Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Cheney to launch anti-Trump organization after primary defeat

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/17/cheney-launch-anti-trump-organization-after-defeat-00052344

The new group, which will serve as Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) primary political vehicle as she considers whether to run for president in 2024, does not have an official name yet. An informed guess: The Great Task, which was the name of Cheney’s final ad of the campaign. The phrase is from the last sentence of the Gettysburg Address, and Cheney also referenced it in her concession speech from Jackson, Wyo., on Tuesday night.

Liz Cheney Primary Loss Could Be Her Biggest 2024 Boost Yet: Experts

 https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-primary-loss-could-her-biggest-2024-boost-yet-experts-1734243

But while Cheney was unseated, her primary loss is unlikely to be the deathblow that the former president is hoping it will be. Republican strategist Alex Patton told Newsweek that the loss elevates Cheney to the "bonafide leader of the resistance" while also raising her national profile.

Republican strategist Jay Townsend told Newsweek that Cheney's courage to break away from the pack has helped her stand out "in the ocean of cowards populating the Republican caucus in Congress." He said that regardless of Tuesday's defeat, "history will someday regard her as one of the greatest heroes of our time" and that she'll be remembered for her conviction in refusing to back down to Trump and his congressional loyalists.

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FBI Sought Documents Trump Hoarded for Years, Including about Russiagate

 https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-sought-documents-trump-hoarded-years-including-about-russiagate-1734280

The two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the situation tell Newsweek that while some of the intelligence documents might have dealt with nuclear weapons, that was not the main focus. "Donald Trump kept documents that interested him," one of those officials says, "sometimes Iranian or North Korean nukes, sometimes Ukraine or Russia, some foreign leaders." It wasn't the subject matter per se that was of interest to Justice as it was fear that Trump might "weaponize" the information, including for personal gain, the official says.

"Trump was particularly interested in matters related to the Russia hoax and the wrong-doings of the deep state," one former Trump official tells Newsweek. "I think he felt, and I agree, that these are facts that the American people need to know." The official says Trump may have been planning to use them as part of a 2024 run for the presidency.

The high-level U.S. government officials explain that it was not necessarily the classification level of the documents nor even their subject matter that investigators were focused on.

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 Just was informed that the reprinting will soon be completed

Cheney told supporters after losing Wyoming GOP primary

Trump is Democrat mole destroying the Republoican party

 Trump has convinced Republican voters to select candidates primarily on the basis of whether they support his election lies . Which should lead to massive defeats in general elections

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/wyoming-alaska-primary-election-takeaways/index.html

Trump and his allies have spent the spring and summer turning Republican primaries across the political map into bitter fights in which loyalty to the former President was the central factor.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Trump-allied lawyers sought to copy voting machine data in key battleground states

Insiders say Trump is panicking as Kushner and Melania pointed to as possible moles in FBI raid

 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-fbi-raid-melania-b2143194.html

“We knew that Donald Trump would try to gaslight the entire country and try to psychologically destabilize the minute this raid happened,” Mr Wilson said on MSNBC. “We knew he would immediately start lying and they would immediately try to tell an alternate narrative of why it’s happening and why it’s really happening. And we wanted to immediately push back. And something we’re good at — which is getting inside his decision cycle and getting inside his head space and pushing back in a way that we’ve been very, very successful in the past.”

Social Media, Politicians Make Unfounded Claims of Politicized Mar-a-Lago Search

 https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/social-media-politicians-make-unfounded-claims-of-politicized-mar-a-lago-search/

And, although a minor point, Travis is wrong about the claim that Biden has “the lowest approval ratings in our lives.” According to polling data compiled by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the president with the lowest approval rating in the last 20 years was George W. Bush, who had a 19% approval rating at the end of his second term as the country was sinking into a recession. Trump had the next-to-lowest approval rating — 29% — at the end of his only term, as he was trying to overturn the results of the election he had just lost. Biden comes in third, with a recent approval rating of 31%

Chris Hayes - variety of Trump's excuses

'Pretty much BS': Ex-CIA director rebuts Trump's claim about documents

‘A complete fiction’: Bolton on Trump defense

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