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Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends George Santos For Lying And It Doesn’t End Well For Her

Even though she supports the biggest liar to ever run for any office in this country, Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now eagerly defending Congressman-Elect George Santos (R-NY), who appears to have fabricated nearly every “fact” he told voters in the midterm election.

Newsweek reports that Santos has repeatedly been caught in one lie after another.

Santos, who was elected to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District in November’s midterms, admitted in a Monday interview with the New York Post to “embellishing my résumé.” He confirmed previous reporting by The New York Times that he did not graduate from college or work for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs, and does not own 13 properties, despite previous claims to the contrary.

Though Santos is facing resignation calls over the revelations, he said that he still plans to take the oath of office and take his seat in the House on January 3.

That led Greene to offer this defense of Santos:

“George Santos lied about his resume, and the left is demanding he resign. Ilhan Omar says she didn’t marry her brother, she lied. Elizabeth Warren said she was Native American Indian, she lied. The left said George Floyd didn’t die of a drug overdose, they lied.”

“Dr Rachel Levine says he’s a woman, he lied. Adam Schiff said he had proof of Trump Russian collusion, he lied. Eric Swalwell said he didn’t have sex with a CCP spy, he lied. Fauci said the taxpayer funded Covid-19 virus didn’t come from the Wuhan lab, he lied.”

“The science and medical ‘experts’ said the taxpayer funded covid vaccines would stop Covid, they lied, they also said they are safe, they lied again. The Democrats, J6 committee, and media say Trump and us Republicans organized an insurrection on J6, they lied.”

“The left doesn’t care about lying. The real reason they’re attacking George Santos is that he the first openly gay Republican elected and they hate him for it. I’m glad George is being honest with his district now and look forward to seeing how George legislates & votes.”

Really, Marge? Santos is being hated because he’s a gay Republican? Aren’t you the same person who has repeatedly suggested that LGBTQ Americans are “grooming” children for sex and thrown every bigoted attack possible at anyone who wants the legal right to marry whoever they want, as long as both are consenting adults?

What “the left” hates is bigotry and hypocrisy, both of which Greene is guilty of on a daily basis, as other Twitter users reminded her.

 

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WATCH Ted Lieu Destroy Jim Jordan For Lying About Democrats Intimidating SCOTUS Justices

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) did something today that more Democrats need to do when they catch a Republican telling a blatant lie: Call them out and let the world know.

During debate on legislation to protect Supreme Court justices and their staff, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) began hollering loudly, suggesting that Democrats said “not to worry” when some justices were protested at their homes shortly after a draft abortion opinion leaked out and seemed to indicate that the high court’s six conservative justices are ready to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion that legalized a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices:

“That’s the position of Democrats in this body! And that’s why we’re saying why did it take so long? Six weeks ago was when the draft leak happened and the protests started at justices’ homes almost immediately after the leak of that draft!”

When it was time for Democrats to speak, Lieu destroyed Jordan by using facts to counter what the Ohio Republican had just said:

“I’m going to respond to that because what he just said was a lie. The fact that he’s saying that Democrats think there’s nothing wrong, there’s no danger to Supreme Court justices is a lie. Why? Because we’re the majority party and, look, we just put this bill up and we’re about to vote on it.”

But Lieu was just getting warmed up, and he added:

“We clearly care about Supreme Court justices, but we also care about the families and employees of the Supreme Court and that is what we’re talking about today. Republicans are misleading you. Supreme Court justices, right now, have law enforcement protection details. They are protected by law enforcement.”

Before he finished, Lieu also managed to get in a reminder that Republicans are the ones who seem to be in favor of terrorizing people:

“You want to talk about intimidation?. I’ll tell you what intimidation is. It is Trump supporters assaulting the Capitol on Jan. 6, brutalizing 140 police officers. That is intimidation!”

 

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Lauren Boebert Under Criminal Investigation After Reimbursing Herself $22K For Driving 38,000 Miles!

Even if she does manage to win reelection in November, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) may wind up spending more of her second term in a courtroom than the nation’s capital because she’s about to be put under the microscope by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.

The New York Times reports that Boebert is being investigated because she allegedly ““inflated the mileage she logged on the campaign trail in 2020 and then used more than $20,000 in reimbursements from donors to pay off years of tax liens on her restaurant.”

If it can be proven that Boebert did indeed use campaign funds to pay off tax liens, she could be forced to repay the money and also be sent to prison.

The complaint against Boebert was filed by the same group that recently helped take down Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) in his primary, American Muckrakers PAC, and one of its leaders, David B. Wheeler, is making it clear he wants to see the same fate for Boebert, remarking:

“We helped fire Madison Cawthorn. Now it’s Lauren Boebert’s turn.

“I think we’re gonna go after Lauren Boebert in Colorado in a similar way. I think we’re gonna engage in that race pretty quickly.”

The claims Boebert made about how many miles she allegedly traveled are nothing short of absurd:

The allegations have bounced around liberal circles since The Denver Post first reported in February 2021 that Ms. Boebert had cashed two checks from her campaign totaling $22,259 for mileage reimbursement, a figure that equated to 38,712 miles — well more than 24,901-mile circumference of the planet.

The Denver Post also explained just how ridiculous Boebert’s reimbursement claim is:

“Boebert would have had to drive 36,870 miles in just over seven months between April 1 and Nov. 11 to justify the second payment. Boebert’s reimbursements to herself in one year eclipse her predecessor’s reimbursements over 10 years.”

Boebert’s predecessor, Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO), reimbursed himself “$9,797 from campaign coffers for all travel expenses — including airfare — during a decade representing the same district.

Could it be any clearer that Boebert has used her campaign (and potentially her time in office) to grift off taxpayers, the very same thing her political idol, failed one-term former President Donald Trump, did during his four years in office?

Additionally, Mediaite notes that Boebert’s actions would leave her open to criminal charges on two fronts:

The investigation takes on an additional level of potential criminality as Boebert is accused of using the reimbursed funds to pay off tax liens filed against her restaurant. The Times notes that the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment filed liens totaling $20,000 against Boebert “from August 2016 to February 2020 for failure to pay unemployment premiums on her business, Shooters Grill.”

“As you are both fully aware, utilizing an illegal source of funds or ill-gotten funds to pay off a tax lien is illegal in Colorado and under federal law. That is the very definition of ill-gotten funds,” reads the Muckrakers complaint to Colorado’s attorney general.

Maybe, when all is said and done, Boebert will also lose her restaurant, Shooters Grill. That would be the ultimate in karmic justice.

 

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Steve Scalise Gets Brutally Fact-Checked For Lying About Trump’s Extortion Of Ukraine 

Even though their continued devotion to failed, one-term, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump is dragging down Republicans in the polls, they simply cannot help themselves when they’re asked a question about the Donald. They always defend him, frequently looking like complete fools as they tie themselves in rhetorical knots.

That’s exactly what happened to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the House minority whip who was asked about Trump’s infamous 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which the then-president attempted to extort Zelensky by suggesting he’d agree to release military aid to Ukraine in exchange for damaging information on Joe Biden or members of his family.

Rather than admit Trump had been wrong to do what he did, Scalise desperately tried to suggest that Zelensky had praised Trump for his “leadership.”

“You look at that conversation. President Zelensky had called President Trump to thank him for the leadership he provided. When Zelensky got elected, he said he modeled after President Trump’s, and ultimately, he got the relief money he wanted.

“President Trump stood with President Zelensky. In fact, the two of them had a really good relationship. In fact, when President Zelensky was asking for things like the Javelin missiles that the Biden and Obama administration said no to. President Trump said yes, and actually helped Ukraine get those tank-busting missiles that they needed and frankly have been using.”

Nope. That’s not what happened. Not even close. And we know that because we have the White House transcript of that conversation which was read into the record as part of Trump’s first impeachment:

“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”

In other words: Sure, we can send you the military aid you need to defend yourself from Russia, but first you’re gonna have to play ball and help me win reelection.

Scalise was hit with a brutal fact-checking on Twitter.