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GOP rep accuses DOJ of setting trap to imprison Trump supporters: ‘They want J6 again’
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) has accused the Justice Department of setting a trap to imprison supporters of former President Trump, who has called for protests in response to his latest indictment over allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Trump arrived in Florida on Monday, ahead of his arraignment Tuesday in Miami, where thousands of protesters are expected to turn out Tuesday.

Higgins cast the case as a threat to America, but he urged fellow Trump supporters not to “fall for the trap,” drawing a parallel to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which has seen hundreds of federal prosecutions of those involved.

“My fellow conservatives, the DOJ/FBI doesn’t expect to imprison Trump, they expect to imprison you. They want J6 again, in Miami and in your city and in mine. They want MAGA conservatives to react to this perimeter probe and in doing so, set yourselves up for targeted persecution and further entrapment,” Higgins said in a Sunday release from his office.

“They want to intercept a busload of conservatives en route to protest and create conflicts during the stop. They are hoping to provoke conservative Americans. Don’t fall for the trap,” the Louisiana lawmaker said, adding “don’t become an incarcerated pawn in the agenda driven DOJ/FBI strategy to oppress conservatives across America.”

Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, was indicted last week on 37 counts in connection with the alleged mishandling of classified records at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and is set to appear in court to be arraigned at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Florida.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (R) said during a press conference Monday that the city is prepared to handle any protests and demonstrations that may occur but warned of possible “disruption” to traffic patterns surrounding the former president’s high-profile appearance.

The latest development in the former president’s legal woes has fueled GOP claims that the federal government has been weaponized by President Biden and Democrats, a sentiment echoed by Higgins in his statement Sunday.

Higgins’s warning, which he ends by saying “We the People must fight against oppression legally, peacefully, and within the parameters of our Constitution,” comes after one of his tweets last week drew some scrutiny and added to concerns about a violent response to the indictment.

“This is a perimeter probe from the oppressors,” Higgins wrote in response to Trump announcing that he had been indicted. “Hold. rPOTUS has this. Buckle up. 1/50K know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That is all.”

He followed the tweet up with another post urging “Let Trump handle Trump, he’s got this. We use the Constitution as our only weapon. Peace. Hold.”

Higgins made headlines last month over a video of the congressman manhandling an activist at a press conference in front of the Capitol.

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GOP rep accuses DOJ of setting trap to imprison Trump supporters: ‘They want J6 again’
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) has accused the Justice Department of setting a trap to imprison supporters of former President Trump, who has called for protests in response to his latest indictment over allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Trump arrived in Florida on Monday, ahead of his arraignment Tuesday in Miami, where thousands of protesters are expected to turn out Tuesday.

Higgins cast the case as a threat to America, but he urged fellow Trump supporters not to “fall for the trap,” drawing a parallel to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which has seen hundreds of federal prosecutions of those involved.

“My fellow conservatives, the DOJ/FBI doesn’t expect to imprison Trump, they expect to imprison you. They want J6 again, in Miami and in your city and in mine. They want MAGA conservatives to react to this perimeter probe and in doing so, set yourselves up for targeted persecution and further entrapment,” Higgins said in a Sunday release from his office.

“They want to intercept a busload of conservatives en route to protest and create conflicts during the stop. They are hoping to provoke conservative Americans. Don’t fall for the trap,” the Louisiana lawmaker said, adding “don’t become an incarcerated pawn in the agenda driven DOJ/FBI strategy to oppress conservatives across America.”

Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, was indicted last week on 37 counts in connection with the alleged mishandling of classified records at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and is set to appear in court to be arraigned at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Florida.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (R) said during a press conference Monday that the city is prepared to handle any protests and demonstrations that may occur but warned of possible “disruption” to traffic patterns surrounding the former president’s high-profile appearance.

The latest development in the former president’s legal woes has fueled GOP claims that the federal government has been weaponized by President Biden and Democrats, a sentiment echoed by Higgins in his statement Sunday.

Higgins’s warning, which he ends by saying “We the People must fight against oppression legally, peacefully, and within the parameters of our Constitution,” comes after one of his tweets last week drew some scrutiny and added to concerns about a violent response to the indictment.

“This is a perimeter probe from the oppressors,” Higgins wrote in response to Trump announcing that he had been indicted. “Hold. rPOTUS has this. Buckle up. 1/50K know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That is all.”

He followed the tweet up with another post urging “Let Trump handle Trump, he’s got this. We use the Constitution as our only weapon. Peace. Hold.”

Higgins made headlines last month over a video of the congressman manhandling an activist at a press conference in front of the Capitol.

GOP rep accuses DOJ of setting trap to imprison Trump supporters: ‘They want J6 again’

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) has accused the Justice Department of setting a trap to imprison supporters of former President Trump, who has called for protests in response to his latest indictment ove…

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Do these stupid motherfuckers think ANYONE believes their shit, that isn't already in their cult?
Why do they waste time with this fucking moronic play acting? If they had any sense, they'd shut the fuck up publicly and get their fucking shit together privately.
Why doesn't jordan just admit that he's desperately seeking a way to avoid prosecution? And that he is fucking obsessed with proving that both Biden's did something they simply didn't do, so he can never prove it...
These are mostly educated people, only a few are trailer trash like bobert, even greene comes from a half ass decent family...What turned them into shit slinging monkeys? What fucking power is it that trump has, or at least had, that makes people more educated than him turn traitor? How can they be stupid enough, and shitty enough people, to commit insurrection for a fucking ignorant sleazey conman?
They should just save the histrionic bullshit for their own trials. They're going to need something, since they have no valid legal defense.

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Do these stupid motherfuckers think ANYONE believes their shit, that isn't already in their cult?
Why do they waste time with this fucking moronic play acting? If they had any sense, they'd shut the fuck up publicly and get their fucking shit together privately.
Why doesn't jordan just admit that he's desperately seeking a way to avoid prosecution? And that he is fucking obsessed with proving that both Biden's did something they simply didn't do, so he can never prove it...
These are mostly educated people, only a few are trailer trash like bobert, even greene comes from a half ass decent family...What turned them into shit slinging monkeys? What fucking power is it that trump has, or at least had, that makes people more educated than him turn traitor? How can they be stupid enough, and shitty enough people, to commit insurrection for a fucking ignorant sleazey conman?
They should just save the histrionic bullshit for their own trials. They're going to need something, since they have no valid legal defense.

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They have lazy minds and thinking out of their box. If they thought things through they might see that they are wrong and that is not acceptable.

BREAKING: Alleged sex trafficker Rep. Matt Gaetz makes a shocking admission during a conversation with right-wing puppet master Steve Bannon — sending ripples of outraged responses through some corners of the Republican party.

Gaetz proudly announced that he wants to implement "deep vertical cuts" to "veterans" funding in the United States and would actually like to "get rid of" veterans programs altogether.

Of course a coward and predator like Gaetz has no appreciation for the sacrifices our veterans have made and is perfectly happy to screw them over in order to pave the way for more tax cuts for the 1%.

There used to be a time when Republicans at least pretended to care about our military. Now, Trumpism has rotted their morals so deeply that they're completely unafraid to broadcast exactly how corrupt and cruel they've become.

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Last poll I saw says 80% think he should go to prison if found guilty...

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GOP moderates strike back after conservative revolt paralyzes House

Frustrations among moderate House Republicans are bubbling over.
A week after a group of mutinous conservatives shut down the chamber floor, GOP moderates struck back, accusing the rebels of fracturing the conference and threatening to tank the party’s legislative agenda heading into the summer’s tough policy fights with President Biden.

Frustrations reached a boiling point during a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday morning. There, in the basement of the Capitol, a handful of moderate Republicans aired their grievances over last week’s revolt directly at the conservatives who orchestrated it.
Others in the conference quickly hailed the spirited pushback, saying the moderates vented the frustrations of a vast majority of the GOP conference.

“The three or four guys who spoke today spoke for 95 percent of us,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told The Hill Tuesday afternoon.
“Ninety-five percent of us were pissed about it,” he said of the nearly weeklong deadlock in the House. “It wasn’t right, it hurt the team.”
“What Republicans need to do is recognize that when you have an opportunity to take yes for an answer, go with it,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), an Appropriations subcommittee chairman, said later in the day.

He expressed frustration that the caps set out in the debt limit compromise are “being rejected by people in our conference that chose last week to demonstrate their angst by denying us an opportunity to have votes.”

That stance, Womack said, makes it difficult for the House to have any negotiating credibility with the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Tuesday morning’s conference meeting came hours after House conservatives said they would retreat from their days-long revolt — at least temporarily — and allow legislative business to move forward on the floor as they continue discussions with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) about reining in deficit spending.
The chamber advanced four pieces of legislation on the floor Tuesday, including one that conservatives blocked last week when they kicked off the blockade.

The conservatives were protesting the Speaker’s handling of the debt ceiling negotiations with President Biden, and they want to send the message that they expect him to hold a tougher line in the coming battle over government spending.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the 11 GOP rabble-rousers, warned the rebels could revive their floor blockade if McCarthy fails to meet their still-undefined requests.

The combination of last week’s revolt and the threat of another has infuriated the moderates.

Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) castigated the hard-liners during Tuesday’s meeting, according to multiple lawmakers in the room, in an exchange largely focused on the legislation the conservatives stalled. Reps. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) and Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) also spoke out with similar concerns, according to a GOP lawmaker in the room. A second GOP lawmaker, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal conversations, described the meeting as a “catharsis” and said it included cursing. “A little spicy in there,” the lawmaker added.

Van Orden “dropped an f-bomb,” which elicited applause from other Republicans in the room, according to a third GOP member.
“He was just frustrated about being up here last week and not legislating any bills on the floor,” the second GOP lawmaker said of Van Orden.
Van Orden declined to comment on what he said in the conference meeting, but he noted he filed a bill Tuesday to add more rail investigators to assess train derailments more quickly.

“I didn’t come here for attention. I came here to work,” Van Orden said.
Lawler also declined to comment specifically about the exchange but took a shot at the conservatives for defying the wishes of a vast majority of the GOP conference.

“Matt Gaetz, Chip Roy — they’re not in charge. They weren’t elected to lead the conference,” Lawler said after the meeting. “You have a conference of 222 people. And they would all be well-advised to remember that they are one vote. … The power of the conference resides in the fact that we have a majority. The majority was delivered by people in swing districts.”

The conservatives, for their part, aren’t apologizing for their rebellion. Instead, they fired back at the moderates for what they characterized as a soft approach to cutting spending and reducing deficits.
“Some of our colleagues are getting bent out of shape. You know what I say to that? I don’t give a damn because the American people that I work for, they’re thanking me. And I’d rather be thanked at home than by some schlepp on the House floor,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said on Steve Deace’s BlazeTV show later on Tuesday.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) also said he was not concerned with members angry about the confrontational tactics.
“They need to go back to drinking,” Buck said.

As GOP members express alarm about hard-line conservatives arm-twisting the rest of the conference, McCarthy is pushing back on their description of the talks — particularly Gaetz’s assertion that they were renegotiating a “power-sharing agreement.”
“I don’t know any power-sharing agreement that came out of that meeting from yesterday other than the idea that we would move forward this week, and then we would all come together and keep working,” McCarthy said Tuesday, adding that if he had an agreement with every slim faction in the House GOP, he would have “410 million different agreements.”

Members of the House Freedom Caucus, appropriators, and members of other influential caucuses met in McCarthy’s office Tuesday afternoon to discuss how appropriations will work going forward.

The growing frustrations come as Congress suits up for high-stakes legislative undertakings that will require bipartisan cooperation — including funding the government, which tops the list.

House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) said Monday night that House appropriators will “limit new spending to the fiscal year 2022 topline level,” below the caps set out in the debt limit compromise — welcome news to the Freedom Caucus and their allies but a development that forecasts even more tension with the Senate.

After last week’s revolt — and with a high-profile agenda on the horizon — some moderates are considering cutting conservatives out of the process and working with Democrats instead.

“I’m of the position that at some point we gotta just do coalition government with the Democrats and cut these guys out,” Bacon said of the conservatives. “If they continue to do that, we got to make them irrelevant.”
He said he is “not yet” at the moment of needing to box out conservatives — ”hopefully they’ll wisen up” — but said, “At some point, we just gotta work across the aisle and tune these guys out.”

“ Sumbody gonna get Jacked up “

BREAKING: Retired U.S. Army general blasts Trump in a devastating rant — and destroys every single one of his Republican enablers who are claiming that Trump “did nothing wrong” when he stole military intel.

First, the former general set his sights on Donald Trump, declaring that “those in the military” are “the most pissed off” about Trump stealing Intel secrets.”

Then, the decorated General Mark Hertling declared that the sheer amount of Intel stolen is “gobsmacking” — but that’s not the worst part. The general revealed that even though the media is describing some of the Intel as “war plans,” the reality is MUCH worse.

He continued, “The documents were likely extremely detailed intelligence assessments, with potential foe (and ally) capabilities and weaknesses — and American war capabilities that we would not want anyone — especially our foes, to know. I have seen intel agencies, military units, foreign service officers put sweat and blood into providing these documents, making sure they are accurate. All those individuals KNOW they must get it right, because their work, their assessments, are provided to key decision-makers.

He continued, “One phrase in the indictment struck me like a bullet. Trump saying: 'my boxes.' None of these are his 'personal papers.' These documents provide information and intelligence - gathered through the use of US capabilities, put together by really smart, dedicated, patriotic individuals — to be used by US officials to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Then, he set his sights on all of the Republican leaders, who are continuing to defend Trump, calling them “moronic” and declaring that, “Military and intel officials are pissed. All Americans should be equally pissed. But it seems that many are not — only because of how some in government are treating this case.”

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She cuts her own hair.

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That irritating noise comes from the prodigious appendage on her face. It's a Palomino trait.

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just another crybaby republican obstructionist, taking his ball and going home, "Cuz Fuck You Guys...We aren't getting what we want."

House GOP starts costly effort to save cuts for wealthy in Trump tax law
House Republicans recently brought the nation to the brink of financial ruin because of a professed concern over federal debt. Yet this week they’ve pursued legislation that contains wasteful tax giveaways that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars if made permanent. Why the change? Turns out Republicans don’t mind spending as long as it’s for the right cause — which apparently for them is giving tax cuts to large corporations and their wealthy owners.

The House Ways and Means Committee this week progressed a bill to revive several expired corporate tax breaks in the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law. That law — which mostly benefited the rich — made certain components temporary to lower the cost of the package to fit congressional budget rules. These provisions were meant to partially pay for other handouts in the law, most prominently a 40 percent cut in the corporate tax rate. Now House Republicans want to keep the rate cut and reopen the loopholes as well.

The three corporate provisions at the center of the current legislation all concern how much corporations are allowed to deduct from their profits before figuring their taxes. The more corporations can deduct, the lower their taxable income, the less they owe.

First, the Ways and Means bill would allow corporations to write off the cost of big assets much faster than they actually wear out. Under normal accounting rules, companies can only deduct in the year of purchase the cost of items that get used up right away — like electricity and workers’ wages — or nearly so, like office supplies. But the cost of more substantial assets — like machinery and vehicles — needs to be deducted in pieces over time to reflect their slow decline in value in a process called “depreciation.”

The Republican tax law overrode the sensible principle of depreciation by letting firms deduct immediately the cost of items expected to last up to 20 years, allowing highly profitable corporations to slash their tax bills. This loophole gave Verizon more than $5 billion from the federal treasury over the first four years the new rules were in effect, while Google got $5 billion and Facebook (Meta) got almost $4 billion. But the 2017 Trump-GOP tax bill began a gradual phaseout this year of “bonus depreciation” and now House Republicans want to keep it at full strength.

Second, the Ways and Means package would restore a big write-off for corporate research. Research costs traditionally have been deductible in the year incurred, but to help pay for the tax law’s huge cut in the corporate tax rate and other handouts, corporations as of last year have had to depreciate those costs over five years — not an unreasonable approach to valuing research results that can pay off over a long time.

Third, the Ways and Means bill would allow corporations to deduct more of their interest payments. In another tradeoff for the 2017 law’s corporate-tax largesse, Republicans limited the corporate-interest deduction to 30 percent of a common measurement of profits—resulting in a smaller interest deduction and thus higher taxes. House Republicans want to allow a broader definition of income to allow corporations to deduct more interest and thus lower their taxes.

Altogether, reviving these corporate tax breaks would cost around $600 billion in lost revenue over 10 years. That’s as much as President Biden this year proposed spending to provide free pre-K for all four-year-olds and affordable daycare for 16 million kids, displaying different priorities. And while the Ways and Means bill would give more tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, it would do very little or nothing to help the 19 million children who currently don’t get the maximum Child Tax Credit.

American corporations don’t need more tax breaks. The effective tax rate for profitable corporations has already fallen from 16 percent under President Obama to just 9 percent in the year after the Trump tax law was passed. Corporate profits are at record highs and corporate taxes as a share of federal revenue are less than half what they were 50 years ago. And when corporate taxes are cut, it’s the rich who benefit because they’re the ones who own corporations: the wealthiest 1 percent own over half of all corporate stock, and the top 10 percent own almost 90 percent.

With Democrats controlling the Senate and President Biden in the White House, the House GOP’s initial foray into resurrecting expiring Trump tax cuts will fail. But at the end of 2025, most of the law’s individual-tax provisions — which heavily favor the wealthy — are scheduled to sunset. The GOP wants to keep them all.

This week’s bill is a test run to see how successful those long-range efforts will be. That’s why it’s important to pay attention to the current legislation and start building opposition to the inevitable, high-powered campaign coming soon to make all the expiring provisions permanent.

If this larger Republican strategy is successful it would add $3.5 trillion to the national debt over 10 years, wiping out the $1.5 trillion reduction in debt achieved through spending cuts in the debt-ceiling deal and adding another $2 trillion on top.

So congressional Republicans will either add to our nation’s debt or propose more budget cuts to domestic spending — even perhaps to Social Security and Medicare. Either way, they’ll uphold their highest priority: cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations.

Social Security Benefits Targeted for Cuts by House Conservatives

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She cuts her own hair.

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Hypocrisy level: Legendary,
from the despot’s lapdog who said not one word while the traitor-in-chief was taking a crowbar to the republic.


"I think two things are true today: Number one is no one's above the law. This indictment includes serious charges. I can't defend what's alleged there. The handling of classified materials is vitally important to the country," he said. "But look, we've gone through about -- trying to do the math here -- about out seven years where the American people have lost confidence in our Department of Justice.

No mention of how DOJ lost reputation. I suspect hiring winged monkeys like Barr and Durham might just possibly have contributed.

This two-faced radical-right Christian Nationalist embodies why GOP post-agent orange remains an unmitigated enemy of the republic.