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  • G.O.P. Officials, Once Critical, Stand by Trump After NATO Comments

    02/12/2024 7:59:09 AM PST · by conservative98 · 42 replies
    New York Times ^ | Feb. 12, 2024 | Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
    After Donald J. Trump suggested he had threatened to encourage Russia to attack “delinquent” NATO allies, the response among many Republican officials has struck three themes — expressions of support, gaze aversion or even cheerful indifference. [cut] In a phone interview on Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina seemed surprised to even be asked about Mr. Trump’s remark. “Give me a break — I mean, it’s Trump,” Mr. Graham said. “All I can say is while Trump was president nobody invaded anybody. I think the point here is to, in his way, to get people to pay.” [cut] Senator...
  • US Senate panel backs 'big hammer' plan to seize Russian assets to help Ukraine

    01/26/2024 2:26:53 PM PST · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 148 replies
    Reuters ^ | January 24, 2024 | Patricia Zengerle
    A U.S. Senate committee approved legislation on Wednesday that would help set the stage for the United States to confiscate Russian assets and hand them over to Ukraine for rebuilding after the destruction of the nearly two-year-long war. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 20 to 1 in favor of the unprecedented "Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (REPO) for Ukrainians Act." If it were to pass the full Senate and House of Representatives and be signed into law by President Joe Biden, as expected, the act would pave the way for Washington's first-ever seizure of central bank assets from a...
  • Marco Rubio endorses Donald Trump for President

    01/14/2024 1:33:05 PM PST · by conservative98 · 37 replies
    Florida Politics ^ | 1.14.24 | A.G. Gancarski
    'It’s time to get on with the work of beating Biden & saving America.' One day before Florida’s Governor participates in the Iowa caucuses, the state’s senior Senator is endorsing Donald Trump. “It’s time to get on with the work of beating Biden & saving America,” asserted Marco Rubio Sunday, in a clear blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis. “When Trump was in WH I achieved major policies I had worked on for years (like expanded Child Tax Credit & tough sanctions on regime in Cuba & Venezuela) because we had a President who didn’t cave to special interests or let...
  • Congress Passes Legislation Blocking Future Presidents from Exiting NATO Without Senate Approval – After Trump Forced NATO Nations to Pay Their Fair Share

    12/14/2023 4:38:08 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 31 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | December 14, 2023 | Jim Hoft
    Excerpt: The move to restrict NATO withdrawal options comes as Trump, eyeing a return to the Oval Office, vocally considers pivoting the U.S. to a less active role within the alliance, or departing altogether if his terms are not met. However, this new bill would necessitate Senate approval or an Act of Congress to validate such a departure, hamstringing the Commander-in-Chief’s capacity to respond to real-time geopolitical dynamics. Adding to the controversy is the provision, championed by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), which effectively bars any U.S. President from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO without Senate approval or...
  • Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO

    12/14/2023 2:33:03 PM PST · by algore · 53 replies
    Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress. The measure, spearheaded by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), was included in the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which passed out of the House on Thursday and is expected to be signed by President Biden. The provision underscores Congress’s commitment to the NATO alliance that was a target of former President Trump’s ire during his term in office. The alliance has taken on revitalized importance under Biden, especially since Russia’s full-scale...
  • Malicious Mitt Romney - Au revoir, Pierre Delecto…Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

    10/22/2023 6:06:40 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 29 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 20 Oct, 2023 | Steve Cortes
    Throughout his unremarkable political career, Mitt Romney carefully cultivated the image of the ultimate “nice guy.” Handsome and credentialed, Romney presents himself as some sort of perfect, milquetoast functionary. Governor Romney, then Senator Romney – the perfectly unexceptional, inoffensive face to serve as advocate for Ruling Class prerogatives. But in these late innings of his public life, Mitt shows his inner malice. In his quotes provided to biographer McKay Coppins for a new book on Romney, Mitt finally went on-the-record to express his disdain for people he publicly flattered, and his revulsion for the conservative movement he supposedly represented. Romney...
  • 20 Republicans Who Voted Against Jim Jordan Funded By Anti-Trump Billionaire Paul Singer, DeSantis and Youngkin Donors

    10/18/2023 3:34:58 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 48 replies
    Rare ^ | 10/17/23 | Troy Smith
    It turns out that Richard Gilliam, who is funding almost every single Trump opponent in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary, has also donated to many of the Republicans who voted against Jim Jordan today. Gilliam has donated to Mike Lawler, who chose to place his vote for Speaker today for disgraced former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.But Gilliam also donated to Lori Chavez-Deremer, who also voted against Jim Jordan becoming Speaker of the House. snip Richard Gilliam, who has funded nearly every single anti-Trump candidate in the Republican Presidential Primary just so happens to be a donor to many of the...
  • FYI: Israel is on autopay

    10/09/2023 4:02:24 PM PDT · by RandFan · 56 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | Oct 9 | Sen. Marco Rubio
    @marcorubio The reason military aid to Israel will not face some of the obstacles Ukraine aid has faced is because back in December of 2020 we passed my bill authorizing a minimum of $3.3 billion a year in aid for 8 years (2021-2028) Because of our bill the administration already has pre-existing authority to provide substantial defense aid without any new congressional action.
  • GOP Sens. Urge Halt to CCP, Russian-Tied Forbes Buyout (4 min video)

    08/13/2023 9:15:39 AM PDT · by bitt · 42 replies
    newsmax ^ | 8/9/2023 | Luca Cacciatore
    Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Marco Rubio of Florida are teaming up to push the Biden administration to review the planned acquisition of Forbes magazine. The pair sent a letter Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warning her that the planned buyout involves entities tied to Russia and the Chinese Communist Party, which previously tried to purchase the outlet. "Forbes reportedly holds a significant market share among younger Americans, with tens of millions of monthly users," the lawmakers wrote. "This puts Forbes in a unique position to collect and store sensitive personal data on these populations and influence...
  • ‘They’re giving us the runaround’: Anna Paulina Luna floats defunding Pentagon positions if UFO information isn’t released

    08/03/2023 6:11:39 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 86 replies
    floridapolitics.com ^ | Jesse Scheckner
    'If we continue to see this wall of silence ... we reserve the right to actually defund positions.' If America’s top defense officials aren’t more forthcoming about extraterrestrial activity on Earth, they may see their paychecks shrink or their jobs disappear altogether, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says. The freshman Republican lawmaker from St. Petersburg has vowed to get to the bottom of recent, credible claims that the U.S. government has secretly run a covert recovery-and-research program on alien technology and biological remains. Any government official still standing in the way of that goal, she said, would risk a sizable...
  • White House National Security chief says UFOs are having an 'impact on our training ranges' and need to be treated as a 'legitimate issue'

    07/18/2023 10:29:23 AM PDT · by DFG · 98 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/18/2023 | Matthew Phelan
    UFOs are already having an impact on combat training for America's fighter pilots, a top national security official has warned. 'Some of these phenomena, we know, have already had an impact on our training ranges,' according to John Kirby, the National Security Council's Coordinator for Strategic Communications under President Biden. The comments suggest a new approach from the White House, whose press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre coyly dismissed questions about the F-22 stealth raptor jets that shot down three UFOs last February by saying, 'I love E.T. the movie.' Kirby, a retired rear admiral in the US Navy, said the unanswered...
  • ‘Non-human intelligence’: Schumer proposes stunning new UFO legislation

    07/18/2023 5:12:21 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 151 replies
    The Hill ^ | MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, introduced extraordinary legislation on July 13, suggesting that the U.S. government or private contractors may secretly possess recovered UFOs and “biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence.” According to the legislation, “non-human intelligence” is defined as “any sentient intelligent non-human lifeform, regardless of nature or ultimate origin which may be presumed responsible for” UFOs. [...] The proposed legislation follows explosive allegations by a former intelligence official, David Grusch, that secret UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs were illegally hidden from Congress. Importantly, the powerful investigative...
  • House GOP plans to hold long-teased UFO hearing

    07/13/2023 2:04:25 PM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 88 replies
    politico.com ^ | JORDAIN CARNEY
    A spokesperson for Comer noted that the hearing is still in its planning stages but it is “looking like it will happen towards the end of this month.” The Kentucky Republican said that it will be a subcommittee hearing. Despite the early stages, the hearing has already sparked pushback not only within the committee but from the Defense Department, according to Burchett. Another GOP member of the Oversight Committee, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said they plan to attend, but: “There are some people who want to stop it. There are some people who want to do it.” That lawmaker...
  • Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of U.F.O. Records

    07/14/2023 6:47:09 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 39 replies
    NY Times ^ | Julian Barnes
    Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, is pushing legislation to create a commission with broad authority to declassify government documents about U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial matters, in an attempt to force the government to share all that it knows about unidentified phenomena. The measure offers the possibility of pushing back against the conspiracy theories that surround discussions of U.F.O.s and fears that the government is hiding critical information from the public. The legislation, which Mr. Schumer will introduce as an amendment to the annual defense policy bill, has bipartisan support, including that of Senator Mike Rounds, Republican of...
  • Senators to offer amendment to require government to make UFO records public

    07/14/2023 10:44:56 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 41 replies
    The Hill ^ | ALEXANDER BOLTON
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is part of a bipartisan group of senators who have offered an amendment to the annual Defense authorization bill requiring the federal government to collect and make public records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would direct the National Archives and Records Administration to create a collection of records on UAPs and UFOs to be disclosed to the public immediately unless a review board provides reasons to keep them classified. [...] The lawmakers say “the sheer number and variety” of...
  • ‘True’ or ‘crazy’? UFO whistleblowers coming ‘out of the woodwork’

    07/07/2023 7:00:06 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 78 replies
    thehill.com ^ | MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF
    In a June 26 interview with NewsNation, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) stated that multiple individuals had corroborated a whistleblower’s explosive allegations of a secret, decades-long UFO crash retrieval and reverse-engineering effort. As the top Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a member of the so-called Gang of Eight, Rubio’s extraordinary comments carry particular weight. [...] Rubio stated that individuals with “firsthand knowledge or firsthand claims” are “saying to us what you’ve seen out there in the public record, whether it’s about legacy [UFO] programs or about current events.” According to Rubio, the whistleblowers’ statements are beyond “the...
  • Senate Intelligence bill gives holders of "non-earth origin or exotic UAP material" six months to make it available to AARO

    06/30/2023 10:54:32 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 62 replies
    douglasjohnson.ghost.io ^ | 6/24/2023 | D Dean Johnson
    The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has unanimously approved legislation containing language that appears intended to dig out any UAP-associated technology that is or ever was controlled by the federal government. The new UAP/UFO provisions are being publicly reported in detail in this article for the first time anywhere. The new UAP provisions are part of the Fiscal Year 2024 Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA, S. 2103), which was approved unanimously by the Senate Intelligence committee in a closed-door session on June 14. On June 21 I reported on the committee's action, but the text of the UAP amendment...
  • Congress doubles down on explosive claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

    06/28/2023 5:25:09 PM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 91 replies
    The Hill ^ | MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF
    Asked June 26 about allegations of secret UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made several stunning statements. [...] Rubio’s comments provide context for a bipartisan provision adopted unanimously by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which would immediately halt funding for any secret government or contractor efforts to retrieve and reverse-engineer craft of “non-earth” or “exotic” origin. This extraordinary language added to the Senate version of the Intelligence authorization bill mirrors and adds significant credibility to a whistleblower’s recent, stunning allegations that a clandestine, decades-long effort to recover, analyze and exploit objects of “non-human” origin...
  • Marco Rubio Claims Top U.S. Officials Coming Forward With UFO Claims

    06/27/2023 9:44:27 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 108 replies
    newsweek.com ^ | ALEKS PHILLIPS
    Marco Rubio has claimed that those who have come forward regarding claims about the U.S. government retrieving alien aircraft "have held very high clearances and high positions within our government." The senior senator for Florida and vice chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence was cautious not to reveal who had already come forward with information as part of an investigation by Congress into the matter when he spoke to NewsNation on Monday. "Frankly a lot of them are very fearful," the Republican senator said. "Fearful of their jobs, fearful of their clearances, fearful of their career." Similarly, others involved...
  • 'It's been happening for years': Marc Rubio says UFOs have 'routinely' operated over restricted US airspace but America has no idea what they are or where they come from as Pentagon refuses to rule out three objects shot down over the weekend are 'aliens'

    02/13/2023 5:08:15 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 105 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | David Averre and Claudia Aoraha
    Republican Rubio tweeted: 'The last 72 hours revealed to the public what was happening for years, unidentified aircraft routinely operating over restricted US airspace. 'This is why I pushed to take this seriously and created a permanent UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena - equivalent to UFOs) task force two years ago.' Rubio is the Vice Chairman of the US Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence and has long pushed for a 'destigmatization' on UFO reporting. *snip* The object detected Sunday was described by defense officials as an unmanned 'octagonal structure' with 'potential surveillance capabilities' and strings attached to it. *snip* VanHerck said...