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I think we talked about Kessler claiming to be an informant back when that happened. At the time I thought it was an odd position for him to take. He wasn’t going to get any love from the RWNJ community for being a rat, and he wasn’t going to get any love from law enforcement for blabbing about it if he was a rat.

Just an irrelevant dude trying to stay relevant, I reckon.
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Making an ass of herself on Twitter...
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Look who our newest member is (bottom of the Board Index page). :cheer1:
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Foggy wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:52 am Look who our newest member is (bottom of the Board Index page). :cheer1:
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The Federal Election Commission has fined the (failed) Senate campaign of Jeff Sessions $15,000 for failing to properly disclose a last-minute, $150,000 loan from Sessions himself.
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Yahoo!: Trump 2020 legal adviser Jenna Ellis leaving Republican Party in protest:
Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, said on Monday she is leaving the Republican Party in protest following the disclosure of an email from a top Republican National Committee lawyer criticizing her efforts in challenging the results of the November contest.

Ellis made the announcement on Real America's Voice and called on RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and other members to "resign now" to create a clean slate, adding she would not return until they do.

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"I am leaving the Republican Party until the Republican Party comes back home to conservatives," she said during an follow-up appearance on Newsmax, on which she is a contributor.

A November email reported by the Washington Post showed Justin Riemer, chief counsel for the RNC, discouraging a staffer from posting about ballot fraud claims made by Trump's team. He called the legal endeavor led by Rudy Giuliani and Ellis "a joke" that was misleading millions of people.
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NEW: White supremacist Richard Spencer says his life is in shambles. His wife left him, he’s a social outcast, he goes on trial next month for his role in Charlottesville and cannot afford a lawyer.
https://www.rawstory.com/richard-spencer/
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Hard to feel sorry for him.
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:violin: :crying:
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Maybe he'll go for the hat trick and come down with covid.
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Even if I were to feel sorry for his predicament, I still see it as an "alleged" predicament. I cannot take these folks at their word.
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sugar magnolia wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:42 am Maybe he'll go for the hat trick and come down with covid.
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northland10 wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:55 am Even if I were to feel sorry for his predicament, I still see it as an "alleged" predicament. I cannot these folks at their word.
Very true.
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This was the best part.
The report goes on to note Spencer's lawyer dropped him as a client after not being paid, and that Spencer -- who will act as his own attorney --said he has run into money problems, explaining, "Due to deplatforming efforts against me, it is very difficult for me to raise money as other citizens are able to."
Many citizens work. Here’s a helpful definition for him.
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There's a bunch of open positions now. Of course, it's his white right to not work in a low-paying job with some woman of color as his boss.
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bob wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:38 am Yahoo!: Trump 2020 legal adviser Jenna Ellis leaving Republican Party in protest:
Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, said on Monday she is leaving the Republican Party in protest following the disclosure of an email from a top Republican National Committee lawyer criticizing her efforts in challenging the results of the November contest.

Ellis made the announcement on Real America's Voice and called on RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and other members to "resign now" to create a clean slate, adding she would not return until they do.

* * *

"I am leaving the Republican Party until the Republican Party comes back home to conservatives," she said during an follow-up appearance on Newsmax, on which she is a contributor.

A November email reported by the Washington Post showed Justin Riemer, chief counsel for the RNC, discouraging a staffer from posting about ballot fraud claims made by Trump's team. He called the legal endeavor led by Rudy Giuliani and Ellis "a joke" that was misleading millions of people.
My current reading centers around what turns out to be a mountain of literature about how the conservative movement was subsumed by the religious right and authoritarianism. So this line sticks out like a sore thumb.

I really wish every element of this country that has a voice would take a week to establish that there is no "conservative" movement left in main stream politics. They are not conservatives in any sense of the word, but rather use the word, the way they use all words: to lie, gaslight, and cover their own malign power-grabs.
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They left conservatism for radicalism years ago.
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sterngard friegen wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:15 pm What happened to Brett Kavanaugh? He's voting with the Chief Justice to form a centrist majority (with the 3 libs). Of course, when it comes to voting rights they will snap back into the right wing Republican (GQP) fold.
And the right to choose to have a legal abortion. :fingerwag:
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A former campaign manager for both of Kentucky's U.S. senators, who was convicted on criminal charges in 2016 and pardoned by President Trump in late 2020, is facing more federal charges.

Jesse Benton has been indicted on multiple counts, including conspiracy to solicit and cause an illegal campaign contribution by a foreign national, the Department of Justice said in a statement Monday.

Benton is accused of "conspiring" with Roy Douglas “Doug” Wead of Florida "to solicit a political contribution from a Russian foreign national."

Wead told the foreign national he could arrange for them to meet with a 2016 presidential candidate "in exchange for a payment," the Justice Department says in court documents.
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Newsweek: Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Claims 'Sufficient Evidence' to Decertify Election in 5 States:
Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis has claimed that there is enough evidence to "decertify" the 2020 presidential election in at least five states.

Ellis, one of several lawyers involved in failed legal efforts to reverse former President Donald Trump's loss to President Joe Biden last November, made the remarks during an interview on former Trump official Sebastian Gorka's Newsmax show The Gorka Reality Check on Monday. Ellis did not specify what evidence exists that could lead to a supposed decertification process, No credible evidence of massive election fraud has been publicly presented in any state.
Mind you, Newsweek is a husk of its former self, and even this zombie iteration is calling BS.
"We know already that the election results in at least five of the swing states were irredeemably compromised," Ellis said. "We already have sufficient evidence for these states to decertify their electoral results. So, what this means is that the state legislatures would pass a resolution through both chambers that essentially say that the secretary of state's certification that was sent to Congress was based on false or faulty information."

"And that then would trigger kind of a chain reaction," she added.
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A legislature could vote to decertify, and its resolution doing so would be duly stamped as received, duly filed, and duly gather dust.
"Because if at least three states do that and Joe Biden's Electoral count drops below the requisite 270 count, then Congress is going to have to deal with that. Decertification is incredibly important for the record and to make sure that we are dealing with every legal vote counting and counting accurately."

Ellis did not indicate how Congress would then "deal with" the scenario. There would be no basis to certify a new set of 2020 election results under the constitution, which clearly lays out the already completed process for electing a president. She suggested that a new election could be ordered before 2024 and cited a seemingly irrelevant section of the constitution concerning the removal of a president in circumstances such as death, disability or resignation.

The 2020 presidential election was legally over when the Electoral College voted for Biden on December 14, 2020. The results were certified and finalized by Congress on January 6 and 7, after a brief interruption by Trump supporters who violently breached the Capitol. Barring the fast ratification of constitutional amendments or an illegal process such as a military coup, Trump has no chance of regaining the presidency until at least January 20, 2025—when the winner of the 2024 election takes office.
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Arkansas Republican and Trump administration alumna Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Thursday that she’s raised $11 million for her gubernatorial bid since launching her campaign in January.

Sanders’s campaign said in a statement that it had raised more than $2.1 million in the third quarter of 2021 and finished September with more than $7 million in the bank. Of the $11 million raised so far, $3.7 million has come from Arkansans, underscoring her national appeal stemming from her time as White House press secretary under former President Trump.

Sanders is the early favorite to replace term-limited Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R). Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is her only GOP primary rival. Sanders is running with Trump’s endorsement and will likely tap into a deep well of support from his base. She was seen as a loyal supporter of him during her time in the White House, often sparring with journalists from the briefing room podium while defending the administration.

Though Arkansas has a long history of electing Democratic governors, the state has lurched to the right in recent years, making the victor in the GOP primary the overwhelming favorite to win next year’s general election.
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US to restore full pension of FBI official fired under Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago, his lawyers announced Thursday.
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