Examples of GOP Leadership

Lara Trump says RNC will have people ‘who can physically handle’ ballots on Election Day
Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump said the national committee will have both poll watchers and people “who can physically handle ballots” on Election Day.

“We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers — people standing in polling locations — but people who can physically handle the ballots,” Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, told Eric Bolling in a Newsmax appearance on Tuesday.

The RNC and the Trump campaign last week announced an “election integrity program” of more than 100,000 volunteers and attorneys “deployed across every battleground state.”

“Whenever a ballot is being cast or counted, Republican poll watchers will be observing the process and reporting any irregularity,” the RNC said in a release.

Poll watchers, who typically observe the ballot-counting process and report any issues to authorities or officials, can’t touch ballots or machinery.

“So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in. And last year, the judge who implemented that passed away. So, that was lifted, and that gives us a great ability as we head into what I assume everyone understands is the most important election of our lifetime,” Lara Trump said.

The Hill reached out to the RNC for more on Lara Trump’s comments.

Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for 2024, has long touted false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and rigged against him. Lara Trump, who was endorsed for her top RNC role by the former president, has said 2020 is “in the past” — but stressed earlier this month that the RNC is “leaving nothing to chance” in the fall.

“Having the right people to count the ballots is just as important as turning out voters on Election Day. Republicans are now working together to protect the vote and ensure a big win on November 5th!” the former president said of the program, per an RNC release.

GOP lawmakers take Trump’s policy orders with a grain of salt
Republicans in Congress are taking former President Trump’s policy directives with more than a few grains of salt, signaling they view what he says about issues as mainly for dramatic effect on the campaign trail. Congress in recent weeks passed an extension of the warrantless surveillance program, and sent to President Biden a major foreign aid package that includes $61 billion for Ukraine. Trump supported neither effort: He publicly opposed the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) program and aid to Ukraine.

It’s not as if Republicans are ignoring Trump; more House Republicans voted against money for Ukraine than for it. But Trump’s 0-2 record on Congress’s big policy bills shows GOP leaders who differ with Trump on policy, notably Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), can still wield influence. And Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), while aligned with Trump, has not been afraid to put measures on the House floor that Trump disagrees with. Two of Trump’s staunchest allies in the House, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), led opposition to Ukraine funding in the House. Greene has even filed a motion to vacate the Speaker’s chair to boot Johnson out of his job because of her displeasure over how he handled the issue.

Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) praised Johnson on Tuesday for managing Trump’s opposition and helping convince the former president to back away from his full-throated attempt to derail the Ukraine funding package when it came to the Senate floor in February. “His engagement, I think, with the former president probably was helpful because there was a fairly strong position prior in opposition,” Thune said of Johnson’s recent outreach to Trump, including a trip to Mar-a-Lago in mid-April. Trump made waves in February when he declared at a campaign rally in South Carolina that he told “one of the presidents of a big country” that if NATO allies didn’t pay their dues, he would not come to their aid if attacked by Russian forces and would instead “encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.”

Shortly before the Senate voted on its $95 billion foreign aid package, which included $61 billion for Ukraine, two months ago, Trump posted on his social media site: “WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE MONEY ANYMORE WITHOUT THE HOPE OF PAYBACK, OR WITHOUT ‘STRINGS’ ATTACHED.” “THE UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD BE ‘STUPID’ NO LONGER!” Trump posted. The presumptive GOP nominee for president warned in February of last year that Biden was “systematically, but perhaps unknowingly, pushing us into what could be WORLD WAR III” by intervening in the Ukrainian war.

The Senate nevertheless went ahead and passed money for Ukraine with 70 votes in February, including the support of 22 Republicans. McConnell hailed that vote as a major success because he garnered the support of nearly half of his conference even though Trump was making calls lobbying against the bill. The Senate GOP leader won a bigger victory Tuesday, when 31 Republicans voted to advance the House-approved foreign aid package, which largely resembled the bill that was on the Senate floor two months ago.

McConnell blamed former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for leading the “demonization” of U.S. support for the war in Ukraine and said Trump voiced “mixed views” on the issue. While many MAGA-aligned Republicans and Senate Republican candidates continue to espouse isolationist views when it comes to the war and the NATO alliance, McConnell said Tuesday he thinks his side has the upper hand after the overwhelming Senate vote. “I think we’ve turned the corner on this argument. We went from 22 [Senate Republican] votes to at least 30,” he noted. “The House [GOP conference] is about 50-50, as we thought would happen if they voted on it.”

Thirty-one GOP senators voted to advance the bill Tuesday, eight more than who voted for it earlier this year. On Saturday, 101 House Republicans voted for the Ukraine aid, while 112 voted against it. “I think we’ve turned the corner on the isolationist movement. I’ve noticed how uncomfortable the proponents of that are when you call them isolationists. I think we’ve made some progress,” McConnell told reporters.

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who played a leading role in opposing the Ukraine aid package, however, said Trump kept largely quiet about the bill in recent weeks because he wants to preserve his leverage to end the conflict if elected president in November. “I think that he has intentionally … stayed out of this. He doesn’t involve himself in every single debate that we have over here. He could have weighed in, and I think he very intentionally chose not to,” he said. “The argument Trump has made is this would have never happened if he were president, and he wants the killing to stop. And I think it’s important for him to actually maintain some leverage and flexibility when he becomes president,” Vance added.

Trump played a more active role this month when he urged GOP lawmakers to “kill FISA.” “KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” Trump posted on Truth Social. That, however, didn’t stop a two-year reauthorization of FISA’s warrantless surveillance program from passing both chambers with strong bipartisan support. A majority of House Republicans — 126 — voted for the bill, while 88 voted against it.In the Senate, 30 Republicans voted for the extension of surveillance powers, while 16 voted “no.”

Alarmed GOP lawmakers rebelled against Trump’s call to block the reauthorization of the spy program, arguing that letting it lapse would put the nation at risk. “I’m very disappointed in President Trump’s assessment of FISA. It is an essential tool. It may need to be amended but it is absolutely essential, as everyone in the intelligence community will tell you,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the Republican vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, warned: “If we can’t spy on foreign terrorists and foreign spies overseas, we’re out of the intelligence business.”

Rubio noted to The Hill on Tuesday that Republicans voted to reauthorize FISA’s warrantless surveillance program with Trump’s support when he was president. And he pointed out that Trump was wrong to blame the FBI wiretap on his former campaign aide Carter Page in 2016 on the surveillance program authorized by FISA’s Section 702, which was the law reauthorized by Congress last week. “We actually had reforms in this bill that would have prevented potentially them from even getting that warrant. In the one we just passed, you can’t use political opposition research as part of your warrant [request],” he pointed out in response to Trump’s criticism. Rubio said Trump never weighed in with him directly about the reauthorization program, despite his attention-grabbing post on Truth Social.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s closest allies in the Senate, argued that Trump had an influence on both the Ukraine funding package and the FISA reauthorization by demanding that some of the aid to Ukraine come in the form of a loan and to limit the FISA extension to two years instead of five years. The House included a provision directing the president to structure $10 billion in economic assistance to Ukraine as a loan, but it also gave Biden or a future president the power to waive repayment. “He supported it as a loan, and it passed,” Graham argued. “He said, ‘I will support a loan.’ And part of it is a loan.” “He said he supported FISA for two years, not five. He didn’t oppose FISA forever,” Graham said of Trump’s stance on warrantless surveillance. “When they said we’ll make it two years so we can review it again, he said ‘OK.’” And Graham predicted a larger portion of any future Ukraine assistance package will be set up as a loan.

okay Laura, how many state are they're? jc

BudmanTX said:

okay Laura, how many state are they're? jc

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They counted ballots twice in Red states last time. (and Trump lost anyway).

BudmanTX said:

okay Laura, how many state are they're? jc

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Fucking imbecile

Well well well ….




Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman. All are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election.

Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli Ward, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA.


The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes. Arizona is the fourth state after Michigan, Georgia and Nevada to seek charges against those who formed an alternate slate of presidential electors. As those cases slowly make their way through the legal system, Trump is again running for president, and officials in Arizona and other battleground states are preparing for another likely contentious election.

In releasing the indictment, Mayes’s office redacted the names of all of the individuals outside of Arizona who were charged until they have been served their indictments. The Washington Post was able to identify all of them through the accounts of their alleged actions described in the indictment.


Unlike probes by state prosecutors in Michigan and Nevada, Mayes took a top-to-bottom approach with her investigation. Similar to prosecutors in the Atlanta area, Mayes targeted not just local conservatives who carried out the plan in Phoenix, but also the out-of-state middlemen in Trump’s orbit who allegedly helped put it together. But unlike in Georgia, Mayes did not try to indict the former president.


This is a second round of charges for Meadows, Giuliani, Ellis, Eastman and Roman, who were all indicted alongside Trump in Georgia last year. Ellis pleaded guilty in October to illegally conspiring to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia and has been cooperating with prosecutors. This is the first time Epshteyn — now a top 2024 campaign aide who frequently talks with the former president — has been charged for his alleged actions after the 2020 election.

Mayes’s case had been squarely focused on local conservatives up until late last year. Then, Arizona prosecutors and investigators met in December with Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney and an architect of the elector strategy who pleaded guilty in Georgia in October to a single felony count of participating in a conspiracy to file false documents. Chesebro provided Mayes’s team with records — some that had been previously unseen — that revealed more information about those involved in the Arizona effort, according to two people familiar with the investigation who requested anonymity to talk about the sensitive conversations. After that, they said the Arizona investigation widened.

You gotta love a good circus….

Anyone surprised ?



“I’ve said all along given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country,” Barr replied. “And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket.”

BudmanTX said:

okay Laura, how many state are they're? jc

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how many states of grey were there?

Coming soon to this thread, fact checking Lara Trump.

Her recent claims are listed here:


Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump said the national committee will have both poll watchers and people “who can physically handle ballots” on Election Day.
“We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers — people standing in polling locations — but people who can physically handle the ballots,” Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, told Eric Bolling in a Newsmax appearance Tuesday.

The RNC and former President Trump’s campaign last week announced an “election integrity program” of more than 100,000 volunteers and attorneys “deployed across every battleground state.”
“Whenever a ballot is being cast or counted, Republican poll watchers will be observing the process and reporting any irregularity,” the RNC said in a release.
Poll watchers, who typically observe the ballot-counting process and report any issues to authorities or officials, can’t touch ballots or machinery.

“So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in. And last year, the judge who implemented that passed away. So, that was lifted, and that gives us a great ability as we head into what I assume everyone understands is the most important election of our lifetime,” Lara Trump said.
Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee for 2024, has long touted false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and rigged against him. Lara Trump, who was endorsed for the top RNC role by the former president, has said 2020 is “in the past” — but stressed earlier this month that the RNC is “leaving nothing to chance” this fall.
“This election cycle, Republicans will beat Democrats at their own game by leveraging every legal tactic at our disposal based on the rules of each state,” RNC spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement. “That includes ballot harvesting in states like California and Nevada and nominating Republican poll workers in states like Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.”

whut? the "judge passed away and so a moratorium against the RNC "training" people" went away? What is this? A curse on the RNC that ended with the life of the wizard who cast the spell? I don't think court orders work that way, Lara.

Remember the receipts about the “ Pill Mill “ White House under Dozo the Clown ?

Well , word has it that walking diaper is on crank.
Loose bowels from it , bad diet ( $700 McDonald’s run recently) , lack of exercise, midnight toilet tweeting , lack of hygiene…. Get your sharpies and check off any of the symptoms listed.


More common

1. Agitation
2. anxiety
3. bladder pain
4. bloody or cloudy urine
5. crying
6. delusions of persecution, mistrust, suspiciousness, or combativeness
7. difficult, burning, or painful urination
8. false or unusual sense of well-being
9. feeling of unreality
10. frequent urge to urinate
11. lower back or side pain
12. mental depression
13. nervousness
14. quick to react or overreact emotionally
15. rapidly changing moods
16. sense of detachment from self or body
    1. confusion
    2. dark urine
    3. diarrhea
    4. difficulty breathing
    5. dizziness
    6. fainting
    7. fast, irregular, pounding, or racing heartbeat or pulse
    8. headache
    9. hives, itching, skin rash
    10. joint or muscle pain
    11. large, hive-like swelling on the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, or genitals ( yuck )
    12. mood swings
    13. muscle cramps, pain, stiffness, or spasms
    14. nausea
    15. overactive reflexes
    16. pain or discomfort in the arms, jaw, back, or neck
    17. paleness or cold feeling in the fingertips and toes
    18. pounding in the ears
    19. red skin lesions, often with a purple center ( remember those hand lesions )
    20. red, irritated eyes
    21. restlessness
    22. shakiness in the legs, arms, hands, or feet
    23. shivering
    24. slow or fast heartbeat
    25. sore throat
    26. sores, ulcers, or white spots in the mouth or on the lips ( Remember his hands ? )
    27. sweating
    28. swelling of the feet or lower legs
    29. talking or acting with excitement you cannot control
    30. tingling or pain in the fingers or toes when exposed to cold temperatures
    31. trouble sleeping
    32. twitching, twisting, or uncontrolled repetitive movements of the tongue, lips, face, arms, or legs ( exaggerated hands )
    33. uncontrolled vocal outbursts or tics (uncontrolled repeated body movements)
    34. unusual tiredness or weakness

Here is my bingo card marked by emoji …

Thoughts ???

Hopefully this gem will make a showing at trial.

LOL.

"We have lawsuits in 81 states right now." - co-chair RNC

topcat said:

"We have lawsuits in 81 states right now." - co-chair RNC

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counting Russia, ok.

Dreaming of peckers ????

Scripted Robocall message (dated 4/10/24) from Stephanie for Lara Trump asking for money

https://soundcloud.com/user-735086019%2Frnc-call-spreads-false-claims-about-massive-fraud
We all know the problems (of the 2020 election)

No photo IDs
Unsecure ballot boxes
Mass mailing of ballots
Voter rolls chock full of deceased people and non citizens

Fogdog said:

Scripted Robocall message (dated 4/10/24) from Stephanie for Lara Trump asking for money

https://soundcloud.com/user-735086019%2Frnc-call-spreads-false-claims-about-massive-fraud
We all know the problems (of the 2020 election)

No photo IDs
Unsecure ballot boxes
Mass mailing of ballots
Voter rolls chock full of deceased people and non citizens

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3 1/2 years in and the GOP is still dug into their election integrity codswallop.

Republicans have institutionally demonstrated that “election integrity” means allowing every dishonest trick in the book to rig outcomes in their favor.

The media giants could be doing more to expose this massive hypocrisy imo.

Article on an expansive study showing data on what non-bigots have known or suspected for some time.