One thing that was clear to me when I read about Trump’s comments on the January 6th defendants and the death of Ashli Babbitt is that he intends to make these claims and demands centerpieces of the 2022 midterm election. For Trump everything is the Big Lie, everything is the “rigged election”, which is to say everything is payback, retribution and grievance about being driven from power.
Continue reading “January 6th Will Be the Centerpiece of Trump’s 2022 Campaign”
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
Trump reportedly told then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in 2018 that German dictator Adolf Hitler “did a lot of good things.” That’s according to the Guardian, which obtained a copy of Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender’s new book “Frankly, We Did Win This Election.”
Many corporate giants, including General Electric and AT&T, have essentially reneged on their vows to stop donating to the GOP lawmakers who voted against certifying Biden’s win by donating to PACs that benefit those lawmakers.
Former police captain and Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams appears to have won New York City’s mayoral Democratic primary on Tuesday night, and will be the presumptive winner of the general election in the deeply blue city.
Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home early Wednesday morning, according to Claude Joseph, Haiti’s interim prime minister.
We’re at the point now where it’s actually getting hard to remember all the times Rep. Paul Gosar’s (R-AZ) cozied up with white nationalists and other far-right extremists, so here’s a detailed list by reporter Nick Martin.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) called climate change, which has been scientifically proven over and over, “bullshit” last month during a Republican luncheon.
Indicted ex-tax collector and Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) wingman Joel Greenberg is seeking to delay his sentencing hearing so he can keep cooperating with the feds in their investigation, which reportedly is examining whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, among other things.
There is no “fight for the soul of the party” within the GOP over Trumpism, former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) says.
"This notion that somehow there's a fight for the soul of the party… there is nothing left of this Republican Party other than a party that's able to embrace and to elevate an undemocratic, anti-republic theme" – @DavidJollyFL w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/HI31AOVzRU
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) July 6, 2021
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) fully declared during a conservative grassroots event with Patriot Voices last month that he and his GOP colleagues have no interest in actually doing their jobs as lawmakers and will be spending the next year making sure nothing gets done until the midterms, when they have a shot at taking back the House.
NEW–> GOP Congressman on bipartisanship: We want "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done" pic.twitter.com/yvsGTNkDGB
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) July 6, 2021
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International news orgs reporting that the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated overnight in an attack on his private residence.
This is a developing story.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams appears to still be leading the mayoral candidate pack after the New York board of elections published its newest batch of ballot tallies, an update in the counting before final results are solidified likely next week.
Continue reading “Adams Leading After Newest Vote Dump In Tumultuous New York Mayoral Race”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) demanded his dismissal from a federal lawsuit alleging that he helped incite the mob behind the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, arguing that he can’t be sued because he was acting as a federal employee while vowing to challenge the election results hours before the attack. Continue reading “Mo Brooks Insists He’s A Federal Employee Who Can’t Be Sued For Capitol Insurrection”
Hackers affiliated with the Russian government breached the Republican National Committee last week, Bloomberg reports.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday shamelessly hyped President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that he opposed, only to pan it as a “windfall” that can’t happen again, all in the same breath. Continue reading “McConnell Ties Himself In Knots Praising And Criticizing Biden’s COVID Relief”
A new defendant in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack case needs better friends.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Defendant Allegedly Blabbed To Undercover Fed About Riot, Jailbreak Scheme”
With the rising demands on the right to release or drop charges against the Jan. 6th insurrectionists and seek retribution against the unnamed cop who shot Ashli Babbitt, Josh Kovensky has some important context about the mounting movement to valorize and make a martyr of Babbitt. Relatedly, Rep. Paul Gosar, Congress’s most prominent white nationalist and antisemite, calls for the unnamed officer to be charged for what he earlier termed Babbitt’s execution. This of course comes just days after the leader of the GOP, ex-President Donald Trump, suggested the unnamed officer should be lynched.
A few more points on Ashli Babbitt.
When Ashli Babbitt breached a final window in the Capitol building, it was the closest any of the rioters on Jan. 6 would come to reaching then-evacuating members of Congress.
Continue reading “Five Points On How Ashli Babbitt Has Become A Martyr For The Far-Right”
