Новости за 31.01.2023

Last Saturday, Donald Trump stood before a crowd and said a bunch of Donald Trumpy things. Flanked by South Carolina’s senior senator, Lindsey Graham, and its governor, Henry McMaster, Trump railed against RINOs, transgender rights, electric cars, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (he is still trying to make “Ron DeSanctimonious” happen), President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the cancellation of gas stoves. It was not a rally—it was his second small event of the day, the first being an address to New Hampshire’s Republican Party. Читать дальше...

Video released Tuesday by CBS News shows Donald Trump invoking the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times during his deposition last summer in the New York attorney general’s fraud case against him.

Amid a continual stream of reports revealing how George Santos has lied about most, if not all, of his past, an overwhelming majority of his voters want him to resign.

At least three people have testified under oath saying Representative Matt Gaetz asked former President Donald Trump for a preemptive presidential pardon regarding a Justice Department investigation into whether the Florida congressman had violated federal sex trafficking laws. Now Gaetz is saying all of those testimonies, provided under risk of perjury, are lies.

Almost two years ago to the day, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene found herself committee-less, a punishment for past antisemitic and racist comments the then–first term congresswoman aired. Greene was stripped of her position on the House education and budget committees, a move that, perhaps to Greene’s joy, meant she wouldn’t be doing any serious legislative work of any kind. It also meant that come election time she couldn’t claim any major legislative accomplishments as singly hers, even... Читать дальше...

Embattled congressman and serial fabulist George Santos told his House Republican colleagues Tuesday that he would temporarily recuse himself from his committee assignments, amid ongoing investigations into his past behavior.

A slew of bills attacking transgender and LGBTQ rights will go up for debate across the United States this week.

In Florida, just weeks before the anniversary of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Republicans are pushing to allow people to carry concealed loaded guns without any permits.

Like many ancient institutions, the U.S. Senate has more than its fair share of arcane and obsolete rules. Washington spent the last two years debating the merits and deficits of the filibuster as President Joe Biden tried to get his legislative agenda through Congress. With Republicans now controlling the House, attention has shifted to a less well-known policy for judicial nominees: the blue slip.

Six years ago, Mike Pence made a set of fairly straightforward calculations. Seeing as he was going nowhere fast as Indiana’s governor, accepting Donald Trump’s offer to be his running mate was a low-risk, high-reward proposition: After all, Pence’s main responsibility was to class up the place by appealing to religious conservatives who might have been put off by Trump’s crassness and obvious disinterest in Christianity. (It turns out they were fine with both, but that wasn’t obvious at the time.)... Читать дальше...

When Democrats recaptured the House in 2019 after eight years of Republican control, a crew of newly elected progressives—a squad, if you will—quickly garnered headlines for their willingness to challenge party leadership and their uncompromising idealism. During new member orientation in November 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a group photo of herself alongside fellow new members Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, and the caption officially birthed “the Squad,” a title derisively... Читать дальше...

David Koresh “may have been a false prophet, but he was onto something,” the current pastor of the Branch Davidians recently remarked at his congregation’s compound near Waco, Texas. “That’s why the Clintons couldn’t let him live. He knew too much about the human trafficking, pedophilia, and gun- and cocaine-running the Clintons and Bushes were guilty of.” In this diatribe, and in the many screeds he has written for his church’s website, Pastor Charles Pace explicitly connected the 1993 Waco siege—which killed 82 Davidians... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump sued Bob Woodward Monday for using recordings of interviews they did to make an audiobook, claiming he only gave the journalist permission to use them for a book.