If it is to be said, so it be, so it is.
Lawyers for former U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith on Thursday, ABC News reported, the day a grand jury meets in the investigation of efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 presidential election defeat.
![Trump lawyers arrive at office of U.S. special counsel -ABC News](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/hMWHDERWHf.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
She's just a troll, nothing more. She contributes nothing towards policy or making life better in America. Whatever will own the libs is what she exists for. Trash.
Weeks before he’s expected to be indicted in Fulton County, former President Donald Trump revived his push to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from investigating him for election interference.
![BREAKING: Trump asks Georgia’s top court to quash grand jury report, disqualify Fulton DA](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/OAGBURmCpG.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
From the article:
Trump’s motion contended that Willis and McBurney “at every turn” have trampled on the procedural safeguards and rights of Trump and others under investigation.
“The whole of the process is now incurably infected,” the motion said. “And nothing that follows could be legally sound or publicly respectable.”
It asserted that the Georgia statute allowing for the operation of special grand juries was unconstitutionally vague. It said that publication of excerpts of the final report would violate the former president’s rights to fundamental fairness and due process and lead to “irremediable injury” to his reputation as he runs for the GOP nomination for president for a third time.
I can't believe that the people of Alabama voted for Tuberville.
What an oddly worded title - it's not mine, it's from the article.
Noah Cates and the Flyers reached a new two-year, $5.25 million contract Monday.
![Cates, Flyers don't come close to arbitration, agree to new deal](https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/92edf342-ff4c-4e5b-8449-25e4b754ebc5.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Noah Cates and the Flyers avoided salary arbitration pretty quickly.
The sides reached a new two-year, $5.25 million contract Monday. The deal has an average annual value of $2.625 million. Cates will also be switching from No. 49 to No. 27 for his jersey, according to his agent Ben Hankinson.
It’s not every day when a former White House chief of staff implicates a former president — under penalty of perjury — in an impeachable offense.
Over the weekend, the allegations returned to the fore, and for good reason. The New York Times reported on Saturday:
John F. Kelly, who served as former President Donald J. Trump’s second White House chief of staff, said in a sworn statement that Mr. Trump had discussed having the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies investigate two F.B.I. officials involved in the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Mr. Kelly said that his recollection of Mr. Trump’s comments to him was based on notes that he had taken at the time in 2018. Mr. Kelly provided copies of his notes to lawyers for one of the F.B.I. officials, who made the sworn statement public in a court filing.
While I do love the quick innovation and updates of Lemmy, I have to admit that it's a bit confusing and hard to keep up with.
But, for what goal, though? I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious. It made Putin look weak and it really seemed like he and this crony cabinet were on the run. It's not like Putin squashed down the rebellion in a show of force - instead, Wagner said "yeah, it's all good, imma turn around now and peace out to Belarus. Lates".
I don't see how Thomas could possibly care. He knows that he and that wife of his are untouchable given that there is no oversight over the SCOTUS. Alito, too. Conservatives would never let them get even close to impeachment and Thomas has proclaimed that is only goal is to make liberal lives hell for his remainder of days.
It's surprising just how quickly the tables the conservative justices have been able to strike down existing law/precedent. I wonder if democracy will even exist in 10-20 years.
This whole story is beyond weird. None of it makes any sense - a fast moving coup against an established government, an abrupt about face, and then exile into a neighboring country - only to come back "home" to pick up your prized pistol and a few other things. Oh, and also to meet up the leader you tried to overthrow.
Great update!!! Keeps getting better and better!
Not sure why the downvotes - I found the article to be fairly interesting.
Amaaaaaazing username! Love it!
Super impressed with growth over the last week alone. I really was worried how I would adjust to not being on Reddit after Apollo died but I feel pretty encouraged now.
The base/loyalty plays
Kari Lake: Despite never holding office, Lake exudes Trumpism arguably more than anyone on this list — right down to her thoroughly bogus, dead-ender election denialism. She did underperform in 2022, like a lot of Trump-aligned candidates, but not as much as many of them. The early knock on her is that she might be trying a bit too hard and that Trump doesn’t want to be overshadowed.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: More than most new governors, the Arkansas governor has made a strong play for a national profile by going hard to the right, including on culture war issues. She also has a relationship with Trump and plenty of experience vouching for him as White House press secretary.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: A Greene selection would give the national party fits more than anyone on this list; even with her attempted reinvention of herself, she’s spouting many of the same conspiracy theories and proving just as unwieldy. She also performed surprisingly poorly in her ruby-red Georgia district in 2022.
Marsha Blackburn: The senator from Tennessee has long been one of the most right-wing, culture-war-focused senators, and her name was floated a time or two in 2016.
Josh Hawley: The senator from Missouri says he’s not interested. But many people say that, and perhaps no senator is as much at pains to play to the MAGA crowd as he is.
The (more) pragmatic picks
Tim Scott: This is among the ones that just make too much sense, especially if Trump wants to go with a woman or an African American. The senator from South Carolina generally has tried to avoid getting wrapped up in the Trump controversy of the day, and perhaps because of that is well-regarded party-wide. The question is whether he’s shown Trump enough loyalty.
Elise Stefanik: The New York congresswoman might be up there with Scott in terms of who makes sense. And her decision not to try to climb the GOP leadership ladder after the 2022 election led more than a few to (very validly) speculate that she might be angling for this job instead.
Nikki Haley: Haley’s later-aborted break with Trump after Jan. 6 would surely loom over her potential selection. But she was very popular when she served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations and could set herself up well with a strong 2024 campaign.
Kim Reynolds: The Iowa governor is enjoying being courted by all the presidential hopefuls coming to her state and has said she’ll remain neutral in the primary.
Kristi L. Noem: The South Dakota governor doesn’t have much of a national profile, despite considering her own 2024 bid. Without such a bid, it’s tough to see how she’d rise to the top.
Ron DeSantis: The main problems here are that he and Trump are going after each other right now and that they live in the same state. (This would mean they would forfeit Florida’s 30 electoral votes since the Constitution says at least one member of the ticket in a given state must be from another state, which would be a dealbreaker.) The former could be ironed-over in the service of building a winning ticket. The latter probably would force Trump to change his residency back to New York. But there is some precedent for this kind of thing.
Glenn Youngkin: The Virginia governor is keeping his options open on his own campaign. In his 2021 campaign, he was viewed as navigating the post-Trump era with aplomb, in both the primary and the general election.
The unlikely fliers
Francis Suarez: The Miami mayor is running his own 2024 campaign, but many see it as a steppingstone, and Kellyanne Conway apparently is a big fan. (The residency thing, of course, applies here, too.)
Tulsi Gabbard: The former congresswoman and former Democrat has become a Fox News favorite, but her résumé probably is too limited.
Byron Donalds: The Florida congressman has emerged as a significant voice of the House Freedom Caucus and younger Republicans, particularly during the debate over McCarthy’s speakership. But he’s only in his second term in Congress.
Tucker Carlson: The buzz around Carlson has died down since he was canned by Fox News, and he’s said he has no interest in elective office. We also learned in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox that he privately bashed Trump.
Vivek Ramaswamy: Who knows, if he somehow runs a solid 2024 campaign?
Michael Flynn: Can you truly rule anything out?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: He’s running a very Trumpian campaign (albeit in the Democratic primary), latching on to many in Trumpworld who are happy to promote him in the service of trying to embarrass President Biden. But, despite all the hype, he’s not exactly ideologically aligned with Trump on major issues, and his modest level of early success seems to owe more to Democratic disillusionment with Biden and a golden Democratic name than anything else.
You would think that Qbert and Margorie Trailer Trash would be BFFs, but no, they're even shitty to each other. The funny thing is that they were fighting over one of them copying her articles of impeachment from the other: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-lauren-boebert-little-b-house-floor-gop-p-rcna90592
"Greene then called Boebert “a little b----,” the Daily Beast reported, adding that Greene accused Boebert of having copied articles of impeachment she filed against Biden. Boebert pushed back at Greene’s claim, saying that she had not read the Georgia lawmaker's resolution, the news outlet said.
Nick Dyer, a spokesperson for Greene, confirmed to NBC News that the outlet’s characterization of the interaction was accurate.
“I had already introduced articles of impeachment on Joe Biden for the border, asked her to co-sponsor mine — she didn’t,” Greene told reporters Wednesday. “She basically copied my articles and then introduced them and then changed them to a privileged resolution.”
Greene's clash with Boebert was the last straw for conservatives, some of whom felt Greene was growing too close to Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
![Marjorie Taylor Greene has reportedly been booted from the House Freedom Caucus after calling Lauren Boebert a 'bitch'](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/eMMZn2tHCl.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reportedly been removed from the conservative House Freedom Caucus after a series of disagreements, including calling her colleague Rep. Lauren Boebert a "bitch" on the House floor.
Rep. Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican who serves on the board of the House Freedom Caucus, said that the group held a formal vote on Greene's status last month, according to Politico and CNN. CNN separately reported that the group's rules are tightly held, but Harris believes that for all intents and purposes she has been removed.
"As far as I know, that is the way it is," Harris told Politico.
Harris told Politico that Greene's clash with Boebert was the final straws for the Georgia Republican. Conservatives had been upset with Greene for months due to her close ties to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Historically, the Freedom Caucus has clashed with GOP leaders, most notably former Speaker John Boehner.
"I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow, especially female, members," Harris told Politico.
Greene was incensed that Boebert was, in her view, co-opting a push to impeach President Joe Biden and members of his administration. Greene confirmed to reporters that she called Boebert a "bitch" on the floor and then repeated the insult in a later interview.
"She has genuinely been a nasty little bitch to me," Greene told Semafor. Boebert told reporters she was "not in middle school" when asked to respond.
This is a historic moment for the conservative group. It has never before formally voted to boot one of its members. The caucus is selective in who it allows in for membership and refuses to release a full roster of its members.
Then-Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan resigned from the group after he became the first Republican to say that President Donald Trump had committed "impeachable conduct." Amash had been a founding member of the conservative group.
A spokesperson for the Freedom Caucus did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did a spokesperson for Greene.
Agree. He's screwed unless FPOTUS wins the election and gives him a pardon. I suppose that's entirely possible but foolish at best. Wouldn't be surprised if it all gets pinned on Nauta by the end of this.
Waltine "Walt Nauta, Donald Trump's aide and so-called "body man," pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in a Miami federal courthouse.
![Trump 'body man' Walt Nauta enters not guilty plea in Miami hearing](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/uenxxMH1us.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Nauta is represented by Sasha Dadan, a defense attorney based in Fort Pierce, where the trial is scheduled to be held on Aug. 14.
Nauta's plea follows the release of more details contained in the search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago property almost a year ago. The warrant describes a person, identified as witness 5, moving dozens of boxes in May and June last year from a room where federal prosecutors say Trump kept the boxes. Witness 5 is believed to be Nauta.
I was able to get rid of the beans and some other memes by visiting those communities on the web and clicking "Block Community"
No doubt. I'm going to try to enjoy the slow flow of comments for now.
Getting used to it. I've noticed it's been very stable today compared to the last few days. I've been trying to find communities similar to the ones that I was a member of on Reddit. I miss the volume of info that was available on Reddit that I could drown myself in but I refuse to download the official app. After what spez did to Christian and other third party app devs, it's time to go. So, rock on, Lemmy! (this is my first post btw!)