The former head of trust and safety at Twitter has fled his home after an alleged escalation of threats against after Elon Musk criticized him on the platform, CNN reports.
"Yoel Roth, who resigned from the social media company in November, has in recent weeks faced a storm of attacks and threats of violence following the release of the so-called 'Twitter Files' — internal Twitter communications that new owner Musk has released through journalists including Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss," CNN's report stated.
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"Roth’s position involved him working on sensitive issues including the suspension of then-President Donald Trump’s account in 2021. On Monday, Weiss posted a series of screenshots purported to show internal Twitter documents where Roth and others discussed whether to ban Trump’s account, with some employees questioning if the former president’s tweets violated the platform’s policies."
Musk seemingly agreed with a tweet that accused Roth of being an apologist for pedophilia.
A person close to Roth said threats against him escalated after Musk alluded to Roth being sympathetic to pedophiles.
In a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the Senate Ethics Committee rebuked him for a repeated violation of Senate rules.
Specifically, the letter noted, Graham has on multiple occasions conducted interviews soliciting campaign funds from inside the Senate office complex, which is against ethics regulations.
"The Committee initiated its inquiry after receiving a complaint alleging that you solicited campaign contributions in support of Georgia senatorial candidate Herschel Walker during a media interview conducted in the Russell Senate Office Building on November 30, 2022," said the letter. "The complaint included a link to a video clip of the interview, which the Committee has reviewed as well as the information you provided to the Committee regarding this matter." Subsequent probing found "five separate times" in which Graham did this, which the letter calls a "repeat violation of Senate standard of conduct."
Despite issuing the "Public Letter of Admonition," the Ethics Committee, which is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans under Senate rules, declined to issue any disciplinary sanctions, citing "mitigating factors" to conclude Graham's conduct was "inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature."
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This decision is par for the course; a recent exclusive Raw Story investigation found that out of the last 1,523 ethics complaints against senators, the senators on the Ethics Committee issued disciplinary sanctions against their colleagues exactly zero times — even in the 204 cases where there was enough evidence to launch a "preliminary investigation."
Walker, a former NFL star turned Trump-backed candidate for Senate in Georgia, saw his campaign derailed by scandal, including allegations he paid for abortions for women he impregnated, and of violent behavior toward his family and former partners.
Writing for the New York Times on Thursday, reporters revealed that Donald Trump's lawyer, Evan Corcoran, would not be pleading his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Corcoran is set to testify to the grand jury in Washington, D.C., over the theft of the documents the former president is accused of snatching upon leaving the White House. Special counsel Jack Smith has worked his way through a number of witnesses around Trump and Mar-a-Lago at a time that the documents were being shifted around.
In the case of Trump's lawyer, it's incredibly rare for attorney-client privilege to be broken, but in this case, four judges agreed that it could be as a result of a crime being committed.
Another lawyer, Jennifer Little, is being brought in to testify. While her work is isolated only to the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury, she was discussing things with Trump at the time of the Mar-a-Lago documents shuffle and the Justice Department's request for the documents back.
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"The extraordinary back-and-forth in the past several weeks between Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Mr. Corcoran and his lawyers, and Mr. Smith’s prosecutors — not to mention with multiple witnesses who are also Mr. Trump’s lawyers, as well as all of their lawyers — has turned the federal courthouse in Washington into a bustling hive of Trump-related inquiries," the Times reported.
“The latest example came on Thursday when lawyers for Mr. Trump — including Mr. Corcoran — appeared before a new chief judge, James E. Boasberg, with lawyers for former Vice President Mike Pence," the report closes. "They were there to discuss some issues related to Mr. Pence’s testimony before a grand jury investigating Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, an inquiry also being overseen by Mr. Smith, the special counsel.”
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) spoke to a packed crowd at Boston College on Thursday, where she dropped the hammer on Donald Trump.
The BC Heights, the student paper on campus, quoted Cheney talking about Trump's conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, “I believed he needed to be removed from office immediately."
She went on to call Trump the "most dangerous domestic threat" and added Americans must "take great care in whom we entrust with power.”
“In order to choose candidates of excellence, we have to have candidates of excellence," Cheney said. “Do not vote for election deniers."
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But according to Cheney, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) isn't much better than Trump.
"It would be hard for me to imagine supporting” anyone who called the Ukraine war a "territorial dispute." It's a reference to DeSantis claiming that if he were in charge, there would be no more funding going to Ukraine to help them with the war. It resulted in swift backlash from members of his own party who said he didn't know what he was talking about. One Republican even went so far as to suggest that if DeSantis had a classified briefing, he would change his opinion.
But it was Cheney's comments about being in the GOP after Trump took over her party that turned heads. When she was asked about the value of staying in the Republican Party, and if she planned to leave the party, she replied, “We’ll see what happens.”
It's the first indication that Cheney has made about leaving the GOP since being removed from her congressional seat in the 2022 Republican Primaries. The Cheneys have been a staple in public service for generations. Liz Cheney was a member of Congress, her father was the 46th vice president of the United States, and for 37 years, Richard H. Cheney worked for the Soil Conservation Service, which was put in place to help stop the kind of erosion that ushered in the Dust Bowl.
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