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Federal judge bars Trump-appointed head of U.S. media agency from interfering in news coverage. "Michael Pack has repeatedly and intentionally violated the First Amendment rights of VOA journalists"
By JULIA CONLEY


This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.

President Donald Trump's appointed head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media is barred from making any further editorial or personnel decisions following a series of injunctions issued by a federal court late Friday, in what journalists called a major rebuke of the Trump administration's attempt to reshape government-funded news broadcasters. 

In Washington, D.C., Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled in favor of five USAGM executives who were fired or suspended in August at the direction of CEO Michael Pack, who took the helm of the agency in June and promptly dismissed several career officials in what was called a "Wednesday night massacre."

Current and former USAGM employees applauded the ruling, with chief strategy officer Shawn Powers tweeting that Pack "has repeatedly and intentionally violated the First Amendment rights" of journalists at the agency.

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/29/federal-judge-bars-trump-appointed-head-of-us-media-agency-from-interfering-in-news-coverage_partner/

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1 hour ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

This is very assuring:

 

 

Somehow it does not bother me that Trump is fleecing his gullible flock for money to line his pockets. Biden has more to worry about than opening an investigation into this particular problem. Let those Republican donors who feel ripped off bring a class action civil suit. 

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1 hour ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Somehow it does not bother me that Trump is fleecing his gullible flock for money to line his pockets. Biden has more to worry about than opening an investigation into this particular problem. Let those Republican donors who feel ripped off bring a class action civil suit. 

It will be interesting, as more and more comes out about how Trump and his family abused public funds, and basically converted the RNC into their own private piggy bank.......will any Republicans be actually concerned about that?   Or perhaps even grown some semblance of a spine, and say anything....now that Trump will no longer be the President.  

As far as fleecing the ordinary MAGA, folk.....as the Who once put it "Well you know that the hypnotized, never lie"

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The DOJ just released Michael Flynn's official pardon — revealing just how corrupt it was

   
President Donald Trump's pardon of his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, released on Monday evening by the Justice Department, revealed just how sweeping — and fundamentally corrupt — the act of clemency was.

It didn't simply cover the charge of lying to the FBI about his interactions with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 transition, which Flynn had pleaded guilty to before trying to withdraw his plea. Instead, it offered a pardon.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/michael-flynn-pardon/

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1 hour ago, Tracker said:

The DOJ just released Michael Flynn's official pardon — revealing just how corrupt it was

   
President Donald Trump's pardon of his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, released on Monday evening by the Justice Department, revealed just how sweeping — and fundamentally corrupt — the act of clemency was.

It didn't simply cover the charge of lying to the FBI about his interactions with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 transition, which Flynn had pleaded guilty to before trying to withdraw his plea. Instead, it offered a pardon.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/michael-flynn-pardon/

.......and he gets away with being a traitor

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Sidney Powell’s new lawsuit claiming election fraud cites a witness from a place that doesn’t exist

By SARAH K BURRIS
DECEMBER 1, 2020 2:19AM (UTC)


President Donald Trump's former lawyer Sidney Powell has made another humiliating error in her legal filing. After misspelling "District Court" twice in her Georgia filing, it turns out Powell cited a source about a non-existent county in Michigan. President-elect Joe Biden couldn’t have received more than 100% of the Edison County vote, because it doesn't exist.

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/30/sidney-powells-new-la

QAnon has a bizarre new conspiracy about Biden's broken foot

 Meaghan Ellis December 01, 2020
   
Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory have come up with yet another bizarre and baseless falsehood following President-elect Joe Biden's (D) foot injury over the weekend.

According to QAnon believers, the medical boot on Biden's foot is part of a coverup to hide the fact that he is wearing an ankle monitor due to an arrest. Newsweek reports QAnon believer Joyce Ramgaties took to Twitter to offer an explanation regarding their outlandish claim.

With the hashtags "QANON" and "#WWG1WGA," Ramgaties tweeted, "Biden has an ankle bracelet. Biden didn't hurt his foot . He's got ankle cuffs on."

https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/qanon-believes-have-a-new-bizarre-claim-this-time-its-about-bidens-broken-2649093101/

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Poor Republican Senators all upset about some of the choices that Biden wants because of mean tweets apparently never having read Trump's tweets the past 4 years are now threatening not to confirm them, maybe before they go back on holiday's again they could do something for Americans that are dying and in dire financial straits and lining up for boxes of food, Biden doesn't care if they confirm or not he can take Trump's lead and bypass the Senate and make anyone not confirmed to their position acting.

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7 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Poor Republican Senators all upset about some of the choices that Biden wants because of mean tweets apparently never having read Trump's tweets the past 4 years are now threatening not to confirm them, maybe before they go back on holiday's again they could do something for Americans that are dying and in dire financial straits and lining up for boxes of food, Biden doesn't care if they confirm or not he can take Trump's lead and bypass the Senate and make anyone not confirmed to their position acting.

They're doing something for Americans, it's just a tiny select few - themselves. 

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Trump's finally days are going to be tire fire as the DOJ has opened up an investigation into a bribery scheme involving pardon's. So AG Barr shows up at the WH which he hasn't been to for a long time to tell Trump can't help you on your crazy fraud tirade but who the hell is bribing who.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bribery-for-pardon-white-house-investigation-1.5824462

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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether there was a secret scheme to lobby White House officials for a pardon, as well as a related plot to offer a hefty political contribution in exchange for clemency, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday.

Most of the information in the 18-page court order is redacted, including the identities of the people whom prosecutors are investigating and whom the proposed pardon might be intended for.

But the document from August does reveal that people are suspected of having acted to secretly lobby White House officials to secure a pardon or sentence commutation and that, in a related scheme, a substantial political contribution was floated in exchange for a pardon.

"Well, that's some shocking news," said nobody ever.

 

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