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National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy on final Friday of the Trump administration: report
January 15, 2021
Longtime GOP strategist Rick Wilson has received widespread praise for coining the term, "everything Trump touches dies."
The four-word analysis explains how Trump has a history of harming everyone around him.
<p>And that term may now apply to the National Rifle Association, which was one of the most powerful political organizations in America before it backed Trump during the 2016 campaign.</p><p>"The National Rifle Association of America ("NRA") today announced it will restructure the Association as a Texas nonprofit to exit what it believes is a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York," the NRA said in a <a href="https://www.nraforward.org/press-release" target="_blank">statement</a>. </p><p>"The Association will seek court approval to reincorporate the Association in the State of Texas – home to more than 400,000 NRA members and site of the 2021 NRA Annual Meeting in Houston," the NRA explained. <br/></p><p>New York Attorney General Letitia James announced in August she was seeking to dissolve the NRA.</p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b46914784d62cae158d230a229e347ff" id="a474f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1293924612124876807"><div style="margin:1em 0">One week ago, I filed a lawsuit to dissolve the @NRA.
We’re sending a loud and clear message that no matter how p… https://t.co/B61IbLWW1h</div> — NY AG James (@NY AG James)<a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/statuses/1293924612124876807">1597330642.0</a></blockquote></div>
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Trump’s Pentagon chief stuns reporters with ‘incoherent briefing’ in which he declares ‘I cannot wait to leave’
January 15, 2021
Reporters were stunned on Friday following a bizarre gaggle that acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller held with the press.
"I so…I mean, I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me," Miller said.
<p>Stephen Losey of the Air Force Times described it as "<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenLosey/status/1350173994658492416" target="_blank">the most epic case of senioritis ever</a>."</p><p>"Gobsmacking incoherent briefing from the US acting defence secretary, Chris Miller, today," Julian Borger, the world affairs editor for the Guardian, reported.</p><p>Borger noted the Pentagon transcript included the phrase, "blah blah bluh blah."</p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9a94946fef0c20a3411d989b64450b3a" id="8730d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350162724861468673"><div style="margin:1em 0">Gobsmacking incoherent briefing from the US acting defence secretary, Chris Miller, today.
Highlights include "I ca… https://t.co/Iqc0IOoFYf</div> — Julian Borger (@Julian Borger)<a href="https://twitter.com/julianborger/statuses/1350162724861468673">1610738853.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Politico's Andrew Desiderio was shocked that Miller praised Russia for the success they have had during the Trump administration.</p><p>"Russian? I think they're extremely…uh…I have professional respect for how they do things…I think they're played a really bad hand of card very, very well. Declining population, single -- single source of economic revenue through natural resources. I kind of, you know, like professionally I'm like, wow, they're doing pretty well, and they're using a lot of irregular warfare concepts, information, all this stuff, in a way that, you know, like…good on them," Miller said.</p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="53bed9d31d0603f99cb321093178a3a4" id="2e88b"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350170118349795329"><div style="margin:1em 0">I can’t believe what I just read.
The defense secretary actually said this about Russia:
“Professionally I’m like… https://t.co/sg0Uro1zpV</div> — Andrew Desiderio (@Andrew Desiderio)<a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/statuses/1350170118349795329">1610740615.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Read the <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/2473893/press-gaggle-with-acting-secretary-miller-en-route-to-washington-dc/source/GovDelivery/" target="_blank">full transcript</a>.</p>
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Pro-Trump pastor mercilessly mocked after video reveals his unhinged rant attacking 'baby-killing socialist' Biden
January 15, 2021
With President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration less than a week away, many far-right conspiracy theorists continue to make the thoroughly debunked claim that the election was stolen from President Donald Trump — including evangelical pastor Robert Henderson. This week, Henderson angrily claimed that Biden couldn't have won the 2020 election legitimately because God wouldn't have allowed it to happen.
During an unhinged rant, Henderson told his followers, "You're going to tell me that a man that has been the best friend that Christianity and the kingdom of God has had is going to be removed by God and replaced by a baby-killing socialist? You're going to tell me that God's going to do that because President Trump didn't humble himself, when all he's done had been attacked, had been attacked, had been attacked?... Oh, really, what do you say when he says that Jesus Christ is the most famous person on the Earth?"
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