O's Jones: Fan threw banana at me (via Fox Sports)
Updated Aug 12, 2013 9:52 AM ET Center fielder Adam Jones had a busy day Sunday at AT&T Park in San Francisco, driving in four runs — including a three-run homer — in the Orioles' 10-2 drubbing of the Giants. But it was his Twitter comments…
[Orioles' Adam Jones via Flickr user Keith Allison]
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) is facing heightened backlash on Twitter for her latest controversial tweet about America's "freedoms." On Friday, April 9, the Colorado lawmaker highlighted the vast nature of American citizens' freedoms as she claimed one political party was "laser-focused on destroying our freedoms," reports The HuffPost.
"We live in the freest country on planet earth," Boebert tweeted. "The rest of the world envies our freedoms. Meanwhile, we have a political party that is laser-focused on destroying our freedoms. It is not only shocking but very dangerous.
According to a former Republican Florida lawmaker who served in the House with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the embattled congressman who is under investigation by Florida authorities, the Justice Department and now the House Ethics Committee is in a bad place and his attempts to ride it out likely won't work.
Speaking with MSNBC's Lindsey Reiser, former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) said Gaetz appears to be suing the Trump playbook and refusing to resign, which may not save him.
"The issue is that it is part of a growing scandal," Curbelo began. "There is a federal branch, executive branch investigation which, of course, started many months ago, but now there will be a committee process in the House, and what tends to happen in those processes is you get more leaks. It tends to be a little more political, even though the House Ethics Committee tries to do a good job and is balanced with an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. Still, it's far more political than what you would see from the Justice Department, so this only threatens to grow the scandal for Congressman Gaetz to make this more difficult on him and his family."
Asked, "What do you make of Gaetz's handling out of this?" Curbelo said it all leads back to Trump.
"One of the reasons Matt Gaetz is in this controversy is because of he got so deep into Trump World," he explained. "I tell people when Matt Gaetz got to Washington in 2017 there were actually a lot of Republicans that were hopeful he would be a voice for younger generations of conservatives. He has some pretty forward-leaning views on cannabis reform, for example, equal rights, for the LGBTQ community."
"Now in order to defend himself from the scandal he is using the Trump playbook," he continued, "Which is don't back down, don't feed anything, don't admit any flaws or wrongdoing. We will see if this works out for him. Right now things don't look good for him."
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According to a report from NBC News, a substantial number of Donald Trump political appointees attempted to secure permanent hard-to-fire jobs in the government following the former president's loss to now-President Joe Biden.
The report notes that it not unusual for such requests to be made when administration's change, but the number of requests by Trump appointees "outpaced" requests under previous presidents.
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