Marjorie Taylor Greene

China-hawk GOP senator making thousands of dollars from business deal with Chinese state firm: report

Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) talks a tough game in standing up to China, and was known for his hawkish anti-China speeches in his former office as governor of Nebraska. But according to The Daily Beast, he is making thousands of dollars off the sale of a business to a company controlled by the Chinese government.

"The new filings by the son of billionaire Cubs owner Joe Ricketts reveal that he had received payouts in the amount of $2,501 to $5,000 last year from his holdings in the National Cement Share Company. The submissions note these are mere 'holdbacks' from the 2021 sale of the stake in the complex to West China Cement held by a private equity firm in which Ricketts served as limited partner—a $23.4 million transaction which The Daily Beast reported on last year," reported William Bredderman. "The recently appointed Republican senator’s office told The Daily Beast he would get a further payment of between $1,001 and $15,000 at an as-yet unknown date in the future. His team further asserted he had no decision-making role in the sale. Ricketts’ press staff in the governor’s office had previously failed to return calls and emails from The Daily Beast regarding the deal."

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Sandra Day O'Connor helped secure George W. Bush’s 2000 election win, new documents show

Newly released documents show that former Justice Sandra Day O’Conner played a pivotal role in resolving a dispute over the 2000 election in favor of George W. Bush, CNN reports.

The documents released Tuesday show that O’Conner “provided the early framework that steered the outcome in the dispute over the 2000 presidential election and ensured George W. Bush would win the White House over Al Gore,” CNN’s Joan Biskupic reports.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: It's 'very likely' impeachment articles coming over alleged Biden crimes

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) said Wednesday that it is "very likely" that articles of impeachment will be introduced in connection to an alleged pay-for-play scheme involving President Joe Biden (D) when he was V.P.

In a "breaking news" video released by Greene, she said America "deserves to see what Joe Biden - as vice president and now as president, and his family members - what they have been doing and what it's doing to this country." She claims a whistleblower came forward to reveal records that purportedly tie Biden "directly to foreign nationals in an alleged pay-for-play scheme to influence policy decisions."

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'Sprinting away from sanity': Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed for debt ceiling crisis

Marjorie Taylor Greene, along with Congress’ “collection of destructive MAGA lawmakers,” is directly responsible for the pending economic crisis that’s looming if the debt ceiling crisis isn’t raised, USA Today columnist Rex Huppke wrote Wednesday.

“OK, it's not 100% fair to blame America hurling toward an economic crisis solely on the nonsense-spouting Georgia congresswoman, but she and her fellow MAGA lawmakers are certainly at the root of the country’s present dilemma,” he wrote.

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Arkansas stiffs $500 payment to Jewish dermatologist over his refusal to pledge not to boycott Israel

Dr. Steve Feldman, a dermatologist from North Carolina, gave a lecture to medical students at the University of Arkansas on improving physician-patient relationships. Then when he tried to register under the Arkansas vendor system to receive his $500 payment, he was rejected.

The reason? Because he refused to check the box promising not to boycott the state of Israel, reported the Arkansas Times.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Working with Dems on debt ceiling maneuver would be 'career ending'

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday said fellow Republicans who may be considering working with Democrats on a rarely used legislative maneuver to resolve the debt ceiling crisis would imperil their political careers by doing so.

The far-right congresswoman from Georgia’s comment followed a Wall Street Journal report that House Democrats have initiated the discharge position process that would allow the majority of House members to circumvent leadership to bring a bill to the floor.

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Watch: DeSantis declines to say if he supports ‘mainstream human rights’

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday declined to answer a question about his support for mainstream human rights when a reporter asked him about Republicans embracing “extreme” anti-gay politics.

“There seems to be a wave of extreme conservatism recently that is totally anti-gay, as evident in social media and even in government with people like Congresswoman [Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene],” the reporter told the Florida governor.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's quarterly filing shows only 6 big-dollar donors from her district

Quarterly filings from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene show that the Georgia Republican only received six big-dollar donations from her constituents.

Rome News-Tribune first reported on Greene's FEC filings, showing $601,517 in total receipts and $1,593,578 in total disbursements. Greene indicated she had $966,133 on hand as of March 31.

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'So Republican of you': Marjorie Taylor Greene hounded for claiming she and Tucker Carlson were 'set free'

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) gushed over terminated Fox News host Tucker Carlson at Sunday's Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner in Putnam County, Ohio.

"One person. The one person in the media who, who had me on his show repeatedly last Congress when no one else would interview me was Tucker Carlson," Greene said, to rousing applause.

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'Like the Thunderdome': Small-dollar donors blamed for filling Congress with 'firebrands and conspiracy theorists'

Small-dollar donors are responsible for fueling firebrands and conspiracy theorists who “treat Congress like the Thunderdome,” a Washington Post columnist wrote Monday.

Meant as a way to counter big money’s influence on politics, attempts to use the internet to solicit many small contributions from everyday people has actually damaged democracy, wrote David Byler.

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'Will his party care?': Columnist argues rape claims against Trump are being ignored by GOP

Even if E. Jean Carroll's wins her civil case claiming ex-President Donald Trump raped her and then defamed her by denying it, the core of the Republican Party is not going to care, wrote the editor of the New Republic Monday.

"Senator X, Representative Y, a jury in New York has just in essence agreed with E. Jean Carroll that your party’s presidential frontrunner raped her. Is that okay?" wrote Michael Tomasky.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes a national ban on 'adult' websites: 'I don’t even know why it exists'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appears to have just discovered adult film sites.

As the keynote address at the Putnam County Lincoln Reagan Dinner, Greene discussed at length her discovery of adult film sites. She explained the only reason she had to become an expert in adult videos is because of Hunter Biden and a laptop computer that once belonged to him.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene tells GOP donors: 'We are the Americans... and we need to throw out the trash'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told a group of Republican donors over the weekend that Americans need to "throw out the trash" when securing the border.

While speaking at a Reagan dinner in Ohio, Greene said that her generation had a responsibility to the country.

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