disarray on the left! It’s good for America! It’s good for our ratings!” You are welcome to debate whether disarray on the political left is good for America. But it is clearly the case that such disarray keeps Fox News viewers engaged, helping ratings, and that as a Fox News employee, Watters is aware of and supporting that connection.
by Anonymous | reply 489 | January 4, 2022 6:00 PM |
The Jan. 6 committee today released text messages from Sean Hannity to the White House.
On Jan. 5, 2021, the night before a violent attempt to overthrow the election, Hannity texted Mark Meadows: “Im very worried about the next 48 hours.”
Furthermore, Hannity had a conversation with Trump in the days following the Capitol riots, and expressed to Meadows and MAGA loyalist Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) concerns about the president’s state of mind and possible actions he may take leading up to Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Given his text messages with Team Trump, the committee implored Hannity to appear as a “fact witness” in the investigation.
(Yeah, good luck with that.)
by Anonymous | reply 490 | January 4, 2022 11:04 PM |
Sean can't talk with the 1/06 investigative committee, but he can host Miss Lindz almost nightly.
by Anonymous | reply 491 | January 4, 2022 11:36 PM |
Ron Johnson is a delusional religious fanatic who thinks we should just sit back and let God cure Covid
by Anonymous | reply 492 | January 5, 2022 12:54 AM |
FWIW:
[quote]MERRICK GARLAND TO CALL FOR INDEPENDENT COUNSEL....
[quote]In tomorrow's speech @ DOJ AG will seek to seat I.C. to prosecute members of fmr. administration. - David Benjamin
by Anonymous | reply 494 | January 5, 2022 2:45 AM |
Almost a year late for Garland to advocate for an IC.
by Anonymous | reply 495 | January 5, 2022 11:16 AM |
No it's not.
by Anonymous | reply 496 | January 5, 2022 11:28 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 497 | January 5, 2022 11:41 AM |
Merrick Garland mic drop
by Anonymous | reply 498 | January 5, 2022 3:21 PM |
R495 certainly the prep work needed to have commenced months ago. Maybe that was secretly happening and Garland kept a lid on it. We'll see.
by Anonymous | reply 499 | January 5, 2022 3:36 PM |
AG Garland remarks on efforts to prosecute alleged participants of Jan. 6 Capitol riot
by Anonymous | reply 501 | January 5, 2022 8:00 PM |
^ Right wing royalty? 🤮
by Anonymous | reply 505 | January 6, 2022 1:11 AM |
Where is her neck?
by Anonymous | reply 506 | January 6, 2022 1:22 AM |
Ya know, that gal looks like she leaks...
by Anonymous | reply 507 | January 6, 2022 2:05 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 511 | January 6, 2022 1:10 PM |
Grisham also told CNN that some former Trump aides are currently discussing how they can “formally do some things to try and stop him” and plan to meet next week. She declines to say who, but says there are “about 15” of them.
They should have been "discussing" this five years ago, of course.
by Anonymous | reply 512 | January 6, 2022 1:13 PM |
Poor Ted. First time he's told the truth in years and he's getting savaged by his own side for it.
by Anonymous | reply 513 | January 6, 2022 1:18 PM |
Even odious turd blossom Karl Rove is speaking some truth this morning, in a WSJ op-ed:
If Democrats had done what some Trump supporters did on that violent Jan. 6, Republicans would have criticized them mercilessly and been right to do so. Republicans would have torched any high official who encouraged violence or stood mute while it was waged and been right to do so. Republicans would have demanded an investigation to find who was responsible for the violence and been right to do so.
I’ve been a Republican my entire life, and believe in what the Republican Party, at its best, has represented for decades. There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. Love of country demands nothing less. That’s true patriotism.
by Anonymous | reply 514 | January 6, 2022 1:42 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 516 | January 6, 2022 2:26 PM |
Lady Lindz is Trump's prime surrogate for Twitter. She had her tweets prepared as Biden spoke. And the media, including MSNBC, was referencing her comments within minutes of Biden concluding his comments.
by Anonymous | reply 518 | January 6, 2022 2:57 PM |
r512...
*
She "still believes in Trump's policies", so she's still a cunt. But, if they can be of any help...
by Anonymous | reply 521 | January 6, 2022 4:38 PM |
GQP infighting.
Liz Cheney knew it would happen.
by Anonymous | reply 522 | January 6, 2022 5:08 PM |
Lyin'Ted goes from being 1/06 instigator to deny certification of the election to calling the rioters conducting a terrorist attack.
He was recently exposed as planner, and is now changing his tune. The Murdochs' Little Miss Tucker isn't having it.
by Anonymous | reply 523 | January 6, 2022 5:19 PM |
[quote]Here are three things Joe Biden can do to save his train wreck of a presidency: 1. Get U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, to retire. 2. Nominate Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place. 3. Then name Hillary Clinton, 74, to take Harris’s place. If Joe is too far gone to seek re-election in 2024 — assuming he is still on the job — then Vice President Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for president.
by Anonymous | reply 524 | January 6, 2022 5:40 PM |
Unemployment is lower than ever, only a true idiot would call Biden's presidency a trainwreck
by Anonymous | reply 525 | January 6, 2022 5:50 PM |
What Peter Lucas of the Boston Globe has written is something others have speculated about prior. R525, I agree that the comment calling Biden's presidency as a trainwreck is unduly harsh. He sounds Republican.
by Anonymous | reply 527 | January 6, 2022 6:35 PM |
Well r528, it's not like there is any way he could stop.
by Anonymous | reply 529 | January 6, 2022 9:07 PM |
[quote] Same guy that Trump invited to the WH to pressure him to overturn the MI election results if the local elections administrators and courts kicked things to the legislature.
by Anonymous | reply 530 | January 7, 2022 12:21 AM |
^ Did QAnon hear about this?
by Anonymous | reply 531 | January 7, 2022 1:01 AM |
Of course he met the victim in church. Bless those Christian conservatives
by Anonymous | reply 532 | January 7, 2022 1:02 AM |
An insurrectionist who was out on bond just killed a woman while driving drunk
by Anonymous | reply 533 | January 7, 2022 1:04 AM |
R503, one has figured it out.
Louie Gohmert is Jeff Dunham's Walter.
by Anonymous | reply 534 | January 7, 2022 7:48 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 535 | January 7, 2022 1:42 PM |
Only the most brain dead white supremacist would think you could march into the city of Detroit and bully the locals into submission.
by Anonymous | reply 536 | January 7, 2022 1:57 PM |
On the question today before SCOTUS regarding vaccine mandates:
by Anonymous | reply 537 | January 7, 2022 4:25 PM |
Bennie Thompson said there were congress critters involved in the insurrection. Giving tours but we knew that.
by Anonymous | reply 539 | January 7, 2022 9:25 PM |
The Two Faces of Kevin McCarthy: Why He Must be Subpoenaed to Testify About Trump's Conduct on 1/6
by Anonymous | reply 541 | January 7, 2022 11:52 PM |
Hayes: How GOP Is Using Supreme Court As ‘Own Little Supervisory Legislature’
by Anonymous | reply 542 | January 8, 2022 3:04 AM |
Fox is pretending that 3.9% unemployment is bad.....but they thought it was good when Trump was president
by Anonymous | reply 543 | January 8, 2022 4:40 AM |
[quote]The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is requesting the voluntary cooperation of Fox News host Sean Hannity, saying it has information that indicates Hannity had relevant communications with President Donald Trump and some White House staff leading up to the Capitol siege and in the days afterward.
Sean Hannity and almost daily frequent host to Lindsey Graham, don't say, what they knew and when they knew it, as to the insurrection.
Fox avoids this coverage.
by Anonymous | reply 544 | January 8, 2022 12:25 PM |
"The committee’s new focus on the potential for a conspiracy marks an aggressive escalation in its inquiry as it confronts evidence that suggests the former president potentially engaged in criminal conduct egregious enough to warrant a referral to the justice department."
by Anonymous | reply 545 | January 8, 2022 1:34 PM |
Cyber Ninjas Goes Out Of Business As They Face Massive Fines Over Arizona Audit
by Anonymous | reply 546 | January 8, 2022 5:03 PM |
Republicans on the anniversary of 1/06. Ugh.
by Anonymous | reply 548 | January 8, 2022 5:38 PM |
Mo Brooks was cheering the rioters from inside the Capitol on 1/6/21.
by Anonymous | reply 549 | January 8, 2022 5:46 PM |
[quote]Ryan O’Toole, who served as McCarthy’s cloakroom director at the time of the Jan. 6 attack...
Does anyone...still wear...a cloak?
by Anonymous | reply 550 | January 8, 2022 8:28 PM |
[quote]Representative Andy Biggs and Representative Paul Gosar, both Republicans, have come under scrutiny because of their social media posts and their ties to a man named Ali Alexander. Alexander is a far-right activist who claimed that he organized the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He stated on multiple occasions that Gosar and Biggs also helped organize the event. Alexander is now cooperating with Congressional investigators.
by Anonymous | reply 551 | January 8, 2022 9:21 PM |
Andrew Clyde, among others....
[quote]When the insurrectionists of 6 January rampaged through the Capitol, congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia helped barricade a door, and he fled when the rest of Congress did. A photograph shows him looking panicky, mouth wide open and arm gesticulating wildly, behind what appears to be a security team member with a gun drawn, defending him. But a few months later he declared: “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos, pictures. You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from 6 January, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
by Anonymous | reply 552 | January 8, 2022 9:29 PM |
WaPo: New texts reveal the influence of Fox hosts on previous White House:
by Anonymous | reply 554 | January 9, 2022 5:25 PM |
Kellyanne Conway is being hired by Jake Corman, a GQP primary candidates for the 2022 PA Governor's race.
Yapping, deflections, filibustering, spinning, lies, oh my!
by Anonymous | reply 555 | January 9, 2022 6:22 PM |
New Poll Shows Democrats With Slight Advantage Ahead Of Midterms
by Anonymous | reply 556 | January 9, 2022 8:40 PM |
Thanks for the paywall link, r554.
by Anonymous | reply 557 | January 9, 2022 8:41 PM |
Hey OP, can we get a new thread please. This one is impossible to scroll. TIA!
by Anonymous | reply 558 | January 9, 2022 8:49 PM |
[bold]Trump’s Cable Cabinet: New texts reveal the influence of Fox hosts on previous White House[/bold]:
Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many Fox News hosts having the direct number to reach Trump in the White House residence.
“There were times the president would come down the next morning and say, ‘Well, Sean thinks we should do this,’ or, ‘Judge Jeanine thinks we should do this,’” said Grisham, referring to Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, both of whom host prime-time Fox News shows.
Grisham — who resigned from the White House amid the Jan. 6 attacks and has since written a book critical of Trump — said West Wing staffers would simply roll their eyes in frustration as they scrambled to respond to the influence of the network’s hosts, who weighed in on everything from personnel to messaging strategy.
Trump’s staff, allies and even adversaries were long accustomed to playing to an “Audience of One” — a commander in chief with a twitchy TiVo finger and obsessed with cable news.
by Anonymous | reply 559 | January 9, 2022 8:53 PM |
But text messages — newly released by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection — between Fox News hosts and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, crystallize with new specificity just how tightly Fox News and the White House were entwined during the Trump years, with many of the network’s top hosts serving as a Cable Cabinet of unofficial advisers.
As the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol unfolded, Meadows received texts from Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade, as well as Hannity, according to the newly released communications.
“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” Ingraham wrote. “This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.” Ingraham’s private missives, however, differed starkly from what she said on her show later that evening, when she began whitewashing the violence of the day and claiming the attacks were “antithetical” to the Trump movement.
by Anonymous | reply 560 | January 9, 2022 8:54 PM |
Kilmeade urged Meadows to get Trump “on TV” to call off the rioters, writing, “Destroying everything you have accomplished.”
And Hannity asked Meadows, “Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol.”
Other texts released by the committee reveal that Hannity also offered the White House advice in the run-up and aftermath to the attacks that resulted in five deaths. On Dec. 31, 2020, Hannity texted Meadows to warn, “I do NOT see January 6 happening the way he is being told.” And on Jan. 10, 2021 — referring to a conversation he had with Trump himself — Hannity texted Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally, to try to discuss strategies to rein in Trump.
“Guys, we have a clear path to land the plane in 9 days,” Hannity wrote. “He can’t mention the election again. Ever. I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I’m not sure what is left to do or say, and I don’t like not knowing if it’s truly understood. Ideas?”
by Anonymous | reply 561 | January 9, 2022 8:55 PM |
A former senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share candid details of private discussions, said Trump would also sometimes dial Hannity and Lou Dobbs — whose Fox Business show was canceled in February — into Oval Office staff meetings.
“A lot of it was PR — what he should be saying and how he should be saying it; he should be going harder against wearing masks or whatever,” Grisham said. “And they all have different opinions, too.”
A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Fox News declined to comment.
Michael Pillsbury, an informal Trump adviser, said he realized how powerful Fox News was in Trump’s orbit when the former president began embracing Sidney Powell — an attorney promoting Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud — and other election fabulists after seeing them on Dobbs’s show. Pillsbury added that while it seemed obvious that many of the claims were patently false, Trump was inclined to believe them, in part because he was watching them on TV and had affection for Dobbs in particular.
by Anonymous | reply 562 | January 9, 2022 8:55 PM |
“It taught me the power of the young producers at Fox, and Fox Business especially,” Pillsbury said. “These young producers who are in their mid-20s. They come out of the conservative movement, they‘ve never been in the government. They are presented with these reckless, fantastical accounts. And they believe them and put them on for ratings.”
Alyssa Farah, a former White House communications director, said the four most influential Fox hosts were Dobbs, Hannity, Igraham, and Pirro — and in the final year of the Trump administration, Hannity was the most influential. Other former top administration officials also mentioned Mark Levin, another Fox News host, and Maria Bartiromo, a Fox Business host, as two other network stars in regular touch with the White House.
From the point of view of the staff, Farah said, the goal was simply to “try to get ahead of what advice you thought he was going to be given by these people” because their unofficial counsel “could completely change his mind on something.”
by Anonymous | reply 563 | January 9, 2022 8:56 PM |
But the relationship was also symbiotic, with White House aides actively trying to influence the network, especially on issues such as spending deals and averting government shutdowns. They knew if they could get Fox hosts to echo their goals on air, that would help sway the president.
Jeff Cohen, author of “Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media,” said the recent text messages represent a “smoking gun.”
“If you watch Fox News as much as I do, and I watch a few hours a night, they’re always signaling their close contact with the White House,” Cohen said referring to the Trump era. “But these texts are just the hard evidence. This is just how deeply intertwined the Fox News leadership is with Trump and the Trump White House.”
The problem, he explained, is that even though many of these hosts are opinion journalists, they are still violating public trust by not disclosing the full extent of their relationships with the Trump administration.
by Anonymous | reply 564 | January 9, 2022 8:56 PM |
“Journalists and media are supposed to be public checks on power, not private advisers to power,” Cohen said. “A commentator is still a journalist, and even if the commentator doesn’t consider him or herself to be a journalist, they still have to tell the public when they played a role in something they’re commenting on.”
One former top White House official said that the hosts often had more influence with Trump based on what they said on air rather than in their various backchannels to him and his team, in part because the former president was obsessed with the following — and ratings — of their shows.
Former Trump chief of staff John F. Kelly told others in the White House that Dobbs’s show was critical to understanding the president and that Trump’s ideas and feelings about people often originated from that program. Kelly also told colleagues that if Dobbs went after a White House senior staffer, they risked their status falling quickly in the eyes of the former president.
When Kelly could not watch the prime-time Fox shows himself, he would ask other staffers to monitor them, and he would scour the White House call logs for the names of Fox News personalities.
by Anonymous | reply 565 | January 9, 2022 8:57 PM |
Pirro, several Trump aides said, often grew irate if the former president did not appear on her show frequently enough in her view, especially if he had been on Hannity’s show several times prior.
Fox shows were so important to the president that White House staffers were determined to get guests booked on them, even forcing staffers to take weekend shifts appearing on Pirro’s show after Pirro complained she couldn’t get a guest — and the former president also called in himself.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Hannity called Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and other Trump allies on a number of occasions to voice his months-long concern that the campaign was heading in the wrong direction and Trump would lose unless he turned around his operation, according to a Republican with direct knowledge of the campaign’s operations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of private discussions. They added that Hannity was much more bullish on his show than in private about Trump’s electoral prospects.
As the coronavirus pandemic ramped up in early 2020, a range of Fox News hosts again mobilized to offer backchannel advice to the Trump White House. In March, Tucker Carlson flew to Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., to warn of the seriousness of the virus. Carlson told Trump he might lose the election because of covid-19, while Trump told the prime-time host that the virus wasn’t as deadly as people were claiming.
by Anonymous | reply 566 | January 9, 2022 8:58 PM |
In April, Ingraham arrived at the White House with two on-air regulars who are part of what she describes as her “medicine cabinet” for a private meeting with Trump. There, she talked up hydroxychloroquine, a controversial anti-malarial drug which public health experts have concluded is not effective as a covid-19 treatment.
An internal Trump coronavirus response team led by Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, also prioritized the requests of certain VIPs, including Kilmeade and Pirro. Kilmeade had called two administration officials, for instance, to pass along tips about where to obtain personal protective equipment. And Pirro had repeatedly urged administration officials to send a large quantity of masks to a specific New York hospital.
At the time, a Fox News spokeswoman said neither host had been aware that their tips were receiving preferential treatment.
by Anonymous | reply 567 | January 9, 2022 8:58 PM |
Since leaving office, Trump has vociferously complained about Fox, particularly its coverage of the election and what he views as increasingly negative coverage about him. But he has kept in close touch with many of the hosts and even sees some of them at his Florida resort.
The Jan. 6 committee has asked Hannity to cooperate with its investigation, and he has hired Jay Sekulow, a longtime Trump attorney, to represent him. “We are evaluating the letter from the committee. We remain very concerned about the constitutional implications especially as it relates to the First Amendment. We will respond as appropriate,” Sekulow said in a statement last week.
But some former senior White House officials said the texts make the role of Hannity and others seem more outsize than it was. The former president appreciated that the Fox crew was fighting on his behalf on a daily basis, this person said, “but he would not be like, ‘Let me call Larry Kudlow and change our economic plan because Laura Ingraham said that.’”
Of course, Kudlow, who now hosts a show on Fox Business, came to Trump’s attention as a top economic adviser in part because of the business show he previously hosted on CNBC.
by Anonymous | reply 568 | January 9, 2022 8:59 PM |
R568 is the end of the article.
by Anonymous | reply 569 | January 9, 2022 8:59 PM |
Thank you, r554!
by Anonymous | reply 570 | January 9, 2022 9:01 PM |
Donald Trump is leaning into the conspiracy theory that the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his ginned-up supporters was actually a false flag plot concocted by the FBI or some other federal government agency.
by Anonymous | reply 571 | January 9, 2022 9:31 PM |
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