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J.D. Vance Wildly Suggests Biden Is Trying To 'Kill A Bunch Of MAGA Voters'

Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has leveled a bizarre new accusation against Joe Biden, suggesting that the president is trying to “kill” MAGA voters with fentanyl sold by drug traffickers.

“If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl?” the controversial candidate pressed in an interview Friday with Jim Hoft, founder of the far-right news site Gateway Pundit.

The venture capitalist and “Hillbilly Elegy” author, who was endorsed earlier this month by Donald Trump, did not explain how Biden could accomplish such a horrifying aim. But he implied that drug traffickers crossing into the U.S. from Mexico were expressly not arrested so they could kill right-wing Republican voters.

“It’s really a border crisis that has gone all over the country,” said Vance.

“It does look intentional,” he emphasized. “It’s like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn’t vote for him, and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.”

In fact, the amount of cocaine and fentanyl seized at the border at eight Texas ports of entry increased “significantly” last year during the Biden administration, keeping massive amounts of the drugs out of the country, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“Most notably [there was] a 1,066% increase in fentanyl and a 98% increase in cocaine seized,” the CBP reported.

Trump has encouraged his supporters to back Vance, who has no political experience, saying that he has the best chance of winning the general election. The primary is May 3.

While welcoming the former president’s endorsement, Vance in the past has reportedly called Trump an “idiot” and “America’s Hitler.”

Critics on Twitter were appalled by Vance’s outrageous claim. They were also furious about the implication that MAGA voters are fentanyl users, while Democrats are apparently largely unaffected by the ridiculous Biden “plot” Vance has cooked up.

https://sports.yahoo.com/j-d-vance-wildly-suggests-021349250.html

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Judge bars Tina Peters from running Mesa County elections

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO)-- Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is still in the race to run Colorado's elections, but she won't be able to run the elections in her own county.

Peters, who faces ten criminal counts for allegedly tampering with election equipment in an effort to expose what she believed were widespread voting machine discrepancies, has now been barred from overseeing Mesa County's elections by a judge.

A court granted Secretary of State Jena Griswold's request to appoint Brandi Bantz as the designated election official in Peters' place.

Despite her charges, Peters is still in the running to be the Republican candidate for Colorado Secretary of State in the 2022 election. Peters received 60.57% of the vote at the party's assembly in March. In the June primary race, Peters will be up against Mike O’Donnell, a Yuma County candidate who earned 39.4% of the vote at the assembly, and Pam Anderson, a more moderate candidate who had enough petitions to land on the primary ballot. Of the three, only Anderson denies widespread voter fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 November election.

In response to the judge's ruling, Secretary of State Jena Griswold issued a statement saying, "The Court’s decision today bars Peters from further threatening the integrity of Mesa’s elections and ensures Mesa County residents have the secure and accessible elections they deserve."

After Peters was charged, Griswold worked with legislators on Senate Bill 22-153, which would prohibit clerks with election-related convicitions from running elections. That bill passed through the state legislature Tuesday night.

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J.D. Vance Wildly Suggests Biden Is Trying To 'Kill A Bunch Of MAGA Voters'

Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has leveled a bizarre new accusation against Joe Biden, suggesting that the president is trying to “kill” MAGA voters with fentanyl sold by drug traffickers.

“If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl?” the controversial candidate pressed in an interview Friday with Jim Hoft, founder of the far-right news site Gateway Pundit.

The venture capitalist and “Hillbilly Elegy” author, who was endorsed earlier this month by Donald Trump, did not explain how Biden could accomplish such a horrifying aim. But he implied that drug traffickers crossing into the U.S. from Mexico were expressly not arrested so they could kill right-wing Republican voters.

“It’s really a border crisis that has gone all over the country,” said Vance.

“It does look intentional,” he emphasized. “It’s like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn’t vote for him, and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.”

In fact, the amount of cocaine and fentanyl seized at the border at eight Texas ports of entry increased “significantly” last year during the Biden administration, keeping massive amounts of the drugs out of the country, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“Most notably [there was] a 1,066% increase in fentanyl and a 98% increase in cocaine seized,” the CBP reported.

Trump has encouraged his supporters to back Vance, who has no political experience, saying that he has the best chance of winning the general election. The primary is May 3.

While welcoming the former president’s endorsement, Vance in the past has reportedly called Trump an “idiot” and “America’s Hitler.”

Critics on Twitter were appalled by Vance’s outrageous claim. They were also furious about the implication that MAGA voters are fentanyl users, while Democrats are apparently largely unaffected by the ridiculous Biden “plot” Vance has cooked up.

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So he’s basically admitting meth heads and other such drug addicts vote for donny….. sounds about right.

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Started by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, this story is blowing up on the right...

Governor Abbott, National Border Patrol Council Release Joint Statement On Biden Administration Providing Baby Formula To Illegal Immigrants Amid National Shortage

May 12, 2022 | Austin, Texas | Press Release

Governor Greg Abbott and National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) President Brandon Judd today issued a joint statement on the Biden Administration providing baby formula to illegal immigrant holding facilities as American parents scramble amid a nationwide shortage of the product.

"Children are our most vulnerable, precious Texans and deserve to be put first. Yet, President Biden has turned a blind eye to parents across America who are facing the nightmare of a nationwide baby formula shortage. While mothers and fathers stare at empty grocery store shelves in a panic, the Biden Administration is happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming across our southern border. This is yet another one in a long line of reckless, out-of-touch priorities from the Biden Administration when it comes to securing our border and protecting Americans. Our children deserve a president who puts their needs and survival first – not one who gives critical supplies to illegal immigrants before the very people he took an oath to serve."

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/gov...llegal-immigrants-amid-national-shortage

So much for Pro-Life! smfh, you can't make this crap up. Baby Killers! And these babies are actual babies that were born already.



‘Pro-Life’ Conservatives Are Mad the Government Isn’t Letting Migrant Infants Starve to Death

Fox News and Republican lawmakers are up in arms that the Biden administration is caring for babies at the border during a formula shortage

There’s a baby formula shortage in the United States. Republican lawmakers and conservative media members are taking frustration out on immigrants.

Fox News hosts have spent the past 24 hours raising hell over immigrant babies at the U.S.-Mexico border receiving formula, arguing that it should instead be distributed to Americans first. “[For] American families there’s a shortage, but if you’re a migrant, don’t worry because Uncle Sam has a stash of that,” Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy said Friday morning.



The subject became fodder for right-wing xenophobia earlier this week, with Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) on Wednesday tweeting a picture of what she said was “shelves and pallets packed with baby formula” at the Ursula Processing Center in McAllen, Texas. She contrasted that with a picture of a bare store shelf, writing, “This is what America last looks like.”

A day later, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, in a preview of what would follow on Fox airwaves later that night, released a statement along with National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd accusing Biden of “turn[ing] a blind eye to parents across America” by “giv[ing] critical supplies to illegal immigrants before the very people he took an oath to serve.”

The care of infants in U.S. detention centers, unsurprisingly, is the responsibility of U.S. officials, and immigrants can’t just leave to try to find formula themselves. Yet Abbott’s fellow “pro-life” Republicans — including Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop and Texas Rep. Troy Nehls — are essentially suggesting that the government let the infants of immigrants starve to death.

So too did Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. “The White House, House Dems, & usual pedo grifters are so out of touch with the American people that rather than present ANY PLAN or urgency to address the nationwide baby formula crisis, they double down on sending pallets of formula to the southern border,” she tweeted on Friday. “Joe Biden has NO PLAN.”

The hosts of each of Fox’s four primetime shows each took a similar stance on Thursday night. “Why are we feeding illegal babies ahead of American babies?” Jesse Watters asked, and which Sean Hannity also wondered later. “These are not people that respected our borders, our laws, and our sovereignty,” Hannity said. “Why wouldn’t all of the pallets go to American families first?”

Tucker Carlson riled up his viewers by asking, “How much more of this are people going to take, you wonder. It’s too humiliating.” Laura Ingraham, meanwhile, asserted that formula being distributed at the border is “something that will infuriate you,” but “Democrats just don’t care.”



The shortage of baby formula stems from the February closing of a production facility in Michigan and a voluntary recall in light of a Food and Drug Administration investigation into bacterial infections linked to powdered formula. In a news release on Tuesday, the FDA noted that “supply chain issues associated with the pandemic” are also a factor. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday that the hoarding of formula is “an enormous problem” as the public becomes more aware of the shortage. The House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into the matter, ABC News reported Friday.

Psaki responded to the attacks from conservatives on Friday, noting that Customs and Border Protection is simply following the law. “We also think it’s morally the right thing to do,” she added.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...-fox-news-baby-formula-shortage-1352736/

Gov. Abbott, taking formula from migrant babies would be illegal — and vicious

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...abies-to-feed-americans-he-shouldnt-try/

And of course, taking that formula would be against the law.

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Madison Cawthorn Loses Primary After Brutal Barrage Of GOP Attacks
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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) has twice been stopped trying to bring a gun onto a plane. He claimed his colleagues take cocaine and hold orgies. He suggested House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is an alcoholic, even though she doesn’t drink. He might be caught up in an insider trading scheme, and a GOP senator from his own state has called for an investigation. He has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.” Multiple women have accused him of sexual harassment.

And his constituents have decided they have had enough.

Cawthorn, 26, lost his bid for reelection Tuesday, falling to state Sen. Chuck Edwardsin the GOP primary in the 11th Congressional District. Seven challengers had stepped up to challenge Cawthorn in this deeply red district. He called Edwards to concede Tuesday night.

“This is simply incredible. Against all odds, we fought hard to win this election and provide clear conservative leadership for the mountains,” Edwards said in a statement after his win.

With Tuesday’s results, many of his colleagues in Washington and North Carolina are likely breathing a sigh of relief. In recent weeks, Cawthorn faced an onslaught of unflattering opposition research and questions about his mental stability. Republican leaders in the state ― including Sen. Thom Tillis, who backed Edwards ― worked mightily to unseat him.

Cawthorn was once a rising star in the Republican Party, getting a speaking spot at the party’s 2020 convention as a political newcomer after his surprise win the GOP primary in his district.

In 2014, at the age of 18, he was in a car crash that left him partially paralyzed. He has said that he’d struggled mentally since the crash ― and even contemplated suicide.

“I think it slowed my brain down a little bit. Made me less intelligent,” Cawthorn said in a deposition. “And the pain also made reading and studying very difficult.”

A year later, he made his start in politics ― a part-time job as an assistant in one of then-Rep. Mark Meadows’ North Carolina district offices.

Cawthorn had his fair share of controversies from the get-go, but criticism from his GOP colleagues has stepped up in recent months. He lost the support of much of the Republican establishment in North Carolina, including Tillis, and the state’s House speaker and Senate leader ― all of whom backed Edwards in the primary.

Some of the frustration was far more local and personal. Last year, Cawthorn angered Tillis when he called the senator “a terrible campaigner” and “a complete RINO” (“Republican in name only”) at a Republican meeting in the state.

Tillis praised Edwards as the “embodiment of Mountain values who will fight for them every single day in Congress with honor and integrity” in a statement Tuesday night.

Cawthorn also briefly talked about switching districts, pushing aside and disparaging Tim Moore, the state House speaker and presumed front-runner.

And as a congressman, Cawthorn faced criticism for ignoring constituent services back home.

“Unfortunately, Madison Cawthorn has fallen well short of the most basic standards western North Carolina expects from their representatives,” Tillis said in late March.

“On any given day, he’s an embarrassment,” added Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who did not endorse anyone in the race.

Trump finally endorsed Cawthorn on Monday, the day before the election.

“When Madison was first elected to Congress, he did a great job,” Trump said in a post on the social media platform that he created that has failed to take off in a significant way. “Recently, he made some foolish mistakes, which I don’t believe he’ll make again…let’s give Madison a second chance!”

A group of Cawthorn’s constituents challenged his eligibility to be on the ballot, arguing that he shouldn’t be allowed to run because, they say, the congressman “advocated for political violence both before and after” Jan. 6, 2021, and that the actions of Cawthorn and others “led directly, intentionally, and foreseeably to the insurrectionists’ violent assault on the Capitol.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/madison-cawthorn-loses-primary-brutal-022612735.html


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It's really encouraging to see at least some portion of the GOP voting base (I assume only Republicans can vote in that primary) establish some sort of line in the sand as far as politician's conduct.


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We just need to see more of it. I think there is a common misconception on this board about what many of us feel and believe about Republicans that hold little to no truth. I'm sure there are some on the fringe of the left where there is a ring of truth to it. For the most part I think most people feel much the way I do. I think what many of us want to see is sanity brought back to the republican party instead of what we've been seeing as of late. The Hawthorns and MTG's of the world I do not see as representative as to how many Republicans feel. I can only hope in the future that sane Republicans can take back their party.


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Originally Posted by oobernoober
It's really encouraging to see at least some portion of the GOP voting base (I assume only Republicans can vote in that primary) establish some sort of line in the sand as far as politician's conduct.

Actually that isn't the case.
In NC, if you are declared then you can only vote in your party primary. If you are undeclared the you get to choose which one you vote in.

I live in NC and I am undeclared, so I voted in the republican primary this time because there were a few candidates that I liked and a few that are intolerable to me. So I felt it would have a bigger impact this way. Voted republican in 2020 but democrat in 2016 and 2018.

Fyi, i am not in cawthorne's district, so he wasn't on my ballot


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Can't you change you "declaration" right there at the polling place and request any ballot? I thought that was a new thing.


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Closed primaries should be declared unconstitutional and illegal. It is not in the constitution that our voting choices should be restricted by party affiliation.


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Originally Posted by FATE
Can't you change you "declaration" right there at the polling place and request any ballot? I thought that was a new thing.

You can register to vote at the polling place and vote same day.

If you are declared, I don't think you can change and vote the same day. I haven't specifically looked into your question because it has no relevance to me as an undeclared.
In the 2020 primaries I have a friend who was going to vote in the republican primary but had declared declared democrat in the past so she only had the option to vote in the democrat primary. She has since declared independent and this primary season she was able to choose which one she wanted to vote in. So if theat is possible then it is very new.


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That's weird, I simply asked for the Democrat ballot in the 2016 primaries and did nothing to change my republican "affiliation". They handed me the ballot.


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Maryland has a closed primary and you have to be registered by the deadline and affiliated with a party to vote in the primary. This does a good job of keeping the same party in power. I am registered to vote in the majority primary so I can have some small say in what happens in this state.

Closed primaries and gerrymandering keep this state so deeply blue its heart is black.

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When I walked in they took my name and address etc, then said you are unaffiliated. Do you want to vote republican or democrat?
Don't know what would have happened had I been affiliated.


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It varies by State. Some states, you have to be a declared party member, other states you can pick a party to vote for when you show up. other states have a list of candidates from either party.

There are a few weird permutations that can also apply, some state may have rank choice voting where say the top 2 candidates go to the general. Or if you have been registered as a political party you can get on the ballot.

The most restrictive States, you have to declare or change parties prior to election day.

Part of the Freedom to Vote act, and/or John Lewis Voting rights bill was targeted to standardize the mess, but went nowhere without the 60 votes required in the Senate.

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https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/primary-types.aspx

The link describes the primary type for your state in general terms.


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When I walked in they took my name and address etc, then said you are unaffiliated. Do you want to vote republican or democrat?
Don't know what would have happened had I been affiliated.

This is an effort to keep people from voting in the primaries of the OTHER SIDE. If you choose unaffiliated, you would probably have gotten a ballot with just the issues, no primary candidates. Imagine a few million dems voting in the GOPer primary for the most centrist candidates, or the most unelectable in a field of good candidates. Republicans were accused of doing this to help make Bernie the candidate in 2020 by the left... but it was just the centrist establishment playing games on the progressives to keep them from repeating 2016. They were truly NEVER going to let Bernie win. Then Hillary used the excuse after she got smoked by Trump in 2016, after Obama came from nowhere and beat her the first time. Now it's a thing both sides seem to worry about. I don't see how they can prevent it though, because you can change parties at anytime.

DNC Lawyers Argue DNC Has Right to Pick Candidates in Back Rooms

https://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primaries-bernie-sanders-supporters/

Screw the DNC. This is why progressives need their own party.

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Lol. I did it in 2016 to vote for Bernie, he was fresh of a huge victory in Xichigan and Killery was sweating bullets! We all know how that worked out... and how it was Groundhog Day again, four years later.


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Fate, do you live in Ohio?
That would certainly explain the different experiences we had. I don't know if you noticed it or not in my1st post but I live in NC.
The way you responded, I presumed you were in NC too, but then noticed Champion Ohio by your avatar


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Yes. I live in OH.

I paid to attention to your location either. laugh


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Originally Posted by WooferDawg
It varies by State. Some states, you have to be a declared party member, other states you can pick a party to vote for when you show up. other states have a list of candidates from either party.

There are a few weird permutations that can also apply, some state may have rank choice voting where say the top 2 candidates go to the general. Or if you have been registered as a political party you can get on the ballot.

The most restrictive States, you have to declare or change parties prior to election day.

Part of the Freedom to Vote act, and/or John Lewis Voting rights bill was targeted to standardize the mess, but went nowhere without the 60 votes required in the Senate.


IIRC, it varies by state AND by party. When I was in California, I was registered as an Independent. I was able to vote in Dem primaries, but not Republican.


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JMHO, Donald Trump will be the end of the Republican Party as a major political party- it has happened already. He and his "followers" have lied so much no one can keep up. Conspiracy theories hatch every thirty minutes, he's started all kinds of truth media outlets- because you can't read, watch, hear, think about anything the "left" offers- they aren't real Americans, just like there are thousands/ no millions of RINOs.....he has sure screwed the Republican party. MAGA sure seems hollow as real Republicans rub elbows with white supremacists who distain basic rights for others.....WOW, talk about embracing the fringe of society.....Greene is the best we can do....pray for us.


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MAGA sure seems hollow as real Republicans rub elbows with white supremacists who distain basic rights for others.....

That's the thing about the question of when was America "greater"? Saying Make America Great Again means there must be some time frame for when you believed Americas was much greater than it is now. So the question has often been asked when that was? When exactly are you talking about?

For some the answer becomes clearer if people pay attention. It's obvious that those in the white supremacist community and those who support them and tolerate them to gain their votes must think that was before slavery ended. For others maybe before civil rights were ratified? Those who welcome them, "There are good people on both sides", who cater to them and openly support the white replacement theory now exist on FOX News, in the halls of congress and continue to be elected.

So yeah, MAGA is an open ended slogan that could mean different time periods to different people. And we know what that time period is for some of the MAGA crowd.


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Trump pays contempt fine

Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 fine levied after he was held in contempt by a New York judge. He has not yet filed more than a dozen affidavits due today to purge the contempt finding, but a source with his legal team confirmed to CBS News that they intend to.

Trump was held in contempt April 25 after failing to comply with a subpoena requiring he turn over documents to investigators conducting a sprawling civil financial fraud probe for New York Attorney General Letitia James. The subpoena sought documents related to Trump's personal finances, as well as information related to the financing of several properties. Trump was fined $10,000 per day through May 6, the date of his most recent attempt to satisfy Judge Arthur Engoron's demands.

In response to the May 6 filing, Engoron halted the fine and suspended the contempt finding, but said he was still unsatisfied with Trump's explanation of how he and his attorneys managed to find zero documents that complied with the subpoena.

Engoron gave Trump until May 20 to file a long list of additional affidavits detailing his attorneys' search for records and electronic devices, and explanations of the Trump Organization's document retention and destruction policies. Trump and his company were also required to cooperate with a long-delayed court mandated discovery effort by a third party company tasked with sorting through years of corporate records. The firm completed its discovery on Thursday, the same day Trump's payment was delivered.

After Trump's team submits the affidavits, Engoron will decide if they satisfy the terms of the subpoena for which Trump was held in contempt. If they are not satisfactory, the contempt finding can be reinstated retroactive to May 7, meaning Trump would owe an additional $130,000.

James' office had demanded documents and data from specific file locations and personnel in the Trump Organization, but it had also noted that Trump failed to turn over several phones he had used. In the May 6 affidavit, Trump said he does not "know the whereabouts" of those phones, including a Samsung he used at the White House that he said, "was taken from me at some point while I was President."

Trump said in the May 6 filing that he currently has two phones, an iPhone "which I have owned for several years and is for my personal use," and a new phone used exclusively for posting to the social media network he has a licensing agreement with.

Trump and two of his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, were ordered on February 17 to appear for depositions in James' long-running civil fraud probe. They appealed the order to appear, and are awaiting a decision on that appeal.

Trump did not challenge a separate part of that February 17 ruling in which he was ordered to comply with James' subpoena for documents. Engoron ordered Trump to comply by March 3, and later extended that deadline to March 31 — a date that was agreed to by both sides at the time.

Trump did not turn over documents that day, and raised objections Engoron and James' office said should have been addressed months before, leading to the contempt finding.

James' office claimed in a February press release that its wide-ranging investigation has collected evidence "showing that Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization used fraudulent and misleading financial statements to obtain economic benefit." The initial focus of the probe was on whether the Trump Organization inflated the valuations of assets while seeking loans and insurance coverage, and deflated their value to reduce tax liability.

Trump has repeatedly denied all allegations of personal and company wrongdoing.

Attorneys for James' office have indicated during multiple hearings in the last month that the investigation is nearing its conclusion, and that it may lead to an "enforcement action." They have not elaborated on what enforcement might be.

"There's clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding, although the final determination on filing that proceeding has yet to be made," Andrew Amer, a litigator for James' office, said during a hearing last week.

Two attorneys from James' office remain assigned to a separate Manhattan District Attorney's criminal probe of Trump and his company, for which a special grand jury recently expired.

That investigation led in July 2021 to criminal fraud and tax evasion charges against the Trump Organization and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg. They filed a motion to dismiss in February, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to respond to that motion this month.

Two leading prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, resigned in February, less than two months after newly elected Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg took office. Bragg succeeded Cyrus Vance Jr., who launched the investigation in August 2018.

In Pomerantz's resignation letter, which was published in The New York Times, Pomerantz wrote that Vance "concluded that the facts warranted prosecution," but that Bragg had "reached the decision … not to seek criminal charges at the present time."

Bragg said in an April 7 statement that the criminal investigation "is continuing" and his investigators and prosecutors are "exploring evidence not previously explored."

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Cawthorn says ‘it’s time for the rise of the new right’ after primary loss

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cawthorn-says-time-rise-primary-224147607.html

this line is nuts:

“It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered. We are coming,” he wrote. It was unclear which enemy he was referring to.

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hey conservatives and trump supporters, can you please explain to me what 'Dark MAGA' means?


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No, I can't. Never been a Cawthorn fan, don't know what he says. Don't care.

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Cawthorn says ‘it’s time for the rise of the new right’ after primary loss

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cawthorn-says-time-rise-primary-224147607.html

this line is nuts:

“It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered. We are coming,” he wrote. It was unclear which enemy he was referring to.

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hey conservatives and trump supporters, can you please explain to me what 'Dark MAGA' means?

That is the first time I have heard the phrase. Sounds like something the Democrats would make up like Super Duper MAGA.

All I can say about it is You Can't Unring the Mental Illness Bell. Glad the guy lost.

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One anonymous Republican Congress member told Fox News Digital this week that Cawthorn "earned his loss" and that the congressman "did it to himself."

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Yes there are many sane Republicans left. Even many of those, instead of speaking out will remain unnamed sources because the crazies will punish them if they do. Just ask Liz Cheney.


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Yes there are few moderate Republicans left, after the radical extremist Trumpian-QAnon hostile hijacking of the party. But all of moderates, instead of speaking out, they either remain silent or become unnamed sources because the crazies will punish them and CANCEL them if they practice free thinking and free speech. Just ask Liz Cheney.

Improved it for you thumbsup IT must suck to get death threats from your own base...

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Hey Dawg, how did your testimony go today???

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Hey Dawg, how did your testimony go today???

No idea what you are talking about 40. Was this to me?

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