In today’s political news - Part 5

Ron Johnson handled a package and had NO IDEA where it came from.... Geeee could it be a bomb?!?!

On Tuesday, CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju said that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) confirmed to him that he received the package of fake electors from Michigan and Wisconsin to hand to former Vice President Mike Pence on January 6 — and that his office inquired with Pence's office about taking it.

The news that Johnson tried to further the fake electors scheme has triggered an uproar, with Democratic Lt. Gov. and Senate candidate Mandela Barnes calling on him to resign.

www.rawstory.com/johnson-fake-electors/#cxrecs_s

Former got another primary win. Mo Brooks had conceded.

GOP Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama lost his bid for U.S. Senate on Friday, according to projections by Reuters and the Montgomery Advertiser.

"Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, fusing establishment support and a major cash advantage to defeat U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in a runoff. As of 8:50 p.m., Britt had 136,132 votes (65.3%) in unofficial returns. Brooks had 72,322 votes (34.7%)," the newspaper reported.

www.rawstory.com/mo-brooks-concedes-alabama/

FOX news host stunned ...?
Bit by bit......

Fox News host left shocked by Jan. 6 hearing: 'Stunning' lack of evidence for Trump's fraud claims
Jon Skolnik, Salon
June 22, 2022

Fox News host Martha MacCallum claimed after Tuesday's hearing of the House select committee on Jan. 6 that there was a "stunning" lack of evidence to back up Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud – a far cry from the channel's election-denying rhetoric leading up to the Capitol riot.

It will be extremely useful in coming campaigns, especially the presidential, when you look back at what we have in terms of the Mike Pence part of all of this," MacCallum said in a broadcast this week. "So it is a political discussion. It is very compelling and the lack of evidence is the huge, stunning, clear moment here where these people are saying, 'Look I supported you, please give me something to work with,' and it simply doesn't materialize."

MacCallum also added that she suspects Democrats will attempt to break up GOP allegiances by calling Trump's bogus election claims into question.

The host's comments came after new testimony by Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a longtime state Republican who refused to allow Trump to challenge the 2020 elections results in the Grand Canyon State.

During his testimony, Bowers claimed that ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani repeatedly pressured the lawmaker to do Trump's bidding and promised to provide evidence of widespread fraud. That evidence, he said, never materialized. "My recollection, [Giuliani] said, 'We've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence,'" Bowers claimed.

MacCallum's comments are also a significant deviation from the network's rhetoric in the months leading up to the Capitol riot. After Trump's loss, Fox News pundits repeatedly sowed doubt over the results of the 2020 election, and in particular, the integrity of Dominion and Smartmatic's voting machines, which were used to tabulate the votes in dozens of states across the country. Fox News' effort to delegitimize those machines has since become the subject of several multi-billion-dollar lawsuits by both companies alleging that their products were defamed by Fox News and a number of Trump allies.

Up until now, MacCallum has not directly weighed in on Donald Trump's failed conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

www.rawstory.com/fox-news-host-left-shocked-by-jan-6-hearing-stunning-lack-of-evidence-for-trump-s-fraud-claims/

Something tells me she won't be employed by Fox much longer.

The loon is loose...

So much for pro-life....

Proven again and again.

Smithtown, NY Public Library has removed all LGBTQ books.
In Pride month, too boot!

The feds are busy...

Federal law enforcement officials have raided the home of former Trump Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark, who pushed to have the department formally declare that the results of the 2020 election were illegitimate.

ABC NEWS reports that federal agents conducted a search of Clark's home in Virginia on Wednesday morning, just one day before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots was due to highlight his role in the attempt to overturn the election.

Former Trump acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen has told the House Select Committee that Clark lobbied to have Trump appoint him as acting AG, after which he would send a letter to Georgia urging them to rescind certification of the 2020 election.

Trump was initially intrigued by the idea, but he decided against it after multiple DOJ officials threatened mass resignations if he went through with it.

www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-clark-2657553613/