.@LindseyGrahamSC attempted to help secure lawyers for Trump’s impeachment defense before the trial started. Now he is meeting with his current lawyers. Tainted jury.
.@LindseyGrahamSC recommended Karl Bowers as defense attorney, of which Trump hired briefly before parting ways over disagreements on defense strategy and compensation reuters.com/article/us-usa…
.@LindseyGrahamSC, a co-conspirator and party to the defense is supposed to act as an impartial juror, but in November, Graham was busy pressuring secretaries of state to find votes to throw out washingtonpost.com/politics/brad-…
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Famed GameStop bull 'Roaring Kitty' is a Massachusetts financial advisor, who is also suspected of being behind the account “DeepFu**ingValue” reuters.com/article/us-ret…
McConnell isn’t playing poker, he’s playing chess.
If he can’t keep the filibuster while Democrats control the Senate, he will use it against Democrats to obtain more power when Republicans regain control of the Senate. His goal is always more power that is harder to take away.
“"The important thing for our Democratic friends to remember is you may not be in total control in the future. And any time you start fiddling around with the rules of the Senate you always need to put yourself in the other fellow's shoes” nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
In 2013, Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for all Presidential nominees, but left it in place for legislation and Supreme Court nominees.
“You’ll regret this and you might regret it even sooner than you might think,” McConnell warned. politico.com/story/2013/11/…
Tse Chi Lop, one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives and a man who’s been described as “Asia’s El Chapo”, was arrested in Amsterdam on Friday. vice.com/en/article/akd…
“The 57-year-old, Chinese-born Canadian is alleged to have headed up an international drug syndicate known as “The Company” or “Sam Gor”: an organisation that dominated Asia-Pacific’s $70 billion-a-year drug trade across the region, including Australia, New Zealand and Japan”
“In 1996, Tse was arrested in the US by the FBI for his role in a drug smuggling operation bringing in heroin from Asia's Golden Triangle.” dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…