Per WaPo:
Liz Cheney has big plans to maximize her new & powerful public platform to keep her promise & make sure Trump is never again in the Oval Office
2/"Rather than focusing on whipping votes to save her job as conference chair, the Wyoming Republican this week has been drafting plans for increased travel and media appearances meant to drive home her case that Trump is unfit for a role in the Republican Party
3/"or as the nation’s leader were he to run in 2024, according to a person briefed on the plans. She is also considering an expanded political operation that would allow her to endorse and financially support other Republican candidates who share her view of the danger
4/"that Trump poses to the Republican Party and the country, the person said. Cheney has told allies that she is determined to run for reelection, despite a recent censure resolution from her state’s Republican Party,
5/"and plans to debate all comers across Wyoming about Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results and role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
6/"Cheney has told allies she realizes the effort could take years and cost her donors and even her job. Those aware of her plans, like others for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
7/"Cheney is unlikely initially to join with other groups of current or former Republicans who oppose Trump’s role in the party. But she is decidedly against following the path of other Republican Trump critics who have bowed out of public life
8/"rather than confront his power over their party, and she has signaled that she is unwilling to moderate her conservative ideological approach.
9/"“She is, I think, the leader of the non-Trump Republicans, and I don’t know how big that group is,” said Bill Kristol, a prominent conservative critic of Trump who chairs the Republican Accountability Project.
10/"“It could be 10 to 15 percent of the party, though, and that is a lot of people. It is a fair number of donors, and it has the potential to grow.”
~excerpts WaPo
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Hmmm:
WaPo's Carol Leonnig has a new book about the Secret Service out next week
Per Guardian:
"[Trump] repeatedly [sought] to remove Secret Service staff he deemed to be overweight or too short for the job. ‘I want these fat guys off my detail,’" theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…
2/"She writes that Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump the wife of the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump, Jr, ‘started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family.’
3/"Leonnig also writes that Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter with his second wife, Marla Maples, broke up with a boyfriend and ‘began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail’
Here's a messaging doc circulated to Senate GOP by Senate Rules comm Repubs about the topline talking points they're to use during the S.1-For The People Voting Rights mark-up hearing this wk
They're fighting hard today
Off the rails: politico.com/f/?id=00000179…
Senate GOP are planning to brand For The People Voting Rights bill “politically motivated federal takeover of the election system that would make elections more chaotic and less secure"
They. Are. Desperate. to stop this bill
The only way they win (ever again) is by stopping this
Senate GOP are planning to focus on the bill's req that states allow voters to fill out a sworn affidavit if they don’t have an ID
GOP argue that “would render state voter ID laws meaningless” and cite polling that shows a majority of Americans support those laws (a lie)
Everyone should read this
So here goes:
"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
⬇️
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.'"
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..."