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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalWhy Speaker Mike Johnson's trip to Trump's trial in N.Y. mattered
His appearance at Donald Trumps criminal trial was tough to defend, but his vow to rein in prosecutors made the problem worse.
https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1790714050097094787
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-mike-johnsons-trip-trumps-trial-ny-mattered-rcna152326
It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trumps defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy. Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court system corrupt.
The display was, by any fair measure, obscene. The sitting speaker of the House Congress top official and a man two heartbeats from the presidency decided that it would be fully appropriate to show up at a criminal trial and allow himself to be used as a mouthpiece for a suspected felon......
But perhaps most notable of all was the House speakers comments about his plans for the near future because as it turns out, Johnson intends to use his courthouse appearance as a springboard toward future action. The conservative Washington Times reported:
House Speaker Mike Johnson ... told reporters that all the cases brought against Mr. Trump amount to election interference and Congress has a constitutional responsibility to investigate the prosecutors and hold them accountable.
In fact, Johnson accused special counsel Jack Smith of undefined abuses, adding that hes prepared to take measure to rein in
prosecutors that Republicans disagree with.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1790392518758334802
.....But even the possibility that Johnson intends to interfere in ongoing criminal cases, going after prosecutors for their doing their jobs and following the evidence, is a case study in indefensible Republican radicalism.
Morning Joe accuses the NYT of publishing 'garbage' pro-Trump polls to create news
The NYT poll is pure garbage designed to hurt President Biden
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1790704703585542543
https://www.rawstory.com/new-york-times-trump-poll/
According to the NYT poll, President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters and voters of color. However, as co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out, polling experts have taken to social media to rip the pollsters' methodology apart saying the final results have been "skewed" in Trump's favor.
According to Scarborough, he truly believes the Times has been pushing sketchy polls showing Trump leading because it allows them to get multiple stories out them to drive the news cycle......
"That keeps happening every month when this comes out and then about two weeks later after the residue of the New York Times/Siena poll leaves, people go, 'Oh, I think Joe Biden is on a winning streak,'" he continued. "And then two weeks later it comes out again and it's garbage it's an outlier. And yes, the New York Times, when they have all of these experts questioning the methodology, when they are calling 20 percent of the people likely voters who had never voted before or didn't vote in the last two primaries or never voted before, when they are even quoting people who say they are switching their vote from Joe Biden who have never voted before? I'm sorry! The New York Times has to know what they are doing!"
Mike Luckovich-Jimmy Carter's Legacy vs TFG's Legacy
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1790814067398979601Here is the Biden Campaign letter to the Presidential Debate Commission on why it will not do their debates
Debates need to occur before early voting starts and debate rules need to be enforced.
https://twitter.com/grantstern/status/1790744778054717637
Borowitz Report- Kristi Noem Attempts Damage Control By Announcing She Also Hates Cats
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/kristi-noem-attempts-damage-controlOver the past few weeks, the mainstream media has worked overtime to distort my disclosure about having shot and killed my dog, she said. This has led many to believe, falsely, that I am a cat person.
Let me say this, loud and clear: As God is my witness, I hate cats, also, she said.
Claiming that the number of cats in the U.S. has skyrocketed under Joe Biden, she issued a stark warning.
My message to Americas cats is simple, she said. You can run, but you cant hide. The United States of America is not your litter box.
President Biden to TFG-I hear you are free on Wednesdays
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1790713878248038478Arizona officials say they can't find Rudy Giuliani to serve him with indictment notice
https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1790510230784159965https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/arizona-officials-giuliani-indictment-2020/index.html
Giuliani is among a group of former President Donald Trumps allies indicted last month in Arizona alongside the 11 individuals who acted as fake GOP electors from the state in the last presidential election.
But the former New York City mayor and one-time attorney for Trump is the only defendant prosecutors have been unable to serve with a summons, according to Richie Taylor, a spokesperson for the Arizona attorney generals office.
The summons is a formal notice that Giuliani has been criminally charged and must appear before a judge on May 21.
After USC canceled graduation, Jewish students held their own ceremony
This makes me smile given the attacks on Hillel by some
https://twitter.com/HillelIntl/status/1790472664881983511
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/after-usc-canceled-graduation-jewish-students-held-their-own-ceremony
Before about 19,000 graduates walked across stages on Friday to receive their degrees in smaller school satellite ceremonies, USCs Hillel hosted a graduation event for Jewish students and their families a moment to gather in unity amid weeks of campus turmoil over Israel-Hamas war protests.
A lot of people have been trying to take these joyful moments away from us, said Mark Rayant, 26, who was earning his masters degree in green technology. We get to come together as a community in a safe environment, in a healing environment something the university wasnt able to provide.
At USCs Hillel center, a post-and-beam building next door to the universitys Catholic student center, more than 50 students attended in their black robes and red sashes along with 200 or so family, friends, professors and classmates......
Dave Cohn, executive director of USC Hillel, acknowledged that the year has ended under a very, very dark cloud.
No matter how you view these issues as a person of Jewish identity or as a person in general theres no denying this depleted and depressed the atmosphere, Cohn said.
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