'Unfit to hold office': Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to censure Dem for 'insurrection'

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'Unfit to hold office': Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to censure Dem for 'insurrection'
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered a resolution on Thursday to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-MI) for what she said was an "insurrection."

Greene brought the resolution to the House floor after Tlaib participated in a peaceful protest at the Capitol to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

"A resolution censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for anti-Semitic activity, sympathizing with terrorist organizations, and leading an insurrection at the United States Capitol Complex," Greene said, reading her resolution. "Whereas by leading an anti-American and anti-Semitic insurrection on October 18, 2023, Rashida Tlaib followed Hezbollah's orders to carry out a day of unprecedented anger, following an explosion at a Gazan hospital, lying about Israel's responsibility for the attack, which United States intelligence agencies said was not perpetrated by Israel."

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"And whereas members of Congress who denounce the United States while praising terrorist organizations are unfit to hold office," she continued. "Now, therefore, be it resolved that Representative Rashida Tlaib be censured."

The chair ruled that the full House would consider Greene's resolution at a later date.

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‘King of stolen valor:’ Trump torched over ‘insulting’ Medal of Honor joke

President Donald Trump sparked fierce backlash Thursday after joking that he wanted the nation’s highest military honor for himself.

Trump made the remark while honoring Global War on Terrorism Medal of Honor recipients at the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas.

“I want for myself a Congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump said. “And I’ve studied it; I would give it to myself — I have no problem, but I’m not allowed to. Can you believe it?”

He added that he was “only kidding” before doubling down on the fantasy. “Actually, I’m not kidding,” the president said, as laughter filled the room.

But the moment quickly struck a nerve over social media, with many users voicing their frustration.

“Our five-time draft-dodging President wants to give himself the Medal of Honor,” wrote Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO). “It's insulting to every person who has worn the uniform, served their country, and made the ultimate sacrifice.”

Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh also rejected the suggestion that Trump was merely joking.

“He’s not kidding,” Walsh posted on X. “He’s a sociopath. He’s the king of stolen valor.”

“Of course he’s serious,” The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols added.

Freelance journalist and BBC local radio correspondent Euan MacDonald called Trump a “clown dictator” and argued that Trump regularly transforms serious presidential business into a spectacle.

“Trump is not a politician in the conventional sense,” he told his followers on X. “He’s a reality TV star who turned to politics, and he uses all the lessons he learned in show business to turn the serious business of governance into entertainment.”

New York criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield delivered a shorter assessment of the moment: “He has no honor.”

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Trump admin's 'profoundly stupid' Jimmy Kimmel threat baffles CNN conservative

CNN pundit Jonah Goldberg struggled to make sense of the Trump administration's threat against late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Kimmel revealed upon his return to "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Wednesday that he interviewed James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, but ABC, the home of Kimmel's show, pulled the interview and will air it on YouTube instead because of fears about the FCC's threat to late-night hosts over equal airtime for political candidates.

Goldberg, a veteran conservative political analyst, said that the Trump administration's threat didn't make sense and tore into the move during a Thursday roundtable discussion on CNN.

"This is dumb," Goldberg said. "Let them interview James Talarico. It's ridiculous."

The move to pull the interview is the latest fallout from a year-long pressure campaign against ABC by President Donald Trump's FCC, chaired by Trump appointee Brendan Carr. No formal sanction has been issued over the Talarico booking, CNN anchor Jake Tapper noted, but the threat is the accumulated weight of everything the agency has already done.

In January, Carr's FCC scrapped a two-decade-old exemption and told late-night and daytime talk shows they must give equal airtime to rival candidates. In April, it ordered Disney's eight ABC-owned stations to file license renewals years ahead of schedule, a demand Disney called retaliatory in an August lawsuit accusing the commission of an unconstitutional campaign against the network.

Goldberg found it "just profoundly stupid for the FCC" to put pressure on ABC and Jimmy Kimmel.

"It's also corrupt," Goldberg said. "It puts a lie to all the talk about this administration being so pro-free speech, all that stuff. It's also just dumb that the FCC has anything to do with broadcast television anymore."

Goldberg said it's "fine" for the FCC to "regulate standards for emergency bands, radios and 6G and all that kind of stuff...But what the hell?" Goldberg argued that the agency has no business regulating TV at all.

"In a world of 10 trillion streaming platforms and options. What the hell is the FCC getting [by] nickel and diming a handful of networks about what they can and can't put on TV anymore?" he asked. "The FCC was created for the radio era in the 1930s. Just be done with it."

'How dare you!' GOP candidate's 'despicable lie' over 9/11 triggers fury

Rep. John James (R-MI) got more than he bargained for after trying to use the September 11 terrorist attacks to tarnish his opponent in the Michigan gubernatorial race, Lt. Gov. Jocelyn Benson.

The dustup started with an ad the James campaign posted to X on Thursday afternoon.

"Jocelyn Benson stands with a radical left that says America deserved 9/11," James' post was captioned. "I stand with you, and I say NEVER FORGET."

Benson, however, did not take this lying down.

"How dare you, Congressman," wrote Benson. "My husband enlisted in the Army and put his life on the line for our country after losing his friend, Todd Ouida, in the towers on 9/11. This is a despicable lie to the people of Michigan about what that day means to me and my family, the sacrifices made, and the devastating impact of that attack on our country. I have never, and would never, campaign with anyone who says something so reprehensible."

"If you have any decency, you will immediately take down this false ad," she continued. "The veterans and families who lost loved ones on 9/11 deserve better than your lies and self-serving political opportunism. Shame on you."

This line of attack from Republicans has intensified since the Democratic nomination of former Detroit health official Abdul El-Sayed for the Senate contest. The GOP has focused on El-Sayed's decision near the start of the campaign to attend events with Hasan Piker, a popular leftist Twitch streamer who previously said America "deserved 9/11." Piker has apologized for this remark, clarifying it was meant in a facetious context and wasn't supposed to be taken literally.

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