In the newest batch of transcripts released Thursday by the Jan. 6 committee, Donald Trump Jr. doesn’t remember much.
But what he does remember of a pivotal call between then-President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence diverges sharply from what other witnesses have described.
Continue reading “Trump Jr. Says Father Was ‘Reasonably Composed’ On Call Where He Allegedly Called Pence A Wimp And A P*ssy “A top Biden lawyer said the White House will not respond to records requests made by Republican congressmen before they take control of the House in 2023, according to multiple letters obtained by Politico.
Continue reading “WH Responds To House GOPers’ Oversight Requests: Try Again When You Actually Have Power”This week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson had a critique of the January 6 report: there was no mention of the supposed federal provocateur that the right held responsible for the whole event!
Continue reading “Release Of Ray Epps’ Transcript Again Deflates Right-Wing Claims About Jan. 6”Federal and local prosecutors in New York are looking into whether Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) has committed any financial crimes or broken the law when lying about his resume before the November election.
Continue reading “New York Prosecutors Are Keeping Their Eye On Rep-elect George Santos”Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the Jan. 6 committee, said Wednesday night that he’ll start chemotherapy this week to treat his Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma.
Continue reading “Raskin Says He’ll Start Chemotherapy This Week For ‘Serious But Curable’ Cancer”There are so many lies and so many questions swirling around George Santos that I wanted to take a moment before the end of the day to draw a few connections for you between the pieces we reported today and some other, earlier work by our team and others. As noted, the big question is where on earth all this money came from, if it exists at all.
Santos says he made this crazy amount of money by putting together extremely wealthy people who want to buy and sell things to each other. A private jet. A yacht. He says he got the rolodex to do this from his time at Linkbridge Investors. We’re still looking into Linkbridge. It’s a company that says it puts on closed-door conferences for top investors to network. We’re still trying to learn more about it.
But it’s what he did immediately after Linkbridge that has our attention. He went to work for a place called Harbor City which was pretty quickly flagged by the SEC, which alleged it was a ponzi scheme. A lot of the money from Harbor City is still unaccounted for. And there are multiple links between the Devolder Organization, the outfit that made Santos as much as $11 million over 18 months, and former executives at Harbor City.
Continue reading “Piecing Together The Santos Mystery”Since the New York Times came out with their explosive report claiming Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) fabricated the majority of his background and credentials, some lawmakers have been calling for action to be taken to stop the congressman-elect from taking office in the new year.
Following the report, Santos admitted to “embellishing” parts of his resume — including acknowledging he never “worked directly” for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup and saying he never claimed to be Jewish, just “Jew-ish.”
But despite the clear admission of his lies, Congress’ ability to stop him from taking office is limited.
Continue reading “Dems Are Calling For Santos To Not Be Seated In The Next Congress. Can That Happen?”In a 2020 interview with the Metropolitan Republican Club, Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) provided details about his employment at an alleged “ponzi scheme.” The comments, which have received little notice, shed light on a period that is central to questions about Santos’ purported personal fortune. The interview also includes other examples of Santos’ shifting narrative and questionable backstory.
Continue reading “Santos Once Boasted About Being ‘Head Guy For New York City’ At Alleged Ponzi Scheme”As the Oscars holds its in memoriam each year, so too will the Golden Dukes this year, complete with a bit of dark spin. We would never dance on anyone’s actual graves (probably), but their political graves are fair game.
2022 gifted us a lot of losers who we can now celebrate as winners — in their unscrupulous, unhinged, and ultimately unelectable glory. Introducing the Golden Dukes Forgotten Heroes, an in memoriam to all of our favorite scoundrels who never quite made it to elected office. The 2022 midterms, in all its Big Lie-fueled insanity, gifted us hundreds of options for whacky candidates we will miss the most. Some may run for office again. But in our hearts they’ll always be losers.
Continue reading “Golden Dukes: It’s Time To Cheers 2022’s Forgotten Heroes”George Santos, the Republican who fabricated much of his background on his way to winning a congressional seat in New York last month, has finally offered an explanation for the sudden influx of wealth that helped him fund his campaign. In an interview with Semafor that was published on Wednesday morning, Santos again admitted to “embellishing” his resume. Santos attributed the vast increase in income he disclosed during his 2022 race to what he described as the “capital introduction” business. That’s a markedly different story than he has told in the past.
Continue reading “George Santos’ New Explanation For His Wealth Includes Another Change To His Backstory”
