Author: clearandpresentdanger

Former President Donald Trump attacked right-wing organizations who were considering backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a late-night Truth Social rampage.

In a post on his social network platform, the former president targeted the Club for Growth over its supposed determination to back DeSantis against Trump in a theoretical primary matchup next year.

“Failed former Congressman David McIntosh and his Globalist friends at Club for No Growth, who fought me all the way in 2016, and LOST, and then fought me again in 2020 Senate Races in Ohio, Alabama, North Carolina, New Hampshire, plus more, and LOST AGAIN, are now threatening to spend money against me early because their new boy, Ron DeSanctus, the man who wants to cut Social Security and MediCare, has dropped so drastically in the Polls to me,” Trump wrote. “No Growth Members know there will be RETRIBUTION!!!”

Hours later, the former president set his sights on Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch for testifying under oath that he did not believe Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election being “stollen” (sic) from him.

“If Rupert Murdoch honestly believes that the Presidential Election of 2020, despite MASSIVE amounts of proof to the contrary, was not Rigged & Stollen, then he & his group of MAGA Hating Globalist RINOS should get out of the News Business as soon as possible, because they are aiding & abetting the DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA with FAKE NEWS,” Trump raged. “Certain BRAVE & PATRIOTIC FoxNews Hosts, who he scorns and ridicules, got it right. He got it wrong. THEY SHOULD BE ADMIRED & PRAISED, NOT REBUKED & FORSAKEN!!!”

In fact, there is no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, and members of Trump’s own Department of Justice testified under oath that they investigated several of his claims about election fraud and found them all to be false.

The email hit her inbox on Monday, September 26 at around 9 in the morning. “It’s so much worse than I imagined,” she wrote in her journal. “It’s trisomy 18. It’s Edwards Syndrome.” Online, she read that about 90% of fetuses with trisomy 18 die before birth, and those that do survive usually only live for a few days. “I just want to throw up. I can’t even come up with words to describe how devastating this is,” she wrote.

A few hours later, a genetic counselor called her. “It just gets worse,” she wrote after that conversation. “Basically, every day that Baby B continues to develop, he puts myself and his twin at greater risk for complications, preterm birth, etc. But she can’t say much – she was careful about what she even said.”

All that the genetic counselor told her was that, when she practiced in New York, doctors would do a “single fetal reduction,” Miller recalls, though she didn’t explain what that procedure was, only that “you can’t do that in Texas now.”

Miller felt like she knew why the genetic counselor was being so cryptic. Selective reduction is an abortion procedure for pregnancies with multiple fetuses. Doctors can selectively terminate one fetus, while another or multiple other fetuses continue to develop. Multiple pregnancies are inherently risky, and selective reduction can increase the chance of a live birth or births.

But now, almost all abortions are illegal in Texas.

In fact, there are three laws banning abortion in the state. One predated Roe v. Wade, dating back as far as 1857. Another was triggered when Roe was overturned and comes with a maximum penalty of life in prison for performing an abortion in the state. Then there’s SB-8, that allows people to bring civil charges for “aiding or abetting” a Texas abortion.

Miller says she felt the laws were preventing her doctor and the genetic counselor from telling her all her options in a straightforward way. “Nowadays, with the way we got this bounty hunter system in Texas, doctors are going to err on the side of caution,” she says.

Time for another Amy Coney Barrett monologue about how abortion bans are no big deal because you can just drop the baby off at the bus station, and since babies are just born immediately after conception with no health complications that solves everything.

 

 

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) undermined her own attack on President Joe Biden’s immigration policies surrounding illegal drugs that have been intercepted by Customs and Border Patrol during a Tuesday House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee hearing.

“I want you to know that in 2020 there were 4,800 pounds of fentanyl seized by CBP. But in 2021, fiscal year 2021, it increased to 11,200 pounds of fentanyl was seized by the CBP. That is a direct result of Biden administration failure policies,” said Greene. “Now here we are in – to date, to date, fiscal, fiscal year 2023 – they have already seized 12,500 pounds of fentanyl. The Biden administration is failing this country by not protecting our border and securing our border, and stopping Chinese fentanyl from being brought into our country illegally by the cartels, and people are dying every single day because of it.”

 

Under the Biden administration, Customs and Border Patrol officers are seizing tons of fentanyl from couriers trying to smuggle the drug across the US-Mexico border, yet, Greene calls this a failure to protect our border.  She does not know what “seized” means.

 The word ‘seized’ when referring to the border, means something was taken at the border and not permitted to come into the US. So, the Biden administration has stopped more fentanyl from getting past the border and into America than the Trump administration.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s use of a historic, state-owned cabin has raised questions as the Republican evades transparency on who has stayed there and for what purposes. Valhalla, a secluded cabin built in 1927 by former South Dakota Gov. and Sen. Peter Norbeck that has since become state property, has been a regular fixture for South Dakota governors. Over the past three years, the cabin has received $120,000 in taxpayer upgrades, but citing open records, Noem has kept private about who is visiting and if the state is reimbursed. The Department of Game, Fish and Parks denied a request last month by South Dakota News Watch to view a list of Valhalla’s visitors, saying “no such record exists as no list is maintained.” The department added, “if this information were available, it would be exempted” under open record laws. However, the department had released a list of visitors in 2019, when asked.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-doesnt-want-to-reveal-whos-staying-at-state-owned-valhalla-cabin

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Gov. Kristi Noem hides guest list at historic state-owned cabin in Custer State Park

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/26/gov-kristi-noem-hides-guest-list-at-historic-state-owned-cabin-in-custer-state-park/69937115007/

Stu Whitney
South Dakota News Watch

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, her family, friends and guests are the only people who can stay in a state-owned historic cabin in Custer State Park, and it’s unclear if the rustic Valhalla retreat is being used for political purposes.

Citing open records law, Noem’s administration won’t reveal who stayed there over the past three years or whether the state is reimbursed, despite more than $120,000 in taxpayer money being spent on property upgrades.

Noem, who was re-elected in November to a second four-year term, is on the short list of potential 2024 Republican presidential candidates and spent much of the past week giving policy speeches in Washington D.C…………………………………………

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Could it be:

1. A fugitive from the law?
2. A boyfriend?
3. 1 and 2
4. Trump in hiding from the GA Attorney General?

House Republicans, led by loudest maniac Jim Jordan, had high hopes of stealing some of President Joe Biden’s thunder after his historic surprise trip to Kyiv, Ukraine. “Oh, yeah,” you could hear them squeaking. “We’ll show him.” So in the best tradition of nativist, isolationist know-nothingism, they headed for the southern border to put on a show of hunting for the crisis of the hordes invading “our” country. What they got was … nothing.

“As they rumbled along the entry port of San Luis, a dam along the Colorado River and more desolate sections of the U.S. border between Arizona and Mexico, though, their search came up empty,” a reporter on the scene described. “Hours later, immigration officials would spot a group crossing north, but it was long after Congress members had retired for the night.”

This was part of what they’re calling a “field hearing” by the House Judiciary Committee, explaining Jordan’s, ahem, leadership. (Seriously, they need to rethink having this guy as their mascot. Does anyone, could anyone, find this guy compelling?) The “convoy” included “more than a dozen congressional Republicans, a large contingent of staffers and a handful of reporters.” Having turned the trip into some kind of sick safari, the group thwarted their own goal.

No Democrats participated in what ranking committee Democrat Jerry Nadler called a “stunt hearing,” though he did say that some Democrats from the committee would go to the border next month to to “hear from the community and government officials on the ground.”

The big convoy also help put the lie to the GOP’s government spending obsession. This is the third trip to the border by some contingent of GOP House members in the new Congress, with Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy having already gone to try to score points, as well as members of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Homeland Security Committee has what they’re calling a “border bootcamp” for Republican freshmen members, and the Oversight Committee has plans to go in the near future, too. That’s one way to stop illegal crossings: Just keep sending down convoys of GOP representatives to play border patrol.

All that’s pretty expensive. The GOP Judiciary Committee alone has requested $262,400 for travel this session. In 2022, with Democrats in charge of the committee, they spent $7,986.

When it comes to actual border policy rather than publicity and preening, they’ve got nothing. Or rather they’ve got an interparty fight, as Gabe Ortiz reported. Their first go at an immigration bill “was so extreme it derailed itself, after so-called Republican moderates refused to sign on.”

Jessa Duggar Seewald revealed that she suffered a miscarriage over the holidays.  (In fact, she had an abortion.)

In the nearly 19-minute YouTube video, the 19 Kids and Counting alum, 30, shared the tragic journey of her latest pregnancy, from informing her kids about the new baby to dealing with the aftermath of the news that she had miscarried.

Jessa documented in one scene on camera that she had been concerned early on in the pregnancy because she had been “spotting” blood. She relayed that her family sang the devotional hymn “Day by Day” to cheer her up.

However, upon arriving at her next ultrasound appointment, the doctor broke the terrible news that the baby did not “look good.”

“Nothing could have prepared me for the weight of those words in that moment,” Jessa said. “At that moment I was just in complete shock. I didn’t have words. I just immediately started crying.”

She said her husband, Ben Seewald, put his arms around her as the technician left the room to let them “process through the loss.”

“We were just sitting there holding hands and crying, like, ‘what do we do from here,’ ” Jessa recalled.

“I feel like in some ways miscarriages can be so jarring because you don’t have clear signs of something going wrong,” she added. “I had minimal spotting for 24 hours, and that was it.”

Due to risks of complications with passing the fetus at home, she said she decided to check in to a hospital to perform a dilation and curettage procedure to remove the fetus from her womb.

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Georgia is one of the few States where the Governor does not grant pardons. If Trump is convicted of a felony in Georgia he must request a pardon from the State Board of Pardons and Parole. There are five members on the board. But wait – – –  there is more good news.

1. The Board has to follow certain rules that are long and complicated. Getting pardoned takes a long time in Georgia.
2. You cannot request a pardon until you have completed at least 5 years of your sentences.
3. People who request a pardon in Georgia have to go through a long, drawn- out process.

So, if Trump is convicted in Georgia on State felony charges, no president can pardon him because it’s State charges. No Governor of Georgia can pardon Trump because he does not have the power to do so.

And that is GOOD NEWS!!!!

Next month the new Grand Jury will be put in place in Georgia. They only serve for two months. They should return indictments fairly quickly because they only need to review the evidence of the Special Grand Jury. They don’t have to recall witnesses, go through the whole process again.

Trump has less than 60 days.