Disgraced, failed, twice-impeached, one-term former president Donald Trump held one of his pathetic rallies on Saturday night in Youngstown, Ohio, and the people who spoke before he took the stage were in many ways more entertaining than the ex-president, who seems to give the same hackneyed speech these days.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made an appearance, as did Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and it was Jordan who wound up being the laughingstock of the evening, not for what he said, but how he looked while he was saying it.
They brought out a box for Greene to stand on. Not sure if they took it away before Jordan came to speak pic.twitter.com/4S5nGBzWLK
Damn! They couldn’t afford a crate or small box for Jimbo to stand on? Granted, we knew he was short, but he appears downright infantile, nearly disappearing beneath the microphone.
That was all it took for Twitter to explode with laughter. Take a look:
@Jim_Jordan you're just a lil feller aren't ya. It all makes sense now. The dramatics, yelling, vitriol. You're an angry man because you're a tiny lil sucker. https://t.co/BYgt5mpxX3
Now, if only someone with audio editing software could pitch up his voice so he sounds like he sucked a helium tank dry before going onstage. 😏🤣 https://t.co/ZDiCiAZxHu
Despite his countless legal maneuvers to keep it from happening, failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump now has to watch as his financial records are handed over to congressional Democrats, a development which must have him seething.
According to The New York Times, Mazars USA has given the records to a key House committee:
“After a yearslong legal fight, the House Oversight Committee has received a first trove of documents from the firm, which recently entered into a legal settlement agreeing to produce a range of financial documents from several years before Mr. Trump took office and during his early presidency. Mazars said in February it could no longer stand behind a decade of annual financial statements it had prepared for the Trump Organization.”
The chair of the committee, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) confirmed that Mazars was indeed cooperating and providing documents:
“We’re reviewing them. Mazars is being very cooperative.”
Maloney also noted that her committee was the only one in Congress to obtain any of the Mazars documents.
The Times also notes that news of the document handover has been a long time coming:
“The Oversight Committee has been in a lengthy struggle to obtain financial documents from Mr. Trump as part of its investigation into allegations of conflicts of interest, inadequate financial disclosures and violations of the emoluments clauses of the Constitution, which bar the president from receiving profits from a domestic or foreign government other than his official compensation. In 2019, Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal attorney, testified before the committee that Mr. Trump’s financial statements had falsely represented the former president’s assets and liabilities and that Mr. Trump had ‘inflated his total assets when it served his purposes’ and, at other times, ‘deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes.'”
The agreement between Mazars and the Oversight Committee specifies “that Mazars must turn over any documents between 2014 and 2018 that indicate any false or undisclosed information about Mr. Trump’s assets, income or liabilities; communications related to any potential concerns that financial information provided by Mr. Trump’s companies was inaccurate; documents from November 2016 to 2018 related to the Old Post Office Building, a federal property in Washington that Mr. Trump’s company converted into a hotel through a lease deal; and documents from 2017 and 2018 related to relationships between Mr. Trump’s businesses and foreign states.”
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is making it clear they will not let the November midterm elections keep them from holding hearings and releasing new findings in the weeks leading up to the November 8 balloting.
Damaging new revelations could be a big problem for Republicans, who have seen their polling lead vanish in recent weeks at the same time President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are polling strongly and could wind up keeping control of both houses of Congress.
According to Axios, Jan. 6 committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) is signaling that there will be no pullback by the panel:
Thompson told Axiosthe panel does not want to be “perceived as a partisan committee … we’ve been fairly free of those kind of complaints, and we would not want to interfere with the election.”
But he said the time between an expected Sept. 28 hearing and the election “won’t be a quiet period.” He also said that “the goal is to have … some information pushed out, obviously, before the November election.” The panel may release its interim report in that window.
Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Republicans will complain no matter what happens in the hearings:
“There are those partisans of former President Trump that will denounce anything we do, so we’re not going to jump through hoops to please people who will call anything we do partisan.”
The biggest fear for Republicans: Damaging new information coming out of the hearings that would put the issue forefront in the minds of voters right as they’re headed to the polls.
The panel’s highly publicized public hearings over the summer dredged up events Republicans would sooner forget, searing them into the public consciousness in a way they hadn’t been since early 2021. New revelations could return concerns to the forefront of voters’ minds.
In his effort to make a political statement and draw attention to himself in his bid for re-election, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) decided he’d put some migrants on a plane and send them to Martha’s Vineyard.
It’s the latest in a series of moves by Republican governors to transport migrants to northern liberal enclaves to protest what they say are inadequate federal efforts on southern border security. Located off the coast of Massachusetts and long known as a posh summer destination for wealthy vacationers, Martha’s Vineyard provided an unusual and unexpected place for the migrants to be sent.
DeSantis defended his action:
“We are not a sanctuary state, and it’s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures. Every community in America should be sharing in the burdens. It shouldn’t all fall on a handful of red states.”
But while the Florida governor may have gotten himself a day’s worth of free media coverage, he may also be guilty of kidnapping, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is urging the Justice Department to charge DeSantis with the crime.
In a letter he sent to the DOJ on Thursday, Newsom writes:
“Like millions of Americans, I have been horrified at the images of migrants being shipped on buses and planes across the country to be used as political props. Clearly, transporting families, including children, across state lines under false pretenses is morally reprehensible, but it may also be illegal.
“Several of the individuals who were transported to Martha’s Vineyard have alleged that a recruiter induced them to accept the offer of travel based on false representations that they would be transported to Boston and would receive expedited access to work authorization. The interstate travel at issue provides a basis for federal jurisdiction over this matter.”
And then Newsom cites the specific provision of federal law he believes DeSantis is in violation of:
“I strongly urge the U.S. Department of Justice (US DOJ) to open an investigation into possible criminal or civil violations of federal law based on this alleged fraudulent scheme. In particular, I urge US DOJ to investigate whether the alleged fraudulent inducement would support charges of kidnapping under relevant state laws, which could serve as a predicate offense for charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) provisions of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970.”
I’m formally requesting the DOJ begin an immediate investigation into these inhumane efforts to use kids as political pawns. pic.twitter.com/x2sBa06nSw
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appears to have committed a crime that was caught on video today in Washington, D.C.
Greene was walking and talking to activists who support sensible gun control. The congresswoman is vehemently opposed to any laws that would regulated guns in any manner whatsoever.
One of the activists, Santiago Mayer, the executive director of Voters of Tomorrow asked Greene about her staunch opposition to laws that would help reduce mass shootings, to which Greene replied:
“Shame on you. You know what? Go move to another country where they take away your guns.”
Mayer:
“I want to live in a country where kids don’t get shot.”
A sneering Greene told Mayer:
“You’re not even a grateful American.”
Another woman who was wearing a blue dress, then inquired of Greene:
“How does the second Amendment prevent gun violence?”
If you watch closely at the 1:15 mark of the video, it appears that Greene kicks the woman to make her move out of her walking path. The startled woman is clearly surprised, and a few seconds later an aide to Greene mentions that it’s against the law to block a member of Congress.
As she walks past the woman in the blue dress, Greene seems to say that she should just consider being kicked an “accident.”
These foolish cowards want the government to take away guns & the rights of parents to defend their children in schools.
You have to be an idiot to think gun control will create a utopian society where criminals disarm themselves and obey the law.
