“I would argue we all know, at the end of the day, there’s not going to be a conviction in the Senate,” Cole told Politico of impeaching the Democratic president. “It just injects poison into the system, causes a lot of turmoil.” Cole’s comments come as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, told the news outlet that she will “absolutely” be introducing articles of impeachment against Biden next year....
“The world is a better place without these guys in power,” tweeted Gosar. Congressman Gosar later replied to tweets requesting he delete the picture by explaining that he knew the image was a fake and that his “point remains to all but the dimmest.” “To the dim witted reporters like @dmedin11 [Daniel Medina, reporter for The Intercept and The Guardian]: no one said this wasn’t photoshopped. No one said the president of Iran was dead....
While Brooks has wholeheartedly endorsed the allegations, which have failed in courts because of the lack of evidence supporting them, Kinzinger has called out the claims as false. The Illinois Republican has suggested that those backing the president’s conspiracy theories are doing so to raise money and garner more attention on social media. Speaking to Fox News’ morning show Fox & Friends on Monday morning, Brooks said that Kinzinger has not adequately investigated the issue....
The Twitter page for PatriotTakes, self-described as a group of researchers “monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism,” shared a screenshot of the post from Colton Duncan. In the post, which appears to have been deleted from Duncan’s social media, Duncan wrote that when Roe gets reversed, “nasty, ugly gender-confused animals will torch American cities and do everything they can to tear down the fabric of America.” The post goes on, “They should either be shot, or god-willing, apprehended before that has to happen....
“I have known Vice President Biden for 24 years. He is an honorable man and I hold him in the highest regard,” Volker, the former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, told lawmakers. He added that he rejected the “conspiracy theory” peddled by Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani that the former vice president had been influenced in his duties by money paid to his son, Hunter, from the Ukraine energy company Burisma....
In a Sunday morning radio interview, Paul, an ophthalmologist, told billionaire John Catsimatidis that he won’t be receiving the vaccine because he recovered from the virus after testing positive last March. “Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers, or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I’m not getting vaccinated because I’ve already had the disease and I have natural immunity,” Paul said on Catsimatidis’ WABC 770 AM radio program....
Van Drew appeared to backtrack on his own calls for less division and punitive political moves during his appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures—telling host Maria Bartiromo it’s “unbelievable” that House Democrats may impeach Trump for a second time. The representative scoffed that Trump will be out of office by the time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could follow through on impeachment threats in response to last week’s deadly Capitol Hill riot at Trump’s behest....
State Rep. Anthony Sabatini, a Republican and Trump loyalist from Orlando, tweeted one day before the president left the White House a proposal to rename Highway 27 the “President Donald J. Trump Highway.” The 481-mile highway runs virtually the length of Florida from Miami to Tallahassee. “This legislative session I will be sponsoring an amendment to rename U.S. Highway 27 as the ‘President Donald J. Trump Highway,’” Sabatini tweeted....
CNN host and chief investigative correspondent Pamela Brown asked Turner about his thoughts on the discovery of classified documents at Biden’s private residence in Wilmington, Delaware, and discussed how that compared to Trump’s situation. “I want to go back to what you said in August after the FBI search on [Trump’s resort home] Mar-a-Lago. We interviewed you right after that, and in that interview you seemed to downplay the seriousness of classified documents being at Mar-a-Lago,” Brown said in the Saturday interview....
Reed is one of a number of Republican lawmakers who have congratulated Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, despite President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that the Democrats won the presidential election through widespread voter fraud. The GOP congressman is a member of the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus, which in September put forward a $1.5 trillion compromise stimulus proposal to address the economic fallout of the pandemic, as Republicans and Democrats remained at an impasse in negotiations....
“President Biden’s announcement just days after an unprovoked full scale invasion by Russia is extremely inappropriate,” Senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted on Friday. “Once again, Biden is putting the demands of the radical progressive left ahead of what is best for our nation.” On Friday morning, Biden announced he would nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat once he retires. The announcement comes just two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending the international community into a tailspin as the U....
“Chinese Communist Party officials and Chinese entities should be shunned in the halls of Congress,” Blackburn wrote In a “Dear Colleague” letter dated May 14. “Please join me in warning Beijing that any Chinese agent of repression, even those dressed in business suits to disguise the green Maoist uniforms that they support, are not welcome to step foot in our offices or to lobby our staff.” The move, the senator said, would deny “China an opportunity to spread Communist propaganda in congressional offices” and also send a “warning shot to Beijing that Congress will not tolerate Beijing’s misinformation over the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak....
One line in his statement seems to mock a comment about anti-LGBTQ discrimination made on Tuesday by Pennsylvania Health Department Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman. In his statement, Diamond said that social media commenters directing “harassment,” “hate and intolerance” at him for repeatedly not wearing a mask in public are actually “hurting the thousands of unmasked Pennsylvanians who suffer directly from these current demonstrations of harassment.” “Your actions perpetuate a spirit of intolerance and discrimination against unmasked individuals and specifically individuals like myself who are outspoken against it,” Diamond’s statement continued....
Earlier this week, prosecutors filed a sentencing memo suggesting that Stone—a veteran GOP operative who has long been close with the president—be jailed for between seven and nine years for crimes uncovered during the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. But all four prosecutors who took the Stone case to trial resigned Tuesday after the DOJ revised the sentencing memo, suggesting Stone’s jail time should be “far less” than originally asked for....
A Save the Children carnival and toy drive in Laredo. A cryptocurrency workshop and ugly sweater Christmas party with Folklorico dancing in San Antonio. These community events aimed at Latinos in south Texas this holiday season are not being held by a nonprofit, or even by Democrats, but by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in partnership with local Republican groups. The RNC says its community centers are part of a national, multi-million dollar effort to reach out to minority communities at the local level to engage African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Pacific Americans and Indian-Americans....
PLAYERS Conventional Wisdom D. Quayle (+/-) One banana peel away from oblivion. Shut up and sit down until the convention. J. Baker (+) Master of the Universe. But can he be VP, run campaign, bring peace, cure AIDS all at once? D.Cheney (-) Smart guy, but combines Bush, Quayle liabilities: health problems, doded draft. C. Powell (+) Masterstroke. But CW hears he’s a closet–Democrat and would say no. J. Kemp (-) Right-wing insurance if Dan goes....
GORBACHEV: I thought with time I would feel less sorrow, but so far I have not. My friends, my daughter tell me you have to move on, you have to live for yourself, your children and grandchildren. I’m an optimist. I love life. I’m trying to travel a lot, to talk to people. But wherever I go, when I’m alone, the memories come back. No. Even when there seems to be a danger of a rollback, those moments pass....
TV executives retorted that Ito’s threatened punishment would fail. “He would be cutting off his nose to spite his face,” scoffed CBS News vice president Lane Venardos. He’s right. Banning cameras won’t deter potential leakers, and it would prevent the only unvarnished account of the trial. But a ban would force fresh strategies for everyone involved in the news-marketing of O.J. As CNBC producer Andy Friendly said, “We are all gorging on this buffet....
In the latest Quinnipiac poll, released Wednesday, an overwhelming majority—81 percent—of New York voters approved of Cuomo’s handling of the state’s response to COVID-19 and 17 percent disapproved. By comparison, only 35 percent of New York voters approved of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, while 61 disapproved. Trump’s overall coronavirus approval rating lagged significantly behind New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who garnered 63 percent of support for his handling of the virus in the U....
It was all part of the multi-phased plan Texas Governor Greg Abbott unveiled in an address April 17 about the state’s economy. Abbott’s plan, which came a day after state governors met with President Donald Trump in a video conference to discuss reopening guidelines, uses three executive orders to streamline the process. The first of those executive orders established the governor’s Strike Force to Open Texas, composed of health care professionals, business leaders and political leaders who make recommendations that guide the reopening of all phases of the state’s economy and properly implement greater COVID-19 testing guidelines....
