Barbara Comstock
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Baker Donelson • FMC Prez NCEI Co-Chair• ABC News •Former VA10 Rep. •FormerVA Delegate •Lawyer•Mom 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
McLean, VA
Joined May 2009
3 dangerously unfit extremists - running away from their own words - and who lack the skills or judgment to protect the national security, safety, health, and constitution. Our world is in too dangerous a place and time to take such huge risks.
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The House should immediately subpoena the President’s phone records. He was calling people during the Capitol insurrection to try to continue to delay election certification. Who else did he try to call other than Sen. Tuberville? Rudy’s calls too.
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Matt Gaetz should not be a Member of Congress.
Liz Cheney should not be the Chair of the Republican Conference.
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It’s almost like @MarkMeadows didn’t realize voting records are public records? Just like he didn’t seem to realize his personal phone and text records could be subpoenaed?.
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It gets even worse for Jordan. Sources told us that Republican members of the Armed Services and Appropriations committees are forming an alliance of nearly 20 to block Jordan from becoming speaker. If that holds, there’s no chance Jordan can get the gavel.
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Why is no one talking about how profoundly unqualified @JDVance is for VP? Far less experience than Sarah Palin or Quayle. No legislative victories of note. Besides attacking women, childless cat ladies, etc and his own constituents in Springfield - what has he done?.
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Perhaps one way to stop Trump from running for President again would be to pass a law requiring full disclosure of personal and business tax records?.
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This meeting would certainly be of interest for the impeachment trial . .
Here's video of Marjorie Taylor Greene at the White House in late Dec 2020 saying she had a "great planning session for our January 6th objection. We aren't going to let this election be stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats. President Trump won by a landslide." Expel Greene now.
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So many lies….
WALLACE: No, Mr. President, I’m asking you a question. Will you tell us how much you paid in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017?.TRUMP: Millions of dollars. WALLACE: So not 750?.TRUMP: Millions of dollars. And you’ll get to see it. And you’ll get to see it.
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The judge in the Pennsylvania case, Matthew Brann, is a Republican who,before his nomination, was involved in Republican politics,the NRA and the Federalist Society. He said the Trump case was "without merit and speculative accusations" "unhinged" and a "Frankenstein's monster".
BREAKING: Federal judge rejects Trump campaign's Pennsylvania suit with prejudice, saying it lacks factual proof.
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Trump said in Richmond, that he will take all federal funds away from public schools that require vaccines. Like most states, Virginia requires MMR vaccine, chickenpox vaccine, polio, etc. So Trump would take millions in federal funds away from all Virginia public schools.
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You can call The Don and ask him about the warrant and the docs yourself — after all you’re paying for his legal bills @GOPChairwoman.
How long can Biden and his DOJ go without explaining how this unprecedented raid was allowed to happen and why?. They need to not only hold a presser but take questions. Their silence is unacceptable!.
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Cassidy Hutchinson interned for Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise before she interned at White House. She worked in the WH Office of Leg Affairs in March 2019, became Meadows’s exec assistant in March 2020, then special asst to the Prez, office of the chief of staff in May 2020-Jan 21.
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From two of the most popular Republican Govs: Govs ASA HUTCHINSON and LARRY HOGAN , said Trump should not be the future of the GOP. “With America on the wrong path, the stakes are too high to double down on failure,” Hogan said.
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God Bless this brave Officer. Thank you Officer Goodman for your commitment to our country and institutions that inspire us in this sad week.
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While I would like to see Trump resign; I know he won't. I would also support the use of the 25th Amendment. However, it may turn out to be best for history that Trump leaves office as the only President to be impeached twice and it is done on a bipartisan basis.
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At a Catholic Charities event last night, a slurring confused Trump was swearing in front of the priests, doing his mean girls revenge list and showing his brain is circling the drain and decomposing by the hour…. which is why his staff is cancelling events.
When you try to call someone stupid you really should learn how to read first. #AlSmithDinner #TrumpCantRead
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The sound you don’t here this morning? No massive protests about the 4th Trump indictment. While many Rs still fear him,the reality is, he’s a 4x indicted, 2x impeached sore loser who the majority of Americans never want to see in the WH again. He’s running to pay legal bills.
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On the bright side — George Santos was not sworn in to Congress today!.
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Note - when you do this you go directly to phone company with the phone numbers.
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Proud to cast my vote for President this year for @KamalaHarris and to join the broad coalition of Democrats, Independents and Republicans ready for a new way forward.
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This is a witness the Republicans wanted to testify. .
Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker says he "should have seen" a connection between Ukraine investigating Burisma and asking for an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden and "had I done so, I would have raised my own objections.”
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Outrageous to not let Dr. Fauci speak to the American people.
.@jonkarl says White House “wouldn’t allow” Dr. Fauci or any medical experts on the Coronavirus Task Force to appear on @ThisWeekABC.
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2xdivorced @NancyMace who reportedly talked about her sex life in front of staff in her office &talked about sex with her live-in boyfriend at a prayer breakfast &hangs out with@mattgaetz is horrified to be in same bathroom as @Caitlyn_Jenner?
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Yes a joint interview is a norm, but when a woman Presidential candidate is involved, a lot of guys didn’t do their homework and easier to demean her @ScottJenningsKY.
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Opinion: Ignore my brother Bobby, Max Kennedy says - “His is a hollow grab for power, a strategic attempt at relevance. It is the opposite of what my father admired: “the unselfish spirit that exists in the United States of America.”
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I think it’s very clear that there is nothing that Trump could say or do that @ScottJenningsKY wouldn’t defend. He’s the full Lewandowski now.
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Full QAnon insanity. Vivek is a fraud and disgrace.
Vivek Ramasawamy spews wild conspiracy theories: "Why am I the only one on this stage, at least, who can say that January 6th now does look like it was an inside job? That the government lied to us for 20 years about Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9/11."
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Trump called Nikki Haley a Birdbrain, said she was unqualified and attacked her marriage. Trump declared Haley supporters permanently barred. As a Haley co- chair in Virginia - we have no interest in the misogynist felon, Trump. Haley voters vote @KamalaHarris @HaleyVte4Harris.
Fox News host Martha MacCallum to Alina Habba: Why isn’t Trump deploying Nikki Haley on the campaign trail?.
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Hey @DanaPerino you worked at DOJ with me in Bush Admin you know that’s how they operated. This is totally normal.
Dana: Let’s just say the WH said we don’t want have any discussions with the DOJ whatsoever. I think that’s very irresponsible and a dereliction of duty.
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WSJ Ed Board continues the Dump Trump drumbeat: “Republicans can’t afford to look away from the accumulating evidence of his conduct”
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Joined 22 former Republican Members of Congress in supporting impeachment: “There is no excuse for nor defense of a President of the United States to actively orchestrate an insurrection on a separate but coequal branch of government” #ImpeachmentNow .
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National Review editors call the RNC resolution “both morally repugnant and politically destructive.”
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As a Bush-Cheney alum and friend of @Liz_Cheney - I am proud to be standing with these and so many conservatives again who are voting for @KamalaHarris - there will be more….
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Talk about people testifying before Congress! -- @MarkMeadows should be on the top of the list about what happened on Jan 6 and the meetings about planning for Jan 6. What did he know and when did he know it and by all means turn over all those texts you received on that day.
Dr. Fauci should immediately come before Congress and testify what he knew, when he knew it about COVID-19 origins and gain of function research in the Wuhan Lab
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Trump shouldn’t be President because he IS a cancer.
Trump now indicates scalise shouldn’t be speaker because he has cancer.
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Tin foil hat stuff.
Trump campaign surrogate Matt Schlapp claimed a "whistleblower" told him a 'Biden/Harris' van showed up at a polling location and swapped out ballots. Schlapp gave zero evidence backing his claim, and didn't respond to Mediaite's request for comment.
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A failure to indict Mr. Trump in these circumstances would imply that a president….is literally above the law, in defiance of the very notion of constitutional government. It would encourage lawlessness by future presidents…
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Dare I ask when sore loser Trump will give his 2020 concession speech @MZHemingway?.
Dare I ask if Nikki Haley has delivered her victory speech after losing 13 states by eye-popping margins yet?.
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Hawley says Greitens should drop out of Senate race amid abuse allegations | The Hill
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Did Trump Jr. (your real boss) make you put this up @JDVance or do you come up with this endless misogyny on your own? (Does your wife laugh at this? Did you run it by her?).
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This is so pathetic that @EliseStefanik is willing to call violent offenders from Jan.6 “hostages” in order to please Trump. Elise sounds like the hostage.
Kristen Welker: "Do you think it was a tragic day? Do you think that the people who stormed the Capitol should be held responsible to the full extent of the law?". Elise Stefanik: "I have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages."
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YES it’s a double std. Thank you @jaketapper for noticing that Dictator on Day One Revenge Tour Trump gets a pass on everything and his supporters say he doesn’t mean what HE says he means. Not just graded on a curve. He flunks every day and gets a pass.
Tapper: We in the media are critiquing her answers… Meanwhile, the Republican nominee literally is talking about liberals being the enemy within talking about using the using the military to go after these people
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My guest column in NYT: Opinion | My Fellow Republicans, Stop Fearing This Dangerous and Diminished Man - The New York Times
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Trump’s misogyny includes Access Hollywood tape; being adjudicated guilty of sexual assault; constant demeaning of women like calling Niki Haley “birdbrain” and now this Report: Trump calls Harris a "bitch"- not surprising and why women will defeat Trump
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Bizarre.
.@realDonaldTrump: "There are a lot of people who think masks are not good.". @GStephanopoulos: "Who are those people?". Trump: "I'll tell you who those people are. Waiters."
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More reasons why we need a Jan.6 Commission and why Mark Meadows emails, texts and records should be subpoenaed ASAP.
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Once again @jim_jordan is going into full election denial mode. He lost. He doesn’t have the votes. His bullying didn’t work. It’s clear he puts himself before the country, the Congress, or the party. Sore Loser.
CNN just reported that Jordan’s camp is actively lobbying people to vote against empowering McHenry on a temporary basis. If he can’t be Speaker, he wants the government to stay shut down. Stop voting for these people.
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Only 110k voters last night in the Iowa caucuses vs. 187k in 2016. 40% decrease. Snow doesn’t explain all that loss of interest. MAGA takeover is not growing party. Rs ignore general election losses of MAGA years and pretend Trump won 2020. (60% of Iowa R voters election deniers).
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On January 6, while Trump did nothing to stop the rioters, Gov Chris Christie tried to reach him to call off his mob and pointed out "the president caused this protect to occur. He is the only one who can make it stop." Exactly.
.@GovChristie says on @ABC he is unsuccessfully trying to reach President Trump to get him to call off his supporters storming the Capitol. "The president caused this protest to occur. He is the only one who can make it stop.".
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Trump wanted to shut down the government this month @IngrahamAngle - where have you been?.
Ingraham: Had Trump been president over the last 10 days, a lot of people in the federal government would have been working a lot of nights and on the weekend to prepare for this hurricane.
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Fat sexist pig calls Michigan men “fat pigs” at rally and tells them to get off the couch (implying they are lazy too) - interesting strategy ( and a lot of projection)
Trump’s message to voters: Get your fat husband off the couch. Get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to go and vote for Trump.
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5 people lost their lives at the Capitol riot this week @SarahHuckabee and the President won't fly the flag at half staff -- maybe you should redirect your concerns.
I’ve lost 50k+ followers this week. The radical left and their big tech allies cannot marginalize, censor, or silence the American people. This is not China, this is United States of America, and we are a free country.
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Judge Luttig, Conservative Republican endorses Harris, calls Trump a threat to democracy | CNN Politics
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With 56% of Americans wanting Trump convicted and barred from running, that means that regardless of support from Republicans, there’s no path for Trump to win a general election. 2x losing popular vote, 2x impeached #SoreLoser.
BREAKING: A narrow majority of Americans (56%) say former President Donald Trump should be convicted and barred from holding office again, according to a new @ABC News/Ipsos poll.
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With Trump, its always worse than you thought - over to those Rs defending him - is this how you keep classified records in your office @EliseStefanik ? And this is after his lawyers told DOJ he didn’t have anymore classified docs…
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Hey @HouseGOP if you want to get upset with someone - Pat Cipollone essentially just testified that everyone but Trump wanted the violent mob to leave the Capitol. But then - he’s not a young woman so there’s that.
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There is nothing that I could learn about Hunter Biden that would make me vote for Donald Trump. Dumb dumb dumb folks….not what mainstream, normies care about!.
Greg Gutfeld repeats an absurd claim pushed in right-wing circles - if the public knew more about Hunter Biden then Trump would have won in 2020. Hunter wasn't running for public office. Other than hiring sex workers and doing drugs no actual crime has been tied to the laptop
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Now Committee can enforce subpoenas. Starts getting expensive for non-compliers.
Biden declines Trump request to withhold White House records from Jan. 6 committee
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Great leadership from @GovLarryHogan and First Lady Yumi Hogan.
Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland and his wife, Yumi Hogan, have been “quietly working” on a confidential project which helped secure a deal with suppliers in South Korea to obtain 500,000 test kits
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The rats all turning on each other.
Gosh, it's too bad for Meadows that there isn't a bigger fish he could give up to prosecut— . oh, wait.
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.@ewarren Harvard IOP invited me to be a Fellow this semester to discuss civility in politics. Perhaps you were getting a beer and missed that class?.
Will @BarbaraComstock register as a lobbyist, or bob & weave around the rules? My #EndCorruptionNow bill would make it illegal for her to take a lobbying job as a former Congresswoman – & would fix the Swiss cheese definition of lobbying.
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Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner, Roger Ailes, Roy Moore. No MOORE.
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👍”Honestly, I think Ronald Reagan would turn over in his grave if he saw we were not going to help Ukraine,” McConnell said in an interview with The Associated Press this week.
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On 9/22/22 NYT reported that DOJ seized Roman's phone in conjunction with the investigation of the false electors. CNN reported in 6/23 that Roman entered into a proffer agreement with the Smith special counsel investigation. Roman was indicted in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
Person 5 who said 'Make them riot' is Trump campaign aide Michael Roman, currently under indictment in multiple states including 9 felony counts in Arizona
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Twitter locked @realDonaldTrump for 12 hours. Now the Cabinet needs to lock him down for the next 14 days. #25thAmendmentNow.
Update: Three tweets from Trump in which he repeated claims of voter fraud have been hidden from view until the president deletes them. His account will be locked until 12 hours after the offending tweets are deleted.
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This is sick. @julie_kelly2 how dare you. Officer Fanone has served as an officer for 20 years including undercover busting drug dealers. He’s a father of 4. He’s a Republican.
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When you think of Nixon's impeachment, the Republicans you remember and esteem are Howard Baker, Fred Thompson (Baker's counsel), Larry Hogan, Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes, Hugh Scott, etc. Who were those guys who stuck with Nixon?.
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Eliminating the traditional FBI background checks for those who would flunk them - MAGA DEI
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Anyone surprised that Meadows also registered to vote in Virginia in 2021 - and voted for Gov? Is he paying car tax? Does he have a Va license? Does he have Virginia plates on car? What state has he been claiming residence for tax purposes in 2020 and 21?
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To borrow from Winston Churchill - Ms Huckabee Sanders is a very modest woman. Indeed she has a lot to be modest about.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders follows in Vance's footsteps and hits VP Harris for not having biological children. Disgusting. "So, my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble.".
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Credit to @Liz_Cheney keeping a straight face while on stage with these morons.
This wasn't SNL on a Thursday night. This was Wyoming's Republican primary debate.
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Death threats are routinely the price of confronting Trump with his own words and actions. Outrageous that ABC’s @rachelvscott gets threatened by thugs and bullies for doing her job. Not acceptable.
At a membership meeting today, NABJ’s executive director said ABC’s Rachel Scott had received death threats following her work asking incisive questions of Donald Trump at the groups national convention Wednesday.
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And why there should be an impeachment @RepMeijer.
I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that the President of the United States was completely MIA while the next three individuals in the line of succession (VP, Speaker of House, Senate Pres Pro Tempore) were under assault in the Capitol. Unconscionable.
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As the trial of Steve Bannon continues today and the Jan. 6 hearings continue, keep the faith: “The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice”.
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Trumpism is the politics of subtraction: 56k fewer Republican caucus voters tonight in Iowa vs 2016. Trump wins by depressing and shrinking the electorate. Attacks fellow republicans and wonders why he loses in general elections.
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Cry me a Lake, Kari.
Arizonans know BS when they see it.
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Both @TuckerCarlson and @IngrahamAngle don’t back the blue, they just back the green$$ they get from shoveling this garbage.
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Unbelievably, Team Trump is boasting of their machismo, per Axios, by having Trump intro’d at convention by UFC’s Dana White seen here slapping his wife.
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Sad to see so many Rs look away. “For Bannon? . it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. but for Bannon!” Thanks for being a Man for All Seasons @AdamKinzinger and @RepLizCheney - a Woman for All Seasons.
NEW: GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger: "Steve Bannon went out of his way to earn this resolution before us and now we must approve it."
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On Jan. 21, 2021 - the day after sore loser Trump finally plopped down in Mar-a-Lago - the Dow Jones was at 31,288.38. Today it closed at 43,065.22. Trump predicted the market would “crash” - Surprise - 4x bankruptcy guy was wrong.
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Thank you @RepJohnKatko -- a smart lawyer, homeland security expert and the future of our party -- in New York and beyond!.
BREAKING: Rep. John Katko will vote to impeach President Trump. He's the first GOP House member to publicly back impeachment.
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The President attacked VP Mike Pence at the rally. then this happens. Surprised?.
Several of the pro-Trump rioters who rampaged the US Capitol were heard screaming "where's Mike Pence," a source said, frightening the vice president and his family. Yet the President and his top aides barely lifted a finger to check in on the Pences.
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This was a particularly disgraceful chapter of @RonnaMcDaniel as GOP Chair — attacking @Liz_Cheney and @AdamKinzinger for their work on the Jan. 6 Committee.
“Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan
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This is not normal Capitol Hill visitor behavior.
Surveillance footage shows a tour led by Loudermilk to areas in the House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to Capitol tunnels. Individuals on the tour photographed/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints.
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Tonight you saw why Trump has been shrinking the party since 2016.Lost the House; lost the Senate; lost the White House; his candidates lost in swing states in 2022 - including in NH where his Senate and 2 House endorsed candidates lost in 22. He lost NH in 2016 & 2020 general.
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Florida Republicans can’t handle the truth when @AsaHutchinson courageously tells them Trump will be convicted next year. Asa is a good prosecutor. Rs don’t listen to him at their peril.
Asa Hutchinson with a truth bomb at the @FloridaGOP event in Orlando today. And because MAGA has no room for the truth in their narrative, Hutchinson gets an earful.
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Great news for great Members of Congress — Pro-impeachment Republicans outraise pro-Trump challengers via @OpenSecretsDC.
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Wow - great trolling by Biden campaign. When I ran RNC oppo many moons ago - this is how we did it. All the ads against Trump will be filled with Republican critics - just like his many trials.
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Fox News reporter ain't buying the Rudy conspiracy theories. .
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Inciting the mob. .
THIS MORNING at the rally Giuliani called for "trial by combat." . Don Jr. told Congressmen who weren't going to vote to overturn the election: "We're coming for you.".
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So proud of his crimes.
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Since you love lying and liars - I challenge @jdvance to go to North Carolina and campaign with your endorsed candidate @markrobinsonNC.
Vance: I challenge you to go to Springfield… and tell me that these are stories made up by politicians
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I believe John Kelly. He was a constituent of mine and I know him to be a good and honest man who made many sacrifices for his country.
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