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David Nir @davidnir.com · 4h

Me 'n' @atrupar.com tried to tell the people last week!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

He is the speaker of the House. Johnson can gavel the House in anytime he pleases. That's kind of the point of being speaker.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal “should be allowed to speak no longer”

Sanctimonious Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest “joke” in the United States Senate, is at it again! “Dick” lied until the midpoint of his political career, convincing everyone, in particular the Fake News Media, that he was a great “War Hero” who lived on the precipice of death in the jungles of Vietnam. He would talk about his life in the military in almost every speech, in particular the death defying dangers he faced in his many years “fight for freedom” while in Vietnam. He stated that “the battles were violent and long, but there was no going back” - And then it happened, Blumenthal was found out to be a FRAUD. The soldiers in his so-called “platoon” came forward and said that they had no idea who this guy was. He was revealed, broke down and admitted, tears flowing from his eyes, that he LIED, a Whopper, one that lasted 20 year. This guy shouldn’t even be in the U.S. Senate. It should be investigated, and Justice should be sought. Right now there is a Congressman sitting in prison for lying about his past during a campaign. Well, those lies were nothing compared to those of Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Don Jr on Democrats: "We're not playing the same game. These guys -- they want you and your kids dead."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Don Jr unloads on [checks notes] Fox News: "That's what happens when you have a more RINO network. They want to be loved, they just want the power...I don't watch it anymore because it's so ridiculous. They try so hard to be unbiased that they're actually biased toward conservatives at this point."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Donald Trump Jr: "They want to call someone who took a selfie somewhere within 200 miles of DC an insurrectionist on January 6, but directly threatening to withhold help from federal law enforcement doing their job -- that's insurrection."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

I’m sorry. Only the Trump administration is allowed to dox judges and Democrats

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 11h

it is fucking sickening that these people go on TV and boast about their campaign of terror against civilian fishermen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 11h

@schiff.senate.gov v Bondi, and he's got all the cards, to coin a phrase. What a mess we're in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

YOOOOO big shout out to my man @mkraju.bsky.social for asking the question lmao run Mikey run

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Schumer: "Now Johnson says he's the healthcare guy. He couldn't look straight in the camera. He said, 'Let me look straight in the camera,' and then he looked around and said, 'I'm the healthcare guy' ... the American people are on our side."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#AZ07

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Klobuchar: "I went over there this morning and there are actually more statues of deceased Republican leaders than there are Republican House members over there right now."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Murray: "If House Republicans were here, I'd make sure they understood over 3/4 of the families on the exchanges actually live in R states. And I'd make sure they understand the 10 states where families will face biggest average premium increase hikes when the ACA credits expire are all R states."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

it's total alternative reality land on Fox today where the DOJ is being weaponized by the ghost of Joe Biden and the real victims of it are Republican senators

chyron: GOP SENATORS PRESS BONDI ON DOJ WEAPONIZATON

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Whitehouse: "It obviously makes a big difference when you have a professional DOJ and there's no alleged involvement of the president in a sex trafficking operation. This is different. This is a MAGA DOJ conducting an investigation into a trafficking operation in which POTUS may well be implicated"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Whitehouse: "The supposed contribution made to me by some Epstein person is actually not true. It's false. So, weird when an AG of the US comes to the Judiciary Committee & makes false allegations about a senator - demonstrably false - rather than answer a simple Q: Is there a picture, or no?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

the question mark is how you know Fox has the goods

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

"To the extent Republicans have managed to settle on a single talking point, it’s that Dems want taxpayer $ to pay for healthcare for undocumented people — a lie so egregious even the mainstream media is balking at repeating it. It’s almost self-parodic messaging & polling suggests it’s not working"

Democrats are winning the shutdown

Republicans, meanwhile, are bumbling and stumbling.

www.publicnotice.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13h

"Are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

"You're a poopyhead"

"I repeat, are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

Silence.

Bondi ain't defending Trump on this one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12h

You can see Bondi doing some long-term thinking there in the final five seconds

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12h

will never get over the Washington Post Editorial Board recommending confirming Pam Bondi

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Pam Bondi
Florida's former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious.

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