Ted Cruz caught on tape plotting to Overturn the 2020 Election

Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on new tape recordings of Sen. Ted Cruz and Fox’s Maria Bartiromo. Cruz is caught pushing a fake “commission” to steal the 2020 election and outlining his plot just four days prior to January 6th, 2021.

Audio bombshell: Hear Ted Cruz on tape plotting before Jan. 6

“The Cruz tapes,” first reported on “The Beat,” put new heat on GOP Senator Ted Cruz and reveal his plot to steal the 2020 election before January 6. The Washington Post reporting the tapes shed “new light on scope of Cruz’s scheming to assist Trump in overturning Biden’s victory.” Cruz admitting the tapes reflect his plan in his response to “The Beat’s” report. Former RNC Chair Michael Steele joins MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber on “The Beat.”
 

SICK Republican Missouri lawmaker defends 12-year-olds getting married.

Missouri State Sen. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) said on the floor Tuesday that he knew at least one person who got married at 12 years old and followed up with a comment of “Guess what, they’re still married.” State Rep. Aaron Crosley (D-Independence) brought forth attention to Moon’s remarks via Twitter, sharing a video of the floor debate late Wednesday that was largely met with criticism among viewers.

Republican Lawmaker Defends Marriages For 12 Year Old Girls

A Republican state senator from Missouri is on the defensive after he voted AGAINST a measure that would have outlawed adults marrying children (pre-teens, to be exact) and then he doubled down saying that he knows a woman that was married at 12 and she seems to be happy. These are the real groomers in our society.

Republican Appointed Right Wing Judges / Justices who Lied Under Oath to get they’re seats should be IMPEACHED and REMOVED

Sen. Whitehouse Exposes Right Wing Republican “Justices” who LIED Under Oath to Get They’re Seats

Radical Right Wing Extremist Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk appointed by Republican Trump, who banned the Abortion Pill (Mifepristone) stated in his Senate confirmation that it’s “Inappropriate for Religion to Influence Decisions”.

His banning the Abortion Pill lends credence that he LIED to get his Lifetime position due to his documented Radical Right Wing beliefs.

“First Liberty, where Kacsmaryk worked from 2014 to 2019 before joining the bench, has become one of the most influential groups for pushing for religious beliefs and institutions to exercise greater influence over public policy. First Liberty calls itself “the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty for all Americans.” Some of its most famous cases include that of Melissa and Aaron Klein, who, citing their religious beliefs, refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, and that of the Bladensburg Peace Cross, a World War I memorial in Maryland, the public maintenance of which was challenged as unconstitutional because it “excessively entangled the government in religion.”

His fervent opposition to abortion arose as an issue during his confirmation hearings in 2019, as did his staunch opposition to same-sex marriage and his previous statement that transgender Americans were “delusional.” He isn’t a fan of birth control either: in 2015, as deputy general counsel for a Plano-based nonprofit law firm called First Liberty Institute, Kacsmaryk argued in an amicus brief that pharmacies should be prevented from providing contraception. Kacsmaryk’s time on the bench has only reinforced the view that he is an activist judge who allows his private beliefs to govern his legal opinions—and it seems that the antiabortion activists who venue-shopped to land the mifepristone suit in his courtroom would agree”.  [source: .texasmonthly.com/news-politics/first-liberty-abortion-pill-lawsuit]

Republican Supreme Court Justices LIED During Their Confirmation Hearings to get their Seats

Republican Appointed “Justices” Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh should removed for Lying Under Oath about Roe V. Wade. Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh should be removed from office for lying under oath about sexual abuse of women.

They’ve proven to be political activists determined to force their Anti-Abortion beliefs down American’s Throats.

Republican Supreme Court nominees learned not to tell the truth about their Roe v. Wade opinions after Reagan nominee Robert Bork told the truth and lost his confirmation hearing vote 42-58 in 1987

Republican Appointed “Justices” LIED

Lawrence O’Donnell details the years of lying and hypocrisy from Republicans and Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices on abortion rights.

Samuel Alito’s Draft Opinion Quotes A Man Who Believed In Witches

With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell takes a look at the reasoning behind Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion and explains how it is the result of minority rule in America.

Brett Kavanaugh LIED Under Oath

Amy Coney Barrett Caught Lying To Senate?

The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court after being accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill while working at the EEOC, it’s time to take the idea of impeachment seriously.

Lillian McEwen breaks her 19-year silence about Justice Clarence Thomas

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Lillian McEwen breaks her 19-year silence about Justice Clarence Thomas

In the above article, ex girlfriend Lillian McEwen stated “He was obsessed with porn.” “He would talk about what he had seen in magazines and films, if there was something worth noting.”

McEwen also said that the conservative Thomas was constantly on the make at work. “He was always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they could be potential partners,” said McEwen. “It was a hobby of his.” She added that he once told her he had asked a woman at work what her bra size was.

Lying Under Oath Could be Grounds for Removal from Office

If McEwen’s accusations are true, that would collaborate Anita Hill’s testimony and prove that Clarence Thomas lied to the Senate, committed perjury, engaged in Sexual Harassment and should be removed as a Justice of the Supreme Court.

Ex-Federal Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner discusses how Judges can be removed without an impeachment vote by the Senate if they lied under oath.

Republicans are Anti-Democratic Fascist “Control Freaks” who want BIG GOVERNMENT to control every aspect of people’s lives… what women can do with their own bodies, anti-choice Laws against Women’s Rights which Bans Abortions after 6 weeks with NO EXCEPTION for Rape or Incest, force 10 yr/old girls to carry and give Birth to a RAPIST CHILD, $10,000 Bounties on anyone who helps a women get an Abortion, what can be read in schools, what can be discussed in classrooms, Anti-Protesting Laws to silence anyone who dare protest and raise objections to Republican’s oppression, what can be written on the Internet on Blogs, attacking freedom of speech with laws making it easier to SUE when you speak out against them and everything else.

Control is now a pillar of the Republican vision

“Control over your body, your self-expression, your gender identity, your children, your family is what the Republican Party has been obsessed with in these last few years, all over the country, in every state where they have political power,” says Chris Hayes.

Here’s a list of the some of the ways these Anti-Democratic, Anti-Freedom FASCIST REPUBLICANS are attempting to control people;

• Dystopian Laws Attacking Freedom of Speech to SILENCE & SUE Critics
• Culture Wars and “Woke” BULLSHIT
• Anti-choice Laws against Women’s Rights which Bans Abortions after 6 weeks with NO EXCEPTION for Rape or Incest. Force 10 yr/old girls to carry and give Birth to a RAPIST CHILD, $10,000 Bounties on anyone who helps a women get an Abortion. Proposed South Caroline law could sentence a woman to DEATH for having an abortion.
• Anti-Science Republican Partisan Judge BANS Abortion Pill (Mifepristone) because he’s PERSONALLY against abortions.
• Republican Ruled Idaho passed law to BAN interstate travel for abortions
• Transgender athlete discrimination Laws
• Florida Senate Bill 254 would allow the state to take Trans children receiving gender-affirming care away from Parents
• Laws limiting what can be discussed in classrooms… Limiting what Teachers can Teach, Say and what can be discussed,
• Law requiring Colleges Students and Faculty submit to Political Beliefs Surveys
• Teachers must withhold classroom library books until they can be individually reviewed for certification or face being charged with a third-degree felony if violated.
• DeSantis Hostile Takeover of Liberal New College of Florida is following the playbook of Fascist Autocrat Dictator of Hungary Viktor Orban by taking control of Education
• Teachers must withhold classroom library books until they can be individually reviewed for certification in the wake of a new law, House Bill 1467, which can result in a third-degree felony if violated.
• Indoctrinate Educators with Radical Right Wing Ideology. (Per news reports) Encouraged by DeSantis, Christian nationalist values and an “originalist” interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is now being taught in Florida Schools.
• Florida HB 999 Republican plan to restrict the way history is taught at Florida’s colleges and universities is receiving outcry from academics & historians across the U.S. (Another example of Fascist, Authoritarian policies).
• DeSantis has publicly called for putting cameras and microphones into classrooms to monitor teachers. He wants more surveillance in every part of our lives, empowering legislators to police classrooms, doctor’s offices, the workplace.
• Voting Police to intimidate people so they’re afraid to vote in Florida
• Florida Employees Threatened With Demotions If They Criticize DeSantis
• Florida ‘Bloggers Bill’ which would require anyone who writes about Florida Republicans and DeSantis to register with the state and put on an ‘enemies list’. This is another BLATANT violation of the 1st Amendment and attempt to SILENCE critics. This is the same Anti-Democratic, Fascist Authoritarian tactic used by the Nazi German Propaganda Ministry in 1933 called the “Editors Law” and in 2014 by War Criminal Dictator Vladimir Putin, forcing bloggers in Russia to register with the Russian Media office.
• Attacking Freedom of Speech – Bill HB 991 to significantly weaken libel laws. Critics believe this is an attempt to give Ron DeSantis even more power to sue his critics for saying things he doesn’t like. Bill 991 also gives Florida residents the right to sue others (both in the state or elsewhere in the U.S.) who describe their actions online as transphobic or homophobic, for $35,000 and would not allow the truth to be used in defenses against such lawsuits.
• “Don’t say Gay” Law limiting what can be discussed in classrooms. This Law which doesn’t fix any existing problems, it’s a “Solution in Search of a Problem” and unnecessary BIG Government regulations & restrictions which makes teachers jobs more difficult.
• Retaliated against Disney for exercising their First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech, stripping Disney of 50+ years self-governing authority after Disney stated opposition to the ‘Don’t say Gay’ law which limits discussing LGBTQ issues in schools.
• Retaliated against the Tampa Bay Rays by blocking state money for training facility after the team exercised their First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech by tweeting against gun violence
• Florida Police raided the home of former Covid-19 Scientist Rebekah Jones after her data contradicted DeSantis’ Covid Data claims.
• Anti-Protesting Laws making protesting a felony & allowing protestors can be run over & killed with no consequences. This law was passed to silence and intimidate anyone who dare protest and raise objections to Republican’s oppression (similar to Russia and North Korea)
• Bill to eliminate the Democrat Party in the State of Florida, thereby creating One Party Rule is similar to how dictator Victor Orbán took over the once Democratic government in Hungary
• Felons Victimized by Republicans and DeSantis “Voter Fraud Crackdown”. Per an article at commondreams.org, “Most who were arrested were approved by the Florida Department of Elections, which sent their voter registration cards ahead of the 2020 elections. All were charged with third-degree felony voter fraud, a crime punishable by as many as five years behind bars and up to a $5,000 fine. The ACLU of Florida stated, “The arrests are a grotesque abuse of power by Gov. DeSantis”.
• Using Migrants as Props. Per an article at theguardian.com, “DeSantis should be prosecuted for his treatment of immigrants. Those conspiring with him appear to have acted criminally under Texas law. Title 5, section 20 of the Texas penal code defines the crime of unlawful restraint. Under the statute, a person is restrained if their movement is restricted without their consent by, among other means, moving the person from one place to another. Restraint is without consent “if it is accompanied … by deception”. Under the statute, the violation is a class A misdemeanor, unless the person restrained is younger than 17, in which case it is a felony. According to reporting, there were children among those criminally transported to Martha’s Vineyard”.
• DeSantis wants his own State Militia which would only answer to him and “not be encumbered to the federal government.”
• Florida Republican Governor DeSantis fought for and was given the authority to redraw Congressional districts to rig elections in Republican’s favor. This resulted in House Seats being stolen from Democrats. Another example of how Republicans know they can’t win elections unless they CHEAT because their policies are UNPOPULAR.

Republicans in Your Bedroom

Republicans War on Women

Republicans in Classrooms

Republicans Threatening Teachers

Republicans Censuring Books

Republicans Threatening Freedom of Speech by Punishing Businesses Which Express Opinions They Don’t Like

Republicans War on Voting

Republican Discrimination Laws Against LGBT

Rural Americans are losing Hospitals due to voting for Republicans who are rejecting federal funds to expand medicaid

House Republicans prove they’re LAWLESS Pro-Insurrectionist and sympathizers by calling Insurrectionist “Political Hostages” and visiting them in Jail

“Terrorist supporter Stefanik’: Top Trump ally sparks outrage by taking Big Lie to next level

Rep. Elise Stefanik refused to commit to certifying this year’s election results Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ “Donald Trump has an endless stable of lackeys shamelessly willing to spread his MAGA propaganda, including members of the Republican leadership in Congress,” Joy Reid opines on this development.\

‘Dangerous for democracy’ – Rep. Stefanik’s audition to be in a future Trump administration

Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security and Claire McCaskill, former Senator from Missouri join Ali Velshi in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline

Steve Schmidt breaks down the dangerous rhetoric of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, and how it resembles the language of Donald Trump and other fascists.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Republican lawmakers toured a jail in Washington, D.C., where January 6 defendants are being held.

‘Disturbing:’ Lofgren hits MTG for plan to visit jailed Jan. 6 defendants

Rep. Zoe Lofgren: “I do think the adherence to the mob is disturbing. My colleague Ms. Greene should know that the majority of the Jan. 6 defendants in the D.C. jail have been charged with or convicted of violent assaults on Capitol police. That’s not something we should be celebrating. It’s really disgraceful.”

Rep. Crockett disputes Marjorie Taylor Greene on Jan. 6 defendant mistreatment

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claims of Jan. 6 defendant mistreatment are disputed by Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who observed the visit of Republicans to the jail holding accused January 6th criminals on Friday. “This was an excuse for Marjorie Taylor Greene to have another press conference”

Members of House Oversight Committee tour Washington jail holding Jan. 6 defendants

On Friday, members of the House Oversight Committee are scheduled to tour a jail in Washington where defendants charged with crimes related to the January 6 insurrection are being held. Committee member Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s criticized the detainment of the January 6 defendants calling for their release tweeting, will lead the group calling it a “bipartisan delegation.” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), one of two Democratic members of Congress who will also take part in the visit, joins Morning Joe to discuss.

David Jolly accuses Kevin McCarthy of being pro-insurrectionist

Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has requested testimony from two former prosecutors who were previously involved in the investigation into the alleged hush-money payments from Donald Trump to Stormy Daniels. This comes after Jordan, along with two other Republican committee chairs, sent a letter to District Attorney Alvin Bragg earlier this week demanding that he testify about his investigation. We examine more Republican activities that have ensued since the GOP took the House, as Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly preparing to meet with jailed Jan. 6 suspects

Michael Steele to today’s GOP: ‘What the hell is wrong with you?’

Michael Steele: “There it is, the modern Republican Party in a nutshell: Reading MAGA B.S. to your kids while taking Rosa Parks out of the school libraries.”

Thom Hartmann exposes how Ronald Reagan used U.S. Embassy Hostages in Iran to Steal 1980 Election and history of GOP Presidents committing treason to take the White House.

A video trip down memory lane shows how Trump Republicans of 2020 are as lawless as Nixon Republicans from 1972

The Past 5 Elected GOP Presidents (except for Ford) have used unethical, unscrupulous tactics to obtain the Presidency

People are wondering about the parallels between today’s Republican Party, organized crime, and whether “Teflon Don” Trump will remain unscathed through his many scandals, ranging from interactions with foreign oligarchs to killing tens of thousands of Americans by denying them healthcare to stepping up the destruction of our environment and public lands.

History suggests, even if treason can be demonstrated that, as long as he holds onto the Republican Party (and Fox News), he’ll survive it intact. And he won’t be the first Republican president to commit high crimes to get and stay in office.

In fact, Eisenhower was the last legitimately elected Republican president we’ve had in this country.

Since Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961, six different Republicans have occupied the Oval Office.

As explained in the info & videos on this page, every one of them (except for Ford) from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump used unethical, unscrupulous tactics to obtain the presidency.

Nixon records show that in 1968, as a presidential candidate, he used Anna Chennault as his liaison in Vietnam, to persuade them to refuse a cease-fire being brokered by President Lyndon Johnson. This was done to hurt Democratic Presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey and help Nixon.

Johnson was livid. He even called the Republican Senate Minority Leader, Everett Dirksen to complain that “they oughtn’t be doing this. This is treason.” “I know,” was Dirksen’s feeble reply.

This treason cost the lives of many service men. To him, getting re-elected was more important. I’ll never understand why Johnson (who I’m no fan of) didn’t out Nixon as he should of for his treason and costing the lives of our troops.

No Legitimate Republican President Since Eisenhower p2

(Part 2 of 3) Thom Hartmann talks about how Ronald Reagan stole the 1980 presidential election by secretly arranging for American hostages to remain in Iran until after he was sworn in as president.

We Haven’t Had a Legitimate Republican President Since Eisenhower in the 50s, Here’s Why

Thom talks about the past several republican presidents who have all essentially cheated to get into office. Also Thom covers some of the news stories of the day.

The Corruption of the Republican Party

The GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start.

Per the above article; “Why has the Republican Party become so thoroughly corrupt? The reason is historical—it goes back many decades—and, in a way, philosophical. The party is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start”.

“The corruption I mean has less to do with individual perfidy than institutional depravity. It isn’t an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isn’t about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of power—power as an end in itself, justifying almost any means. Political corruption usually trails financial scandals in its wake—the foam is scummy with self-dealing—but it’s far more dangerous than graft. There are legal remedies for Duncan Hunter, a representative from California, who will stand trial next year for using campaign funds to pay for family luxuries.* But there’s no obvious remedy for what the state legislatures of Wisconsin and Michigan, following the example of North Carolina in 2016, are now doing”.

“Republican majorities are rushing to pass laws that strip away the legitimate powers of newly elected Democratic governors while defeated or outgoing Republican incumbents are still around to sign the bills. Even if the courts overturn some of these power grabs, as they have in North Carolina, Republicans will remain securely entrenched in the legislative majority through their own hyper-gerrymandering—in Wisconsin last month, 54 percent of the total votes cast for major-party candidates gave Democrats just 36 of 99 assembly seats—so they will go on passing laws to thwart election results. Nothing can stop these abuses short of an electoral landslide. In Wisconsin, a purple state, that means close to 60 percent of the total vote”.

The fact that no plausible election outcome can check the abuse of power is what makes political corruption so dangerous. It strikes at the heart of democracy. It destroys the compact between the people and the government. In rendering voters voiceless, it pushes everyone closer to the use of undemocratic means.

“Today’s Republican Party has cornered itself with a base of ever older, whiter, more male, more rural, more conservative voters. Demography can take a long time to change—longer than in progressives’ dreams—but it isn’t on the Republicans’ side. They could have tried to expand; instead, they’ve hardened and walled themselves off. This is why, while voter fraud knows no party, only the Republican Party wildly overstates the risk so that it can pass laws (including right now in Wisconsin, with a bill that reduces early voting) to limit the franchise in ways that have a disparate partisan impact. This is why, when some Democrats in the New Jersey legislature proposed to enshrine gerrymandering in the state constitution, other Democrats, in New Jersey and around the country, objected”.

“Taking away democratic rights—extreme gerrymandering; blocking an elected president from nominating a Supreme Court justice; selectively paring voting rolls and polling places; creating spurious anti-fraud commissions; misusing the census to undercount the opposition; calling lame-duck legislative sessions to pass laws against the will of the voters—is the Republican Party’s main political strategy, and will be for years to come”.

Full article at; theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-republican-party-get-so-corrupt/578095/

The above video explains how personal attorney / fixer Michael Cohen paid “hush money” to porn star Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 Presidential Election on Trump’s behalf which NY prosecutors claim is a Campaign Finance Violation.  Fixer Michael Cohen served over 1 year in prison for being a co-conspirator for this offense.

This has nothing to do with Politics. This is about violating Campaign Finance laws.

Trump could be indicted under New Your State Law for a hush money payment Cohen arranged to porn actress Stormy Daniels on Trump’s behalf days before the 2016 presidential election.

The New York hush-money probe of Donald Trump explained

More than six years after Donald Trump’s lawyer paid off a porn star, New York prosecutors appear to be close to deciding whether the former president should face charges in connection with that payoff.

Per the above article: “In the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s lawyer tried to buy the silence of a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with the Republican during his days as a reality TV star. More than six years later, New York prosecutors appear to be close to deciding whether Trump should face charges in connection with that payoff, in what could become the first criminal case ever brought against a former president”.

The investigation centers on hush-money payments made in 2016 to two women who alleged that they had extramarital encounters with Trump, who has denied their accounts of his infidelity.

HOW WERE THE PAYMENTS MADE?

Cohen paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 through a shell company Cohen set up. He was then reimbursed by Trump, whose company logged the reimbursements as legal expenses.

Earlier in 2016, Cohen also arranged for former Playboy model Karen McDougal to be paid $150,000 by the publisher of the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer, which squelched her story in a journalistically dubious practice known as “catch-and-kill.”

Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, “grossed up” Cohen’s reimbursement for the Daniels payment for “tax purposes,” according to federal prosecutors who filed criminal charges against the lawyer in connection with the payments in 2018″.

McCarthy & Jordan attempt to shut down NY DA Alvin Bragg’s criminal investigation of Donald Trump.

In a dramatic and transparent abuse of power, Representatives Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan and others attempt to interfere in New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal investigation of Donald Trump. This represents a gross abuse of congressional power, a potential violation of the 10th Amendment (as this is NOT a power delegated to the federal government), and it may also constitute the crime of obstruction of justice. But we can expect more of this abuse of power by McCarthy and company if law enforcement authorities decline to hold McCarthy and Jordan accountable for these abuses.

DESPICABLE Oklahoma Republicans Vote Down Bill To Outlaw Abuse Of Disabled School Students

Republicans in Oklahoma were given the chance this week to pass a law that would prohibit schools from engaging in corporal punishment of disabled students, but they just couldn’t bring themselves to ban the practice for the most vulnerable students. 43 Republicans in the state legislature voted against the measure, showing that they are perfectly fine with allowing these students to be beaten by administrators.

Trump and Republicans passed a law which removed regulations causing the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

Chris Hayes rips GOP for blaming SVB collapse on ‘wokeness’

“The Trump-aligned Republican Party has to come up with some sort of cover story that papers over this inherent ideological contradiction,” says Chris Hayes. “They landed on a truly, comically preposterous one: Folks, we’ve got an outbreak of woke banks.”

FOX Tucker Carlson & Republicans have been attempting rewrite January 6 History of the Capital Riots and Insurrection to overturn the 2020 election

Former lead investigator of January 6 committee speaks out on Tucker Carlson video

Former lead investigator of the January 6 committee, Timothy Heaphy, speaks out on Tucker Carlson’s exclusive Jan 6 video, and says there was no evidence of Antifa involvement in the Capitol attack, which was consistent with what the U.S. intelligence investigation showed.