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One Of Jim Jordan’s Anti-Biden ‘Whistleblowers’ May Have Lied Under Oath

If you’ve seen any of the hearings on the “weaponization” of the FBI that were led by House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) you may have seen former field agent Garret O’Boyle (the guy who looks like a villain in a Batman movie) making all sorts of dubious claims about why he was supposedly “silenced” by the agency.

In reality, the reason O’Boyle was reprimanded for failing to do his job, especially as it applies to defendants charged with crimes allegedly committed on January 6, 2021.

During his testimony, The Guardian reports, O’Boyle was asked about funding he had received from a former Trump administration official.

At one point, O’Boyle was asked by Democrat Dan Goldman whether Kash Patel, who held multiple roles in the Trump administration, is helping finance O’Boyle’s legal counsel. The witness replied: “Not that I’m aware of.”

The answer has raised eyebrows because, during a previous interview with the House of Representatives’ weaponisation subcommittee in February, O’Boyle disclosed that his legal fees are being paid by a nonprofit organisation called Fight With Kash, also known as the Kash Foundation and run by Kash Patel.

In other words, it appears that O’Boyle may have lied under oath, and that could get him criminally charged.

Congressman Goldman said he has contacted Jordan and made it clear he believes O’Boyle may have lied to Congress.

“Mr O’Boyle’s answers in the subcommittee hearing on Thursday appear to contradict his previous testimony in the transcribed interview with subcommittee staff. In order to ensure witnesses are truthful when they come before the subcommittee, Chairman Jordan must determine whether or not Mr O’Boyle lied under oath on Thursday.”

Kyle Herrig, executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project, echoed Goldman, noting, “Mr O’Boyle’s testimony in this week’s hearing should be investigated immediately by Chairman Jordan’s subcommittee. The fact that O’Boyle’s own lawyer has such deep ties to Kash Patel, a January 6 co-conspirator and close ally of Donald Trump, is already enough to call any of his testimony into question.”

According to Russell Dye, a spokesperson for Jordan, there’s no reason for Democrats to be upset: “Yet again the Democrats distorted the facts in their report on our brave FBI whistleblowers. Jesse Binnall is representing Mr O’Boyle pro bono.”

Distorted the facts? Sounds like what Jordan has been doing since he began lying to cover his ass when it came to light he had failed to report sexual abuse at Ohio State University while he was a coach on the OSU wrestling team.

 

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Kari Lake Pretends To Be A Superhero And Gets Swatted Down By ‘Wonder Woman’ Star Lynda Carter 

Failed 2020 Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and her supporters are trying desperately to help her remain relevant so she can likely run for the U.S. Senate from the Grand Canyon State in next year’s election, but a meme being shared on social media didn’t sit well with a beloved celebrity.

Lake, who also claims undying loyalty to former president Donald Trump, was the subject of the meme, which featured her lake superimposed over that of actress Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman on the 1970s television show, Newsweek reports.

With Lake’s anticipated run, a meme recently started circulating on X that showed her face superimposed over that of Carter’s in her hit 1970s TV series Wonder Woman. The show, which was based on the DC superhero character of the same name, aired on ABC and later CBS from 1975 until 1979.

However, Carter, who has often criticized Trump on social media, took umbrage to the image, which sees Lake rebranded as “MAGA Woman”—and she made her feelings known in a blistering statement posted on X on Thursday.

Here’s the meme:

Carter’s response was devastating, especially since it perfectly defined who Lake is and isn’t.

Lake decided to respond to Carter, but she only made matters worse by doing so.

Lake’s reply got her pilloried on Twitter/X, or whatever Elon Musk is calling the site this week.

 

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Tommy Tuberville May Be Illegally Serving In The Senate – Has Residency In Florida, Not Alabama

When he decided to run the United States Senate from the state of Alabama in 2000, former football coach Tommy Tuberville asserted that he owned a home in the city of Auburn, Alabama, meaning he met the residency requirements for the office he was seeking.

However, it now appears that Tuberville lied and is actually a resident of Florida, which would technically make him the Sunshine State’s third senator. That would be historic (and illegal) because the U.S. Constitution only allows for two senators for each the 50 states, according to a fascinating investigative piece from Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post.

The Alabama house in question is actually owned by Tuberville’s wife and son, neither of whom were on the 2020 ballot.

Tuberville’s office says his primary residence is an Auburn house that records show is owned by his wife and son. But campaign finance reports and his signature on property documents indicate that his home is actually a $3 million, 4,000-square-foot beach house he has lived in for nearly two decades in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., located in the Florida Panhandle about 90 miles south of Dothan.

A Florida beach house? That’s right, and his address suggests Tuberville has been lying to voters in Alabama all along, because in his official paperwork for office, he claimed the Auburn home as where he lived.

In 2018, he voted in Florida in the midterm elections, according to the Birmingham News, but he registered to vote in Alabama on March 28, 2019, a week before announcing his Senate bid. For his voter registration address, he listed as his residence a property, appraised at about $300,000, located in Auburn.

The fact that Tuberville lives in Florida but is registered to vote in Alabama also suggests the senator may have committed voter fraud on at least one occasion since we can assume he voted for himself in the 2020 election.

Oh, and then there’s the tab Tuberville is running up as he travels to his Florida beach house when he leaves Washington to return “home,” whatever that particular word means to the senator.

Tuberville’s frequent visits as senator to his home in Santa Rosa Beach can be gleaned through expenditure reports filed with the Federal Election Commission by Tuberville’s various campaign organizations and PACs. They show that since Tuberville became a senator, there have been almost monthly expenditures for travel and food in either Santa Rosa Beach or another Florida town, Panama City Beach, which is 50 miles away.

Tuberville has attempted to dismiss any criticism of having been away from Alabama for many years by claiming to be a “carpetbagger of this country.” But while that may be a cute one-liner to feed the press and public, it doesn’t address the larger issue of the senator’s blatant disregard for both state and federal election law.

At a time when Republicans continue to try and make voting more difficult — especially for people of color — in the U.S., maybe Sen. Tuberville needs to sit down and explain his own blatant hypocrisy. That, or resign immediately and run against one of Florida’s actual senators, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.

 

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WATCH: Fox Host Repeatedly Fact-Checks GOPer When He Starts Lying About Joe Biden

Fox host Gillian Turner wasn’t about to let Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) tell one lie after another about President Joe Biden during an interview on the network today.

Langworthy began lying from the get-go, claiming that a recent deposition of convicted felon Devon Archer, a business associate of the president’s son, Hunter had been conducted under oath.

“I just want to flag that,” Turner corrected. “I want to clarify. He was not under oath when he gave his deposition to the House committee.”

Langworthy then said, “The evidence just continues to pile up. But it’s a web of lies and deceit as the president continues to deny this involvement or knowledge.”

That led Turner to remind the congressman that Republicans have spent two years on the Biden investigation and proven nothing:

“And while you have certainly unearthed a trove of evidence that the committee says proves the president’s association. There has not been produced a smoking gun. Clear cut, undeniable proof of the president’s involvement with his son’s foreign business deals.”

Langworthy: “We’ve never claimed we have direct money going to the president.”

Once again, Turner was quick to fact-check the Republican:

“You said we never claimed that any money was funneled directly to the president. That is precisely the claim that the chairman of your committee, James Comer, and also Jim Jordan have made many times on public record.”

Clearly nonplussed, Langworthy could only reply, “We are putting an investigation together, laying out the facts on the business dealings of this family.”

The Fox host concluded the discussion by again fact-checking Langworthy:

“I’ve got to clarify again that the chairman of your committee and multiple colleagues of yours have made that direct claim, that money has been funneled to the president.”

 

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Jamie Raskin Destroys The GOP’s Bullsh*t Biden ‘Bribery’ Claims

 

The Republican effort to slag President Joe Biden by providing false information and inaccurate claims they say proves Biden was part of a bribery scheme while service as vice president took a major hit today when the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) revealed evidence from the first impeachment of former president Donald Trump that directly refutes one of the main pillars of the GOP’s bogus claims.

NBC News reports that Raskin sent a detailed and lengthy letter to Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) in which he destroyed, point by point that anyone from a Ukrainian energy firm ever had any contact with Biden.

The document, released in a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the committee’s ranking member, to its chairman, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., is a 2019 questionnaire filled out by Mykola Zlochevsky, the co-founder of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where Biden’s son Hunter once served on the board. Zlochevsky denies ever having contacts with Joe Biden while he was vice president or receiving assistance from his staff while Hunter served on the board.

Specifically, when Zlochevsky was asked if he had ever been in contact with Biden, he emphatically denied any meetings, calls, or other communications.

When asked to detail contacts between then-Vice President Biden and his office from 2013 to 2019, Zlochevsky wrote (in all caps): “No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement.” When asked whether Biden or his staff assisted Burisma in any way with business deals or meetings, he wrote, “NO.”

In the letter to Comer, Raskin notes:

“Mr. Zlochevsky’s statements are just one of the many that have debunked the corruption allegations against President Biden that were first leveled by Rudy Giuliani and have been reviewed by former President Trump’s own Justice Department.”

Additionally, Raskin makes it clear that all of the allegations against President Biden are “hearsay” that cannot be supported by facts, writing that the source behind much of the information “explicitly noted that it is not unusual for Ukrainian business executives to brag and show off and that he could not offer any opinion supporting the veracity of the allegations he was relaying.”

Rather than deal with the factual presentation made by Raskin, Comer would only say that “This unclassified record stands on its own and memorializes a confidential human source’s conversations with a Burisma executive dating back to 2015. The Burisma executive claims then-Vice President Biden solicited and received a $5 million bribe in exchange for certain actions.”

But as Raskin proved, the top executive at Burisma denies any such conversations ever took place, which is a direct repudiation of the allegations that have been made over the past several months by Comer and his eager accomplices in right-wing media who are determined to provide cover for the multiple criminal indictments that have been handed down against Trump.