House Republican vows to stay through the weekend if needed — even if he misses his mom's funeral
January 06, 2023
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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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This Trump lawyer will be the most 'sharply incriminating' witness against his boss: Former prosecutor
March 23, 2023
Former Donald Trump attorney Evan Corcoran is set to testify to a grand jury empaneled by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation. This comes after Smith secured a ruling from a federal judge ordering Corcoran, who is accused of misleading investigators, to turn over documents, creating an exception to usual attorney-client privilege.
On MSNBC Thursday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained what could make this such a bad situation for the former president.
"Let me turn to Jack Smith's other investigation," said anchor Ayman Mohyeldin. "The former president's attorneys expected to testify before the grand jury as soon as, I guess tomorrow, in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. What do you make of that? Why is that significant?"
"You know, it's hugely consequential," said Kirschner. "We don't often have criminal defense attorneys testify about the clients' crimes, except when the crime-fraud exception applies, which causes the attorney-client privilege to evaporate."
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"I think the most interesting thing now moving forward is whether Evan Corcoran will plead the Fifth Amendment, will invoke his own Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, because he believes he was complicit in Donald Trump's crimes, or if he believes that he was an unwitting dupe, Donald Trump was giving him false information and he was simply certifying it and passing it on to the federal government."
If it's the latter, Kirschner then, "his truthful testimony would not incriminate him."
"He'd have no reason to plead the Fifth and he can testify and, frankly, become one of the most sharply incriminating witnesses against his former client Donald Trump" said Kirschner. "So even though the grand jury proceedings are secret, so we may not know these things right away, I suspect we'll know them before too long."
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'Felony offenses': House Oversight chairman's remarks in 2015 email leak spark calls for investigation
March 23, 2023
A Kentucky congressman is facing calls for an inquiry over comments he made in a New York Times interview suggesting he may have been involved in a law firm’s leaked emails during his 2015 gubernatorial bid, The Louisville Courier Journal reports.
James Comer, a Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, implied in the interview that he was behind leaked emails that were used in a Lexington Herald-Leader article “showing an attorney married to a rival candidate's running mate had been in contract with a blogger who was making allegations that Comer had abused a former girlfriend,” the Courier Journal reports.
The Congressional Integrity Project in a letter to Fayette County Commonwealth Attorney Kimberly Baird earlier this week asked that Comer's involvement in unlawfully obtaining stolen emails from the law firm’s server be investigated.
"No one should be above the law, and information revealed yesterday in an article published in the New York Times provides strong reason to believe that Representative Comer committed at least one, and perhaps multiple, felony offenses during his failed attempt to secure the Republican nomination for governor in 2015," the group’s executive director Kyle Herrig said in the letter, according to the report.
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Comer spokesman Austin Hacker said allegations are without merit in a statement obtained by The Courier Journal.
"The Congressional Integrity Project is a dark money, left-wing funded group whose sole mission is to smear Republicans conducting oversight of the Biden Administration,” Hacker said.
According to The New York Times report, "Comer confirmed, for the first time, that he had been behind the leak and strongly hinted he had gotten them from the server."
“I’ve had two servers in my lifetime,” Comer said in the interview.
“Hunter Biden’s is one, and you can — I’m not going to say who the other one was, but you can use your imagination,” Comer said, according to the report.
He noted that the emails "ended up in my lap ... I’ll put it like that.”
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