2/ From the release:
"The big break came when Gaetz's personal madam came forward to discuss her dealings with Gaetz & other prominent figures including Rudy Giuliani. .. Gaetz's madam will offer irrefutable proof that Gaetz paid for companionship escort services ..
3/ "Among other evidence that will be shown at the press conference are a massive trove of undercover photos & videos, many showing 76 yo Rudy Giuliani on a date with and furnishing alcohol to a 16 yo girl. Congressman Gaetz's COS is also shown in several photos with Giuliani..."
4/ The presser's location won't be announced til 48 hrs before the date (May 13 "high noon")
This is exactly like what they did with Mueller
Then it was believed that they were 'helping' Trump
Now it's not so clear
And this presser will be a bust
We're still in the swamp, kids
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"The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election
2/"In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous,
Have you ever had a job SO BAD that you formed a support group with other fmr staffers after you left
just to deal with the trauma?
Chatter:
there's a group of fmr DeSantis staffers meeting regularly
-he fires people suddenly & treats them like garbage
Anyone surprised?
Also per Playbook this am:
"At the beginning of his admin, DeSantis directed the Florida Republican Party leader to fire a party official who had cancer-on that person’s first week back from surgery"
NICE guy..
"DeSantis often blames his staff for his own blunders, we’re told. After DeSantis went on Fox News in 2018 and implored Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by supporting his African American Democratic opponent for governor,
Remember Eric Swalwell suing Mo Brooks, Trump, Junior & Rudy for inciting the insurrection on 1/6?
Guess what?
Per Swalwell's atty, Brooks is doing everything he can to duck being served
-for more than a month
NB: Brooks is now running for Richard Shelby's Sen seat #Coward
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2/ Per Punchbowl:
“We have been attempting to serve our complaint on Mo Brooks for more than a month,” Andonian [Swalwell's lawyer] said in a statement to Punchbowl News. “I talked to staffers in his D.C. office who promised a response from someone, which never came.
3/ "'I sent the complaint and a waiver of service form in a detailed email to his chief of staff and counsel, which to date remains unanswered.'"
Hmmm...
ICYMI:
Seems the FBI WAS taking Christopher Steele seriously..
Per Telegraph:
Steele produced a second dossier after Trump was in the WH
-it was from 'new' sources
-it contained more info @ Manafort/Russia & Trump/Russia connections news.yahoo.com/mi6-spy-christ…
2-"The FBI interviewed Mr Steele at the Grosvenor Hotel in central London, close to his offices, in September 2017 as part of then ongoing inquiries into Russian meddling. .. Mr Steele told the FBI that Orbis had "four discrete, ‘hermetically-sealed’ main agent networks".
3-"His primary "sub-source" for the dossier was no longer "active" at the time of the interview with FBI agents, but that another "main agent network is up and running and is now starting to get good information".
Senate Dems prepping to 'kick off a sensitive internal debate' @ voting rights reform this month
It is unconscionable that Manchin hasn't signed on yet & 'at least half dozen Dems have issues with it'
Get. It. Done. @SenSchumer
NOT optional! politico.com/news/2021/05/0…
2-"Senate Democrats made a major commitment to muscle through Speaker NANCY PELOSI’S ethics and voting reform bill. Yet many say they have no idea how to pass it and wonder what exactly the end game is for a signature Democratic priority.
3-"Democrats are preparing to kick off a sensitive internal debate over the issue this month as the Senate Rules Committee takes up the sprawling House package. But no Republicans support it, Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) hasn’t signed on
They're slithering in all over the place:
Top big lie propagator Lin Wood moved to SC in Feb
And guess what?
He's running for SC GOP party chair
-he's more insane than ever
-and he's doing well
2-"LIN WOOD played a starring role in Georgia’s GOP civil war after the 2020 elections. Now the pro-Trump lawyer is taking his roadshow to South Carolina, where he’s campaigning as a ‘chaos’ candidate to lead the state Republican Party …
3-"mounting an unexpectedly strong challenge to the incumbent chairman, DREW MCKISSICK. The outcome has outsized implications because of South Carolina’s role in GOP presidential primaries — the state hosts the first primary in the South,