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Does he live in PA yet?

 

https://www.abc27.com/2022-united-states-senate-election-in-pennsylvania/is-dr-oz-from-pennsylvania/

 

Lol

 

But handing out water to people in line to vote is illegal?

 

So Trump has endorsed McCarthy. Let's see how long that lasts once the 1/6 hearings get going. DoJ announced that it was not going to prosecute McCarthy and Scavino. That's got to be based on their cooperating, at least to some degree. We already know McCarthy gave up a couple of thousand e-mails and texts. There may also be some part of that non-prosecution that is based on their being close enough to Trump that some degree of executive privilege legitimately applies.

 

I think you are confusing Meadows and McCarthy.

 

Corrupt GK Chesterton-looking MFer

 

Chesterton was a dick, but he wasn't toxic, just insufferable.

 

I never liked that guy. Democrats’ version of Trump: unqualified blowhard.
His level of transparency about his stroke doesn’t matter. He’s going to be perceived as a dead man walking. No chance.

 

Obviously. My error.

I denounce myself.

 

Yes, fuel prices are outrageous but consider the U.S. doesn't even rank in the top 100 of countries for average price per gallon. But, sure, blame Biden.

https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

 

Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon
defined corruption. Then came Trump.

Perspective by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

As reporters, we had studied Nixon and written about him for nearly half a century, during which we believed with great conviction that never again would America have a president who would trample the national interest and undermine democracy through the audacious pursuit of personal and political self-interest.

And then along came Trump. ...

Trump’s diabolical instincts exploited a weakness in the law. In a highly unusual and specific manner, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 says that at 1 p.m. on Jan. 6 following a presidential election, the House and Senate will meet in a joint session. The president of the Senate, in this case Vice President Mike Pence, will preside. The electoral votes from the 50 states and the District of Columbia will then be opened and counted.

This singular moment in American democracy is the only official declaration and certification of who won the presidential election.

In a deception that exceeded even Nixon’s imagination, Trump and a group of lawyers, loyalists and White House aides devised a strategy to bombard the country with false assertions that the 2020 election was rigged and that Trump had really won. They zeroed in on the Jan. 6 session as the opportunity to overturn the election’s result. Leading up to that crucial date, Trump’s lawyers circulated memos with manufactured claims of voter fraud that had counted the dead, underage citizens, prisoners and out-of-state residents.

We watched in utter dismay as Trump persistently claimed that he was really the winner. “We won,” he said in a speech on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse. “We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.” He publicly and relentlessly pressured Pence to make him the victor on Jan. 6.

On that day, driven by Trump’s rhetoric and his obvious approval, a mob descended on the Capitol and, in a stunning act of collective violence, broke through doors and windows and ransacked the House chamber, where the electoral votes were to be counted. The mob then went in search of Pence — all to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Trump did nothing to restrain them.

By legal definition this is clearly sedition — conduct, speech or organizing that incites people to rebel against the governing authority of the state. Thus, Trump became the first seditious president in our history. ...

Both Nixon and Trump have been willing prisoners of their compulsions to dominate, and to gain and hold political power through virtually any means. In leaning so heavily on these dark impulses, they defined two of the most dangerous and troubling eras in American history.

As Washington warned in his Farewell Address more than 225 years ago, unprincipled leaders could create “permanent despotism,” “the ruins of public liberty,” and “riot and insurrection.”

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward are co-authors of “All the President’s Men” and “The Final Days.”
The above article appears as a new foreward to the 50th anniversary edition of “All the President’s Men.”