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Meanwhile in the #US…
#Republican #House Speaker #MikeJohnson defended #Trump’s & #JDVance’s conduct during the Oval Office meeting on Friday, saying that President Volodymyr #Zelensky of #Ukraine “acted so inappropriately” & should have “shown more gratitude.”
“For him to act as he did was rather shocking to everyone,” Johnson said of Zelensky, speaking to CNN. “Instead of showing gratitude, he interrupted & berated his hosts at a very perilous time for his country.”
"It started on social media with news that Mr. #Gretzky had been booed in some #Canadian bars showing the game. That spread to fringe outlets using words like #traitor. Which allowed mainstream outlets to use the word in quotes. ...
Things were probably irreparable after the first time he was pictured in a #MAGA hat, gone full #sycophant. But when he would not wear our uniform after wearing theirs, that was truly it."
@Gothamist @gothamist-Gothamist “Homan excoriated Hochul for supporting a state law that allows undocumented immigrants to get drivers’ licenses but prohibits ICE from accessing Department of Motor Vehicles data.
“ I don't know anyone who thinks she's doing a good job. She's an embarrassment,” he said.” 
#CryMore #Sycophant #Resist #DefundIce
In the afternoon session of his confirmation hearing, #KashPatel is starting to push back more against his critics, & trying to paint himself as a defender of the #FBI. “You can say whatever you want about me,” Patel says. “Bring it on. But you will not denigrate the men and women of the FBI.” For years, Patel has vowed to fire its leadership, empty the FBI headquarters building & bring law enforcement agencies “to heel.”
#KashPatel is trying not to say that Joe #Biden won the 2020 election. Under repeated questioning from Sen #PeterWelch (D-VT), Patel concedes only that Biden was “certified” as the president. “The other way to say it is he won,” Welch said. “What’s so hard about just saying Biden won the 2020 election?”
Investigators called #KashPatel as a witness to ask him under oath whether what he had said was true. It is not a #crime to #lie to the public, but it is a crime to lie #UnderOath. Booker was trying to get Patel to say whether, under oath, he recanted his corroboration of #Trump’s claim.
Pressed over his claims that even the fmr F.B.I. director #ChrisWray should be prosecuted, #KashPatel says he “will not go backwards. There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as FBI director.”
Sen #ChrisCoons asked whether #KashPatel would open an investigation into a political adversary because #Trump asked him to do so, or if he would stop a legitimate investigation into an ally of Trump if pressed. Patel says he will simply obey the #law, but evades Coons’s question of whether he would resign if forced or directed to do otherwise.
#KashPatel also tried to distance himself from #QAnon, a group that has embraced #ConspiracyTheories. Asked if he is a supporter or follower of QAnon, Patel says no, & that he “rejected outright QAnon baseless conspiracy theories.”
Previously, Patel had said he saw some value in the community. “I disagree with a lot of what that movement says, but I agree with a lot of what that movement says,” he said in a 2022 interview.
#KashPatel tried to defend himself on the issue of #Jan6 by saying he has always condemned violence against law enforcement, but he sidestepped entirely his involvement in producing the jailhouse recording of the so-called “Jan 6 choir” singing the national anthem. Several members of that “choir” were in custody specifically for violently assaulting police officers on Jan 6.
Durbin’s remarks highlight a theme of #KashPatel’s resume. Nearly everywhere he has worked, from the #DOJ to the #Defense Dept to the #Trump #WhiteHouse, Patel has complained that he was beset by people making bad decisions for improper, baldly political motives. Patel’s book brands them “government gangsters” who are part of the “deep state.” Durbin says that is conspiratorial thinking.
Richard Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the #Senate #Judiciary Cmte, told #KashPatel he “does not meet the standard” to lead the #FBI.
Durbin said Patel lacks the temperament to wield the power of an FBI director: “This is someone who’s left behind a trail of grievances throughout his life, lashing out at anyone who disrespects him or doesn’t agree with him.”
Grassley was implying that just opening a #criminal investigation into #Trump — into his efforts to overturn his loss of the 2020 election — was self-evidently a corrupt & politicized scheme. The #FBI has “yet to learn a lesson,” Grassley tells #KashPatel. “I hope you will learn that lesson for them, or teach them that lesson.”
The chairman of the #Senate #Judiciary Cmte, #ChuckGrassley of Iowa, began #KashPatel’s hearing by defending Patel from critics who have called him unqualified. Grassley also accused fmr #FBI director #ChrisWray of mismanaging the agency. The FBI is “in crisis,” & “infected by political decision-making,” the #Republican lawmaker said in his opening remarks.
Elon Musk, now worth over $400 BILLION, leads Trump's super-rich administration
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/17/elon-musk-now-worth-400b-leads-super-rich-administration
* Musk received a one-day bump of $62.8 billion
* 1st person in the world to reach $400 billion mark
* Musk's unfathomable wealth: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111049297750914546
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#Musk #sycophant #AmericaPAC #DOGE
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #plutocracy #meritocracy #oligarchy
#WealthTax
#Christofascism #transgenocide
https://www.vox.com/politics/389481/kash-patel-trump-fbi-steve-bannon-podcast
I listened to hours of #Trump's FBI pick on 
#SteveBannon's 
#podcast. Oh boy
by #ZackBeauchamp 4 dec 2024
Senate Republicans concerned with Gaetz nomination ask to access House ethics probe
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191708/gaetz-nomination-republicans-ethics-probe
* Gaetz's nomination as next attorney general could face uphill path in U.S. Senate
* growing number of Republican senators calling for access to U.S. House Ethics Committee probe into Gaetz's conduct
Matt Gaetz: Trump Picks Literally Worst Person You Know for Attorney General
https://newrepublic.com/post/188395/trump-cabinet-matt-gaetz-attorney-general
Of all the people in the universe, Donald Trump has settled on Florida Representative Matt Gaetz to lead the Justice Department.
Trump will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/g-s1-34072/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-doj-oversight
Trump to Nominate and Famously Bad Lawyer Matt Gaetz for Attorney General
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/matt-gaetz-attorney-general
* Florida congressman one of the Trump’s most loyal supporters
* builds upon Trump’s long-held views of Justice Department as extension of White House
* Trump threatening to prosecute enemies f. from Nancy Pelosi to media