tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91666298382863675732024-03-26T07:00:32.490-04:00Oswego DemocratUpstate New York’s Leading Progressive Blog
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13763125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-81922922728486750852024-03-26T07:00:00.001-04:002024-03-26T07:00:00.132-04:00Elise Stefanik caught boasting about $12.9m hospital investment that she voted against<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4FuzRmRtoDoP02H9grucR7D7rtnoIvlM-V2ApUUCZQpxWrl23ArU3BtAXF9IwmdR2YRLQ-RZRa2xkzQBZd15_wKt88jCUZXHyjjc5VlLs4nabMWdLerAwEvGKVOtFOMzYwhF5zfnfewHXil1YN1YjFlabQ9IenAtcFKzVI-DwD8aBYuj9GKVLhhpGF8D/s960/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4FuzRmRtoDoP02H9grucR7D7rtnoIvlM-V2ApUUCZQpxWrl23ArU3BtAXF9IwmdR2YRLQ-RZRa2xkzQBZd15_wKt88jCUZXHyjjc5VlLs4nabMWdLerAwEvGKVOtFOMzYwhF5zfnfewHXil1YN1YjFlabQ9IenAtcFKzVI-DwD8aBYuj9GKVLhhpGF8D/s320/00.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/republican" style="font-family: verdana;">Republican</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> lawmaker </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/elise-stefanik" style="font-family: verdana;">Elise Stefanik</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> has been caught touting $12.9m in funding for rural hospitals in her district that she actually voted against.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The pro-Trump congresswoman from <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/new-york">New York</a> <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/2022/10/stefanik-announces-12-9-million-for-north-country-hospitals">welcomed the Rural Development Grants</a>from the Department of Agriculture, calling it a “significant investment.”<br /><br />But she failed to tell her constituents that the money was coming from <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>’s American Rescue Plan, which was passed by Congress in March 202, <a href="https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/10-14-2022/stefanik-stimulus-funding/">according to Politico.</a><br /><br />Ms Stefanik was <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/2021/3/stefanik-votes-against-pelosis-partisan-covid-19-package">one of 212 Republicans to vote against the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 </a>stimulus package.<br /><br />She even branded the package a “Far-Left wish list” in a statement at the time.<br /><br />Her office<a href="https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/10-14-2022/stefanik-stimulus-funding/"> defended the lawmaker, calling her</a> “one of the most effective Members of Congress at delivering federal funding for her constituents, whether she is the minority or majority.”<br /><br />“She voted no against Pelosi’s radical spending bills because of Far Left provisions. But she will always effectively deliver solutions and funds for her constituents and then she will announce and promote them when they are delivered.<br /><br />“The mainstream media is working overtime as stenographers for the desperate Democrats who are about to lose the majority.”<br /><br />Ms Stefanik is among a string of Republicans who have tried to take credit for investment money that they actually voted against, and have been called out by the White House for doing so.<br /><br />“If you’re going to try to take credit for what you’ve done, don’t get in the way of what we still need to do,”<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/27/biden-recovery-plan-mocks-republicans-491145"> Mr Biden said </a>during a visit to Ohio in May 2021. <a href="https://ca.style.yahoo.com/style/elise-stefanik-caught-boasting-12-170252445.html">Read full story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-26760662123709420542024-03-26T01:00:00.003-04:002024-03-26T01:00:00.149-04:00Fani Willis 'has a habit of swinging back hard' and will refile Trump charges<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPVO7urQ7hfCcjWE8fir0XbxNCD21HBOjltlvaokWgBvGyAK1UKPGNc22rZsYa3upRvpIQYg8g5BPLtzuxRiZUbn58YegFJ9pIA89LGmjq04E2ApOA0St1OZJmTMHI7DMk_phYvFC2nvLg2z4Mij8J9P-6YlmaGeYk0SQm3FxgPb6eR89hYjVjib5A4lI/s2400/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="2400" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPVO7urQ7hfCcjWE8fir0XbxNCD21HBOjltlvaokWgBvGyAK1UKPGNc22rZsYa3upRvpIQYg8g5BPLtzuxRiZUbn58YegFJ9pIA89LGmjq04E2ApOA0St1OZJmTMHI7DMk_phYvFC2nvLg2z4Mij8J9P-6YlmaGeYk0SQm3FxgPb6eR89hYjVjib5A4lI/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">After three of the charges she leveled against Donald </span><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/" style="font-family: verdana;">Trump</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> in his Georgia election interference case were thrown out by a judge, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is likely to update and refile them, according to a legal expert.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Earlier this week, Judge Scott McAfee <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-counts-dismissed/">dropped a total of six charges</a> in the case, including three accusing Trump of soliciting Georgia's former House Speaker David Ralston and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to tip the 2020 presidential election in his favor. Trump was charged along with 18 co-defendants and has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts.<br /><br />According to Georgia State College of Law professor Anthony Michael Kreis, Willis is likely to update and refile the charges. <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/fani-willis-2667512952/">Read post here </a><br /></span><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-31196361035952730112024-03-26T01:00:00.001-04:002024-03-26T01:00:00.150-04:00'Running as a dictator': Rhetorician flags alarming change in Trump's speeches<span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-f-sqj9KcNynf5rmpga2Z1wz_c_XszFubsuBHo5GieT0fnSGsNit1AgYyirN4J3wL_XFMShdNZrjcHLgajroQ4qxIwvvH6-Bsg3M-KVh9N-fr5ITvFqlzM-VSM3Zm3Zm6wKOgW5IKmDIWc4mhhHrC5-eGu6wgl_7xE9odY-6D486i7q_9v-vqS-D9NE55/s2400/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2400" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-f-sqj9KcNynf5rmpga2Z1wz_c_XszFubsuBHo5GieT0fnSGsNit1AgYyirN4J3wL_XFMShdNZrjcHLgajroQ4qxIwvvH6-Bsg3M-KVh9N-fr5ITvFqlzM-VSM3Zm3Zm6wKOgW5IKmDIWc4mhhHrC5-eGu6wgl_7xE9odY-6D486i7q_9v-vqS-D9NE55/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div>Former President Donald <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/">Trump</a> has made a disturbing shift in his 2024 presidential campaign stump speeches, according to a rhetorician raising the alarm about authoritarianism.<br /><br />“He's running as a dictator," Professor Jennifer Mercieca <a href="https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jennifer-mercieca-interview-2024-trump-rhetoric">told progressive commentator Aaron Rupar</a>, "He's determined to destroy the Constitution.”<br /><br />Rupar published Thursday his takeaways from a conversation with Mercieca after a primary night Tuesday that confirmed Trump and President Joe Biden will once again face off in a race to claim the White House in 2025. <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dictator-rhetoric-2667513148/">Read post here </a></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-73156051593744979132024-03-25T16:00:00.001-04:002024-03-25T20:37:22.759-04:00'No more tricks': Trump warned his delay tactics have run out in hush money case<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuM_39iNrTDUpIPFNLM1HSa0y1JrTyguXRwDsZIILkwKUZJXzm160AfTv_M9bWiTwYJBm_udNPMaqTSZ7ugHoT5EB8qS_mxzG1ubxsCszh9L-bRmA3rGLVYJ6Ax6rQkna4awkmMCKAhKcqLxkwa6-MuVUs4f5Sf_QUh4eP-lOQRyDKxP0USqbXBUhOD99A/s2400/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2400" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuM_39iNrTDUpIPFNLM1HSa0y1JrTyguXRwDsZIILkwKUZJXzm160AfTv_M9bWiTwYJBm_udNPMaqTSZ7ugHoT5EB8qS_mxzG1ubxsCszh9L-bRmA3rGLVYJ6Ax6rQkna4awkmMCKAhKcqLxkwa6-MuVUs4f5Sf_QUh4eP-lOQRyDKxP0USqbXBUhOD99A/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">When a five-judge appeals court panel on Monday slashed Donald Trump's $464 million bond in the New York civil fraud case down to $175 million — and gave him ten more days to pay up, legal experts were astonished by </span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/trump-bond-2667596980/" style="font-family: verdana;">"the major lifeline</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">.”</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Former New York State Assistant Attorney General Tristan Snel,l "who successfully prosecuted the $25 million <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/">Trump</a> University case," slammed the order as "special treatment," while ex-federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner <a href="https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1772299785862586646">said</a>, "The verdict is in: the rules, the laws, and the Constitution do not apply to Donald Trump the way they apply to you and me."<br /><br />However, in an op-ed published by The Daily Beast, legal ethics and civil procedure expert Ray Brescia suggests that, despite Monday's win, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-still-in-deep-legal-trouble-in-new-york-despite-minor-court-win?ref=wrap">Trump is "still in deep legal trouble" </a>when it comes to both of his New York cases.<br /><br />"Team Trump seemed to have won a bit of a victory in one," Brescia writes, "but certainly not in the other. While Trump’s camp is likely relieved that he <a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Ftrump-insists-hell-be-able-to-pay-bond-without-selling-anything%3Fref%3Dhome%3Fref%3Dhome">doesn’t have to post</a> a nearly half-billion-dollar bond to continue his appeal, the fact remains that both that case and the <a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fkeyword%2Fstormy-daniels">Stormy Daniels</a> hush money case are still moving full steam ahead," he adds. <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/no-more-tricks-up-the-trump-legal-teams-sleeves-why-the-ex-presidents-latest-win-is/">Full post here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-24452370166824627232024-03-25T14:00:00.001-04:002024-03-25T20:12:12.634-04:00'Morning Joe' Announces Its Intentions For New NBC Colleague Ronna McDaniel<div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORMkBoxYbnUFFBOAkIG2ywuHe4hHoMe50h-nYOH2VKxK6KG5tHEaLPKa9r7ROfs0iPV-_5v17wARoz_qjVB-3R80Mvr0EzKNpi4q6o7w6eZIv4qFZkrQdw52g0UjTgkAmt-fotl9b-Y02Dd5Wx15S7pxsRhKIL4pnD445e3rHGf77hESCR0fD8MeT9lP9/s225/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORMkBoxYbnUFFBOAkIG2ywuHe4hHoMe50h-nYOH2VKxK6KG5tHEaLPKa9r7ROfs0iPV-_5v17wARoz_qjVB-3R80Mvr0EzKNpi4q6o7w6eZIv4qFZkrQdw52g0UjTgkAmt-fotl9b-Y02Dd5Wx15S7pxsRhKIL4pnD445e3rHGf77hESCR0fD8MeT9lP9/s1600/00.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/msnbc" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;">MSNBC</a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;">hosts</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span><a class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Joe Scarborough" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="/news/topic/joe-scarborough" data-vars-target-content-type="feed" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-unit-name="660186b2e4b059750143cafe" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-scarborough" role="link" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Joe Scarborough</a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;">and</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span><a class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Mika Brzezinski" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="/news/topic/mika-brzezinski" data-vars-target-content-type="feed" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-unit-name="660186b2e4b059750143cafe" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/mika-brzezinski" role="link" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Mika Brzezinski</a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;">said Monday they will not invite</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span><a class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Ronna McDaniel" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="/topic/ronna-mcdaniel" data-vars-target-content-type="feed" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-unit-name="660186b2e4b059750143cafe" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/ronna-mcdaniel" role="link" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Ronna McDaniel</a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;">on their “Morning Joe” show after the former RNC chair was hired by parent NBC News.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 1.125rem;"> </span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">McDaniel made her network debut on “<a class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Meet the Press" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="3" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="/news/topic/meet-the-press" data-vars-target-content-type="feed" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-unit-name="660186b2e4b059750143cafe" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/meet-the-press" role="link" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Meet the Press</a>” Sunday in a <a class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="controversial segment" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="4" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="660061b8e4b0597501437033" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-unit-name="660186b2e4b059750143cafe" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-todd-nbc-ronna-mcdaniel-hiring_n_660061b8e4b0597501437033" role="link" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;" target="_blank">controversial segment</a>. NBC had announced her new gig as a contributor days earlier, sparking <a class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="internal protests" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="5" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="https://apnews.com/article/nbc-news-mcdaniel-todd-election-fraud-683aa560f0824725023dacde0f504ad6" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-unit-name="660186b2e4b059750143cafe" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://apnews.com/article/nbc-news-mcdaniel-todd-election-fraud-683aa560f0824725023dacde0f504ad6" role="link" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;" target="_blank">internal protests</a>.</span></p><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“We believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage, but it should be conservative <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;">Republicans</a>, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier,” Brzezinski told viewers on Monday. “And we hope NBC will reconsider its decision. It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on ‘Morning Joe’ in her capacity as a paid contributor.”</span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">MSNBC President Rashida Jones <a class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="reportedly told anchors" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="6" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="https://deadline.com/2024/03/nbc-news-ronna-mcdaniel-morning-joe-1235867164/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-unit-name="660186b2e4b059750143cafe" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/nbc-news-ronna-mcdaniel-morning-joe-1235867164/" role="link" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;" target="_blank">reportedly told anchors</a> they were not obligated to book McDaniel on their programs.</span></p></div><div class="pg-placeholder" id="public-good-placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="pgs-dpg-btn" data-loaded="true" data-pgs-partner-id="verizon-huffpost" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" widget-loading="true"></div></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Scarborough also made his opposition to McDaniel’s hiring emphatically clear.</span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“I know you won’t be surprised to know that we’ve been inundated with calls this weekend, as have most people connected with this network, about NBC’s decision to hire her,” Scarborough said.</span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text " style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“We learned about the hiring when we read about it in the press on Friday. We weren’t asked our opinion of the hiring, but if we were, we would have strongly objected to it for several reasons, including but not limited to, as lawyers might say, Ms. McDaniels’ role in <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 90, 255) 0px -1px 0px inset; color: #005aff; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.3s;">Donald Trump</a>’s fake elector scheme and her pressuring election officials to not certify election results while Donald Trump was on the phone.” <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/morning-joe-ronna-mcdaniel-nbc_n_660186b2e4b059750143cafe">Full story here </a></span></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-73656202475654538452024-03-25T10:30:00.001-04:002024-03-25T20:07:09.275-04:00Judge Rejects Trump's Attempt To Delay Hush Money Trial<span style="font-family: verdana;">NEW YORK — A New York state judge ruled Monday that the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump stemming from a hush money payment he allegedly made to a porn actor can proceed, denying Trump’s request to have the case delayed further or altogether dismissed. <br /><br />Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, sat alongside his lawyers as Judge Juan Merchan announced that jury selection in the case would begin on April 15.<br /><br />The trial — the first-ever criminal trial of a former president — had originally been scheduled to start Monday but was delayed one month after prosecutors agreed to allow Trump’s defense attorneys to review some 100,000 pages of documents of potential new evidence. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-stormy-daniels-delay-trial-april-15_n_6601a3e7e4b09f0d7258d1e5">Full story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-25822202237103768262024-03-25T00:00:00.003-04:002024-03-25T20:30:22.097-04:00Phantom of the MAGA<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KgoR9DsxR3Q?si=8S8vcE8PB_Sf2yfe" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-28123268954704213162024-03-25T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-25T20:15:12.524-04:00Why Chuck Todd’s Scorcher Against NBC Matters<p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As if responding to an alarm setting on a cosmic, biological clock, the press and its minders set to ringing and clanging bloody murder over the weekend as NBC News moved Ronna McDaniel — the recently sacked Republican National Committee chair — to a paid gig in its studio. </span></p><p class="story-text__paragraph " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The hottest criticism took place on NBC News’ own Sunday edition of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meet the Press </i>after McDaniel made her first appearance, when Chuck Todd, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meet the Press</i>’ former host, <a aria-label="
laid down a barrage (opens in a new window)" class=" js-tealium-tracking " data-tracking="mpos=&mid=&lindex=&lcol=" href="https://twitter.com/mike_hixenbaugh/status/1771915375501860980?s=12&t=YQkMukP7FEBj2a0nRoGHBg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bc7; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: 0.25s;" target="_blank">laid down a barrage</a> of verbal spitfire. NBC News bosses owed the current host, Kristen Welker, an apology for foisting McDaniel on the show, Todd said. “I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn’t want to mess up her contract,” Todd said. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/25/ronna-mcdaniel-firestorm-nbc-00148799">Full story here </a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-51276560180008567962024-03-24T01:00:00.001-04:002024-03-24T08:57:50.400-04:00'The Train Is Coming': Fani Willis Undeterred By Setbacks In Georgia Trump Case<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnTb9hfgoKuuPa35_pTeaVbTF5cR5uuVgfCRf0ik7B4q9IU7pzaE_HzGgrRgWB77Th-o1HQvp5wWcq_M6uc60qzfIJQjLw4UifjVrj7dhDbIQsCDbEBa7epLjKgY4LALzM3KRJ92pRhsR_JOxOkJpwZMKEBtGknyODSYQtnK0yOByRCBAnxuONIVxm6yj/s275/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnTb9hfgoKuuPa35_pTeaVbTF5cR5uuVgfCRf0ik7B4q9IU7pzaE_HzGgrRgWB77Th-o1HQvp5wWcq_M6uc60qzfIJQjLw4UifjVrj7dhDbIQsCDbEBa7epLjKgY4LALzM3KRJ92pRhsR_JOxOkJpwZMKEBtGknyODSYQtnK0yOByRCBAnxuONIVxm6yj/s1600/00.jpeg" width="275" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is showing no signs of backing down from her election interference case against former President </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" style="font-family: verdana;">Donald Trump</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> — even after one investigator, Willis’ former romantic partner, was taken off the case.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Speaking with <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/cnn">CNN</a> on Saturday, Willis said that while news outlets were focused on the public hearings in which details of her relationship were aired, her team was continuing to work on the substance of the case. <br /><br />“All while that was going on, we were writing responses and briefs. I don’t think that we’ve been slowed down at all,” Willis said from an Easter egg hunt event.<br /><br />“I do think there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming,” she added. <br /><br />Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fani-willis-closing-arguments_n_65e21d27e4b013678e1529c7">gave Willis an ultimatum in a March 15 ruling</a>: either Willis or attorney Nathan Wade had to remove themselves from the case. <br /><br />Wade was the special prosecutor Willis admitted to dating after hiring him to help pursue the sprawling list of charges. Trump and more than a dozen other defendants are accused of playing various roles in efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election in the case. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-train-is-coming-fani-willis-undeterred-by-setbacks-in-georgia-trump-case_n_65ff3f4ee4b00e48621cc92b">Full story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-30126590729675722722024-03-24T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-24T09:09:01.083-04:00Trump spirals as bond deadline in fraud case nears<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_2yyfbxuimBGJH_l9JeqYTNuNJ3C9xP7qsT2z_s4mTbjZZpCLtI4RyFdM7JEyq1eRXlopfA_64g4_p_arDKsjAl4cWM1dv6W8NfeCk4qfLK7VkRsA4wbWF1uEaSjpC0AIfTSDzFiYbR9Ma6gZ80PVspIMyBa3wQ60EgYs0mkFbfsKC_QT9vOipUSvkww/s1280/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc_2yyfbxuimBGJH_l9JeqYTNuNJ3C9xP7qsT2z_s4mTbjZZpCLtI4RyFdM7JEyq1eRXlopfA_64g4_p_arDKsjAl4cWM1dv6W8NfeCk4qfLK7VkRsA4wbWF1uEaSjpC0AIfTSDzFiYbR9Ma6gZ80PVspIMyBa3wQ60EgYs0mkFbfsKC_QT9vOipUSvkww/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The eye-popping judgment against former President Trump in his New York fraud case has laid bare his precarious financial status, a matter that has sent the notoriously incensed real estate mogul off the rails. </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In Truth Social posts, Trump has laid out mini diatribes lambasting the judge and attorney general in the case, claiming they want to swindle him out of precisely the amount of cash he has on hand to the tune of half a billion dollars. <br /><br />Trump is known for his online rants and raucous rallies that frequently whip up his base, but the $454 million bond he must pay – or face the possibility of his assets being seized – appears to have sent the former president over the edge. <br /><br />“They do not care about the Law, the facts, or anything, but tying up my money, and interfering in the Election!!” Trump wrote in a<a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112129838953558075"> Truth Social post</a>on Wednesday. “This case should be OVER, but instead, the Attorney General wants to abuse her power to steal my money!!” <br /><br />Former aides said Trump appears to be particularly incensed by the New York fraud trial because of how personal the stakes are. <br /><br />The case’s core allegations threatened several areas Trump takes particular pride in. It struck at the heart of his reputation as a savvy dealmaker and wealthy businessman, which helped propel him into a successful run for the White House in 2016. <br /><br />“It has to do with his business and his family and his brand,” said one former Trump White House official.<br /><br />The trial and its aftermath has also enveloped his adult children, specifically <a href="https://thehill.com/people/eric-trump/">Eric Trump </a>and Donald Trump Jr., who serve as executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization. The brothers were ordered to pay more than $4.6 million each and were barred for two years from serving in top leadership roles for any New York company. <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4550535-trump-bond-deadline-fraud-case-nears/">Read full post here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-47468326648709385862024-03-24T00:00:00.003-04:002024-03-24T09:11:52.591-04:00Early voting opens for New York's presidential primary<span style="font-family: verdana;">Early voting begins Saturday for New York's presidential primary.<br /><br />It runs through March 30, so you have eight days to get to the polls early before the official primary election on April 2.<br /><br />You can find your polling place on your county's Board of Elections website.<br /><br />It's worth noting that both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump have already secured the delegates needed to secure their parties nominations.<br /><br />Attorney General Letitia James' office is making its Election Protection Hotline available all week long. <br /><br />You can call 1-866-390-2992 or visit the <a href="http://electionhotline.ag.ny.gov/">website</a> for any voting-related issues, including problems voting by absentee ballot, early mail ballot or in-person at your voting location. The hotline is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. <a href="https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/news/2024/03/23/early-voting-opens-for-new-york-s-presidential-primary">Post</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-49807171912765570332024-03-24T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-24T09:03:03.787-04:00Trump’s Not-So-Secret Plan To Blow Up The U.S. Economy: Tariffs<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGaxtwhkuuFZQ1j_zJ5rBeGgbrNxH-N_NGowJ00PCfXtnBItQxpmQDOO-5Uyveszz-HLWBA92sjS4JUWBtH4_RlND2a_1W-S4nmt0EPlEKpdTArj0z6xOyNHEWy5kumPHLm7q-4blvBWuWdQRQsvJCa34GueNfL8Yx2qWFs4m-ItuxI3Zb06WBeqRTeS0-/s300/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGaxtwhkuuFZQ1j_zJ5rBeGgbrNxH-N_NGowJ00PCfXtnBItQxpmQDOO-5Uyveszz-HLWBA92sjS4JUWBtH4_RlND2a_1W-S4nmt0EPlEKpdTArj0z6xOyNHEWy5kumPHLm7q-4blvBWuWdQRQsvJCa34GueNfL8Yx2qWFs4m-ItuxI3Zb06WBeqRTeS0-/s1600/00.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" style="font-family: verdana;">Donald Trump</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> likes to say he created the strongest U.S. economy in history. But the centerpiece of his plans for a second term — tariffs on imported goods, especially those from China — runs the risk of bringing the U.S.′ currently robust economy to a screeching halt, and possibly the world’s, as well. </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Despite warnings from even conservative economists, Trump has stood by his proposed 10% tariff as both a moneymaker for the government and a way to show American strength.<br /><br />“Number one, it’s great economically for us and it brings our companies back,” Trump said <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/03/11/former-president-donald-trump-china-is-right-now-our-boss.html?&qsearchterm=Donald%20Trump">on CNBC</a> March 11.<br /><br />“It also gives us a big political power. Tariffs are tremendously powerful in terms of stopping wars, because they don’t want tariffs,” he added. “I made other countries sing with the threat of tariffs. And if you don’t have tariffs, we have nothing whatsoever on them.”<br /><br />But economists across the political spectrum say Trump’s tariff plans, particularly with regard to China, the world’s second largest economy, would have a huge risk of backfiring and could supercharge inflation.<br /><br />Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody’s Analytics, said the U.S. and China combined produce between one-third to almost half of global economic output, and a trade war between them would be devastating. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps-tariffs-could-sink-economy-economists-say_n_65fdff83e4b0c9b6947250db">Read full story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-40829073290178553122024-03-21T00:30:00.003-04:002024-03-21T00:30:00.144-04:00A Third Party Is the Coward’s Way Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_04tM1EvqPfQN57MexGge13_ySPuR7LELKo4-BAjAESq8ti8ohoLiWBpZST8Bzcv5Ow7s1SFjRewjMekqnI5mn6ZMUyB5vkp0IbJrF0WbE_oXCxpZEXQwyNBeYZX5PZkYU7Atvu2ul1E02WCR-N3CooEjFQDVhmNQ3K-uSGotQm2ljpuv-ciNo9jd1ce/s1456/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1456" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_04tM1EvqPfQN57MexGge13_ySPuR7LELKo4-BAjAESq8ti8ohoLiWBpZST8Bzcv5Ow7s1SFjRewjMekqnI5mn6ZMUyB5vkp0IbJrF0WbE_oXCxpZEXQwyNBeYZX5PZkYU7Atvu2ul1E02WCR-N3CooEjFQDVhmNQ3K-uSGotQm2ljpuv-ciNo9jd1ce/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">DURING THE ALL-TOO-BRIEF one-on-one contest between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, there was a good deal of analysis declaring it the last stand of the Reaganite vision for the GOP versus the MAGA takeover. That was the wishiest of wishful thinking—and not just because such large segments of the current Republican party delight in Trump. It’s also because the Reaganite wing has made such a poor showing for itself.<br /><br />It’s generous to call the desiccated exoskeleton of Reaganism a “wing” at all, and frankly, the use of the term “Reaganism” is not really accurate anyway. What people mean when they use the term is traditional Republicanism, which includes belief in free enterprise, smaller government, freer trade, respect for the Constitution, dedication to American world leadership, and social conservatism, among other ideals. Republicans who continue to adhere to those principles embraced Haley as the last man (as it were) standing.<br /><br />One reason there weren’t more traditional Republicans was on display in a recent Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/reagan-would-never-vote-for-trump-2024-presidential-election-744f6ca8?mod=opinion_lead_pos7">op-ed</a>. The world might look very different if traditional Republicans had been willing to stand firm for their values when they came under assault from an ignorant, cruel demagogue. So I was briefly optimistic when I saw that an honest-to-goodness Reaganite, John Lehman, who served as secretary of the Navy under Reagan, had weighed in. The headline was promising: “Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump.” But after that bold beginning, the subhead was deflating: “He also didn’t care much for Biden. Like me, he’d be looking for a strong third-party candidate to support.” <a href="https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/third-party-cowards-way-out-no-label">Read full story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-65690214501144358492024-03-21T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-21T00:30:00.144-04:00Uh Oh, Donald: Bond Edition<span style="font-family: verdana;">30 underwriters declined to back a bond for the Republican presidential nominee.</span> <div><br /></div><div> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/clt0VcsO69s?si=0J0xmQCuojguG1u1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-86719760293594356482024-03-20T11:30:00.001-04:002024-03-20T17:59:14.272-04:00N.Y. state asks court not to let Trump forgo $454M bond during fraud case appeal<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLWGrpI9NlYq-cd1VllLegybiRaYVlwU0HXq3r1noTErByeCIhRTGUj4I0s90wGUD9pb3xcVpaDRKHVRdRahtMV0v20VzPmCYqdUCXkhj3AwaOweIykJjxHps8Z4h9EvqqLFifVqvQZ_FMDhnUxE4DvCSkuB2ez2sEF_xc8eELJN_KzUHMf7CN2hW5dxZ/s1250/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1250" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLWGrpI9NlYq-cd1VllLegybiRaYVlwU0HXq3r1noTErByeCIhRTGUj4I0s90wGUD9pb3xcVpaDRKHVRdRahtMV0v20VzPmCYqdUCXkhj3AwaOweIykJjxHps8Z4h9EvqqLFifVqvQZ_FMDhnUxE4DvCSkuB2ez2sEF_xc8eELJN_KzUHMf7CN2hW5dxZ/s320/00.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">New York state lawyers urged an appeals court Wednesday not to buy former President Donald Trump's claims that it's impossible to post a bond fully covering a $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The presumptive Republican nominee's lawyers said earlier this week that he couldn't find an underwriter willing to take on the entire amount. But the state is arguing that Trump and his co-defendants didn't explore every option.<br /><br />The “defendants fail to propose a serious alternative to fully secure the judgment," Dennis Fan, a lawyer in the state attorney general's office, wrote in papers sent to the appeals court.<br /><br />He suggested those alternatives could include dividing the total among multiple bonds from different underwriters — or letting a court hold some of Trump's real estate while he appeals. He's challenging a judge's ruling last month that he, his company and key executives inflated his wealth on financial statements that were used to get loans and insurance.<br /><br />Messages seeking comment on the state's new papers were sent to Trump's attorneys. In a radio interview before the latest development, Trump reiterated his complaints about the case, the judgment and the bond requirement.<br /><br />“They don’t even give you a chance to appeal. They want you to put up money before the appeal. So if you sell a property or do something, and then you win the appeal, you don’t have the property,” Trump said on WABC radio's “Sid & Friends In The Morning.”<br /><br />Under the judgment, Trump needs to pay more than $454 million in penalties and ever-growing interest; some of his co-defendants owe additional money. So far, courts have said that if the former president wants to as contributor?stave off collection while he appeals, he’ll have to post a bond for his entire liability.<br /><br />Trump said last year that he has “fairly substantially over $400 million in cash.” But he's now facing more than $543 million in personal legal liabilities from judgments in the civil fraud case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, and in two lawsuits brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. The advice columnist said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, then defamed her after she came forward in 2019. <a href="https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/politics/2024/03/20/n-y--state-lawyers-trump-forgo--454m-bond-during-appeal">Read story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-69422866419247676062024-03-20T00:00:00.005-04:002024-03-20T18:53:11.576-04:00Not American<span style="font-family: verdana;">The only wall Trump and his cronies have built is the one in Congress.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B2m0aSGPqRA?si=C9AH9FLrHQOmbipf" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-29214853120343627472024-03-20T00:00:00.003-04:002024-03-20T18:26:00.092-04:00Jared Kushner Praises 'Very Valuable' Potential Of Gaza's 'Waterfront Property'<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ZTOLLraQHOhVzdKYtQT-IMw6CGLP8UISLCyaFc5FHO2P7NIms3Op_ndIJPa0T8SE6GLE7FfgBdel2MNej7WxJHRnJvUae-3Qk2j2cGKs1uuOPgG2ZBmoyS6AGKCEBDwZeKWXR1MRx3jP8omy4GAaj89ulx9ufjCK6Wesa4LaaWKzlL_Z1P6ZOzhlf-uS/s720/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ZTOLLraQHOhVzdKYtQT-IMw6CGLP8UISLCyaFc5FHO2P7NIms3Op_ndIJPa0T8SE6GLE7FfgBdel2MNej7WxJHRnJvUae-3Qk2j2cGKs1uuOPgG2ZBmoyS6AGKCEBDwZeKWXR1MRx3jP8omy4GAaj89ulx9ufjCK6Wesa4LaaWKzlL_Z1P6ZOzhlf-uS/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/jared-kushner" style="font-family: verdana;">Jared Kushner</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">, </span><a href="https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump" style="font-family: verdana;">Donald Trump’s</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />“Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtaIHr5S0ts&t=4s">an interview dated Feb. 15</a>, posted earlier this month on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a program of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and reported first on Tuesday by The Guardian. “If you think about all the money that’s gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions, if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been done?”<br /><br />“It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner added. “But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterwards.”<br /><br />Responding Tuesday on X to “those dishonestly using selected parts” of his remarks, Kushner posted a video of the entire interaction, saying he stood by his comments “and believe the Palestinian people’s lives will improve ONLY when the international community and their citizenry start demanding accountability from their leadership.” <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-praises-valuable-potential-of-gazas-waterfront-property_n_65fb3fe8e4b07c954d548257?mxa">Read full story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-3359630857035253402024-03-20T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-20T18:22:17.946-04:002024 presidential primary in New York: What you need to know about registration, absentees and early voting<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5syIuDjnW4y4RKrePhIhn-cVIk53TAlBqCAdekqvSvsvx6HW3U6sZSfn9_T3gfUJFoU1W7Gi50xbHBFkwBjE_KoZCaXwJcUH1L22VSxu1U3G4_HIeqzY2j5rf_U8Eaf9t33lwWHBzAq0HGpcNLcjCC3bhGwq1t81T2y1b4oIBgd2L038TfGxbyeHXJJuG/s1250/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="1250" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5syIuDjnW4y4RKrePhIhn-cVIk53TAlBqCAdekqvSvsvx6HW3U6sZSfn9_T3gfUJFoU1W7Gi50xbHBFkwBjE_KoZCaXwJcUH1L22VSxu1U3G4_HIeqzY2j5rf_U8Eaf9t33lwWHBzAq0HGpcNLcjCC3bhGwq1t81T2y1b4oIBgd2L038TfGxbyeHXJJuG/s320/00.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">When is Election Day?</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Tuesday, April 2, 2024<br /><br />Early voting begins March 23 and runs through March 30.<br />When is the last day I can register to vote before the election?<br /><br />Applications must be received by a board of elections no later than March 23 to be eligible to vote in the general election. You may register at your local board of elections or any state agency participating in the National Voter Registration Act, on any business day throughout the year, but to be eligible to vote, your application must be received no later than March 23. If you are already registered, the deadline to change your party affiliation has already past. <a href="https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/2022-elections/2021/10/21/elections-in-new-york--what-you-need-to-know">Read full information here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-22439717695360885782024-03-18T03:00:00.001-04:002024-03-18T08:41:27.163-04:00Mike Pence Isn't Having It With Trump's 'Unacceptable' Jan. 6 'Hostages' Talk<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMeyBEPZ8G1z7dYKoTe6cZuBIk7eJt6wUFB5pYSsIGbcQFYjDsWXrYdepVkQ-VmzF3YuFAEe5tM32o47RA0sfxFAQX9aA-hB44lzzapJDcoK_HunRyx03DvC78fXj5KNN6DiWGxblFjekW285BV9euUb3UTt7gmLM1dqjzLOPNwnUQSA70e-hc_VCuj4j/s275/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMeyBEPZ8G1z7dYKoTe6cZuBIk7eJt6wUFB5pYSsIGbcQFYjDsWXrYdepVkQ-VmzF3YuFAEe5tM32o47RA0sfxFAQX9aA-hB44lzzapJDcoK_HunRyx03DvC78fXj5KNN6DiWGxblFjekW285BV9euUb3UTt7gmLM1dqjzLOPNwnUQSA70e-hc_VCuj4j/s1600/00.jpeg" width="275" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Former Vice President </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/mike-pence" style="font-family: verdana;">Mike Pence</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> scolded </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" style="font-family: verdana;">Donald Trump</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> over his “unacceptable” language Sunday after his repeated use of the word “hostages” to describe people charged for their role in the </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/capitol-riot" style="font-family: verdana;">Jan. 6, 2021, attack</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> on the U.S. Capitol.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Pence’s reaction comes after the former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee spoke <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-2024-trump-ohio-bloodbath_n_65f630d0e4b08b384f1b72ca">at an Ohio rally</a> on Saturday where he played his national anthem rendition with J6 Prison Choir (<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-j6-choir-song_n_6401c345e4b00de96ad936fe">a group of imprisoned rioters</a>).<br /><br />An announcer introduced the song by asking the crowd to stand for the “horribly and unfairly treated Jan. 6 hostages,” language that Trump has used himself at rallies.<br /><br />“I think it’s very unfortunate. At a time that there are American hostages being held in Gaza, that the president or any other leaders would refer to people that are moving through our justice system as hostages,” Pence told <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/margaret-brennan">Margaret Brennan</a> on “<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/face-the-nation">Face the Nation</a>.”<br /><br />“And it’s just, it’s just unacceptable.”<br /><br />Pence, who <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-not-endorsing-donald-trump-2024-election_n_65f4ab9de4b0b4d0b8995cbe">recently announced</a> he will not endorse Trump, has previously slammed the former president’s <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-donald-trump-capitol-riot-reckless-endangered_n_6372166de4b09d758bd94fa0">“reckless” words</a> about the Capitol attack and declared that they endangered his family.<br /><br />Rioters chanted “hang <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/mike-pence">Mike Pence</a>” and there were gallows constructed outside of the U.S. Capitol on the day of the deadly riot. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-donald-trump-jan-6-hostages_n_65f67881e4b08b384f1b7f87">Read full story </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-34051745388262644752024-03-18T01:00:00.001-04:002024-03-18T08:35:41.730-04:00Trump gets burned after touching on Social Security<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWbAG6laYy3bGL3sBG0KXq9p4VA5UTY8v0zGbCkBMLvnuDh5-f41QDGyetKEvmlFimQsVwxv9Hik8m_GE6eW7DWFqmbxHW2PJ0KvzRuk2Q50T7YiyCuyziDp3DOhs_V86AYy6DWIjQqfR56RYjoWDZMku7HFOiifLu-pI2piD7UT__gwT9JBWgirMD-ZK/s640/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWbAG6laYy3bGL3sBG0KXq9p4VA5UTY8v0zGbCkBMLvnuDh5-f41QDGyetKEvmlFimQsVwxv9Hik8m_GE6eW7DWFqmbxHW2PJ0KvzRuk2Q50T7YiyCuyziDp3DOhs_V86AYy6DWIjQqfR56RYjoWDZMku7HFOiifLu-pI2piD7UT__gwT9JBWgirMD-ZK/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Former President Trump’s remarks about “cutting” Social Security has given a major opening to <a href="https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden/">President Biden </a>while underscoring how the entitlement program has become a third rail in politics.<br /><br />Trump in a CNBC interview said there was “a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.”<br /><br />His campaign quickly clarified that the former president only wants to cut waste, but his initial remarks created soundbites Biden will use against him from now until November and that Democratic congressional candidates will also seize upon.<br /><br />Barrett Marson, a GOP strategist in Arizona, said the ambiguity of Trump’s latest comments might blunt their impact.<br /><br />“But in some ways, that doesn’t matter because … it’s on tape, and the Biden campaign will almost assuredly use that tape a lot, and the Trump campaign will have to spend time and money to refute that,” he said. <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4535573-trump-burned-social-security/">Read full story </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-25364475087289887162024-03-18T00:00:00.003-04:002024-03-18T08:32:36.751-04:00Former GOP Gov. Calls ‘B.S.’ On New Trump Spin With Chilling Hitler Comparison<span style="font-family: verdana;">Former New Jersey Gov. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/christine-todd-whitman">Christine Todd Whitman</a> (R) on Sunday called “B.S.” on the spin that <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s campaign has put on his “bloodbath” warning from the weekend.<br /><br />Trump at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, said while talking about the auto industry that, “If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole … that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”<br /><br />Trump, the Republican 2024 nominee, was slammed for using violent rhetoric but his campaign claimed his comment was taken out of context and he’d been talking about the economy.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/msnbc">MSNBC</a>’s “The Sunday Show” host Jonathan Capehart told Whitman that he called “B.S. on that” excuse from the Trump campaign.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />“Am I wrong?” he asked Whitman.<br /><br />“No. You are absolutely right,” Whitman replied. “That is B.S. on that. He was definitely sending a call to his supporters to have a reprise of Jan. 6.” <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christine-todd-whitman-donald-trump-comments_n_65f7dbdee4b0defe9b27817d">Full post </a></span><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-75559603077194139642024-03-18T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-18T08:29:11.685-04:00On Campaign Trail In Ohio, Trump Warns Of 'Bloodbath' If He Loses In November<span style="font-family: verdana;">VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — Former President <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> claimed that he — not <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate <a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-senate-ohio-bernie-moreno-sherrod-brown-a7bdca8b7caf1d7facbf3349e6dc8e9d">Bernie Moreno</a> in Ohio.<br /><br />Trump, speaking on a wind-whipped airfield outside of Dayton Saturday, praised his chosen candidate in the race as an “America first champion” and “political outsider who has spent his entire life building up Ohio communities.”<br /><br />“He’s going to be a warrior in Washington,” Trump said, days after securing enough delegates to clinch the 2024 Republican nomination.<br /><br />Moreno faces Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan in Tuesday’s GOP primary. LaRose and Moreno have aligned themselves with the pro-Trump faction of the party, while Dolan is backed by more establishment <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party">Republicans</a>, including <a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-senate-ohio-dewine-trump-dolan-1a49f2406367e1e2f644b8e5d37eb265">Gov. Mike DeWine</a> and former <a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-senate-ohio-portman-endorsement-97e376a158aa3c475c92148afa3c9949">Sen. Rob Portman</a>.<br /><br />Saturday’s rally was hosted by Buckeye Values PAC, a group backing Moreno’s candidacy. But Trump used the stage to deliver a profanity-filled version of his usual rally speech that again painted an apocalyptic picture of the country if Biden wins a second term.<br /><br />“If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he warned, while talking about the impact of offshoring on the country’s auto industry and his plans to increase tariffs on foreign-made cars. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-2024-trump-ohio-bloodbath_n_65f630d0e4b08b384f1b72ca">Read full story here </a></span> <div><br /></div><div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qt9MIpFCqz8?si=d1D1YFzNwj7_jzG7" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-79837908214240370292024-03-17T09:54:00.002-04:002024-03-17T09:54:37.089-04:00Why Jack Smith should push for judge’s removal from Mar-a-Lago docs case<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3MtWCV7JN7i-AA0fVJz5fZ3nKThNjTX2Dk7SWU4HyJ4r05tCpimSrGqSPTZttX1agO_RQFEPRkn0-nhA8KPPhV9rYR_yb5pj0saHR1RZ2-Ku7RpDHmeYsd6cjvtHsyiXi1Q7odUxdb54dQZTiH5abGyOBohLJDyawdXQnNOWJbY7pzR93vopVtG7E18f/s1245/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1245" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3MtWCV7JN7i-AA0fVJz5fZ3nKThNjTX2Dk7SWU4HyJ4r05tCpimSrGqSPTZttX1agO_RQFEPRkn0-nhA8KPPhV9rYR_yb5pj0saHR1RZ2-Ku7RpDHmeYsd6cjvtHsyiXi1Q7odUxdb54dQZTiH5abGyOBohLJDyawdXQnNOWJbY7pzR93vopVtG7E18f/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Special counsel Jack Smith has been dealing with two very different judges in his federal prosecutors of former President Donald Trump: Barack Obama appointee <a href="https://www.alternet.org/chutkan-slams-trump-immunity/">Tanya Chutkan</a> in his election interference case and Florida-based Trump appointee Aileen Cannon in his Mar-a-Lago documents case.<br /><br />Many of Trump's critics have also been highly critical of Cannon, arguing that she has gone out of her way to accommodate Trump's strategy of delaying that case. One of those critics is political and legal blogger Philip Rotner.<br /><br />In a <a href="https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-for-jack-smith-to-seek-judge">commentary published by the conservative website The Bulwark</a> on March 15, Rotner argues that unless Smith pushes for Cannon to be removed from the case, his prosecution is doomed. <a href="https://www.alternet.org/trump-smith-cannon/">Full story here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-38706547010800269892024-03-17T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-17T10:12:32.977-04:00Fight for government transparency shines light on secrecy of budget talks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxciTt7jSN5JmzcJmJeOdoWj3goBttB2tYHvNZujFFQPBc81WfBhyphenhyphenAXsVE9_aSMEUhXGaDGmJF6OBxEEP90ZmjcdWUNv50ZngUJSnLwp_Zm7S-bSiHWiMktOwHyiCF8tTBTZpsBE_Q-qGnYuyRSZKBNw2CBwqOJ3ET1fvplQZr2M-ARyWAxXGu_owKbCS5/s1250/00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1250" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxciTt7jSN5JmzcJmJeOdoWj3goBttB2tYHvNZujFFQPBc81WfBhyphenhyphenAXsVE9_aSMEUhXGaDGmJF6OBxEEP90ZmjcdWUNv50ZngUJSnLwp_Zm7S-bSiHWiMktOwHyiCF8tTBTZpsBE_Q-qGnYuyRSZKBNw2CBwqOJ3ET1fvplQZr2M-ARyWAxXGu_owKbCS5/s320/00.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's an irony of Albany's budget timeline: Sunshine Week, or time dedicated each March to advocate for expanded government transparency across the nation, typically lines up with the release of both houses of New York's Legislature's budget proposals – commencing government negotiations largely done in secret.<br /><br />More than 30 good-government groups sent a letter this week to Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders, pushing them to strengthen New York's Freedom of Information Law. They argue the state's FOIL system is broken and must be fixed, urging lawmakers to pass bills to expedite the public records request process.<br /><br />Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal sponsors bills to require state agencies annually publish statistics about their FOIL compliance, and require businesses working with the government reapply for record disclosure exemptions. <br /><br />"That's so important for our democracy, which is struggling at so many different levels – state, local and federal," said Hoylman-Sigal, a Manhattan Democrat.<br /><br />Accessibility of public records is a timely discussion in Albany as state leaders start serious budget negotiations. With New York is known for a political climate clouded by corruption and deals behind closed doors, the bar for transparency is low.<br /><br />Less than a third of state agencies included FOIL data in 2022 transparency plans, and most departments take more than 20 days as required by law to provide requested public records, according to Reinvent Albany.<br /><br />"Unfortunately, FOIL isn't being treated like a public service – it's kind of an afterthought," Reinvent Albany Senior Policy Advisor Rachael Fauss said. "It's something that agencies have to do because the law says they have to release these documents. We'd like to see the way that it's thought about flipped, and it be treated like a public service." <a href="https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/politics/2024/03/15/fight-for-gov-t-transparency-shines-light-on-secrecy-of-budget-talks-">Full post </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166629838286367573.post-79045329949285029342024-03-17T00:00:00.003-04:002024-03-17T10:06:58.214-04:00'No point donating now': Lifelong Republicans revolt after Lara Trump elected RNC co-chair<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdNNtgeXiRtmSzwkuKA3m8HAzey2ewMIq6hwGZfvrsSlCV8oVfRfLl3ZiBbTSTAcGCC0VBKe87ctTACFbLb8DKCEnxWI1PdMR_pusniz-rczW3-_WZa9v-6GiSPyuRwyCT3z1jVFUVEfCFII-YX6pswt97uvGdUZFWrjZz6RnfN3P7Eqfk-J95RGWfJRS/s1245/00.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1245" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdNNtgeXiRtmSzwkuKA3m8HAzey2ewMIq6hwGZfvrsSlCV8oVfRfLl3ZiBbTSTAcGCC0VBKe87ctTACFbLb8DKCEnxWI1PdMR_pusniz-rczW3-_WZa9v-6GiSPyuRwyCT3z1jVFUVEfCFII-YX6pswt97uvGdUZFWrjZz6RnfN3P7Eqfk-J95RGWfJRS/s320/00.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Former President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, has now officially replaced Ronna McDaniel as the new co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) following a unanimous vote.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Despite having no previous campaign or political organizing experience, Lara — who is the wife of the former president's son, Eric — is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/republican-national-committee-trump-whatley-legal-fees-53402f8e8ac845db3cf4ab82c882ea74">now in charge</a> of the Republican Party's national organization, and is tasked with both retaking the White House in 2024 along with regaining control of the US Senate. Michael Whatley ascended to the top of the GOP along with Lara, after he previously served as chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party.<br /><br />Many in the MAGA movement celebrated Lara Trump's election, but plenty of other conservatives were not as enthusiastic. Right-wing influencer Wendy Patterson, who has more than 150,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter), suggested she may leave the GOP altogether after the news of Lara Trump's ascendancy to the top of the RNC. <a href="https://www.alternet.org/republicans-revolt-lara-trump/">Full post here </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0