(Reuters) - A special grand jury was selected on Monday to consider evidence in a Georgia prosecutor's inquiry into then-President Donald Trump's alleged efforts to influence the U.S. state's 2020 election results, a county prosecutor's office said.
The selection marks a major step forward in the probe, launched after Trump was recorded in a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call pressuring Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the state's election results based on unfounded claims of voter fraud.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis requested the special jury in January in part due to its subpoena power, which she argues is needed to compel witness testimony.
A group of 23 jurors and three alternates was selected on Monday, said Jeff DiSantis, deputy district attorney overseeing media relations.
The special grand jury can investigate, then recommend charges to a regular grand jury, which would then decide whether to indict, he said.
During the phone call, Trump urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to "find" enough votes to overturn his Georgia loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
The transcript of the call quotes Trump telling Raffensperger: "I just want to find 11,780 votes," which is the number Trump needed to win Georgia.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in the phone call.
Legal experts have said Trump's phone calls may have violated at least three state election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu, Rami Ayyub and Alexandra Ulmer; editing by John Stonestreet)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An effort by U.S. Senate Democrats to move forward on President Joe Biden's nominees for the Federal Reserve and Federal Trade Commission appeared headed for a second week of delay on Monday, after another Democratic lawmaker tested positive for COVID-19.
Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado said on Twitter that he tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 on Sunday, adding that he would quarantine at home in Denver for the week.
"I'm experiencing minor, cold-like symptoms and plan to work virtually," Bennet said.
That could mean further delays for the renomination of Fed Chair Jerome Powell; Fed Board nominations for Davidson College dean of faculty Philip Jefferson and Michigan State University's Lisa Cook, and the nomination of privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission.
A senior Democratic Senate aide said it was not immediately clear whether attendance would pose an issue.
But with the 100-seat Senate split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, and Vice President Kamala Harris wielding a tie-breaking vote, Democrats often need all 48 of their party members and the two independents who caucus with them to achieve the simple majority needed to confirm nominees.
Having all lawmakers present is especially vital for nominees who face determined Republican opposition.
Republicans were able to block a Democratic effort to limit debate on Cook's nomination last week after positive COVID-19 tests sidelined two Democrats and Harris. If confirmed, Cook would become the first Black woman to serve on the Fed Board since the central bank's founding in 1913.
Democrats were expected to circle back to Cook once they have a full caucus. Democrats have opposed Republican efforts to move ahead with Powell and Jefferson, who have broad bipartisan support, without progress on Cook.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was also forced last week to cancel a procedural vote for Bedoya.
If confirmed, Bedoya would give Democrats a 3-2 majority among FTC commissioners. Currently, there are two Democrats and two Republicans, resulting in deadlocks.
Schumer has said that confirming Bedoya was a priority because it would give the agency enough votes to investigate oil companies Democrats say are "gouging" consumers with high gasoline prices.
(Reporting by David Morgan and Diane Bartz, additional reporting by Moira Warburton; Editing by Scott Malone and Andrea Ricci)
QAnon influencer Romana Didulo claims President Joe Biden has asked her to mediate talks between the U.S. and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Didulo, who also claims to be "queen of Canada," says she asked Biden to provide her with her own aircraft to fly to Moscow, or possibly St. Petersburg, for the talks, according to BBC correspondent Shayan Sardarizadeh.
"I address you today as your commander in chief and Queen," Didulo says in a video posted online. "to the Russian and American people, I address you as the mediator between the United States and Russia pertaining to the Ukraine crises. I have been requested by the commander in chief of the United States armed forces to act as the mediator between Russia and the United States."
Didulo claimed that aircraft would bear the flag of the "Kingdom of Canada" and be known as "Queen Romana," or "QR1," and she said she asked for military escort for her journey with 13-15 staffers.
In reality, Biden has not asked Didulo to be a mediator and she will not be getting her own special aircraft to fly to Eastern Europe.
Watch the video below.
QAnon "queen of Canada" Romana Didulo says she's been asked by Joe Biden to "act as the mediator" between the US and Russia over the war in Ukraine. She's asked Biden to provide her with a "queen Romana one" aircraft for her journey to Moscow.pic.twitter.com/5eSdjDPA9b
Reporting from in front of the Fulton County Justice Center & Courts as District Attorney Fani Willis seats a special grand jury to hear evidence that Donald Trump attempted to tamper with Georgia's presidential election results in 2020, CNN's Sara Murray pointed out that the investigation could expand and draw in members of the former president's inner circle.
Speaking with host Kate Bolduan and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, Murray claimed subpoenas could be slated in the future for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows over their involvement.
With Toobin describing the proceedings as a "very promising investigation," Murray noted the grand jury may take months before coming to any conclusions.
And those conclusions could go beyond the former president who called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger looking for just enough votes to flip the state's 16 Electoral College votes away from eventual winner Joe Biden.
"How big is this investigation?" host Bolduan prompted. "What is the sense that you're getting and how big is this also for this D.A.?"
"They're certainly looking into a number of matters beyond what they know from Georgia officials like Brad Raffensperger, who was talking to Donald Trump," Murray explained. "They've also made it clear they're looking into Rudy Giuliani giving a presentation for Georgia state lawmakers where he spread a bunch of conspiracies. They're looking into a phone call between Lindsey Graham, the senator, and a phone call he had with Raffensperger."
"And if she subpoenas people like Giuliani and Mark Meadows, that would be uncomfortable," she added. "This is a big deal for her. She's a Democrat; people are already looking at this as a politically motivated investigation. She's sinking resources into this at a time when there is a lot of rising crime here and in a number of big cities. In a way she has to justify the resources and time she's putting into this when a lot of folks here are more concerned about local matters."
Gov. Ron DeSantis angrily denied he would have attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after his name was listed in the program.
The Florida governor's name was listed in the program as an attendee, but DeSantis denounced the event and insisted he would never consider going, reported Florida Politics.
"So, I never -- I would never attend that," DeSantis told reporters. "I have no interest in that. I did not watch it. I do not care what they do. But for them to advertise me when that invitation was rejected by my office, that is a lie."
Host Trevor Noah took a few shots at DeSantis during the dinner, and President Joe Biden mocked his feud with the Walt Disney Company, but the governor seemed more troubled that he was erroneously listed as an attendee.
"So the idea that I was there was false, the idea that I ever would have gone is false, and why they would want to perpetuate a lie about that, I don’t know," DeSantis said. "But I think it just shows you why that cabal of people in D.C. and New York are so reviled by so many Americans. I think that’s a reputation that’s been well-deserved.”
Desantis is all worked up this morning about the WH Correspondents Dinner listing him as an invited guest. He says he would never attend one since they are a \u201ccabal of people in DC and NY reviled by so many Americans.\u201dpic.twitter.com/TDCIfRXfZG
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(Reuters) -Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group by refusing to fly a flag bearing the image of a cross at City Hall as part of a program that let private groups use the flagpole while holding events in the plaza below, the U.S.Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday.
The 9-0 decision, authored by liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, overturned a lower court's ruling that the rejection of Camp Constitution and its director Harold Shurtleff did not violate their rights to freedom to speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. President Joe Biden's administration backed Camp Constitution in the case.
Boston's flag-raising program was aimed at promoting diversity and tolerance among the city's different communities. In turning down Camp Constitution, Boston had said that raising the cross flag could appear to violate another part of the First Amendment that bars governmental endorsement of a particular religion.
As a result of the litigation, Boston last October halted the program to ensure that the city cannot be compelled to "publicize messages antithetical to its own." Boston has said that requiring it to open the flagpole to "all comers" could force it to raise flags promoting division or intolerance, such as a swastika or a terrorist group.
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has taken an expansive view of religious rights and has been increasingly receptive to arguments that governments are acting with hostility toward religion.
At issue was whether the flagpole became a public forum meriting free speech protections under the First Amendment to bar discrimination based on viewpoint, as the plaintiffs claimed, or whether it represented merely a conduit for government speech not warranting such protection, as Boston claimed.
Breyer, who is retiring at the end of the court's current term, wrote that Boston's "lack of meaningful involvement in the selection of flags or the crafting of their messages leads us to classify the flag raisings as private, not government, speech." Denying Camp Constitution's request "discriminated based on religious viewpoint" and violated the First Amendment's free speech protections, Breyer added.
In a concurring opinion, conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch agreed with the outcome of the case, but not Breyer's reasoning, which they suggested may not always ferret out when a government is "surreptitiously engaged" in censorship of private speech.
The dispute arose over Boston's practice of allowing private groups to hold flag-raising events using one of three flagpoles on the plaza in front of City Hall. From 2005 to 2017, Boston approved all 284 applications it received before rebuffing Camp Constitution. The vast majority of flags were those of foreign countries, but also included one commemorating LGBT Pride in Boston.
Camp Constitution, whose stated mission is "to enhance understanding of our Judeo-Christian moral heritage" as well as "free enterprise," sued in 2018 over its rejection. It was represented in the case by Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian legal group.
"This case is so much more significant than a flag," Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver said. "Boston openly discriminated against viewpoints it disfavored when it opened the flagpoles to all applicants and then excluded Christian viewpoints. Government cannot censor religious viewpoints under the guise of government speech."
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that the city's control of the flag-raising program made it government speech.
Among other topics, Camp Constitution's website posts materials questioning the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and claiming that last year's U.S. Capitol attack was actually a cover up for "massive" 2020 election fraud. Its website also posts materials blaming Russia's invasion of Ukraine on provocations by the "Biden and Obama administrations" seeking to integrate Ukraine into NATO and calling Japan's 1941 Pearl Harbor attack and al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States "carefully orchestrated false flags."
(Reporting by Andrew Chung in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)
While there are numerous questions about what changes billionaire Elon Musk will make to Twitter now that he has purchased the popular social media platform for $44 billion, the one question that rises to the top is whether he will allow Donald Trump back on after his lifetime ban following the January 6 insurrection that he incited.
High-ranking officials in the Democratic Party and members of President Joe Biden's inner circle are hoping and wishing that the attention-obsessed and vindictive former president will be allowed to return early enough to derail the Republican Party's hopes to reclaim both the House and the Senate in the November midterm election, Politico's Jonathan Lemire reports.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Jared Birchall -- Musk’s top assistant who was deeply involved in the purchase -- told an aide that the billionaire was "vehemently" opposed to the Trump ban, adding he felt that banning a sitting president was "insane" in his book.
As Lemire notes, Trump's return could come in October --which is something Democrats are banking on.
Pointing out that Democrats are already "delighted" by the problems House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is having as he faces a growing rebellion from the Trump wing in the House, Lemire claims the addition of Trump blasting out tweets about his own party could give Democrats a big assist.
According to the Politico report, Biden advisers, "... tried to game out this week the possibility of one particular October surprise. Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter raised the chance that Trump could be reinstated to the social media platform, where he had more than 80 million followers before being banned in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot. Musk has said he would allow Trump to return, and while the ex-president has claimed he doesn’t want back on, the White House does not believe him."
"The consensus among Biden aides about Trump’s possible return: it could cut both ways. While the former president would eat up an extraordinary amount of political oxygen, it’s also possible that he would push the Big Lie or feud with fellow Republicans and damage the GOP’s otherwise strong chances of regaining at least one house of Congress," Politico's Lemire wrote before adding, " The more the election becomes about Trump, the better the Democrats’ chances become, many in Biden’s orbit believe."
In the wake of his 2020 election loss, former President Donald Trump made dethroning Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp a top goal.
But Trump's anointed challenger, former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), is trailing badly in the polls, and now the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Trump is literally phoning in his efforts to beat Kemp this week by having a remote "tele-rally" for Perdue.
The AJC notes that Trump in recent days has also sought to downplay his support for Perdue, as he encouraged the New York Times to look at his record of endorsing non-Perdue candidates in Republican primaries.
Additionally, Trump's flailing efforts to wield political clout in the Peach State come as a Fulton County special grand jury convenes to hear evidence into potential criminal wrongdoing in his efforts to pressure Georgia officials to overturn President Joe Biden's victory there.
"Trump infamously called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January of 2021 and told the Georgian and his team, 'Fellas, I need 11,000 votes,' to overturn the state’s election results," writes the AJC. "He has since nursed a vendetta against both Raffensperger and Kemp because of their refusal to go beyond the state’s legal recount and signature audit processes to help him change the election outcome. He then recruited Perdue and U.S. Rep. Jody Hice in an effort to oust Kemp and Raffensperger in their next elections."
A federal judge has rejected efforts by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to keep its mass email marketing records from the House Select Committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The committee is seeking records held by business software company Salesforce in connection with its work with former President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign to determine if Trump's fund-raising emails encouraged the violence of the mob that tried to prevent confirmation of Joe Biden as the duly-elected president, according to the Washington Post, which described the judge's ruling as a "thorough victory" for the January 6 committee.
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of Washington rejected the RNC’s claims that its and the Trump campaign’s information was protected under the First Amendment. Kelly also affirmed the committee's Constitutionally-granted legislative power to obtain the records and found that judges cannot interfere with how lawmakers obtain and use information.
Kelly's ruling late Sunday temporarily blocks Salesforce from releasing any records to the House before Wednesday to give the national GOP committee time to appeal. The RNC sued the committee in early March seeking to quash the subpoena it had issued to Salesforce on Feb. 23.
“It is hard to imagine a more important interest for Congress than to preserve its own ability to carry out specific duties assigned to it under the Constitution,” Kelly wrote in a 53-page opinion issued shortly before midnight. “To repeat: according to the Select Committee, its investigation and public reporting suggest that claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent or stolen motivated some who participated in the attack, and emails sent by the RNC and the Trump campaign using Salesforce’s platform spread those claims.”
One email, sent an hour before rioters breached police lines at the Capitol that day urged supporters to “FIGHT BACK,” under another header stating, “This is our LAST CHANCE.”
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked former President Donald Trump for botching the name of the candidate he endorsed for the Ohio Republican Senate primary.
The former president backed venture capitalist and "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance over former state treasurer Josh Mandel, but he combined their names during a speech at a campaign rally in Nebraska, telling supporters he had endorsed "J.D. Mandel."
"Oh, my God," Scarborough said, hooting with laughter. "You know, you know, if the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had done that, there would be headlines for, like, months. 'Oh, he can't remember,' which, of course, underlines the fact, how funny it is, you have people, right-wing Trumpists attacking Joe Biden for his mental acuity, right before Donald Trump couldn't remember who he endorsed."
The "Morning Joe" host recalled when Trump boasted that he had aced a cognitive test used to determine whether a person has dementia.
"What were the six or seven words he could remember?" Scarborough said.
Trump bragged that he remembered the words "person, woman, man, camera, TV," which he said astonished medical personnel, and Scarborough joked that perhaps the two GOP candidates could be fused together instead of running against one another.
"This from the former president was a remarkable performance, perhaps fusing together these Republican candidates, maybe he thinks it'll be the best chance in Ohio," Scarborough said. "Seriously, the guy -- like, what planet is he on?"
Early voting officially kicks off Monday for the 2022 midterm elections with sky-high stakes freighted with the never-ending relitigation of the 2020 presidential election.
Over the next several weeks Georgians will cast ballots for the May 24 primaries that will determine the Republican and Democratic nominees for governor, U.S. Senate, congressional districts, secretary of state and other tests of the state’s budding battleground status.
The primary is the first statewide election since the election overhaul implemented by Republican lawmakers in spring 2020 that reshaped absentee voting, set new deadlines when provisional ballots can be cast, added an extra Saturday of early voting, and gave the state power to take over local election boards deemed to be underperforming.
Over the coming months, progressive voting rights groups are poised to closely monitor the effects of changes they charge are suppressing Black voters and other marginalized groups who helped secure Georgia’s two Senate seats and Joe Biden’s narrow Georgia win over Donald Trump for president.
Voting rights organizations are increasing their effort to educate the public about the voting law and resources like ones offered by a coalition of 100 organizations that allow voters who have questions or problems to report them at 866-OUR-VOTE.
Even with the efforts some say make it harder to vote, Common Cause Georgia Executive Director Aunna Dennis said there’s a strong counter effort to ensure every eligible voter can cast a ballot.
“But the anti-voter legislation that’s been pushed through our legislature means that it will be harder for some voters to vote this year,” she said in a statement. “So it’s more important than ever for Georgia voters to make a plan to vote – and maybe make a backup plan, too.”
This year’s party primaries feature a heated race between Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and former U.S. Sen. David Perdue and a crowded U.S. senate field led by former University of Georgia football great Herchel Walker trying to break out of the pack to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock on Nov. 8.
And as people head to the polls, the most important push from voting rights champions is for Georgians to vote early and inform their coworkers, families, and others about the new rules and to check on their status, said Jamil Favors, a co-founder of Atlanta-based nonprofit Power the Vote.
As a result of the new law, the deadline for requesting and submitting absentee ballots is shorter and drop boxes will no longer be available around the clock but only during early voting hours.
Under the new law, Republicans officials trumpeted a plan to replace a comparatively subjective signature match for absentee ballots with a more objective driver’s license, other state ID or requiring a photocopy of a utility bill, bank statement or government check to verify identity.
“That’s going to significantly affect many individuals who may not have that license or may not have a photocopier to take a copy of their utility bill,” Favors said. “And these things may seem small, but they’re really small cuts that are deep cuts to truly keep people away from the ballot box.”
Georgians will also have more difficulty requesting an absentee via an online portal under the new law since they will need a signed document in order to apply.
Georgian officials with the secretary of state’s office counter 97% of eligible voters already have a government ID.
It is proving difficult for many election supervisors in Georgia to find enough poll workers after the pandemic led to the older ones opting out. Meanwhile, threats to poll workers grew across Georgia in the wake of discredited claims by Trump and his allies of a fraudulent election.
The new voting law isn’t factoring into the struggles of Cobb County in hiring enough staff for an election, where Election Director Janine Eveler expects a strong turnout to settle the many contested races.
But how those votes are cast should be different from 2020’s presidential preference primary when a record 1.1 million absentee ballots were cast across Georgia.
“Absentee voting will not be as popular as in 2020. More people are comfortable voting in person now and absentee voting is much harder than before with more restrictive deadlines,” Eveler said.
As a result of the new law, provisional ballots cast at a wrong polling place before 5 p.m. on Election Day will not be counted. The proponents of this change say it will give voters a chance to vote on all the candidates on the ballot. But others say it will make it more confusing for poll workers and will leave thousands of people without enough time to cast their votes.
“I think part of the problem with this law in particular is just how unnecessarily complex a rule that changes at five o’clock on Election Day is,” said Saira Amir Draper, a co-founder of Power the Vote and a Democratic candidate for state House District 90.
In 2020, the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot was three days before the election, but now voters must request the ballot 11 days before the election, which means the deadline is May 13 for the primaries.
While a large number of groups, including presumptive governor candidate Democrat Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, and former Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s Greater Georgia, are pushing to get more voters registered, the largest driving force in signing up new voters – the automatic registration process through the Department of Driver Service – had its percentage fall by half over the last year.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that when the agency shut off automatic voter registration after a design of its website, registrations decreased from 35,000 in February 2020 to less than 6,000 in the month the following year.
Draper, who is also a former director of the Democratic Party of Georgia’s voter protection division, said that drop should have sounded off alarms within state agencies workers that the system was flawed.
What to know heading into the May 24 primary
Georgians can view their registration status, update their contact information, and more at the secretary of state’s My Voter Page. Voters who have problems with the website can confirm their poll location by contacting their county elections office.
Monday: Early voting begins with polls open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
May 7 and 14: Saturday early voting.
May 13: Deadline to submit application for absentee ballot.
May 20: Last day of early voting.
May 24: Election Day. Polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Joe Biden’s got jokes. The president took his critics — and even some friends — down a notch or two Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the first time a sitting president has attended since President Barack Obama did so in 2016. Here are his and host Trevor Noah’s best jokes from the Nerd Prom. On Trump“This is the first time the president has attended this dinner in six years. It’s understandable. We had a horrible plague, followed by two years of COVID.” — Biden “I know there are questions about whether we should gather here tonight, because of COVID. Well, we’re here t...
Speaking to the crowd to promote Charles Herbster, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by eight women, Trump also named other candidates he hopes to elevate to the U.S. Capitol.
"You know, in Texas, on endorsements, I was 33 and 0, and if I lost one race they'd say, 'Trump was humiliated,'" said Trump. "That's what they're waiting for one race. You know we've endorsed Dr. Oz. We've endorsed JP? JD Mandel."
The person Trump said that he endorsed was JD Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, and a close friend of Donald Trump Jr. In fact, Trump Jr has spent the past several weeks traveling with the candidate in an effort to get him elected. Vance was a strong opponent of Trump in 2016 and has only come around to support him in the past few years.
"Like some others, J.D. Vance may have said some not-so-great things about me in the past, but he gets it now, and I have seen that in spades," Trump said in his statement on April 15. "He is our best chance for victory in what could be a very tough race."
Josh Mandel has been a far-right candidate that desperately courted Trump's support ahead of the endorsement. Several of Trump's former staffers, including Hope Hicks, are working for Mandel and allies like Michael Flynn have appeared around the state with him.
“I'm confident we're going to win this primary on May 3. I'm looking forward to working with President Trump to beat the Democrats in November. There is no candidate in this race more America First than me,” Mandel said, speaking to reporter Chelsea Sick in a Dayton 24/7 interview.
Digital activist Matt Ortega responded by launching the campaign website for JP Mandel:
J.P. Mandell for Senate https://jpmandell.com\u00a0pic.twitter.com/xLsMrAc3PV
His mind is shot. Can't imagine what Stormy did to him. Must have been really horrible. Sad!https://twitter.com/vaughnhillyard/status/1520903031025545216\u00a0\u2026
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This is devastating for @JDVance1https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1520900796946079744\u00a0\u2026
Mandel spent the whole cycle gunning for Trump's endorsement. Didn't get it, then Trump's son started campaigning against him. \n\nNow with two days before Election Day, Trump confuses the endorsed candidate's name with his.\n\nThis primary has really been somethinghttps://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1520900796946079744\u00a0\u2026
Dude's resorted to just mashing all of the Republican candidates together now so that he can take credit when one of them ultimately wins.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1520900796946079744\u00a0\u2026
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Who the hell is JD Mandel?https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1520900796946079744\u00a0\u2026
Dementia J. Trump 1) calls @JDVance1 \u201cJP\u201d 2) He then calls him \u201cJD Mandell\u201d \n\nHis brain is worse than swiss cheese.https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1520900796946079744\u00a0\u2026
