A guy who claims to be from Long Island and accused of committing unemployment fraud voted to pass a bill to prevent unemployment fraud.
On Tuesday, George Santos was indicted on thirteen similar counts of money laundering, rope fraud, mendacity to Congress and public theft of funds. This includes a fraudulent claim fee of $24,000 in Covid unemployment benefits while earning a $120,000 salary.
Just two days later, House Republicans passed a bill that purportedly targets Covid-19 unemployment benefits from fraudulent applicants. And Santos, who has no self-awareness or a wonderful appreciation of irony, voted with them.
Many Republicans who refused to overrule Santos voted in favor of the Unemployment Fraud Victims and Taxpayer Protection Act, a bill co-sponsored through Santos.
Santos pleaded guilty to all charges and reached a plea deal to be released on $500,000 bail.
He was allowed to continue his crusading activities, and was only allowed to travel to New York and Washington, D. C. To get out of those areas, you’ll want to get special permission from the government. The deal allowed him to return to Hill and vote on a bill that would preferably put an end to crimes like the ones he allegedly committed.
The deal potentially gives House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a breathing space, amid Republican efforts to impose hard-working needs on Medicaid and SNAP benefit debt limit negotiations.
Meanwhile, the Unemployment Fraud Bill, which may weaken the government’s ability to investigate fraud, passed 230-200.
At the very least, Santos’ colleagues to see all this as a validation of the bill:
“It just shows that unemployment fraud is real, and that’s why we want to pass this,” Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo. ), chairman of the House committee that oversees unemployment, said of Santos’ impeachment.
Last month, Trump-backed Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno kicked off his Senate crusade through reparations not easy for whites.
It turns out that Moreno, her daughter Emily and her husband, Congressman Max Miller, donated thousands of dollars to Rep. George Santos, now indicted.
In fact, more than 58 percent of Ohio Santos’ donations came from Miller’s trio and circle of family members as a whole. Rep. Miller donated a total of $8,700. His father, Abraham, donated $5,800, while his mother, Barbara, donated $8,700. Moreno limited his donation to an individual single donation of up to $2,900, as did his daughter and Miller’s wife, Emily.
Revelations are desirable for several reasons. For one, Miller is among a handful of developing congressmen who have called for Santos’ impeachment in light of his web of lies and, now, charges of con artists. .
Moreover, Moreno does not seem to have echoed his son-in-law’s considerations for Santos. Which is all the more appealing given that the Ohio Senate candidate now faces his own accusations of being “the George Saints of Ohio. “the state laid out the broad allegations in the Daily Mail, claiming Moreno had changed his mind about how he describes his background and his family’s anticipated wealth.
Recently, Moreno looked at the description of his circle of relatives leaving Colombia in the same vein as Cuban immigrants fleeing “a government that imprisoned us for our beliefs, that took away our businesses, that took away our rights. “, Moreno’s own Colombia under a conservative regime at the time, doesn’t scare socialists. )
Republican strategists say Moreno is much more willing before entering politics to communicate about the “privileged” life of his circle of relatives in Colombia, how he grew up with “multiple properties” with “staff” and the house of his father’s circle of relatives “so large. “It was remodeled in the German embassy.
“Bernie Moreno is the arrival of George Santos. Whatever happens, Bernie Moreno ends up being the Republican candidate in Ohio,” one strategist told the Daily Mail. “It’s a show that’s about to happen. “
Several things are conceivably true: Moreno’s circle of relatives would likely have been relatively wealthier in Colombia than in the United States. He did not have an American medical license.
But GOP strategists also argue that Moreno’s political stance is also reversed. In 2015, Moreno wrote in a tweet that Trump, the “tyrant-in-chief” who “is now a crybaby,” the “best fundraiser and ally. “He also tweeted that “listening to @realDonaldTrump is like watching a car twist of fate that makes you sick, but you can avoid seeing it. “Since then, Moreno has been eager for Trump’s pats on the head and liked to get one through Truth Social a week before he pronounced his career.
“Bernie Moreno, the highly reputable businessman from the GREAT STATE of OHIO, and father-in-law of young Congressman Max Miller, is rumored to be considering running for the Senate,” Trump said. he won, especially opposed to Brown, one of the worst in the Senate!”
In addition to Moreno’s potential exaggeration, the family’s previous donations at full speed to the criminally charged Santos could also serve as a reminder of Rep. Miller’s murky past. the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
The new face in Congress would also have a history of aggression. At high school, he allegedly pushed a woman “effectively down the stairs” after she resisted his attempts to touch her. In 2007, Miller was charged with assault, disturbing public order and resisting arrest. after hitting someone in the back of the head and fleeing from the police. And he allegedly drove against a wall and slapped his former romantic partner, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
Miller, Santos and now, perhaps, Moreno. Money flows between the trio, and now it’s welcome to see them more closely.
CNN’s resolution to celebrate a city hall featuring twice-indicted, criminally indicted and convicted sex offender Donald Trump fell flat, as the occasion drew only a fraction of the former president’s previous viewers.
Wednesday night’s event was filled with some of Trump’s greatest successes: lies, misogynistic attacks, election conspiracy theories and insults to anyone who tried to find out. Countless other people in the media, including CNN employees, have criticized the city hall and network for hosting it.
But even though many media outlets, including The New Republic, are no doubt stunned by the primetime exercise accident we witnessed Wednesday night, it turns out few other people witnessed it with us. The city corridor attracted an average of just 3. 1 million viewers.
By comparison, only about 71. 5 million people watched Trump win the 2016 election. Later in 2020, an average of 21. 6 million people watched the Republican National Convention, fewer than in previous elections but still miles away from Wednesday night.
That will have to hurt Trump, who cares a lot about TV ratings. Throughout his presidency, he was obsessed with the number of people watching his speeches, rather than the actual content of his speech. This gave us a lot of TV-style gems. aimed at attracting more eyeballs, such as waving a Q-tip at a coronavirus briefing or giving Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom the State of the Union.
When everyone was stuck at home or in health trouble due to covid-19, Trump continually boasted that his daily briefings were getting some of the highest ratings on television. And in February, it published an internal “audience report” on Truth Social stating that ratings from its layover in East Palestine, Ohio, were “off the charts,” even if no major network covered the trip.
It’s funny that so obsessed with ratings got such bad grades, but an even better concept would have been not to give Trump that kind of platform in the first place.
The pandemic-era public fitness emergency known as Title 42, which allows the government to return others at the border, whether they seek asylum or not, will expire tonight.
Lawmakers on both sides, meaning those representing states bordering Mexico, are involved in how lifting Title 42 could result in more migrants fleeing their countries accessing the United States, causing bottlenecks at ports of access and straining resources at the border. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema last week introduced legislation extending Title 42 for two years, saying it will give Congress time to negotiate a broader immigration reform bill.
“Our purpose is to send a bill to the president’s workplace to make a significant difference in resolving this crisis and easing tension in border states like Arizona,” Sinema told reporters in a “pen and notebook” query, a rare opportunity, because Sinema almost never speaks to the press. Sinema also criticized what he saw as an insufficient reaction from the Biden administration to end the policy, saying that “the planned failure of the White House to prepare for the end of Title 42 means that my state bears the brunt of the looming crisis. “
The bill is also subsidized by Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester, who will be re-elected in 2024 in Republican states. 2013, a reform measure passed on a bipartisan basis was blocked in the House; Congress has only become more polarized and less receptive to sweeping bipartisan immigration reform over the past 10 years. (Sinema didn’t answer my question about how to turn political situations since 2013, but instead noticed that she liked my dress. )Democratic Senator Dick Durbin is also drafting his own bill to address Title 42.
Meanwhile, the House will vote Thursday afternoon on a sweeping border control bill, which President Joe Biden has vowed to veto; it’s not that it’s going to get to him in the first place, because the measure will be dead when it gets to the Senate.
On Wednesday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-born congresswoman, sponsored a Nakba awareness event. Known as “the catastrophe,” the Nakba refers to the ongoing series of events that began in 1948 and led to persecution and displacement. of the Palestinians, as well as the profession of Palestine that continues today.
The event, scheduled to take place at the Capitol Visitor Center, was aimed at “improving reporting by Palestinians who have endured the Nakba and teaching members of Congress and their staff about this history and the ongoing Nakba to which Israel continues to subject Palestinians. “according to a second-hand page.
Apparently, such perception (reflection, education, verbal exchange) is too much for some.
First, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy intervened and arranged for the event to go as planned, reserving the room where the event would take place.
McCarthy accused the trafficking event of “anti-Semitic tropes about Israel. “is anti-Semitic. )
However, the occasion continued. Jewish Senator Bernie Sanders welcomed the opportunity to be held in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which is his responsibility. But still, the pullback continued.
“I strongly disagree with the majority allowing the use of the HELP committee room for this divisive event,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, a senior member of the HELP committee, said in a statement. pedestal to legitimize anti-Semitic fanaticism. “
Senator Jacky Rosen has become the first Senate Democrat to speak out against the occasion. “Calling the status quo of the world’s only Jewish state a ‘catastrophe’ is deeply offensive, and I strongly disagree with allowing this occasion on Capitol Hill,” he said. Said. Rosen’s comments appeared to erase the main fear that the state’s history has been catastrophic in particular for Palestinians. Instead, Rosen claimed organizers were suggesting it’s more catastrophic for Jews to have a position to call home.
Shortly after canceling the event, McCarthy pledged to “hold a bipartisan meeting to honor the 75th anniversary of U. S. -Israel relations,” inadvertently affirming America’s bipartisan commitment to the displacement and violence inflicted on Palestinians since 1948.
However, efforts prevailed through McCarthy and anti-Palestinian teams to cancel the event.
He was 8 years old when the Nakba began. He told his story of trauma, violence and persistent pain. Experiments like hers are what McCarthy and others tried to erase, but we didn’t allow that to happen. His smile and ability to share his story valoran. pic. twitter. com/viCyJqCzPf
Meanwhile, Thursday marks one year since Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli soldier while reporting on an Israeli army invasion of a refugee camp in occupied Palestine. Independent investigations concluded that she had been the victim of a targeted killing, she was wearing (or perhaps by her) a blue vest obviously marked “PRESS”.
And yet, a year later, Israel has no consequences for killing an American citizen.
Of course, Israel has also failed to deal with the consequences of its continued violence against Palestinians. At least 123 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces this year, or about one consistent with the day. The number is likely higher, as Israel continues its airstrikes on Gaza.
This lack of accountability, even as Israel has escalated its violent attitudes toward Palestinians, shows why the Tlaib Nakba event is so necessary. of democracy, at the very least, by doing the best it can. You can’t do any of this without knowing the history of the Nakba and how its legacy of displacement and disrespect for Palestinians is so obviously a component of our new era.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that will allow doctors and fitness insurance corporations to deny care to whomever they want.
According to the new law, “a physical care provider or physical care payer has the right to refuse to participate in or pay for any physical care service on the basis of conscientious objection,” that is, on the basis of his moral, moral or devout status. Beliefs.
Providers and insurers will not suffer any consequences under the measure and will not be required to refer patients to a location that would provide care. If they are penalized for refusing care or coverage, the doctor or company can take legal action.
The law makes no mention of protections against discrimination based on sex or race, leaving conflicting parties rightly concerned that the sweeping nature of the bill would allow providers to deny care or policy to women, other people of color and other LGBTQ people. A doctor may simply refuse care, for example, if they are “morally opposed” to gender-affirming care, or if they don’t like a patient having sex before marriage. And it’s not just doctors: Under the law, insurance companies, nurses, pharmacists, hospitals, ambulances and many others can also refuse care.
“This bill is a broad authorization for fitness service providers and insurance corporations to deny facilities to individuals. No one can be denied access to health care,” said Brandon Wolf, press secretary for Equality Florida. “It puts patients at risk, is contrary to the works of fitness service providers, and puts the most vulnerable Floridians at risk. “
Kara Gross, legislative director and senior policy adviser for the ACLU of Florida, has warned in the past that the bill leaves too much room for subjectivity when determining criteria for care. “There is no definition of ‘ethical’ or ‘ethical’ on the bill. Who determines what constitutes an honest ethical or ethical trust and, more importantly, why is access to physical care denied on the basis of such vague, vague and subjective terms?” he said in a statement.
This law is one of the latest developments in Florida Republicans’ relentless attacks on other people’s rights and access to physical care. In particular, they focus on women and other LGBTQ people. Just last week, the legislature passed a bill that would allow the state to remove transgender minors from their families if they get gender-affirming care. DeSantis also signed a law banning abortion at six weeks, before many other people know they are pregnant, which will decimate abortion access in the South.
Republicans in the Louisiana House have rejected several spending aimed at slightly easing access to abortion, an incredibly ruthless resolution that denies exceptions even for sexually abused children.
Abortion has been banned in Louisiana since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Wade, with exceptions only to save the life of the pregnant user or if the fetus is not expected to survive. However, two doctors will have to agree that the fetus is not viable. , adding a significant burden to the patient.
The House Criminal Justice Committee heard an abortion spending package Wednesday aimed at slightly easing restrictions on the procedure. A bill would have exempted all rape and incest victims from the abortion ban, but failed by a vote of 10 to 5, with Republicans. voting in favor of the measure and the Democrats and the only independent vote in favor. Another would have allowed child victims of rape and incest to have abortions in particular. The law was defeated, along party lines.
After those two votes, lawmakers postponed the other bills. Doctors would only have been fined for performing an abortion, rather than being sentenced to prison. It would also have allowed a single doctor to realize that a pregnancy was medically futile, rather than requiring two opinions. The bill’s sponsor deferred the measure so it can draft amendments that can get more from Republicans on the committee.
Doctors and abortion rights advocates who testified at the committee hearing warned that the bill would have huge negative consequences for all Louisianans, especially children. They implored the committee to think about what would happen if one of their own relatives raped.
“By forcing survivors to give birth, you’re forcing them to bond with their rapist,” said Morgan Lamandre, an attorney for survivors of sexual assault. “In Louisiana, men can decide on the mother of their children, regardless of what the mother wants. “
Democratic Rep. Cedric Glover, who billed to create exceptions for child victims, noted that “if roles were reversed when it comes to sex guilty of having children, it would be a factor that men would see differently. “
“This consultation is about selections,” he said. Opponents of the bill “spoke of women who regretted having the option to have an abortion after being raped. There is still an option open to them. “
While maximum access to abortion for Louisianans, most state lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, including Gov. John Bel Edwards, oppose it. But Edwards and other members of his party hoped to ease some of the state’s draconian restrictions.
“I love Louisiana,” one woman testified at the hearing, after detailing how she survived a decade of sexual abuse at the hands of her grandparents. “For long-term survivors who love Louisiana, it’s time for Louisiana to love us. “
On Wednesday, CNN continued hosting an event at City Hall with former President Donald Trump, who has twice been accused and faced charges as a fraudster, just one day after being convicted of sexual abuse and defamation.
And it went as badly as could have been predicted. Trump probably told more lies than truths. He blurred E. Jean Carroll and made the audience laugh and mock. It doubled on January 6 and lies about the 2020 election. And CNN dropped its own. Kaitlan Collins with the remarkably arduous task of seeking to verify everything, while leaving her vulnerable to being classified as a “bad person” through Trump in front of an audience that didn’t seem to care at all.
And the Trump team enjoyed it. ” Trump’s advisers are excited to see how things are going so far,” Jonathan Swan of The New York Times reported. “You can’t spend an hour on CNN with an audience that applauds your every single line and laughs at every joke. “
At the beginning of the mayor’s office, a CNN worker told The Washington Post’s Jeremy Barr that it was “a crisis and completely predictable. “
Another insider told Rolling Stone that the night was “appalling” and that CNN gave Trump “a massive platform to spit out his lies,” while “the audience piled in with his voters. “
“Damn shame,” said a CNN insider. 1,000% a mistake [hosting Trump]. No one [on CNN] is happy.
“Simply brutal,” added the manufacturer.
Prior to the event, CNN commentator and retired Washington, D. C. , police officer Michael Fanone (who was assaulted by rioters in the Jan. 6 attack, resulting in a central attack, severe burns and brain damage) spoke out against the network, in a Rolling Stone article titled “CNN Organizes City Hall for Guy Who Tried to Get Killed. “
Oliver Darcy, CNN’s senior media reporter, wrote an overnight article highly critical of CNN’s resolution to house the mayor’s office. The new head of the network, Chris Licht, is facing a fury of criticism, both internal and external, about the event.
What was already a bad concept was compounded through CNN’s tolerance and thus the claim of a guy who has just been convicted of sexual abuse. Event, broadcasting an enterprise that the rest of the American people are more productive served with a journalism that does not offer prime time to sexual abusers, let alone coup inciters.
Instead, the network stood firm, leaving Collins dodging the lies of Trump and the rest of America to dive further into the same consent-taking operation that contributed to Trump’s rise in the first place.
And while many within CNN’s walls seem exasperated by what their employer has done, it doesn’t matter unless they make it important. For their own dignity and for the dignity of what journalism deserves to aspire to, those staff members can simply leave, or attack, or even sabotage the network; Make leaders feel more than just a stream of reaction articles that only feed their self-centered assumptions that “if we drive other people crazy, we’re doing something right. “And until then, the opening for CNN’s real smart hounds to make adjustments will be even narrower. The clock is ticking.
Republicans have no evidence that Joe Biden has been involved in shady dealings, and even Fox News does.
House Republicans on Wednesday accused the president and his circle of family members of doing business with foreign entities, but could not provide genuine evidence linking Biden to wrongdoing.
The host of the fox
“He has no facts right now. It has circumstantial evidence,” Doocy said Thursday morning. He did something illegal. “
Wow! Steve Doocy to James Comer this morning: “He has no facts right now. It has circumstantial evidence. And the other thing is, of all those names, the one user who didn’t get advantages, there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did. “anything illegal. ” pic. twitter. com/Ad8L3NSXWE
Comer gave a long and confusing explanation of how Biden definitely got involved, though his call is nowhere to be found in the financial documents he had subpoenaed. In fact, Comer admitted that Republicans have yet to find evidence for their allegations.
“We’re only at the beginning, but talking to the informants we have. . . we know Joe Biden was actively involved,” Comer said. We are seeking more bank documents that we believe will involve Joe Biden’s active involvement. “in this. “
Since taking control of the House of Representatives, Republicans have been obsessed with seeking to smear the Biden family, especially Biden’s son, Hunter. Although the United States has only a few weeks before it can default on its debt, the Republican Party is more interested in non-public vendettas than running the country.
Twice accused and criminally charged, former President Donald Trump had an hour of exclusive time with CNN, a day after he was convicted of sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll.
Despite the valiant efforts of CNN’s Kaitlan Collins with the situations imposed on her, the basic design of the evening was not complementary to what one might believe as “good journalism. “agreement with him on maximum things; Rarely a “battleground of ideas,” the only difficult issues of the night came from Collins. But Trump has pulverized lie after lie after lie, which is difficult for anyone to determine the facts in real time.
These are some of the lies Trump threw at the wall, with a mocking laugh supporting him throughout.
That’s not an exhaustive list of all the lies, especially the smaller ones, Trump said at town hall. In his four years alone, Trump is estimated to have lied or misled fellow Americans more than 30,000 times.