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‘A spit in the face’: Dem rips Nancy Mace for accusing Hunter Biden of ‘white privilege'

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‘A spit in the face’: Dem rips Nancy Mace for accusing Hunter Biden of ‘white privilege'
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) blasted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) after she accused Hunter Biden of white privilege Wednesday.

At a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Mace called for Biden to be arrested for contempt of Congress.

"You are the epitome of white privilege coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a Congressional subpoena to be deposed," Mace told the president's son.

"This is something that I just can't get over," Crockett later replied. "I can't get over the gentle lady from South Carolina talking about white privilege."

"It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a black woman, for you to talk about what white privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle."

Crockett noted that the Republican Party had a "lack of diversity."

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"When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America," she asserted. "You see, you want to talk about a two-tier justice system, and this is the only time that y'all have ever referenced it, when this country has a history, when it comes to black and brown folk, of having two separate sets of rules."

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) yielded to Mace for a reply.

"I want to say, number one, as a former ranking member of the Civil Rights Subcommittee under Chairman Raskin last session, I take great pride as a white female Republican to address the inadequacies in our country," Mace said. "I come from a district where rich and poor is literally Black and white, Black versus white on most days."

"My largest jail in my district, which is the largest jail in the state of South Carolina, has had seven or eight deaths in the last two years. I was there with our Black and African American council members trying to get the right thing done," she added. "And I've stood with those Black families because I know the differences that they see day to day in their life. And I try to do the best that I can."

Watch the video below from House Oversight.

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'This is bad stuff': Trump's DOJ flattened over yet another 'embarrassing' court fail

Reacting to another attempt to get a grand jury to issue an indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James on fraud charges that fell flat on its face, the Department of Justice under Donald Trump appointee Pam Bondi was leveled on MS NOW on Friday morning.

Late Thursday, the DOJ once again came up empty-handed in its pursuit of one of Trump’s main antagonists, who, unlike the DOJ, was successful when she convicted the president of business fraud, only to have an appeals court rule the financial penalty was “excessive.”

Thursday's failure to get a true bill from the grand jury comes just two weeks after a judge tossed similar mortgage fraud case against James because the prosecution by Trump appointee and real estate lawyer Lindsey Halligan was deemed unlawful.

Reporting on the latest blow to the DOJ, “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire expressed disgust with the efforts to get James when there is little to no evidence of a crime.

“But the president and his team want to persist. They say they're going to go back at Letitia James. We don't know if they'll go back yet,” Lemire explained before adding, “So it has been, to this point, pretty Keystone Cops. But yet at the same time, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that these things keep falling apart, at least for now, that this remains an extraordinarily dangerous abuse of power, I would argue, of presidential power and blurring the lines entirely between the West Wing and the Department of Justice to try to enact some sort of legal punishment against the president's perceived foes.”

Bulwark editor-in-chief, and MS NOW contributor Sam Stein agreed.

“Yeah. I mean, this is embarrassing, obviously,” he replied. “Let's just call it what it is, this failure to get an indictment from the grand jury.”

“Remember, they had already failed to get several other indictments in several different cases,” he recalled. “This isn't like Major League Baseball, where if you go, you know, one for three, it's a success, right? This is bad stuff.”

“On top of that, it's a huge waste of resources,” he pointed out. “But obviously the problem here is that they completely gutted the Eastern District of Virginia's department because they were pressing so hard to bring charges against Letitia James and [ex-FBI Director] James Comey that all the actual real lawyers in the office said no, and then they quit or were fired.”

“And I think we need to step back a little bit, because obviously this is an abuse of power, and it's just using the Justice Department to go after your foes.”

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'We actually have fun with it': JD Vance insists he enjoys marriage-trouble speculation

Vice President JD Vance’s warm embrace of Erika Kirk last month, followed by his wife appearing publicly without her wedding ring, has fueled speculation about the state of the vice president’s marriage – speculation, Vance told NBC News recently, that he insists he actually enjoys.

Rumors that Vance’s marriage with his wife Usha might be in jeopardy were sparked by the vice president’s “more-than-casual hug” with Kirk at a Turning Point USA event, with Kirk placing her “hand in Vance’s hair and the veep placing his hand on her hip.” This was followed by Vance’s public statement that he hoped his wife – a Hindu – would convert to Christinanity, which itself was followed by Usha appearing publicly without her wedding ring.

However, when asked about the speculation by NBC News on Thursday, Vance insisted that despite the grim subject matter, he actually enjoyed the rumors and had “fun” with them.

“It’s funny,” Vance told NBC News. “I actually don’t think that it’s tough.”

Regarding Usha’s public appearance without her wedding ring, Vance said his wife told him after leaving the White House that she had forgotten it.

“She was like, ‘if I don’t go back and get them, there’s going to be some ridiculous psycho who talks about it on social media,’” Vance said. “And I was like, ‘let them; It’s not even worth the trip to run back upstairs.’ So we actually have a little bit of fun with it. And we thought that whole viral social media cycle was kind of funny.”

Vance’s comments to NBC News mark the first response from the vice president on his wife appearing in public without her wedding ring. However, a spokesperson for Usha did issue a statement to People magazine, claiming the incident was due to the second lady being a “mother of three young children who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths [and] forgets her ring sometimes.”

It's about 'to get a lot worse' for GOP as Trump preps self-destructive plan: Nobel winner

A "retribution tour" of the United States for Donald Trump will hit the GOP hard, a Nobel Prize-winning economist has warned.

The president seems set on touring the country as a way of explaining how things have never been better for people economically, and this could cause ripples of doubt through the Republican supporter base. Trump's trip around the country was confirmed by the president earlier this week, though writer Paul Krugman explained how talking about the economy to those in financial hardship will hinder both Trump's administration and the work of the GOP.

Krugman, writing in his Substack, explained, "Trump is handling this reversal with his usual style and grace: in the past few days he has repeatedly called affordability a 'hoax' and a 'con job.' According to Axios, he’s planning a nationwide retribution tour to convince voters that things are going great and that they’re wrong to be so down on the economy."

"Democratic strategists must be rubbing their hands with glee. And if you are one of those Republicans reconsidering your future career options, know that things are going to get worse. A lot worse."

Krugman would go on to suggest the "health care earthquake" on the horizon is going to hit soon and will be damaging for Republican representatives. He wrote, "Which brings us to the health care earthquake that’s soon to hit — an earthquake that, based on my read of Mettler, is going to inflict significant political damage on the Republicans."

"So let’s think about the politics of what’s about to happen: Millions of Americans are about to see a sudden rise in health care costs — not a hypothetical future rise, but a sudden jump on January 1.

"This ACA premium shock will hit as other forces are exacerbating the sense of crisis over affordability. Businesses are starting to fully pass onto consumers the cost of Trump’s tariffs. Electricity prices are soaring as data centers inflict the cost of their enormous power demands on consumers. In addition, Trump’s deportation policies are increasing the cost of food."

Krugman then added, "Trump may believe that affordability is a con job, but it isn’t. It’s going to hit him and his allies hard. And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people."

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