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2021-05-18 at 11:20 PM UTCSome career deep state/establishment hand puppet, who never accomplished a single thing in over 50 years in government, who had no campaign platform, who hid in his basement during the entire election process, who was exposed to the world as a pay-for-play criminal, who sniffs children and gropes women on the regular, won more votes than any other President in US history. That's what these radical left-wing nutjobs expect you to believe.
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2021-05-19 at 5:06 AM UTCPOLITICO
McCarthy races to contain GOP defections on Jan. 6 commission
By Melanie Zanona, Nicholas Wu and Olivia Beavers
Kevin McCarthy thought his House Republican conference would almost entirely stand behind him in efforts to derail an investigation into the events of Jan. 6.
Dozens of Republicans are privately considering voting for the Jan. 6 commission — which House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he opposed earlier Tuesday.
Now, a last-minute surge of GOP interest is dashing hopes for near-perfect opposition to the independent commission and putting Republican divisions back on full display.
Dozens of Republicans are privately considering voting for the Jan. 6 commission — which McCarthy himself said he opposed earlier Tuesday, even after he deputized one of his allies, Rep. John Katko of New York, to strike a bipartisan agreement on the proposal. In a sign of momentum, the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus, of which Katko is a member, formally voted to endorse the legislation Tuesday evening.
Just days after GOP leaders decided they wouldn’t force their members’ hands either way, McCarthy and his leadership team issued an informal “leadership recommendation” ahead of the Wednesday vote, urging a “no” vote to help contain defections in their party. Former President Donald Trump also sought to shut down the commission on the eve of the floor vote, calling it a "Democrat trap" and urging Republicans to get "much tougher and much smarter."
"This discussion should be ended immediately," he said in a statement, which could help push wavering GOP lawmakers into the "no" camp.
Regardless of how many Republicans buck Trump on this issue, though, the bill is expected to pass the House. It's fate in the 50-50 Senate is less clear.
While House GOP leadership is still not formally whipping against the legislation, their last-minute maneuvering is the latest signal that top Republicans are starting to grow nervous about how many members may end up crossing party lines, which would be a blow to McCarthy and could enrage Trump.
A big bipartisan vote in the House could also put more pressure on Senate Republicans to get behind the proposal.
As one GOP lawmaker put it: “The genie is out of the bottle, and people are trying to put it back in.”
Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), who plans to vote in favor of establishing a commission, shrugged off McCarthy’s decision, saying, “everyone’s entitled to their opinions.”
McCarthy’s mixed signals are likely a product of his efforts to appease the various factions in his party, particularly the right flank. But the GOP leader has upset several members, who feel McCarthy hung Katko out to dry and now feel even more inclined to rally around Katko and his commission proposal.
Asked about McCarthy’s decision to oppose the commission, Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan said he was “disappointed,” though he declined to elaborate further.
Even Republicans like Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), who seemed sympathetic to McCarthy’s perspective, said they still wanted a commission. Republicans, including some who voted to challenge the certification of the election results, increasingly view the commission as a way to provide themselves political cover — especially with Democrats promising to use the vote as cudgel in the 2022 midterms.
“I do want to have the commission.” Van Drew said. "I just think we should be all inclusive. And that should have been part of the bill.”
McCarthy is navigating a slew of political landmines on the Jan. 6 commission, including how to appease members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus without upsetting the balance within his conference. McCarthy needs their support if he wants to be speaker; and to keep them happy, he also needs the support of Trump, who does not want an investigative body examining his actions on that fateful day.
On Monday, the House Freedom Caucus relayed to McCarthy that they opposed the commission — news which McCarthy receptively received, according to sources familiar with the matter. Some members of the ultra-conservative group leaned more into the idea that the GOP leader should’ve been whipping against the commission from the beginning.
McCarthy formally opposed the commission on Tuesday, raising some eyebrows in the GOP conference after Democrats conceded to McCarthy on nearly all of his top demands on the commission — something rank-and-file Republicans believe surprised the GOP minority leader.
“Given the political misdirections that have marred this process, given the now duplicative and potentially counterproductive nature of this effort, and given the Speaker’s shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America, I cannot support this legislation,” McCarthy said in a statement opposing the commission.
Others pointed to how there must’ve been a disconnect and wonder what permissions McCarthy gave Katko. Katko could have gotten over his skis in terms of making the agreement or McCarthy could have moved the goalposts on his dealbroker.
The differences in opinion between McCarthy and Katko were on full display in the GOP conference meeting on Tuesday as both outlined their positions on the commission, though the two publicly projected an image that there weren’t hurt feelings on either side.
McCarthy suggested that there are no hard feelings between the two men, telling POLITICO: “Katko has worked hard to improve the bill, it’s just not there yet.”
Katko said he “appreciates” how McCarthy has handled the situation but also predicted a “healthy” number of Republicans would still back the proposal.
Katko — the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee — defended the bill he negotiated with the committee’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), as “a solid, fair agreement that is a dramatic improvement over previous proposals that sought to politicize a security review of the Capitol.” Katko acknowledged “differing views” on the scope of that review, however.
McCarthy reiterated that his chief concern is the scope of the panel — not the broad subpoena power.
“I don’t care about the subpoenas,” McCarthy told POLITICO.
Senate Republicans too have expressed increasing skepticism about the legislation and its narrower scope, though Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell struck a different tone than McCarthy.
The Kentucky Republican was noncommittal Tuesday on the commission and said Senate Republicans were “undecided on the way forward” and were going to “listen to the arguments” on whether a commission was needed.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday vowed to put it up for a vote, though it would need 10 GOP votes to pass.
“Republicans can let their constituents know, are they on the side of truth? Or do they want to cover up for the insurrectionists and for Donald Trump?” he said.
The Jan. 6 commission had already been a point of friction between McCarthy and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), just before she was ousted from GOP leadership. McCarthy had demanded that such a panel examine acts of looting and violence that accompanied some protests last summer against police brutality and racial injustice. Cheney, however, sought to have the commission solely probe the Capitol siege.
Democrats have said that the Jan. 6 commission — if established — should force testimony from McCarthy, who reportedly had a heated phone call with Trump as the insurrection was unfolding and may be able to speak to the former president’s state of mind amid the attack.
Top Democrats hammered McCarthy over his opposition to the bipartisan deal.
“Leader McCarthy won’t take yes for an answer,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said Democrats had agreed to McCarthy’s previous demands for the commission.
“I presume Trump doesn't want this to happen. Enough said,” added House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
Democrats and even some Republicans have suggested that GOP lawmakers are apprehensive about the commission because they’re worried it will be weaponized against Trump and the GOP.
“I sense resistance on it,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who supports the commission. “But we shouldn't have any hesitancy to put a spotlight on [Jan. 6], because we don’t want that to ever happen again. … We shouldn’t feel defensive.” -
2021-05-19 at 9:39 AM UTCRepublicans in the House and Senate should not approve the Democrat trap of the January 6 Commission. It is just more partisan unfairness and unless the murders, riots, and fire bombings in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, and New York are also going to be studied, this discussion should be ended immediately. Republicans must get much tougher and much smarter, and stop being used by the Radical Left. Hopefully, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are listening!
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2021-05-19 at 12:55 PM UTCWhen do the Antifa/BLM attacks, lootings and burnings get Committee investigation? Oh, that's right. Shameless double standards. My bad.
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2021-05-19 at 2:09 PM UTCif you were watching political stuff from independent freedom fighters on you tube last night you would have seen them getting blasted by the left with scrambling tech.
But you tube was fine if you switched to movies or non political videos.
I have to also say trouble is coming to the people in charge of things.
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2021-05-19 at 2:15 PM UTCstart at the beginning
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2021-05-19 at 2:33 PM UTCMaking
America
Glad we voted this asshole out
Again
Jonah Goldberg: To the end, Trump’s presidency is all about him
Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
“Despite the Left’s attempts to undermine this Election, I will NEVER stop fighting for YOU,” President Trump assured me in a fundraising email.
I don’t take campaign fundraising emails seriously (never mind literally). They’re all pretty stupid. But this one was obviously different, for the simple reason that the election is over.
Indeed, this note — one of many sent by the Trump campaign recently — was a plea for money to pay for the legal effort to reverse an election Trump lost by the same margin of electoral votes he once claimed amounted to a “massive landslide.” If you read the letter’s fine print, you’ll discover that “fighting for you” actually means “fighting for me.” Most of the money from small donors will go not to the legal effort but rather to pay down campaign debt.
In a sense, I’m grateful that Trump is doubling down on everything wrong about his presidency in its final chapter. Yes, this is embarrassing for the country. Yes, Trump’s radioactive conspiracy theory of a stolen election will have a long, poisonous half-life. But Trump is removing any doubt that his narcissistic presidency was always entirely about him.
The country is in the midst of a health and economic crisis, but Trump’s primary focus is licking his own wounds, not tackling the country’s. He has largely abandoned formal intelligence briefings and hasn’t met with the coronavirus task force in months. With the exception of a Veterans Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery and a Friday-night statement on the pandemic, he’s conducted his post-election presidency doing precisely what he’s always done — subordinating the office to his own wants and petty grievances.
Trump punctuates his brooding and sulking with pathetic tweets brimming with conspiratorial or otherwise deranged hogwash, including the repeated claim “I won the election.” He continues to insist, as he has throughout his presidency, that proof for his lies is just around the corner. On Sunday, he promised a new lawsuit showing the “unconstitutionality” of the 2020 election.
“Nixon’s real tragedy is that he never had the stature to be a tragic hero,” Gary Wills wrote in “Nixon Agonistes.” “He is the stuff of sad (almost heartbreaking) comedy.”
I think that’s a little unfair to Nixon, but it’s dead on with Trump.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh as Trump finally turns on the real Judas in his eyes: Fox News (where I’m a contributor). The network, Trump tweeted, “forgot what made them successful, what got them there. They forgot the Golden Goose. The biggest difference between the 2016 Election, and 2020, was @FoxNews!”
Never mind that Fox was No. 1 in every time slot more than a decade before Trump descended that escalator in 2015. Never mind that for four years, Trump began his day with his Presidential Daily Brief — “Fox and Friends” — and ended it with the primetime gang. And never mind that Trump and the opinion side of the network remain in a deeply codependent relationship.
Trump didn’t get the unwavering, full-throated praise he needed, so now he’s thinking about creating a competing network, one without all the obvious anti-Trump bias!
Most presidents, if they’re remembered at all, get summarized with a single sentence. Whatever that sentence might have been before the election, Trump managed to rewrite it after the election: “He was a one-term president who was the first in American history to refuse to concede or recognize the election results.”
George H.W. Bush, the last incumbent president to lose a reelection bid, left office (after graciously conceding) in fairly bad odor on the right. After eight years of Bill Clinton, however, nostalgia for Bush was so strong, his son parlayed his patronymic name into a winning presidential bid.
If Trump had followed a similar course, he (or perhaps his sybaritic scion, Donald Jr.) might have cashed in on similar nostalgia after four years of a Biden presidency almost certain to be seen as disastrous by those on the right. Instead, he has proven that those of us who said “character is destiny” were right all along.
Let Trump continue to insist he didn’t really lose. It’s impossible to stop him, after all. Let those who believe him — or pretend to — continue to march and tweet and rant, including the many highly compensated media personalities who’ve gotten rich off the Trump train.
But for the rest of us, the one thing we won’t ever feel about the Trump presidency is nostalgia — not least because he won’t really be gone. Even after he leaves the White House, he’ll be fighting for himself — and making sure we hear him — for the rest of his days. -
2021-05-19 at 2:36 PM UTC
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2021-05-19 at 2:45 PM UTCMake
America
Gullible
Again
Business Insider
Arizona recount auditors have found the files of voting data Trump claimed were destroyed as part of a plot to deprive him of victory
tporter@businessinsider.com (Tom Porter)
Arizona election auditors said Tuesday they'd found files that were initially thought to be missing.
Trump had seized on claims of missing voter data to push his election fraud "Big Lie."
The GOP-commissioned Arizona recount has been heavily mocked and criticized.
Auditors conducting the Republican-commissioned recount of 2020 election votes in Arizona's Maricopa County have found files of voter data that former President Donald Trump falsely claimed had been destroyed.
In a statement last week, Trump seized on a claim by auditors that data they subpoenaed while conducting the recount had gone missing as he pushed his conspiracy theory that last year's election was stolen from him.
"The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!" Trump wrote at the time, claiming that journalists were too afraid to cover the story.
The statement had drawn a withering response from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican, who had called the statement "unhinged."
But on Tuesday it turned out that the missing data had been found. Ben Cotton, one of the auditing officials, told state senators that the files had been located on different computer hard drives to the ones they had been searching, the Associated Press reported.
Collins went on to describe Trump's claim that files were deleted as a "moot point," the AP reported.
In a Tuesday tweet, Maricopa County officials criticized the auditors for making the baseless accusation about missing data in the first place.
"Just want to underscore that AZ Senate's @ArizonaAudit account accused Maricopa County of deleting files- which would be a crime- then a day after our technical letter explained they were just looking in the wrong place," the tweet said.
"All of a sudden 'auditors' have recovered the files," officials said.
The ballot recount, which was commissioned by the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate in April, has been embroiled in allegations of mismanagement and partisan bias for weeks. State Republican officials, the Arizona secretary of state, and the Justice Department have all raised concerns.
The state GOP claims that the recount is necessary as part of an investigation into tightening election integrity, but critics, including Maricopa's GOP-controlled election board, have described it as a sham, driven by the desire to give credibility to Trump's election-fraud conspiracy theories.
At a Tuesday meeting, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said that despite criticism of the audit, it would go ahead.
The audit was scheduled to be wrapped up on May 14, but is now expected to go on for several more weeks. -
2021-05-19 at 3:02 PM UTCEveryone and their dog knows Biden and his gang of fraudsters stole the 2020 election. Even the Democrats know it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-05-19 at 3:04 PM UTCthat don't mean they will admit it
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2021-05-19 at 3:12 PM UTCDidn't happen, sheep.
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2021-05-19 at 3:25 PM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT if you were watching political stuff from independent freedom fighters on you tube last night you would have seen them getting blasted by the left with scrambling tech.
But you tube was fine if you switched to movies or non political videos.
I was watching an anime shark cat girl and my youtube fucked up too it crashed for everyone -
2021-05-19 at 3:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT that don't mean they will admit it
It's the usual with them, they don't know whether to deny it happened or brag about it.
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2021-05-19 at 3:54 PM UTCPretty pathetic and sad when you have such a bunch of chronic losers the ONLY way they can win is by cheating.
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2021-05-19 at 3:57 PM UTCYou're right.
Those untrustworthy Dems faked over SEVEN MILLION VOTES ! ! !
And Donald Trump has lost over 60 court cases trying to prove it.
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2021-05-19 at 3:58 PM UTCAll the radical left-wing activist "judges" refused to see any of the evidence, because they knew what would happen if they did.
