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For the second time in a week, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) got the Lincoln Project treatment for still sticking up for Donald Trump's lies after he lost the 2020 election, saying she has flushed her once promising career away to become just another "sad Trump apologist."
Noting that she was the youngest woman elected to Congress and came in as a "compassionate conservative," the ad accused her of selling out so she can move to the top of the GOP leadership food chain.
"When Trump attacks women, she goes along smiling, " the voiceover reports. "When Trump encourages racists, she is silent."
An earlier Lincoln Project ad on Stefanik accused her of being complicit in the attempted Capitol "coup" on Jan. 6th.
You can see the ad below:
<p><br/></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5567697ad0c330307d7dae1df033aac8" id="768bb"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1352677411263922176"><div style="margin:1em 0">What happened to Elise Stefanik? https://t.co/bs9cr8eFMs</div> — The Lincoln Project (@The Lincoln Project)<a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/statuses/1352677411263922176">1611338401.0</a></blockquote></div>
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America captivated by young Black poet after inaugural reading
January 22, 2021
Amanda Gorman, the young Black poet who performed at President Joe Biden's inaugural, has become an overnight star with her works shooting to the top of Amazon bestseller lists ahead of their publication.
Gorman, 22, recited "The Hill We Climb" at the inaugural, a poem inspired by the US Capitol attack touching on how democracy "can never be permanently defeated."
<p>She is the youngest poet ever to recite at a presidential inauguration, a role first given to Robert Frost by John F. Kennedy in 1961.</p><p>The Harvard University graduate was invited to participate after First Lady Jill Biden saw one of her readings.</p><p>A collection of Gorman's poems to be published in September was number one on the Amazon bestseller list on Friday followed by a children's book, "Change Sings: A Children's Anthem," also to be released in September.</p><p>A hardcover copy of her inaugural poem to be released next month is number three on the list.</p><p>Gorman's works knocked former president Barack Obama's autobiography, "A Promised Land," down to the number five position.</p><p>America's first Black president was one of the many Americans left impressed by Gorman.</p><p>"On a day for the history books, @TheAmandaGorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment," Obama tweeted, before quoting the closing line of Gorman's inaugural poem.</p><p>"Young people like her are proof that 'there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it,'" Obama said.</p><p>Talk show host Oprah Winfrey, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai were among those praising the young poet.</p><p>She gained two million followers on Instagram in a day and a million on Twitter. Her poem was set to music by Rostam Batmanglij.</p><p>Originally from Los Angeles, raised by a single mother, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child -- like the 46th president -- and turned to writing.</p><p>She won her first poetry prize at 16 years old and went on to study sociology at Harvard.</p><p>She has previously written about the struggle for racial equality and the #MeToo movement against sexual assault.</p><p>Gorman was forced to extensively revise her poem at the last minute after supporters of president Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on January 6 in a bid to undo Biden's election victory.</p><p>"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it / Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy," she recited.</p><p>"And this effort very nearly succeeded / But while democracy can be periodically delayed, / It can never be permanently defeated."</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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'So petty': Donald and Melania Trump fired chief usher before leaving White House to spite Bidens
January 22, 2021
President Joe Biden was blamed for firing the White House chief usher on his first day on the job, but his predecessor actually did the deed -- apparently to spite the incoming first family.
Donald and Melania Trump sent White House ushers home early on Inauguration Day in one of their last acts in a tense presidential transition, a well-placed official not associated with the Biden team told the National Journal.
<p>"The Trumps sent the butlers home when they left so there would be no one to help the Bidens when they arrived," the official said. "So petty."</p><p>Other knowledgable sources confirmed to the <em>Journal</em> that chief usher Timothy Harleth, a former executive of Trump Hotels hired by Melania Trump, was summarily fired by the outgoing president and first lady -- and not by the Bidens, as was widely reported afterward.</p><p>Harleth was already gone by the time Joe and Jill Biden arrived at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, leaving no one in place to open the doors for their inaugural entry and leading to an awkward pause.</p><p>"It's a big protocol breach for the president to ever stand in front of a closed door at the White House," said a veteran White House social expert. "That may be why there was nobody to open the doors to the Bidens. You couldn't expect the Biden staff to know to do that. Doors are opened and closed by ushers. There are rules about all these things and everyone has their job."</p><p>The rest of the usher staff was back on the job Thursday, but Harleth -- considered to be a Trump loyalist -- was not expected to be retained by the Bidens for long.</p>
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