During an appearance on Fox News this Wednesday, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) got a few talking points from network anchor John Roberts in regards to her proposed legislation to “save” America’s gas stoves from an alleged ban by the Biden administration.
"[The attack on gas stoves] hasn’t gone away,” Lesko said. “And all of the crises going on, we have banks that are failing, we have a border wide open, we have people that can’t afford gasoline or groceries, and this is the thing that Biden is going to prioritize is banning people’s gas stoves? It’s absolutely ridiculous.”
"...Biden said, oh, we are not going to ban gas stoves, well baloney!" she continued. "They were going to ban stoves in America that people use each and every day. And so my legislation, ‘The Save Our Gas Stoves Act,’ will save gas stoves for Americans so they have a choice.”
Roberts then chimed in, saying "when you take a look at all of the millions of people in America who have and rely on a gas stove to cook nightly meals, breakfast or whatever and all of the restauranteurs who say gas is the best."
“You could think that there’s a lot of people in the country who are probably remembering the old Charlton Heston line, you can have my gas stove when you pry it from my cold dead hands," he added.
Lesko replied that he loved Roberts' take on the matter.
"Maybe I should put that in my talking points for my legislation,” she said.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Tuesday that migrants fleeing climate change were unsafe in the United States due to many natural disasters.
At a House Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee hearing, Greene complained to Department of Homeland Security official Blas Nuñez-Neto.
"Right here, it says that you say the reason why people are coming to America today is because of violence, food insecurity, severe poverty, corruption, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic," she said. "So we have homelessness here in America. Natural disasters, talk about climate change. This is the fourth largest country in the world. We have an extremely diverse climate. We have a wide range of natural disasters."
"97 natural disasters occurred in 2021," Greene added. "I don't think this is very safe for migrants here in America. We had 97. How many are they having in their country?"
The lawmaker noted that natural disasters included "wildfires, heat waves, droughts, flash floods, winter storms, cold waves, tropical cyclones, and on and on and on."
"But yet they need to come to our country because of climate change?" she asked. "It's not a safe country either, by the way. In America, there were 1,313,000 violent crimes in the US, and that was in 2020."
Greene has previously blamed wildfires on space lasers funded by Jewish billionaires.
A spokesperson for a Donald Trump super PAC on Tuesday issued a statement mocking Chris Christie's weight while, at the same time, attacking Ron DeSantis.
Trump is expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday.
“Ron DeSantis’ campaign is spiraling, and President Trump’s dominance over the Republican primary field has opened a mad rush to seize the mantle for runner-up," said MAGA Inc. spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt
"Ron DeSantis is not ready for this moment, and Chris Christie will waste no time eating DeSantis’ lunch."
Christie, who also ran in 2016, on Tuesday formally filed his candidacy and is expected to formally announce it at a New Hampshire event, joining a large and growing field of candidates that includes Trump.
The Associated Press reports that Christie, who "during his time as New Jersey’s governor established a reputation as a fighter with a knack for creating viral moments of confrontation, faces an uphill battle to the nomination in a party that remains closely aligned with the former president, despite Trump’s reelection loss in 2020 and Republicans’ poorer-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterm elections."
The former New Jersey governor is positioning himself as an alternative to Trump who's willing to engage with the former president.
“I’m not dumb. The way to win is to beat the guy who’s ahead. And so what would a campaign look like? A campaign would look like a direct frontal challenge to Donald Trump trying to return to the presidency,” Christie recently said in a podcast interview.
Bill Barr, once Donald Trump‘s favorite attorney general and the one who was seen as his “faithful protector and personal henchman” for his “willingness to enable Trump’s darkest impulses,” came out swinging against his former boss Tuesday, refuting his “witch hunt” claims, and saying the ex-president “jerked” DOJ around over hundreds of classified and top secret documents he refused to return.
“I think if based on the facts, as the facts come out, I think over time, people will say that this is not a case of the Department of Justice, you know, conducting a ‘witch hunt,'” Barr told CBS News Tuesday, ahead of what many believe is an impending indictment on what experts say could include charges of obstruction of justice and charges under the Espionage Act.
“In fact,” Barr continued, praising his former agency, “they approached this very delicately, with deference to the President, and this would have gotten nowhere had the President just returned the documents.”
Instead, Barr said, Trump “jerked them around for a year and a half. And the question is, did he deceive them? And if there’s evidence of that, I think people will start to see that this says more about Trump than it does the Department of Justice.”
The ex-president who is once again running to retake the Oval Office, Barr says, is “so egotistical that he has this penchant for conducting risky, reckless acts to show that he can sort of get away with it.”
“It’s part of asserting his ego, and he’s done this repeatedly at the expense of all the people who depend on him to conduct the public’s business in an honorable way. And, you know, we saw that with both impeachments, and there’s no excuse for what he did here.”
Referring to what many believe is an impending indictment over the classified documents he removed from the White House and refused to return, Barr added, “I’ve said for a while that I think this is the most dangerous legal risk facing the former president. And if I had to bet I would bet that it’s near.”
He said DOJ would not try to indict “if there’s not enough evidence, but from what I’ve seen, there’s substantial evidence there.”
But true to form, Barr also defended his former boss.
Whether what Trump’s done is “a crime or not remains to be seen,” he said, while refusing to weigh in on whether or not he thinks Trump “deceived” DOJ.
Later in the interview, Barr went full-force on supporting Trump’s claims that the Russia investigation was a hoax.
“I went into the administration halfway through, and I did it at a time where I felt he was being treated unfairly on the Russia gate thing. I thought that was, you know, turned out to be I think a big lie,” Barr said.
“And I felt that he was the duly elected president and he deserved a chance to conduct his administration. And I went in because I thought I could help stabilize things and also have the administration conducted in an appropriate way. And as I felt the idea that the election was stolen was a big lie.”
And despite it all, despite everything that has come out about Trump’s actions and alleged actions, despite the looming indictment – on top of a current indictment – Barr says if Trump is the Republican party’s nominee for president he will still support him.
“I don’t see myself not supporting the Republican candidate,” Barr said.
Taking a swing at President Joe Biden, Barr said neither the current nor the former president are “fit for the office.”
“But if I’m confronted with that choice, I have to go with policy, who’s closest to me on policy,” regardless of who might be convicted of breaking the law, including on our national secrets.
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