The House Ethics Committee found substantial evidence of the following:

• From at least 2017 to 2020, Matt Gaetz regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.

• In 2017, Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl. • During the period 2017 to 2019, Gaetz used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.

• Gaetz accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging in
connection with a 2018 trip to the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts.

Key findings from the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation into the Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis':

• Scalia accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and others with business before the Court for more than a decade, in violation of federal law, including 258 personal trips, dozens of which were never disclosed. • Clarence Thomas chose to ignore legal obligations to disclose lavish gifts after media scrutiny over his disclosures in 2004, in violation of federal law.

COUNT 1: GUILTY

COUNT 2: GUILTY

COUNT 3: GUILTY

COUNT 4: GUILTY

COUNT 5: GUILTY COUNT 6: GUILTY

COUNT 7: GUILTY

COUNT 8: GUILTY

COUNT 9: GUILTY

COUNT 10: GUILTY

NBC News confirms CNN: In her new book, Liz Cheney paints a scathing portrait of the Republican Party, condemning ex-colleagues as "enablers and collaborators," who were "willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty to Donald Trump." In her book, Liz Cheney calls Donald Trump "the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office."

And she says House Speaker Mike Johnson "appeared especially susceptible to flattery from Trump and aspired to being anywhere in Trump's orbit."

Ex-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis told Georgia prosecutors that a top presidential aide said to her in December 2020 that "the boss" did not plan to leave the White House "under any circumstances," according to a video recording obtained by WaPo. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… Jenna Ellis told prosecutors that ex-Trump aide Dan Scavino was unfazed by her view that Trump was running out of options to challenge Biden's win.

"And he said to me, you know, in a kind of excited tone, 'Well, we don't care, and we're not going to leave,'" Ellis said.

Important Axios scoop:

Trump's allies are *pre-screening the ideologies* of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024.
axios.com/2023/11/13/tru… Hundreds of people are spending tens of millions of dollars to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across government to rip off the restraints imposed on previous presidents.

Social media histories are already being plumbed.

SIX UNNAMED CO-CONSPIRATORS:

a. Co-Conspirator 1, an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant's 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not b. Co-Conspirator 2, an attorney who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.

FOLLOW ALONG: To be clear, Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira tried to delete video at Mar-a-Lago last summer, prosecutors said in the new indictment. According to the indictment, in late June 2022, the Justice Department twice communicated that a grand jury was issuing a subpoena requesting video from Mar-a-Lago. Trump's lawyers communicated that to the former president, who then asked to see Nauta, who was scheduled to travel… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

E. Jean Carroll's attorney alleges in closing arguments that Carroll was "exactly" Donald Trump's type, and that he didn't show up at her civil trial accusing him of rape because "he knows what he did" to her. Roberta Kaplan played jurors a portion of the 'Access Hollywood' video, where Trump said he kisses and gropes women without consent because 'when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.'

Kaplan: "He's telling you, in his own words, his modus operandi, his M.O."

Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips around the globe for more than two decades, including travel on a superyacht and private jet, from a prominent Republican donor without disclosing them, according to a new ProPublica report. propublica.org/article/claren… ProPublica: Clarence Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Republican donor Harlan Crow's private resort in the Adirondacks. Thomas has vacationed at Crow's ranch in East Texas and has joined Crow at the Bohemian Grove, an exclusive all-male retreat in California.

THE TRUMP CORPORATION:
 
1 SCHEME TO DEFRAUD IN THE FIRST DEGREE - Guilty

2 CONSPIRACY IN THE FOURTH DEGREE - Guilty

3 CRIMINAL TAX FRAUD IN THE THIRD DEGREE - Guilty

4 CRIMINAL TAX FRAUD IN THE THIRD DEGREE - Guilty

5 CRIMINAL TAX FRAUD IN THE FOURTH DEGREE - Guilty 6 FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE - Guilty

7 FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE - Guilty

8 FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE - Guilty

9 FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE - Guilty

A Proclamation on Transgender Day Of Visibility:

"I want you to know that your President sees you. The First Lady, the Vice President, the Second Gentleman, and my entire Admin see you for who you are — made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support." A Proclamation on Transgender Day Of Visibility:

"Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation's values."

The Biden White House Budget for FY 2023:

Proposes a new minimum tax on billionaires.

"This minimum tax would apply only to the wealthiest 0.01 percent of households—those with more than $100 million—and over half the revenue would come from billionaires alone." The Biden White House Budget for FY 2023:

Raises the corporate tax rate to 28%.

"Still the lowest tax rate faced by corporations since World War II except in the years after the 2017 [Republican] tax cut."

President Biden did not praise or defend Putin during his press conference. President Biden did not tout unproven treatments for COVID during his press conference.

The American Rescue Plan includes:

$1,400 per-person checks to struggling Americans

$30 billion in rental and critical utilities assistance

Expansion of ACA tax credits

$20 billion for a national vaccination program

$50 billion for an expansion of testing The American Rescue Plan includes:

Permanent increase of $130 million/year for child care assistance and expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit

$170 billion to help K-12 schools and higher ed institutions re-open

100% fed reimbursement for FEMA resources

The American Rescue Plan includes:

$1,400 per-person checks to struggling Americans

$30 billion in rental and critical utilities assistance

Expansion of ACA tax credits

$20 billion for a national vaccination program

$50 billion for an expansion of testing The American Rescue Plan includes:

Permanent increase of $130 million/year for child care assistance and expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit

$170 billion to help K-12 schools and higher ed institutions re-open

100% fed reimbursement for FEMA resources

Tweet from February 10, 2015.

The national debt just hit a new record of $22 trillion. Tweet from February 13, 2012.

The national debt just hit a new record of $22 trillion.

FBI Agents Association compiled stories from agents about the shutdown's impact on work.

"The shutdown has eliminated any ability to operate."
—Western Region

"...the U.S. Attorney's Office is unable to issue grand jury subpoenas..."
—Central Region
bit.ly/2R4haeo "I have been working a long term MS-13 investigation … Since the shutdown, I have not had a Spanish speaker in the Division. We have several Spanish speaking informants. We are only able to communicate using a three way call with a linguist in another division."
—Central Region

Notable passages from Wolff’s book: Trump had a theory that “the more years between an older man and a younger woman, the less the younger woman took an older man’s cheating personally.” From Wolff: “Trump likes to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.”

Trump would apparently ask male friends about their sex lives while their wives were listening on speakerphone.