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'This man assaulted everyone': Marjorie Taylor Greene staffer tries to get a protester arrested for whistling
March 24, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s staff on Friday tried to get a protester arrested for whistling during a press conference.
The disruption happened as the far-right Congresswoman from Georgia was holding a press conference after visiting Jan. 6 defendants held at a Washington D.C. jail, where she said they were being denied medical care and treated as “political prisoners.”
A Democratic Congressman who joined a delegation led by Greene disputes Green’s characterization of the conditions the inmates are experiencing.
“We toured the DC Jail today and held a press conference outside the jail after our tour,” Greene tweeted.
“This man assaulted everyone there by blowing a whistle as loud in as he could in other’s ears and tried multiple times to assault me and other members.”
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She said her staff tried to shield those in attendance from the “assault.”
“He needs to be arrested and we tried to have him arrested,” Greene said.
“My staffer called 911 and reached an automated recording for several minutes before reaching a human. Reported the guy. She then asked the jail to send out an officer and they refused.”
Greene said that the decision not to arrest the man typified a much bigger pattern of lawless liberals acting out without facing consequences.
“This is just another example out of a million others that the left does repeatedly without accountability.”
During her press conference, Greene complained of “ a two-tier justice system,” in which the Jan. 6 defendants are being mistreated.
“I mean what we've seen all along is the pretrial January 6 defendants were treated like political prisoners,” she said.
Greene accused the whistler, who she said also attended a 2021 press conference, of threatening her staffer.
“Sounds like a direct threat, ‘Don’t touch! Touch you die!’” Greene said.
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'Nonsense and lies': Democrat slams Republicans who took 'field trip' to martyrize J6 prisoners
March 24, 2023
Far-right House Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), took a trip this week to visit the Washington, D.C. jail where a handful of January 6 defendants accused of high-level offenses like assaulting police officers, where they claimed that these defendants are effectively political prisoners and victims of mistreatment.
But none of that is true, said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who accompanied the Republicans on this trip, and told MSNBC's Ali Velshi what she actually saw on Friday.
"You have seen inhumane conditions," said Velshi. "Bad conditions in prison in America is a real thing. And to the extent that there are members of Congress from both parties who would like to tackle that, it's a separate issue than treating January 6th rioters as political prisoners."
"Yeah, no. This was nothing more than a political stunt," said Crockett. "While you're covering this, that is part of the problem. The media continually gives Marjorie Taylor Greene this microphone to spew nonsense and lies. Essentially what happened today was a field trip, the Republicans got to see their heroes, the January 6ers got to see their heroes. Everybody was kumbaya-ing."
"What's frustrating is the idea that, I think back to Nelson Mandela and what he went through. I actually went to that prison. He was not afforded these opportunities," said Crockett. "These false comparisons that they're drawing, it's really offensive because we have real issues in this country. We have real political prisoners. We saw what happened with Brittney Griner and where the Republican Party was on her, they were against that. They felt like that was problematic. Yet under these circumstances, for whatever reason, they felt like it made sense to have senior colleagues, senior Democrats go in and sit down and talk to and coddle people that tried to kill them. It did not make sense."
"Listen, it's still prison," said Crocket. "Prison is never going to be the Ritz-Carlton. But at the same time, we're talking about, are they living in inhumane situations or not? I can tell you, there's nothing inhumane about this. They are able to freely move about. They're able to communicate without having to worry about a recorded phone call. They had air conditioning, which is something we don't have in Texas. They also — I asked about the women in the facility, and I asked them about their access to sanitary napkins. They have that, that's free. Their medical care is free. A lot of places, they charge you for that kind of stuff ... let me tell you something. I've had a client that died. I don't see someone sitting there and being neglected because they're not hurt. They have got literally iPads, or whatever they call them, tablets, where they can make a sick call electronically. And they have access to these tablets for 22 out of 24 hours. The only two hours they don't have access to them when they're charging them."
Watch the segment below or at this link.
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National Enquirer founder's heirs suing each other over 'rampant-self dealing': report
March 24, 2023
Two children of Generoso Pope Jr., the founder of the infamous National Enquirer tabloid, are suing their brother, alleging "rampant self-dealing" that disgraces the name of the family patriarch, Italian-American media tycoon Generoso Pope Sr., according to The Daily Beast on Friday.
"In a 35-page civil complaint filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court, Marie-Thérèse and Ted Pope accuse David Pope, the well-connected president and CEO of the Generoso Pope Foundation, of 'looting' the nonprofit for personal gain as he iced the two of them out. David, according to the two, paid himself 'far above the value of his services,' put his wife and two sons on the foundation payroll 'for little to no work,' and managed to blow through at least $28 million of the foundation’s money in a little over a decade," reported Justin Rohrlich. "He also used foundation funds to, among other things, get acting roles for his son, finance his kids’ football teams and cheerleading squads, and get all three children into college, the lawsuit states."
In a statement to The Beast, Marie-Thérèse said that David “has destroyed the foundation and its ability to achieve my great-grandfather’s vision.”
"The wider Pope family, in the words of Marie-Thérèse and Ted’s cousin Paul David Pope, is a 'made-for-television' saga of a 'wealthy and high-profile dynasty torn apart by money and power,'" said the report. "Paul, who is Generoso Jr.’s son, says his father was written out of Generoso’s Sr.’s will, then clawed his way to riches with the Enquirer. When Generoso Jr. died in 1988, he left his own instructions to sell the tabloid rather than give it to Paul, who wanted to continue the legacy. In 2013, Paul sued his mother, Palm Beach socialite Lois Pope, over the family fortune, culminating in his arrest on stalking charges."
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This comes after the Enquirer itself featured prominently in the Trump hush-payment scandal, which is a focus of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and is expected by many legal experts to lead to charges against the former president.
In addition to the payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, the focus of that probe, David Pecker, the paper's former publisher, allegedly facilitated another payment to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal in a "catch-and-kill" scheme to bury a story about Trump's purported affair with her.
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