Among the many exclusive nuggets in this story is a 7+ minute video of @mtgreenee speaking to her constituents at the 14th District Republican Convention in Dalton on May 15. She recounts her run-in a few days earlier with @aoc - who she dubs "Alexandria Ocrazyo-Cortez."
Greene on the AOC incident: "She stopped, turned, & threw her hands in the air, & then she kept going. Well the press that was present said that I was screaming at her & that I had behavior that's not becoming of a member of Congress."
"And I assured them, I said, 'My district back at home definitely likes my behavior,'" Greene said.
The crowd at the 14th District Convention clapped and cheered.
The moment was a unique and unfiltered window into a singular figure on the American political stage. Perhaps no other politician in recent history has so quickly elevated herself as such a curiosity and provocateur after just five months in Congress.
Insider traversed Greene's congressional district over two weeks in May, including attending two GOP events in Dalton: a Patriots Unite Rally graced by the election conspiracist and lawyer Lin Wood, as well as the 14th District Republican convention in which Greene spoke.
The event Wood spoke at was a fundraiser for Kandiss Taylor, a former candidate for Senate in the 2020 special runoff election who is now running for Georgia governor in 2022. He was the big draw.
Wood in his May 8 remarks targeted GA Gov. Brian Kemp & SoS Brad Raffensperger. He didn't hold back. "Put them in front of a firing squad, & send them straight to hell," the election conspiracist and attorney told the crowd. They laughed and clapped.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson is unsealing and releasing documents from the Paul Manafort case this AM. Here's one doc she just released with fewer black boxes than when it first came out back in December 2018.
Here's a side-by-side of the two versions and what was previously redacted re. Manafort's lies about his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik:
New version on left released today; old version on right released back in Dec 2018:
Insider traversed Greene's congressional district over two weeks in May, including attending two GOP events in Dalton: a Patriots Unite Rally graced by the election conspiracist and lawyer Lin Wood, as well as the 14th District Republican convention where @mtgreenee spoke.
Wood’s speech focused on Gov. Brian Kemp and Sec of State Brad Raffensperger, who refused to play ball when Trump was seeking to overturn the presidential election. "Put them in front of a firing squad, and send them straight to hell," the attorney told the crowd.
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Political insiders are only starting to grasp this increasingly real possibility after NY AG Letitia James' recent statement confirming she's now linked up with the Manhattan DA who has been digging into Trump's financial records after securing that authority from SCOTUS.
Interviews with more than a dozen members of Congress and political operatives this week elicited incredulous looks, knee-jerk reactions, and wild speculation about what prospectively sidelining Trump would mean to the political world.
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The folksy demeanor doesn't stop opponents from lambasting Scott every chance they get. He doesn't need to open Twitter for the hate, as he tends to catch hell any time he voices an unpopular opinion, be it on the Senate floor, the campaign trail, or rebutting President Biden.
"I get called Uncle Tom & the n-word by progressives, by liberals," Scott said in his response to Biden's joint address to Congress.
That same night Texas Democratic Party official Gary O'Connor posted a message on Facebook describing Scott as "an oreo with no real principles."
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Insider surveyed 63 federal agencies that employ uniformed law-enforcement officers and personnel — who routinely carry firearms — to understand how they were each combating domestic-terrorism threats from within their ranks.
Insider found the federal agencies' applicant vetting processes varied greatly and sometimes contradicted each other.
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Miller is one of at least 17 people who continued to receive taxpayer-funded salaries while working for Trump's post-presidential transition office, according to government documents released to Insider under the Freedom of Information Act.
So much more in this SCOOP from @rbravender - here's one more tease: Trump's post-presidential staff is expected to receive about $1.3 million in federal salary and benefits between 1/20 & 7/21, when the formal presidential transition period ends, per a GSA estimate.