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… Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Russia is rejecting the peace deal being proposed by Trump: “We are not happy with the proposals made by members of the Trump team.”
… Trump promised repeatedly to have a peace deal done within 24 hours of taking office and “everyone will be happy.” Tick Tock.
… Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes said he is preparing to sue DOJ after Trump pardons him. Rhodes is currently serving an 18 year sentence for seditious conspiracy as one of the leading organizers of the insurrection on J6. Although Trump has not commented on Rhodes’s case specifically, he has promised to pardon J6ers as soon as he takes office.
… Rhodes told the Washington Times: “If Trump pardons me, I would love to sue DOJ for a 1983 claim. That’s a potential violation of civil rights. That’s false imprisonment. I was sent a letter by the VA letting me know from now on all my veteran’s benefits have been stripped and I’m no longer eligible to be buried in a veteran’s graveyard. That’s a horrific insult to me as a veteran. The harm done to us is next level. This conspiracy was all because of who we were, not because of what we did.”
… A unanimous jury and a judge disagreed with the former Yale Law School graduate.
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… Matthew Graves, the US Attorney for DC who prosecuted the vast majority of J6 defendants, announced his resignation effective January 16. Graves is very high on the list of people MAGA has singled out for their Vengeance and Retribution Tour.
… Rep. Andy Biggs on Graves’s resignation: “The Swamp knows that justice is coming.”
… Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, the Den Mother of the Deplorables, has put a gag order on Trump nominees, saying that she doesn’t want to see much of them on TV or social media from now until they are confirmed: “While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself. Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel.”
… They have been pretty quiet the last few days.
… I also think Team Trump doesn’t want any of them asked about the recent H-1B controversy between MAGA and Musk.
… Team Trump would be lost without Wiles. She used to work for Desantis but he fired her right before he announced he was running for president because his wife Casey reportedly didn’t like Wiles. Trump hired her 5 minutes later. BIG mistake by Desantis.
… The NYT is reporting that Elon Musk has been renting a “cottage” at Mar-a-Lago for $2,000 a night so he can be close to Trump at all times.
… After letting Mike Johnson twist in the wind for weeks after the CR fiasco, Trump finally endorsed him for Speaker today after trashing previous Speaker Kevin McCarthy yesterday and making it clear that he wasn’t entirely happy with the job MAGA Mike has been doing up to this point.
… Trump: “LETS NOT BLOW THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHICH WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN. Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!!!”
… It is pretty clear right now that Trump’s main priority is having people in key spots who are 100% loyal, will do whatever he wants, and will never complain about anything he does. Despite Johnson’s fecklessness, Trump likely figures that he owns him and owning a Speaker is very useful to him heading into 2025.
… Of course, the only problem for Johnson and Trump is, will all the House Republicans go along with his endorsement? The majority is so slim that if only 3 Republicans vote against Johnson, Democrats could end up electing a Speaker. And there has been more than 3 who have consistently said that they have had enough of MAGA Mike.
… House Reps who have trashed Johnson recently include: Andy Biggs, Andy Harris, Ralph Norman, Scott Perry, Lauren Boebert, Michael Cloud, Victoria Spartz, Greg Steube, Eli Crane, Andrew Clyde, Eric Burlison, Tim Burchett, Kevin Hern, Andy Ogles, Thomas Massie, Chip Roy.
… The big question is, how many of them will fall in line and back Johnson after Trump’s endorsement? I’ve been watching that group throughout the day since Trump made his announcement this morning. Here’s what we have so far:
MASSIE - “I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan. We’ve seen Johnson partner with the democrats to send money to Ukraine, authorize spying on Americans, and blow the budget.”
More Massie: “For months Democrats ignored the fact that Joe Biden was a potato. They convinced themselves that keeping him around was the pragmatic way to win the day. Too late did they admit the emperor had no clothes. Republicans are doing the same thing by keeping Speaker Johnson.”
BIGGS - “I haven’t publicly or privately committed yet. I do want to speak with the Speaker just to see what his plans are, because there are some issues that I think we need to work out.”
HARRIS - He said that he has been assured that Johnson had been put on notice to “stop making backroom deals with Hakeem Jeffries’ or he will be removed after he is elected.
PERRY - Perry has been silent today. This is what he said yesterday before Trump’s announcement: “What members are seeking is what they think is best for the country, and they don’t see, in some cases, where Speaker Johnson has led us to a place where we can claim we have achieved that.”
HERN - “We’ll see what transpires.”
BOEBERT - “There has been a lot of conversation going on and that’s fine - MAGA are the winners and we need to set our governing agenda. Nothing wrong with healthy debate, but I sure hope we’re all ready to WIN now!”
SPARTZ - “I understand why President Trump is endorsing Speaker Johnson as he did Speaker Ryan. However, we still need to get assurances that Speaker Johnson won’t sell us out to the swamp. Donald Trump endorsed Paul Ryan and John McCain. Trump will be able to save America only if we have a speaker with courage, vision and a plan, which I have not seen from our current Speaker despite countless discussions and public promises.”
STEUBE - He emailed a poll to his constituents: “Dear Floridian, Do you think Mike Johnson should remain House Speaker?”
CLOUD - “We have no comment on the Speaker’s race at this time.”
CLYDE - Nothing from Clyde.
BURCHETT - “Mike Johnson is a fine Christian man. And he doesn’t cheat on his wife. And I find that very appealing.” But then he said he hadn’t made up his mind yet still. He also loves Trump.
ROY - From Politico: “CHIP ROY is conducting a temperature check to determine the viability of Rep. JIM JORDAN and other possible candidates if MIKE JOHNSON is unable to secure another term with the speaker’s gavel.” (Jordan already said he won’t do it. He would never cross Trump).
… James Comer: “We have 5 Republicans that won’t commit to voting for Mike Johnson - and he can only lose one or two votes. It’s terrible. I strongly encourage Trump to get on the phone with those 5-6 members.”
… Rep. Mike Lawler: “The fact is these folks are playing with fire. And if they think they’re somehow going to get a more conservative Speaker, they’re kidding themselves.”
… Elon Musk to Johnson: “You have my full support!”
… The 43-year-old son of GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer was sentenced to 28 years for killing an officer in a 100mph meth-fueled chase after escaping a hospital and stealing his mom's car. Cramer has frequently attacked President Biden by invoking his son, Hunter.
… Laura Loomer was back on Steve Bannon’s show today and was on fire, laying out the case for MAGA on the many reasons why they shouldn’t trust Musk, Vivek, Sacks, or their Tech Bro friends: “Techno feudalism is the greatest threat to humanity. I really hope MAGA wakes up to this before it’s too late.”
… Loomer: “What’s it going to mean for the incoming Trump Admin if we have a bunch of technocrats, who are also essentially welfare queens because their companies are receiving government subsidies, and they want to take over our defense industry. You have a bunch of tech bros with billions of dollars and direct unfettered access to the president and VP, who are also very cordial with our adversaries - China, Iran. Musk is having meetings off the books with Iranian and Chinese officials. What does that mean for us and the future of our constitutional republic?
… Call me crazy, but Loomer is making a lot of sense.
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… Bannon: “Elon, instead of calling us racist and claiming you’ll root us out of the Republican party - we’re getting H1B visas out, root and stem, and deporting the workers you brought in. Those jobs belong to American citizens, and we demand reparations. You stole their lives.”
… Reparations!
… More Bannon: “Here’s our position - you’re not going to reform the H1B visa program—we’re shutting it down. If Musk’s priority was DOGE for America First/American citizens first, this would top of his list. But it’s not, because I believe his agenda is to become the first trillionaire.”
… The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the judgment that E. Jean Carroll got against Trump after trial. From the decision: “The jury could reasonably infer from the testimony and the Access Hollywood tape that Trump engaged in similar conduct with other women - a pattern of abrupt, nonconsensual, and physical advances on women he barely knew.”
… But ABC settled the Stephanopolous case.
… Matt Gaetz: “I cannot believe the appeals court didn’t throw out this E. Jean Carroll verdict. OUTRAGEOUS! They allowed illegitimate witnesses to testify to prejudice the jury. HORRIBLE!”
… Trump’s former NSA Robert O’Brien went on Fox and argued that we should take over Greenland because of climate change, which Trump and MAGA say is a hoax: “Greenland is a highway from the Arctic all the way to North America, to the United States. It's strategically very important to the Arctic which is going to be the critical battleground of the future because as the climate gets warmer it is going to be a pathway. Maybe it cuts down on the use of the Panama Canal.”
… Unhinged O’Brien then said if Denmark won’t put more troops and weapons systems into Greenland “then they can pay us to do it. Or if they don’t want to do either of those things they can let us buy Greenland from them and let them become part of Alaska. The native people of Greenland are very closely related to the people ...
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