NOW: The MAGA super fan who posted on Facebook that storming the Capitol on January 6 was the “proudest day of his life” has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.
NOW: A Russian oligarch sailed his $325 million super yacht at full speed for 18 days across the pacific ocean to avoid capture for sanctions...
The U.S found the yacht in Fiji and will seize it anyway.
NOW: The mother of a teen victim of the Parkland shooting has just DEFEATED the school board chair hand-picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis and will now chair the school board.
This is the most frightening answer I have ever received to any question I have ever asked. I’ve interviewed convicted killers with more empathy.
@realDonaldTrump
is advocating Civil War.
‼️
@BrianKarem
: Do you commit to making sure there is a peaceful transfer of power?
@realDonaldTrump
: We're going to have to see what happens....Get rid of the ballots, there won’t be a transfer, they’ll be a continuation.
Words of a wannabe dictator.🤬
NOW: Ukrainian intelligence has published the names, ranks and passport details of Russian soldiers who fought in Bucha in order to help identify them for prosecution for war crimes.
NOW: The MAGA insurrectionist who pinned the D.C. police officer in a door frame while storming the Capitol on January 6 has been found GUILTY of 7 felonies.
That was nearly two hours of POTUS.
He answered each question cogently and to the best of his ability.
He called on more than 20 different reporters.
He never once attacked us.
He never once avoided a question.
He never once tried to belittle us.
He stayed on point.
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THIS IS BIG: Jared Kushner is now under Congressional investigation by two committees for “improperly influencing U.S. tax, trade and national security policies” to bail out his family’s real estate business.
From a WH source: "Either they think he's lying about testing negative, or they think he's lying about ever having it. After four years of lying, no one knows what to believe from him any more."
@realDonaldTrump
Here's a sentence I thought I'd never write:
The former head of the NSA, a retired U.S. Army general pleads the fifth when asked if he supports a peaceful transfer of power.
This is Kyle. He is white. He is armed. He is accused of killing two people. Police arrested him without shooting him.
Question: How come police had to shoot an unarmed Black man 7 times but could arrest an armed white teen without firing a single shot?
@realDonaldTrump
NOW: Putin's intelligence apparatus continues to stumble from a major Kremlin breach after Ukraine publishes the names and numbers of 620 Kremlin spies, rendering them potentially unusable.
Lies. On 2/28/20 on the South Lawn I ASKED you about the W.H.O. telling us the risk for COVID19 had increased. You blew off the question to tell us about Your rally that night. You blew it. Not the W.H.O.
@realDonaldTrump
The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?
THIS IS BIG: Rep. Katie Porter is investigating an alleged bribery scheme involving Donald Trump and a real estate developer who allegedly donated to a super PAC in exchange for Trump pardons.
NOW: A member of the Oath Keepers threw his cellphone in the Atlantic ocean to avoid the FBI from getting his January 6 communications.
He was just convicted after they got them anyway.
NOW: A MAGA fan who attacked police officers with poles during the riot at the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than FIVE YEARS in prison, one of the longest prison terms so far.
NOW:
@PressSec
says
@realDonaldTrump
is a “Law and Order” President. I felt compelled to ask if he’s a law and order president why does he keep breaking the law?
NOW: A Kansas sheriff reportedly lied when he said his office “has received more than 200 tips” from people claiming 2020 election fraud. In response to a public records request, the office could only produce ONE offense since 2020. Whoops.
BREAKING - via Reuters: A former Fox News producer, John Hanick, was just charged by prosecutors for violating US sanctions against Russia.
Frankly, I'm not surprised.
NOW: The FBI has arrested a Christian pastor from Ohio and charged him with a FELONY for storming the Capitol and pushing a barricade into officers on January 6.
You are a disgrace. You interrupt us. You lie to us. We maintain respect even as you attack those who are merely doing their jobs asking questions. You are child. A bully and without respect or honor.
@realDonaldTrump
What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!
NOW: My question - If it’s safe to send kids back to school is it safe to send Manafort back to prison. Walk off. No answer.
@realDonaldTrump
@PressSec
NOW: The founder of the Proud Boys chapter in Hawaii who stormed the Capitol has pleaded GUILTY to felony obstruction of an official proceeding and faces 20 years in prison.
I am tired of people who weren't there and didn't cover the previous administration telling me what I saw.
- 1/6 was an attempted coup
- Trump told ME to my face he wouldn't accept a peaceful transfer of power
Investigate. Indict. Prosecute. Everyone involved.
Including Trump.
NOW: a senior dem member has shared that moderate Rs have reached out suggesting that if McCarthy wins by making these Freedom Caucus concessions, some moderates will work with Dems to vote down that rules package.
NOW: The GOP Indiana Attorney General has been hit with a formal misconduct complaint over his threats to prosecute a doctor who performed an abortion for a 10-year-old rape victim.
NOW: The DOJ has issued a sweeping grand jury subpoena to the National Archives for Trump White House documents including his daily schedule and phone logs preceding January 6.
NOW: Anonymous says they will leak 1.22TB data from sensitive Russian institutions in the next couple of weeks in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
NOW: Guy Reffitt, the Texas man who brought a gun and zip ties to the US Capitol on January 6 has been sentenced to more than SEVEN YEARS in prison, the longest January 6 related sentence to date.
NOW: writer E. Jean Carroll will sue Donald Trump for sexual battery under the state’s new “survivors” law—and her attorneys want to question Trump under oath.
NOW: As Marjorie Taylor Greene entered her vehicle to be whisked away from the Manhattan Courthouse where Donald Trump sits an arrested man, Congressman Jamaal Bowman shouted “GET HER OUT OF HERE.”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to take her a** back to Washington and do
The most unique photo-op I've had at the WH. Rose Garden. Late afternoon. Unguarded and unplanned. We were heading out for departure.
@POTUS
with a bunch of children. Happy Weekend . . .
BIG: In a court filing today, New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed she will seek to fast track the $250 million civil lawsuit against Donald Trump and set a trial date before the 2024 election.
NOW: A Pennsylvania man who stormed the Capitol on January 6 and was turned in by an ex-girlfriend after he called her a “moron” for not believing the presidential election was stolen, has just been sentenced to nine months in prison.
I've covered this administration since day one.
@realDonaldTrump
is not the same man he was then. He's incoherent, ill-tempered and ignorant, yes. But he's also changed. Today I saw a man with low energy, befuddled and lumbering. Put a fork him, I think he's done.
NOW: GOP leaders have been warned by Trump's allies to calm their aggressive attacks on Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI because Trump insiders say "it is possible that more damaging information about Mr. Trump related to the search will eventually become public."
I grew up with you in office in Louisville. The first politician I ever covered outside of my family. You are reprehensible. You are there for no one but yourself. You remain the worst of any politician I've ever covered in my life. You smear yourself.
@senatemajldr
NOW: The IRS will investigate whether the Trump Administration illegally targeted James Comey and Andrew McCabe with rare, intensive IRS audits. According to Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, this would be a a serious crime.
I just got back from a country where children were bombed in a theater. Parents are dead or maimed. Families are separated and suffering.
I have colleagues who died trying to get this information out.
Forgive me. I didn't watch the Oscars. I don't care who slapped who.
NOW: MAGA super-fan and former GOP operative Anton Lazzaro has been found GUILTY of sex trafficking underage girls.
“Lazzaro was charged with seven counts involving ‘commercial sex acts’ with five minors ages 15 and 16 in 2020, when he was 30 years old.”
Lazzaro was the
NOW: GOP tells Biden's Justice Department that probing Trump's involvement in January 6 could cause a political war...
You mean like the coup they tried on January 6?
NOW: Trump just blew up his defense against E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case by calling her claims a "hoax" on Truth Social. Trump's lawyers agued he was protected against defamation as POTUS - but Carroll can now amend her complaint since Trump is a private citizen.
Breaking: Just received word from D.C. District Court that our TRO has been granted and the WH must restore my press pass immediately.
@realDonaldTrump
My question: Have you ever been to a social function with Jeff Epstein and underage girls. He pointed at the sky, said it was going to rain and walked off.
@realDonaldTrump
From Mitch McConnell:
"No Americans are getting killed in Ukraine. We're rebuilding our industrial base. The Ukrainians are destroying the army of one of our biggest rivals. I have a hard time finding anything wrong with that. I think it's wonderful that they're defending
I am so ready for this nonsense to be over. Forced gender reassignment? Eating pets? Sigh.
I used to cover politics. Now I feel like an attendant in a mental ward.
Not from the Onion but from a WH source - "Hillary Clinton purposely lost the election with the aid of Russian hacking so the Democrats could then impeach Trump"
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows says the USPS won't dismantle mail-sorting machines between now and Election Day, despite reports to the contrary.
NOW: Katie Hobbs’ campaign manager says Hobbs has clinched the win over Kari Lake after the latest tabulation results from Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties.
NOW: According to attorney Marc Elias, If the DOJ convicts Donald Trump under Section 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code for removing government records, he would be disqualified from holding any future office in the United States.
I wonder if Elon Musk soiled himself when I asked POTUS "How" the U.S. government could investigate Musk's foreign business dealings?
"Oh, we have lots of ways," Biden said with a wry smile.
NOW: Trump's attorney Justin Clark is now cooperating with federal investigators, a significant development that can send shockwaves through multiple Trump related investigations.
McCarthy tapped 11 Republicans as committee chairs who voted to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election. Shouldn’t that be a bigger story?
Shout out to White House correspondent
@BrianKarem
, who got so deeply under Trump's skin just now, Trump threatened to walk out of his own press briefing.
Lindsey Graham repeats his warning not to call witnesses during the trial. He says if Democrats vote to call a single witness, “we’ll want the FBI to come in”
BREAKING: The EU has SANCTIONED Belarus for its part in aiding Putin's illegal Ukraine invasion.
The world is uniting against Russia and anyone who supports their illegal invasion.
I live in a country whose national media aired a King Charles speech LIVE but would not air President Biden’s speech regarding a danger to democracy.
What country is this?