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November 16, 2018

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith responds to new controversial video

Source: WJTV Jackson, MS


Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith responds to new controversial video

Video was taken from campaign stop in Starkville earlier this month

by William Richardson

Posted: Nov 15, 2018 05:32 PM CST

Updated: Nov 15, 2018 05:40 PM CST

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A new video surfaced suggesting Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith calling for stricter voting laws.

The video, which was taken at a campaign stop in Starkville on November 3rd, starts with Sen. Hyde-Smith being asked about voting.

Sen. Hyde-Smith says: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea."

Sen. Hyde-Smith was already facing controversy after comments she made during a Tupelo campaign stop on November 2nd where she said: "If I was invited to a public hanging, I would be on the front row."




Read more: https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/sen-cindy-hyde-smith-responds-to-new-controversial-video/1600468856




When the hole gets deep, the crazy dig deeper.

October 3, 2018

Pence: "He used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly"



From October 2016

. . . Mitnick worked for Trump and his father, Fred Trump, for nearly 30 years, from the 1960s until 1996. He told “Inside Edition” that he recognized the tax returns because at the time, his computer couldn’t print a number as large as the loss Trump declared in his 1995 returns: $915,729,293. “The numbers had to be put in there with a typewriter,” he said.

Yet even as Mitnick’s interview was airing on TV, Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was busy hailing Trump’s “brilliant” exploitation of the tax code. “He used the tax code just the way it’s supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly,” Pence said.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-mitnick-trump-accountant-taxes_us_57f52344e4b015995f2c6a89


September 22, 2018

Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh nomination resigns; has been accused of harassment in the past

Source: NBC


WASHINGTON — A top press adviser helping lead the Senate Judiciary Committee’s response to a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment allegation against him.

Garrett Ventry, 29, who serves as a communications aide to the committee chaired by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, had been helping coordinate the majority party's messaging in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a high school party. In a response to NBC News, Ventry denied any past "allegations of misconduct."

After NBC News raised questions about Ventry's employment history and the sexual assault allegation against him, Judiciary Committee Spokesman Taylor Foy replied in a statement: "While (Ventry) strongly denies allegations of wrongdoing, he decided to resign to avoid causing any distraction from the work of the committee."

Republicans familiar with the situation had been concerned that Ventry, because of his history, could not lead an effective communications response.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/spokesman-gop-kavanaugh-nomination-resigns-has-been-accused-harassment-past-n912156

September 20, 2018

If they testify Monday to opposite stories UNDER OATH that indicates a crime for FBI to investigate.

Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis

Hm. If both Kavanaugh and Ford testify under oath Monday and tell opposite stories, one could be committing the federal crime of lying to Congress. Would there be precedent for FBI to then investigate?

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1042534650902708224



You just can't run from the FBI.

September 11, 2018

Never forget Operation Desert Badger.


On 9/11 it is good to remember Operation Desert Badger, Shrub's 2001 attempt during the first eight months after his inauguration to start a war with Iraq.


https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Operation_Desert_Badger

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/3/31/21823/-

https://www.opednews.com/kall033104_desert_badger.htm


Otherwise the dark side will bury it in obscurity.



September 5, 2018

Please help us President Trump! (before we're auctioned off!)


CSPAN
?Verified account @cspan

As a protester interrupts hearing with @Twitter CEO @Jack Dorsey, Rep. Billy Long (@USRepLong @auctnr1), a former auctioneer, takes action.


https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1037415541558964224


R-MO


* edit - added youtube





August 21, 2018

"It's an agreement, an agreement to commit campaign financing crimes - it's a five-year felony."



"This makes the President of the United States an unindicted co-conspirator. ... The fact of the matter is, if you read this indictment, he's doing it at the direction of Donald Trump. And if he's doing it at the direction of Donald Trump, there's a conspiracy. It's an agreement, an agreement to commit campaign financing crimes - it's a five-year felony."

Nick Ackerman, former Watergate prosecutor, on MSNBC today


LOCK HIM UP.




August 5, 2018

Malcolm Nance is on c-span2/BookTV's After Words, from 10-11pm ET

10:00 PM EDT Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
C-SPAN | Book TV

After Words Malcolm Nance, The Plot to Destroy Democracy

Former military intelligence officer Malcolm Nance examined cyber warfare and other tactics used by Russia to interfere with the 2016 Presidential election. He's interviewed by Suzanne Spaulding, Former Homeland Security Under Secretary during the Obama administration.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?447455-1/after-words-malcolm-nance

https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&index=blended&keywords=the%20plot%20to%20destroy%20democracy%20by%20malcolm%20nance&link_code=qs&tag=eschaton-20

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