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| 10-01-22 03:52am - 813 days | #451 | |
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The truth revealed: Ginni Thomas tells Congress that the 2020 election was stolen. She didn't do anything wrong. She was fighting for Dangle Trump, the true winner of the 2020 election. And Sleepy Joe Biden, the fake winner of the election, stole the Whitest House away from Dangle. That's why she wanted the votes thrown out. To send fake electors to certify that Dangle Trump, the hero of the American people, had won the election, and would help to make America great again. Power to the people (Republican people, and fuck the idiots who voted for Biden). And no, Ginni never discusses what she did with her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. And he never discusses what he does with Ginni. They live in separate parts of the country, and only see each other once in a blue moon. So everything is wonderful in heaven, where they live separately. And the next time there is a riot, Ginni and Clarence will be there, to help their supporters re-take the Whitest House. ----- ----- INSIDER Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the Jan. 6 investigators she still believes the 2020 election was stolen, committee chairman tells CNN Nicole Gaudiano,Azmi Haroun Thu, September 29, 2022 at 1:22 PM Ginni Thomas told January 6 investigators that she still believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Committee chair Bennie Thompson told CNN about Thomas' comments during a closed-door interview. Her interview could become part of the next hearing "if there's something of merit," he told CNN. Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection that she still believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen, despite a lack of evidence to support that claim. That's according to CNN reporter Annie Grayer, who spoke with Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee leading the probe into the attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. "Yes," he told CNN after Thomas testified for about four and a half hours. "She said that." Thompson told Grayer that Thomas answered "some questions" and that her interview could become part of the next hearing "if there's something of merit." The committee postponed a hearing scheduled for September 28 because of Hurricane Ian in Florida and it has not released a new date. In a statement shared by The New York Times, Thomas also denied talking to her husband about her advocacy after the election, adding that she and her husband had an "iron-clad rule" not to speak about Supreme Court cases. The interview with Thomas, a conservative activist, follows reporting by The Washington Post in March about text messages she wrote to Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. Biden already had been declared president-elect on November 10 when Thomas texted Meadows: "Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America's constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History." Thomas also emailed Arizona lawmakers days after the 2020 election, urging them to "do your constitutional duty" and appoint "a clean slate of Electors" for the state, the Post reported. Thomas' lawyer Mark Paoletta said that Thomas answered all the committee's questions and she "was happy to cooperate ... to clear up the misconceptions about her activities surrounding the 2020 elections," according to a statement New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman posted on Twitter. "As she said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election," he said. "And, as she told the committee, her minimal and mainstream activity focused on ensuring that reports of fraud and irregularities were investigated. Beyond that, she played no role in any events after the 2020 election results. Paoletta continued, "As she wrote in a text to Mark Meadows at the time, she also condemned the violence on January 6, as she abhors violence on any side of the aisle." | |
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| 10-02-22 05:41am - 812 days | #452 | |
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Dangle Trump administration records are still missing. Historians might never be able to tell exactly what happened during Dangle Trump's reign as President-For-Life of the Untied States of Trumperland. And this means that people will not be able to give the entire credit to Dangle that he really deserves, and that future Presidents will be unable to follow Dangle Trump's exact steps to Make America Great Again, no matter how strongly they strive to follow in Dangle's hallowed steps. ------ ------ Archives: Records from Trump WH staffers remain missing Associated Press FARNOUSH AMIRI October 2, 2022, 6:22 AM WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives and Records Administration informed lawmakers that a number of electronic communications from Trump White House staffers remain missing, nearly two years since the administration was required to turn them over. The nation's record-keeping agency, in a letter Friday to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, said that despite an ongoing effort by staff, electronic communications between certain unidentified White House officials were still not in their custody. "While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should," Debra Steidel Wall, the acting U.S. archivist, wrote in a letter to Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. The letter went on to specify that the National Archives would consult with the Justice Department about how to move forward and recover “the records unlawfully removed.” It has been widely reported that officials in President Donald Trump's White House used non-official electronic messaging accounts throughout his four years in office. The Presidential Records Act, which says that such records are government property and must be preserved, requires staff to copy or forward those messages into their official electronic messaging accounts. The agency says that while it has been able to obtain these records from some former officials, a number remain outstanding. The Justice Department has already pursued records from one former Trump official, Peter Navarro, who prosecutors accused of using at least one “non-official” email account — a ProtonMail account — to send and receive emails while he worked as the president's trade adviser. The legal action in August came just weeks after Navarro was indicted on criminal charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The House committee has jurisdiction over the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law that requires the preservation of White House documents as property of the U.S. government. The request is the latest development in a monthslong back-and-forth between the agency and the committee, which has been investigating Trump’s handling of records. The letter on Friday also comes nearly two months after the FBI recovered more than 100 documents with classified markings and more than 10,000 other government documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Lawyers for Trump had provided a sworn certification that all government records had been returned. Maloney and other Democratic lawmakers on the panel have been seeking a briefing from the National Archives, but haven’t received one due to the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into the matter. | |
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| 10-02-22 03:32pm - 812 days | #453 | |
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US Supreme Court says it will pass new laws. The new laws will show that the US Constitution has been wrongly interpreted in the past. The Founding Fathers never guaranteed the rights of women to vote. That was foolishness beyond belief, in their minds. Also, LGBTQ have no rights. The Founding Fathers never heard of LGBTQ, so they couldn't have given them any rights. Power to the people: Brett Kavanaugh screams that the Federal Government must stop snooping in the lives of private citizens. If a man wants to guzzle a few beers, grab women by the pussy, and rape young women, it's all good clean fun. ------ ------ Supreme Court's top cases for new term, new Justice Jackson Associated Press The Associated Press October 2, 2022, 9:43 AM The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday, hearing arguments for the first time after a summer break and with new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Already the court has said it will decide cases on a range of major issues including affirmative action, voting rights and the rights of LGBTQ people. The justices will add more cases to their docket in coming months. A look at some of the cases the court has already agreed to hear. The justices are expected to decide each of the cases before taking a summer break at the end of June: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION In cases from Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, the court could end any consideration of race in college admissions. If this seems familiar, it's because the high court has been asked repeatedly over the past 20 years to end affirmative action in higher education. In previous cases from Michigan and Texas, the court reaffirmed the validity of considering college applicants' race among many factors. But this court is more conservative than those were. ___ VOTING RIGHTS The court could further reduce protections for minority voters in its third major consideration in 10 years of the landmark Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to combat enduring racial discrimination in voting. The case the justices are hearing involves Alabama, where just one of the state's seven congressional districts has a Black majority. That's even though 27% of the state's residents are Black. A three-judge panel that included two appointees of President Donald Trump agreed that the state should have to create a second district with a Black majority, but the Supreme Court stopped any changes and said it would hear the case. A ruling for the state could wipe away all but the most obvious cases of intentional discrimination on the basis of race. ___ ELECTIONS Republicans are asking the justices to embrace a novel legal concept that would limit state courts' oversight of elections for Congress. North Carolina's top court threw out the state's congressional map that gave Republicans a lopsided advantage in a closely divided state and eventually came up with a map that basically evenly divided the state's 14 congressional districts between Democrats and Republicans. The state GOP argues that state courts have no role to play in congressional elections, including redistricting, because the U.S. Constitution gives that power to state legislatures alone. Four conservative justices have expressed varying levels of openness to the “independent state legislature” theory. ___ CLEAN WATER This is yet another case in which the court is being asked to discard an earlier ruling and loosen the regulation of property under the nation's chief law to combat water pollution. The case involves an Idaho couple who won an earlier high court round in their bid to build a house on property near a lake without getting a permit under the Clean Water Act. The outcome could change the rules for millions of acres of property that contain wetlands. ___ IMMIGRATION The Biden administration is back at the Supreme Court to argue for a change in immigration policy from the Trump administration. It's is appealing a ruling against a Biden policy prioritizing deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. Last term, the justices by a 5-4 vote paved the way for the administration to end the Trump policy that required asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their court hearing. In July, also by a 5-4 vote, the high court refused to allow the administration to implement policy guidance for deportations. A Trump-era policy favored deporting people in the country illegally regardless of criminal history or community ties. ___ LGBTQ RIGHTS A new clash involving religion, free speech and the rights of LGBTQ people will also be before the justices. The case involves Colorado graphic and website designer Lorie Smith who wants to expand her business and offer wedding website services. She says her Christian beliefs would lead her to decline any request from a same-sex couple to design a wedding website, however, and that puts her in conflict with a Colorado anti-discrimination law. The case is a new chance for the justices to confront issues the court skirted five years ago in a case about a baker objected to making cakes for same-sex weddings. The court has grown more conservative since that time. ___ NATIVE AMERICAN ADOPTION In November, the court will review a federal law that gives Native Americans preference in adoptions of Native children. The case presents the most significant legal challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act since its 1978 passage. The law has long been championed by Native American leaders as a means of preserving their families and culture. A federal appeals court in April upheld the law and Congress’ authority to enact it. But the judges also found some of the law’s provisions unconstitutional, including preferences for placing Native American children with Native adoptive families and in Native foster homes. ___ BACON LAW BACKLASH Also on the menu for the justices: a California animal rights law. The case stems from a 2018 ballot measure where California voters barred the sale of pork in the state if the pig it came from or the pig's mother was raised in confined conditions preventing them from laying down or turning around. Two agricultural associations challenging the law say almost no farms satisfy those conditions. They say the “massive costs of complying” with the law will “fall almost exclusively on out-of-state farmers” and that the costs will be passed on to consumers nationwide. ___ ART WORLD The court's resolution of a dispute involving pieces by artist Andy Warhol could have big consequences in the art world and beyond. If the Warhol side loses a copyright dispute involving an image Warhol made of the musician Prince, other artworks could be in peril, lawyers say. But the other side says if Warhol wins, it would be a license for other artists to blatantly copy. ___ Follow AP’s coverage of the Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court | |
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| 10-03-22 06:31am - 811 days | #454 | |
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Dangle Trump reveals the naked truth: Mitch McConnell's wife is a Commie spy who bows to China. It pains Dangle to reveal this, because Mitch McConnell is a fellow Republican, but the truth will set us free. And Mitch McConnell should have known before he married her, that she is a member of GaCwhina's ruling party. And a threat to the security of the American people. ------------- ------------- Ex-GOP strategist slams Trump for 'assassination instructions' against McConnell: 'It's beyond the pale. Every Republican ought to be able to say so.' Business Insider Cheryl Teh October 2, 2022, 11:23 PM Conservative pundit Scott Jennings said Trump had sent "assassination instructions" about McConnell. Jennings said "every Republican ought to be able to say" that Trump's post was "beyond the pale." "This is bad for the party," Jennings said. Conservative pundit Scott Jennings said "every Republican" should be able to disavow former President Donald Trump's "assassination instructions" against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Jennings, a former GOP advisor and McConnell aide, was referring to a Truth Social post from October 1, in which Trump escalated his long-standing feud with the Kentucky senator. Trump accused McConnell of opposing him because he has a "death wish." Trump also leveled a racially charged insult at McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary for the Trump administration, calling her McConnell's "China loving wife, Coco Chow." Trump's salvo came after McConnell voiced support for changing the way Congress counts electoral votes. In an appearance on CNN on Sunday, Jennings said Trump's post contained "assassination instructions" directed at McConnell and "blatant racism" against Chao. "I mean, if you read that whole thing out loud, if you were on the street, and you heard someone muttering that on a street corner, you wouldn't say, 'Hmm, let's hand this person the presidency or the Republican nomination for president,'" Jennings said. "You would say, 'Call 911.' Because it sounds like an unhinged, deranged person has gotten loose and is out on the street and may be a danger to themselves and others." He added that the insults against McConnell were "beyond the pale" and that "every Republican ought to be able to say so." "This is not good for the party. It's not good for him," Jennings said, referring to Trump. Jennings also weighed in on Sen. Rick Scott's hesitation to condemn Trump for writing the post, saying Scott was likely "unprepared" for the question. During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, host Dana Bash asked Scott if Trump's comments were acceptable — to which Scott said it is "never, ever okay to be a racist," but stopped short of slamming Trump. "But there's something very easy about this. And what's easy is to say: 'This is not good. It's not helpful. It's not good politically. It's not good personally. This is bad for the party, bad for the country,'" Jennings said. "And it's not becoming of a former president and somebody who wants to have the job again." Representatives for McConnell and a spokesman at Trump's post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment. Read the original article on Business Insider | |
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| 10-03-22 10:17am - 811 days | #455 | |
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Mark Wahlberg's family home was destroyed by fire. Mark talks with Dangle Trump over the devastating loss. "I lost my childhood home", cries Mark. Dangle Trump says: "Son, I know the pain of losing your home. I lost my home in New York, because they ran me out of the state. But I have newer homes in Florida and Russia. Russia, in case the law comes after me and they force me to move to Russia, where my bestest buddy, Vlad Putin, will give me a warm welcome." Mark says: "I love the way you keep on chugging, you're an inspiration to me!!!!!" Dangle responds: "Yes, my boy, I'm the inspiration to all the Proud Boys of America, even if I'm forced to move to Russia." ------- ------- Fire damages Mark Wahlberg's childhood home in Boston Associated Press October 3, 2022, 8:39 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. BOSTON (AP) — A home where entertainers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg's family once lived was damaged by fire Sunday in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, the fire department said. The blaze in a nearby home at around 10 a.m., but spread to another three buildings because of strong winds, Fire Commissioner Paul Burke said. Two firefighters suffered injuries and one resident was taken to the hospital. There was no immediate word on the cause of the fire. One of the homes involved was 25 Peverell Street, where the Wahlberg family used to live. Mark Wahlberg visited the home during the production of his Netflix movie “Wonderland” in 2018 and 2019. In one video posted on social media, the actor stands shirtless in front of the house, describing it as “where it all started.” The homes affected by Sunday's fire were a type of classic Boston architecture called a triple decker, a three-family home that's common in the city. “It was a total of four three-deckers that were on fire, mostly in the rear of the buildings on the porches,” the fire commissioner told WCVB-TV. “It’s a very tight street.” Boston Fire Department spokesperson Brian Alkins said 15 people were displaced by the fire. He estimated damage to the buildings at $2 million. | |
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| 10-04-22 04:58am - 810 days | #456 | |
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The true story behind the Dangle Trump scandal. Dangle has accused the Federal Government of malice, doing witch hunts, corruption, and other evils Dangle was not able to root out during his time in Washington DC. Dangle spent many years trying to drain the swamp in Washington, but too many Democrats sabotaged his efforts. This is the source of the current problems Dangle is having with the Federal Government and also with the biased and weaponized New York State investigations into Dangle Trump and his Family. Now the National Archives is trying to bring Dangle down, with malicious lies and accusations. Dangle was only trying to keep a few papers as mementos of his time in Washington. And Dangle was working with the National Archives and the Justice Department to hand over any documents that Dangle did not have legal ownership of. In good faith. Until the Federal Government raided Dangle Trump's Florida home. A man's home is his sacred place. The FBI trashed Dangle Trump's home, and destroyed his trust in the Federal Government. Dangle must sue the Federal Government, and the state of New York, for $100 billion, to restore his faith in the due process of law. End of story. ----- ----- National Archives notified Trump lawyers in May 2021 it was missing Kim Jong Un correspondence and Obama letter NBC Universal Rebecca Shabad October 3, 2022, 3:22 PM Scroll back up to restore default view. WASHINGTON — The National Archives notified Donald Trump’s lawyers in May 2021 that some of the presidential records it was missing included correspondence between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a letter former President Barack Obama left for Trump, according to a previously undisclosed email. The National Archives and Record Administration made the email, dated May 6, 2021, and several other documents public Monday in response to Freedom of Information Act requests by numerous news organizations. The bulk of requested material was not released. In his email last year to three Trump attorneys, including Patrick Philbin, archives General Counsel Gary Stern said the agency has "come upon several problems that we need your help in resolving." He said that there are "now certain paper/textual records that we cannot account for" and that officials needed their "immediate assistance to ensure that NARA receives all Presidential records as required by the Presidential Records Act." "The original correspondence between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un were not transferred to us; it is our understanding that in January 2021, just prior to the end of the Administration, the originals were put in a binder for the President, but were never returned to the Office of Records Management for transfer to NARA," Stern told Trump's representatives. "It is essential that these original records be transferred to NARA as soon as possible." Stern also said, "The letter that President Obama left for President Trump on his first day in office has not been transferred; since that letter was received by President Trump after his term commenced, it is a Presidential record." Other outlets, citing unnamed sources, reported those specific records when the National Archives said in a statement in February that just weeks earlier it had “arranged for the transport from the Trump Mar-a-Lago property in Florida to the National Archives of 15 boxes that contained Presidential records, following discussions with President Trump’s representatives in 2021.” The email from Stern was among nearly a dozen pages of other communications between archives officials and representatives of Trump who handled the Presidential Records Act that were released. The archives said Monday it was withholding nearly 300 other pages it possesses related to those communications. The National Archives also released 54 pages of communications between agency officials and outside entities, such as Congress, the White House and the Justice Department. The archives said it was withholding about 1,250 pages of those communications. Most of the pages that were disclosed have previously been made public, such as letters House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., sent to the archives as part of her panel's investigation into the classified documents and other presidential records Trump failed to transfer to the archives and took to his Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, instead. Within the 54 pages was a letter Stern sent in June 2018 to Stefan Passantino, then the deputy counsel to Trump, about a story Politico published about how White House employees were responsible for taping together documents torn up by the president. Stern asked the White House to explain "the extent of the problem and how it is being addressed." "For example: How many records have been torn up? Have any records been destroyed or were in a state that they cannot be recovered? What steps are taken to recover any records that have been torn up?" he asked, adding that the archives would be "happy to provide guidance on best practices for restoring damaged records." The documents were released just days after the archives informed the House Oversight Committee that some records from the Trump White House have still not been turned over in compliance with the Presidential Records Act. | |
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| 10-04-22 05:11am - 810 days | #457 | |
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North Korea defends its right to launch nuclear missiles. They fired a ballistic missile over Japan. This shows that North Korea is a world power, that can attack anyone, if forced to. "We shall overcome the forces of Evil led by the Red, White and Blue Country of America", screams the North Korean dictator. "After we destroy Japan, we we turn our invincible power upon South Korea, the Untied States of Trumperland, and other targets of Mass Destruction!!!!!! But if Dangle Trump returns to power, we might be willing to negotiate." ------ ------ N.Korea fires missile over Japan, stopping trains and sparking warning message Reuters October 3, 2022, 7:55 PM SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan. The Japanese government warned citizens to take cover as the missile appeared to have flown over and past its territory before falling into the Pacific Ocean. It said it did not use any defence measures to destroy the missile, which was the first to fly over or past Japan from North Korea since 2017. "North Korea's series of actions, including its repeated ballistic missile launches, threatens the peace and security of Japan, the region, and the international community, and poses a serious challenge to the entire international community, including Japan," Japan's top government spokesperson Hirokazu Matsuno, told a news conference. He said the missile flew 4,600 kilometres (2,850 miles) to a maximum altitude of 1,000 km. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it appeared to have been an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) launched from North Korea's Jagang Province. North Korea has used that province to launch several recent tests, including multiple missiles that it claimed were "hypersonic." The test prompted East Japan Railway Co to suspend train operations in the northern regions, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported. Matsuno said there were no reports of damage to aircraft or ships from the missile. 'REAL-WORLD' TEST The initial flight details announced by South Korea and Japan suggest the missile may have been the Hwasong-12 IRBM, which North Korea unveiled in 2017 as part of its threatened plan to strike Guam, said Kim Dong-yup, a former South Korea Navy officer who now teaches at Kyungnam University. The Hwasong-12 was used in 2017 tests that overflew Japan, and Kim noted it was also test fired from Jagang Province in January. North Korea's flurry of missile testing is helping make more of its weapons operational, develop new capabilities, and send a message that its weapons development is sovereign right that should be accepted by the world, analysts said. North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons programmes are banned by United Nations Security Council resolutions, which have imposed sanctions on the country. Many of North Korea's ballistic missile tests are conducted on a "lofted trajectory," which sends them high into space but leads to an impact point not far from the launch site, avoiding over flights of its neighbours. Firing over or past Japan allows North Korea's scientists to test missiles under more realistic conditions, said Ankit Panda of the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Compared to the usual highly lofted trajectory, this allows them to expose a long-range reentry vehicle to thermal loads and atmospheric reentry stresses that are more representative of the conditions they'd endure in real-world use," he said. "Politically, it's complicated: the missile largely flies outside of the atmosphere when it's over Japan, but it's obviously distressing to the Japanese public to receive warnings of a possible incoming North Korean missile." POLITICAL BACKLASH The latest launch was Pyongyang's fifth in 10 days, amid military muscle-flexing by the United States and South Korea, which conducted trilateral anti-submarine exercises last week with Japanese naval forces. South Korea staged its own show of advanced weaponry on Saturday to mark its Armed Forces Day, including multiple rocket launchers, ballistic missiles, main battle tanks, drones and F-35 fighters. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called the test "reckless" and said it would bring a decisive response from his country's military, its allies and the international community. The North has completed preparations for a nuclear test, which it might look to undertake sometime between China's Communist Party Congress this month and U.S. mid-term elections in November, South Korean lawmakers said last week. "So I guess the extremely sensitive period of the run-up to Xi Jinping's 20th Party Congress was not deemed sensitive enough in Pyongyang to prevent or at least delay this," John Delury of Seoul's Yonsei University, said of Tuesday's missile launch in a post on Twitter. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called North Korea's actions "barbaric", and said the government would continue to gather and analyse information. The launch over Japan was "unfortunate" and "not a productive path forward," Daniel Kritenbrink, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, said during an online event hosted by the Institute for Corean-American Studies. "We are open to diplomacy with North Korea (but) it very much takes two to tango," he said. "We are going to leave that door open, but we are going to respond resolutely to this growing threat." (Reporting by Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith in Seoul, and Chang-Ran Kim and Kantaro Komiya in Tokyo; Writing by Josh Smith; Editing by Leslie Adler, Chris Reese, Lincoln Feast and Gerry Doyle) | |
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| 10-04-22 05:27am - 810 days | #458 | |
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This article is a scurrilous attack on a Republican candidate. Everyone who thinks knows that Republicans are the party of Truth, Honor, Dignity, and Patriotism. And Denials. Would Herschel Walker, a Georgia football icon and Republican candidate, lie? Would a bear shit in the woods, or would the bear request a sanitized toilet to do his business? ------- ------- ABC News Herschel Walker denies report he reimbursed girlfriend's abortion LALEE IBSSA and LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN Mon, October 3, 2022 at 9:11 PM Herschel Walker, a Georgia football icon and U.S. Senate hopeful, has denied a report in the Daily Beast that an ex-girlfriend claimed he paid the cost of her abortion more than 10 years ago, a claim that would seem to contradict his anti-abortion posture on the campaign trail. Walker, a Republican, immediately denied the claim and promised to file a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, which published the story, on Tuesday morning. Walker later appeared on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," where he issued additional denials. "I can tell you right now, I never asked anyone to get an abortion," Walker told Sean Hannity. "I never paid for an abortion -- it's a lie." The Daily Beast reported Monday that an unidentified woman who claimed to be Walker's ex-girlfriend said she sought a medical abortion after the couple conceived in 2009. The woman shared documentation with the news outlet: a receipt from an abortion clinic, a bank deposit receipt with an image of a $700 check that appeared to be signed by Walker sent within a week of the abortion and a "get well" card that appeared to be signed by Walker. ABC News was not able to confirm the Daily Beast's reporting. MORE: Georgia Senate hopeful Herschel Walker acknowledges he has 4 children, insists he wasn't 'hiding' them Walker has carved out a staunch anti-abortion position as a candidate for U.S. Senate, aligning himself with a bill proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that would institute a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks. Without explicitly citing the Daily Beast's reporting, Walker's adult son, Christian Walker, an outspoken conservative social media personality and podcast host, lambasted his father on Twitter. "Every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office, because we all knew (some of) his past. Every single one," Christian Walker wrote Monday. "He decided to give us the middle finger and air out all of his dirty laundry in public, while simultaneously lying about it. I'm done." MORE: In Georgia Senate race, Herschel Walker navigates allegations of past violent behavior The younger Walker also leveled additional allegations against his father, who has attracted scrutiny in recent months for allegations of violence in his past. In a book years ago, Herschel Walker has described himself as having been diagnosed with a dissociative identity disorder, or D.I.D. He has said that treatment healed him. "I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us," Christian Walker wrote Monday on Twitter. "You're not a 'family man.'" Walker is currently locked in a heated and high-stakes battle for Georgia's Senate seat with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, the outcome of which could tilt the balance of power in Washington come November. When asked about the Daily Beast report late Monday, Warnock deferred to the "pundits [who will] decide how they think it will impact the race." Herschel Walker denies report he reimbursed girlfriend's abortion originally appeared on abcnews.go.com | |
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| 10-04-22 07:17am - 810 days | #459 | |
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Vlad Putin declares victory in Ukraine. Says the blood of Russia has cleansed Ukraine of the Nazi threat. Says Ukraine welcomes Russian troops with open arms, singing praises of Russian might. ----- ----- Russian losses evident in key liberated Ukrainian city Associated Press ADAM SCHRECK and VASILISA STEPANENKO October 4, 2022, 5:12 AM LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of Russian soldiers were lying in the streets of a key eastern Ukrainian city on Tuesday, evidence of a hasty retreat that marked a new military defeat for Moscow as it struggles to hang on to areas it illegally annexed last week. Russia’s upper house of parliament rubber-stamped the annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Tuesday, following “referendums” that Ukraine and its Western allies dismissed as illegal and fraudulent. Responding to the annexation move, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally ruled out talks with Russia. Zelenskyy’s decree released Tuesday declares that holding negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin has become impossible after his decision to take over the four regions of Ukraine. The Kremlin responded to the Ukrainian president's decree by saying that it will wait for Ukraine to agree to sit down for talks on ending the conflict, noting that it may not happen until a new Ukrainian president takes office. “We will wait for the incumbent president to change his position or wait for a future Ukrainian president who would revise his stand in the interests of the Ukrainian people,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Despite the Kremlin's apparent political bravado, the picture on the ground underscored the disarray Putin faces in his response to Ukrainian advances and attempts to establish new Russian borders. Over the weekend, Russian troops pulled back from Lyman, a strategic eastern city that the Russians had used as a key logistics and transport hub, to avoid being encircled by Ukrainian forces. The city's liberation gave Ukraine a key vantage point for pressing its offensive deeper into Russian-held territories. Two days later, the bodies of Russian soldiers were still on the ground. The Ukrainian military appeared to have collected the bodies of their comrades after fierce battles for control of Lyman, but didn't immediately remove those of the Russians. “We fight for our land, for our children, so that our people can live better, but all this comes at a very high price,” said a Ukrainian soldier who goes by the nom de guerre Rud. Lyman residents emerged from basements where they had hidden during the battle for control of the city and built bonfires for cooking. The city has had no water, electricity or gas since May. Residential buildings were burned. A few residents emerged on bicycles. A 85-year-old, who identified herself by her name and patronymic, Valentyna Kuzmychna, recalled a recent explosion nearby. “I was standing in the hall, about five meters away, when it boomed," she said. "God forbid, now I can’t hear well.” The Russian forces launched more missile strikes at Ukrainian cities on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces pressed their counteroffensives in the east and the south. Several missiles hit Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, damaging its infrastructure and causing power cuts. Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said one person was killed and at least two others, including a 9-year-old girl, were wounded. In the south, four civilians were wounded when Russian missiles struck the city of Nikopol. After reclaiming control of Lyman in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian forces pushed further east and may have gone as far as the border of the neighboring Luhansk region as they advance toward Kreminna, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said in its latest analysis of the combat situation. On Monday, Ukrainian forces also scored significant gains in the south, raising flags over the villages of Arkhanhelske, Myroliubivka, Khreshchenivka, Mykhalivka and Novovorontsovka. Despite the latest military gains, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhen Perebyinis called for the deployment of more weapons to Ukraine following the partial mobilization announcement by Russia last month. In a video address to a conference in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Russia’s war against Ukraine on Tuesday, Perebyinis said the additional weapons wouldn't lead to an escalation but help to end the war sooner. “We need additional long-range artillery and ammunition, combat aircrafts, and armed vehicles to continue the liberation of the occupied territories,” the deputy minister said. “We need anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems to secure our civilians and critical infrastructure from the terrorist attacks on the Russian forces.” We need additional long-range artillery and ammunition, combat aircrafts, and armed vehicles to continue the liberation of the occupied territoriesUkrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhen Perebyinis The Ukrainian successes in the east and the south came even as Russia moved to absorb four Ukrainian regions amid the fighting there. The upper house of Russian parliament, the Federation Council, voted Tuesday to ratify treaties to make the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions part of Russia. The lower house had quickly rubber-stamped the accession pacts after last week's Kremlin-orchestrated annexation “referendums” that Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed as illegal and fraudulent. Putin is expected to quickly endorse the annexation treaties. Russia’s moves to incorporate the Ukrainian regions have been done so hastily that even the exact borders of the territories being absorbed were unclear. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Donetsk and Luhansk are joining Russia with the same administrative borders that existed before a conflict erupted there in 2014 between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. He said the borders of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are still undecided. But a senior Russian lawmaker offered a different view. Pavel Krasheninnikov said Zaporizhzhia will be absorbed within its “administrative borders,” meaning Moscow plans to incorporate parts of the region still under Kyiv’s control. He said similar logic will apply to Kherson, but that Russia will include two districts of the neighboring Mykolaiv region that are now occupied by Russia. | |
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Dangle Trump's lawyers want the full force and majesty of the law to bear on the problems of Dangle Trump. Say it will take until 3113 for the courts to examine all the paperwork in full. And that no decisions should be made without due process. So the corrupt FBI and the Federal Government, that has sunk to new lows since Dangle was forced to move to Florida, will be allowed a breathing space while they lick their wounds after Dangle exposed their illicit and corrupt behavior to the nation. God save Dangle Trump, the biggest dick in Washington DC, until he lost the Whitest House to a corrupt politician. ---- ---- Trump objects to expediting appeal in special master case -court documents Reuters October 3, 2022, 11:08 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Monday objected to a Justice Department request for an expedited ruling in the special master case involving documents seized by the FBI in an August search of the former president's Florida home. "The government has not and cannot possibly articulate any real risk of loss or harm resulting from a more deliberative process," Trump's lawyers said in a filing in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Justice Department on Friday moved to expedite its appeal of an order appointing a special master to review records the FBI seized from Trump's Florida estate. The department said its inability to access the non-classified documents is still hampering significant aspects of its investigation on the retention of government records at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. The Justice Department asked the appeals court to order that all papers be filed in the case by Nov. 11, and hold any necessary hearing in the case as soon as that briefing is completed. Trump's lawyers on Monday proposed a Nov.21 deadline for all papers to be filed. Trump's team also opposed expediting oral arguments in the case, according to the filing, saying January 2023 would be an appropriate time frame. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Kanishka Singh; Editing by Mark Porter) Edited on Oct 04, 2022, 07:51pm | |
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Dangle Trump asks Black judge on the US Supreme Court for help in fighting the US Justice Department. The Black judge is Clarence Thomas, whose wife tried to overturn Sleepy Joe Biden's victory over Trump to become president of the Untied States of Trumperland. Ginni Thomas still believes that Dangle Trump won the 2020 election, and that Sleepy Joe Biden stole the Whitest House away from Dangle. But not to worry: Ginni Thomas and Clarence Thomas do not speak to each other about what they do: they are silent partners who pass in the night, as related by Ginni Thomas. ----- ----- Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute Associated Press ERIC TUCKER October 4, 2022, 2:18 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate, escalating a dispute over the powers of an independent arbiter appointed to inspect the records. The Trump team asked the justices to overturn a lower court ruling and allow the arbiter, called a special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classification markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. A three-judge panel from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month limited the special master's review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. The judges, including two Trump appointees, sided with the Justice Department, which had argued there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own review of the classified records. But Trump's lawyers said in their application to the Supreme Court that it was essential for the special master to have access to the classified records to “determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are personal records or Presidential records.” “Since President Trump had absolute authority over classification decisions during his Presidency, the current status of any disputed document cannot possibly be determined solely by reference to the markings on that document,” the application states. It says that without the special master review, “the unchallenged views of the current Justice Department would supersede the established authority of the Chief Executive.” An independent review, the Trump team says, ensures a “transparent process that provides much-needed oversight.” The FBI says it seized roughly 11,000 documents, including about 100 with classification markings, during its search. The Trump team asked a judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, to appoint a special master to do an independent review of the records. Cannon subsequently assigned a veteran Brooklyn judge, Raymond Dearie, to review the records and segregate those that may be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege. She also barred the FBI from being able to use the classified documents as part of its criminal investigation. The Justice Department appealed, prompting the 11th Circuit to lift Cannon's hold on investigators' ability to scrutinize the classified records. The appeals court also ruled that the department did not have to provide Dearie with access to the classified records. Trump’s lawyers submitted the Supreme Court application to Justice Clarence Thomas, who oversees emergency matters from Florida and several other Southern states. Thomas can act on his own or, as is usually done, refer the emergency appeal to the rest of the court. ____ Associated Press writers Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko contributed to this report. | |
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Dangle Trump is seeking to make the Fake News more accountable. He filed a $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN. Trump is a man of truth, honor, and decency. He says that CNN, that low-down dirty muck-raking Fake News source, has hit below the belt. The head of CNN is running scared, and wants to settle with Dangle Trump in private. Dangle Trump is too strong for CNN, and they bow down before the strength and purity and determination of Dangle. ---- ---- Trump files $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN Associated Press October 4, 2022, 4:51 AM NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday sued CNN, seeking $475 million in damages, saying the network had defamed him in an effort to short-circuit any future political campaign. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, focuses primarily on the term “The Big Lie” about Trump's false claims of widespread fraud that he says cost him the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. CNN said it had no comment on the lawsuit. Trump repeatedly attacked CNN as president, which resonated with his conservative followers. He has similarly filed lawsuits against big tech companies with little success. His case against Twitter for knocking him off its platform following the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection was thrown out by a California judge earlier this year. Numerous federal and local election officials in both parties, a long list of courts, top former campaign staffers and even Trump’s own attorney general have all said there is no evidence of the election fraud he alleges. Trump's lawsuit claims “The Big Lie,” a phrase with Nazi connotations, has been used in reference to him more than 7,700 times on CNN since January 2021. “It is intended to aggravate, scare and trigger people,” he said. In a statement Monday, Trump suggested that similar lawsuits would be filed against other news organizations. And he said he may also bring “appropriate action” against the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters. The lawsuit comes as he is weighing a potential bid for the presidency in 2024. New CNN chief Chris Licht privately urged his news personnel in a meeting more than three months ago to refrain from using the phrase because it is too close to Democratic efforts to brand the former president, according to several published reports. | |
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| 10-06-22 05:35am - 808 days | #463 | |
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The FBI arrests Ohio pastor. Religion is supposed to be sacred. But the corrupt FBI is going after religious leaders. This goes back to when the FBI was behind the assassination of Martin Luther King, allegedly. The FBI will attack anyone who hold religious beliefs in God. Members of the Church of God need to strike down the corrupt FBI and replace it with Armed Warriors of God. Amen. ------ ------ FBI arrests Ohio pastor who shouted 'Mission accomplished' at Capitol on Jan. 6 Yahoo News Christopher Wilson October 5, 2022, 12:25 PM Federal authorities arrested an Ohio pastor Wednesday for his alleged role in the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Bill Dunfee was arrested on felony charges of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, in addition to five misdemeanors. Dunfee serves as the pastor at the New Beginnings Ministries Warsaw and used the pulpit to express the baseless belief that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election. The FBI stated that it began its investigation into Dunfee in February 2021, the month after supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the formal counting of the electoral votes showing that Biden had won. The bureau added that Dunfee confirmed his attendance to the FBI in a March 2021 phone call, and it received additional tips that summer about his role. Rioters clash with police Rioters clash with police as they try to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) According to the criminal complaint, Dunfee spoke about the election during a sermon on Dec. 27, 2020, saying, “The Government, the tyrants, the socialists, the Marxists, the progressives, the RINOs, they fear you. And they should. Our problem is we haven’t given them reason to fear us.” Dunfee added, “As I said earlier in another previous sermon is this: They used to tell us, you know what, you settle your differences at the ballot. How did that work out for us? It’s not over.” The Justice Department alleges that Dunfee illegally entered the Capitol grounds with a bullhorn that he used to say, “We are taking our house.” As some of the insurrectionists dispersed on the afternoon of Jan. 6, Dunfee told them, “Mission accomplished,” and replied “Hallelujah” to a fellow rioter who said, “We did it, we shut 'em all down. We did our job.” Dunfee spoke about his experience during a May 2021 sermon, saying, “We show up January 6th at the Capitol Building right? To let it be known that we are not going to stand back and let an election be stolen. That we are going to hold our legislators accountable, and so on and so forth? And what did that get us? Huh? We are all deemed what? Huh? Bunch of terrorists, right?” “I can tell you, having been there [at the Capitol], that um, we were surrounded by patriots,” Dunfee added. “Many, many, many, many patriots. And I thank God they showed up to just to let it be known, that you know, what the bottom line is this, that you are not stealing this election. You’re not going to rob us, deprive us of a democracy, of a republic, without us being heard.” Dunfee was expected to make his first appearance in court in the Southern District of Ohio on Wednesday. Nearly 900 individuals have been arrested for their roles in the events of Jan. 6. The House committee investigating Jan. 6 was planning to have an additional hearing last week but postponed it due to Hurricane Ian. Members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia are currently being tried on a number of charges, including seditious conspiracy. | |
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| 10-06-22 05:49am - 808 days | #464 | |
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Herschel Walker's son says his father is a phony. Tweeted that his father fucks different women and lets them raise their kids on their own. Says that he is not surprised Herschel Walker paid for an abortion for some woman, even though Herschel Walker now says all life is sacred and that abortions should be illegal and now denies he ever paid for an abortion. "My father is a cheat and a liar and a dangerous human being", screams Christian Walker. ------- ------- Who is Christian Walker, Senate candidate Herschel Walker's son? Yahoo News Chanelle Chandler October 5, 2022, 11:51 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. After the Daily Beast reported in a bombshell story on Monday that Herschel Walker — the self-proclaimed “pro-life” Republican running for the Senate in Georgia — paid for his then girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, his son Christian tweeted his way into the headlines. Christian Walker, a conservative social media influencer who has nearly 300,000 followers on Twitter, half a million followers on Instagram and over 165,000 on TikTok, has remained largely absent during his father’s campaign. He said in a post on Tuesday that he’s attended just one campaign event for his father: a fundraiser in December at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Christian Walker in a Twitter video Christian Walker uploaded videos to Twitter on Tuesday to speak about his father, Herschel Walker. (Twitter) A few hours after the story broke that an unidentified woman had provided receipts from an abortion clinic and a bank deposit showing a signed check from Herschel Walker, as well as a “get well” card sent to the woman, whom the NFL great reportedly dated in 2009, Christian called his father out for having “threatened to kill” him and his mother, Cindy Grossman, and for "destroying" people's lives. Christian once supported Herschel. What changed? Christian Walker followed up with several videos on Tuesday morning. First he slammed his critics on the right for describing as “suspicious” his sudden about-turn in calling out his father's “lying.” Next he accused his left-wing critics of acting as though he is “responsible” for his father’s actions. “I stayed silent when it came out that my father, Herschel Walker, had all these random kids across the country — none of whom he raised. And you know my favorite issue to talk about is father absence. Surprise! Because it affected me. … Family values, people! He has four kids, four different women, wasn’t in the house raising one of them. “I was silent lie after lie after lie,” Christian continued. “The abortion part drops yesterday — it's literally his handwriting in the card. They say they have receipts, whatever. He gets on Twitter, he lies about it. OK, I'm done. Done. “Everything has been a lie.” Herschel Walker faces a tight race against Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., in his bid to fill one of Georgia’s Senate seats in this year’s midterm elections. His candidacy was promoted and endorsed by former President Donald Trump. His son, on various platforms, had amplified Herschel Walker's professed conservative views and declared, “I'm MAGA.” Who is Christian? Born in 1999, Christian Walker, who labels himself on Twitter as a “free-speech radicalist,” was raised by Grossman, Herschel Walker's first wife. His father is Black and his mother is white. In a 2008 interview with ABC News, Grossman alleged that on one occasion, Herschel Walker “just kind of raged and he got a gun and put it to my temple.” She claimed that, during a therapy session, her ex-husband threatened to kill her. Christian Walker, his arm around a blonde woman in a bustier, pink shorts and diamond-studded sunglasses, wears a T-shirt that says: De-Fend Police, Support Law. Christian Walker at a pro-Trump rally in Los Angeles in October 2020. (gotpap/STAR MAX/IPx via AP) The 23-year-old Christian Walker, who hosts an “anti-woke” podcast titled “Uncancellable,” graduated from UCLA this spring and is a former cheerleader. When he won a Cheerleading World Championship title competing with the co-ed Spirit of Texas team in 2016, his father spoke affectionately of him, telling TMZ, "I was so thrilled about it because there was a lot of good competition there.” Becoming a right-wing influencer In a TikTok video shared this year, Christian declared he was attracted to “big, strong, muscular men,” but distanced himself from what he called “that rainbow group.” To him, he explained, the “'gay' word” means “You go to Pride events, you go to the gay club every weekend. You’re a leftist,” animatedly describing the stereotypes and saying he did not want to be identified with them. In 2020, he led a “Gays for Trump” march in West Hollywood, Calif. He has denounced the Black Lives Matter movement as being “extremely violent” and described it as destroying minority communities. Christian Walker, wearing a Trump Make America Great Again T-shirt, dances with his iPhone in his hand among a group of Trump supporters. Christian Walker holds a "Gays for Trump" march in Los Angeles in 2020. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock) “What have they done? They haven't helped low-income communities, they actually destroyed many minority-owned businesses ... even on my street in Los Angeles," he said in an interview with Fox Business in October 2020. "It's very frustrating that many Democrats and people on the left fall down and worship Black Lives Matter simply because it has a good name.” In July, Christian Walker moved to Miami from Los Angeles, saying California had been ruined by the left, and taking aim at its Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, in several videos and Twitter posts. He said he had moved to “DESANTIS-LAND, FLORIDA” because of its Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. He described the state as one “that supports my values” and “protects residents.” Herschel Walker, wearing a crisp blue shirt and no tie, at a podium marked: Herschel for Senate. Senate candidate Herschel Walker addresses a campaign event in Athens, Ga., on May 23. (Megan Varner/Getty Images) His Twitter account is peppered with right-wing rhetoric, calling out “wokeness” and an increase in crime in “liberal” states and praising the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. He has also railed against the Biden administration’s policies on issues such as immigration, student loan forgiveness and mask mandates. ‘I'm done’ After the Daily Beast story published its story this week, Christian Walker tweeted, “Every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office, because we all knew (some of) his past. Every single one. He decided to give us the middle finger and air out all of his dirty laundry in public, while simultaneously lying about it. I'm done." His father responded publicly by tweeting: “I LOVE my son no matter what.” Herschel Walker has denied the abortion claims, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview that he “never asked anyone to get an abortion. I never paid for an abortion — it's a lie," and issuing a statement threatening to sue the Daily Beast for defamation. Last year the candidate, who has said his opposition to abortion is “from the womb to the tomb,” completed a survey from the Georgia Life Alliance indicating that he supports outlawing abortion, including in instances of rape and incest. “I am 100% pro-life. As Georgia’s next Senator, I will vote for any legislation which protects the sanctity of human life, even if the legislation is not perfect,” he wrote in the survey. “Every human life is valuable and absolutely worth saving.” | |
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Report: Mom of Walker's child says he paid for her abortion Associated Press October 6, 2022, 3:35 AM ATLANTA (AP) — A woman who said Herschel Walker paid for her 2009 abortion is the mother of one of his children, according to a new report Wednesday, undercutting the Georgia Republican Senate candidate's claims that he didn't know who she was. The Daily Beast, which first reported Monday on the abortion, said it had agreed not to reveal details of the woman's identity to protect her privacy. But Walker, who has expressed support for a national abortion ban without exceptions, vehemently denied the story, calling the abortion allegation a “flat-out lie,” threatening a lawsuit against the outlet he has yet to file and saying he had no idea who the woman might be. So on Wednesday night, The Daily Beast revealed that the woman — who was not named — was so well known to Walker that, according to her, they conceived another child years after the abortion. She decided to continue on with the later pregnancy, though she noted that Walker, as he had during the earlier pregnancy, expressed that it wasn't a convenient time for him, the outlet reported. The Daily Beast said the Walker campaign declined to comment on Wednesday's story. Walker is scheduled to make a public appearance Thursday morning in Wadley, Georgia, as part of his Unite Georgia Bus Stop tour across the state. The latest reporting ensures that abortion will continue to be a central issue in the Georgia race, one of the most competitive Senate contests in the country. Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock are locked in a tight contest that is key to the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. It adds to a series of stories about the football legend's past that have shaken Walker's campaign. Walker has been accused of repeatedly threatening his ex-wife’s life, exaggerating claims of financial success and overstating his role in a for-profit program that is alleged to have preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government. Herschel Walker, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Georgia. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/AP) Herschel Walker, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Georgia. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/AP) Earlier this year, after a story by The Daily Beast, Walker acknowledged the existence of three children he had not previously talked about publicly. The woman told The Daily Beast for Wednesday's story that Walker's denial of the abortion was somewhat surprising to her. “Sure, I was stunned, but I guess it also doesn't shock me, that maybe there are just so many of us that he truly doesn't remember,” the woman said. “But then again, if he really forgot about it, that says something, too.” In The Daily Beast report published late Monday, the news outlet said it reviewed a receipt showing her payment for the procedure, along with a get-well card from Walker and her bank deposit records showing the image of a $700 personal check from Walker dated five days after the abortion receipt. During the Republican Senate primary, Walker openly backed a national ban on abortions with no exceptions for cases involving rape, incest or a woman’s health being at risk — particularly notable at a time when the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court precedent had been overturned and Democrats in Congress had been discussing codifying abortion rights into federal law. “I’m for life,” Walker has said repeatedly as he campaigns. When asked about whether he’d allow for any exceptions, he has said there are “no excuses” for the procedure. As the Republican nominee, Walker has sometimes sidestepped questions about his earlier support for a national abortion ban, a tacit nod to the fact that most voters, including many Republicans, want at least some legal access to abortion. | |
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Herschel Walker says he didn't lie. Doesn't know the woman who had the abortion, is not sure if she is the mother of one of his children (did they fuck in the dark?), has nothing to be ashamed of, and even if he did pay for an abortion, that's nothing to be ashamed of, people do things, and he believes abortions should be illegal. Vote for Herschel Walker. Vote for Dangle Trump. They will make Georgia and America great again, with high moral standards and medicines that will lighten the color of your skin. ----- ----- Herschel Walker stumbles in attempt to respond to allegation he paid for girlfriend's abortion Yahoo News Christopher Wilson October 6, 2022, 12:52 PM Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker attempted in a series of interviews to explain the allegation that he paid for the abortion of one of his children’s mothers, but a litany of questions still remains. On Monday, the Daily Beast reported it had evidence that Walker had paid for an abortion in 2009 for his then girlfriend. Walker denied the report and said he didn’t know the woman, but a follow-up report from the Daily Beast alleged that she is the mother of one of his children. Earlier this summer, Walker acknowledged the existence of three children he hadn’t previously discussed publicly after a prior report from the Daily Beast, which alleged he had lied to his own campaign staff about their existence. Walker, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, has run a staunchly anti-abortion campaign, saying he wants a total ban with no exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the mother. In an interview Thursday morning with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Walker insisted he had not paid for the abortion despite the fact that the Daily Beast had seen a receipt from the clinic, a check from him and a "get well" card to the woman. Walker did not deny that the woman in the story was the mother of one of his children. When Hewitt followed up, Walker said of the alleged abortion, “Had that happened, I would have said it, because it’s nothing to be ashamed of there. You know, people have done that, but I know nothing about it. And if I knew about it, I would be honest and talk about it.” Walker briefly took questions from the press following a campaign event at a lumber company in Wadley, Ga., but his answers did not immediately clear up the confusion. “Have you reached out to any of the mothers of your children?” asked a reporter. Walker said he had not, and then asked why he would need to. “Well, because, according to the [Daily Beast] article, the woman who says that you paid for her to have an abortion is also the mother of one of your children,” the reporter continued. “It seems like that’s an easy way to —” “Because of the article, I had more kids,” Walker said. “That’s why I didn’t reach out to anyone, because I said no, and that’s what I mean when I said no. I said that’s not correct, that’s a lie. Then that's what I mean, that's a lie.” A reporter then asked him about his comment to Hewitt about not needing to be ashamed. The former University of Georgia star said he hadn’t made the comment. “No, what I said — I was talking about something totally different than what did happen,” Walker explained. “I said, when I, with my ex-wife, in my past, had nothing to do with what this woman said. I said this, this here abortion thing is false, it’s a lie. And that’s what I said. I said anything happened with my ex-wife or what Christian was talking about — I don’t know, but as I said, if anything happened I have nothing to be ashamed of. My ex-wife and I have been the best of friends with her husband and my wife. So that’s the things I’ve said. And I said nothing about if it did happen. Because I said that’s a lie.” Walker has so far failed to file a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, as he stated he would after the release of the initial story on Monday. His lawyer, Robert Ingram, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday, “We are investigating.” Politico reported that Walker’s campaign team had already been aware of the story of an abortion circulating. Roger Sollenberger, the Daily Beast writer who broke the story about the alleged abortion, said the Politico piece “doesn’t quite track with what I know about the story I reported. It’s highly, highly possible these are two different allegations.” Walker has not directly addressed the comments from his adult son Christian, a right-wing social media influencer who was highly critical of his father. In a series of tweets Monday evening, Christian Walker wrote, “I don’t care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man.’ You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you. ... Every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office, because we all knew (some of) his past. Every single one. He decided to give us the middle finger and air out all of his dirty laundry in public, while simultaneously lying about it. I’m done.” “I stayed silent as the atrocities committed against my mom were downplayed,” the younger Walker said in a Tuesday video. “We could have ended this [campaign] on day one. We haven’t. I haven’t told any stories. I’m just saying don’t lie.” When asked after the Wadley event why voters should believe him over his son, Walker said, “Because I love my son so much. He’s a great little man, and I love him to death. And I’ll always love him no matter what my son says.” | |
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Liz Cheney knocks Dangle Trump for turning Fox News into a Communist prop organ. Says that Fox News is supporting Vlad Putin, and that Fox News says Russia's invasion of Ukraine if fine with Fox News. Says that Dangle Trump is mulling a move to Russia to avoid jail time. Says that Putin will welcome Dangle Trump with open arms. Says that Dangle Trump and Vlad Putin will pay for fake electors to overturn elections. ----- ----- Cheney knocks ‘growing Putin wing of the Republican Party’ The Hill Julia Mueller October 5, 2022, 5:39 PM Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday criticized her party for what she sees as a growing sector of the GOP that supports Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages his attacks on Ukraine. “You know, the Republican Party is the party of Reagan, the party that essentially won the Cold War. And you look now at what I think is really a growing Putin wing of the Republican Party,” Cheney said at a McCain Institute event at Arizona State University. The outgoing congresswoman, who lost her reelection bid in Wyoming to her Trump-backed Republican challenger, knocked Fox News for “running propaganda” and called out Fox host Tucker Carlson as “the biggest propagandist for Putin on that network.” “You really have to ask yourself, whose side is Fox on in this battle? And how could it be that you have a wing of the Republican Party that thinks that America would be standing with Putin as he conducts that brutal invasion of Ukraine?” Cheney asked. In a sweeping conversation with John S. McCain Democracy Fellow Sofia Gross, Cheney talked about the “stunning developments” she sees in the Republican Party that have stoked her concerns about the American republic and the democratic process. The congresswoman quipped that she “never imaged” she would find herself “spending so much time with Democrats.” Homing in her analysis on Arizona, where the McCain Institute event took place, she criticized Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who touts former President Trump’s false claims of fraud during the 2020 presidential election. “It’s important for us as Republicans to demand from our Republican leaders that they not accept this unraveling of the democracy. … Glenn Youngkin should not come here and campaign for Kari Lake. Ted Cruz, who absolutely knows better, absolutely knows that what he’s advocating is unconstitutional, that what she’s saying is unconstitutional. They know it,” Cheney said. She cautioned voters against voting for Lake and state Rep. Mark Finchem (R), who is running for Arizona secretary of state, underscoring that both Trump-endorsed candidates have backed the former president’s election fraud claims in the face of evidence that his allegations were unfounded. “For almost 40 years now, I’ve been a voting Republican. I don’t know that I have ever voted for a Democrat. But if I lived in Arizona now, I would,” Cheney said. “We cannot give people power who have told us that they will not honor elections,” the congresswoman said. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill. | |
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| 10-06-22 08:26pm - 807 days | #468 | |
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Did Dangle Trump coach cheaters in poker and chess? The world of chess and poker are examining whether the top players are cheating according to Dangle Trump's instructions, or are playing fair with superpowered help. The experts are confused. Is Dangle Trump the world's best con man? ----- ----- Did she or didn't she? Breaking down the cheating allegation and $269K hand rocking the poker world Yahoo Sports Jason Owens October 5, 2022, 3:32 PM Cheating scandals are en vogue. The competitive fishing world is outraged after two guys put lead weights in their fish. In chess, a 19-year-old grandmaster stands accused of cheating in more than 100 games. So poker — a game of incomplete information ripe for cheats — isn't sitting this one out. The game is embroiled in a did-she or didn't-she debate after a bizarre hand in a high-stakes game sparked allegations of cheating and led to the winning player giving money back to the loser. The hand in question involves one of the most stunning calls in recorded poker history in a $269,000 pot. Since the hand last week, allegations of bullying, sexism, coercion and a vibrating cheating device have been leveled. The scandal involves lawyers, RFID technology and polygraphs. Meanwhile the allegation of cheating remains just that — an allegation. There's a lot to digest here. So let's start with the hand that launched it all. $269K pot sparks outrage, debate The three-blind cash game was $100/$200/$400 no-limit Texas Hold'em with an additional $400 ante from the big blind. Players added an $800 straddle, which effectively acts as a fourth blind among eight players at the table. This means that players with six-figure chip stacks were fighting over $1,900 before the betting even begins. In short, it's a big game. The game was streamed on Hustler Casino Live from Los Angeles — a popular high-stakes poker stream. Poker icon Phil Ivey was playing, but he wasn't involved in the hand in question. Let's meet the players who were. There's Garrett Adelstein, a respected high-stakes cash game professional who's a regular at these games. He was also a contestant on "Survivor: Cagayan," where he listed "dishonesty and lack of ambition" as his pet peeves in his bio. He was kicked off the island on Day 6. His opponent in the hand was Robbi Jade Lew. She's a relative newcomer at these stakes, but not a first-timer. She's also an Instagram model with 15,000-plus followers. The hand starts around the 2:00 mark in the video below. Heads up, there's plenty of NSFW language here. This is a poker game involving a cheating allegation, after all: There’s a lot to keep up with here, so you can follow along in the video above. Hand explanation Adelstein was in the $400 big blind. The action folded around to him, and he raised to $3,000 with 7/8 of clubs. It's a hand with low face value but carries the potential to complete high-value straights and flushes. A raise from this spot is standard from an aggressive pro. Lew called $2,200 from her $800 straddle with jack/4 off-suit. This is a poor holding with little upside that's generally folded from her position. But with $800 already invested, she's far from the only poker player who would pay to see a flop. The flop brought 9 of clubs, 10 of clubs, 10 of hearts, giving Adelstein's 7/8 of clubs a good shot at both a flush and a straight with an outside shot at an unbeatable straight flush. Despite having the worst hand at the time, Adelstein's combo draw made him a roughly 2-to-1 favorite to finish with the best hand. He maintained his aggressive line and bet $2,700 into a $6,700 pot. Lew called with an unimproved jack-high. This is generally a standard fold for most experienced players, but like her pre-flop call, in no way suspicious. A high-stakes hand is drawing plenty of criticism and debate in the poker world. (Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus) A high-stakes hand is drawing plenty of criticism and debate in the poker world. (Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus) The turn brought the 3 of hearts, which didn't improve either players' hand. Adelstein bet again, this time $10,000. His odds to improve had decreased, but he still had two paths to win the pot — bluff Lew out, or draw to a straight or a flush on the river to win with the best hand. Lew would not be bluffed. She raised Adelstein's bet to $20,000 — a minimum raise. Again, this is an unorthodox play, but not suspicious. If she believes Adelstein is bluffing and capable of folding to a raise, then she could conceivably take down the pot right there. Adelstein did not fold. He came over the top with an all-in raise for $109,000. And that's when things got weird. How can she make this call? This spot is a no-brainer fold for any competent poker player. Lew's jack-high doesn't beat a pair. Even if she believes that Adelstein is bluffing, her hand loses to any of his bluffs that hold an ace, king, queen or jack with a better kicker. Adelstein just so happened to be holding one of the few semi-bluffing hands that her hand could beat. But you don't call down $109,000 in this spot on the off chance that your opponent holds 8-high. Poker's in part a game of reading one's opponent, but there's no rational tell that could compel Lew to put Adelstein on his exact holding. Reads are generally about putting an opponent on a range of possible hands, not one as specific as Adelstein's. Accurately putting Adelstein on 7/8 suited here is the equivalent of mind reading. In this spot, you fold, congratulate your opponent on a nice play and save your chips to fight for another hand. Instead, Lew thought about her decision for around 90 seconds. Then she did the unthinkable. She called. 'You look like you wanna kill me, Garrett' "Yikes," Adelstein proclaimed with a strained grin. His bluff had been called. He wasn't aware at that point with what. Neither player had yet turned over their hand. "I have a s***ty hand," Lew announced. This prompted another "Yikes" from Adelstein. "This is a pure bluff catcher," Lew continued. "But I think he has me beat." Adelstein maintained his hand-in-the-cookie jar grin. He speculated out loud whether Lew held a small pair as the river cards came out. They'd agreed to run the river twice, with half the pot going to the winner of each result. They did so with their hole cards still face down. Lew's jack-high held both times as a 9 of diamonds and ace of spades did not improve Adelstein's holding over Lew's. Adelstein sheepishly turned over his 7/8. Lew then turned over her jack/4 to scoop the $269,000 pot. Adelstein's grin disappeared. "You look like you wanna kill me, Garrett," Lew said. Other players guffawed at the play. Adelstein's stunned glare remained as the dealer counted Lew's chips to determine what Adelstein owed. The call didn't make sense. How could Lew call down $109,000 unless she knew his hole cards? "This doesn’t seem super funny to me," Adelstein said as Lew attempted to explain her play. "I thought you were on ace-high," Lew said. "So why call with jack-high, then?" Adelstein responded. It's a question that's baffled the poker world in the days since with the game's best players debating on Twitter and in podcasts: Did Lew cheat, and if so, how? Or did she just simply make a baffling play as an amateur under pressure that worked out in her favor? Adelstein clearly believed she was cheating. Tensions remained high for the next several minutes at the table. Adelstein questioned her play, declaring "that's not a poker hand." Lew responded by repeatedly needling Adelstein and defending her play. Lew refunds money, says she was threatened 'in a dark hallway' Off camera, Lew gave Adelstein a refund. Details on exactly what happened are sparse, but both players have provided their accounts of what went down. Lew wrote on Twitter that Adelstein threatened her in a dark hallway. Garrett blocked me. Guilty as charged. What an honest man. He cornered me & threatened me. If he has the audacity to give me the death stare ON camera, picture what it’s like OFF camera. I was pulled out of the game & forced to speak to him in a dark hallway. Full details to come — Robbi Jade Lew (@RobbiJadeLew) September 30, 2022 Adelstein contends that he didn’t demand or ask for a refund and that Lew instead offered to pay him back after he implied that she cheated in their off-camera conversation. “Any chance whatsoever that she chose to repay me the $135k for any reason other than an admission of guilt, I would never, ever accept the refund," Adelstein wrote on Twitter. He also suggested that Lew was wearing a vibrating device or had somehow hacked into the card-reading technology to be alerted to his holding and that she had the best hand. Cards in live-streamed and broadcast games have RFID sensors identifying them so viewers can see them at home. RFID sensors were at the heart of the last big poker cheating scandal involving player Mike Postle, who unfathomably always made the right decision over the course of hundreds of hands in a regular poker live-stream. What the poker pros say Again, the allegations against Lew are strictly allegations. There is no concrete evidence that she cheated. Poker podcasts and Twitter have debated the allegations endlessly, with videos appearing to show Lew's chair vibrating and close-ups on her hip speculating whether she had a device in her pocket. Lew addressed that speculation bluntly. She's also offered multiple explanations for why she made the call at the table and on social media, including that she misread her hand and and thought that she held a 3. A 3 would have given her a pair and a legitimate bluff-catcher that would have been applauded as a good play. Nailed it. https://t.co/aCUAB8DPAL — Robbi Jade Lew (@RobbiJadeLew) October 2, 2022 | |
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| 10-06-22 08:27pm - 807 days | #469 | |
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ARTICLE CONTINUES: If you go back to the beginning of the video, she held J/3 suited on the previous hand. It's perfectly reasonable that she could have simply mixed her hole cards up with her previous hand. Except she's seen looking back at her cards multiple times during the hand in question, including in the seconds before making the call. So this explanation appears to belie logic. A prevailing theory is that Lew was simply overwhelmed in a big spot and made a panicked decision. Daniel Negreanu is one of poker's best-known and most-respected players. He's also a poker coach. He's firmly on team Lew-didn't-cheat and believes that this is the most rational explanation. He doesn't believe that Lew's decision to refund the money is an admission of guilt. Negreanu's also done a deep Twitter dive analyzing Lew's pants in an effort to explain the apparent bulge in her right pocket. Doug Polk — another respected high-stakes poker winner — is on team cheat. He posted the image of her pants and concluded in an 18-minute video that he believes that "it's overwhelmingly likely that she's cheating" while adding the all-important caveat that "it's not known for sure." Meanwhile, seemingly every high-stakes pro has offered an opinion on social media. "This shouldn’t be team cheat vs. team didn’t," Phil Galfond wrote. "Should just be an investigation from open-minded people rather than each side cherry-picking evidence to support their take. I currently think probably no cheating but I’m happy to change my mind." Xuan Liu agrees with Negreanu and doesn't think that Lew should have refunded the money. Others have accused Adelstein and those accusing Lew of cheating of sexism. Those critics in turn have been labeled as ignorant of poker and not understanding what the debate is about. Nearly a week after the hand took place, the debate remains heated — and the situation unresolved. It likely won't be any time soon, if ever. But Hustler is looking into it. Hustler Casino Live has launched an investigation into the hand and the cheating allegations. It's hired a law firm to lead the investigation conducted by a cybersecurity company that will include staff and player interviews and possible polygraph testing. "This investigation will be extremely detailed and may take considerable time to complete," Hustler's statement reads. "Once the investigation is finished, we will release the findings publicly — no matter what they reveal. "It’s important for us to reinforce that we have found no evidence of wrongdoing at this point." Until and likely after the investigation is concluded, the debate will rage on. | |
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| 10-06-22 08:37pm - 807 days | #470 | |
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Maggie Haberman's new book on Dangle Trump shows Dangle Trump the con man. ------ ------ Maggie Haberman's new book on Trump fills in details lacking in other accounts Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan October 6, 2022, 9:13 AM No book about Donald Trump has arrived with as much anticipation as “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. A native New Yorker like Trump, she chronicled his four years in Washington with a diligence that made her the envy of many journalists and the bane of the Trump administration, despite the fact that plenty of its top officials appeared to be faithful sources. Published earlier this week, Haberman’s new book is similarly laden with details that suggest unrivaled access to the former president, who sometimes makes shows of impugning her journalism before sitting down with her on the record yet again. Trump himself referred to Haberman, in one of their three interviews for the book, as “my psychiatrist.” Predictably displeased with how “Confidence Man” portrayed him, Trump subsequently trashed Haberman as a “bad writer with very bad sources!” Below, a few of the more newsworthy accounts from “Confidence Man.” An associate of Hillary Clinton’s camp worried about poison in 2016 debate Hillary Clinton stands on a blue carpet, holding up her right hand with fingers extended while holding a microphone with her left, while Donald Trump glowers a few paces behind her. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at a presidential debate on Oct. 9, 2016. (Rick Wilking-Pool/Getty Images) Before the third debate in 2016 between Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband “said he had been told that Russians might try to poison Clinton through a handshake with Trump, to inflict a dramatic episode during the debate.” Ron Klain, the current White House chief of staff and a longtime Democratic insider who was working with the Clinton campaign at the time, “questioned whether Trump could poison Clinton but not himself,” according to Haberman. A top aide to Clinton, Jennifer Palmieri, quickly confirmed that no such plan existed, but the mere suggestion was a hint of just how thoroughly the political establishment was rattled by Trump’s unconventional candidacy. Trump boasted about remodeling a White House ‘secret bathroom’ In the early days of his presidency, Trump proudly showed off what Haberman describes as a “secret bathroom” in the White House intended for the president’s private use. Trump reportedly boasted to one guest of having had the bathroom remodeled after Barack Obama left office. “The statement was strange and vague and open to interpretation as to why he emphasized the changes,” Haberman writes, “but the guest interpreted it to mean Trump did not want to use the same bathroom as his Black predecessor.” Haberman adds that Trump’s “claim of a full remodeling happened to be untrue, officials said at the time: only the toilet seat was replaced, which was customary during a change in officeholder.” A New York real estate mogul declined to build Trump’s border wall Donald Trump, in a navy suit and red tie, walks alone on soil along a black border wall. Trump participates in a ceremony commemorating the 200th mile of border wall at the international border with Mexico in San Luis, Ariz., June 23, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) With no experience in Washington, Trump apparently had little understanding of how difficult it would be to fulfill his campaign promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico. At one point, he asked New York developer Richard LeFrak to do the job. “‘Would you do it?’ Trump proposed to LeFrak, who made clear that he was not a government contractor,” Haberman writes. New York financiers and real estate developers would always enjoy access to Trump during his time in Washington. Financier Tom Barrack, a major Trump supporter and 2016 convention speaker (now on trial for illegal lobbying), “became the equivalent of a life coach for some of the cabinet members encountering Trump for the first time and trying to understand him.” Much later, after the 2020 election, Barrack would plead with Trump to give up the false claim that he had beaten Joe Biden for the presidency. Trump told him to “get out of my office.” The bluntness of William Barr Donald Trump stands close to William Barr. Trump with Attorney General William Barr during a White House ceremony in 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) One of the few top administration officials willing to directly confront Trump was Attorney General William Barr, who had previously worked in the same role for George H.W. Bush. In the spring of 2020, Barr warned Trump that his act was wearing thin. Americans who had given him a chance in 2016, Barr presciently warned, would see little reason to do so again when he faced reelection in November. Americans were developing a negative view of their president, one that would be difficult to break ahead of the presidential election. “People are tired of the f***ing drama,” Barr told Trump, who would ultimately reject his counsel. Later, Barr was an outspoken critic of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election had been “stolen” from him. “You’ve wasted five weeks on this bullshit about the machines,” Barr told Trump in reference to a conspiracy theory regarding electronic voting machines. “There’s nothing wrong with the machines.” Trump has publicly bristled at Barr’s criticism, denouncing his own former attorney general as a “weak and pathetic” pretend Republican. ‘This guy was a crook’ Surrounded by members of the press and others, Kanye West stands while wearing a MAGA hat with one hand on Trump's Oval Office desk while Trump sits on the other side with his elbows on the desk. Kanye West, surrounded by members of the press and others, talks with Trump in the Oval Office on Oct. 11, 2018. (Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images) As protests over racial injustice shook the country, Trump stoked white grievance and outrage. After speaking to the brother of slain Minneapolis man George Floyd, the president nevertheless “resisted any statement he thought would glorify George Floyd, who press reports disclosed had a criminal record. ‘I don’t want to praise him as a good guy,’ he said. ‘This guy was a crook,’” according to Haberman. The president’s son-in-law and close adviser Jared Kushner “floated having Kanye West lead a healing church service on the South Lawn” in the summer of 2020, Haberman writes. West had met with Trump in the Oval Office in 2018. The idea was scotched at the advice of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The pandemic culture wars Haberman reports that Trump decided against a national face mask mandate during the height of the coronavirus pandemic because Meadows argued that the president's conservative supporters “would revolt” against such an order. Trump rarely wore a mask himself and berated West Wing staffers who followed what was at the time a prevailing public health guidance. “Get that f***ing thing off,” he told one masked meeting attendee. In October 2020, the president would contract COVID-19 and develop severe symptoms, requiring treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. As he recovered and prepared to return to the White House, Haberman writes, he considered wearing a cape or a Superman T-shirt. In the end, he would do neither. The influence of Stephen Miller Trump sits with a few people as Stephen Miller, the only face in the frame that's in focus, listens from behind him with a pen to his chin. Presidential adviser Stephen Miller listens as Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Jan. 11, 2019. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) A former staffer for then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (the first U.S. senator to endorse Trump, in 2016) and an ally of Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller became an influential adviser to Trump, irritating other senior figures in the administration, who found him arrogant and inexperienced. Trump would ultimately fire Sessions, whom he hired as his first attorney general, for recusing himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian electoral interference, but Miller’s influence would remain long after his former boss was gone. During the presidential transition, Haberman writes, Miller was “a proponent of a legal theory by which Trump could declare members of drug cartels ‘unlawful combatants’” against whom U.S. military force could be used. That idea went nowhere, but when protests broke out after the killing of George Floyd in 2020, Miller again pressed for using the military, infuriating Pentagon chief Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and leading to a blunt rebuttal from Barr: “You don’t know what the f*** you’re talking about.” Milley would regret, Haberman writes, not telling Miller to “shut the f*** up.” The infamous walk to St. John’s Church Trump holds a Bible aloft in his right hand while standing next to a sign reading St. John's Church Parish House, followed by information on church services. Trump holds a Bible in front of St. John's Church across from the White House after the area was cleared of protesters on June 1, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) | |
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| 10-06-22 08:38pm - 807 days | #471 | |
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ARTICLE CONTINUES: On June 1, 2020, the National Guard used tear gas to clear protesters from Lafayette Park, across from the White House, allowing Trump to walk with top administration officials to St. John’s Episcopal Church, which adjoins the park. There the president posed awkwardly with a Bible. In conversation with Haberman, Trump suggested that the idea for the infamous procession was Milley’s, but then partly walked the assertion back. “Well, let me say that it was at least equal,” Trump told Haberman. “Because he was with me. We had a ceremony for something. He was there and it was suggested that we walk down. He said, ‘That’s a good idea.’ And we walked down. It was no big deal. Nobody ever thought of it.” Although Milley did acquiesce to the scene at St. John’s, he later expressed regret for having done so. The disavowal made him persona non grata for Trump and his supporters, who tended to fawn over the military without fully or properly grasping the role of the armed forces in American society. In one of his interviews with Haberman, Trump called the Princeton-educated four-star general “basically stupid.” No fan of Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantis smiles while sitting next to Trump, who appears to be speaking to him, at a table. Then-Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis sits next to Trump during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Dec. 13, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Trump helped boost then-Congressman Ron DeSantis into the Florida governor’s mansion in 2018. But now that DeSantis is being hailed in some circles as the future of the Republican Party, Trump is having regrets — especially since the two men could be competitors for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. Trump told Haberman that DeSantis was “fat,” “phony” and “whiny.” In a television interview earlier this week, Haberman said there is “no potential candidate in the Republican field who Trump has talked about more to his aides than Ron DeSantis.” | |
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| 10-06-22 09:08pm - 807 days | #472 | |
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NEWS FLASH: Dangle Trump screams: "Maggie Haberman's book about me is full of lies and phony stories. I was generous with her. I spent time telling her the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And she rewarded me by stabbing me in the back!!!!!! Never trust a reporter: they lie, they steal, they are only out to make money and spread dirty stories!!!!!!" | |
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| 10-06-22 09:23pm - 807 days | #473 | |
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Dangle Trump says "It was a wonderful pleasure working with NARA (The National Archives and Records Administration) and the Justice Department to preserve these documents that show my wonderful accomplishments for the Trump Legacy. Many of these documents will be on display in the Dangle Trump Presidential Library that is under construction and will be open to the American public." "After due consideration, NARA and the Justice Department and Sleepy Joe Biden, the cheating liar who stole the Whitest House from me in a rigged election, will get down on their knees and beg forgiveness. And I will be merciful. I will personally select members of the Armed Forces who are experts in weapons as members of the firing squads. So help me God." Edited on Oct 07, 2022, 12:20am | |
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| 10-07-22 10:04am - 807 days | #474 | |
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The tragedy of Herschel Walker's run for US Senator. Herschel Walker says no to abortions. But his ex-girlfriend says he paid for her to get an abortion. Herschel says it's no shame to pay for an abortion. "People do things. I have no shame for what I did. Also, I don't know this woman. She has a photocopy of a $700 check I sent to pay for her abortion. She is also the mother of one of my children. But I don't know the woman. Did we fuck in the dark? Could be. People do things they can't remember. And I'm one of them. Vote for me, Herschel Walker, and I will represent you in the US Senate. Also, the Republican party is strongly behind me. They don't care if I'm a liar (there is evidence I lied to the voters numerous times, but what the hell, people lie all the time). They don't care if I had kids from women I didn't marry, and didn't support. The Republican party doesn't care that I'm a Black man who forgets what he does, has a temper he can't control, threatened to kill an ex-wife. People are people, and I'm one of them." ----- ----- Warnock calls allegations made against Walker 'disturbing' Yahoo News Marquise Francis October 6, 2022, 7:44 PM SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sen. Raphael Warnock offered his first remarks Thursday on the campaign troubles dogging Herschel Walker, his Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate, including damaging allegations that the staunchly anti-abortion advocate paid for a former girlfriend to undergo the procedure in 2009. “What we are hearing about my opponent is disturbing,” Warnock said in response to a question from Yahoo News following a rally in his hometown of Savannah. “And I think the people of Georgia have a real choice about who they think is ready to represent them in the United States Senate.” Walker, a former football star and Heisman Trophy winner who was handpicked to run for the Senate by former President Donald Trump, has denied he ever paid for a woman to get an abortion, but, according to the Daily Beast, the unidentified woman claims to be the mother of one of Walker’s four children. Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker. (Bill Barrow/AP) With abortion rights now playing a central role in the midterm elections, and control of the U.S. Senate once again hanging on the possible outcome in Georgia, Warnock used the first stop of a three-day “Working for Georgia” bus tour to make his position on abortion clear. “I believe in a woman’s right to choose,” Warnock said to a crowd of about 100 supporters gathered in a parking lot across the street from a Baptist church just two blocks from where he grew up. “I have a profound reverence for life. That’s why I voted to expand Medicaid. ... I also have a deep reverence for choice.” “A patient’s room is too small for the patient, her doctor and the United States government,” he added. One month out from midterm election day, multiple polls show a potential shift in the Georgia electorate following this week’s news. In a SurveyUSA poll released on Wednesday, Walker, who had previously been polling neck and neck with the senator in recent weeks, now trails Warnock by 12 points — 50% to 38%. The poll, which was conducted between Sept. 30 and Oct. 4, partly before the abortion story came out and partly after shows that any shifts in momentum in what had been a tight race could prove significant. “Senator Warnock won his election last year by less than 100,000 votes,” Atlanta-based political strategist Fred Hicks told Yahoo News in an email. “At this stage, any poll that shows a 3% or higher performance for Senator Warnock would represent an increase in his share of the vote from last year.” “There’s a bedrock number of people who are going to vote Democrat or Republican, no matter what,” he added. “This election is going to expose exactly what the floor is for Republicans in Georgia.” Sen. Raphael Warnock with his son, Caleb, left, and his daughter, Chloe Sen. Raphael Warnock, with his son, Caleb, left, and his daughter, Chloe, arrives at a street-naming ceremony in Warnock's honor in his hometown of Savannah, Oct. 6. (Russ Bynum/AP) Another InsiderAdvantage/Fox 5 poll of likely voters, which was conducted Tuesday evening, the night the Daily Beast published its first story on Walker and the abortion, shows Warnock with just a 3-point lead — 47% to 44%. In response to the allegations that Walker paid for a woman to have an abortion, many national Republicans have doubled down on their support for the former football great, seeing him as vital to their prospects of wresting back the Senate from Democratic control. “When the Democrats are losing, as they are right now, they lie and cheat and smear their opponents,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Tuesday in a statement. “That’s what’s happening right now,” Scott continued. “They know they are on the verge of losing the Senate, and they know that Herschel Walker is winning, so they have cranked up the smear machine.” Sen. Rick Scott Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who has remained a staunch supporter of Walker. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Conservative commentator and former National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch used more pointed language in her support for Walker. Though she is also anti-abortion, Loesch said Walker may have paid one “skank” for an abortion, but Warnock wants to use “all of our monies to pay a whole bunch of skanks for abortions.” “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles,” Loesch said in a clip posted to Twitter. “I want control of the Senate.” Asked if he felt he was running against Walker or the entire Republican Party, Warnock, a senior pastor since 2005 at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, stuck to a positive message. “I feel like I’m running for the people of Georgia,” Warnock told Yahoo News, “all the people of Georgia — Democrats and Republicans and the folks who are independents.” Raphael Warnock Warnock at a campaign stop in Marietta, Ga., Aug. 31. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File) While most Georgia Republicans have formed in lock-step to support the party’s nominee, some have been careful not to embrace Walker too tightly, especially given the latest allegations against him. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp pledged support to the GOP ticket in the state Tuesday, but made no mention of Walker. “The governor is laser-focused on sharing his record of results and vision for his second term with hardworking Georgians and raising the resources necessary to fund the advertising, ground game and voter turnout operation needed to ensure Republican victories up and down the ballot on Nov. 8,” Kemp spokesman Cody Hall told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Walker’s top GOP primary rival, Gary Black, Georgia’s commissioner of agriculture, said in May that he couldn’t vote for Walker given allegations of domestic violence made against him by a former spouse. “Anybody who has put their hands on women like he has and has been unaccountable, has not taken responsibility for his actions — says he wrote a book, but then he won’t come clean on the rest of it — he hasn’t earned my vote,” Black told AJC in reference to Walker’s explanation Thursday morning in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt when he was asked if he had paid for a woman’s abortion. Raphael Warnock Warnock at a Labor Day picnic in Atlanta. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images) Nationally, most Americans support abortion rights. An AP-NORC poll from July found that 63% of U.S. adults said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 36% thought it should be illegal in all or most cases. Ultimately, however, abortion rights may be a lesser concern for most voters than determining control of the Senate. “The folks who are pushing or fueling the Walker campaign, whether it’s by word or by deed, are simply trying to control power,” Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright told Yahoo News. “Herschel Walker just happens to be the vehicle that they’re using to get to that place.” | |
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| 10-07-22 07:55pm - 806 days | #475 | |
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Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, claims he just found out who the woman is who had an abortion for his unborn child. That woman also has one child with Herschel Walker as the biological father. Herschel Walker claims he didn't know the woman had an abortion. But the woman says he told her to have an abortion. And also says he told her to have an abortion for the child she did have with Herschel as the father. My guess is that Herschel, maybe because he was a football player, has memory losses, where he can't remember what he did. That includes telling a woman to have an abortion. And then, for another unborn child, telling her to have an abortion for that child. But not to worry: Herschel Walker says he's not ashamed of what he did, because life happens, and you have to deal with it. Which is a good philosophy to have: it lets you off the hook for mistakes. Also good news, Herschel Walker now says he remembers dating the woman who had an abortion, and later had a different child with him. Except he doesn't remember her having an abortion, or why he sent her a get-well card while she was recovering from her first abortion. Selective memory. Or political spin. If you listen to Herschel Walker, he's a wonderful guy. No wonder Dangle Trump has backed Herschel Walker: Herschel is a chip of the old block, except that Herschel is Black. Inquiring minds want to know: did Dangle Trump father any Black kids? ------ ------ Texts show family strife between Herschel Walker's wife and woman who alleged he paid for her abortion NBC Universal Marc Caputo October 7, 2022, 6:05 PM Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, claims he confirmed for the first time Friday the identity of the woman who claimed he paid for her abortion 13 years ago when she leveled the allegation in a text message to his wife. In a brief interview with NBC News, Herschel Walker said this was also the first time the woman, who is the mother of one of his four children, mentioned to him or his wife that she had had an abortion. “Did you know Herschel paid for my abortion the first time? Or that he told me it wasn’t the ‘right time’ to have [a their current child]?” the woman wrote in a 9:54 a.m. text message sent Friday to Herschel Walker’s wife, Julie Walker. In response, Julie Walker acknowledged that she tried to be a mediator between Herschel Walker and the woman, who seldom corresponded directly with her son’s father. “This message makes me incredibly sad. You know I have continually tried to bridge a better relationship between you and Herschel putting [the child] first,” Julie Walker wrote to the woman, who did not return messages to NBC News requesting comment. The Walker campaign provided copies of the text message exchange to NBC News hours before The New York Times published an interview with the woman, who alleged that Walker paid for the 2009 abortion and tried to pressure her to abort their young son. NBC News is withholding the woman and child’s names to protect their identities. “The first I knew about any of this was when some reporter asked me about an abortion. And I’m like, ‘No, that’s a lie.’ And then I was asked if I paid for an abortion, and I said No. I did not pay for an abortion,” said Herschel Walker. “I’m not saying she did or didn’t have one [an abortion]. I’m saying I don’t know anything about that. I don’t know.” Herschel Walker, who often limits interviews to conservative news outlets, added that “I have nothing to hide. That’s why I’m talking to you.” The messages his campaign provided between the woman and Julie Walker dated back to May 2022. The messages provide a raw glimpse into the corrosive effects of a political campaign on a family whose relationships became increasingly tense as details about the former football star’s personal life were reported, from the four children he had with four different women to violent episodes in his past. The woman’s claim, first reported Monday by The Daily Beast, rocked Walker’s campaign and left top Republicans wondering if he could survive the allegation, which called into question the conservative credentials of a candidate who maintains he’s devoutly anti-abortion. Herschel Walker’s oldest son, social media influencer Christian Walker, then denounced his father as a liar and hypocrite and criticized him for having multiple children. Earlier in the campaign, Christian Walker appeared to support his father and joined him during at least one event. According to the text messages, the woman also expressed early support for Herschel Walker’s campaign, especially in the runup to the May 24 GOP primary, when Walker first began running as an anti-abortion conservative. “He’ll do great & you will keep him focused! Proud of you guys!” the woman wrote to Julie Walker on the day of the primary election. “Wishing nothing but the best for you tonight!!!” The night after Herschel Walker’s win, the woman texted again: “Congratulations!!!” The messages between the two women — which once were peppered with friendly chatter about the boy’s overnight camp or waning interest in Pokemon — grew increasingly tense as the woman began fielding calls from reporters about Herschel Walker’s children with different women. After the primary, the woman warned Julie Walker that she had been contacted by a reporter and asked Julie Walker if she should tell the press that the candidate “complies 100% with the child support agreement.” Days later, on June 15, Julie Walker shared a series of suggestions with the woman about how she could respond to press inquiries. Those messages came a day after the Daily Beast published a story about one of Herschel Walker’s previously publicly unacknowledged children. The woman replied on July 7 when she asked, “Any more surprises we should know about?” It appeared to be a veiled reference to two Daily Beast articles reporting that Walker had two additional previously publicly unacknowledged children and that he lied to campaign staff about it. In a statement to the Daily Beast in response to the report about the additional children, Walker said, “I have four children. Three sons and a daughter. They’re not ‘undisclosed’—they’re my kids.” He added that he has simply chosen “not to use them as props to win a political campaign. What parent would want their child involved in garbage, gutter politics like this?” Walker’s campaign declined to comment to the Daily Beast on the report about lying to his staff, and his campaign manager criticized the report as “pure gossip.” In the Friday text message exchanges between the two, the woman explained that she did not know about another of Walker children, saying that boy “was a surprise to us all” in the rest of the family. Julie Walker said in an interview that the paternity stories about Walker “pitted people against each other” in the family. The woman showed to The New York Times and the Daily Beast a copy of a $575 receipt from an Atlanta abortion clinic that she said was given to her after her 2009 procedure, and she showed the outlets a copy of a $700 check that she said was a reimbursement check from Walker. In addition, she provided the outlets a copy of a “get well” card bearing a handwritten message signed “H” along with the message: “Pray you are feeling better.” Both outlets reported they corroborated details of the woman’s abortion accusation with a close friend who supported and consoled her during both pregnancies and after her first abortion. Walker told NBC News he doesn’t remember sending the card or check. “I don’t remember any card or check or anything. But I was dating her. I could have sent some money. I could have sent a card. But not for the reasons she is saying,” he said. The New York Times also interviewed a friend of the woman who said she took care of the woman after her 2009 abortion and then supported her through her pregnancy two years later. The woman told her that Walker wanted her to abort the child she ultimately kept, The Times reported, which Walker also denied. Walker’s profession of strict anti-abortion views were too much for the mother involved in the text exchange to bear, she told The New York Times, saying that she’s a Democrat and “the fact that I had a choice — now he’s in the public trying to say he wants to put a ban on abortion completely…It appalled me.” But Walker said the woman knew “I’m a Christian,” while also acknowledging the longstanding tensions between them. “She has been angry at me for years and it is very difficult. She’s a big, big advocate for abortion rights; she’s said that,” he said. Julie Walker didn’t question her motives, and instead said that “I’m sad. I’m taken totally back. I want Herschel to have a relationship with his kid and now this is just tough.” | |
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| 10-08-22 07:14pm - 805 days | #476 | |
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Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, claimed he confirmed for the first time Friday the identity of the woman who has claimed he paid for her abortion 13 years ago when she leveled the allegation in a text message to his wife. Herschel Walker says he is a Christian. That implies he is anti-abortion. So what about the fact woman claims Herschel told her to have an abortion and she did. And what about the fact the woman claims Herschel told her to have a second abortion, but she didn't, and went ahead and had a child she claims is Herschel's? And what about the fact that she claims Herschel paid for her first abortion? Well, as far as Herschel is concerned, he says shit happens. And you have to move on. So now Herschel is running on a platform that says abortion should be illegal. Is this a case of do as I say, and not do as I do? Or is Herschel excused, because he didn't break any laws telling the woman to abort his child, and then telling her to abort the next child he had with her? Also, they weren't married, so was it a sin for the woman to have Herschel's child, and, as a man, Herschel is held blameless? As a Christian, any sins Herschel may have done are between Herschel and God. And Herschel is willing to lead his state and the Senate in the ways of God. And Herschel says he has nothing to hide. That's why he is willing to talk to the press. He didn't know about the first abortion the woman had. If he paid for the abortion with a check, which the woman has as proof, and sent her a get-well-card after the abotion, that's just Herschel being a nice guy: he loves to help people in trouble. And if the woman had Herschel's child years after her first abortion, well, that might have slipped Herschel's mind. He's a busy fellow. And has a lot of things that occupy his mind. But the Republican party is standing firm with Herschel: they want him in the Senate, voting with the Republican party. Who gives a good Goddamn what he did, or how many lies he's told, or how many women he's fucked? ------ ------ Texts show family strife between Herschel Walker's wife and woman who alleged he paid for her abortion NBC Universal Marc Caputo October 7, 2022, 6:05 PM Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, claimed he confirmed for the first time Friday the identity of the woman who has claimed he paid for her abortion 13 years ago when she leveled the allegation in a text message to his wife. In a brief interview with NBC News, Walker said this was also the first time the woman, who is the mother of one of his four children, mentioned to him or his wife that she had had an abortion. “Did you know Herschel paid for my abortion the first time? Or that he told me it wasn’t the ‘right time’ to have [her current child]?” the woman wrote in a 9:54 a.m. text message sent Friday to Herschel Walker’s wife, Julie Walker, who initiated the conversation. Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker at a campaign stop in Wadley (Meg Kinnard / AP) Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker at a campaign stop in Wadley (Meg Kinnard / AP) In response, Julie Walker acknowledged that she had tried to be a mediator between Herschel Walker and the woman, who seldom corresponded directly with her son’s father. “This message makes me incredibly sad. You know I have continually tried to bridge a better relationship between you and Herschel putting [the child] first,” Julie Walker wrote to the woman, who did not return messages to NBC News requesting comment. The Walker campaign provided copies of the text message exchange to NBC News hours before The New York Times published an interview with the woman, who alleged that Walker had paid for the 2009 abortion and tried to pressure her to abort their young son. NBC News is withholding the woman's and child’s names to protect their identities. Part of a text exchange between Julie Walker and the woman who has alleged Herschel Walker, the GOP candidate for Senate in Georgia, paid for an abortion she had during their past relationship. (Obtained by NBC News) Part of a text exchange between Julie Walker and the woman who has alleged Herschel Walker, the GOP candidate for Senate in Georgia, paid for an abortion she had during their past relationship. (Obtained by NBC News) “The first I knew about any of this was when some reporter asked me about an abortion. And I’m like, ‘No, that’s a lie.’ And then I was asked if I paid for an abortion, and I said No. I did not pay for an abortion,” said Herschel Walker. “I’m not saying she did or didn’t have one [an abortion]. I’m saying I don’t know anything about that. I don’t know.” Herschel Walker, who often limits interviews to conservative news outlets, added that “I have nothing to hide. That’s why I’m talking to you.” The messages his campaign provided between the woman and Julie Walker dated back to May 2022. The messages provide a raw glimpse into the corrosive effects of a political campaign on a family whose relationships became increasingly tense as details about the former football star’s personal life were reported, from the four children he had with four different women to violent episodes in his past. The woman’s claim, first reported Monday by The Daily Beast, rocked Walker’s campaign and left top Republicans wondering if he could survive the allegation, which called into question the conservative credentials of a candidate who maintains he’s devoutly anti-abortion. Herschel Walker’s oldest son, social media influencer Christian Walker, then denounced his father as a liar and hypocrite and criticized him for having multiple children. Earlier in the campaign, Christian Walker appeared to support his father and joined him during at least one event. According to the text messages, the woman also expressed early support for Herschel Walker’s campaign, especially in the run-up to the May 24 GOP primary, when Walker first began running as an anti-abortion conservative. “He’ll do great & you will keep him focused! Proud of you guys!” the woman wrote to Julie Walker on the day of the primary election. “Wishing nothing but the best for you tonight!!!” The night after Herschel Walker’s win, the woman texted again: “Congratulations!!!” The messages between the two women — which once were peppered with friendly chatter about the boy’s overnight camp or waning interest in Pokemon — grew increasingly tense as the woman began fielding calls from reporters about Herschel Walker’s children with different women. After the primary, the woman warned Julie Walker that she had been contacted by a reporter and asked Julie Walker if she should tell the press that the candidate “complies 100% with the child support agreement.” Days later, on June 15, Julie Walker shared a series of suggestions with the woman about how she could respond to press inquiries. Those messages came a day after The Daily Beast published a story about one of Herschel Walker’s previously publicly unacknowledged children. The woman replied on July 7 when she asked, “Any more surprises we should know about?” It appeared to be a veiled reference to two Daily Beast articles reporting that Walker had two additional previously publicly unacknowledged children and that he had lied to campaign staff about it. In a statement to The Daily Beast in response to the report about the additional children, Walker said, “I have four children. Three sons and a daughter. They’re not ‘undisclosed’— they’re my kids.” He added that he has simply chosen “not to use them as props to win a political campaign. What parent would want their child involved in garbage, gutter politics like this?” Walker’s campaign declined to comment to the Daily Beast on the report about lying to his staff, and his campaign manager criticized the report as “pure gossip.” In the Friday text message exchanges between the two, the woman explained that she did not know about another of Walker's children, saying that boy “was a surprise to us all” in the rest of the family. Julie Walker said in an interview that the paternity stories about Walker “pitted people against each other” in the family. The woman showed to The New York Times and The Daily Beast a copy of a $575 receipt from an Atlanta abortion clinic that she said was given to her after her 2009 procedure, and she showed the outlets a copy of a $700 check that she said was a reimbursement check from Walker. In addition, she provided the outlets a copy of a “get well” card bearing a handwritten message signed “H” along with the message: “Pray you are feeling better.” Both outlets reported they corroborated details of the woman’s abortion accusation with a close friend who supported and consoled her during both pregnancies and after her first abortion. Walker told NBC News he doesn’t remember sending the card or check. “I don’t remember any card or check or anything. But I was dating her. I could have sent some money. I could have sent a card. But not for the reasons she is saying,” he said. The New York Times also interviewed a friend of the woman who said she took care of her after her 2009 abortion and then supported her through her pregnancy two years later. The woman told her that Walker wanted her to abort the child she ultimately kept, The Times reported, which Walker also denied. | |
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Article continues: Walker’s profession of strict anti-abortion views were too much for the mother involved in the text exchange to bear, she told The New York Times, saying that she’s a Democrat and “the fact that I had a choice — now he’s in the public trying to say he wants to put a ban on abortion completely…. It appalled me.” But Walker said the woman knew “I’m a Christian,” while also acknowledging the longstanding tensions between them. “She has been angry at me for years and it is very difficult. She’s a big, big advocate for abortion rights; she’s said that,” he said. Julie Walker didn’t question the woman's motives, and instead said that “I’m sad. I’m taken totally back. I want Herschel to have a relationship with his kid and now this is just tough.” | |
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| 10-09-22 05:29am - 805 days | #478 | |
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The US Supreme Court could break the internet. And that is the right thing to do. The framers of the US Constitution did not approve of the internet, since it did not yet exist, or was even thought of. So if the Supreme Court wants to stop US citizens, or illegal citizens, to stop using the the internet, so be it. Power to the people. And to the US Supreme Court. And Dangle Trump will guide us to making America Great Again. Heil, Dangle Trump, the greatest leader since Adolf Hitler!!!!!!. ------- ------- How the Supreme Court could break the internet as we know it Yahoo News Mike Bebernes October 8, 2022, 9:15 AM The Supreme Court this week announced it will take up a pair of cases that could fundamentally change the legal foundations of the internet. Both cases ask the justices to consider how far protections that shield websites and social media companies from legal liability over what users post to their platforms should go. Those protections were created in a portion of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 known as Section 230 — a provision that has been called “the twenty-six words that created the internet.” Section 230 did two crucial things. It established that companies operating websites or social media platforms could not be held legally responsible if their users post content that breaks the law. It also granted them the right to curate, edit and delete user content as they see fit. For the past 26 years, Section 230 has undergirded nearly everything about how the internet functions. Experts widely agree that Big Tech giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter would not exist in their current forms without the legal armor they receive from Section 230. In recent years, however, Section 230 has become the target of intense criticism from members of both political parties, though for different reasons. Many Republicans say it allows Big Tech companies to suppress conservative viewpoints and censor prominent voices on the right — most notably former President Donald Trump, who is currently banned from Facebook and Twitter. Democrats and some activists on the left argue that Section 230 means social media companies don’t face any consequences when they allow misinformation, violent rhetoric and harassment to exist on their platforms. A number of bills have been put forward to amend Section 230, but the political divide over what the solution should look like has meant none of these bills have come close to passing. Neither of the two cases going to the Supreme Court fits into one side of this partisan debate. Both concern lawsuits brought by family members of people who were killed in terrorist attacks who believe tech companies — Google in one case, Twitter in the other — should be held responsible for failing to stop extremist groups from operating on their platforms. Why there’s debate For all the complaints about Section 230, there’s still a lot of concern about how a ruling that significantly alters, or even eliminates, its protections would change the online world we’re so dependent on today. Many communications law experts fear that a decision throwing out Section 230 would create chaos in one of the world’s most important industries, as companies attempt to quickly react to a sudden and drastic change in the legal landscape. They argue that, because few companies would be able to endure the new financial risk of lawsuits over user-generated posts, venues for free speech online would rapidly erode or even disappear. Other sites might go the opposite direction and eschew moderation altogether, which would create space for their platforms to turn into cesspools of objectionable content. Some experts say that even smaller changes could disrupt the countless algorithms and automated systems that allow much of the internet to function effectively. But others argue it’s long past time for new laws to govern online speech, and with Congress unable to pass anything sensible the courts provide the best opportunity to create them. Some conservatives are hopeful that the upcoming ruling might make Big Tech less willing to censor right-wing content. Some legal scholars say that the risk of a ruling that would “break the internet” are overblown. It’s much more likely, they argue, that the court will issue a decision that narrowly alters the law in ways that force companies to accept more accountability for things like content recommendations, promotions and search results but leaves them otherwise protected against users’ misdeeds. What’s next Rulings in these two cases, which are expected next year, may not be the only time the court weighs in on Section 230 this term. The justices have also been asked to consider cases regarding recently passed laws in Texas and Florida that bar social media companies from removing posts based on political ideology. Perspectives The fundamental structure of the internet could change dramatically “Its rulings could be the start of a new reality on the internet, one where platforms are much more cautious about the content they decide to push out to billions of people each day. Alternatively, the court could also create a situation in which tech companies have little power to moderate what users post, rolling back years of efforts to limit the reach of misinformation, abuse and hate speech. The result could make parts of the internet unrecognizable, as certain voices get louder or quieter and information spreads in different ways.” — David Ingram, NBC News Even a narrow ruling would scramble online life “It’s not that the Supreme Court is expected to issue an opinion saying ‘platforms are fully liable for everything on them, immediately and irrevocably’ or something like that. Little changes make a big difference, and if the court simply ruled that Section 230 did not protect Google in this case, every lawyer in the country would be rushing to apply that new definition of the law to policies, behaviors, features, everything.” — Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch Subtle changes are needed to update laws to fit the modern internet “What we’re trying to do is balance the needs of platforms to not be held immediately responsible for what gets posted to their platform and also to provide platforms with the proper incentives to police their site against known harmful content. The question is whether we got that balance right in 1996, and I think you could make a very good argument that we might want to rebalance that.” — Michael Smith, information technology researcher, to CNBC The average user isn’t likely to see much change “I don't think it would change much, actually. Platforms already have tremendous ability to control how content is promoted. They will have to make wiser decisions and be held accountable for those decisions.” — Adam Candeub, communications law expert, to ABC News Current laws give Big Tech far too much leeway to censor conservative views “The censorship of conservative voices by Big Tech is well-documented. Some on Capitol Hill have gone so far as to claim that Big Tech practically ‘owns’ the government — a claim that seems increasingly well-founded considering the government’s documented efforts to control messaging during both the pandemic, and on politically inconvenient stories.” — Sarah Parshall Perry, Washington Examiner The courts may soon render the internet completely unworkable “It is entirely possible that next year the Supreme Court may rule that (1) websites are liable for failing to remove certain content (in these two cases) and (2) websites can be forced to carry all content. It’ll be a blast figuring out how to make all that work. Though, some of us will probably have to do that figuring out off the internet, since it’s not clear how the internet will actually work at that point.” — Mike Masnick, Techdirt Conservatives would face the biggest consequences if Section 230 were thrown out “If a company like Twitter suddenly finds that it is held liable for each post on its site, the company says that its options would become limited to either folding entirely or conducting extreme amounts of vetting and content moderation, much more than already goes on. This, of course, isn’t exactly what conservatives want.” — Kyle Barr, Gizmodo Everyone will benefit from having clearly defined rules about what tech companies can and can’t do “The two cases, taken together, will give the Court an opportunity to clarify the ground rules for when the platforms can be sued for doing too little to censor content, or too much to promote it.” — Dan McLaughlin, National Review Congress's failure to pass sensible reforms has left the fate of the internet in the hands of the Supreme Court “If the United States had a more dynamic Congress, lawmakers could study the question of how to maintain the economic and social benefits of online algorithms, while preventing them from serving up ISIS recruitment videos and racist conspiracies, and potentially write a law that strikes the appropriate balance. But litigants go to court with the laws we have, not the laws we might want.” — Ian Millhiser, Vox | |
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| 10-09-22 06:05am - 805 days | #479 | |
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How Dangle Trump was let down by his lawyers. Dangle Trump, man of truth and honor and decency, has told his lawyers to say Dangle returned all the documents he stole from the Whitest House. But not all lawyers followed Dangle Trump's orders. They failed to obey him. Maybe the lawyers were afraid they might be prosecuted for telling lies? Whatever. Dangle Trump was not well served by his lawyers. He needs better lawyers, if he is to escape prosecution from the Federal Government. But Dangle is a man of not just truth and honor and decency, but also a man of steel and resolve: he will fight the Federal Government, since it took the Whitest House away from him and gave it the the scoundrel Sleepy Joe Biden. ------ ------ The New York Times How Trump Deflected Demands for Documents, Enmeshing Aides Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt Sat, October 8, 2022 at 8:08 AM An image the Department of Justice included in an August 30, 2022 court filing shows documents marked SECRET//SCI that were recovered from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club and home in Florida. (Department of Justice via The New York Times) An image the Department of Justice included in an August 30, 2022 court filing shows documents marked SECRET//SCI that were recovered from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club and home in Florida. (Department of Justice via The New York Times) Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on former President Donald Trump to return boxes of records he had taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago club, he came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown: cut a deal. Trump, still determined to show he had been wronged by the FBI investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims. In exchange for those documents, Trump told advisers, he would return to the National Archives the boxes of material he had taken to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump’s aides never pursued the idea. But the episode is one in a series that demonstrates how Trump spent a year and a half deflecting, delaying and sometimes leading aides to dissemble when it came to demands from the National Archives and ultimately the Justice Department to return the material he had taken, interviews and documents show. That pattern was strikingly similar to how Trump confronted inquiries into his conduct while in office: entertain or promote outlandish ideas, eschew the advice of lawyers and mislead them, then push lawyers and aides to impede investigators. In the process, some of his lawyers have increased their own legal exposure and had to hire lawyers themselves. And Trump has ended up in the middle of an investigation into his handling of the documents that has led the Justice Department to seek evidence of obstruction. The path began well before Trump left office. Concern about Trump’s habit of bringing documents to his White House bedroom began not long after he took office. By the second year of his administration, tracking the material he had in the residence had become a familiar obstacle, according to people familiar with his practices, and by the third year, there were specific documents that West Wing officials knew were not where they should be. In the closing weeks of his presidency, the White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, flagged the need for Trump to return documents that had piled up in boxes in the White House residence, according to archives officials. “It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the residence of the White House over the course of President Trump’s last year in office and have not been transferred to NARA, despite a determination by Pat Cipollone in the final days of the administration that they need to be,” Gary M. Stern, the top lawyer for the National Archives, told Trump’s representatives in a 2021 letter, using an abbreviation for the agency’s name. Stern added that he had raised his concerns about the issue with another top White House lawyer in the final weeks of the administration. Stern acknowledged to Trump’s representatives the complications that had come with the abrupt end of Trump’s term. “We know things were very chaotic, as they always are in the course of a one-term transition,” he wrote. “This is why the transfer of the Trump electronic records is still ongoing and won’t be complete for several more months. But it is absolutely necessary that we obtain and account for all original presidential records.” Throughout 2021, Stern doggedly pressed Trump’s representatives to have him hand over the boxes. Stern went back and forth about the issue with the people Trump had originally designated to represent him in dealing with the archives — among them Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, and three lawyers who had worked in the White House Counsel’s Office. In September 2021, as Stern increased the pressure on Trump to return the boxes, Trump told Meadows that there were about a dozen boxes that had been taken from the White House but that they only contained newspaper clippings and personal effects, according to three people briefed on the matter. (To some aides, Trump claimed that the contents of the boxes included dirty laundry.) Meadows shared Trump’s characterization of the contents of the boxes with Patrick Philbin, another of Trump’s representatives to the archives and a former White House lawyer. Philbin in turn relayed the message — which months later would prove to be false — to Stern. But archives officials made clear that even newspaper clippings and printouts of articles seen by Trump in office were considered presidential records. The archives often found personal effects among the materials presidents turned in, and the archives would send them back to Trump if they ever found any. Still, Trump returned no boxes. By the fall, Stern was growing increasingly frustrated and dealing with Alex Cannon, a lawyer who had worked for the Trump Organization, the 2020 campaign and then Trump’s political action committee. Cannon had also been involved in responding to requests for documents from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. In a conversation in late October or early November of last year, Stern told Cannon that he had tried other avenues for retrieving the documents and failed. He acknowledged that the Presidential Records Act did not contain an enforcement mechanism but suggested that the archives had options, including the ability to ask the attorney general to assist in retrieving the documents, according to people briefed on the discussions. Cannon told Stern that the documents would be returned by the end of the year, the people said. Around that time, Cannon, who told others he worried the boxes might contain documents that were being sought in the Jan. 6 inquiry, called Trump, who insisted that the boxes contained nothing of consequence. Nonetheless, Cannon told associates that the boxes needed to be shipped back as they were, so the professional archivists could be the ones to sift through the material and set aside what they believed belonged to Trump. What is more, Cannon believed there was the possibility that the boxes could contain classified material, according to two people briefed on the discussions, and none of the staff members in Trump’s presidential office at Mar-a-Lago had proper security clearances. It was around that same time that Trump floated the idea of offering the deal to return the boxes in exchange for documents he believed would expose the Russia investigation as a “hoax” cooked up by the FBI. Trump did not appear to know specifically what he thought the archives had — only that there were items he wanted. Trump’s aides — recognizing that such a swap would be a non-starter since the government had a clear right to the material Trump had taken from the White House and the Russia-related documents held by the archives remained marked as classified — never acted on the idea. A spokesman for Trump did not respond to a request for comment. A representative for the archives did not respond to a request for comment. Cannon declined a request for comment. By the end of last year, a former adviser to Trump in the White House, a lawyer named Eric Herschmann, warned him that he could face serious legal ramifications if he did not return government materials he had taken with him when he left office. Herschmann told Trump that the consequences could be greater if some of the documents were classified. Finally, after telling advisers repeatedly that the boxes were “mine,” Trump consented to go through them, which his associates said he did in December. Stern was alerted that the boxes were ready for retrieval. But neither Trump nor any of his representatives informed Stern that they contained classified information. In January, the agency arranged for a contractor with a truck to go to Mar-a-Lago to pick up the boxes — which totaled 15, three more than the agency thought Trump had taken from the White House — and drive them to the Washington area. Not knowing that the boxes contained classified information, agency personnel began opening the boxes in a room that did not meet government standards for handling secret materials. When they realized the sensitivity of the material, they quickly moved the boxes to specially secured areas, where their contents could be more closely examined. Shortly thereafter, the National Archives alerted the Justice Department that classified materials may have been mishandled, leading federal authorities to open an investigation. | |
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Article continues: Around the time the archives retrieved the boxes, officials at the archives became skeptical that Trump had returned everything and made clear they believed there was more in his possession. Trump told Cannon last winter to tell the archivists that he had returned everything. Cannon, concerned about making such a definitive statement to federal officials, refused to do so. Their relationship ultimately became strained over the issue. Trump has told several advisers that he blames Cannon for the entire situation because the lawyer told him to give records back, while informal advisers like Tom Fitton, who runs the conservative group Judicial Watch but is not a lawyer, suggested Trump could claim the documents were personal records and hang on to them. By the spring, a grand jury investigation had begun, and by June, the Justice Department was moving full steam ahead with the investigation, having issued a subpoena for any remaining classified material. In a face-to-face meeting at Mar-a-Lago on June 3 between one of Trump’s lawyers, Evan Corcoran, and a top Justice Department official overseeing the investigation, Jay Bratt, the lawyer returned another set of documents in response to the subpoena. Another Trump lawyer, Christina Bobb, then signed a statement on behalf of Trump saying that “based upon the information that has been provided to me,” all documents responsive to the subpoena were being returned after a “diligent” search. Yet two months later, during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, the FBI found more than twice as many documents marked as classified as had been turned over in June, including some in Trump’s office. The FBI also found dozens of empty folders marked as having contained classified information. Among the crimes that the search warrant said the authorities might find evidence of was obstruction. Bobb has hired a criminal defense lawyer and signaled a willingness to answer questions from the Justice Department. In the aftermath of the search, investigators remained skeptical that they had retrieved all the documents and, in recent weeks, a top Justice Department official told Trump’s lawyers that the department believed he had still not returned all the documents he took when he left the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions.  2022 The New York Times Company | |
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Herschel Walker now admits he remembers the woman who says she had an abortion for Herschel Walker's unborn child. And the woman says she later had a different child with Herschel Walker, even though he told her to have an abortion for that child. But Herschel, man of honor and truth and decency, denies he ever told the woman to have an abortion. And denies that he paid her to have an abortion. "I might have sent her some money. And what she did with the money was her concern. Not mine. I never paid for no abortion. Never. I don't believe in having abortions. I'm proud of my kids. All of them. I might not have been there for them, since I'm so busy doing good things all the time, but I'm a Christian man, and my life is an open book. Read my acts and weep, that you are not as good as this Black Hero who follows in the steps of our great leader, Dangle Trump." The above is a direct Fake quotation from Herschel Walker. ------ ------ Herschel Walker admits he had a relationship with the woman who accused him of paying for an abortion: 'I could have sent some money' Hannah Getahun Fri, October 7, 2022 at 9:31 PM Walker confirmed to NBC that he dated the woman who said he paid for her abortion. He denied that he sent her money for an abortion, but said that he could have sent her money at some point. The woman said Walker encouraged her to have a second abortion, The New York Times reported Friday. Scandal-ridden GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who faces allegations that he offered a woman $700 for an abortion in 2009, told NBC News he knows the woman who made the accusation and confirmed that he dated her. He also confirmed that the woman was the mother of one of his children, NBC reported. The Daily Beast reported Monday that Walker — a staunch anti-abortion advocate — paid a woman he had gotten pregnant to get an abortion. The woman provided the Daily Beast evidence in the form of a $575 receipt from an abortion clinic, an image of a $700 check signed by Walker, and a "get well card" with his signature. On Monday Walker called the report a "flat-out lie" and said he planned to sue the Daily Beast. But in a new interview with NBC published Friday, Walker now says he could have sent the materials the woman was referring to, but "not for the reasons she is saying." "I don't remember any card or check or anything. But I was dating her. I could have sent some money. I could have sent a card," Walker told NBC. NBC also obtained texts sent Friday between Walker's wife Julie Walker and Walker's former partner. In the texts, the woman tells Walker's wife — who initiated the conversation — if she knew that Walker asked her to have an abortion twice. "This message makes me incredibly sad. You know I have continually tried to bridge a better relationship between you and Herschel putting [the child] first," Walker's wife responded, according to NBC. The woman also accused Walker of encouraging her to get a second abortion, but she did not go through with it, The New York Times reported Friday. The Times corroborated the Daily Beast's reporting through custody reports as well as an interview given by a friend of Walker's accuser. Walker and the woman, who remains anonymous, shortly broke up afterward, the Times reported. "She has been angry at me for years and it is very difficult," Walker told NBC. "She's a big, big advocate for abortion rights; she's said that." Walker is in a tight race to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia. Although the allegations coming out will probably not hurt Walker's support among hard-line Republicans, it could lead some on the fence to distance themselves from him, experts told Insider. Throughout the abortion allegations, GOP leaders have rallied behind Walker. Former President Donald Trump previously endorsed Walker but is now keeping his distance from the embattled candidate, a CNN report said. A spokesperson for Walker did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Read the original article on Business Insider | |
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GOP attorneys say leave Dangle Trump alone. Stop hitting on him. "Dangle is the bestest, most honestest man I've ever met", cries the GOP party. So what if he stole secret documents from the Whitest House? He belongs in the Whitest House. And no criminal activity will stop us from endorsing him!!!!!!!" --------- --------- The New York Times In Trump Case, Texas Creates a Headache for Georgia Prosecutors Danny Hakim and Richard Fausset Sun, October 9, 2022 at 7:51 AM ATLANTA — Witnesses called to testify in a Georgia criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies have not always come willingly. A number of them have fought their subpoenas in their home-state courts, only to have local judges order them to cooperate. That was the case with Trump-aligned lawyers John Eastman in New Mexico, Jenna Ellis in Colorado and Rudy Giuliani in New York; Giuliani was also told by an Atlanta judge that he could come “on a train, on a bus or Uber” after his lawyers said a health condition prevented him from flying. But the state of Texas is proving to be an outlier, creating serious headaches for Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, who is leading the investigation into efforts by Trump and others to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. Last month, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, thwarted Willis’ effort to force Jacki Pick, a Republican lawyer and pundit, to testify in Atlanta, saying that her subpoena had essentially expired. But in a pair of opinions, a majority of the judges on the all-Republican court went further, indicating that they believed the Georgia special grand jury conducting the inquiry may not have the legal standing to compel testimony from Texas witnesses. After the court’s ruling, two other pro-Trump Texans, Sidney Powell and Phil Waldron, did not show up for their scheduled court dates in Atlanta. And while there may be workarounds for Willis — experts say the Atlanta prosecutors could go to Texas to depose the witnesses — it looks to some Georgia observers like a pattern of Texas Republicans meddling with Georgia when it comes to the fate of Trump. “It does seem like there’s a substantial resistance from Texas and Texans to forcing people to cooperate in ways that we haven’t seen from any other jurisdiction,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has also weighed in, filing an amicus brief late last month along with other Republican attorneys general that supported efforts by Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to avoid testifying in the Atlanta investigation. Paxton, in a statement accompanying his brief, assailed the investigation for what he said were its “repeated attempts to ignore” the Constitution. Paxton, who is running for reelection this year despite having been indicted and arrested on criminal securities-fraud charges, has sought to intervene in Georgia before. After the 2020 election, he sued Georgia and three other swing states that Trump lost, in a far-fetched attempt to get the Supreme Court to delay the certification of their presidential electors. By refusing to compel the three Texas residents to testify in Georgia, the court is breaking with a long tradition of cooperation between states in producing subpoenaed witnesses. All 50 states have versions of what is known as the Uniform Act, which was created in the 1930s to establish a framework for one state to compel testimony from a witness residing in another. Willis, in a statement, said, “We expect every state to abide by the Constitutional requirement to ensure that full faith and credit is given by them to the laws and proceedings of other states. That requirement includes abiding by the interstate compact to produce witnesses for other states’ judicial proceedings.” Willis is weighing potential conspiracy and racketeering charges, among others, and is examining the phone call that Trump made on Jan. 2, 2021, to Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, imploring him to “find” nearly 12,000 votes, or enough to reverse the outcome of the Georgia vote. On Friday, her office filed paperwork seeking to compel testimony from three more witnesses, The Associated Press reported: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as well as Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser, and Eric Herschmann, a lawyer who worked in the Trump White House. Nearly 20 people, including Giuliani, have already been informed that they are targets of Willis’ investigation and could face criminal charges. Pick, a radio host and former lawyer for House Republicans whose husband, Doug Deason, is a prominent Republican donor and Dallas power broker, has also been told she is among the targets of the investigation, according to one of her lawyers, Geoffrey Harper. She played a central role in one of two December 2020 hearings before Georgia lawmakers that were organized by Giuliani, who advanced a number of falsehoods about the election. During a hearing before the Georgia Senate, Pick narrated a video feed that showed ballot counting taking place at a downtown Atlanta arena where voting was held. At the hearing, Pick said the video “goes to” what she called “fraud or misrepresentation,” and the implication of her presentation was that something improper was taking place. She was immediately challenged by Democrats at the hearing. The office of Raffensperger, a Republican, has also long refuted the idea that anything nefarious took place in the counting of votes at the arena. Harper said his client had done nothing wrong. “She didn’t suggest there was fraud, she didn’t suggest something untoward had happened,” he said. “She simply said here is a video, here’s what it shows, we’d like to investigate further. Her testimony is the most innocuous thing you’ve ever seen.” Fulton County prosecutors are also seeking the testimony of Powell, who like Pick lives in the Dallas area. She is a lawyer and conspiracy theorist who played a high-profile role in efforts to keep Trump in power. In Georgia, she helped put together a team of Trump allies and consultants who gained access to a wide range of voter data and voting equipment in rural Coffee County; they are currently being investigated by Raffensperger’s office, as well as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Willis’ office. In an email, Powell said, “GA has no need to subpoena me. My involvement in GA issues has been significantly misrepresented by the press including your outlet.” She did not answer questions about her legal strategy with respect to Fulton County’s attempt to make her testify, or say whether she had been informed that she is a target of the investigation or merely a witness. Waldron, a former Army colonel with a background in information warfare, also advanced a number of conspiracy theories after the 2020 election, and he made a virtual appearance at one of the legislative hearings in Georgia. He could not be reached for comment. He lives outside of Austin, Texas, and the district attorney in the county where he lives said he was not aware of any legal challenge to Willis’ effort to compel Waldron’s testimony. The body overseeing the Fulton County investigation is known under Georgia law as a special purpose grand jury. It can sit for longer periods than a regular grand jury and has the ability to subpoena targets of the investigation to provide testimony, though it lacks the power to indict. Once a special grand jury issues a report and recommendations, indictments can be sought from a regular grand jury. A majority of judges on the Texas court expressed the view that the Georgia grand jury was not a proper criminal grand jury because it lacks indictment authority, and thus likely lacks standing to compel the appearance of witnesses from Texas. “I am inclined to find such a body is not the kind of grand jury envisioned by the Uniform Act,” wrote Judge Kevin Yeary. “And if I may be wrong about that, I would place the burden to show otherwise on the requesting state.” His view was essentially backed by four other judges on the nine-member court. The question of whether the Fulton County special grand jury is civil or criminal in nature came up in late August, when lawyers for Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, unsuccessfully sought to quash a subpoena demanding that he testify. The governor’s lawyers argued that the special grand jury was civil, and that Kemp would not have to testify in a civil action under the doctrine of sovereign immunity. But in a written order on Aug. 29, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney rejected the idea that the special grand jury was civil, noting that none of the paperwork establishing the grand jury mentioned that it would be considering civil actions. “That a special purpose grand jury cannot issue an indictment does not diminish the criminal nature of its work or somehow transmogrify that criminal investigation into a civil one,” McBurney wrote. “Police officers, too, lack the authority to indict anyone, but their investigations are plainly criminal.” Ronald Wright, a law professor at Wake Forest University who studies the work of criminal prosecutors, said that the Texas court’s decision, based on its interpretation of the special grand jury’s purpose, appeared unusual. “I haven’t heard anything about one state saying categorically, ‘No we read your statute, that doesn’t apply here, you can’t get this witness,’” he said. The nine members of Texas’ Court of Criminal Appeals are elected and are all Republicans. But they have not always been in sync with Gov. Greg Abbott and Paxton, both vociferous Trump supporters. | |
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Article continues: Harper said his reading of Georgia law is that the special grand jury is a civil proceeding. He believes that witnesses living in other states can challenge efforts to compel their testimony, at least if it is in person. “Civil cases can get testimony from out-of-state witnesses, but they have to do it by deposition,” he said. “I believe that if pressed on the issue, it would be a unanimous ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that a special grand jury in Georgia cannot subpoena live testimony from witnesses outside of Georgia.” | |
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GOP rejoices: The FBI and the IRS has sent evidence to the Federal Government about possible crimes committed by Hunter Biden, the son of Sleepy Joe Biden. Dangle Trump also rejoices: Fake quote by Dangle Trump: "I knew that Sleepy Joe Biden was a crook. He stole the Whitest House from me, the One, True President-For-Life of the Untied States of Trumperland. Once my people rise up, there will be blood in the streets. And I will lead the firing squad to punish Hunter Biden and his slimy father, Sleepy Joe, to remove them our glorious country, and their bodies will be put into unmarked graves!!!!!!" The FBI has been investigating Hunter Biden since at least 2019, under the direction of Dangle Trump, who is an enemy of Sleepy Joe and the entire Biden crime family. Dangle Trump was elected on the promise of draining the swamp in Washington. And he weaponized the Justice Department to punish his enemies. ----- ----- FBI sends Hunter Biden tax, gun buy evidence to U.S. Attorney CBS News Matthew Mosk October 7, 2022, 6:01 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. The FBI months ago gathered what agents believed was sufficient evidence to charge Hunter Biden, the president's son, with crimes related to taxes and making a false statement when purchasing a gun, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Evidence gathered by FBI and IRS investigators was sent to the U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware, according to the sources. A spokesperson for the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney in Delaware declined to comment. The Washington Post was first to report that the agency had provided evidence of alleged crimes to federal prosecutors. Chris Clark, an attorney for Biden, criticized the FBI in a statement to CBS News, accusing someone within the agency of leaking information from grand jury proceedings, which would be a felony he expects "the Department of Justice will diligently investigate and prosecute." Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, speaks to guests during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, April 18, 2022. / Credit: Andrew Harnik/AP "As is proper and legally required, we believe the prosecutors in this case are diligently and thoroughly weighing not just evidence provided by agents, but also all the other witnesses in this case, including witnesses for the defense. That is the job of the prosecutors," Clark said. A source close to Hunter Biden told CBS News that Biden's team believes that this leak was driven by frustration inside the FBI over the time it is taking prosecutors to deliberate over this case. Biden's team believes the bureau is trying to pressure prosecutors to act. The FBI has been facing increasing pressure from Republicans in Congress over assertions that it is making decisions based on political considerations. The U.S. attorney's office in Delaware has been investigating Hunter Biden since at least 2019. A federal subpoena from that year, obtained by CBS News, sought Hunter Biden's bank records dating back to 2014, when Joe Biden was vice president. Investigators have examined whether Biden owes taxes on income from a controversial stint, during his father's vice presidency, as a board member for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, according to sources familiar with the matter. CBS News reported in May that Biden had garnered financial backing from high-powered Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, who sources said paid Biden's past-due tax debts. A December 2020 subpoena requested documents as far back as January 2017, "regarding (Hunter) Biden's income, assets, debts, obligations, and financial transactions… and all personal and business expenditures." The subpoena also requested "all federal, state, local and foreign tax documentation related to (Hunter) Biden." Prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden also subpoenaed documents from a paternity lawsuit that included his tax records, according to documents and an attorney involved in the matter. The investigation into Hunter Biden's finances has been led by U.S. attorney David Weiss, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018. He had been acting head of the Delaware office at the time and received the endorsements of the state's U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, both Democrats. In February 2021, soon after Biden took office, dozens of federal prosecutors appointed by Trump were asked to resign, but then-acting attorney general Monty Wilkinson asked Weiss to remain on the job, a Justice Department official told CBS News. Mr. Biden has said he was not involved in his son's business dealings, and there has been no evidence that has emerged to refute this. "I have not taken a penny from any foreign source, ever, in my life," Mr. Biden said in October 2020 at a presidential debate. | |
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Vlad Putin screams: "The Ukraine people are terrorists. They bombed a bridge I need to send troops into the Ukraine. Shame on them. In retaliation, I am now bombing the homes and buildings of civilian Ukraine people, as part of my struggle to free Ukraine from evil thoughts. I am also sending my bestest buddy, Dangle Trump, into the area, with packages of food and water, to feed these criminals. What a good boy I am. Me and Dangle Trump, we are angels from heaven. And if Ukraine hurts one Russian soldier, they will be punished. In the meantime, Russian soldiers are raping and killing women and children, in the name of freedom." ----- ----- Explosions rock multiple Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv Associated Press October 10, 2022, 3:27 AM KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions on Monday rocked multiple cities across Ukraine, including missile strikes on the capital Kyiv for the first time in months, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin called a Saturday explosion on the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea a “terrorist act” masterminded by Ukrainian special services. At least eight people were killed and 24 were injured in just one of the Kyiv strikes, according to preliminary information, said Rostyslav Smirnov, an adviser to the Ukrainian ministry of internal affairs. Blasts were reported in the city’s Shevchenko district, a large area in the center of Kyiv that includes the historic old town as well as several government offices, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Lesia Vasylenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, posted a photo on Twitter showing that at least one explosion occurred near the main building of the Kyiv National University in central Kyiv. After the first early morning strikes in Kyiv, more loud explosions were heard later in the morning in an intensification of Russia’s attack that could spell a major escalation in the war. Elsewhere, Russia targeted civilian areas and energy infrastructure as air raid sirens sounded in every region of Ukraine, except Russia-annexed Crimea, for four straight hours. Associated Press journalists in the center of Dnipro city saw the bodies of multiple people killed at an industrial site on the city’s outskirts. Windows in the area had been blown out and glass littered the street. Ukrainian media also reported explosions in a number of other locations, including the western city of Lviv that has been a refuge for many people fleeing the fighting in the east, as well as Kharkiv, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr and Kropyvnytskyi. Kharkiv was hit three times, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The strikes knocked out the electricity and water supply. Energy infrastructure was also hit in Lviv, Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said. The multiple strikes came a few hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to hold a meeting with his security council, as Moscow’s war in Ukraine approaches its eight-month milestone and the Kremlin reels from humiliating battlefield setbacks in areas it is trying to annex amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive in recent weeks. A day earlier, Putin had called the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by Ukrainian special services. In a meeting Sunday with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Putin said “there’s no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure.” Please do not leave (bomb) shelters. Let’s hold on and be strong.President Zelensky The Kerch Bridge is important to Russia strategically, as a military supply line to its forces in Ukraine, and symbolically, as an emblem of its claims on Crimea. No one has claimed responsibility for damaging the 12-mile (19-kilometer) -long bridge, the longest in Europe. Amid the onslaught, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram account that Russia is “trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth.” “Please do not leave (bomb) shelters,” he wrote. “Let’s hold on and be strong.” Following the strikes on Kyiv, several residents were seen on the streets with blood on their clothes and hands. A young man wearing a blue jacket sat on the ground as a medic wrapped a bandage around his head. A woman with bandages wrapped around her head had blood all over the front of her blouse. Several cars were also damaged or completely destroyed. | |
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| 10-10-22 03:55am - 804 days | #486 | |
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Dangle Trump is revealing the secret truths of the GOP. Former President Dangle Trump is being investigated by the DOJ over his handling of sensitive government documents. Dangle Trump reveals that former President George H.W. Bush kept secret government files at a Chinese restaurant. He also called for the late president to be investigated, despite Bush having died in 2018. Dangle says that if President George H.W. Bush's body is dug up, you will find secret documents in Bush's hands. Bush, a GOP president, loved to hold secrets. The FBI, the Justice Department, needs to find the secret documents Bush stole from the Whitest House. And then Dangle will, in exchange, release some of the secret documents he took as souvenirs. Trump's claims about Bush sparked scorn from Bush's son, Jeb Bush, who tweeted his response to Trump on Saturday. Jeb Bush is scared his father will be tarred and scorned for taking secrets. "All Presidents steal secret documents. It's how they hold onto power. And they sell a few secrets over time, when they need some cash," Jeb Bush cries. It is unclear how Trump arrived at his claims about the elder Bush. A spokesperson at Trump's post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Parts of the intro are Fake News, which Dangle Trump made popular while he was President of the Untied States of Trumperland. ----- ----- Ex-federal prosecutor on Trump's claims about Bush stashing away secret government files: 'People say stuff like this when they're guilty and scared' Business Insider Cheryl Teh October 10, 2022, 1:02 AM Donald Trump speaking Former President Donald Trump is being investigated by the DOJ over his handling of sensitive government documents.Seth Herald/Getty Images Trump said former President George H.W. Bush kept secret government files at a Chinese restaurant. He also called for the late president to be investigated, despite Bush having died in 2018. Former prosecutor Joyce Vance said Trump's claims resembled those made by guilty people. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance said that Donald Trump's wild claims about classified documents during his rallies make him look guilty and scared. Vance, now a law professor at the University of Alabama, weighed in on Trump's speech at a GOP campaign rally in Nevada on Saturday. Trump baselessly claimed that the late former President George H.W. Bush kept secret government documents in a "bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant." "George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them," Trump said. "So they're in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant." "By contrast, I had a small number of boxes and storage at Mar-A-Lago — very small, relatively — guarded by the great Secret Service, we love the Secret Service. And yet the FBI, with many people, raided my house," he added. Commenting on Trump's claims, Vance tweeted: "In my experience as a prosecutor, people say stuff like this when they're guilty & scared." During a rally in Arizona on Sunday, Trump made the same claim, alleging that Bush "took millions and millions of documents to a former bowling alley pieced together with what was then an old and broken Chinese restaurant." "And it had a broken front door and broken windows. Other than that, it was quite secure," Trump said, questioning why Bush was not being investigated and prosecuted. Bush died in Houston in 2018. Trump's claims about Bush sparked scorn from Bush's son, Jeb Bush, who tweeted his response to Trump on Saturday. "I am so confused," Jeb Bush wrote. "My dad enjoyed a good Chinese meal and enjoyed the challenge of 7 10 split. What the heck is up with you?" It is unclear how Trump arrived at his claims about the elder Bush. A spokesperson at Trump's post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. During its search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, the FBI seized classified documents, including some marked "top secret." Trump is under investigation by the DOJ for whether Trump broke three federal laws — including the Espionage Act — by keeping the files at his Florida residence. Read the original article on Business Insider | |
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The man formerly known as Kanye West has had his Twitter account locked after offensive tweet aimed at Jewish community. But Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, explains: "Black people are really Jews. We are not racist. I am God's child, just like Dangle Trump. Me and Dangle Trump are bestest buddies." Some of the intro is probably Fake News, the real, secret news invented by Dangle Trump, the biggest, bestest con man who served as President of the Untied States of Trumperland. ---- ---- Kanye West’s Twitter account locked after offensive tweet aimed at Jewish community ABC News TEDDY GRANT October 9, 2022, 5:26 PM PHOTO: Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, sits down for an exclusive interview with ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis. (ABC News) PHOTO: Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, sits down for an exclusive interview with ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis. (ABC News) Kanye West is facing controversy again, after Twitter locked his account over a tweet he wrote aimed at the Jewish community that violated the company's policies. The rapper, who changed his name to Ye, posted a highly offensive tweet referencing the Jewish community on Saturday night, which involved a reference to the defense readiness alert used by the U.S. armed forces. "The funny thing is I actually can't be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda," the rapper wrote in the now-deleted post. Kanye West responds to 'White Lives Matter T-shirt backlash: 'THEY DO' A message on West's page in place of the tweet shows Twitter removed the tweet, saying it violated the company's rules. "The account in question has been locked due to a violation of Twitter's policies," a Twitter spokesperson told ABC News. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., condemned West's tweet early Sunday, accusing him of being antisemitic. "Kanye West: if you see yourself at war with Jewish people, then you are, by definition, Antisemitic," Torres wrote. | |
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| 10-10-22 08:43am - 804 days | #488 | |
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Fake News happening now. N. Korea launches nuclear missiles that could wipe out the Untied States of Trumperland and S. Korea. The leader of N. Korea screams "Bring back my buddy, Dangle Trump, or I will unleash the fires of Hell on you. Sleey Joe is a joke. You need a strong man to lead. My troops will wipe the floor with you. N. Korea will bury your hero Ronald Reagan in nuclear bombs." --------- --------- N. Korea confirms simulated use of nukes to 'wipe out' enemies Associated Press HYUNG-JIN KIM October 10, 2022, 4:52 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s recent barrage of missile launches were the simulated use of its tactical battlefield nuclear weapons to “hit and wipe out” potential South Korean and U.S. targets, state media reported Monday, as its leader Kim Jong Un signaled he would conduct more provocative tests. The North’s statement, released on the 77th birthday of its ruling Workers’ Party, is seen as an attempt to burnish Kim’s image as a strong leader at home amid pandemic-related hardships as he’s defiantly pushing to enlarge his weapons arsenal to wrest greater concessions from its rivals in future negotiations. “Through seven times of launching drills of the tactical nuclear operation units, the actual war capabilities … of the nuclear combat forces ready to hit and wipe out the set objects at any location and any time were displayed to the full," the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said. KCNA said the missile tests were in response to recent naval drills between U.S. and South Korean forces, which involved the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan for the first time in five years. Viewing the drills as a military threat, North Korea decided to stage “the simulation of an actual war” to check and improve its war deterrence and send a warning to its enemies, KCNA said. North Korea considers U.S.-South Korean military drills as an invasion rehearsal, though the allies have steadfastly said they are defensive in nature. Since the May inauguration of a conservative government in Seoul, the U.S. and South Korean militaries have been expanding their exercises, posing a greater security threat to Kim. The launches — all supervised by Kim — included a nuclear-capable ballistic missile launched under a reservoir in the northeast; other ballistic missiles designed to launch nuclear strikes on South Korean airfields, ports and command facilities; and a new-type ground-to-ground ballistic missile that flew over Japan, KCNA reported. It said North Korea also flew 150 warplanes for separate live-firing and other drills in the country’s first-ever such training. 12 Photos N. Korea simulates nuclear warfare See Gallery Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said the missile launches marked the first time for North Korea to perform drills involving army units tasked with the operation of tactical nuclear weapons. The North’s public launch of a missile from under an inland reservoir was also the first of its kind, though it has previously test-launched missiles from a submarine. Kim Dong-yub, a professor at Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies, said North Korea likely aims to diversify launch sites to make it difficult for its enemies to detect its missile liftoffs in advance and conduct preemptive strikes. KCNA said when the weapon launched from the reservoir was flying above the sea target, North Korean authorities confirmed the reliability of the explosion of the missile’s warhead, apparently a dummy one, at the set altitude. Kim, the professor, said the missile’s estimated 600-kilometer (370-mile) flight indicated the launch could be a test of exploding a nuclear weapon above South Korea’s southeastern port city of Busan, where the Reagan previously docked. He said the missile tested appeared to be a new version of North Korea’s highly maneuverable KN-23 missile, which was modeled on Russia’s Iskander missile. North Korea described the missile that flew over Japan as a new-type intermediate-range weapon that traveled 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles). Some foreign experts earlier said the missile was likely North Korea’s existing nuclear-capable Hwasong-12 missile, which can reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. But Kim, the professor, said the missile tested recently appeared to be an improved version of the Hwasong-12 with a faraway target like Alaska or Hawaii. North Korea released a slew of photos on the launches. One of them showed Kim and his wife Ri Sol Ju, both wearing ochre field jackets, frowning while covering their ears. Some observers say the image indicated Ri's elevated political standing because it was likely the first time for her to observe a weapons launch with her husband. The U.S. and the South Korean regime’s steady, intentional and irresponsible acts of escalating the tension will only invite our greater reaction, and we are always and strictly watching the situation crisisNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un Worries about North Korea’s nuclear program deepened in recent months as the country adopted a new law authorizing the preemptive use of its bombs in certain cases and took reported steps to deploy tactical nuclear weapons along its frontline border with South Korea. This year, North Korea carried out more than 40 missile launches. Some experts say Kim Jong Un would eventually aim to use his advanced nuclear arsenal to win a U.S. recognition of North Korea as a legitimate nuclear state, which Kim sees as essential in getting crippling U.N. sanctions on his country lifted. Kim Jong Un said the recent launches were “an obvious warning” to Seoul and Washington, informing them of North Korea’s nuclear attack capabilities. Kim repeated that he has no intentions of resuming the stalled disarmament diplomacy with the United States now, according to KCNA. “The U.S. and the South Korean regime’s steady, intentional and irresponsible acts of escalating the tension will only invite our greater reaction, and we are always and strictly watching the situation crisis,” Kim was quoted as saying. Kim also expressed conviction that the nuclear combat forces of his military would maintain “their strongest nuclear response posture and further strengthen it in every way” to perform their duties of defending the North’s dignity and sovereign rights. South Korean officials recently said North Korea maintains readiness to perform its first nuclear test in five years. Some experts say the nuclear test would be related to an effort to build warheads to be mounted on short-range missiles targeting South Korea. “North Korea has multiple motivations for publishing a high-profile missile story now,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “Kim Jong Un’s public appearance after a month-long absence provides a patriotic headline to mark the founding anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party.” “Pyongyang has been concerned about military exercises by the U.S., South Korea and Japan, so to strengthen its self-proclaimed deterrent, it is making explicit the nuclear threat behind its recent missile launches. The KCNA report may also be a harbinger of a forthcoming nuclear test for the kind of tactical warhead that would arm the units Kim visited in the field,” Easley said. | |
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| 10-11-22 03:49am - 803 days | #489 | |
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Ohio Senate candidates sling mud. Insult each other. But at the end of their debate, they shake hands, showing that friendship is more important than ideals. America is a great place, where JD Vance, a Republican who follows Dangle Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, is allowed to run. Vote for Vance, and he will loot from the poor to give to the rich, while saying what a great guy he is. Republicans uber alles, screams Dangle Trump, the greatest con man of the 21 century. Bring back Hitler, screams Dangle, while playing the Stars and Stripes and wrapping himself in the American flag. ---- ---- Ohio Senate debate with Ryan, Vance descends into attacks Associated Press JULIE CARR SMYTH October 11, 2022, 12:16 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The first debate between Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan and Republican JD Vance descended quickly into attacks Monday, with the candidates for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat accusing each other of being responsible for job losses and putting party loyalty ahead of voters’ needs. Vance said Ryan had supported policies that led to a 10-year-old girl in Ohio being raped. Ryan said Vance had started a “fake nonprofit” to help people overcome addiction issues. The two accused each other of being beholden to their party, with Ryan echoing a comment from former President Donald Trump in calling Vance an "a— kisser” and Vance saying Ryan’s 100% voting record with President Joe Biden means he’s not the reasonable moderate he says he is. The face-off between Ryan, a 10-term congressman, and Vance, a venture capitalist and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” for the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman was one of the most contentious debates of the general election season so far. The race is one of the most expensive and closely watched of the midterms, with Democrats viewing it as a possible pickup opportunity in November. Both candidates sought to tailor their messages to the working-class voters who could determine the election in an evening peppered with barbs and one-liners. Ryan sought to paint Vance as an extremist, someone who associates with “crazies” from his party who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen, support national abortion restrictions and contributed to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “You're running around with Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, who wants to ban books. You're running around with (Sen.) Lindsey Graham, who wants a national abortion ban. You're running around with (Rep.) Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's the absolute looniest politician in America," Ryan said. Vance suggested Ryan’s focus on allegation of extremism was meant as a distraction from pocketbook issues important to voters, such as inflation and the price of groceries. “It’s close to Halloween and Tim Ryan has put on a costume where he pretends to be a reasonable moderate.” Had he been, Vance said, “Youngstown may not have lost 50,000 manufacturing jobs during your 20 years.” Ryan said: “I’m not gonna apologize for spending 20 years of my adult life slogging away to try to help one of the hardest economically hit regions of Ohio and dedicating my life to help that region come back. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, JD. You went off to California, you were drinking wine and eating cheese.” Vance countered that he left Ohio at 18 to join the Marines, and after working in Silicon Valley, he returned to Ohio to raise his family and start a business. During questioning about China, Ryan said Vance invested in China as a venture capitalist, the type of business move that exacerbated job losses in Ohio's manufacturing base. “The problem we're having now with inflation is our supply chains all went to China, and guys like him made a whole lot of money off that,” Ryan said. Vance said it is Democratic economic policies that have harmed manufacturing, saying, "They have completely gone to war against America's energy sector.” He said he could not remember investing in China. On abortion, Vance did not answer whether he would support Graham's proposed national ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with some exceptions. Vance said he thinks different states would likely want different laws but “some minimum national standard is totally fine with me.” He called himself “pro-life” but said he has “always believed in reasonable exceptions.” Ryan said he supports codifying the abortion rights established in Roe v. Wade, which was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. He said he opposes Ohio's law banning most abortions after fetal cardiac activity has been detected, as early as six weeks into pregnancy, which was blocked Friday. Vance agreed with Ryan that a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim should not have had to leave the state for an abortion, but he said the fact the suspect was in the country illegally was a failure of weak border policies. “You voted so many times against the border wall funding, so many times for amnesty, Tim," Vance said. "If you had done your job, she would have never been raped in the first place.” On foreign policy, the pair parted ways on what the U.S. response should be if Russian President Vladimir Putin were to launch nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Ryan said the U.S. should be prepared with a “swift and significant response,” while Vance countered that the United States needs a "foreign policy establishment that puts the interests of our citizens first.” Ryan responded: “If JD had his way, Putin would be through Ukraine at this point. He’d be going into Poland.” “If I had my way," Vance retorted, “you’d put money at the southern border, Tim, instead of launching tons of money into Ukraine.” It echoed comments Vance had made in an interview before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, saying he didn't ”really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another” because he wanted to see Biden focus on his own country's border security. Vance said, however, that Taiwan was a “much different situation” than Ukraine because of its importance to U.S. national security. “The reason why Taiwan is different is because they make so many of our semiconductors, our computer chips. The entire modern economy would collapse without it," Vance said. Ryan sought at points to put some distance between himself and his party, repeating his earlier comments that Biden shouldn’t run for a second term in 2024 and calling Vice President Kamala Harris “absolutely wrong” to say that the southern border was secure. “I’m not here to just get in a fight or just tiptoe the Democratic Party line,” Ryan said. “I’m here to speak the truth.” Ryan said Vance didn't have the courage to stand up to people in his own party, noting that during an Ohio rally last month, Trump, who endorsed Vance, said, “JD is kissing my a—, he wants my support so (much).” Vance retorted: "I’m not going to take lessons on dignity and self-respect from a guy caught on video kissing up to Chuck Schumer and begging him for a promotion to his next job. That’s the kind of guy Tim Ryan is.” While the general election debate between Ryan and Vance was acrimonious, it didn't lead to a near-physical altercation, as an Ohio GOP Senate debate back in March during the primary season did. Former state Treasurer Josh Mandel and investment banker Mike Gibbons found themselves face to face on the debate stage, shouting at each other, while Vance told the two to stop fighting. “Sit down. Come on,” Vance said, sitting in a row with the remaining candidates. “This is ridiculous.” At the end of Monday's debate, Vance and Ryan shook hands. | |
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| 10-11-22 06:02am - 803 days | #490 | |
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Herschel Walker, the hope of Black people in America, and Dangle Trump's bestest buddy, is running to represent the state of Georgia in the Senate. Georgia and Florida will lead America to greatness again. Vote for Herschel Walker, vote for Dangle Trump, the true heirs of the Aryan race. ------ ------ Savannah Morning News What to expect from the Herschel Walker-Raphael Warnock U.S. Senate debate? A cancellation Adam Van Brimmer, Savannah Morning News Tue, October 11, 2022 at 2:02 AM This commentary is by opinion columnist Adam Van Brimmer. Mention this week’s U.S. Senate debate pitting Sen. Raphael Warnock against Herschel Walker and three words come to mind. “Jerry. Jerry. Jerry.” As in Jerry Springer, whose namesake daily talk show regularly featured paternity tests and a litany of jilted lovers and forsaken offspring eager to confront guests. For those unfamiliar, think “Maury” only with less class. Walker and the political apparatus behind him has turned this race into a farce, with mystery children and baby mamas popping up all over the country - four kids by multiple women at last count. If one of his exes is to be believed, there’d be at least one more little Herschel if not for an abortion, a procedure Walker professes to abhor. Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker speaks with reporters following a campaign stop. Walker's appearance was his first following reports that a woman who said Walker paid for her 2009 abortion is actually mother of one of his children - undercutting Walker's claims he didn't know who she was .(AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) His grown son, Christian, doesn’t see dad as much of a role model, saying recently “You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over six times in six months running from your violence.” Walker’s skeleton closet is as big as an airplane hangar, and the question isn’t so much “Will he survive these revelations?” but “What’s the next revelation?” Walker’s transgressions nullify the one controversy that might otherwise have dogged his opponent: Warnock’s contentious split with his wife and the custody battle for their two kids. Walker further napalms his chances with frequent unintelligible comments and a defiant tone that is hollow as his public policy expertise. Which brings us back to the debate (“Jerry. Jerry. Jerry”) and what to expect. I anticipate a cancellation. Related: The Herschel Walker-Raphael Warnock debate is days away. Here's what to know More: Walker says Savannah debate with Warnock still on after abortion allegations rock campaign No voters left to sway Walker has hit his ceiling in terms of voters. Nothing he says or does from this point forward will sway undecideds to his side or motivate disengaged voters to come to the polls. Prior to the abortion allegations and his son’s damning tweets, Walker might have had some room to score political points in a tête-à-tête with Warnock. At worst, he would struggle and be able to paint Warnock the bully and angle for sympathy. Now, no one is undecided on Walker. You have ostriches, such as the retired factory worker who attended a campaign rally last week and said “he’s not denying anything” even as Walker was disputing claims against him just a few feet away. You have the hold-your-nose-and-vote crowd who would cast a ballot for a gremlin if it meant party control of the Senate. Then you have those who find Walker an embarrassment and won’t vote for him even in the privacy of a polling booth or absentee ballot. They might not throw in for Warnock, but they have too much self-respect to cast a ballot for Walker. Walker’s only incentive to go through with Friday’s showdown is to make history with the most dumbfounding and humiliating debate performance ever. Looking for an escape route The only mystery is what excuse will he use to cancel? He could pray for a hurricane evacuation, but the National Hurricane Center’s outlook shows no activity in the Atlantic Ocean. He could feign illness — COVID-19 is still spreading in Georgia, and Walker’s magic COVID-killing mist isn’t a real thing. He could manufacture an issue with the venue, which is so small the host isn’t making tickets available to the public and thereby violates Walker’s pledge that “this debate is going to be about the people.” Other problems could crop up at the 11th hour. A bus breakdown. Bad directions. A mix-up on time and date. Or he could decide the moderators, WSAV’s Tina Tyus-Shaw and an Atlanta TV news anchor named Buck Lanford, are biased. If he opts for that last option, I know a good stand-in: “Jerry. Jerry. Jerry.” Contact Van Brimmer at avanbrimmer@savannahnow.com and follow him on Twitter @SavannahOpinion. This article originally appeared on Savannah Morning News: U.S. Senate debate pitting Herschel Walker and Sen Warnock in Savannah Prominent Republicans campaign with Herschel Walker despite abortion allegations | |
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| 10-11-22 10:19am - 803 days | #491 | |
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Tulsi Gabbard says she is leaving the Democratic Party. Says she can no longer stomach woke Democrats. Says, Fake News, she will join Dangle Trump when he has orgies at Trumperland in Florida. "I want some excitement in my life. And Dangle, with his great swinging D***, is the man to give it me. When he grabs me by the pussy, I start to cream. It's indescribable. Dangle is the Man!!!!!!" ------ ------ Tulsi Gabbard says she is leaving the Democratic Party Yahoo News Dylan Stableford October 11, 2022, 6:43 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. Tulsi Gabbard says she is leaving the Democratic Party. In a video posted to Twitter, the former U.S. congresswoman from Hawaii — who mounted an unsuccessful campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — said she can “no longer stomach” the direction that “woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country.” “I can no longer remain in today's Democratic Party that's under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers,” Gabbard said, “who are driven by cowardly wokeness who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism, who actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms that are enshrined in our Constitution, who are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, who demonize the police but protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans who believe in open borders, who weaponize the national security state to go after their political opponents and above all, who are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. “Now I believe in a government that's of the people, by the people and for the people,” Gabbard continued. “Unfortunately, today's Democratic Party does not. Instead it stands for a government that is of, by and for the powerful elite.” The 41-year-old U.S. Army Reserve officer, who represented Hawaii's Second Congressional District from 2013 to 2021, said she is calling on “fellow common sense, independent-minded Democrats” to join her in leaving the party. She posted a similar, lengthy statement explaining her departure online. Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a Democratic debate in Westerville, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2019. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a Democratic debate in Westerville, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2019. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) During the 2020 Democratic primary, Gabbard participated in several debates, sparring with fellow candidates over foreign policy. She also sued Hillary Clinton for seeming to suggest that Republicans were “grooming” Gabbard to be a spoiler as a third-party candidate. Clinton, who did not mention Gabbard by name, further suggested that she was “the favorite of the Russians.” (Gabbard eventually dropped her lawsuit.) Gabbard won just two delegates during the primary, both from American Samoa. She dropped out of the race in March 2020, and endorsed Joe Biden. Since leaving Congress, Gabbard has been a regular on Fox News, even serving as a fill-in host for Tucker Carlson. The reaction to Gabbard’s announcement was swift, at least on Twitter. Shortly after the video was posted, the phrase “Good Riddance” was trending. | |
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| 10-11-22 03:38pm - 803 days | #492 | |
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The National Archives rejects Dangle Trump claim that past president stole millions of documents. This is Fake News. The only real news worth reading is from Fox News, the home of Dangle Trump. But there are reports on the internet showing Fake News. Fake News reports that Dangle Trump is a liar. That he makes false statements. Everyone with a brain, who watches Fox News, knows that Dangle Trump always tells the truth: Dangle was raised as a baby to be truthful, honest, loving, and to murder his enemies. So when Dangle says his predecessors stole millions of documents from the Whitest House, you can bank on it. And file financial documents with your banks and financial institutions, telling them that Dangle Trump is your advisor. ------ ----- National Archives rejects Trump claim on former presidents' records Reuters October 11, 2022, 12:53 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Archives, the federal agency responsible for preserving U.S. government records, on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessors had retained "millions" of White House documents. Trump faces a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into whether he illegally retained documents from the White House when he left office in January 2021 and whether he tried to obstruct the probe. The FBI seized roughly 11,000 documents during a court-approved search at his Florida home on Aug. 8, including 100 marked as classified. At a rally in Arizona on Sunday, Trump accused three former presidents - Republicans George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton - of taking millions of documents and storing them in unsecure locations including a Chinese restaurant, a bowling alley and a car dealership. Video: Trump trying to play 'art of the deal' with classified documents The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), without naming Trump, said it took possession of all records from those three former presidents. The agency previously rejected a similar claim that Trump had made about his immediate predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama, which he repeated on Sunday. The National Archives said it moved the records of those former presidents to temporary facilities located near future presidential libraries. "All such temporary facilities met strict archival and security standards, and have been managed and staffed exclusively by NARA employees," the agency said in a statement. "Reports that indicate or imply that those presidential records were in the possession of the former presidents or their representatives, after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading," it added. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Will Dunham) | |
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| 10-11-22 04:02pm - 803 days | #493 | |
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King Charles III to be crowned May 6 next year, palace says. Fake News reports that King Charles has been lobbying Dangle Trump to assume the role of Hand of the King. As Hand, Dangle would be the second most powerful man in the Kingdom, second only to the King. Dangle and King Charles formed a close relationship while Dangle Trump was the elected President of the Untied States of Trumperland. Dangle would retain his US citizenship, but he would also acquire British citizenship. As Hand of the King, Dangle would be the shielded from all laws of the Untied States, and could sneer at Sleepy Joe Biden whenever Dangle wished. As Hand of the King, Dangle would have access to the nuclear secrets of the British Empire, and could launch nuclear missiles at the Untied States to protect British citizens, including himself. ---- ---- King Charles III to be crowned May 6 next year, palace says Associated Press DANICA KIRKA October 11, 2022, 11:50 AM LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will be crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6 in a ceremony that will embrace the past but look to the modern world after the 70-year reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Tuesday’s announcement from Buckingham Palace comes amid speculation that the coronation will be shorter and less extravagant than the three-hour ceremony that installed Elizabeth in 1953, in keeping with Charles’ plans for a slimmed down monarchy. While the palace provided few details, British media reported that the guest list would be pared to 2,000 from 8,000. Charles will be crowned in a solemn religious ceremony conducted by Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, the palace said in a statement. Camilla, the queen consort, will be crowned alongside her husband. “The coronation will reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry,’’ the palace said. Charles will be anointed with holy oil before receiving the orb, scepter and coronation ring. Camilla will also be anointed with holy oil and crowned, as was Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The palace is planning the coronation, known as Operation Golden Orb, as Charles and his heir, Prince William, seek to demonstrate that the monarchy is still relevant in modern, multi-cultural Britain. While there was widespread respect for Elizabeth, as demonstrated by the tens of thousands of people who waited hours to file past her coffin, there is no guarantee that reverence will transfer to Charles. Organizers should be shooting for a ceremony that’s about an hour long, in line with last month’s “immensely moving” funeral for the queen, said royal historian Robert Lacey, author of “Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor.” “One has to remember, too, while all the reverence and gravity of the Queen’s funeral was very much focused on tribute to her, a coronation is a tribute to an institution rather than a person, with whom quite a lot of thoughtful people in this country disagree,’’ Lacey told the BBC. While most of coronation ceremony, which has changed little in the past 1,000 years, is expected to remain intact, some of the more fussy trappings of pomp and circumstance may be trimmed as Britain struggles with soaring inflation and the fallout from the war in Ukraine. The optics are important. “The idea of this very opulent coronation coming on the back of a winter of austerity, cost-of-living crisis, but also, I think, a sense that having thousands of foreign dignitaries flying in on airplanes that guzzle oil and petrol or whatever they guzzle to the coronation of the environment-loving monarch — all of those things could chime very awkwardly,” said Anna Whitelock, a professor of history of modern monarchy at City University London, told the BBC. The ceremony traditionally takes place some months after the monarch’s accession to the throne, providing time to mourn his predecessor and organize the event. Charles is expected to sign a proclamation formally declaring the date of the ceremony at a meeting of his senior advisers, known as the Privy Council, later this year. | |
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| 10-11-22 04:09pm - 803 days | #494 | |
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Michael Cohen says Trump is a 'poster boy for fascism': 'I helped create this Frankenstein's monster' Business Insider Cheryl Teh October 11, 2022, 12:06 AM In his new book, "Revenge," Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen accused him of being a fascist. Cohen said the US is "in danger" of losing its government to fascists who want to destroy democracy. He called Trump the "standard bearer for corrupt dictator wannabes" and a "poster boy for fascism." Michael Cohen has warned in his new book that the US is in danger of losing its battle against fascism and that Donald Trump's presidency was merely a preview of things to come. In his book, "Revenge," released on Tuesday, Cohen — who was once Trump's lawyer and fixer — described the former president's time in office as being a "practice run" for future dictatorships. "We are in danger of losing this country to fascists who are destroying our democracy and the rule of law and replacing it with something unseen since the dark days in Europe prior to World War II," he wrote. "Donald Trump was just a practice run. If those who think like him are allowed to take control of this government —like they tried to do during the January 6 insurrection — then we're all f*****, and my suffering will become the nation's suffering," Cohen added, accusing Trump of setting him up as the fall guy for various crimes. Cohen also admitted his part in turning Trump into such a dangerous figure. "As I helped create this Frankenstein's monster and let it out of its cage, I feel it is my moral duty, or if you prefer my penance, to make sure we re-cage the beast," he wrote. In his book, Cohen also accused Trump of being a "mirror into the depths of the soul of government corruption." "He is the standard bearer for corrupt dictator wannabes. He is the poster boy for fascism," he added. A representative at Trump's post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to felonies, including tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and bank fraud. He was sentenced in December 2018 to three years in prison and was disbarred in February 2019 by the New York Supreme Court. Cohen's new book offers insights into the period he spent working for Trump and his time in prison. Since his release, Cohen has become an outspoken critic of Trump and has commented extensively on the former president's many legal troubles. In September, he announced he was selling t-shirts depicting Trump behind bars to "celebrate the fall of the mango Mussolini." Read the original article on Business Insider | |
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| 10-11-22 10:43pm - 802 days | #495 | |
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Biden says he has great faith in his son. Says if his son is a criminal, Sleepy Joe was not aware of any criminal activity on his son's part. Says he was watching TV and how Dangle Trump was telling the rioters in Jan 2021 to storm the Whitest House and hang VP Mike Pence, the coward who did not back up Dangle's plan to hold onto the Whitest House in spite of voter fraud. Sleepy Joe says he is sorry he won if he really didn't win, and will give the Whitest House back to Dangle, if Dangle will stop the criminal investigation into Sleepy Joe's son. Politics should be clean and open, and not based on secret deals. But if I have to make secret deals with Dangle Trump, I will. Sleepy Joe Biden screams: "I am guilty. Crucify if you wish, to crucify an elderly man who can't defend himself like Dangle Trump." Did Dangle Trump ever make any false statements? And why hasn't Dangle been charged? Is there bias in the Federal Government? Why the heck hasn't Dangle Trump been charged with multiple crimes? With all the evidence that's out there. ------ ------ Biden addresses possible gun charge against son Hunter: 'He's on the straight and narrow' Yahoo News David Knowles October 11, 2022, 7:23 PM In a Tuesday interview with CNN, President Biden directly addressed the possibility that his son Hunter could face criminal charges stemming from a false statement on an application to obtain a gun. CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked the president for his reaction to a recent Washington Post story that federal agents believe they have gathered enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes and making a false statement related to a gun purchase. "Well, first of all, I'm proud of my son. This is a kid who got — not a kid, he's a grown man — he got hooked on, like many families have had happen, hooked on drugs," Biden responded. "He's overcome that. He's established a new life." The president noted that his son had written about his addiction struggles in his memoir, "Beautiful Things," and that he also acknowledged falsely answering a question when applying for a firearm. "He came along and said, 'by the way this thing about a gun,' I didn't know about it, but it turns out that when he made an application to buy a gun, what happened was, I guess you get asked, I don't guess, you get asked 'Are you on drugs? Do you use drugs?' He said 'no.' And he wrote about saying, 'no,' in his book. So, I have great confidence in my son. I love him and he's on the straight and narrow and he has been for a couple years now." US President Joe Biden delivers virtual remarks at the Summit on Fire Prevention and Control from the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2022. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Summit on Fire Prevention and Control from the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 11, 2022. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) On Monday, Fox News host Sean Hannity played a voicemail left for Hunter Biden by his father on his program, telling his viewers "that voicemail reportedly came at the exact same time Hunter lied on a gun application to buy a handgun." In the message, Biden expresses his support for his son. "It's Dad. I called to tell you I love you. I love you more than the whole world, pal. You gotta get some help," Biden is heard saying. "I know you don't know what to do. I don't either." Attorney General Merrick Garland has left the decision on whether to criminally charge Hunter Biden in the hands of David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney in Delaware, the Washington Post reported, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump. | |
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| 10-12-22 06:30am - 802 days | #496 | |
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LKLK (0)
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John Bolton says the U.S. needs to make it clear that Putin is 'signing a suicide note' if he uses nuclear weapons. I'm not sure why the U.S. needs to wait for Putin. Why not get rid of this dangerous leader already? Hasn't he caused enough death of innocent lives already? -------- -------- John Bolton says the U.S. needs to make it clear that Putin is 'signing a suicide note' if he uses nuclear weapons Business Insider Cheryl Teh October 11, 2022, 10:30 PM Bolton said the U.S. needs to make it clear that Putin will be eliminated if he uses nuclear weapons. Putin is "signing a suicide note" if he orders the use of nukes, Bolton said. He mentioned Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as an example of what happens to "a threat to the US." Former national security adviser John Bolton says the U.S. should make it clear that it would eliminate Russian President Vladimir Putin if he were to order the use of nuclear weapons. On Tuesday, Bolton called into British radio station LBC's "Tonight with Andrew Marr." When Marr asked Bolton to weigh in on what the U.S., NATO, and the West should do if Putin were to use nuclear weapons, Bolton said the focus should be on deterring Putin from using nuclear weapons, rather than on what to do in retaliation. We need to make clear if Putin were to order the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, he would be signing a suicide note. And I think that's what it may take to deter him if he gets into extreme circumstances.John Bolton However, Bolton also said he did not rule out the possibility of Putin using nuclear weapons if Russian forces collapsed in Ukraine, or if Putin found himself "in really dire straits, politically, inside Russia." He added that the US should be clear that it would "levy responsibility" on the person who ordered a nuclear strike. "We need to make clear if Putin were to order the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, he would be signing a suicide note," Bolton said. "And I think that's what it may take to deter him if he gets into extreme circumstances." "But without being silly about this, we can't reach him. We can't get him," Marr said, responding to Bolton's suggestion that Putin be "held accountable" for ordering a nuclear strike. "I don't agree that we can't get him. And I think he knows that," Bolton said. "You can ask Qassem Soleimani in Iran what happens when we decide somebody is a threat to the United States," Bolton added. Soleimani was an Iranian general who fought the US for years and was killed in a US air strike in 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with then U.S. national security adviser John Bolton during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with then U.S. national security adviser John Bolton during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) Fighting in Ukraine has escalated again after missile strikes from Russia hit multiple Ukrainian cities, including the country's capital, Kyiv, on Monday morning. This attacks came after the Kerch Strait Bridge, a key supply line between Russia and Crimea, was bombed on Saturday. Ukraine has hinted it was responsible for the blast, which Putin labeled a Ukrainian terrorist attack. In late September, Putin announced Russia would be annexing four regions of Ukraine following sham referendums organized by pro-Russian separatists in the four occupied regions. Military experts speculate that Putin may use nuclear weapons, interpreting these annexations as a sign that Putin is committing to an eventual escalation. In a CBS interview aired on October 2, CIA Director William Burns said it was difficult to tell whether Putin was bluffing about his willingness to use nuclear weapons. In a podcast aired on Wednesday, former CIA Moscow station chief Rolf Mowatt-Larssen said it would be irresponsible for Western leaders to think of Putin's threats as "bluster" and saber-rattling, because the Russian leader may come to a point where he sees nuclear weapons as his "only good option." Read the original article on Business Insider | |
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| 10-12-22 06:40am - 802 days | #497 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Fake News: Vlad Putin warns that he is joiing forces with Red China and N. Korea in possible nuclear war with the U.S. Says that Russia is committed to living a free, unemcumbered life without U.S. interference. Says that if forced to, Russia will use nuclear missiles to defend itself. And that Red China and N. Korea, 2 of the most powerful nations on Earth, have pledged aid to Russia. Along with Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Arab world. With these allies, Russia will triumph in any war with its enemies, including the U.S. And Putin has sent secret, private emails to the Dangle Trump family, urging them to vacation in Mother Russia during this crisis. "Better safe than sorry", Putin warns Dangle. "You must protect your family and loved ones." ----- ---- Biden warns there will be 'consequences' for Saudi Arabia after oil production cut NBC Universal Zoë Richards October 11, 2022, 7:46 PM Scroll back up to restore default view. President Biden warned Tuesday that Saudi Arabia would face "consequences" after OPEC+ last week announced the biggest cut in oil production since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Senior Democrats on Capitol Hill have condemned the decision by Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the oil-producing alliance, to reduce the global supply of petroleum. Higher oil prices are seen as helping Russia, the world's second-largest oil exporter, finance its war in Ukraine. "There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done with Russia," Biden said of Saudi Arabia in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. “I’m not going to get into what I’d consider and what I have in mind. But there will be — there will be consequences.” The president indicated Congress will act when it is back in session after the midterm elections. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing earlier Tuesday that the U.S. would reassess its relationship with Saudi Arabia following OPEC+'s "decision to align their energy policy with Russia’s war." "We need to kind of reassess and have a different relationship with Saudi Arabia," she said, adding that the White House will review its policies in the coming weeks and months. Asked by Tapper whether it's time for the U.S. to rethink its relationship with Saudi Arabia, Biden said, "Yes." Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, called on the Biden administration Monday to "immediately freeze" U.S. cooperation with Saudi Arabia. OPEC+’s announcement that it will reduce production by 2 million barrels a day came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed nuclear threats he initially made when Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Putin warned of using nuclear weapons late last month in a televised national address in which his defense minister announced the call-up of 300,000 reservists after Russia's military forces suffered severe setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine. In blunt remarks at a Democratic fundraiser last week, Biden said there has been a “direct threat” of nuclear weapons’ being used for the first time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, “if, in fact, things continue down the path they are going.” Asked Tuesday how the U.S. would respond if Putin follows through on his threat to use weapons of mass destruction, Biden told CNN that the Defense Department had discussed the possibility. "There’s been discussions on that, but I’m not going to get into that," Biden said. "It would be irresponsible of me to talk about what we would or wouldn’t do." He also suggested it was unwise of Putin to raise the specter of nuclear weapons. "I don’t think he will" use them, Biden said. "But I think that it's irresponsible for him to talk about it." | |
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| 10-12-22 09:14am - 802 days | #498 | |
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Brett Favre made pitch for welfare funds. Favre is supposed to be worth 100 million dollars, but he needs money from the Mississippi Welfare Department to build tennis courts for the needy, and to help improve lives of high school and college athletes, who are more deserving of the money than welfare dependents. "I only want to help people, my people," Fake News reports Favre screaming. "I go to McDonald's because I can't afford Starbucks prices. Give me a few hundred million, and I can then afford Starbucks and other fine restaurants", screams Favre, who sacrificed his life playing football for good old Mississippi. ---- ---- Pharma company linked to Brett Favre made pitch for welfare funds CBS News Michael Kaplan October 11, 2022, 4:05 PM NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre hosted Mississippi officials at his home in January 2019, where an executive for a pharmaceutical company Favre invested in solicited nearly $2 million in state welfare funds, according to pitch materials obtained by CBS News. A document distributed at the January 2, 2019 meeting describes plans to secure money from the state's Department of Human Services, which operates Mississippi's welfare program. The pitch was led by Jacob VanLandingham, then the CEO of pharmaceutical company Prevacus, which was attempting to develop a concussion drug. The effort to infuse a for-profit business venture with money intended for some of the neediest families in the nation is the latest development in a welfare fraud investigation that has been swirling around the famed quarterback, a Mississippi native, and former state officials. Former federal prosecutor Brad Pigott, who investigated the transactions for the state, told CBS News the agreement between the state and Prevacus was "an egregious betrayal, both of the poor and of the law." The meeting at Favre's Mississippi home was not his first interaction with state officials about the company. One month earlier, text messages first reported by Mississippi Today appear to show the former NFL quarterback personally lobbied then-governor Phil Bryant. The news site reported that VanLandingham offered Bryant stock in the company, and Bryant agreed to accept it after leaving office. "It's 3rd and long and we need you to make it happen!!" Favre wrote to the governor, according to Mississippi Today. Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre. / Credit: Hannah Foslien / Getty Images Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre. / Credit: Hannah Foslien / Getty Images "I will open a hole," Bryant replied, a reference to the work of a football offensive lineman. Favre later updated Bryant after Prevacus began receiving state funds, according to Mississippi Today. Eric Herschmann, an attorney for Favre, said in an interview with CBS News that state officials, including Bryant, never told Favre that the money Bryant would provide would be derived from welfare funds. Herschmann pointed out that Bryant had previously served as Mississippi state auditor, leading the department that oversees public funds. "He knew who all the parties were involved. If there was an issue about these funds not being used, or unable to be used, he should have been the first one that stood up and said something," said Herschmann. "He never said anything to Brett Favre, nor did anyone else ever tell him that this was restricted welfare funds." On January 19, 2019, VanLandingham and Zach New, an executive for a nonprofit tasked with doling out Temporary Assistance for Needy Families welfare funds, signed a contract for $1.7 million promising Mississippi that, in return for the money, it would have the "first right of refusal for clinical trial sites" in a future study phase described as "1B." New and his mother Nancy entered guilty pleas to state and federal charges related to bribery and fraud stemming from their work for the nonprofit Mississippi Community Education Center. Months later, VanLandhingman asked a state welfare official for the money in a text message exchange, a screenshot of which was obtained by CBS News. "We would love 784k," VanLandingham wrote to an employee associated with the nonprofit. "Jake, you cannot even imagine the word stress for us right now! At any rate, we can send 400k today. I will need to let Brett (Favre) know that we will need to pull this from what we were hoping to help him with on other activities.  ," the employee replied, before also asking for "status reports."VanLandingham replied, "Thx sister. Can we stay in line to get the other 380k ? I Ly (sic) you guys." Pigott is a former U.S. attorney who investigated the transactions while representing the state in a civil lawsuit seeking millions from dozens of people and companies, including Favre and Prevacus. Pigott said Favre "was the largest single outside investor" in Prevacus when it received the state grant. "Both Federal and Mississippi law required 100% of that money to go only to the alleviation of poverty within Mississippi and the prevention of teenage pregnancies," said Pigott, who said Prevacus ultimately received $2.1 million. And Pigott said the grant has so far failed to live up to its promise. "They did not, as we understand it" run clinical trials of Prevacus in Mississippi, Pigott said. Prevacus was purchased in 2021 by Nevada-based Odyssey Group International, where VanLandingham is now an executive vice president. In September, the company completed its Phase 1 clinical trial. The study was done in Australia, according to National Institutes of Health records and a September 2021 press release. The company said in a separate press release five days ago that it is moving onto Phase 2 trials. An attorney for VanLandingham said in a letter to CBS News that VanLandingham and Prevacus were "never aware that the money received was sourced by TANF funds or that it was earmarked to help welfare recipients." The attorney, George Schmidt II, said VanLandingham is currently identifying potential sites for the next clinical trial, "which includes sites in Mississippi per the contract." Favre has previously acknowledged soliciting state funds for a volleyball stadium at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, where his daughter was on the team. Favre also repaid more than $1 million in speaking fees, for speeches that were never delivered and radio spots, paid for from the Mississippi welfare fund. Favre said in a statement to CBS News that "I have been unjustly smeared in the media. I have done nothing wrong, and it is past time to set the record straight." "No one ever told me, and I did not know, that funds designated for welfare recipients were going to the University or me. I tried to help my alma mater USM, a public Mississippi state university, raise funds for a wellness center. My goal was and always will be to improve the athletic facilities at my university," Favre said. Neither Favre nor VanLandingham has been charged with any crime. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that then-governor Phil Bryant was among state officials in a Jan. 2, 2019 meeting at Brett Favre's home. The story has been updated. | |
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| 10-12-22 09:25am - 802 days | #499 | |
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Fake News: Michael Avenatti strikes a plea deal with Dangle Trump: Dangle, I believe you are one of the true legal geniuses of the 21st century. We should go into a partnership. You will give me a presidential pardon, and together, we can re-make the legal system and make ourselves richer than God. Dangle, you are the Man. I admire the way you've fought the federal government, and drained the swamp in Washington. Let us worth together, to Make America Great Again. ---- ---- Prosecutors say Michael Avenatti should get 17 years in prison for fraud scheme NBC Universal Andrew Blankstein and Tim Stelloh October 11, 2022, 8:27 PM LOS ANGELES — Convicted criminal and disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti should serve 17½ years in prison after he pleaded guilty to bank fraud and tax offenses in California this year, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The recommendation was included in a 303-page sentencing memo filed by the U.S. attorney's office for Central California. The sentence would run consecutively with a four-year sentence handed down in a separate case in New York involving former adult film actor Stormy Daniels. Avenatti, who once represented Daniels, was found guilty in February of stealing $300,000 of the $800,000 advance Daniels was paid for her book “Full Disclosure,” which included details about an affair she says she had with Donald Trump before he was president. In the California case, Avenatti admitted pocketing millions of dollars that belonged to clients and lying to them about it, prosecutors said when he pleaded guilty in June. As the owner of Global Baristas US LLC, which operated Tully’s Coffee, Avenatti admitted to keeping $5 million in payroll taxes. Michael Avenatti. (AP) Michael Avenatti. (AP) A sentencing memo filed by a lawyer for Avenatti asked for a maximum prison term of three years followed by three years of supervised release. The memo acknowledged that Avenatti impeded the IRS and “misappropriated monies due four of his legal clients, misled them repeatedly, and violated their trust.” But Avenatti should be “treated and sentenced based on his life as a whole across the last 51 years, not his notoriety,” the filing added. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 7. In a separate case, Avenatti was convicted in February 2020 of extortion and other crimes after he threatened to ruin Nike’s reputation unless it agreed to pay him and his client millions of dollars. He was sentenced to 2½ years in prison. Andrew Blankstein reported from Los Angeles and Tim Stelloh from Alameda, California. | |
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| 10-14-22 09:02pm - 799 days | #500 | |
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