An actual quote:
""It is cruel and disrespectful for federal employees to be forced to justify their job duties" - @AFGENational
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The full quote is:
"It is cruel and disrespectful for federal employees to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life"
foxnews.com/politics/elon-β¦
I noticed a familiar face in the crowd behind Senator JD Vance at his rally last night in Derry, N.H.: The woman with short hair and a red hooded shirt is Kirstyn A. Niemela of Hudson, N.H., who was convicted for joining the crowd that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.π§΅
Trump has said he'll pardon J6 defendants, so I don't think anyone expects the campaign to exclude them (1,200+ people) from rallies.
Still, the history that created this frame is noteworthy.
Pence was heckled at the August 2023 event, where he said, "I stood loyally by President Trump every single day ... until the day came that my oath to the Constitution required me to do otherwise."
I met Niemela in August 2023, when Mike Pence held a town hall in Londonderry. Niemela brought this sign & told me she was headed to prison because Pence was "a traitor" who went along with certifying the 2020 election results.
Liberty University Chief Information Officer John Gauger, who owns the IT firm RedFinch Solutions, tried to rig online polls in Trumpβs favor, WSJ reports.
cc @LibertyU, @JerryFalwellJr, and all evangelicals everywhere
Michael Cohen hired an IT firm to rig early CNBC, Drudge polls in favor of Trump. The contractor says he got much less than the $50,000 promised. on.wsj.com/2FFBtgf
Collins credited Sen. Todd Young of Indiana with positioning himself to defend her and Murkowski as rioters neared senators inside the Capitol. bangordailynews.com/2021/01/11/opiβ¦
My brain just keeps unfolding in bafflementβalmost as if this guy has never been in a communications job before. π
newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizzβ¦
Don Bolduc, the retired brigadier general who ran for US Senate twice and now serves as a local police officer, recently said he honestly believes the 2020 presidential election "wasn't stolen."
"I played a political game."
concordmonitor.com/Former-Generalβ¦#nhsen#nhpolitics
Love this perspective from @EliotSchrefer on how Floridaβs βDonβt Say Gayβ bill, like other anti-LGBT policies, is built on a false assumption of unnaturalness.
The number of animal species with confirmed substantial same-sex sexual behaviors, a recent study in the journal Nature reports, is 1,500 and growing. usatoday.com/story/opinion/β¦
"Complex crimes can be difficult to prove, but ham-handed efforts to intimidate witnesses or conceal documents can be comparatively simple," writes @BarbMcQuade on the latest developments in Trump's stash of records at Mar-a-Lago. usatoday.com/story/opinion/β¦@usatodayopinion