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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday dodged a question about the FBI's Monday search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home during a Kentucky press conference. "I'm here to talk about the flood and recovery from the flood," McConnell, R-Ky., said when asked about the raid. [cut] The minority leader's refusal to talk about the search warrant served on Trump's private home comes as Senate GOP leadership has been slower than their House counterparts to comment on the raid.

Retired FBI Special Agent Michael Tabman said it's likely an 'informant' revealed information to the FBI that led to the raid of Trump's home on Monday 'I think somebody gave them information indicating that these documents are there,' Tabman told DailyMail.com in a Tuesday interview The FBI raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday in apparent relations to a probe into him taking official White House documents to Florida Tabman said there was likely a breakdown in cooperation between Trump and the FBI that led to the raid Explained: 'You got evidence that you need to get before it disappears or...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9SuvM2CKZ8Karrin Jean-Pierre REFUSED to simply answer "No" when Peter Doocy asked "Is the Biden administration weaponizing the DOJ and FBI against their political opponents".KJP's refusal to simply answer "No" is perhaps her most fatal response to a question given to date.UNREAL and VERY telling!

Is this White House weaponizing the Justice Department and the FBI against political opponents?” Karine Jean-Pierre dodges and refuses to say no

If Donald Trump was going to run again, we assumed that the media would once again be the former president's largest pool of support, unwittingly, of course, with the nonstop negative coverage that would have only pushed more voters into his corner. Matt Taibbi noted that they're the "kingmakers of suck," arrogant, and more concerned with expounding on their moral superiority than covering the elections properly. Post-Russian collusion hoax, no one believes them, as evidenced by the appalling trust numbers the American public has given this industry over the past five or so years. That all ended last night. The...

China's embassy here has sought an urgent meeting with senior Sri Lankan authorities after Colombo sought a deferment of the planned docking of a high-tech Chinese research vessel at the strategic Hambantota port over which India raised concerns, sources said. The Chinese space and satellite tracking research vessel 'Yuan Wang 5' was scheduled to dock at the Hambantota Port from August 11 to 17, weeks after Sri Lanka witnessed a major political turmoil following massive mass protests over the country's worst economic crisis in decades. A 'third-person' note from Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry to the Chinese embassy in Colombo dated...

The Latino shift to Republicans is real. Another new poll has confirmed this. The election of Republican Mayra Flores in southern Texas was just the beginning. This is going to change the American electorate for the better. The only question is by what sized margin. The Washington Examiner reports: Yet another poll shows Hispanics going Republican The biggest political story of 2022, perhaps as big as the overturning of Roe v. Wade, is the sudden shift of the Hispanic vote away from Democrats toward the Republican Party. And yet another poll, this time the CBS/YouGov poll from last week, confirms...

Ever since President Trump announced that Mar-A-Lago had been raided by the FBI, we’ve been looking for answers. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Who knew about it, and when did they know about it? While we’ll likely find out more about who and when later, what we do know now is how it happened. New details have come to light about the judge who signed off on the search warrant that will make you sick to your stomach — and suggest this effort by the Biden administration to target Trump will backfire drastically. Miranda Devine of the...

Former President Donald Trump improperly kept several boxes of White House records at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — including notes from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that the 45th president once dubbed “love letters” and a missive from former President Barack Obama, the Washington Post reported Monday. While the documents were handed over to the National Archives and Records Administration last month, the incident raises questions about Trump’s compliance with federal law.

Video works | Ignore the blank screenshot VIDEO AT LINK......................... He’s like Ralph the Doorman on The Jeffersons, always has the hand out……………….

ore than 24 hours after the FBI’s “unannounced raid” on former President Donald Trump’s home, some in Senate GOP leadership including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have refused to condemn the rogue agency’s actions against their party leader. While House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy rushed to condemn the Department of Justice’s “intolerable state of weaponized politicization” the night of the raid and even announced plans to “conduct immediate oversight of this department,” neither McConnell, Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair Roy Blunt, nor Senate Republican Whip John Thune had publicly mentioned a word to their constituents, the press, or their colleagues...

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With news of the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago, buzz quickly bubbled up Monday evening about whether former President Donald Trump could be disqualified from holding office again. The FBI search of the Florida resort was related to Trump's handling of presidential records, including classified documents, after leaving office, sources told CNN. The search warrant was connected to the National Archives, a senior government official told NBC News. Such reporting had Marc Elias, the top lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign who has drawn scrutiny for his role in pushing Trump-Russia collusion claims, pointing to U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071....

Republicans who aren’t actively opposing Garland’s political weaponization of federal law enforcement are part of the problem. ... A fter Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice oversaw an FBI raid on the private home of former President Donald Trump, the 20 Republicans who joined Democrats to confirm Garland’s nomination as attorney general must emphatically condemn the nominee they once supported or voters should replace them in their primaries. When Garland was confirmed in March 2021, only 30 of 50 Republican senators voted against it. The other 20 — Senators Blunt, Burr, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Inhofe, Johnson, Lankford,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden continues to test negative for COVID-19, the White House press office said on Tuesday, after he coughed repeatedly through a speech on the South Lawn. Biden spoke to dozens of Congress members in sweltering midday heat before signing the a $53 billion bill aimed at boosting the U.S. semiconductor industry. His persistent congestion forced him to stop the speech at several points to turn aside and cough into his hand or sip water, drawing the attention of supporters and detractors alike on social media. The 79-year-old president recently suffered his second bout of...

.......According to the New York Post, “Reinhart resigned from the South Florida US Attorney’s Office effective on New Year’s Day 2008 and went to work for Epstein’s workers the following day.” “The Epstein employees Reinhart represented, by his own admission to the Herald, included Epstein’s pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his ‘Yugoslavian sex slave,’” the publication reported.

Northrop Grumman is moving production of the engines and structures for its Antares rockets to the U.S. from Russia and Ukraine, a move that will have cascading effects throughout the space industry. The aerospace giant said Monday it will move Antares production fully to the U.S. through a partnership with Texas-based Firefly Aerospace. Northrop Grumman had purchased Russian RD-181 engines to power the Antares 230+ series, and the rocket’s main body was manufactured by Ukraine’s Yuzhmash State Enterprise.

It is hardly a surprise that the FBI has now raided the Mar-a-Lago in Florida in a move being decried by Ron Desantis as akin to the actions of a banana republic. Indeed, given the nonstop witch hunt which we have beheld since 2015, I am honestly surprised it took the Biden administration this long to find a corrupt DC judge willing to rubberstamp a warrant as part of an all too obvious fishing expedition. Liberals are cheering this move, sadomasochistically hoping to see Trump in a cell. While they are unlikely to get their wish, it is funny to...

Jill helps Joe put his jacket on as they step off Marine One in Kentucky

It was a busy evening at the Sioux Empire Fair. Caught up with lots of South Dakotans, and got in a little grandkid time. Oh, and some great fair food. #sdsummer pic.twitter.com/uPzAI688fr— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) August 9, 2022