Trump supporter holds a Confederate flag outside the Senate Chamber. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
On CNN Saturday, anchor Michael Smerconish said the results of the vote to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of her committee assignments for her endorsement of QAnon and killing Democrats, proves that Republicans have decided they can't do without the votes of the people who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol in January.
"Now, with more free time on her hands, Greene said that she will boost conservative candidates and former President Donald Trump's plans to oust so-called weak Republicans," said Smerconish. "If she's right, we could see more Greenes and fewer Cheneys."
"Bottom line is this: Republicans decided to keep everybody in the tent. Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene," said Smerconish. "And instead of disassociating themselves from the fringe, they made a calculation that they can't win without the people who stormed the Capitol. You have to wonder, if while watching Greene's emboldened presser on Friday, maybe [House Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy and company has buyer's remorse."
Donald Trump on Saturday said his biggest opponent in the 2024 race for the Republican nomination for President, Ron DeSantis, fired his friend and top campaign official, just like on Trump's former show, "The Apprentice."
The former president, who earlier in the day attacked the conservative advocacy group called "Club for Growth" on social media for its support of DeSantis, posted on his Truth Social platform that DeSantis fired Phil Cox, a former executive director of the Republican Governors Association. He also had some words for Cox, who was reportedly chosen for the RGA post based on "close relationships with a number of Republican governors."
"Ron DeSanctimonious just fired, like on 'The Apprentice,' his friend and top campaign official, Phil Cox, because his campaign is a complete disaster, and 2028 is looking really bad," Trump wrote of DeSantis, utilizing a nickname he uses almost every time he speaks of DeSantis.
"His campaign manager, who so deftly handled the Ted Cruz campaign against me, wanted to work for me, but was turned down - a 'money grubber' like no other, and won’t quit until he’s got every last penny," he added. "Now 'Rob' must change the theme of his campaign from NEVER BACK DOWN to WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING!"
Donald Trump late Saturday leveled an attack against the "Club for Growth," a conservative advocacy group that recently criticized the former president in an ad, for supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Trump posted on Truth Social, his own social media platform that he created after being banned from most other platforms in the wake of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt, that the group is attempting to counter DeSantis' own policy decisions.
"The very stupid, China loving 'Club for No Growth,' which has been backing Ron De Sanctimonious as his poll numbers have been absolutely CRASHING, has just spent some of the RINO money they have accumulated on an ad campaign hoping to counter the fact that Desanctus, just off the worst Presidential 'Launch' in history, opted three times to cut & destroy Social Security, even lifting the minimum age to 70," Trump wrote. "He also voted to cut Medicare & institute a 23% National Sales Tax. Ron is a loser!"
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's birthday is Saturday, but on Twitter she chose to celebrate a "brave new whistleblower" who she said might link President Joe Biden to a pay-to-play scandal.
Greene, who turned 49 years old on Saturday, claimed in a tweet that she personally read reports on the Biden family from the Treasury Department.
"Human trafficking, prostitution, money laundering," she wrote. "It was shocking."
She went on to say a "brave new whistleblower has come forward" in the GOP investigation into Biden. That purported whistleblower has information that she says "may directly implicate Joe Biden himself in a foreign pay-to-play scheme" when he was the Vice President of the U.S.
She noted that the GOP House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by Rep. James Comer (R), "will not stop until we bring the full extent of this corruption and potential crimes to light."
The post comes after several reported instances of GOP witnesses and alleged whistleblowers going missing or dodging reporters.
That same day, Greene used her personal Twitter account to retweet a photo of her boyfriend and herself that he had posted earlier in celebration of her birthday.
"Forty nine has never looked so good," Brian Glenn, who works for right-wing platform Right Side Broadcasting Network, wrote. "Happy Birthday to my sweetheart, America’s national treasure."
