Goalie Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 22 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said: Within hours of being sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs an executive order banning the term "Latinx" from official use in the state government. https://nbcnews.to/3W9yDn3 Arkansas is ok with that. Me. Never heard it in my life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedFlex27 Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 You have to wonder why Republicans are afraid of words. Huckabee is a real winner. Tracker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 “It’s always about the obstruction”: New TrumpWorld subpoenas target effort to "influence" witnesses A" wide-ranging" subpoena sent to Trump campaign officials last month shows that special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation is increasingly focused on new areas of interest, including fundraising efforts and potential efforts to influence witness testimony, according to The Washington Post. The DOJ issued the four-page subpoena to multiple Trump campaign officials in early December, seeking more than "two dozen categories of information," according to the report. One part of the subpoena asks Trump campaign officials if anyone paid for their legal representation and paperwork related to any such agreement. The subpoena also seeks "all documents and communications" related to Trump's fundraising activities for a litany of groups outside of his Save America PAC, which has already come under scrutiny. The new subpoenas seek documents related to the Make America Great Again PAC, the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, including documents related to the "formation, funding and/or use of money" of the groups. https://www.salon.com/2023/01/12/its-always-about-the-obstruction-new-trumpworld-subpoenas-target-effort-to-influence-witnesses/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wideleft Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 George Santos was paid for work at company accused of Ponzi scheme later than previously known The New York congressman is said to have received payments from Florida-based Harbor City Capital as recently as April 2021, income he did not disclose as a candidate By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Emma Brown January 11, 2023 at 8:31 p.m. EST Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has admitted to fabricating key details of his biography, received payments as recently as April 2021 from a financial services company accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of a “classic Ponzi scheme,” according to a court-appointed lawyer reviewing the firm’s assets. Santos did not divulge any income from the company, Florida-based Harbor City Capital, on a financial disclosure form required of all federal candidates. The payments the lawyer described to The Washington Post, which have not been previously reported, indicate that Santos received money at least a month after he has said he left the firm — and mere weeks before registering a business called the Devolder Organization that he has claimed as the basis for his wealth. The lawyer, Katherine C. Donlon, declined to tell The Post the amount Santos was paid. Santos, whose election to Congress from Long Island last year helped the GOP secure its narrow majority, has apologized for what he called “résumé embellishment,” but he has refused to step aside. On Wednesday, he rebuffed calls to resign from fellow New York Republicans, including leaders of the state GOP and the party in Nassau County, which had previously endorsed him. The congressman’s deceptions have already sparked an investigation by the district attorney’s office in Nassau County, as well as complaints before the Federal Election Commission. Authorities in Brazil are also seeking to revive a fraud case against Santos dating to 2008. During his first run for Congress in 2020, Santos reported earning a salary of $55,000 from a previous employer in the financial industry. His fortunes then improved dramatically, according to the financial disclosure he filed during his 2022 campaign: He earned an annual salary of $750,000 and received more than $1 million in dividends from the Devolder Organization. He also lent his campaign more than $700,000, according to campaign finance records. A key unanswered question is how Devolder made its money. The congressman has given various explanations about the firm — including saying it is an operation focused on “asset allocations” and an effort to help “all the people who were left adrift” at Harbor City. The financial disclosure form, filed in September of last year, covers earnings starting in January 2021 and anticipated through December 2022. It does not mention Harbor City. According to quarterly reports Donlon has submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, she and her team have interviewed people associated with the firm and issued subpoenas “for documents related to monies paid out by Harbor City.” While declining to enumerate the payments to Santos, Donlon told The Post they exceeded the $200 reporting threshold. Santos, 34, did not respond to text messages seeking comment. Delaney Marsco, senior legal counsel for ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said intentional failure to disclose could result in large fines or imprisonment for up to five years. “Voters have a right to know this information,” she said. “Congress has said as much.” Santos, who sometimes uses his maternal family name, Devolder, registered his eponymous organization in Florida on May 11, 2021, according to corporate records. He did so with the help of a business associated with DeVaughn Dames, state business records show. Dames, who describes himself on LinkedIn as the former chief financial officer of Harbor City, did not respond to requests for comment. Harbor City was formed in 2014 by a Florida entrepreneur named J.P. Maroney. In July 2020, the company announced it had hired Santos to serve as regional director of the company’s New York City office. The news release referred to Santos, who was then in the midst of his first congressional campaign, as George Devolder. “I’ve known Mr. Devolder for several years professionally, and have always had a lot of respect for how he conducts himself in business,” Maroney said in a news release at the time. Before Santos’s hiring was made public, the Alabama Securities Commission had issued a cease-and-desist order in June 2020 to prevent Harbor City from selling securities in the state. Santos has previously denied knowing of any wrongdoing at Harbor City, telling the Daily Beast last year that he was “as distraught and disturbed as everyone else” to learn of the allegations against it. He claimed that he had left Harbor City on March 1, 2021, more than a month before the SEC filed its complaint. In that complaint, filed on April 20, 2021, the SEC alleged that Maroney had raised more than $17 million by deceiving investors into sinking their money into unregistered fraudulent securities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/01/11/george-santos-harbor-city-capital/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 HardCoreBlue and JCon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 'You brought this to the floor, lady': Passions ignite in Missouri House over GOP bill to control women's clothes Legislators in the Missouri House of Representatives sparred on Wednesday over a Republican amendment to regulate what types of clothing women lawmakers should be permitted to wear while at work. House Resolution 11 was cleared by the GOP-dominated Consent and House Procedure Committee. And while it has not yet been submitted to the Missouri State Senate, passionate arguments have burbled from assembly members on both sides of the political aisle. https://www.alternet.org/you-brought-this-floor-lady/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 White House: Classified Documents Found At Joe Biden's Delaware Home WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents with classified markings from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House said Thursday, days after it was disclosed that sensitive documents were also found at the office of his former Washington institute. Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the president, said after the initial documents were found by Biden’s personal lawyers, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017. Sauber said a “small number” of documents with classified markings were found in a storage space in Biden’s garage in Wilmington, with one document being located in an adjacent room. The White House did not say when the subsequent search began or when the additional documents were found, only that the search was completed on Wednesday evening. Sauber said the Department of Justice was “immediately notified” after the documents were located and that department lawyers took custody of the records. Regardless of the Justice Department review, the revelation that Biden potentially mishandled classified or presidential records is proving to be a political headache for Biden, who said former President Donald Trump was “irresponsible” for keeping hundreds of such records at his private club in Florida. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-classified-documents-delaware-home_n_63c028e2e4b0b2e1506ef4ac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 8 minutes ago, Tracker said: White House: Classified Documents Found At Joe Biden's Delaware Home WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents with classified markings from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House said Thursday, days after it was disclosed that sensitive documents were also found at the office of his former Washington institute. Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the president, said after the initial documents were found by Biden’s personal lawyers, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017. Sauber said a “small number” of documents with classified markings were found in a storage space in Biden’s garage in Wilmington, with one document being located in an adjacent room. The White House did not say when the subsequent search began or when the additional documents were found, only that the search was completed on Wednesday evening. Sauber said the Department of Justice was “immediately notified” after the documents were located and that department lawyers took custody of the records. Regardless of the Justice Department review, the revelation that Biden potentially mishandled classified or presidential records is proving to be a political headache for Biden, who said former President Donald Trump was “irresponsible” for keeping hundreds of such records at his private club in Florida. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-classified-documents-delaware-home_n_63c028e2e4b0b2e1506ef4ac The only to do now is to lie, attack the FBI, and yell, WITCH HUNT. Tracker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 Garland has appointed a special counsel to look into the mishandling of documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedFlex27 Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 2 hours ago, JCon said: Garland has appointed a special counsel to look into the mishandling of documents. How could the Biden White House be so stupid? Trump & his supporters will be all over this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bustamente Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 (edited) The two cases are vastly different but the kinda the same, the documents should never leave guarded locations and both Trump and Biden need to be fully investigated. Edited January 12, 2023 by bustamente JCon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 29 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said: How could the Biden White House be so stupid? Trump & his supporters will be all over this. This was prior to being the President and they turned everything over. Unlike, Trump, who lied, obstructed and probably sold them. bustamente, blue_gold_84 and Wideleft 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bustamente Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, JCon said: This was prior to being the President and they turned everything over. Unlike, Trump, who lied, obstructed and probably sold them. Yup Biden's lawyer contacted the archives and handed the document over right away, Trump took the documents across state lines and claims they are his or they were planted or whatever his small mind thinks at a given time during the day. Unfortunately this gives all of Trumps bootlickers and rubes ammo to go after Biden including newly led Republicans committee's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 44 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said: How could the Biden White House be so stupid? Trump & his supporters will be all over this. Already are. The GOP is desperate for anything to take the public's attention away from the debacle of choosing a speaker. Realistically, there were less than 20 documents in total (shouldn't have been any at all) and all were immediately reported and transported, compared to Trump who deliberately took classified documents, lied about them, refused to turn them over, claimed that he had magically de-classified them and finally had to be invaded to recover the documents. The immediate appointment of a special counsel will further diffuse criticism. None of this will be acknowledged by the GOP or Fox News (same thing, really), Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 Let's see what the special counsel digs up. I'm curious about the nature of the docs and why he would have had them offsite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedFlex27 Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 1 hour ago, JCon said: Let's see what the special counsel digs up. I'm curious about the nature of the docs and why he would have had them offsite? I wouldn't be surprised if it was some lower level White House aide who made the decision to do this, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bustamente Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 Garland to Trump please please pretty please please please with a cherry on top, Garland to Biden investigation right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBlue4ever Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 20 hours ago, bustamente said: This is what a sour puss looks like “Angry woman in line behind you at Target.” Stephen Colbert joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said: I wouldn't be surprised if it was some lower level White House aide who made the decision to do this, To do what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bustamente Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 Steve Bannon doing everything is his power not to go to trial again by not talking to his lawyers, I guess he figures if I don't talk to my lawyers they can't try me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 Trump’s Company Fined $1.6 Million For Tax Fraud Scheme NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday as punishment for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions of dollars in assets. A fine was the only penalty a judge could impose on the Trump Organization for its conviction last month for 17 tax crimes, including conspiracy and falsifying business records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCon Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Tracker said: Trump’s Company Fined $1.6 Million For Tax Fraud Scheme NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday as punishment for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions of dollars in assets. A fine was the only penalty a judge could impose on the Trump Organization for its conviction last month for 17 tax crimes, including conspiracy and falsifying business records. Funny how you can steal millions and get a minor fine that only covers part of the criming. But, if you were to steal a pack of gum, someone could legally shoot you. What a country! Edited January 13, 2023 by JCon WildPath and HardCoreBlue 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardCoreBlue Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 28 minutes ago, Tracker said: Trump’s Company Fined $1.6 Million For Tax Fraud Scheme NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday as punishment for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions of dollars in assets. A fine was the only penalty a judge could impose on the Trump Organization for its conviction last month for 17 tax crimes, including conspiracy and falsifying business records. What a crock of shite. Weak pathetic frustrating system of justice that postures itself like a peacock in charge dishing out justice when in reality they are part of the problem just as much as the criminals are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bustamente Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 McCarthy says he will look into expunging Trumps impeachment, both of them if the will is there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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