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Very "Russia House" tactic. Hope Trump's team really is this wise. And from a negotiation standpoint, it's always best to demand way too much at first, then settle for what you really want. He did withdraw after a meeting with Republican senators who may very well have told him they would oppose is confirmation but welcome him to the Senate. | |||
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Extremely frustrated rant on: Once again it appears to be a bunch of chicken sh!t RINOS afraid of their own shadows. Had he been a Dim nominee he would have been pushed through the nomination even if he had committed multiple murders and raped an entire convent publicly. More of the same BS ahead it would seem. I hope I am wrong and this is a feint before the true candidate is offered or maybe to feel out who is with DJT and who is not. It just seems Republican legislators couldn't act as a cohesive group if all the Senators and Representatives were handcuffed together. Come on guys and gals, "Get your poop in a group!" :Rant off! The “POLICE" Their job Is To Save Your Ass, Not Kiss It The muzzle end of a .45 pretty much says "go away" in any language - Clint Smith | |||
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I second the nomination of Ted Cruz. I think he'd be great and a full ally. Of course Texas wouldn't be happy. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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Donald Trump announces Pam Bondi as new nominee for Attorney General after Gaetz withdrawal https://justthenews.com/politi..._campaign=newsletter President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his new choice for attorney general. The nomination comes after former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration in order to avoid distracting from Trump's new agenda in January. The former president applauded Bondi's reputation as the state's first female attorney general and a former prosecutor of 20 years. "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore," Trump said in a statement. "Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again. I have known Pam for many years — She is smart and tough, and is an AMERICA FIRST Fighter, who will do a terrific job as Attorney General!" The "Hit" pieces have already started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi  Fundraising controversies In 2013, Bondi persuaded Governor Rick Scott to postpone a scheduled execution because it conflicted with a fundraising event.[18] After questions were raised in the media, Bondi apologized for moving the execution date.[19][20] Beginning in 2010, Bondi's association with Scientology and the multiple fundraisers that wealthy Scientologists have organized for Bondi's political campaigns have provoked controversy.[21] Bondi has justified those contacts and her speeches before leading Scientologists by arguing that the group wishes to help her crack down on human trafficking.[22][23] In 2011, Bondi also pressured two attorneys to resign who were investigating Lender Processing Services, a financial services company now known as Black Knight, following the robosigning scandal, as part of their work for Florida's Economic Crime Division. After the resignations, Bondi received campaign contributions from Lender Processing Services, though she denied any quid pro quo.[24] In 2013, Bondi also received criticism following a campaign donation from Donald Trump.[25] Prior to the donation, Bondi had received at least 22 fraud complaints regarding Trump University. A spokesperson for Bondi announced that her office was considering joining a lawsuit initiated by Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York, regarding tax fraud potential charges against Trump.[26][27] Four days later, however, a political action committee established by Bondi to support her re-election, And Justice for All, received a $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, after which Bondi declined to join the lawsuit against Trump University. Both Bondi and Trump defended the propriety of the nonprofit foundation's political donation.[28][29] In 2016, after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service regarding the 2013 Trump donation, the Trump Foundation stated that the donation had been made in error. It said that the Foundation had intended for the donation to go not to Bondi's PAC, but instead to an unrelated Kansas non-profit called Justice for All.[30][31] However, in June 2016, as Bondi was facing renewed criticism over the Trump donation and her decision not to join the lawsuit, her spokesman said that Bondi had solicited the donation directly from Trump several weeks before her office announced it was considering joining the lawsuit against him.[27][32] On March 14, 2016, Bondi endorsed Trump in the 2016 Florida Republican presidential primary, saying she has been friends with Trump for many years.[33][34] In June 2016, a spokesperson for Governor Rick Scott stated that the state's ethics commission is looking into the matter, though nothing further came from the investigation.[35] In September 2016, the IRS determined that the donation to Bondi's PAC violated laws against political contributions from nonprofit organizations, and ordered Trump to pay a fine for the contribution. Trump also was required to reimburse the foundation for the sum that had been donated to Bondi.[36] Neither Bondi nor her PAC were fined or criminally charged. In November 2019, Trump was ordered by a New York state court to close down the foundation and pay $2 million in damages for misusing it, including the illegal donation to Bondi.[37] In 2021, The Daily Beast reported that it obtained records relating to Trump's illegal donation to Bondi, which show that Trump's organization knew that the money was being given to a PAC in Florida rather than a Kansas non-profit. The records include an email in August 2013 from Bondi's campaign finance director Deborah Ramsey Aleksander to Trump's executive assistant, Rhona Graff, identifying the PAC as an Electioneering Communications Organization and thanking Graff for meeting with her, for the promised $25,000 donation, and "for always being so responsive and wonderful to work with". A spokesperson for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington called these documents "a smoking gun" that destroys the story that Trump and Bondi had concocted to excuse the donation.[38] Association with Donald Trump In 2016, Bondi gave a speech at the Republican National Convention, during which she led "Lock her up" chants directed at the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.[39] In 2019, after her final term as Florida attorney general, Bondi was hired by Ballard Partners, a firm with close ties to Trump, and she began working as a registered lobbyist for Qatar. In November 2019, she was hired by the first Trump administration to help the White House during Trump's first impeachment proceedings, being given special Government employee status, allowing Bondi to continue working for the Arab lobby.[40][41][42] Her position was described the following month as being to "attack the process" of the impeachment inquiry.[43] On January 17, 2020, Bondi was named as part of Trump's defense team for the Senate impeachment trial.[44] During the course of the impeachment trial, Bondi made[45] allegations that former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden were involved in corruption in Ukraine, stemming from Hunter Biden's position on board of Burisma Holdings. It was also revealed that Lev Parnas, a businessman with close ties to Rudy Giuliani and Ukraine, had several meetings with Bondi in 2018 while she was the Florida Attorney General, and after she left office in 2019.[46][47] In 2019, Parnas was arrested and accused of illegally funneling foreign money from Ukrainians and Russians to Republican politicians, particularly in Florida, where he lived.[48][49][50][51] Bondi spoke in support of Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention.[52][53] While ballots were being counted in the 2020 United States presidential election, Bondi supported Trump's claims that there was large-scale voter fraud in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.[54][55] In an appearance on Fox News on November 5, 2020, host Steve Doocy challenged Bondi to provide evidence for her claims of fraud, to which she refused.[56] Bondi later claimed that Trump had won Pennsylvania, despite votes there still being counted, with his opponent Joe Biden ultimately winning the state.[55] During the following lame-duck session, Trump appointed Bondi to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[57] The Palm Beach Post described the appointment as a reward for her loyalty to Trump.[58] By 2024 Bondi led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, a dark money nonprofit that planned policies for a potential second Trump presidency. She worked to file voting lawsuits in battleground states relating to the 2024 presidential election.[59] _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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This stupid bitch is so deluded, a shit-stirrer with the IQ of a head of cabbage. Whoopi says Elon Musk is the real V.P., not Vance, therefore Musk should give up X/Twitter "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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I love how all these libs are furious with Joe and Mika, LMAO! https://x.com/chrisstigall/sta...679524771987713?s=46 | |||
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This just keeps getting better. Wackos are upset because Bondi is “competent” lol They should “fear” her. Love all the winning https://youtu.be/dYO2wMykPYA | |||
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I am pretty sure she sexually assaulted me once. At least I think she did. It would have been nice. I am ready to testify now. . | |||
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“Period. End of statement.” Blah, blah, blah…. Best regards, Tom I have no comment at this time. | |||
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I enjoyed that very much. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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This is from MSNBC but reading the list it makes sense. It's really time for cocaine Mitch ride off into the sunset. But all the usual suspects are there. I don't think Gaetz was a canary in the coal mine. All these clowns are known to Trump. All this was is Gaetz taking the high road and getting out of the way so Trump can keep the wheels turning. Bondi caught me by surprise. Don't know enough about her to have an opinion. Hopefully she is a loyalist. https://x.com/kylegriffin1/sta...?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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Deep state continue to be cockbags. I'm totally not surprised. SIG556 Classic P220 Carry SAS Gen 2 SAO SP2022 9mm German Triple Serial P938 SAS P365 FDE Psalm 118:24 "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" | |||
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half the deep state he (Trump) needs to fight are republicans remember that most republicans are simply democrats being elected in red states - they're all corrupt bastards and should not be considered loyal to the American people until they PROVE it. | |||
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I’m very happy with Pam Bondi. She will get the job done, shove a shiv into their ribs and they’ll say “Thank you!” _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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Well, she certainly knows how the game is played... but, the question is: "Is she a little too close to some of the players? Is she compromised?" President Trump Nominates Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General – The Deep Swamp Smiles The nomination of former Florida AG Pam Bondi for the position of U.S. Attorney General is a big mistake; not for the corrupt background of Bondi that we presume President Trump is not aware of, but rather for the background of Pam Bondi the Deep Swamp is almost certainly aware of. Within the background story of state AG corruption and unlawful activity, Pam Bondi is very easily leveraged, blackmailed and controlled. I presume at this writing that President Donald Trump is completely unaware of what Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi did during her time in office. The Florida Governor at the time was Rick Scott, who could most certainly corroborate much of the background, albeit now with layers and layers of serious political ramifications. If you followed the story around the Trayvon Martin shooting and the subsequent arrest, jail and trial of George Zimmerman, you probably know the majority of what Florida AG Pam Bondi did. However, it was almost 12-years-ago now. So, for those who don’t remember here’s the story. On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford Florida, George Zimmerman fired one shot into the heart of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, fatally killing him. The Sanford Police lead investigator into the shooting was Chris Serino; the Police Chief was Bill Lee, and the local prosecutor was Norm Wolfinger. Detective Chris Serino questioned and investigated George Zimmerman, who used a traditional “self-defense” justification for the shooting. Eventually the case went to trial and the same “self-defense” justification was used in court. Despite what you might have heard in the media, it was never a “stand your ground” defense. It simply was not needed. In addition to questioning Zimmerman, Serino documented two eye-witnesses to the shooting. One woman in an apartment who saw the initial encounter between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, and another eye-witness, a man in an adjacent apartment who saw and partially recorded, the entire confrontation as it unfolded on the pathway approximately 20 feet from him. The second witness called 911 and described in real time what he was seeing. Trayvon was straddling George in an “MMA style” position and slamming Zimmerman’s head into the sidewalk. During the 911 recording you can hear Zimmerman calling out, “help me; somebody help me.” [NOTE: Both of those witnesses as well as the recording were later buried but came out at trial.] After a thorough investigation, all of the statements by George Zimmerman were corroborated by the eye-witnesses, the forensic evidence, the audio recording, and all the physical evidence found at the scene. Detective Chris Serino gave his investigative report to Police Chief Lee along with the recommendation that Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense was valid and justified. Serino and Lee then consulted with prosecutor Norm Wolfinger who reviewed the evidence and agreed. ESSENTIALLY: Zimmerman was looking for Trayvon, who appeared from the bushes (Witness #1) punched Zimmerman in the face, and then the fight went down the sidewalk to where they ended up on the ground (Witness #2). After Zimmerman was screaming for help, getting his head slammed into the concrete, he pulled a pistol from his belt and fired one shot into the chest of Martin. All witnesses and evidence supported this series of events. Detective Chris Serino had the responsibility to tell Trayvon Martin’s father, Tracy Martin, his findings from the investigation. He played the audio from the 911 call as part of his explanation to Tracy Martin and his girlfriend Alicia Stanley. Alicia Stanley worked in the corrections department and was not happy. Ms. Stanley was essentially the only mother Trayvon had ever known. Sybrina Fulton from Miami Gardens was presented as Trayvon’s mother later on; however, Trayvon had not lived with Sybrina for almost 10-years. As a corrections worker, Ms. Stanley was eventually put into contact with a Florida “civil rights lawyer” named Benjamin Crump. After some back-and-forth positioning and discussion, Crump decided to champion a wrongful death case for the Martin family against George Zimmerman, the City of Sanford and the Sanford Police Department. Benjamin Crump hired a PR firm run by Ryan Julison to create media pressure. Using his civil rights contacts, Crump requested support from groups like Al Sharpton, Dream Defenders, and allies in the DOJ. That approach led to AG Eric Holder and eventually President Barack Obama. Additionally, having worked previously (2007) with Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi in the Martin Lee Anderson case, Benjamin Crump called the now Florida Attorney General Bondi for support. The detective (Serino) sided with George Zimmerman. The Police Chief, Bill Lee, agreed with Serino and the evidence. The local Sanford prosecutor (Norm Wolfinger) refused to bring a case against Zimmerman based on the evidence. …. Enter Florida AG Pam Bondi, who told Florida Governor Rick Scott a special prosecutor was needed for her friend Ben Crump. Police Chief, Bill Lee, was removed from authority; then the local prosecutor, Norm Wolfinger, was removed; eventually the lead Detective, Chris Serino, was removed. No prosecutor in Florida wanted to touch the case because the evidence against Zimmerman just didn’t exist. However, Florida AG Bondi replaced the Sanford officials with State investigators working for a new “special prosecutor” Angela Corey, out of Jacksonville. District Attorney Angela Corey (pictured above right) was Pam Bondi’s campaign manager. Martin family attorney’s Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks then began creating a fabricated case construct to sell to the media. The PR firm led by Ryan Julison provided the initial media contacts and narrative distribution of the fabricated case. The majority of that fabricated case still exists in the public psyche despite all of the truth that came out during the trial of a transparently innocent George Zimmerman. Pam Bondi was part of that fraudulent prosecution architecture. In fact, without her origination the state case against Zimmerman was non-existent. Everything told about the Trayvon Martin shooting was a lie, including his age, the “skittles and iced-tea” story, this background criminal record, Trayvon’s known drug use, and just about everything else. It was all an entirely manufactured Lawfare case, pushed to a compliant media. None of the witness statements were ever in the media. None of the (full context) 911 call evidence was ever in the media. None of the images of George Zimmerman’s face and head were ever in the media. None of the corroborating forensic evidence was ever in the media. None of the accurate pictures of Trayvon Martin were ever in the media. Nothing. It was one big, fabricated Lawfare operation headed by Benjamin Crump and Special Prosecutor Angela Corey. However, it’s actually worse. The State Prosecutors and Benjamin Crump claimed there was an “ear-witness”, witness #8 at trial, a mysterious Trayvon Martin “girlfriend” witness they refused to identify but swore she heard Zimmerman threatening and attacking Trayvon Martin. At the trial you saw witness #8 as Rachael “that’s retarded sir” Jeantel. This was the state star prosecution witness used to construct the case against Zimmerman, and she was protected and isolated until the very last second when she was called to the stand at trial. Except there was an immediate problem, Jeantel was never an ear-witness, she was never Trayvon’s girlfriend, she only had cursory knowledge of Trayvon when he infrequently visited the neighborhood in Miami Gardens, and she never authored the supposed statement attributed to her; heck, she couldn’t even read it, and she was NEVER Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend. Everything about Rachael Jeantel as a witness was entirely fabricated by Ben Crump and Angela Corey. They literally put a fabricated witness on the stand. Attorney General Pam Bondi knew all about it, in real time, as the false witness was being created and flown back and forth from Miami to Jacksonville in order to try and get some form of story aligned. Let me be very clear. Florida AG Pam Bondi knew that her special prosecutor, Angela Corey, and her friend, Benjamin Crump, had manufactured an entirely false and fictitious witness against George Zimmerman. Everyone, including AG Pam Bondi, was willing to put a transparently innocent man into prison; even to the extent of manufacturing a witness; in order to achieve a racially equitable political outcome that would assist their careers. And don’t forget, throughout this entire time – George Zimmerman was kept locked in jail, pending trial. This same Pam Bondi is the person President Trump is relying upon to clean out the corruption in Washington DC’s Main Justice system. Pam Bondi is the person who is going to stop “weaponizing” the justice system? Think about it. Many of you are probably reading this aspect of the story for the first time. However, what we do know with as much certainty as we knew going into the George Zimmerman trial, is that every element of the Deep State knows exactly what Pam Bondi did in Florida with that case in 2012 and 2013. The Intelligence Community and the people who control the DOJ know every single detail of that corrupt Bondi timeline, complete with emails, call logs, transcripts, text messages, strategy meeting notes and more. They know all of it, and they will leverage that as blackmail (and more) against her just as soon as President Trump starts to think Pam Bondi is going to make a difference. Wrongful prosecution by the State, on the scale of manufacturing false witnesses, does not have a statute of limitations. In 2016 President-elect Donald Trump did not know his Nat Sec Advisor Mike Flynn was an unregistered foreign lobbyist for Turkey. In 2024, I highly doubt President-elect Donald Trump has any idea what attack vectors a completely compromised Pam Bondi carries into the AG role. Including her being a registered foreign lobbyist for Qatar. We shall see….. https://theconservativetreehou...e-deep-swamp-smiles/ AG Nominee Pam Bondi and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – Ballard Partners Law Firm, Lobbyists It would appear that President Trump’s campaign co-chair, and current selection for Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, was the link that pushed Pam Bondi to become the next Attorney General nominee. From the Associated Press: […] Bondi worked as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, the powerful Florida-based firm where Trump’s campaign chief and incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles was a partner. Her U.S. clients have included General Motors, the commissioner of Major League Baseball and a Christian anti-human-trafficking advocacy group. She also lobbied for a Kuwaiti firm, according to Justice Department foreign agent filings and congressional lobbying documents. She registered as a foreign agent for the government of Qatar; her work was related to anti-human-trafficking efforts leading up to the World Cup, held in 2022. Bondi also represented the KGL Investment Company KSCC, a Kuwaiti firm also known as KGLI, lobbying the White House, National Security Council, State Department and Congress on immigration policy, human rights and economic sanctions issues. (Source) You might note, Pam Bondi and Mr James Rubin are the “key personnel” on the foreign agent registration notification. In his current role working for Joe Biden, James Rubin heads the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center. https://theconservativetreehou...bbyists/#more-266557 "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Then Governor Rick Scott appointed Angela Corey as a special prosecutor in the Zimmerman case. | |||
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Then there is a fawning article on her in the Townhall. So much mud in the water. Trump appointed her within hours of Gaetz pulling out so he apparently had her in mind all along and I assume had conversations with her and she was vetted. The AG is probably the biggest spoke in the wheel for rolling over the deep state. Out of all the appointments we and Trump need this one to be right.
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At this point I really don't care what claims are made against any Trump nominees. The left always has someone willing to make unverifiable allegations, and frequently the thing being alleged is never a problem when it is a Dem doing it. Sometimes it is revered when a Dem does it! Were such allegations rare, verifiable, and equally reacted to despite whether D or R, I would be willing to support an investigation. These days? Just give DJT his appointees. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money |
You're reminding me of Bill Clinton... It's all Trump's fault:  Bill Clinton blames Trump for the public’s lack of confidence in the government Former President Clinton said President-elect Trump has done “everything he could” to “destroy” confidence in government. “He believes that his supporters have no confidence whatever in the federal government, and Lord knows he’s done everything he could to destroy that confidence,” Clinton told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart in a Wednesday interview aired on Chris Hayes’s “All In.” Read more: https://www.americanthinker.co...t.html#ixzz8sK1ivxjp "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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I think he would have been very good as SecDef. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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