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In an op-ed for the Fresno Bee this Friday, the paper's Editorial Board pointed out that GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is taking direct aim at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his investigation into Donald Trump's hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, accusing him if being "soft on crime" while wasting much-needed resources on going after the former president.
According to the Editorial Board, McCarthy is jumping the gun with his accusations since Bragg hasn't even filed the case yet or called any witnesses.
"In today’s court of social media, McCarthy let his opinion fly, the process and facts of the case be damned," the Board writes, and said McCarthy jumped to help Trump after the former president's "bellowing" about the case on social media.
McCarthy accused the U.S. Justice Department of being "weaponized" in the wake of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago looking for classified documents and promised to investigate.
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"So it is ironic that, in advance of Bragg bringing his case, both Jordan and Comer fired a pre-emptive strike at the DA," the editors comment. "On March 20 they and Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, who heads the House Administration Committee, sent a letter to Bragg asking for documentation on the Trump case and demanding he provide testimony to the various committees."
"His comments now about Bragg is another example of him lending cover to Trump. If there was ever a time for McCarthy and the GOP to move on from the former president, it is now. But does McCarthy have the courage to do just that? The answer would be no," writes the Board.
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During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," newly-hired contributor John Kasich (R-OH) laughed at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his most recent stumble as he appears to be in the process of establishing his credibility as a possible GOP presidential candidate.
Speaking with the "Morning Joe' co-hosts, the former GOP Ohio governor hammered some of his fellow Republicans for not backing Ukraine and for parroting Russian talking points before he was asked about the Florida governor who changed his tune on Ukraine just days ago.
"Why would Ron DeSantis puppet or just repeat Kremlin talking points by calling an invasion from a war criminal, a guy the ICC has called a war criminal, why would Ron DeSantis get on TV and say..." host Joe Scarborough started with Kasich interjecting, "I don't know, Joe."
With Scarborough continuing and noting DeSantis called the unprovoked invasion "...a border dispute," Kasich continued, "He's walked it all back," and then started laughing.
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"I think he realized -- look, when you run for president you've got to have broad knowledge, except, I guess, when it came to Trump, who didn't have broad knowledge," Kasich joked. "If you're going to run for president, you better know what you think about these international issues. You better think about how you feel about a whole range of domestic issues."
"The first thing you've got to do is pass that test," he lectured. "If the media thinks you can't pass that test, you get hurt. DeSantis, I think made a mistake and he's tried to walk it back. You can make a mistake, but you can't make too many mistakes or you begin to be counted out."
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Jeff Brindle, the executive director of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission and one of the top campaign finance officials in New Jersey, wrote hateful invective about LGBTQ people in a series of emails, reported the New Jersey Monitor on Friday.
"He’s come under fire recently because of an email he sent to a staffer in October mocking National Coming Out Day," reported Terrence T. McDonald. "State officials said in a memo the New Jersey Monitor obtained this week that the email was a blatant violation of the state’s anti-discrimination policy, and Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration has made moves to oust Brindle over it."
But that's not where it ended, according to the report — emails show Brindle constantly mocked and registered disgust at LGBTQ people in private emails.
"In June, state officials sent a staff-wide email noting it was Pride month and suggesting employees consider adding their pronouns to their email signature. Brindle forward to an unknown person with this comment: 'Give me a break,'" said the report. "To a staffer who shared a story about a gay pride stunt courtesy of Burger King in Austria, Brindle wrote, 'Unbelievable.' He shared a July story from conservative news site Town Hall about a trans woman who impregnated two inmates in New Jersey’s women’s prison. He wrote, 'We truly are living through insane times.' In July, Breitbart wrote about Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas — a transgender woman whose participation in women’s sports made her a nationwide target — not being named NCAA’s woman of the year. Brindle sent the link to a staffer. 'Lia lost this one,' he wrote."
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According to the report, he also shared a number of other articles denigrating LGBTQ people from far-right websites.
Garden State Equality, one of New Jersey's top LGBTQ rights organizations, is reportedly calling on Brindle to step down, saying, “is steeped in a toxic brine of biases which has no place in a civilized society.”
McDonald, who previously criticized Murphy's efforts to force out Brindle, acknowledged that this at least merits an investigation by the Election Law Enforcement Commission. "If he’s using his work email to trade anti-LGBTQ stories with staffers, what does that mean about how he treats his subordinates from that community?" he wrote. "What does it say about the overall environment of his office? Is the stuff he says out loud worse than what he commits to writing, in documents he knows can be publicly revealed?"
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