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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-10-15 at 3:18 PM UTCBusiness Insider
A Republican group is putting up gigantic billboards to remind Trump that he lost
insider@insider.com (Cheryl Teh)
A group of Republican officials is launching an anti-Trump campaign to call for an end to vote audits.
A Republican group is putting up billboards to remind former President Trump that he lost the 2020 election.
The first billboard is up in Times Square, and reads "Trump lost. No more 'audits.'"
The group plans to run these billboards in states where Trump is calling for vote audits.
A group of Republicans is putting up billboards across America to remind former President Donald Trump that he lost last year's election, starting with a gigantic display in Times Square.
The Republicans for Voting Rights group tweeted a photo of the New York City billboard on October 14, which read: "TRUMP LOST. NO MORE 'AUDITS.'"
There are currently 36 "Trump Lost" billboards across nine states according to a map posted on the Republicans for Voting Rights website,
"Republicans for Voting Rights is launching a quarter-million-dollar billboard campaign across the country to call on state lawmakers to reject frivolous audits of the 2020 election results," read a statement by the group. According to its website, RVR is a group of eight Republicans, including Olivia Troye, a former aide to Mike Pence, and Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
"The billboard will run in major markets in states where there's discussion about an audit of the 2020 election, including Georgia, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Arizona, as well as New York City's Times Square," added the group in its statement.
There have been calls for vote audits even in Florida and Texas, states that Trump won. Most recently, the GOP-led audit of the vote count in Maricopa County confirmed President Joe Biden won the election and resulted in Trump losing 261 votes. However, Trump has continued to falsely claim the GOP audit uncovered "undeniable evidence" of fraud.
This billboard campaign appears to be the latest salvo fired by anti-Trump Republicans in a bid to loosen the former president's hold on power over the GOP. Just this week, GOP officials penned an op-ed in The New York Times urging Republican voters to back Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections to save the Republican party from 'pro-Trump extremists.'
The Times op-ed was written by Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican governor of New Jersey. In 2020, Taylor revealed himself to be the anonymous author behind a 2018 op-ed article in The Times describing a "resistance" of Trump administration officials working to quell what he called the former president's "worst inclinations."
Taylor continues to pursue the cause to weaken Trump's influence on the GOP. This week, the Renew America Movement (RAM), a group that Taylor co-founded, endorsed 21 Democrats and prominent Republicans running in risky midterm races. The candidates included Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maine Rep. Jared Golden, and known anti-Trump GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. -
2021-10-15 at 3:22 PM UTCIt's incredible how much money and power these people always seem to have.
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2021-10-16 at 7:31 AM UTCTRUMP WON!
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2021-10-16 at 4:11 PM UTCYou'll drive yourself insane thinking like that, Weasel.
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2021-10-16 at 5:13 PM UTCthe first 25 min will tell our tail of our movement from the start last November
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2021-10-16 at 5:48 PM UTCDave Jose is the only way,, he don't even own a gun
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2021-10-16 at 5:49 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-17 at 5:54 AM UTCWashington Examiner
Carl Bernstein calls for investigation into supporters of 'psychopath' Trump
Daniel Chaitin
Watergate sleuth Carl Bernstein says supporters of former President Donald Trump need to be investigated as part of a broader examination beyond the Capitol riot.
During a recent interview on CNN, Bernstein warned there is "a kind of civil war in this country ignited by Donald Trump," who may yet run again for the White House in 2024, and he argued a "coup attempt" took place on Jan. 6 that was propped up on lies about a stolen election in 2020 that a large number of Republicans continue to believe in.
"Let's say that perhaps we have a sociopath, or a psychopath, who has been the president of the United States and seeks perhaps to be the next president of the United States and has ignited this movement," Bernstein said, riffing off of host Anderson Cooper's statement that "psychopaths" are able to run wild because they openly wear down everyone around them.
"We have never had a period in our history when 40, 45% of the people in our country have said, 'Oh, yeah, I'll go along with this psychopath. I'll go along with this sociopath.' We need to be looking at these facts, as well as the coup and what this individual did. We need to look at why are our people, so many of our people, following this sociopathic undermining of our democracy? It's extraordinary," Bernstein said.
Investigations into the Capitol riot are already underway.
The interview, conducted on Oct. 7, took place as the House Jan. 6 Select Committee began to ramp up its efforts with subpoenas for documents and testimony from Trump aides and allies. In addition, hundreds of people have been charged in connection to the riot, which disrupted Congress as lawmakers met to certify President Joe Biden's victory.
The conversation between Bernstein and Cooper began with a discussion about the Senate Judiciary Committee report on a Trump administration pressure campaign against top Justice Department officials to challenge the November contest results. A GOP rebuttal report, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley, stressed available evidence that shows Trump followed the advice and recommendations of his senior advisers and did not use the Justice Department to overturn the election, which prompted criticism from Bernstein.
"Chuck Grassley was once a really honorable man with a terrific record, serving his party," he said of the 88-year-old Iowa Republican, who is seeking reelection in 2022. "And it is a long time ago," he added after Anderson said the same, "because what he is doing is a disgrace."
In November, Bernstein unveiled a list of 21 Republican senators who privately expressed "extreme contempt" for Trump. On that list was Grassley, whose office shot back at the journalist.
"Mr. Bernstein’s sources clearly aren’t what they used to be. This simply isn’t true. Sen. Grassley has been a strong supporter of the president and, at the same time, has made it no secret when he disagrees with the president. There is no difference between what Sen. Grassley says publicly and privately," a Grassley spokesperson told the Washington Examiner at the time. "Washington journalists might be wise to reconsider trafficking in baseless second- and third-hand rumor. It may restore some lost credibility."
Bernstein helped expose the Watergate scandal in the 1970s with Bob Woodward using anonymous sources while at the Washington Post. As the controversy reached its zenith, a trio of influential Republicans (1964 presidential nominee Sen. Barry Goldwater, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, and House Minority Leader John Rhodes) went to the White House in 1974 to tell Nixon he did not have the support in Congress to survive impeachment, after which he resigned.
Trump, who was impeached by the Democratic-led House on a charge of inciting the Jan. 6 siege of Congress, was acquitted by a GOP-led Senate despite seven Republicans voting to convict him. Bernstein said this shows the GOP is playing dirty to win elections despite how they may feel personally.
"What the Republican Party is doing today is unprecedented in our history, going along with subversion of the Constitution of the United States. This is not about a set of unknown facts. It's very clear to these people in the Republican Party what happened. They want to win and prevail in this civil war at any cost," he said.
"And the cost to the country is something that we have not seen in this nation since 1860 to 1865," Bernstein added. "That's the only period in our history we can look at as to when the forces of undemocratic, to say the least, but when the forces gathered to undermine our unity as a country and what we stand for and who we are."
"We are in a similar period right now in which — and that's what we need to be covering as well in the media. What is going on in the country that is allowing this to happen? We need to find out what's on people's minds if they are willing to go along with this," he said. -
2021-10-17 at 3:14 PM UTCMake the
Asshole
Go
And testify
Business Insider
Donald Trump being subpoenaed by the January 6 committee is not 'far-fetched', says Rep. Stacey Plaskett
ashoaib@insider.com (Alia Shoaib)
Rep. Stacey Plaskett said that the prospect of Donald Trump being subpoenaed by the January 6 committee is not "far-fetched."
Plaskett noted that Trump has recently been compelled to sit for a deposition for a civil case.
Trump's recent attempts to invoke executive privilege to withhold information were rejected by the White House.
The prospect that former President Donald Trump could be subpoenaed by the January 6 committee investigating the Capitol siege is not "far-fetched," Rep. Stacey Plaskett told MSNBC on Saturday.
"They're going to be bound by the facts and the law, and if that means deposing the president, they will do so," the Democratic representative for the Virgin Islands told MSNBC.
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat chairman of the January 6 House select committee, told CNN on Thursday that "nobody is off-limits to a subpoena from this committee."
Speaking to MSNBC, Plaskett referenced that Trump has recently been ordered by a judge to sit for a videotaped deposition in a civil case relating to a 2015 incident at one of his rallies.
"His ability to remove himself from depositions in this matter may be far-fetched," she said.
Plaskett added that a Trump deposition might only be the tip of the iceberg of the committee's probed into how he behaved in the White House on January 6, including records of cellphone and Twitter accounts and communications with individuals.
The former president has previously said he would "fight the Subpoenas on Executive Privilege and other grounds, for the good of our Country."
On October 8, the Biden White House denied a request from Trump's legal team to withhold documents from the select committee on the grounds of "executive privilege."
White House counsel Dana Remus instructed the National Archives to turn over the "initial batch of documents" related to the House committee's request.
Trump's legal team has also instructed his former advisors and aides, including Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, and Kash Patel, to not comply with subpoenas issued by the House committee.
On Thursday, the select committee moved to pursue criminal contempt charges against Bannon for not cooperating with them.
"Mr. Bannon has declined to cooperate with the Select Committee and is instead hiding behind the former President's insufficient, blanket, and vague statements regarding privileges he has purported to invoke," Rep. Bennie Thompson said in a statement.
President Joe Biden said on Friday that he supported prosecution for those who defy subpoenas. -
2021-10-17 at 3:30 PM UTCI can't fathom the mindset of someone who presumeably saw what happened in the Ukraine, Syria and Turkey inside the last 5-10 years and unironically calls the january 6th riots a 'coup'
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2021-10-17 at 3:32 PM UTCMaybe we should
All give a
Goodly sized check to an
Anti-Trump Republican
CNN
Liz Cheney, Lisa Murkowski and other Trump targets outraise their Republican rivals
By Fredreka Schouten
Four Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach or convict former President Donald Trump over his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol outraised the candidates he has endorsed to oust them, new campaign filings show.
Republican Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington and Fred Upton of Michigan drew Trump's condemnation for their impeachment votes in his January trial in the House. All three collected more money in the third fundraising quarter than their Trump-endorsed rivals, according to reports filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
And Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump in February, raised nearly $1.1 million in the July-to-September quarter, more than twice the $465,945 collected by Kelly Tshibaka, who Trump endorsed earlier this year. Murkowski is the only one among the seven Republicans who voted to convict the former President who is up for reelection in 2022.
In addition, Murkowski ended September with more than $3.2 million in cash reserves -- more than 10 times the amount Tshibaka had remaining in her campaign account.
Trump has loomed large over his party, even out of office. And some Republicans have worried that his aggressive role in nomination battles -- along with his demands that GOP officeholders back up his false claims about the 2020 election -- could muddle efforts to win control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.
Republicans need to flip only one seat in the Senate and five in the House to seize the majority.
Top target, top fundraiser
In the House, Cheney, who serves as vice chairwoman of a committee investigating the January 6 riot, is among the top targets for Trump, who has called her a "warmonger" and "disloyal." She was ousted from her position as House GOP conference chair earlier this year over her opposition to the former President.
Despite that, Cheney topped the fundraising among the 10 House Republicans who backed Trump's impeachment, bringing in $1.7 million, new filings show. It marked the second-largest fundraising quarter of Cheney's House career.
Her Trump-endorsed opponent, attorney Harriet Hageman, joined the race on September 9 and raised nearly $302,000 in the three weeks before the books closed on the quarter, or a pace of about $100,000 a week.
Hageman would need to increase that pace to match the fundraising strength of Cheney -- who has consistently topped seven figures in quarterly fundraising this year. Cheney ended September with more than $3.6 million in the bank to Hageman's $245,000.
The Cheney-Hageman race is shaping up as a key proxy fight between Trump and the traditional establishment Republican world from which Cheney hails and a high-profile test of Trump's ability to purge his critics from power.
Former President George W. Bush is slated to attend a fundraiser Monday in Texas for Cheney, the daughter of his Vice President Dick Cheney. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, and his wife Ann were among the donors to her fundraising committees in the third quarter.
Other contributors to Cheney's political operation in the quarter included several prominent Democratic donors, such as Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, and a political action committee run by former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, who has become a vocal critic of the former President.
In announcing the third-quarter haul in the Casper Star-Tribune earlier this week, Cheney campaign adviser Amy Edmonds said the three-term congresswoman is receiving "historic levels of support because she is upholding her oath to the Constitution."
Hageman's contributors include Maggie Scarlett, who was a co-chair of Cheney's 2014 Senate campaign; billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, who was an early backer of Trump's presidential ambitions; and Lynn Friess, the widow of Foster Friess, who was a major GOP contributor.
"We know that Liz Cheney will have more money than she can spend, raised by Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia special interests, establishment politicians, and Democrats who find her to be a useful tool," Hageman said in a statement.
House endorsements
In Washington, meanwhile, Herrera Buetler raised $523,591, surpassing the $452,132 collected by Joe Kent, a US Army veteran endorsed last month by Trump.
And in Michigan, Upton raised $292,943 in the third quarter, topping the $115,585 collected by Steve Carra, a Michigan state lawmaker also endorsed by Trump in September.
Upton is considering retirement after more than three decades in office. He has said he will decide his political future based on what his southwest Michigan seat looks like after redistricting, rather than Trump's actions in the race.
"We'll have the resources to win. I'm not worried," Upton told CNN in September.
Carra told CNN earlier this week that he now anticipates raising more in the fourth quarter with Trump's support than in the third.
"Fundraising certainly has picked up after his endorsement," he said. "I will have raised about the same amount in Q3 as I did in Q2, but a large portion of that would be after his endorsement came."
One House Republican who voted to impeach the former President, Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, announced last month that he would not seek reelection as he faced a tough primary challenge.
Max Miller, the Republican endorsed by Trump to take on Gonzalez, brought in more $695,000 during the third quarter, $500,000 of which came in the form a personal loan from Miller.
Trump has not yet endorsed challengers to six other House Republicans who voted for his impeachment.
Chris Mathys -- a pro-Trump challenger to one of those lawmakers, California Rep. David Valadao -- hopes that changes soon. He told CNN this week that he's "actively pursuing" a meeting with Trump to secure his support. -
2021-10-17 at 4:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Maybe we should
All give a
Goodly sized check to an
Anti-Trump Republican
CNN
Liz Cheney, Lisa Murkowski and other Trump targets outraise their Republican rivals
By Fredreka Schouten
Four Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach or convict former President Donald Trump over his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol outraised the candidates he has endorsed to oust them, new campaign filings show.
Republican Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington and Fred Upton of Michigan drew Trump's condemnation for their impeachment votes in his January trial in the House. All three collected more money in the third fundraising quarter than their Trump-endorsed rivals, according to reports filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
And Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump in February, raised nearly $1.1 million in the July-to-September quarter, more than twice the $465,945 collected by Kelly Tshibaka, who Trump endorsed earlier this year. Murkowski is the only one among the seven Republicans who voted to convict the former President who is up for reelection in 2022.
In addition, Murkowski ended September with more than $3.2 million in cash reserves – more than 10 times the amount Tshibaka had remaining in her campaign account.
Trump has loomed large over his party, even out of office. And some Republicans have worried that his aggressive role in nomination battles – along with his demands that GOP officeholders back up his false claims about the 2020 election – could muddle efforts to win control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.
Republicans need to flip only one seat in the Senate and five in the House to seize the majority.
Top target, top fundraiser
In the House, Cheney, who serves as vice chairwoman of a committee investigating the January 6 riot, is among the top targets for Trump, who has called her a "warmonger" and "disloyal." She was ousted from her position as House GOP conference chair earlier this year over her opposition to the former President.
Despite that, Cheney topped the fundraising among the 10 House Republicans who backed Trump's impeachment, bringing in $1.7 million, new filings show. It marked the second-largest fundraising quarter of Cheney's House career.
Her Trump-endorsed opponent, attorney Harriet Hageman, joined the race on September 9 and raised nearly $302,000 in the three weeks before the books closed on the quarter, or a pace of about $100,000 a week.
Hageman would need to increase that pace to match the fundraising strength of Cheney – who has consistently topped seven figures in quarterly fundraising this year. Cheney ended September with more than $3.6 million in the bank to Hageman's $245,000.
The Cheney-Hageman race is shaping up as a key proxy fight between Trump and the traditional establishment Republican world from which Cheney hails and a high-profile test of Trump's ability to purge his critics from power.
Former President George W. Bush is slated to attend a fundraiser Monday in Texas for Cheney, the daughter of his Vice President Dick Cheney. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, and his wife Ann were among the donors to her fundraising committees in the third quarter.
Other contributors to Cheney's political operation in the quarter included several prominent Democratic donors, such as Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, and a political action committee run by former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, who has become a vocal critic of the former President.
In announcing the third-quarter haul in the Casper Star-Tribune earlier this week, Cheney campaign adviser Amy Edmonds said the three-term congresswoman is receiving "historic levels of support because she is upholding her oath to the Constitution."
Hageman's contributors include Maggie Scarlett, who was a co-chair of Cheney's 2014 Senate campaign; billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, who was an early backer of Trump's presidential ambitions; and Lynn Friess, the widow of Foster Friess, who was a major GOP contributor.
"We know that Liz Cheney will have more money than she can spend, raised by Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia special interests, establishment politicians, and Democrats who find her to be a useful tool," Hageman said in a statement.
House endorsements
In Washington, meanwhile, Herrera Buetler raised $523,591, surpassing the $452,132 collected by Joe Kent, a US Army veteran endorsed last month by Trump.
And in Michigan, Upton raised $292,943 in the third quarter, topping the $115,585 collected by Steve Carra, a Michigan state lawmaker also endorsed by Trump in September.
Upton is considering retirement after more than three decades in office. He has said he will decide his political future based on what his southwest Michigan seat looks like after redistricting, rather than Trump's actions in the race.
"We'll have the resources to win. I'm not worried," Upton told CNN in September.
Carra told CNN earlier this week that he now anticipates raising more in the fourth quarter with Trump's support than in the third.
"Fundraising certainly has picked up after his endorsement," he said. "I will have raised about the same amount in Q3 as I did in Q2, but a large portion of that would be after his endorsement came."
One House Republican who voted to impeach the former President, Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, announced last month that he would not seek reelection as he faced a tough primary challenge.
Max Miller, the Republican endorsed by Trump to take on Gonzalez, brought in more $695,000 during the third quarter, $500,000 of which came in the form a personal loan from Miller.
Trump has not yet endorsed challengers to six other House Republicans who voted for his impeachment.
Chris Mathys – a pro-Trump challenger to one of those lawmakers, California Rep. David Valadao – hopes that changes soon. He told CNN this week that he's "actively pursuing" a meeting with Trump to secure his support.
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2021-10-17 at 6:27 PM UTCExplain yourself...if you can.
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