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The texts, which were among those selectively provided by Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to the House select committee, show Rep. Scott Perry pushing to have the nation's top intelligence official investigate baseless conspiracy theories and working to replace the US acting attorney general with an acolyte willing to do Trump's bidding.

"From an Intel friend: DNI needs to task NSA to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to Dominion," Perry wrote to Meadows on November 12, just five days after the election was called for Joe Biden.

In the text, which has not been previously reported, Perry appears to be urging Meadows to get John Ratcliffe, then-Director of National Intelligence, to order the National Security Agency to investigate debunked claims that Dominion voting machines were hacked by China.

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Mr. Brooks and Mr. Gaetz were the prime offenders in the eyes of G.O.P. leaders. Mr. Brooks addressed the Jan. 6 rally on the National Mall, which preceded the Capitol riot, using incendiary language. After Jan. 6, Mr. Gaetz went on television to attack multiple Republicans who had criticized Mr. Trump, including Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a member of the leadership team.

Those comments by Mr. Gaetz alarmed Mr. McCarthy and his colleagues in leadership -- particularly the reference to Ms. Cheney, who was already the target of threats and public abuse from Mr. Trump's faction in the party because of her criticism of the defeated president.

"He's putting people in jeopardy," Mr. McCarthy said of Mr. Gaetz. "And he doesn't need to be doing this. We saw what people would do in the Capitol, you know, and these people came prepared with rope, with everything else."

Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 House Republican, suggested that Mr. Gaetz might be crossing a legal boundary.

"It's potentially illegal what he's doing," Mr. Scalise said.

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Op woensdag 27 april 2022 02:34 schreef IndoorKite het volgende:
Free speech, huh? Valt "Stop The Steal" daar ook onder toevallig? Willen ze echt weer een herhaling van 6 januari?

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Op donderdag 28 april 2022 05:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Op-ed van J. Michael Luttig (Republikein), appointed by President George H. W. Bush, formerly served on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years. He advised Vice President Mike Pence on January 6. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.

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Op vrijdag 29 april 2022 00:00 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Dit komt toch nooit meer goed!? 🇺🇸
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Op donderdag 28 april 2022 15:08 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Eigenlijk is het een dingetje van ( extreem) rechts.

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Op vrijdag 29 april 2022 00:45 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Een op-ed, really?

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House Republicans are planning to use an oversight hearing next week to attack the Biden administration on its immigration policies, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times that offers a road map for how the G.O.P. intends to further weaponize an issue that is already a main thrust of their midterm campaign message against Democrats.

The detailed, 60-page guidance memo includes misleading and provocative talking points that seek to portray migrants and refugees as perpetrators of gruesome crimes, especially those involving sexual assault, echoing the language that former President Donald J. Trump used to denigrate immigrants. It also argues that the Biden administration has been lax on illegal immigration, seeking to put Democrats on the defensive on the issue.

It comes as Democrats are growing increasingly concerned that President Biden’s immigration policies, including the recent decision to lift pandemic-era border restrictions next month, could pose a political liability for them ahead of the midterm elections.

The memo — which is marked “CONFIDENTIAL — FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY” — repeatedly insinuates that immigrants could be sex offenders, highlighting a handful of arrests at the southwestern border and of Afghan evacuees. It also misrepresents a Biden administration policy designed to humanely enforce immigration laws as one that would bar law enforcement from surveilling sex offenders near schoolyards.

Studies show that the estimated 40 million immigrants living in the United States commit crimes at rates far lower than native-born Americans.

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security, is set to testify Thursday for the first time in front of the House Judiciary Committee, just as the administration is bracing itself for a surge of migrants expected to make asylum claims at the border in late May. That is when a public health rule limiting border crossings because of the pandemic, known as Title 42, is scheduled to be lifted, unleashing a two-year backlog of claims on top of the high volume of migrants who typically come to the southwestern border in the spring.

The memo for Republicans, prepared by Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the ranking member on the committee, details how the right plans to use the hearing to portray Democrats as pushing “far-left policies” that seek to abolish all immigration enforcement and even “encourage” illegal immigration.

While Mr. Jordan’s memo was circulated confidentially among Republicans, he posted on Twitter that he planned to grill Mr. Mayorkas on Title 42 and other immigration issues.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment about the upcoming hearing or the outlined lines of attack.

"Republicans continue to use immigration as a political cudgel to scare voters at every turn, knowing they have killed serious immigration reform at every turn," said Kerri Talbot, deputy director for the Immigration Hub, a pro-immigrant organization. She ridiculed Republicans' immigration agenda, charging that "they want to build a $15 billion wall that a $15 handsaw can cut through."

And she defended Mr. Biden’s handling of the issue, saying his administration has a plan to manage the migration spikes “safely and in an orderly fashion.”

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“In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law,” Greene texted Meadows, misspelling the word “martial.” “I don’t know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!”

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"She talks about NATO Nazis. Does the minority believe that our allies in NATO, who are trying to defend the people of Ukraine are Nazis? Has it come to this?" Raskin said on Thursday.

"She said the aid that the taxpayers of America are sending to the people of Ukraine to defend themselves against Vladimir Putin and the Russian army falls into the hands of Nazis. I want to see her proof. Where's her evidence?" the Maryland Democrat asked.

"Last week, Congress voted to fund Ukraine with $13.6 BILLION in lethal aid," Greene wrote on March 16. "How much U.S. taxpayer cash will end up in the hands of the neo-Nazis in Ukraine?"

"And to top it all off, NATO has been supplying the neo-Nazis in Ukraine with powerful weapons and extensive training on how to use them. What the hell is going with these #NATONazis?" she added.

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Op maandag 25 april 2022 19:32 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Omg! Ik zie een homokoppeltje in het zoekplaatje

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The same-sex kiss first made headlines last month, when Pixar animators spoke out against Disney in an open letter obtained by Variety, saying that corporate executives had demanded cuts "from nearly every moment of overtly gay affection."

According to SlashFilm, "Lightyear" producer Galyn Susman confirmed that Alisha's kiss was initially cut from the movie. But it was later restored in light of Disney's "Don't Say Gay" controversy, when it was revealed the company had donated roughly $200,000 to Republican politicians who supported the bill, which forbids discussions of sexual orient in elementary school classrooms.

Despite student walkouts and criticism from Hollywood, the White House and many in the LGBTQ+ community nationwide, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law last month, with more than a dozen states introducing similar legislation.

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Op vrijdag 29 april 2022 01:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Je kan natuurlijk ook inhoudelijk ingaan op de op-ed

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Op vrijdag 29 april 2022 08:33 schreef GarlandBriggs het volgende:
https://www.google.com/am(...)ittee-hearings-june/

9 juni beginnen 8 public hearings. Ik heb gelezen dat er senatoren mogen opdraven.
Ik denk echt dat de Dems alles uit de kast gaan trekken in aanloop naar de Midterms.

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Op vrijdag 29 april 2022 13:51 schreef MoreDakka het volgende:

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Dat lijkt me een vergissing. De gemiddelde zwevende kiezer (die het verschil gaat maken in veel staten) is hier totaal niet in geinteresseerd. Inflatie, economisch herstel na covid en infrastructuur zijn veel belangrijker. Wat de Democraten moeten doen is op de trom slaan over het succes van de infrastructuur-wetgeving die onder Biden is aangenomen en met plannen en idee�n komen over de andere twee onderwerpen.