as some 1 who worked in p.r., let me tell you that most 'actors' are idiots.
'actors.'
c.i.'s a real star. she's not an idiot. she knows what she's worth
and will ask for it. she turns down work constantly because she knows a
project isn't up to what she has done in the past. she doesn't do anything
just for the money and she's not going to go into something if the
script and production is substandard. she has no illusions about where
she is in the star hierarchy. she knows she made her name and she has a following based on her actual talent, based on her body of work.
but
then there are the 'actors.' people who can't act and had 1 lucky
break if they were fortunate yet go through the many years after
thinking they are stars.
they are not. they never were. they were personalities, if they were lucky.
kevin sorbo is 1 of the idiots who wrongly believes he has accomplished something and that he has talent.
he has none. he had none when he had a t.v. series where he was shirtless constantly to distract from that ugly face.
American
actor Kevin Sorbo is facing backlash after suggesting he’s going to
change which NFL football team he supports after the Minnesota Vikings
hired two male cheerleaders.
MAGA has been in
total meltdown after the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders, the official
squad for the football team, recruited two male cheerleaders for their
2025 squad.
Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn have
unintentionally caused the right-wingers to lose their minds, simply for
doing what they love and it’s quite a sight to behold.
“You
mean, the men who cheer for a football team are upset about the men who
are cheering for football and being paid for it?” someone wrote on an
Instagram post featuring the men, where some hateful comments were also
posted.
Another said: “Watching men cry about
this is fun. Kinda like how they act when Taylor Swift is shown on the
screen at Chiefs games (also fun to watch them cry about).”
if
you use the link and scroll down, you'll see sorbo with his badly dyed
hair and the rouge so obviously on his cheeks. you'll wonder what that
cream puff has to in trashing male cheerleaders. you'll also think
someone needs to get a colorist for kevin. quickly.
lucy lawless continues to work. she's an actual actor. she has talent. kevin has nothing. which is why his resume is so laughable the minute 'hercules' went off the air.
Thursday, August 14, 2025. Chump's efforts to cover up his Epstein
connection have made things even worse for him -- politically and
legally -- while Loose Lips Hegseth continues to self-embarrass and this
time he might take down Joni We're All Going To Die Ernst with him.
President Donald Trump has
reportedly been frantically calling aides and allies seeking a “big
thing” to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and he's
purportedly considering a major geopolitical move to turn the page
politically.
Trump biographer Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast's new podcast "Inside Trump's Head"
that the president has been making "relentless" phone calls demanding
ideas to get him past questions about his longtime relationships with
the late sex offender and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Let
me go back about a week or so, or 10 days, when Trump started to say to
everyone who would listen — and everyone listens to Donald Trump — to
staffers and on the phone calls, the relentless phone calls that he’s
constantly making, he said, ‘I need a big thing, I need a big thing,'"
Wolff told the podcast. ”What’s the ‘big thing?’ And everyone understood
that this was code for I need a distraction from Epstein. What’s the
thing that will move us beyond that?”
He's such an idiot. He's such an idiot, in fact, that he could be Harry
Enton on CNN. This isn't going away. The media rarely seems to get it
and politicians never do. This is the sort of event that creates a
genderquake but it's so much more than that. I'm not explaining while
he's flailing -- not explaining here, I explained six weeks ago in piece
for the gina & krista round-robin why this story was going to blaze
like a fire. Chump doesn't get it and I'm not going to help him by
explaining it to him. But it's not going away. He's a good con artist but
he's rather stupid when it comes to people and human nature.
Yesterday the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued the following:
Judiciary
Democrats Demand Answers Following Trump DOJ’s Sudden Transfer of
Convicted Child Abuser and Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell After
Interview with Top DOJ Official
August 13, 2025
Press Release
Democrats
Seek Release of Maxwell Interview Transcript and Related Materials and
Note That Trump Administration May Have Violated DOJ, BOP Policies to
Transfer Epstein’s Accomplice to Minimum-Security Prison Camp
Washington,
D.C. (August 13, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House
Judiciary Committee, led Committee Democrats in sending a letter
to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director
William K. Marshall III pressing for answers regarding the unusual and
abrupt transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell from a more restrictive BOP
facility to a minimum security facility in Texas, amid concerns that the
Trump Administration may be attempting to coax favorable testimony or
strategic silence from Maxwell—Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and
co-conspirator—in order to cover up the full extent of the relationship
between Trump and Epstein.
“These actions
raise substantial concerns that the Administration may now be attempting
to tamper with a crucial witness, conceal President Trump’s
relationship with convicted sex offenders, and coax Ms. Maxwell into
providing false or misleading testimony in order to protect the
President. The transfer also appears to violate both DOJ and Bureau of
Prisons (BOP) policies. We write to demand DOJ and BOP provide all
documents and information related to Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s
interview of Ms. Maxwell and the sudden decision to transfer her to a
facility with lower security and greater freedom for inmates, which was,
prior to this extraordinary transfer, categorically off-limits to sex
offenders,” wrote the Members.
Reports on August 1 revealed that Maxwell, who had been serving a 20-year
prison sentence in Florida for exploiting and sexually abusing underage
girls, was transferred to an all-women prison camp in Texas, which is
listed as one of the “Best Jails in America to Serve Time.”
The
unexplained transfer of Maxwell to a lower-security and more
comfortable facility came amid the Trump Administration’s refusal to
release the Epstein files and less than a week after Deputy Attorney
General Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer, met with Maxwell and her attorney behind closed doors with no line prosecutors present.
DOJ’s decision to arrange multiple private meetings with Maxwell raises
concerns of conflicts of interest, witness tampering, and suborning of
false testimony.
The transfer also appears to
violate BOP policy, which mandates that a person of convicted of sex
trafficking, like Maxwell, universally warrant a Public Safety Factor
(PSF) designation as a “Sex Offender” and are ineligible to serve their
sentence at a minimum-security facility like the one in Texas that
allows “access to the community.”
Judiciary
Democrats demanded the DOJ and BOP provide information, documents, and
communications regarding Maxwell’s transfer and her interview with
Deputy Attorney General Blanche.
“It
is imperative that the Administration come clean regarding the full
scope of Mr. Blanche’s interview of Ms. Maxwell and the sudden decision
to transfer her to a minimum-security prison camp. The Committee must
have access to all documents and information regarding these actions to
assess whether DOJ officials and the President have abused prosecutorial
and law enforcement resources to shield the President and mislead the
public,” concluded the Members.
That release follows one earlier this week from Senator Ruben Gallego's office:
WASHINGTON – Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) condemned
the recent transfer of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell from
FCI Tallahassee, a low security federal prison, to FPC Bryan, a
minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
The transfer occurred shortly after Maxwell met privately with Deputy
Attorney General Todd Blanche – Trump’s former personal lawyer – to
discuss individuals associated with Jeffrey Epstein. The Senators note
that the Department of Justice has yet to provide any clear explanation
for the decision, raising serious concerns about whether Maxwell is
receiving preferential treatment.
“Given the serious nature of Ms. Maxwell’s crimes, which include a
conviction and 20-year sentence for the sex trafficking of minors, this
transfer raises deeply troubling questions,” the Senators wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. “The
lack of transparency surrounding the decision, particularly following
her closed-door meeting with the Deputy Attorney General, undermines
public confidence in the Department’s impartiality and raises concerns
about whether she is receiving preferential treatment.”
The letter cites Bureau of Prisons policy requiring that anyone who,
like Maxwell, had “sexual contact with a minor,” be housed in at least a
low security-level institution without exception unless granted a
waiver, which there has been no indication Maxwell obtained. The
Senators also note that victims were not notified of her transfer, in
apparent violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.
“Moreover, at a time when the Department has pledged greater
transparency regarding Epstein-related matters, this unexplained
transfer sends the opposite message,” the Senators continued. “To
date, there has been no clear explanation for why the transfer was
made, suggesting the administration has simply been paying lip service
to repeated calls for transparency.”
The Senators are calling on the Department to produce all documents
and communications related to the transfer, any records of Maxwell’s
communications with DOJ officials in the 30 days preceding the move, and
documentation of victim notification efforts.
56%
of Republicans think that Chump "knew some or a lot about the sex
crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein," explained Lawrence O'Donnell on
MSNBC last night. The number jumps to 71% when you bring in
non-Republicans.
Lawrence
O'Donnell: 71% of Americans think Donald Trump knew some or a lot about
the sex crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein against children before the
investigations into Epstein even began. We've had 45 presidents of the
United States and only one -- only one of them was friends with a
rapist of children who claimed to be that president's best friend for
ten years.
In the
video above, Lawrence discusses the issue with US House Rep Jamie Raskin
and, of course, the sweetheart deal that administration has made with
convicted pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell is only the freshest layer of
Chump's crimes.
Yesterday's
snapshot noted that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse discussed Maxwell with
Lawrence on Tuesday night's show but that MSNBC hadn't posted it to
YOUTUBE. It's now posted on the senator's YOUTUBE channel
The timeline of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s friendship is not adding up.
Despite
doing everything within his power to distance himself from the
pedophilic financier, interviews conducted prior to Epstein’s death
suggest that the pair were close long after Trump claimed to have thrown
him out of Mar-a-Lago for being a “creep.” A new timeline compiled by CNN reveals just how long the two men were entwined.
Their
friendship spanned three decades, but in a 2019 interview, Epstein
described Trump as his “closest friend for 10 years.” That would have
been 15 years after they had a falling out over a bidding war on a Palm
Springs oceanfront mansion, and 11 years after Epstein was first
convicted on child sex offenses.
Three other
individuals who knew the men have also described them as best buds. They
include Maria Farmer, a visual artist hired by Epstein who provided the
first criminal complaint of sex abuse to law enforcement; Stacey
Williams, a model who referred to Trump as Epstein’s “wing man” after
the Manhattan real estate mogul allegedly groped her: and Jack
O’Donnell, the former president and chief operating officer of Trump
Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, who recalled scolding Trump in
the late 1980s after he arrived at the gambling floor with Epstein and
three underaged girls.
His lies -- his many, many lies -- don't kill the story or the interest. In fact, it's just adding kindling to the fire.
Meanwhile, FOX "NEWS" harridan Jeanine
Pirro was slurry beside Chump this week (were her dentures slipping?)
and railing against DC and what she saw as the injustice of not trying
14 year olds as adults and later she whined on TV about people being "rehabilitated with ice cream socials and yoga." Sarah K. Burris explains the problem with Pirro's ranting in a semi-lucid state:
Pirro's
comments come at an awkward time for the Trump administration after the
Justice Department intervened to change the rules for Jeffrey Epstein's
accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was recently moved to what some
describe as a kind of "country club" prison.
Due
to the severity of the crimes, Maxwell was ineligible to serve her
20-year sentence in the minimum-security camp, Federal Prison Camp
Bryan, near Houston, Texas. However, after speaking with Trump's former
personal attorney, Maxwell got to move.
Gill questioned whether it was part of a deal made between Trump's ex-attorney, Todd Blanche, and Maxwell.
"The
unit that approves waivers for sex offenders to be moved to minimum
security camps is the Designation and Sentence Computation Center near
Dallas. Currently, the senior deputy assistant director is Rick Stover, a
career BOP employee who speaks frequently with White House officials,"
Gill wrote.
Maxwell's new home doesn't require the typical orange jumpsuit. Instead, inmates are given "khaki pants and a khaki shirt," the BBC reported. The women can use a gym facility and take yoga classes, the Daily Telegraph said in one report. Some are also allowed to participate in a puppy training program for service animals, but the program's leader barred Maxwell.
That's the kind of scandal that gives meaning to the phrase: It's not the crime, it's the cover up.
A
sitting president made a deal with a convicted felon. The deal was to
give her what she wanted. Didn't matter that she exploited and
assaulted thousands of girls and young women.
Chump
gave her what she wanted and lied about it. Lied to the American
people. He didn't talk to Todd Blanche about what Maxwell was
offering. He didn't know why Maxwell got a prison transfer.
He's a liar whose actions on this alone rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and, yes, are impeachable offense.
Maxwell
is someone who, when she gets out of prison, will be required to
register as a sex offender. And she has been moved to Camp Fed where,
as we noted yesterday, she apparently will be able to come and go on a
'work' release program as well. That's the kind of sweetheart deal that
Alex Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein remember. And then Chump brought
Acosta into his cabinet. And when news of the sweetheart deal emerged,
Acosta had to resign. WIKIPEDIA:
In 2007–2008, as U.S. attorney, Acosta approved a plea deal that allowed child-trafficking ring-leader Jeffrey Epstein to plead guilty to a single state charge of solicitation, in exchange for a federal non-prosecution agreement.[2] After Epstein's arrest in July 2019 on sex trafficking
charges, Acosta faced renewed and harsher criticism for his role in the
2008 non-prosecution agreement, as well as criticism and calls for his
resignation as Secretary of Labor; he resigned on July 19 and was
replaced by Eugene Scalia.
So
Chump knew this deal with Maxwell was wrong -- grasp that. He knew. He
knew because it's so similar to the deal Acosta made which, when
exposed, forced Acosta to resign from Chump's first administration.
Chump knew this was wrong but he gave it to her and
betrayed everyone when he did. He betrayed the survivors, he betrayed
the legal system, he betrayed his office, he betrayed the MAGA delirious
who saw him as someone fighting against the abuse of children and he
betrayed all the American people by
lying to us and pretending that (a) nothing out of the norm happened and
that (b) he wasn't involved in any of it (when, in fact, he had to sign
off on these things with at least verbal consent).
And
Acosta isn't the only one in Chump's orbit that worked to give Epstein a
sweetheart deal. There's Attorney General Pam Bondi. Last month, Holly Baltz (PALM BEACH POST) noted:
When U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was the chief legal officer for Florida, could she have prosecuted fellow resident Jeffrey Epstein for child sex crimes?
Legally,
yes, she could have, legal experts say. The bigger question, however,
is whether she should have felt compelled to do so.
A Florida Republican serving on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform insists a key figure in the Jeffrey Epstein
prosecution scandal can still "be called to testify" on Capitol Hill.
U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who represents a St. Petersburg district, said the fact that former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta is not among those presently on the panel's witness list does not rule him out.
"This
does not take Alex Acosta off the table," said Luna, one of three
Floridians on the high-profile congressional committee, in a statement
emailed to The Palm Beach Post. "At any time, he can be called to
testify."
Ghislaine
Maxwell's transfer to a minimum security prison "reeks of a coordinated
protection racket run at taxpayer expense to shield the president," a
senator said.
Maxwell was jailed for 20 years
in 2022 for various crimes related to sex trafficking over her role in
grooming girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse.
Questions
have been asked after she was moved to a minimum security prison in
Texas shortly after meetings with the Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd
Blanche over two days in July.
Senator Sheldon
Whitehouse, former Rhode Island attorney general, asked for all
documents relating to the transfer as he raised concerns about Maxwell's
potential "access to the community" from a minimum security facility
despite being a convicted sex offender.
Some
(liars) are insisting that Maxwell isn't going to be eligible for a
'work release.' But just being at Club Fed means she is eligible. Laerke Christensen (SNOPES) explains:
In
August 2025, a claim circulated online that a federal prison in Texas
cleared Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted sex offender Ghislaine
Maxwell to leave the facility on work release. The claim came from a
Substack blog post by Allison Gill, the owner of an independent podcast network and a former government employee.
Gill's
blog post included screenshots of what she claimed was Maxwell's Bureau
of Prisons (BOP) record that showed a "custody level" that implied
Maxwell was allowed to leave prison to work. Snopes could not
independently verify Gill's screenshots because the blog post used an
anonymous source. A BOP spokesperson said the agency could not vouch for
the screenshots' authenticity..
However, according to BOP guidelines,
minimum security prisons like FPC Bryan, to which Maxwell transferred
on Aug. 1, 2025, can only house inmates with custody levels that allow
them to leave the facility's secure perimeter for work. Therefore,
according to the BOP's own guidelines, Maxwell would have such a custody
level.
Stacy M. Brown (SACREMENTO OBSERVER) points out the latest findings in THE ECONOMIST-YOUGOV poll, "The recent transfer of Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to a
minimum-security Texas prison is opposed by 47 percent of Americans,
with just 14 percent in favor and 38 percent unsure. Nearly half say
they are not sure whether Trump ordered the move; 36 percent believe he
did."
GOP
rebel Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna plan to bring
survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse to Washington, D.C., in a
bipartisan push to get Congress to release the controversial “files” in
the case.
Massie of Kentucky, who has created a
headache for President Donald Trump this year after rebelling against
the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” said that he will host a joint press
conference at the Capitol with the California congressman, several
survivors and their attorneys.
“I
will be hosting a press conference at the Capitol, joined by survivors
of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse — several of whom will be speaking out
for the first time,” Massie and Khanna announced Monday in a post on X.
“The survivors deserve justice and Americans deserve transparency.”
The
Epstein case engulfed the Trump administration in controversy for weeks
following a Justice Department and FBI memo in early July that said no
further files in the case would be released, contrary to the president’s
previous pledges to do so. That sparked fury among the Trump base,
which has long sought their release. Trump has defended the move even as
politicians on both sides of the aisle call for their release.
To
rebuild trust, we need transparency, accountability, and a bold
anti-corruption agenda. Progressives must lead the way and show
Americans that our government can be good and effective.
One
place to start is calling for the release of the Epstein files. The
administration’s refusal to release them is just the latest example of
how a lack of transparency fuels distrust.
For
at least a decade, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked and
abused young women and children. There are more than 1,000 victims,
according to the Justice Department. Lawsuits allege Epstein’s criminal
abuse of minors spanned over 30 years. These victims deserve justice,
and the public deserves to know who was involved and who is still being
shielded today.
Americans on both the left and the
right are outraged by the government’s failure to fully release this
information; 79 percent of the public wants the files to be released,
and a majority thinks the government is covering up evidence.
Releasing
the full Epstein files -- while protecting the privacy and safety of
victims -- must be a top priority. It is a simple question of whether our
leaders stand with America’s children and victims of abuse or with the
wealthy and powerful who are being protected.
That
is why I have spoken out since 2019 about this issue and supported
then–House Oversight Committee chairman Elijah Cummings’s investigation
into Epstein’s death. It’s also why I am leading the current effort in
Congress to release the files, first with an amendment that was blocked
in the House Rules Committee and now with a bipartisan bill being co-led
by Representative Thomas Massie.
Let's move over to Loose Lips Hegseth. The TV personality who now plays Secretary of Defense just can't seem to do his job. Carla Babb (NAVY TIMES) reports:
Democratic
congresswomen, including several military veterans, are demanding
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth apologize and resign after reposting a
video about a Christian nationalist church with pastors who advocate for
the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote,
and feel women should not serve in certain combat and leadership
positions.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth
(D-Ill.), an Army helicopter pilot who lost both of her legs during
combat in Iraq, told Military Times, "these views are antiquated, flat
out wrong and - more dangerously - designed to justify discrimination
and mistreatment of women, including those who sacrifice in uniform to
defend Americans."
"He is the least qualified
secretary of defense in our nation's history - despite commanding tens
of thousands of women who actually are qualified and earned their jobs,
unlike him," she added. "Hegseth's incompetence and outright idiocy
continue to put our troops and national security at greater risk every
day he remains in office, and he should resign in disgrace immediately."
In
the CNN video, the pastors also said they want the United States to be a
Christian republic. They call for the criminalization of homosexuality
and expect women to submit to their husbands.
[. . .]
Rep.
Chrissy Houlahan (D-Penn.), an Air Force veteran who has called for
Hegseth's resignation before, told Military Times that Hegseth's "recent
post promoting a Christian Nationalist theology that is opposed to
women's suffrage and calls for homosexuality to be criminalized is
unacceptable political-religious advocacy for a cabinet member."
"Sadly
it is just one more example of the many ways he and the Trump
administration are undermining and sidelining women and the LGBTQ
community, erasing their accomplishments and stripping rights that were
hard-fought and fully deserved," she added.
When I saw the headline, my immediate thought was, "What's Phoney Joni going to say?"
Turns
out nothing. Joni Ernst did not provide a comment when asked. If
you've forgotten, the We're All Going To Die Senator was initially not
going to vote for Loose Lips Hegseth to become Secretary of Defense;
however, all it took were a few threats to frighten Phoney Joni and she
was all on board.
She betrayed her belief system, she betrayed her constituents.
I
guess if I were her, I'd try to slither away and hope no one noticed.
But people will notice and this is a really time for Phoney Joni. Malcolm Ferguson (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:
Two-time Paralympic gold medalist and Iowa State Representative Josh Turek used current Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s infamous “Well, we’re all going to die” comment against her in a new ad announcing his candidacy for her Senate seat.
Turek
uses a wheelchair full-time after his father’s exposure to Agent Orange
during the Vietnam War caused him to develop spina bifida, forcing him
to get 21 surgeries before the age of 12. He received gold medals in
wheelchair basketball in 2016 and 2020.
“I
wouldn’t have gotten that far without VA health coverage for my dad’s
service, free summer lunch programs when my parents were struggling, and
the local AEA that made sure that I had access to a good education.
When I was a kid, it was a Senator from Iowa that made sure that the
doors were open for kids like me,” Turek said.
“Now the senator from Iowa is just closing doors, taking away health
care, making it harder for parents to feed their kids—all just to give
tax breaks to billionaires. And her explanation? ‘Well, we are all going
to die.’”
The clip cuts to footage of the town hall in which Ernst made her cruel, fateful comments.
“I’m
tired of Iowans being taken for granted. I wasn’t supposed to be able
to win a state House seat that Trump won twice, but I campaigned just
like I played basketball: outworking everyone,” Turek continued. “A
whole lotta folks are gonna look at a guy like me and say, ‘Man, that is
a real long shot.’ Well, in Iowa, we love an underdog. So if you are
ready to push for change, join me.”
Ernst’s comments have seriously tainted her political reputation,
and while she’s yet to confirm or deny her 2026 reelection campaign, a
slew of challengers have already arisen from both sides of the aisle
(for what it’s worth, Ernst has hired a campaign manager). Republican
Jim Carlin and former Libertarian presidential candidate Joshua Smith
have already declared, while Ernst and Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson
are still deliberating. Meanwhile Turek joins a crowded Democratic
primary field including state Senator Zach Wahls, state Representative
J.D. Scholten, Des Moines school board chair Jackie Norris, and local
radio station market director Nathan Sage.
Let's note Ben breaking down the morning on MEIDASTOUCH.
And let's wind down with this from Senator Mazie Hirono's office:
This comes after President Trump’s mass layoffs of over 3,000 employees at federal science agencies, including over 2,000 employees at NASA last month, over 150 employees at NSF in February, around 800 employees at NOAA, and over 70 employees at NIST.
“Our federal science agencies do critical work to keep our
communities safe, while also promoting and fostering innovation,
conducting important research, and encouraging exploration in various
fields,” said Senator Hirono. “These reductions in our
federal workforce will cause irreparable damage to this country and this
regime’s blatant disregard for these agencies, as well as the
well-being of the federal workers employed by them, is unacceptable. I
am proud to introduce these bills to help protect our federal workforce
and the crucial work that these agencies do.”
“The Trump Administration’s purge of federal employees from
our science agencies is not only hurting thousands of hard-working
public servants, it is threatening key engines of innovation that
benefit the American people and our economy. With this legislation,
we’re fighting to stop Trump from laying waste to our federal science
agencies and their workforce as Congress works to fund their missions
for the next year – and ensure they can continue making life-changing
discoveries,” said Senator Van Hollen.
Trump has claimed that these mass layoffs are part of his
administration’s agenda to cut “government waste.” Meanwhile, he has
taken advantage of these cuts to give his political appointees preferred
treatment. In June, the administration made an abrupt decision
to move the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into the
NSF’s office building in Alexandria, Virginia, without giving NSF’s
1,833 employees advanced notice or presenting a plan for where these
employees would relocate to accommodate HUD workers.
Specifically, Senator Hirono and Van Hollen’s bills would prevent
RIFs at these four agencies, essentially pausing mass layoffs or
demotions, until Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations for those agencies are
signed into law.
The full text of the legislation for the Saving NIST’s Workforce Act is available here.
The full text of the legislation for the Saving NASA’s Workforce Act is available here.
The full text of the legislation for the Saving NOAA’s Workforce Act is available here.
The full text of the legislation for the Saving NSF’s Workforce Act is available here.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has tied herself to Donald Trump amid a torrent of personal attacks by far-right influencer Laura Loomer.
The
Georgia congresswoman hinted at Loomer’s searing criticisms—that Greene
was a “b----,” a “lunatic hooker” and a “harlot”—in a post on X Tuesday
morning.
“President Trump has been the most
viciously attacked President of the United States and I have been the
most viciously attacked Member of the United States House of
Representatives. FACT,” she wrote alongside a photograph of her on stage
with Trump during his first term.
“And that’s why
our haters and those who are jealous constantly try to tear us apart,”
she added, declining to name names. “IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. I’ve been
with him since day. I LOVE President Donald J Trump!!!”
Both
Loomer and Greene have claimed to have Trump’s ear, with the former
boasting over a dozen “scalps” reportedly removed from the
administration at her urging. Greene is chairwoman of the DOGE
subcommittee, where she oversees the Trump administration’s attempts at
cost-cutting.
whatever, marjorie.
you're a coward who couldn't stand up to laura loomer. the whole
country's laughing at you now and grasping why chump told you to stay in
the house and give up your dreams of running for senator or governor.
no 1 respects you and we're all laughing at you now. laura loomer is an
internet personality. you are a member of congress. but she managed
to take you down and shut you up.
Right-wing
influencer Laura Loomer has claimed GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor
Greene is corrupt in the latest escalation of their online feud.
The
feud between the two staunch supporters of President Donald Trump’s
“Make America Great Again” movement started over disagreements about the
Trump administration's continued support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
Loomer,
who is Jewish, is a strong supporter of Israel, and Greene has been
outspoken about the U.S. not intervening in foreign wars. Greene has
called Israel’s war in Gaza a “genocide.”
Their
quarrel took an explosive turn after Loomer accused Greene of cheating
on her ex-husband “like a whore,” and now she is claiming the
congresswoman is funneling campaign money to one of her daughters.
and that's all it took to shut mtg up and send her running.
make a point to check out tabitha speaks video below.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025. Chump gives convicted pedophile Maxwell
whatever she wants to buy her silence while the crazies Junior's
agitated and encouraged shot up the CDC last Friday.
Ben's providing an overview this morning at MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.
Donald Chump really hopes that attacking DC gets people
to forget about his long friendship with convicted pedophiles Jeffrey
Epstein (now dead) and Ghislaine Maxwell (he moved her from prison to a
resort). As Pete Buttigieg observed, "The
president is doing this not in order to make the city safer -- that's
the job of local law enforcement -- but to solve his own political
problems. I hesitate to use a word like 'distraction,' even though
distraction is part of his goal, because it is a legitimately important
thing that he is taking power in this way."
So
you're telling me the guy who remembers every time someone was mean to
him in 1986 suddenly can't recall his decade-long friendship with child
sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein?
As reported in CNN's comprehensive timeline,
Trump and Epstein were thicker than two trust fund babies at a
gold-plated water park. We're talking private jet rides, countless
photos of Trump, Epstein, and sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell, and
innocent get-togethers like this:
Trump has a
"calendar girl" party at Mar-a-Lago with just two other male guests,
Florida businessman George Houraney and Epstein, according to Houraney
and his girlfriend at the time, Jill Harth. Later, Harth said in a 1997
lawsuit that during a business dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Trump took her to a
private area, forcibly kissed her, fondled her, and restrained her from
leaving a bedroom. Trump settled the lawsuit and has denied the
allegations.
"I wasn't a fan," says Trump now, apparently forgetting the time he wrote "To Jeff - You are the greatest!" in his own book.
Trump
claims he heroically kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in 2000 for being
"a creep" - which would be more convincing if club records didn't show
Epstein remaining a member until 2007"
Yet a
comprehensive CNN review of court records, photographs, interviews, and
other public documents paints a portrait of an enduring relationship
until the mid-2000s, when Trump says he broke it off. Trump now
repeatedly downplays his past friendship with Epstein, even as new
material continues to surface.
Chump lies as though the public record doesn't exist but it does. He's a liar.
Chump hopes his distraction will take the heat off of him and also off of Maxwell. But it's not really happening. As EMPTY WHEEL explains:
There were several Epstein developments:
A judge called out Todd Blanche’s obvious diversion in his request for grand jury materials
After Sheldon Whitehouse focused some attention on the Ghislaine Maxwell transfer to comfier digs by sending a letter, Allison Gill published
actual details of it, including that the sex predator may have the same
privilege to leave the facility to “work” that Jeffrey Epstein had
All
that was drowned out by Trump’s announcement he will invade DC because a
boy named Big Balls was assaulted by unarmed teenagers.
No, his distraction is not working.
Pedophile
Maxwell got a sweetheart deal. From Chump. After her conviction.
After. And that's not going away. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was on
Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show last night discussing this -- though
it's not on YOUTUBE. Let's note the press release his office issued on
Monday:
Convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate
was transferred without explanation after unusual visit by Trump’s
Deputy Attorney General
Washington, D.C. – Late last week, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, sent a letter to
Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Director William Marshall demanding more
information on the transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum-security
prison camp in Texas.
Maxwell, a close associate of the notorious and politically-connected
child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted in 2021 of
conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts,
conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts,
transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking
conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor. Maxwell is serving a
20-year prison sentence.
In late July, under public pressure for the Trump Justice
Department’s role in covering up files related to the Epstein case,
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche – a former personal criminal
defense attorney for President Donald Trump – met with Maxwell to
discuss her knowledge of Epstein’s associates and victims and her role
in the child sex trafficking scheme. As Whitehouse and Judiciary
Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-IL) wrote in a letter to
Blanche, it “is highly unusual, if not unprecedented” for the second
highest-ranking official at the Justice Department to conduct such an
interview instead of a line prosecutor familiar with the case.
One week after two days of meetings with Deputy Attorney General
Blanche, Maxwell was transferred to the minimum-security prison camp.
“Ms. Maxwell was transferred without explanation and in
possible violation of standard Bureau policy. Against the backdrop of
the political scandal arising from President Trump’s relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein, Ms. Maxwell’s abrupt transfer raises questions about
whether she has been given special treatment in exchange for political
favors,” wrote Whitehouse.
Bureau of Prisons policy requires individuals convicted of sex
offenses to be placed, at a minimum, at low-security facilities, not
minimum-security facilities. A Bureau of Prisons administrator would
normally be required to approve a waiver for such an unusual transfer.
“Congress has a strong oversight interest in knowing whether
these procedures were followed in transferring Ms. Maxwell and whether
that transfer was part of a political deal. A federal statute sets
forth the factors that the Bureau must consider when determining where
and how to house people within the Bureau’s custody. These factors
include the level of security needed to house that person safely and the
person’s rehabilitation, medical, and faith-based needs. The factors
do not include whether the person can provide the President with
political favors,” added the Senator. “Longstanding
Bureau policy provides that ‘members of Congress may be advised of
designations in response to official inquiries for their official use.’”
Whitehouse requested all documents related to the redesignation and transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell by August 28th.
The text of the letter is below and a PDF is available here.
August 7, 2025
William K. Marshall III
Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First St. NW
Washington, DC 20534
Dear Director Marshall:
I write to request information related to the recent redesignation and transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum-security Bureau of Prisons facility.
Ms. Maxwell was transferred without explanation and in possible
violation of standard Bureau policy. Against the backdrop of the
political scandal arising from President Trump’s relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein, Ms. Maxwell’s abrupt transfer raises questions about
whether she has been given special treatment in exchange for political
favors.
On July 24 and 25, 2025, following public criticism of the Justice
Department’s refusal to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd
Blanche met with Ms. Maxwell to discuss her knowledge of Epstein’s
associates and victims. That meeting was unusual. Such a meeting would
ordinarily be conducted by an FBI agent or member of the local U.S.
Attorney’s Office, not the Deputy Attorney General. The meeting was
doubly unusual because of Mr. Blanche’s former role as President Trump’s
personal criminal attorney and the ongoing political scandal resulting
from the Wall Street Journal’s report that Ms. Maxwell assembled a
birthday book for Epstein that included a personal note from President
Trump.
Against that backdrop, roughly one week after Mr. Blanche’s meetings,
Ms. Maxwell was suddenly transferred from a low-security facility in
Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan,
Texas. Ms. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for participation in a
scheme with Epstein to traffic and sexually exploit minors. By
default, Bureau policy requires individuals like Ms. Maxwell, whose
criminal history involves sex offenses, to be placed, at a minimum, at
low-security facilities because they “are not appropriate for
placement at an institution which would permit inmate access to the
community (i.e., MINIMUM security).” Ordinarily, Bureau officials in
Tallahassee would need to request waiver of this policy as part of their
request to transfer Ms. Maxwell to a minimum-security facility, subject
to approval by Bureau officials in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Congress has a strong oversight interest in knowing whether these
procedures were followed in transferring Ms. Maxwell and whether that
transfer was part of a political deal. A federal statute sets forth the
factors that the Bureau must consider when determining where and how to
house people within the Bureau’s custody. These factors include the
level of security needed to house that person safely and the person’s
rehabilitation, medical, and faith-based needs. The factors do not
include whether the person can provide the President with political
favors.
Longstanding Bureau policy provides that “members of Congress may be
advised of designations in response to official inquiries for their
official use.” Accordingly, please provide the following information to
assist with my inquiry into the propriety of Ms. Maxwell’s transfer.
All documents related to the redesignation and transfer of Ghislaine
Maxwell from FCI Tallahassee to FPC Bryan, including any documents
involving:
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, any member of the Office of
the Deputy Attorney General, or any other Department of Justice official
not employed by the Bureau of Prisons.
Requests, and the disposition of such requests, for the redesignation and transfer of Ms. Maxwell.
Requests, and the disposition of such requests, for waiver of any
Public Safety Factors associated with Ms. Maxwell’s designation or
redesignation.
Any decision to waive, as applied to Ms. Maxwell, the standard
procedures for submissions of an inmate transfer request as detailed in
Chapter 7 of the Bureau’s Program Statement 5100.08, Inmate Security
Designation and Custody Classification.
Any transfer codes associated with Ms. Maxwell’s redesignation and transfer.
Ms. Maxwell’s security point score; custody level; and any requests
for, applications of, and reasons for Management Variables associated
with Ms. Maxwell’s placement as of June 1, 2025.
Ms. Maxwell’s security point score; custody level; and any requests
for, applications of, and reasons for Management Variables associated
with Ms. Maxwell’s placement as of August 1, 2025.
Please provide any response no later than August 28, 2025. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Ghislaine
Maxwell will not be interacting with any dogs while at Federal Prison
Camp Bryan, as she's been banned from the training program,
RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Paige Mazzoni, the
chief executive of Canine Companions, made it clear the former madam
won't be crossing paths with his animals.
"We do not allow anyone whose crime involves abuse towards minors or animals, including any crime of a sexual nature," Mazzoni said in an interview. "That’s a hard policy we have, so she will not be able to."
Mazzoni
said he had made this decision to keep his dogs safe, and explained:
"Those are crimes against the vulnerable, and you're putting them with a
puppy who is vulnerable."
Animal
trainers have more safety concerns than Donald Chump does. While Sybil
The Soothsayer of CNN lies that this Maxwell is a non-issue and a
non-story, US House Rep Doug LaMalfa only wishes the quack was accurate
with his tea leaf readings. He held a town hall on Monday and it did
not go well. . Katie Hawkinson (INDEPENDENT) reports:
California
lawmaker has become the latest Trump-era Republican to face the ire of
his constituents at a town hall that devolved into chaos Monday morning.
Doug
LaMalfa, a fourth-generation rice farmer who has represented his
northern California district since 2013, was booed, jeered and cursed
out by angry voters at the local Elks Lodge in Chico over the
president’s economic policies and the administration’s handling of the
Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Over 90 minutes,
attendees called LaMalfa a “liar,” an “a**hole,” and accused him of
“bull****.” At one point, when the moderator called on one person to ask
a question, someone yelled: “F*** you!”
LaMalfa’s
is the latest GOP town hall to attract irate voters after similar
scenes earlier this year in states including Wisconsin, Georgia, and
North Carolina. It led National Republican Congressional Committee Chair
Richard Hudson to reportedly advise his party’s lawmakers to avoid
in-person events in March. While Republican leaders previously suggested
these hecklers were paid protesters, they have not provided evidence
for these claims.
The crowd of around 650
people in Chico, a college town 90 miles north of Sacramento, were
especially angry over the administration’s handling of the Epstein
investigation. Last month, the Justice Department and FBI released a
joint memo indicating there would be no further disclosures related to
the Epstein sex trafficking investigation. The apparent lack of
transparency over the late sex offender’s case was condemned by
Republicans and Democrats alike.
“You all left,
the Speaker of the House released you guys so you didn’t have to deal
with releasing the files,” one attendee shouted, referring to House
Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to send lawmakers on August recess
before they could vote on a resolution calling on the Trump
administration to release more information about Epstein.
Doesn't seem like the issue has gone away.
Because it hasn't.
Only an idiot wouldn't be able to grasp why.
In an effort to distract further, Chump is floating taking over other cities including Chicago. This led Governor JB Pritzker to respond, "Let’s
not lie to the public, you and I both know you have no authority to
take over Chicago. By the way, where are the Epstein files?"
Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been cleared to leave prison on work release.
Podcast
host Allison Gill obtained information about Maxwell's security score,
sex offender waiver, and other details after the former partner of
Jeffrey Epstein was moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas.
According
to journalist Adam Klasfeld, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) raised
questions about Maxwell's new prison accommodations in a letter to the
Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The senator demanded to know
if Maxwell received special treatment after meeting with Deputy Attorney
General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump's former personal
attorney.
Documents
viewed by Gill indicated that Maxwell was given a 7-point base security
score — the highest possible because she is a sex offender and
considered a danger to the community.
"Despite
her score of 27 resulting in a MINIMUM security level, BOP policy does
not allow people with a sex offender PSF (Public Safety Factor) to serve
their sentences in minimum security facilities. Someone has to waive
the PSF to make that move," Gill noted.
She
was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her crimes. Now she's in Club
Fed and she may even be able to leave the facility for 'work release'?
She's a sex trafficker. Why would you let her off the prison to go to
work? Ask Chump, he's the one who is doing it and making a mockery out
of our legal system and showing just how close he is to the Epstein
scandal.
You have to be covering up a lot to give a convicted and imprisoned crook what she wants to get her to keep her mouth shut.
LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: What do Jeffrey Epstein's victims want from the
Trump administration? When the Department of Justice said it would not
release its files on the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender,
it outraged a good portion of the president's base. The administration
shifted to damage control, and conspiracy theorists had something to
talk about. The No. 2 official at the Justice Department, who is the
president's former attorney, met with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a
20-year sentence for helping Epstein sexually abuse children. Some
raised concerns she could be seeking a deal. And before the news broke
Monday that a federal judge in New York rejected a request by the
Justice Department to unseal grand jury transcripts related to the
criminal investigation of Maxwell, I spoke with Annie Farmer. She
testified openly against both Epstein and Maxwell, saying they sexually
abused her when she was 16 years old. And this conversation includes the
discussion of sexual assault.
Annie, I've been thinking
about you and so many others as Epstein and Maxwell are in the news so
often right now, and just what that feels like for you as somebody who
took the risk of publicly testifying and sharing what happened.
ANNIE
FARMER: It has been a pretty exhausting few weeks, I'd say, as this has
all come back up again. It is, you know, challenging anytime you are
confronted over and over again with these images of individuals that
have harmed you. But also just to feel so out of control as the story
has evolved in these unexpected ways, and we are not being - it feels
like we're not being considered and we're not being included.
FADEL: How have you felt as you've watched how the administration has handled all this?
FARMER: I'd say it's been very chaotic and left me and many others I've spoken with pretty anxious and sometimes pretty angry.
FADEL:
And so you - nobody has consulted with you and others. Has anyone from
the government approached you to ask what you want? Anything?
FARMER:
No, not at all. I've reached out and spoken with one of the
prosecutors, the one remaining prosecutor, SDNY, who was responsible for
the, you know, guilty verdict for Ghislaine Maxwell. And it was clear
to me that they were not even being involved in this process. And so,
you know, I did put my concerns into a letter and sent that to Deputy
Attorney General Blanche, and I haven't heard a response from that. And I
know others have done the same - have written letters about their
concerns about how this is all unfolding.
FADEL: What are your concerns?
FARMER:
You know, one thing that seems very, very important is that Ghislaine
Maxwell does not receive preferential treatment for any information that
she provides. To have her be a part of this process and potentially
trade information for a lesser sentence feels very wrong, not just for
those of us directly involved in the trial, but for so many of the women
that she harmed. That sends a very damaging message to our country.
Even before Donald Trump officially began his second term in office, his
family businesses were beginning the race to milk the presidency for
every cent they could. Now, a new analysis from The New Yorker
has put a potential dollar figure on how much Trump's crypto ventures,
real estate deals, licensing agreements, and other grifts have netted
America's first family over the course of Trump's time in politics: a
staggering $3.4 billion.
The total is an estimate, as the Trump Organization and its various
auxiliary companies and ventures - which are largely under the control
of the president's adult children - have not been entirely transparent
regarding their finances.
The New Yorker estimated
that the president's various cryptocurrency had generated at least
$2.37 billion in value, financial investments coordinated by Donald Jr.
and Eric Trump have generated $339.6 million, and Trump's flagship
Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, has raked in $125 million in
extra profits.
Tack onto that $127.7 million in legal fee collection and merchandise
sales and a media empire estimated to be worth $116 million, and it
becomes clear that the Trumps have built themselves a corporate empire
on the back of their patriarch's public office.
Just last month, the president took a detour from a state trip to Scotland, for which millions of taxpayer dollars were spent
on travel and security, to inaugurate a new Trump golf course near
Aberdeen, Scotland. On that same trip, Trump hosted British Prime
Minister Keir Starmer at his private Turnberry golf club - which (as was
the practice during Trump's first term) will likely profit off of the
president's choice to use it as a venue. The same week, it was reported that Trump has privately discussed hosting the G20 summit of world leaders at his Doral golf club.
He's a crook who surrounds himself with crooks and liars.
And
the willfully stupid. DC gossip is all about the blond Junor's been
spotted with lately. Did Cheryl Hines issue her statement this week
about how happy she and Junior now were and how 2024's cheating (with
the journalist) is in the past and a never again? Was the trying to
cover for her husband or convince herself?
The gunman who opened fire on the
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday was, according
to law enforcement officials and others who knew him, obsessed with a
belief that the coronavirus vaccine had harmed him.
Police said
the suspect, 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, launched his attack from
inside a CVS drugstore directly across from the CDC’s main entrance in
Atlanta. No CDC employees or civilians were injured, but he struck
several CDC buildings and killed a DeKalb County Police officer. White
was then found dead in the store, where five guns were recovered,
according to a report from the Justice Department. It was unclear
whether he killed himself or was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with
law enforcement.
The CDC has been at the center of a long-running
misinformation campaign about the government’s response to the
pandemic. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s secretary of health and
human services, has been among the loudest voices in that campaign, once
describing Covid vaccines as one of the “deadliest” shots ever made,
despite strong evidence that they are effective and safe.
One of White’s neighbors, Nancy Hoalst, who lived near him in Kennesaw, Georgia, told theNew York Times
on Saturday that White’s obsession with the vaccine came on suddenly
about a year ago. “He very deeply believed that vaccines had hurt him,
and that they were hurting other people,” she said.
On Friday after the shooting, the Trump administration was relatively quiet, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The White House had not made a comment, and Kennedy had only reposted a social media statement from CDC Director Susan Monarez about the shooting.
On
August 8, as Team Trump planned this little coup, a more violent crime
than Coristine’s beating unfolded in Atlanta as a shooter, apparently
inspired by anti-vaxx propaganda, fired 180 rounds
of ammunition at four headquarters buildings of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. A police officer, David Rose, was killed in the
barrage. The suspected shooter, Patrick Joseph White, killed himself
after fleeing the crime scene. According to family and friends, White
was all but possessed by fears about the supposedly dire effects of the
COVID-19 vaccines, as NBC News reported:
,
Authorities
had recovered “written documentation that expressed the shooter’s
discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations” from White’s home.
A neighbor of White’s previously told NBC News that White had expressed anti-vaccine sentiments to her on multiple occasions. It was also previously reported that White blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal.
For CDC employees, the violence felt inevitable and punctuated a long
and difficult year in which they’ve felt targeted and demonized by the
administration they work for, as the Washington Postobserved:
Days after the shooting, the initial shock has morphed
into anger for many CDC employees, according to interviews with more
than a dozen of them, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity
out of fear of retaliation …
They said they are fed up with how
they and their work are being derided and impugned by conservatives and
anti-vaccine activists, including the one who rose to lead the nation’s
public health apparatus: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
Before joining the government, Kennedy falsely called the coronavirus vaccine the “deadliest vaccine ever made” and said it contained a “poison” …
Now the nation’s top health official, Kennedy has moved to limit the use of coronavirus vaccines, fired the CDC’s vaccine advisers and last week canceled research into the mRNA technology that made those vaccines’ rapid development possible, citing misleading or false claims.
The
shooting came on the heels of Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, pulling $500
million in funding from developing vaccines using mRNA technology, which
was used to develop the COVID-19 vaccine.
Despite
support from the medical community for such research and medical
therapies, Kennedy claimed "the technology poses more risks than
benefits."
Before his visit, the union representing thousands of workers at the CDC on Sunday called on Kennedy and CDC leadership to make "a clear and unequivocal stance in condemning vaccine disinformation."
"The
deliberate targeting of CDC through this violent act is deeply
disturbing, completely unacceptable and an attack on every public
servant," the union said.
"Early
reports indicate the gunman was motivated by vaccine disinformation,
which continues to pose a dangerous threat to public health and safety."
Junior's remarks and actions didn't just put the gun in the shooter's hands, they loaded the gun and pointed to the target.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Jack Reed's office:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President
Trump announced his plan to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police
Department (MPD) under direct federal control and deploy the National
Guard to the streets of Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI),
the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the
Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
(FSGG), issued the following statement:
“President Trump’s ever-expanding use of the military for domestic
matters is beyond alarming. I have always supported strong law
enforcement in our communities, but this National Guard deployment and
federalization of city police is misguided and unsupported by the facts.
By the Trump Administration’s own metrics, crime is down in DC and this
deployment appears to be designed to change the subject from Trump’s
healthcare cuts, tariffs, and other failings.
“Our military is trained to defend the nation from external threats
and assist communities during disasters or emergencies, not to conduct
day-to-day domestic policing. This deployment is a serious misuse of the
National Guard’s time and talent.
“President Trump is exploiting his power and testing it in ways that
could lead to more U.S. troops deployed on American soil. As we saw in
Los Angeles, President Trump is willing to deploy U.S. military forces
on American streets for inflammatory and political reasons. Normalizing
the use of U.S. military forces for everyday policing risks eroding the
very freedoms our servicemembers swear to protect.
“The President should immediately stand down these troops. Congress
should reject this overreach and ensure real oversight. We must uphold
America’s system of checks and balances or risk the rights and civil
liberties of Americans everywhere.”
