Month: April 2022

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Congress Crime Elections GOP

Legal Experts: Marjorie Taylor Greene Committed Perjury Numerous Times Today

Today in Atlanta, an administrative hearing was held to determine if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is indeed an insurrectionist and should be removed from the November ballot.

On dozens of occasions, Greene said she didn’t remember or didn’t recall when she was asked questions by an attorney representing Free Speech for People and voters in Greene’s congressional district who brought the challenge to her candidacy as she seeks reelection.

According to the Washington Post:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, testifying Friday about her alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of a case seeking to disqualify her from seeking reelection, said she could not remember whether she urged President Donald Trump to impose martial law as a way to remain in power.

“I don’t recall,” Greene (R-Ga.) said in response to questioning by an attorney representing the plaintiffs in the case.

“So you’re not denying you did it?” asked the attorney, Andrew G. Celli Jr. “You just don’t remember.”

“I don’t remember,” Greene replied.

Unfortunately for Greene, however, she didn’t maintain that lack of recall when it came to all of the questions she was asked, and that led her to commit perjury on numerous occasions, according to legal experts who watched the congresswoman’s testimony.

The most egregious examples of Greene allegdly lying under oath were when she was asked about postings made on her social media accounts, insisting that she didn’t remember certain tweets in which she called for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to be killed.

Minutes later, however, Greene suddenly had perfect recall and was able to remember things she had posted online. So was the she lying when she didn’t recall or when she did? Either way, she lied under oath, which is a crime and set off calls for her to be prosecuted for perjury.

Elie Mystal of The Nation wondered, “Who is handling the upcoming MTG perjury prosecution?”

Others also had thoughts on the lies Greene allegedly told while under oath:

https://twitter.com/ecrire831/status/1517578626438352896?s=20&t=6Pr1j05izbBQ6qPLsprjSA

FYI: Perjury is a felony in the state of Georgia and is punishable by a fine of $1,000 or by a prison term between 1 and 10 years, or both.

Margie better hope she has a damn good attorney on retainer.

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Fox News GOP

Mike Pompeo Gets Roasted For His ‘Freudian Slip’ During An Appearance On Fox News

During an appearance on Fox News Thursday evening, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said something he probably wishes he could take back.

Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration, was speaking with Fox host Laura Ingraham, who asked him:

“Why does the left act as if conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the” Chinese Communist Party?

Pompeo replied:

“Because, in fact, we often are.”

Damn! Mike said the quiet part out loud. And there’s definitely a case to be made that conservatives are indeed a bigger threat to the United States and China, if only because the conservatives are holding positions of power where they routinely work against the best interests of their own country.

It’s also important to note that Ingraham didn’t ask if Pompeo thought Russia was the biggest threat to the U.S. at the current time. Failed, one-term former President Donald Trump certainly didn’t think so, and he cozied up to Russian mass murderer/war criminal Vladimir Putin every chance he got.

Twitter quickly reminded Pompeo that he’d finally said something truthful:

https://twitter.com/davidmweissman/status/1517340134248783872?s=20&t=l1n6FKX8SxCShbl1nmQH9A

 

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Crime Justice Department

Justice Department Accuses Alex Jones Of Potential ‘Abuse Of The Bankruptcy System’ In Court Filing

On the eve of a bankruptcy hearing for InfoWars founder Alex Jones, the Justice Department has weighed in and accused Jones of possible “abuse of the bankruptcy system.”

According to Elizabeth Williamson of the New York Times, a DOJ trustee in Texas filed a formal objection to Jones’s bankruptcy petition, claiming that it may be fake and an attempt to avoid paying compensation to the families of the children who were killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary. Jones accused the families of being “crisis actors.”

Williamson reports:

On the eve of tomorrow’s hearing on Jones/ Infowars’ bankruptcy case in Texas, DoJ’s regional trustee files an objection with the judge: Why aren’t Jones and his company, both defendants in Sandy Hook defamation suits, named as debtors?

Jones asked the bk court to approve a paltry “litigation settlement trust” without any input by the families, nor any view of his finances. That risks “purposefully stacking the deck against the most vulnerable of creditors,” trustee writes.

On Sunday, Bloomberg was the first to report that Jones planned to file for bankruptcy as a way of avoiding complete financial collapse:

Companies owned by far-right radio host Alex Jones are getting advice from restructuring advisers and considering options including a potential bankruptcy filing after being hit by lawsuits over Jones’s conspiracy theories, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

A Chapter 11 filing would aim to allow Jones’s businesses, such as Infowars and Free Speech Systems, to keep operating while pausing civil litigation against them, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

 

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Fox News Media in America

Jeanine Pirro’s Cell Phone Goes Off During ‘The Five’ – The Ringtone? ‘I Love This Bar’

In what may well be the ultimate example of perfect irony, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro got humiliated on the air Wednesday during an edition of “The Five” when her cell phone began going off.

According to HuffPost:

Just before (Greg) Gutfeld began his recurring “Animals Are Great” segment, the former judge’s phone rang, causing her ironic ringtone to blast through the moment and prompting laughter from her Fox News co-hosts.

“What the hell’s going on?” Gutfeld asked as Pirro wrestled with her cell phone while trying to turn the ringer off.

The irony, of course, is that Pirro has been accused of broadcasting while she’s inebriated. For example, there’s this example from March of this year:

During a discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop (Yes, conservatives are STILL beating that dead horse), Pirro looked and sounded like she was two sheets to the wind, unable to pronounce the name of former CIA Director Leon Panetta.

Twitter had some thoughts on Jeanine’s ringtone:

 

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Capitol Insurrection Congress GOP

‘Coded’ Tweet From Greene Will Be What Gets Her Booted Off November Ballot: Attorney

Last Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had to testify under oath about what role she played in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in response to a lawsuit seeking to keep her off the November ballot.

What are the chances Greene will be prevented from running for reelection? According to attorney Ron Fein, a “coded” tweet Greene sent is the smoking gun which will prove the case against her.

Fein was a guest on MSNBC and told host Ayman Mohyeldin:

“She worked with the planners of some of the events of Jan. 6th and then the day before the attack, she signaled to her followers a code word, meant to storm federal buildings and supposedly overthrow tyrants. So, we are going to ask her about all of that and more.”

That coded tweet Greene sent referred to refusing to certify the Electoral College vote as a “1776 moment,” Fein explained.

The complaint against Greene cites that tweet:

“‘1776’ was used as a codeword for violence in the run-up to January 6. For instance, Ali Alexander, a violent extremist who listed Representative Greene as a speaker at his January 6 event, and referred to Greene as a ‘friend,’ replied to a tweet by Greene on December 30, 2020, promising that ‘1776 is *always* an option’ if objections to certification were blocked. The responses indicate it was understood as a call to storm the Capitol.”

Later in that same legal document is this paragraph:

“Alexander increasingly used references to ‘1776’ between December 30 and January 6 as a call for violence if Trump was not installed as president for another four years. By this time, it was well known that events Alexander planned and promoted developed into violence. Similarly, Enrique Tarrio, until recently the leader of the ‘Proud Boys,’ had on hand a detailed plan for the far-right extremist group to distract police, swarm federal buildings, and obstruct their functioning. The title of the document describing the plan was ‘1776 Returns.’”

The tweet and surrounding documentation, according to the lawsuit, are proof of Greene’s participation in an insurrection against the government:

“Specifically, her remarks had the intent and effect of signaling to her supporters that she was calling not for peaceful protest, but for violent resistance, to a peaceful transfer of power to the president-elect, in defiance of the Constitution.”

Here’s Ron Fein on MSNBC: