Stephen Alford, who allegedly asked @mattgaetz's father for $25M to fund a rescue to get ex-FBI Robert Levinson out of Iran in exchange for a presidential pardon for Gaetz, was indicted today for wire fraud & the attempted prevention of device seizure: washingtonexaminer.com/news/matt-gaet…
.@dcexaminer was first to report the full bizarre overture made by Alford and frmr Air Force intelligence officer Bob Kent to Don Gaetz, Matt Gaetz's father, in the form of an utterly bizarre "project homecoming" doc
story: washingtonexaminer.com/news/documents…
docs: washingtonexaminer.com/news/documents…
Charging doc: Gaetz's dad wore a wire, he's said
Person A = Bob Kent
D.G. = Don Gaetz
R.L. = Robert Levinson
Family Member A = Matt Gaetz
Law Firm A = Beggs & Lane where Levinson family attorney David McGee (who Gaetz mentioned in Tucker appearance) workedjustice.gov/usao-ndfl/pres…
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Newsy in Heritage fallout: Tom Jones, head of the American Accountability Foundation, sent an email to Hill offices Monday warning them to not hire the "deceitful and dishonorable staff" at the Heritage Foundation who subtweeted Kevin Roberts w/ messages like "Nazis are bad."
Notable context: The Heritage Foundation last year gave the American Accountability Foundation a $100,0000 grant in support of its research efforts making lists of leftists in government. Now AAF is using those tactics on Heritage staffers!! heritage.org/press/heritage…
A senior Heritage official tells me there was NO coordination with Tom Jones/AAF on this, and staffers who spoke out on social media are going to be an active part of Heritage and the conversation going forward.
“Kevin Roberts and Heritage will do what they always do best: Lead the conservative movement in an intense family discussion”
.@RandPaul enjoying a burger at The Big Board and chatting w/ staffers also there to show support for the DC restaurant, which the DC health dept just just shut down about an hour ago after it openly refused to enforce vax/mask mandates
. @RepThomasMassie@RepTimBurchett, and @RepSpartz also showed up to support the just-shut-down Big Board joint. Rand Paul had pre planned showing up to support but had no idea the DC health dept was about to shut it down over vax/mask noncompliance
Thinking about all the women with two surnames becoming known by their initials like AOC, RGB, ACB and noticing that a requirement seems to be that the last consonant must have an “eee” sound? I don’t see this trend with Catherine Cortez Masto, for instance. CCM might work tho
Michelle Lujan Grisham could go by MLG, that’s in line with the “rule” I mentioned above
Oh also former NH state rep @realYDB falls in line with this too with everyone calling her YDB
About Joe Biden playing Despacito from his phone –
Not only was he introduced by Louis Fonsi (who recorded the song), but Biden has a history of telling musical artists at his campaign events that he has their song on his phone and then playing it. washingtonexaminer.com/news/heres-why…
In an August fundraiser that featured Carole King, Biden told her that he has her song on his phone and then played "I Feel the Earth Move." He uses Apple Music, per pooler @brittanys
In a June fundraiser that featured Willie Nelson, Biden pulled out his phone and played "On the Road Again" as a way to introduce him, per pooler @KThomasDC
"Why you all don't just write, 'He's a fraud,'" Biden says to reporters about coverage of Trump, saying that statement is "not opinion."
More Biden: "Among the brightest people I've dealt with my whole career have in the press, not a joke. You are extremely well educated, you will read a significant background. And – and the vast majority have tried to report news, not just opinion. But I can't believe ...
(Biden) "But I can't believe that you don't feel the same – Not Democrat/Republican okay? – you don't feel the same anxiety because you've got a brother or a sister or a mother or a father, son or a daughter, who's going through what you're not" because journalists have jobs