They beat up tradition, truth , and facts with equal zeal, and zero remorse . Poor losers isn’t an adequate description. Rabid fits IMO “ You can’t just love this country when you win” Joe Biden
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$43,000 in office expenses reimbursed from American Taxpayers in one year. $40K in Uber, Housing, and Food ALONE
'Reckless spending crusader' Matt Gaetz led House in reimbursed office expenses:
The MAGA firebrand who presents himself as a crusader against the federal government's "reckless spending" leads his peers in the House of Representatives when it comes to office expenses, according to a new analysis.Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was reimbursed for nearly $43,800 in office expenses in 2023, according to a Legistorm report filed Tuesday.
Keturah Hetrick notes that new reimbursement rules allowed Gaetz to receive more than $40,000 for expenses that include lodging, rides and meals.
Gaetz reportedly received $31,000 for housing and $10,800 for meals and $1,900 for car rentals, parking and taxis in 2023, reports Hetrick.
New rules allowed Gaetz to seek these reimbursements for money spent in Washington D.C. while Congress was in session.
"Reimbursement is paid out of an office's Members' Representational Allowance, the annual budgets that go to paying for staff compensation and other costs of running congressional offices," the report notes.
According to the report, that amounts to 99 percent of Gaetz's office allowance. The average is 86 percent. In 2022, Gaetz reported using 90 percent.
In October — the same month he moved to remove then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over promised budget cuts —Gaetz published an opinion piece in Florida's Sun Sentinel called "I'm fighting against reckless spending in D.C."
"In Joe Biden’s America, families are having to pinch pennies, so Congress should too," wrote Gaetz. "Americans literally cannot afford Washington’s reckless spending."
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Typical GOP hypocrite , nothing to see here move along.
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I HATE Matt Gaetz. Like really deep hate him.
Buuuttt.. 43K over year that includes lodging and meals isn't bad, especially in DC. I travel for work and I promise that's about what I'll spend on myself before the first half of the year is up. And that's not fancy travel: basic sedans, doubletree's hotels, and Soutwest/American flights. 43K is reasonable.
There are other... WAY BETTER reasons.... to hate him.
Chinese Mogul Funneled Millions to Bannon, Fox, Gettr, Docs Show
An indicted Chinese businessman pumped millions of ill-gotten dollars into the bank accounts of some of the most influential figures in MAGA World—including former Trump aides Steve Bannon and Jason Miller—according to a raft of documents filed in federal court in February.
The materials represent an effort by the court-appointed trustee in the bankruptcy case of Guo Wengui, the self-styled billionaire and anti-Chinese Communist Party crusader, to recover money that Guo allegedly transferred as part of a “fraudulent scheme” to hide wealth from his creditors.
Guo has long bankrolled Bannon and Miller’s post-White House endeavors—even as critics accuse the former construction tycoon of serving as a covert double agent for Beijing—and the feds allege he swindled more than $1 billion from China’s dissident diaspora.
Guo has denied all such claims, and cast himself as a victim of elaborate conspiracies.
Among the trustee’s biggest targets is Gettr, the troubled Twitter alternative Guo launched with Miller in 2021, from which the overseer seeks to recoup a whopping $21 million.
“For years, the debtor has orchestrated a ‘shell game,’ employing a convoluted web of shell companies, nominally owned by family members and subordinates, but in reality, controlled by the debtor,” the legal filing reads. “The debtor, through his alter-ego shell company Hamilton Opportunity Fund SPC (‘Hamilton’) transferred funds in the amount of $21,000,000 after the [bankruptcy] petition date.”
This language recurs throughout the hundreds of filings the trustee submitted, with little additional detail, and with only the names and sums of money changing. Many of the defendants are mainstream firms such as FedEx and American Express, or obscure corporate entities lodged in the United Kingdom, the Cayman Islands, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, and mainland China.
In all cases, however, the targeted parties allegedly received funds from Guo that truly belonged to the fallen magnate’s lenders, victims, and to the New York court that slapped him with $134 million in contempt penalties.
The materials also reveal abiding ties between Guo and key players on the American right. They show that Bannon Strategic Advisors, the ex-White House strategist’s longtime consulting concern, received $850,000 from two of Guo’s companies not long before the bankruptcy filing. A spokesperson for Bannon did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Miller, meanwhile, personally received $353,269.23 from Guo—while his former firm Jamestown Associates, which served the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2020, got $104,691.25. Fox News received $264,113.25.
Miller maintained that the money he took in was laid out in his formal compensation package as GETTR’s chief executive.
“This is ridiculous,” Miller said in a statement. “All monies earned in my role as GETTR CEO were specifically laid out in my contract and were for services performed. We will be opposing this witch-hunt.”
In text messages with The Daily Beast, the longtime Trump adviser asserted that Jamestown had created ads for Gettr that Fox aired.
“All services performed, all highly documented,” Miller wrote in explanation of the payments. “It’s quite ridiculous.”
Neither Fox nor Jamestown responded to requests for comment from The Daily Beast. Nor did Gettr itself, which Miller left last year to join the ex-president’s comeback bid.
The trustee also seeks to claw back $300,000 that a Guo-led NGO paid to Washington Times columnist Bill Gertz’s nonprofit The Gertz File Investigative Reporting Project, which pays salaries to Gertz and his wife. Gertz and Bannon helped found the NGO in question, the Rule of Law Foundation and its sister organization, the Rule of Law Society, in 2018. The Department of Justice has since identified both groups and Gettr as part of the criminal conspiracy through which Guo allegedly enriched himself at the expense of anti-Communist activists.
The revelation that Gertz had accepted a $100,000 loan from a Guo associate cost him his job at the Washington Free Beacon in 2019. Gertz did not reply to questions from The Daily Beast. Repeated emails to the Washington Times’ press account also went unanswered.
Notably absent from the list of defendants are Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, whom the trustee identified as potential targets of subpoenas in a draft document filed in January.
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Like the fact that he’s a child groomer while screaming about others being child groomers?
With the extreme pettiness and sheer incompetence of our elected bodies, we the people need to demand that they get rid of this archaic rule that a single senator can block a military promotion.
I agree that isn't a big number but it is the largest of all congressmen. I'm a federal worker and get lower pay than the private sector (but yeah, good benefits) and I see how this guy votes to take everything away from people like me that he can. You can't crusade against government spending and then be the number one spender of all your colleagues doing exactly the same thing. And, unlike your example, this is not for official travel. This is in addition to official travel.
And, the guy is worth $50 million. There are a few congressmen (a few and always new) that aren't wealthy and I could see them needing their costs reimbursed. But, if we as a government need to cut back like we say we do, considering the extreme wealth these people always end up with after they grift us, is paying for their meals in DC a priority?
How about we pay these bills in exchange for a contract not to lobby for 10 years after serving? Or, in exchange for not accepting corporate gifts like the rules that Congress put on doctors? They want it all for themselves but want everyone else to cut back. As said above, sheer hypocrisy.
While I hate him even for this, I agree there are better reasons.
She was talking about her works. Her works don't please God
People still think this guy is a serious journalist and believe everything thing he says or publishes
GOP’s Tuberville: ‘We are losing our kids to a Satanic cult’
Last week Tuberville lashed out at President Joe Biden as a “garbage human being.” Three days later, as The Salt Lake Tribune reported, the right-wing lawmaker traveled to Utah to campaign for a Senate candidate and shed additional light on his curious beliefs.“I’ve traveled all over the country — all 50 states — I’ve been in good places and bad places,” the coach-turned-politician said. “The one thing I saw, we are losing our kids to a Satanic cult.”
As part of the same remarks, Tuberville declared, “We’ve lost our moral values across the country. We’ve got to get back to the Constitution, and we have got to get back to the Bible. We’ve got to get God back in our country. There’s not one Democrat that can tell you they stand up for God.”
It’s difficult to unpack such angry-guy-at-the-end-of-the-bar remarks, though I’d be curious to know more about how Tuberville expects the United States to “get back to” both the secular U.S. Constitution and his preferred holy text.
As for the senator insistence that zero Democrats are willing to “stand up for God,” it’s also worth noting that President Joe Biden is a devout Catholic who regularly attends church services, and at last count, there are no professed atheists in Congress.
But wait, there’s more. The Salt Lake Tribune report added:
“We’ve lost our Department of Justice,” the Alabaman said. “In most of the country, we don’t have a criminal justice system anymore. Nobody goes to jail, unless you’re an innocent person that really loves this country, then they’ll put you in jail. We have never overcome a cult like we’re dealing with right now.”
Tuberville added that it’s Democrats who are trying to “push this cult on us.”
I’d be curious to know how many other GOP senators agree that a Satanic cult is gradually seizing American children — with the apparent cooperation of Democrats — and that “nobody” in the United States goes to jail except patriots who love their country.
Rudy Giuliani said he'll be disbarred but that supporting Trump would 'help me in heaven
- Former New York Mayor Giuliani said on Sunday that his support of Trump showed he stuck to his principles.
- That would "help me in heaven," said the lawyer, who's had his license suspended in New York and D.C.
- Giuliani, who's filed for bankruptcy, also faces a panel recommendation that he be disbarred.
"The Bar Association is going to crucify me no matter what," Giuliani said on a Sunday episode of his podcast "Uncovering the Truth." "I will be disbarred in New York. I will be disbarred in Washington. It will have nothing to do with anything I did wrong."
Giuliani, who led Trump's legal challenge to the 2020 election outcome in Pennsylvania, had his law license suspended in both Washington, DC and New York in 2021.
The former New York mayor is now contesting a recommendation from a Washington-based ethics review panel that he be disbarred for his actions while representing Trump.
"I consider that something that will help me in heaven for sticking to my principles and not being a weakling like all these weaklings who were afraid to represent Trump," Giuliani said.
In June 2021, a New York court ruling on his suspension found that while fighting Trump's case, Giuliani made "demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers, and the public at large."
A month later, a US appeals court also suspended Giuliani in Washington.
Then came the July 2023 recommendation that Giuliani be disbarred, which will go to the DC Court of Appeals for a final decision.
Despite predicting on Sunday that he'd lose, Giuliani appeared defiant.
He criticized his defamation trial in Georgia, in which a federal jury ruled that Giuliani must pay $148 million to two election workers he defamed.
"And these DAs and people prosecuting me are headhunters," said Giuliani, who declared bankruptcy in December after the defamation ruling in Georgia.
Giuliani also faces a criminal case in Georgia, in which Fulton County DA Fani Willis included him as a defendant in her election interference racketeering case. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In a statement to Business Insider, a spokesperson for Giuliani said the former mayor "hasn't had the opportunity to defend himself on the facts with regards to the case in Washington, D.C. and the ridiculous $148 million judgement."
"Many in the media continue to miss the story here, which unfortunately shouldn't surprise anyone," the spokesperson added. "We look forward to the appeal, and an opportunity to restore our broken system of justice."
Unacceptable! This moron needs his platform and ability to speak to mass audiences removed immediately.
Keith Olbermann says there's 'always the hope' Trump is assassinated
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has sparked fury after saying there's 'always the hope' Donald Trump will be assassinated. Olbermann, a longtime media figure in sports and progressive politics, now hosts a podcast and frequently posts his takes on the social media platform.
The ex-SportsCenter host, 65, was reacting to a video posted by a Biden-Harris campaign account where Trump spoke about how he was like former President Abraham Lincoln at an Ohio rally Saturday. Trump commented on how Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were the presidents treated worst in their time, adding 'nobody comes close to Trump' which led the account to point out the Lincoln was assassinated. 'There's always the hope,' Olbermann said.
Many reacted to his comments with rage and a suggestion that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown anchor from the site. 'This account should be permanently suspended,' wrote one. 'Wish of harm is against terms of service of X,' added another.
Keith Olbermann says there's 'always the hope' Trump is assassinated
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has sparked fury after saying there's 'always the hope' Donald Trump will be assassinated. Olbermann, a longtime media figure in sports and progressive politics, now hosts a podcast and frequently posts his takes on the social media platform.
The ex-SportsCenter host, 65, was reacting to a video posted by a Biden-Harris campaign account where Trump spoke about how he was like former President Abraham Lincoln at an Ohio rally Saturday. Trump commented on how Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were the presidents treated worst in their time, adding 'nobody comes close to Trump' which led the account to point out the Lincoln was assassinated. 'There's always the hope,' Olbermann said.
Many reacted to his comments with rage and a suggestion that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown anchor from the site. 'This account should be permanently suspended,' wrote one. 'Wish of harm is against terms of service of X,' added another.
