#MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.
One of #Trump’s staunchest allies is readying a more aggressive approach. Rep #MarjorieTaylorGreene (R-Ga.) has threatened to file a resolution before the week’s end to #impeach President #Biden. Greene left a Tues meeting w/ #MikeJohnson demanding “in the loudest most possible way” that he allow the #House a vote on removing Biden or she will force such a vote.
Rs threw Hogan under the bus (#MAGA hates moderate Rs), for suggesting #TFG's verdict: appropriate -good news for Alsobrooks, but the election for Senate in MD will be close.
Hogan attended his 1st Pride parade -rec. a mixed reception, after having stayed mostly on the sidelines of LGBTQ issues as gov. When the Dem leg. sent him bills expanding rights -let them become law w/o his sign-.
MAGA figure Mike Davis fantasizes about a Trump DOJ prosecuting Biden, Garland, and legal figures in Trump's trials: "There is absolutely gonna be retribution"
The latest #doxxing attempt fits a pattern of #threats against people who speak out against Trump.
The addresses & phone numbers of fmr Trump lawyer Cohen's family members were posted to a doxxing website after Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts in connection w/a scheme to illegally #influence the #2016election.
#Trump supporters tried to #dox#jurors last week after his #conviction, & they also targeted #prosecutors & the #judge, Justice #Merchan, in the case w/ #threats. During the trial, the mother of a fmr police officer, #MichaelFanone, who was nearly killed on #Jan6, 2021, by rioters who believed Trump's lies about the #2020election was "#swatted" after her son called Trump "an authoritarian" w/ "a violence fetish."
Weidong "Bill" Guan, CFO of far-right Epoch Times, arrested in the US for his part in conspiracy to launder a massive $67 million in fraudulent proceeds.
Curiously, no reports currently on Epoch Times outlets. 😂
"This Epoch Times CFO indictment is wild. Feds say Epoch Times had a "Make Money Online" team that funded a huge part of the Falun Gong-affiliated, MAGA outlet's budget through money laundering fraudulent debit cards."
All of these prominent #Republicans linked Donald Trump’s rhetoric to the potential for #PoliticalViolence. Then we saw such #violence on #Jan6, 2021.
Despite the predictability of it — & indeed, the fact that it was predicted — #Trump has wrangled control of the #RepublicanParty again, & he continues & not-at-all-subtly raise the specter of unrest & violence as a political bargaining chip.
The most recent example: In his first interview since being #convicted on 34 #felony counts in Manhattan, #Trump this weekend addressed the possibility of being imprisoned or put under house arrest by saying, “I’m not sure the public would stand for it.”
“I think it would be tough for the public to take,” Trump told #FoxNews. “You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”
#Trump wants his foes to worry about things getting ugly — & to perhaps adjust their behavior accordingly. The problem is that we’ve seen how supporters can take his comments as a call to action. (And Trump’s comments, crucially, almost never come w/an admonition to stay peaceful.)
This is your reminder that the Epoch Times is a trash Chinese rag written by far right, pro-Trump freakshows so vehemently against the PRC govt, that they've decided American fascists are superior to Chinese fascists & advocate for them.
Oh, and they want you to go see their affiliated human circus, Shen Yun, which they want you to know presents free market capitalism, originating from before Communists took over China because MAGA.
Get to know the Epoch Times - the sham newspaper from far right, extreme capitalist, Chinese conservatives & that - with great irony - promote MAGA politics & all-things-Trump... because they hate PRC's dictatorship. WTAF