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Gaetz casts his vote for Trump pic.twitter.com/rxcdlLu0yI

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 5, 2023

wirinet:
No Democrat can ever vote McCarthy. He foolishly started attacking democrats even before the votes were counted. He promised to strip democrats of all commitee appointments. So what's the incentive for any democrat to vote for McCarthy?

basilico:
Trump has shifted support to Byron Donalds.
time for McCarthy to realize GOP votes will never see him through. GOP should do it like the liberals. You did not support Byron because he is black, hence you are a racist.
Play dirty like the Dems

IjeBos:
McCarthy seems to have lost the 5th Ballot as well.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) takes a swipe at Donald Trump while nominating Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) for House Speaker:

“The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, ‘Sir, you do not have the votes, and it’s time to withdraw.’” pic.twitter.com/EWzojWoFYh

— The Recount (@therecount) January 4, 2023

basilico:
Will go on tomorrow. This is a war between those who are MAGA and GOP elites. Dems are rock solid 212. Some 7 GOP elites can switch switch sides just to make sure any candidate who supports Trump does not get speaker.
As of now McCarthy will never get speaker.

basilico:
Would not call it a stench from Drumph.. The GOP elites are determined to hold on to power of the party. They will gang up and vote for a Democrat so that MAGA candidate does not become speaker I suspect.

Members club is not for everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ns18S7gHM

IjeBos:
Not sure about that. At some point there will have to be a consensus candidate that emerges that can get 218 Republican votes, maybe Scalisle or Stefanik. Seems personal that they want McCarthy to go down.

happney65:
Exactly. You said the truth and nothing but the truth

happney65:
Anybody watching what is happening in the house and what is happening to McCarthy?

IjeBos:
He's not sufficiently crazy enough. MAGA doesn't really care about governing, just getting in front of Fox News. But Jim Jordan's speech was very interesting. Seems it had more of an air of a campaign speech for himself.

basilico:
7 voted against him already. This can go on for days.

IjeBos:
Looks like McCarthy won't be winning on the first ballot.

ZooOga:
The guy is in the political dumpster so to speak.


Trump invited the press to a 'media availability' slot at Mar-a-Lago. Not a single cable news network covered it.
Story by jzitser

Donald Trump invited the press to a "media availability" slot at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve.
No cable news network covered it, not even Newsmax, according to Raw Story.
The audio was also barely audible during the first half of Trump's remarks.

Notably, the media outlet said that even Fox News and Newsmax, which have historically offered sympathetic coverage of the former president, skipped on covering his remarks.

On Saturday, MSNBC host Alex Witt announced that the former president would host a surprise New Year's Eve "media availability" slot at approximately 9 p.m. on New Year's Eve.

New York Times journalist Peter Baker, who was appearing on MSNBC, said he did not know what it would involve, but added that he suspected it could be a "gimmick" to "get attention in a positive way," per Raw Story.

At 9.00 p.m., Trump and former first lady Melania Trump appeared in front of reporters. But for the first minute of his remarks, which lasted approximately two minutes in total, the audio was barely audible.

A video of the "media availability" slot, which was covered by the fringe conservative media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), shows that Trump spoke about the FBI, his 2024 presidential campaign, and Russia's war in Ukraine.

On Saturday afternoon, Trump had complained about cable news networks in a Truth Social post, notably criticizing Fox News.

"Fox News Ratings are also way down because they never say 'Trump' or TRUTH, never talk about the Rigged Presidential Election, and is a Fake Polling Network," he wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-invited-the-press-to-a-media-availability-slot-at-mar-a-lago-not-a-single-cable-news-network-covered-it/ar-AA15RKlE?ocid=wispr&pc=u477&cvid=1ac414162da441cbb028944fa3d0e1f1

adamusuleiman3:
Trump’s tax returns released after long fight with Congress.

Every president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly lied that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released.

Trump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee.

Trump’s lawyers also tried and failed to block the Manhattan district attorney’s office from getting Trump’s tax records as part of its investigation into his business practices, losing twice in the Supreme Court.

Trump’s longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified at the Trump Organization’s recent Manhattan criminal trial that Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010.

The Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on company-paid perks such as apartments and luxury cars.

The IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 — more than two years into his presidency — when the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns.

By comparison, there were audits of President Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson. A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office.

benalvino3:
Madam Lake said she will appeal, what difference will it make?

Most of the system now has bias... Everything is becoming who Controls what silently or openly.

The Nation is becoming a political shit show.

Obrigardo:
After the significant event and historic fanfare, this man has the time to protect you from danger as they come.

Obrigardo:
Meanwhile, basilico says the big lie is the hill he will die on
lol

Obrigardo:
You know cucker tarlson is producing a Russian propaganda segment right now

Putin’s Press Secretary: “The President of Ukraine showed up at the WH dressed like the manager of a strip club and started to demand money. Amazingly, no one threw him out.” pic.twitter.com/ffvm7P3jO5

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 22, 2022