Crooks and Liars

Mike Johnson Doesn't Have Time For Marjorie Taylor Greene

Conover Kennard — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:21:54 +0000

Mike Johnson Asked About Marge; She's Gonna Hate His Answer

Conover Kennard — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:21:53 +0000

Have you ever had a narcissist in your life, and you got to the point that you had to go completely no contact? That's what House Speaker Mike Johnson seems to be doing with controversial MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Johnson just came out and said it on Jesse Watters' show. When asked if he had "nightmares about Marjorie Taylor Greene, he said, "I don't think about her at all." Narcissists hate that more than anything.

"We don't have a functioning majority when you can only lose one vote if one person has a different idea, we don't," Johnson said. "

"So it's like a coalition government?" Watters asked.

"No, we're trying to prevent that," Johson explained. "We're trying to keep the Republicans working together, and we've gotten better policy and better process, and we're getting things done. But it's very difficult when very individualistic Individual-minded Republicans don't want to move together as a block."

"Marjorie Taylor Greene?" Watters asked.

"I'm not gonna name any names Jesse, you know, you know who they are," Johnson said.

"Do you have nightmares about her?" Watters asked.

"No, I don't," Johnson said. "I don't think about her at all."

MAGA is only good at breaking things. MAGA Republicans do not know how to solve problems. And as Speaker of the House, Johnson knows that sometimes you must compromise. That's how you get shit done.

Alina Habba Delivers Some Bad News For Her Boss

John Amato — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:15:10 +0000

Wed, 04/24/2024

Alina Habba: Trial Not Looking Good For Trump

John Amato — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:14:58 +0000

Trump attorney Alina Habba told Newsmax Trump devotee host Greg Kelly that the signs don't look too good for Trump's acquittal.

Kelly fawned, "How are you? What do you think about everything?"

"Exactly how i felt that day," she said. "I think until it's over and behind us, um, but I don't have hopes really that high at this moment that the New York courts will do the right thing."

"That the jury will do the right thing. We're in a blue state. as you know, Greg and I think everything's by design," she said.

She went on to use the usual Trump line that it's an unfair case brought about by the biased prosecutors.

As the recent polls are showing, Diminished Don's "hush money" trial that's all about election interference is having an effect on Trump's candidacy. Biden is rising and Lumpy is failing.

Only because it's Trump, suddenly New York's legal system is corrupt.

Americans aren't buying what they are selling except for the evangelical tea party MAGA dolts.

At the end of the segment, Kelly was creeping on Habba like he did to Marge.

Trump Sons Playing Key Role In Transition Plans

NewsHound Ellen — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:14:57 +0000

While the completely unqualified Lara Trump (Eric’s wife) takes over the RNC and turns it into a cult of loyalists, the just as unqualified sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are trying to do the same with the Trump transition. Please God, may this remain a family dream only.

From Axios:

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have become key players in the early planning for a second Trump administration's transition team, and would focus on vetting potential officials and staffers for ideology and loyalty, campaign aides and close allies to their father tell Axios.

Why it matters: Neither brother would officially run Donald Trump's transition team, but they'd take a lead in making sure government jobs are filled by Republicans aligned with Trump's vision for the party, the sources said.
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Bannon Just Named Co-Conspirator In Fraud, Racketeering Case

Susie Madrak — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:04:50 +0000

In a little-noticed court filing recently, feds described sleazy former Trump advisor Steve Bannon as a “co-conspirator” in a massive criminal fraud and racketeering case against a flamboyant, far-right Chinese fugitive -- you know, the guy with the yacht where Bannon was hiding out? Via Mother Jones:

FBI agents in March 2023 arrested Guo Wengui, a self-styled anti-Chinese government activist Bannon once advised, charging him and two associates with using a series of fraudulent investment opportunities to defraud thousands of Guo’s supporters in the Chinese diaspora of more than $1 billion.

Guo used the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle for himself and his family, including a $3.5 million Ferrari, a $26 million mansion, a $140,000 piano, and two $36,000 mattresses, the Justice Department alleges. Guo, who also goes by the names Miles Guo and Ho Wan Kwok, has pleaded not guilty. He has claimed his prosecution was the result of Chinese government pressure on the Justice Department. Deemed a flight risk, Guo has been denied bail and jailed since his arrest.

Bannon worked as an adviser for Guo from 2017 until at least 2020, helping Guo launch a series of media companies, nonprofits, and other ventures. In June 2020, Guo and Bannon founded a group dubbed the New Federal State of China, which they claimed was a government in waiting preparing to replace the Chinese Communist Party.
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Amy Coney Barrett Backs Sotomayor In SCOTUS Abortion Point

Susie Madrak — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:41:38 +0000

Thu, 04/25/2024

Justice Barrett Backs Sotomayor Point In Abortion Argument

Susie Madrak — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:41:00 +0000

One of my lawyer friends has been predicting for months we would see Amy Coney Barrett gradually moving toward a partial alliance with the liberal justices on the court, and yesterday, we saw her back up Justice Sotomayor's argument in the Iowa abortion case before the court.

"The U.S. Supreme Court sounded divided yesterday during oral arguments in a case concerning access to emergency abortions. The justices were hearing arguments in two consolidated cases about whether a near total abortion ban in the state of Idaho conflicts with a federal law," Mika Brzezinski said.

"That federal law passed in 1986 requires emergency rooms to provide care to any patients with urgent medical issues, but Idaho's new abortion law only permits hospitals to perform abortions when a mother's life is in danger. For the most part, the Supreme Court justices seem to fall along ideological lines yesterday, but at one point, even conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett discussed shock with what she was hearing from a lawyer representing the state of idaho."

SOTOMAYOR: When Idaho law changed to make the issue whether she's going to die or not or whether she's going to have a serious medical condition -- there's a big daylight by your standards, correct?

ATTORNEY: It is very case by case.

SOTOMAYOR: That's the problem.

BARRETT: I'm kind of shocked actually because I thought your own expert had said below that these kinds of cases were covered and you're now saying they're not?
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Lara Trump Sure Can Pick Them

Susie Madrak — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:57:28 +0000

Thu, 04/25/2024

RNC 'Election Integrity' Chair Indicted In AZ Election Fraud

Susie Madrak — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:57:00 +0000

Maybe Lara Trump will give her a raise! After all, clearly she's willing to do just about anything! Via American Oversight:

Christina Bobb, a former Trump attorney and far-right television presenter who was a fervent supporter of efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is now the Republican National Committee’s senior counsel for “election integrity.”

Bobb’s RNC appointment came shortly after Trump secured the party’s 2024 nomination, and signals the RNC’s focus on continuing to push lies about voter fraud and election security. Bobb played a major role in the fake-electors scheme and, as public reporting and documents obtained by American Oversight detail, supported partisan and baseless post-2020 election investigations in Arizona and Wisconsin.

Bobb previously worked as a correspondent for the Trump-aligned One America News Network, where she promoted falsehoods about the 2020 election and in 2021 urged viewers to donate in support of the Arizona Senate’s “audit” of Maricopa County’s election results through her organization Voices and Votes, which contributed over $600,000 in donations for the Arizona effort.

Now, she's getting her mug shot taken in Arizona.