Today’s political news - Part 7

If what David Rothkopt says is true why the heck wasn’t he jailed and stopped years ago. No one should be able to get away with this. All I can say is H-O-L-Y S-H-I-T. This should have been stopped long before he endangered so many. If it’s as bad as this it could take decades to recover. If they know all The Who’s and how we do things and how we are going to react.

Side note: I just realised that you can tag 'threadreaderapp' on a multi-tweet story and ask for an unroll, and they will put the story into one document. Pretty cool. It makes it easier to read than 15 separate tweets. 


I wonder if we will ever find out the full story about trump's crimes. Why is the GOP still supporting him, why are they still complicit? 

I don't want to get my hopes up but this is encouraging

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/democrats-republicans-house-midterms/

Once unthinkable, Democrats now see narrow path to keeping the House
While Democrats acknowledge they still face major hurdles, there has been an unmistakable mood shift, according to interviews with candidates, strategists and officials

Are we ever going to get out of this mess?!?

Newly revealed documents shed light on a secretive right-wing group, its well-connected members and extensive efforts undertaken to overturn Donald Trump's election loss.

The Center for Media and Democracy has published the agenda for a recent CNPCouncil for National Policy meeting, in late February, and the watchdog journalists at Documented has obtained the membership roster and the most recent tax filings for the nonprofit organization, and those newly released materials show CNP's role in disrupting U.S. democracy, reported The New Republic.

"CNP archives illustrate the extensive planning its members undertook to discredit the 2020 election results, undermine local election officials, and incite the protest on January 6, 2021," the magazine reported. "The House select committee on January 6 has subpoenaed CNP election expert Cleta Mitchell, and the panel is also examining 29 texts exchanged between then–White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Supreme Court spouse Ginni Thomas (a board member of the CNP’s lobbying arm) in support of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election."

CNP has spawned numerous shadowy offshoots that frequently change their names or vanish, such as the Conservative Partnership Institute, which got $1 million from Trump's "Save America" PAC and counts Mark Meadows as senior partner, and Ginni Thomas ally Cleta Mitchell runs the "Election Integrity Network" under its umbrella.

The February meeting elected a new slate of CNP officers, including new president Tom Fitton, who heads the conservative Judicial Watch; vice president Ken Blackwell, the former Ohio secretary of state who oversaw the key state's troubled 2004 election; secretary Jenny Beth Martin, who took part in the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally; board members Jerry Boykin, a retired Army general and infamous Islamophobe, and Chad Connelly, the national director of faith engagement for the Republican National Committee from 2013 to 2016.

The group also added about two dozen medical professionals, including Jan. 6 and anti-vaxxer Simone Gold, and James Todaro, part of America's Frontline Doctors campaign, which was orchestrated by the CNP and the 2020 Trump campaign to spread coronavirus misinformation.

Founding members Richard Viguerie and Morton Blackwell still play a role in CNP, whose February meeting highlighted a COVID initiative led by Gold and efforts to strengthen ties to the Koch Network and other relationship with other longstanding partners, and Rachel Bovard, CPI's senior director of policy, joined the board of directors at CNP Action in her first year as a member, which signals that offshoot group's importance to the project.

"The Conservative Partnership Institute was recently cited in an Axios report as a prime architect for “Trump 2025,” Trump’s plans for demolishing the federal government should he win a second term," reported The New Republic. "However, Mike Pence became a “dues-paying member” of the CNP this year as well, and there can be little doubt that there are active conversations with Ron DeSantis. The CNP’s leaders have made it clear that their objective is not the personality, it’s the outcome."

www.rawstory.com/council-for-national-policy-2657948874/

She has an excellent point.  Republicans frequently and falsely refer to Democrats as socialists, communists, Marxists etc.  Yet when Biden truthfully calls them out for being semi-fascists, they’re outraged.  Just this week, Rubio called Democrats  left wing lunatics, laptop liberals and Marxist misfits.  And he got the part about 2 normal political parties completely backwards, projection at it’s finest.

LOL

Nothing new. When has he ever paid all his bills? Ask Atlantic City he’ll pay a few up front to get the ball rolling and then the excuses will start. And then poof his current business goes bankrupt and doesn’t pay a damn thing. Lather rinse repeat

This is what he does repeatedly

She is so good. I like the salty WH Tweets. It’s about time. Conservatives like to dish it out, but they are outraged when it comes back at them. Why be a punching bag?

Remember when Trump called. Democrats “human scum”?
I think Biden should have gone with full-on fascists.

Re: Truth social. Everything trump touches turns to crap. He is the worst businessman. He either doesn't pay or declares bankruptcy. And he skirts paying taxes any way possible. He uses his businesses to corruptly line his pockets. And now we can add the good old USA as a business he used to scam people for his unending greed. Except this time, he's put millions of people at risk by selling our top secrets. It's not a shock to me, and most of you that have been reading between the lines.

IMO the GOP has been turning a blind eye all these years because they actually wanted him to do exactly what he's doing. (Look how many are riding his coat tails and using similar juvenile language.) I'm not sure they bargained for the selling of US secrets, but they underestimated just how far he would take things. And now in typical fashion, they are digging in their heels and will never admit a dire mistake was made. They will bilk what they can get out of this trump era to get all of the power and control they have been wanting for decades. And I doubt any of them have any sort of conscious, therefore shame and hypocrisy will not work on them. Just like trump. #wearedoomed