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Pa. Senate candidate Sean Parnell’s wife testified that he choked her and hit their children
The testimony by Laurie Snell cast a harsh light on Sean Parnell, a leading Republican candidate endorsed by Donald Trump.
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DIY-HP-LED
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It doesn't seem to matter how bad the republican candidates are, they will keep electing them, I'm waiting for them to run from their jail cells and win in 2022. Just look at Virginia if ya wanna see stupidity in action tonight, morals and competence makes no difference at all, neither does killing 700,000 Americans. This civil war is going to be going on for some time to come and the stakes will only increase as the republicans can't get crazy or dangerous enough for voters. The capitol insurrection seems to have make little difference at all to them.Pa. Senate candidate Sean Parnell’s wife testified that he choked her and hit their children
The testimony by Laurie Snell cast a harsh light on Sean Parnell, a leading Republican candidate endorsed by Donald Trump.
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Georgia secretary of state: Trump 'had no idea how elections work'
Former President Trump demonstrated virtually no knowledge of the conduct of modern elections procedures in a long and rambling phone call with Georgia’s top elections administrator as he ticked off a host of debunked and fanciful conspiracy theories he blamed for his electoral defeat.
The man on the other end of that call in early January, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), details months of mistruths and disinformation perpetuated by the Trump campaign that led up to their conversation in a new book out Tuesday, “Integrity Counts.”
The book includes a roughly 40-page transcript of the call itself, which shows an increasingly agitated Trump grasping at allegations that Raffensperger and his top deputy systematically refute as then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pleaded with the Georgia officials to investigate further and Trump urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to deliver the state’s electoral votes.
“Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break,” Trump told Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, the general counsel to the secretary of state, according to the transcript.
“This repeated request for votes showed me that President Trump really had no idea how elections work. The secretary of state’s office doesn’t allocate any votes,” Raffensperger writes in an annotation of the call.
“At the time of the call in January, I didn’t know if he believed what he was saying. I didn’t know if he was trying to push a narrative, or was he just believing stuff that was fed to him?” Raffensperger told The Hill in an interview. “As a conservative-with-a-capital-C Republican, I’m disappointed like everyone else is. But the cold hard facts are that President Trump did come up short in the state of Georgia.”
Trump said he had been told that ballots had been cast in the names of as many as 5,000 dead people; Raffensperger’s post-election audit found two people had voted in the names of dead relatives. Trump alleged 4,925 voters who lived in other states had cast ballots in Georgia; Raffensperger found 300 out-of-state voters. Trump accused Fulton County officials of shredding thousands of ballots; Raffensperger counters that officials in Cobb County shredded blank envelopes, and no ballots.
The months after November’s election shone an uncomfortable, and at times dangerous, spotlight on Raffensperger and on others swept up in the cauldron of misinformation perpetuated by Trump backers. An anonymous person sent Raffensperger’s wife a threatening text message. An election worker, whom Raffensperger does not name to protect what little privacy she has left, was harassed by Trump backers who incorrectly believed she had committed wrongdoing.
Another man, Ron Raffensperger, was harassed by some who thought he was the secretary’s brother; Brad Raffensperger does not have a brother.
Asked if widespread voter fraud exists in the United States, Raffensperger said: “No, it does not.”
Raffensperger, who is up for reelection next year, has remained a target for Trump and his acolytes. He faces a challenge from Rep. Jody Hice (R), who has maintained election denialism and won an endorsement from Trump in response.
thehill.com
Former President Trump demonstrated virtually no knowledge of the conduct of modern elections procedures in a long and rambling phone call with Georgia’s top elections administrator as he ticked off a host of debunked and fanciful conspiracy theories he blamed for his electoral defeat.
The man on the other end of that call in early January, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), details months of mistruths and disinformation perpetuated by the Trump campaign that led up to their conversation in a new book out Tuesday, “Integrity Counts.”
The book includes a roughly 40-page transcript of the call itself, which shows an increasingly agitated Trump grasping at allegations that Raffensperger and his top deputy systematically refute as then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pleaded with the Georgia officials to investigate further and Trump urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to deliver the state’s electoral votes.
“Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break,” Trump told Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, the general counsel to the secretary of state, according to the transcript.
“This repeated request for votes showed me that President Trump really had no idea how elections work. The secretary of state’s office doesn’t allocate any votes,” Raffensperger writes in an annotation of the call.
“At the time of the call in January, I didn’t know if he believed what he was saying. I didn’t know if he was trying to push a narrative, or was he just believing stuff that was fed to him?” Raffensperger told The Hill in an interview. “As a conservative-with-a-capital-C Republican, I’m disappointed like everyone else is. But the cold hard facts are that President Trump did come up short in the state of Georgia.”
Trump said he had been told that ballots had been cast in the names of as many as 5,000 dead people; Raffensperger’s post-election audit found two people had voted in the names of dead relatives. Trump alleged 4,925 voters who lived in other states had cast ballots in Georgia; Raffensperger found 300 out-of-state voters. Trump accused Fulton County officials of shredding thousands of ballots; Raffensperger counters that officials in Cobb County shredded blank envelopes, and no ballots.
The months after November’s election shone an uncomfortable, and at times dangerous, spotlight on Raffensperger and on others swept up in the cauldron of misinformation perpetuated by Trump backers. An anonymous person sent Raffensperger’s wife a threatening text message. An election worker, whom Raffensperger does not name to protect what little privacy she has left, was harassed by Trump backers who incorrectly believed she had committed wrongdoing.
Another man, Ron Raffensperger, was harassed by some who thought he was the secretary’s brother; Brad Raffensperger does not have a brother.
Asked if widespread voter fraud exists in the United States, Raffensperger said: “No, it does not.”
Raffensperger, who is up for reelection next year, has remained a target for Trump and his acolytes. He faces a challenge from Rep. Jody Hice (R), who has maintained election denialism and won an endorsement from Trump in response.
Georgia secretary of state: Trump ‘had no idea how elections work’
Former President Trump demonstrated virtually no knowledge of the conduct of modern elections procedures in a long and rambling phone call with Georgia’s top elections administrator as he ticked of…
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they wear Nazi shit don't they? and he's been dead for a long time.
i love endorsements; i go to Larimer GOP website and vote opposite (for when you run out of time) you should know what you're voting for.Georgia secretary of state: Trump 'had no idea how elections work'
Former President Trump demonstrated virtually no knowledge of the conduct of modern elections procedures in a long and rambling phone call with Georgia’s top elections administrator as he ticked off a host of debunked and fanciful conspiracy theories he blamed for his electoral defeat.
The man on the other end of that call in early January, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), details months of mistruths and disinformation perpetuated by the Trump campaign that led up to their conversation in a new book out Tuesday, “Integrity Counts.”
The book includes a roughly 40-page transcript of the call itself, which shows an increasingly agitated Trump grasping at allegations that Raffensperger and his top deputy systematically refute as then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pleaded with the Georgia officials to investigate further and Trump urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to deliver the state’s electoral votes.
“Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break,” Trump told Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, the general counsel to the secretary of state, according to the transcript.
“This repeated request for votes showed me that President Trump really had no idea how elections work. The secretary of state’s office doesn’t allocate any votes,” Raffensperger writes in an annotation of the call.
“At the time of the call in January, I didn’t know if he believed what he was saying. I didn’t know if he was trying to push a narrative, or was he just believing stuff that was fed to him?” Raffensperger told The Hill in an interview. “As a conservative-with-a-capital-C Republican, I’m disappointed like everyone else is. But the cold hard facts are that President Trump did come up short in the state of Georgia.”
Trump said he had been told that ballots had been cast in the names of as many as 5,000 dead people; Raffensperger’s post-election audit found two people had voted in the names of dead relatives. Trump alleged 4,925 voters who lived in other states had cast ballots in Georgia; Raffensperger found 300 out-of-state voters. Trump accused Fulton County officials of shredding thousands of ballots; Raffensperger counters that officials in Cobb County shredded blank envelopes, and no ballots.
The months after November’s election shone an uncomfortable, and at times dangerous, spotlight on Raffensperger and on others swept up in the cauldron of misinformation perpetuated by Trump backers. An anonymous person sent Raffensperger’s wife a threatening text message. An election worker, whom Raffensperger does not name to protect what little privacy she has left, was harassed by Trump backers who incorrectly believed she had committed wrongdoing.
Another man, Ron Raffensperger, was harassed by some who thought he was the secretary’s brother; Brad Raffensperger does not have a brother.
Asked if widespread voter fraud exists in the United States, Raffensperger said: “No, it does not.”
Raffensperger, who is up for reelection next year, has remained a target for Trump and his acolytes. He faces a challenge from Rep. Jody Hice (R), who has maintained election denialism and won an endorsement from Trump in response.
Georgia secretary of state: Trump ‘had no idea how elections work’
Former President Trump demonstrated virtually no knowledge of the conduct of modern elections procedures in a long and rambling phone call with Georgia’s top elections administrator as he ticked of…
a word about their websites..ummmmm, why are they so hateful?
Roger A. Shrubber
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it's good to see that at least a few republicans have a little self respect and integrity...a littleGeorgia secretary of state: Trump 'had no idea how elections work'
Former President Trump demonstrated virtually no knowledge of the conduct of modern elections procedures in a long and rambling phone call with Georgia’s top elections administrator as he ticked off a host of debunked and fanciful conspiracy theories he blamed for his electoral defeat.
The man on the other end of that call in early January, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), details months of mistruths and disinformation perpetuated by the Trump campaign that led up to their conversation in a new book out Tuesday, “Integrity Counts.”
The book includes a roughly 40-page transcript of the call itself, which shows an increasingly agitated Trump grasping at allegations that Raffensperger and his top deputy systematically refute as then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pleaded with the Georgia officials to investigate further and Trump urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to deliver the state’s electoral votes.
“Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break,” Trump told Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, the general counsel to the secretary of state, according to the transcript.
“This repeated request for votes showed me that President Trump really had no idea how elections work. The secretary of state’s office doesn’t allocate any votes,” Raffensperger writes in an annotation of the call.
“At the time of the call in January, I didn’t know if he believed what he was saying. I didn’t know if he was trying to push a narrative, or was he just believing stuff that was fed to him?” Raffensperger told The Hill in an interview. “As a conservative-with-a-capital-C Republican, I’m disappointed like everyone else is. But the cold hard facts are that President Trump did come up short in the state of Georgia.”
Trump said he had been told that ballots had been cast in the names of as many as 5,000 dead people; Raffensperger’s post-election audit found two people had voted in the names of dead relatives. Trump alleged 4,925 voters who lived in other states had cast ballots in Georgia; Raffensperger found 300 out-of-state voters. Trump accused Fulton County officials of shredding thousands of ballots; Raffensperger counters that officials in Cobb County shredded blank envelopes, and no ballots.
The months after November’s election shone an uncomfortable, and at times dangerous, spotlight on Raffensperger and on others swept up in the cauldron of misinformation perpetuated by Trump backers. An anonymous person sent Raffensperger’s wife a threatening text message. An election worker, whom Raffensperger does not name to protect what little privacy she has left, was harassed by Trump backers who incorrectly believed she had committed wrongdoing.
Another man, Ron Raffensperger, was harassed by some who thought he was the secretary’s brother; Brad Raffensperger does not have a brother.
Asked if widespread voter fraud exists in the United States, Raffensperger said: “No, it does not.”
Raffensperger, who is up for reelection next year, has remained a target for Trump and his acolytes. He faces a challenge from Rep. Jody Hice (R), who has maintained election denialism and won an endorsement from Trump in response.
Georgia secretary of state: Trump ‘had no idea how elections work’
Former President Trump demonstrated virtually no knowledge of the conduct of modern elections procedures in a long and rambling phone call with Georgia’s top elections administrator as he ticked of…
CatHedral
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Perhaps because the GOP has been rendered down to its hard core of grievance politics.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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no more time...you've sabotaged as much as you're going to, vote NOW, and since the vote is public, the entire world will know YOU are the one who scuttled this bill, and the U.S. economy, along with your comrade sinema...YOU will be responsible for the American recession that will follow, and the world recession that will quickly follow that...YOU will be forever known as the piece of shit that crashed the world economy to protect your own coal interests...look up the word Pariah...you'll be hearing it soon
printer
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Raffensperger: Trump request to 'find' votes was a threat
Raffensperger wrote in his new book “Integrity Counts" that he felt Trump threatened him multiple times during their now infamous phone call in which the president asked the state secretary to "find" nearly 12,000 ballots in January, The Associated Press reported.
“I felt then — and still believe today — that this was a threat,” Raffensperger wrote. “Others obviously thought so, too, because some of Trump’s more radical followers have responded as if it was their duty to carry out this threat.”
In the phone call he had with Raffensperger, Trump could be heart saying, "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."
In the same call, Raffensperger rejected Trump's claim and said he would not acquiesce to the request.
In his book, the Georgia official wrote that Trump's defeat in the state likely wounded his ego.
“You believe in your heart that you did a good job, and if you never lack self doubt, it must be doubly debilitating — and confusing. Instead of accepting defeat, you look for scapegoats, shift blame, or seek alternative theories," Raffensperger wrote.
According to the AP, Raffensperger also shot back in his book at other Republicans who attacked him after he refused Trump's request, writing that they were "destroying our future as a party."
Raffensperger also took aim at Rep. Jody Hice (R), his Trump-endorsed opponent in the primary for Georgia Secretary of State, the AP reported.
“Ironically, Hice accepted the results of his own race, which he won, but objected to the results of the presidential race,” the state secretary wrote. “Same voters. Same ballots. One, presumably, was honest. The other was ‘faulty and fraudulent.’ He’s a double-minded person. How can you hold two opposing views at one time?”
While Raffensperger wrote that U.S. elections are fair and secure, he also said in his book that he believes officials with more integrity needed to be elected.
“If we don’t have people of the highest character run for elective office, we will continue to fight disinformation, misinformation and outright deception, and the end result will be an erosion of public trust,” he wrote.
thehill.com
Raffensperger wrote in his new book “Integrity Counts" that he felt Trump threatened him multiple times during their now infamous phone call in which the president asked the state secretary to "find" nearly 12,000 ballots in January, The Associated Press reported.
“I felt then — and still believe today — that this was a threat,” Raffensperger wrote. “Others obviously thought so, too, because some of Trump’s more radical followers have responded as if it was their duty to carry out this threat.”
In the phone call he had with Raffensperger, Trump could be heart saying, "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."
In the same call, Raffensperger rejected Trump's claim and said he would not acquiesce to the request.
In his book, the Georgia official wrote that Trump's defeat in the state likely wounded his ego.
“You believe in your heart that you did a good job, and if you never lack self doubt, it must be doubly debilitating — and confusing. Instead of accepting defeat, you look for scapegoats, shift blame, or seek alternative theories," Raffensperger wrote.
According to the AP, Raffensperger also shot back in his book at other Republicans who attacked him after he refused Trump's request, writing that they were "destroying our future as a party."
Raffensperger also took aim at Rep. Jody Hice (R), his Trump-endorsed opponent in the primary for Georgia Secretary of State, the AP reported.
“Ironically, Hice accepted the results of his own race, which he won, but objected to the results of the presidential race,” the state secretary wrote. “Same voters. Same ballots. One, presumably, was honest. The other was ‘faulty and fraudulent.’ He’s a double-minded person. How can you hold two opposing views at one time?”
While Raffensperger wrote that U.S. elections are fair and secure, he also said in his book that he believes officials with more integrity needed to be elected.
“If we don’t have people of the highest character run for elective office, we will continue to fight disinformation, misinformation and outright deception, and the end result will be an erosion of public trust,” he wrote.
Raffensperger: Trump request to ‘find’ votes was a threat
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) wrote in his new book that former President Trump was threatening him when he asked Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn Jo…
thehill.com
printer
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The West Virginia litigation seeks to permanently entrench Trumpian environmental policy
The heart of the West Virginia case is a conflict between Obama’s environmental policy and the policy advanced by his successor, former President Donald Trump. The red states, power companies, and mining interests behind this lawsuit all hope to entrench Trump’s policies — potentially forever.
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Just one piece of the article. If you thought things could get bad...
The heart of the West Virginia case is a conflict between Obama’s environmental policy and the policy advanced by his successor, former President Donald Trump. The red states, power companies, and mining interests behind this lawsuit all hope to entrench Trump’s policies — potentially forever.
A new Supreme Court case could gut the government’s power to fight climate change
Neil Gorsuch’s dream case could be the Earth’s nightmare.
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Just one piece of the article. If you thought things could get bad...
CatHedral
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Even if that gets enacted, it will be dismantled sooner than later. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.The West Virginia litigation seeks to permanently entrench Trumpian environmental policy
The heart of the West Virginia case is a conflict between Obama’s environmental policy and the policy advanced by his successor, former President Donald Trump. The red states, power companies, and mining interests behind this lawsuit all hope to entrench Trump’s policies — potentially forever.
A new Supreme Court case could gut the government’s power to fight climate change
Neil Gorsuch’s dream case could be the Earth’s nightmare.
Just one piece of the article. If you thought things could get bad...
Imo the Biden administration has their work cut out for them to rebalance the courts. If Democrats survive ‘22 and maybe ‘24, it will be time to increase the Supreme Court’s membership so that Gamy Pony Barrett is perpetually stalemated.
Budzbuddha
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Dumbfucks on parade
DIY-HP-LED
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'One Of The Dirtiest Tricks' Of The 2020 Election Exposed In FBI Raid
Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about the strange story of an FBI raid on right-wing activists in an investigation related to the theft of President Joe Biden's daughter's diary.
Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about the strange story of an FBI raid on right-wing activists in an investigation related to the theft of President Joe Biden's daughter's diary.
Roger A. Shrubber
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https://www.newsweek.com/paul-gosar-anime-video-killing-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-attack-titan-1646933?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spot_im_redirect_source=pitc&spot_im_comment_id=sp_vNTS7w0J_article-1646933_c_20doTpUYExAp1l166FtHupB9Zox&spot_im_highlight_immediate=true
this seems like a blatant threat to me...his party should remove him from office...
of course that will never happen. at the very least, i hope the owners of that video demand he stop using it immediately, and sue the ever living shit out of him for copyright infringement.
the very idea that this piece of shit, and the other two turds included in the misappropriated video, are heroes in any way shape of form is sickening.
that a U.S. senator indulges in this kind of sick fantasy about murdering legally elected officials of the government he's supposed to be a member of is disturbing. gosart, greene, and boebert are disgusting examples of just what kind of sick low life trailer trash assholes can and do get involved in politics...
this seems like a blatant threat to me...his party should remove him from office...
of course that will never happen. at the very least, i hope the owners of that video demand he stop using it immediately, and sue the ever living shit out of him for copyright infringement.
the very idea that this piece of shit, and the other two turds included in the misappropriated video, are heroes in any way shape of form is sickening.
that a U.S. senator indulges in this kind of sick fantasy about murdering legally elected officials of the government he's supposed to be a member of is disturbing. gosart, greene, and boebert are disgusting examples of just what kind of sick low life trailer trash assholes can and do get involved in politics...
DIY-HP-LED
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The problem is the dumb fucks keep getting elected by even bigger dumb fucks, Trump will win the GOP nomination from his cell at Sing sing NY.
printer
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The 'news' outlets that pander to the unwashed will not cover the story about how they treated poor Rudy, asking for things like proof.
These fuckers be 'spensive.
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With the latest payout, former Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cost Arizona taxpayers $100M
Nearly five years after Arpaio was voted out, taxpayers are covering one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits his headline-grabbing tactics inspired.
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