Marjorie Taylor Greene

Nikki Haley 'embodies the collapse' of the GOP: Republican strategist

Nikki Haley "embodies" the collapse of the modern Republican Party post-Trump, said former Mitt Romney presidential chief strategist Stuart Stevens to Business Insider, according to an article released on Sunday.

"Mitt Romney's former aide blasted Nikki Haley in a recent interview over the former South Carolina governor's decision to enter the 2024 GOP presidential primary, saying she 'doesn't have anything else to do' and arguing that she is actually seeking a vice presidential slot," reported John L. Dorman. "Stuart Stevens — who was Romney's chief strategist for his 2012 White House run and also a senior advisor for the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project — questioned Haley's motivation for running for the presidency during a February 2 interview on MSNBC."

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Conservatives ridicule Marjorie Taylor Greene for urging 'average Joe' to shoot down balloon

Prominent conservatives are having a field day on social media over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), having urged her "average Joe" followers to undertake the physically impossible task of shooting down a spy balloon sailing high in the stratosphere.
Greene tweeted Friday, "Literally every regular person I know is talking about how to shoot down the Chinese Spy Balloon. It would be great if an average Joe shot it down because China Joe won’t. Regular Americans can do everything better than the government and actually care about our country."

Greene wasn’t the only Republican serving up the bizarre idea, as Raw Story reported. But she was the only person with a Jewish space-laser theory on her resume, and some conservatives weren’t about to let her forget it.

“The responses generally highlighted the near-impossibility of actually hitting the balloon, given its altitude, and mockingly brought up her past comments about outlandish conspiracies,” the Charlotte Observer noted. One tweet of note was addressed to Greene from George a co-founder of The Lincoln Project:

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Georgia GOP wants more control over prosecutors just as charges are being weighed against Trump

As Donald Trump is facing possible indictment in Fulton County, some of Georgia's most powerful Republicans want to give the state more power to control and remove district attorneys.

A pair of bills introduced Thursday by state Reps. Houston Gaines and Joseph Gullett follow up on calls from Gov. Brian Kemp and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to bring "accountability" to local prosecutors, but the legislators insist the bill has nothing to do with the criminal investigation by district attorney Fani Willis into the former president's efforts to overturn his election loss in the state, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Author of new Trump book could get disbarred

The author of the highly anticipated forthcoming book 'People vs Donald Trump' is facing serious consequences for his in-depth recount of the attempted prosecution of the former President.

Mark Pomerantz is the author and former Manhattan District Attorney Special Prosecutor who gained national notoriety when he resigned after the Manhattan District Attorney didn't perform up to his standards, as he has already caused a stir by expressing his opinion that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made many mistakes in prosecuting Trump.

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'Burn bags,' logs and personal emails: Supreme Court security even worse than leak investigation showed

Supreme Court employees raised security concerns that were not made public when an internal investigation was completed following the leak of a draft opinion reversing abortion rights.

Multiple sources familiar with the court's operations told CNN that justices often used personal email accounts for sensitive communications, employees used printers that didn't produce logs and "burn bags" to collect sensitive materials for destruction were often left open and unattended in hallways.

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'Has made my life miserable': Marjorie Taylor Greene explains why she hates being in Congress

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lamented her life as a lawmaker in a recent episode of her podcast.

"The nature of this job — it keeps members of congress and senators in Washington so much of the time, too much of the time to be honest with you, that we don't get to go home and spend more time with our families, our friends, you know, all in our district, or maybe just be regular people because this job is so demanding, and it's turned into practically year-round," Greene said. "And for those of us in the House of Representatives, we have to run for Congress every two years. So you're practically campaigning nearly the entire time that you're here serving as a representative. So that's just a couple of examples that I can give you that I believe is a recipe for disaster, and that's how people just fall into this social club. I would call it a social club here in Washington, D.C."

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AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene resume their bitter feud, George Santos weighs in

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her nemesis Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene are trading nasty insults again — and Rep. George Santos jumped into the fray between the bickering lawmakers. After the Georgia Republican demanded that Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stop “run(ning) your mouth like a teenage girl,” AOC hit back at Greene for barely showing up at their Oversight Committee meeting. “In case you forgot, we sit on the same committee, which debated for the first time this week,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “You spent almost no time there. In the few minutes you did show up, you claimed one elementary sc...

Gunmaker fined $19K for illegal donation to pro-gun super PAC

Gun manufacturer Sig Sauer was fined a $19,000 "civil penalty" by the Federal Election Commission for an illegal 2020 donation to Gun Owners Action Fund, a pro-gun industry super PAC that spent in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat current Georgia Democratic Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

Although the fine was for the 2020 election, it was handed down by the Federal Election Commission in April and just made public in January.

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Dems close ranks around Biden as Trump becomes 'far more vulnerable': report

As the 2024 presidential election campaign season hits its stride, the changing dynamic of the race in both parties is obvious, according to a New York Times report -- former President Donald Trump has scared away many potential opponents and the Democratic party has fallen in line to support President Joe Biden.

Four leading potential Democratic candidates to challenge Biden, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, have all gone dormant about a potential run for the nomination.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene urges fans to shoot down spy balloon

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called on regular citizens to shoot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon that is currently drifting across the central United States in a tweet on Friday.

"Literally every regular person I know is talking about how to shoot down the Chinese Spy Balloon," wrote Greene, a controversial lawmaker famous for her promotion of the QAnon conspiracy theory. "It would be great if an average Joe shot it down because China Joe won’t. Regular Americans can do everything better than the government and actually care about our country."

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Anti-abortion doctor encourages opponents to act like 'principled' 9/11 hijackers

An anti-abortion doctor in Kansas is drawing fire after he recently encouraged his fellow abortion opponents to find inspiration from the al-Qaeda hijackers who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Dr. Scott Stringfield, medical director of the Choices Medical Clinic, told a recent March for Life rally that the Islamist 9/11 hijackers were "principled" and that they should be seen as an example despite committing what Stringfield acknowledged was a "heinous" act that killed 3,000 Americans.

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Virginia GOP quietly backs away from Glenn Youngkin's abortion bill

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin had hoped he could sign a bill restricting abortion rights in his state, but that dream died last year when Democrats won a special election that gained them control of the state senate.

Now local news station WRIC reports that Youngkin's own party is quietly shelving the legislation and doesn't even plan to give it a vote in the Republican-controlled Virginia House of Representatives.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for lamenting plight of 'the average white male'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained this week that there are no lobbyists in America who are fighting for "the average white male" when they are denied career opportunities because of their race and gender, with an immediate and derisive backlash, reported Newsweek.

"In a video shared by Twitter account PatriotTakes, which monitors right-wing extremism online, Greene complained that lobbyists in the U.S. are just fighting 'for big corporations and industries' and no one is taking care of 'regular Mr and Mrs American, like mom and pops shops, the single moms trying to make it, the guy,'" reported Giulia Carbonaro. "The MAGA Republican lamented that 'there's not people fighting for regular Americans,' such as 'the average white male trying to climb the corporate ladder when his problem is being white and male.'"

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