First up, Katie Phang.
Chump continues to refuse to follow the law. He's breaking the law. He's breaking the law. He's a crook. A convicted crook and if you voted for him in 2024, shame on you.
I thought he gave away what brand eyeliner JD uses. Maybe it's Maybelline?
Wednesday, January 14, 2025 In Michigan Chump gets called out for
being a pedo protector, he and his administration continue to attack
the late Renee Nicole Good despite polling demonstrating that Americans
side with her and not with the government that killed her, whispers
mount saying that AG Pam da Bimbo Bondi is on the way out, and much
more.
Let's start with the woman
killed by the US government last week. The US government murdered Renee
Nicole Good on January 7th in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a man with years of
training in using a firearm and who provided training to others ("
a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor"),
shot and killed the mother of three who was unarmed. Ross, apparently
needing to make social content while on the clock, filmed her and when
the video was released, the world saw that her last words to him were, "
I'm not mad at you." By contrast, he or one of his fellow agents immediately called Renee a "
f**king bitch"
after plugged her with three bullets. The federal government
immediately began attacking Good -- even though they should be stating
"I can't comment on an ongoing federal investigation."
Instead, as NPR's Martin Kaste observed on January 9th, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED,
"And I think what's not
normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing
judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just
today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a
device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It
shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance
called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems
to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the
evidence means." Fat and little Vice president JD Vance is a
professional troll but his efforts this time are especially outrageous.
John Grosso (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) observed:
Yesterday (Jan. 7), 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a
residential Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and an U.S. citizen.
Today, JD Vance has taken to social media to justify the shooting and blame Good for her own death.
Though the full circumstances of the situation are still coming to
light, widely available video evidence shows the horrific moments
before, during and after shots were fired into Good's car. Videos of the
shooting and the ensuing aftermath are graphic and disturbing. After
Good was shot, her car accelerates, slamming into another car and a
pole. In one video, a person can be heard identifying themselves as a physician and offering to help only to be angrily denied by an unidentified ICE agent saying: "I don't care."
The Trump administration was quick to demonize Good. Within hours of
the event and before a formal investigation could even be launched,
Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem labeled Good's actions as an "act
of domestic terrorism." President Donald Trump on Jan. 7 labeled
her as "disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently,
willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Trump went on to say
that the ICE officer was lucky to be alive and "is now recovering in
the hospital."
[. . .]
As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of
gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity,
Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness
of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that
protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which
there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence.
Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.
Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.
The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a
moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His
repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally
incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his
conversion of heart.
Mike's response to Vance's outrageous lies, "As a Catholic, I'm sick of this
little bitch distorting my religion. He needs to be excommunicated.
I'm not joking. He is presenting as a Catholic -- he's been a Catholic
for about five minutes -- and he is distorting our beliefs and our
teaching. Two popes have repudiated him -- Pope Francis and now Pope
Leo. Excommunicate Vance, don't let him speak for the Church or pose as
a Catholic. Whatever crap he was raised before distorted his damn
mind. We cannot allow him to pervert the Catholic faith."
At AMERICA: THE JESUIT REVIEW, James T. Keane writes:
After Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in her minivan by an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7,
Vice President JD Vance called her murder “a tragedy of her own making”
and claimed that Ms. Good, a community activist and a mother of three,
was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault
and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.”
Mr. Vance claimed further that Ms. Good “viciously ran over the ICE
officer” who shot and killed her, an assertion contradicted by video evidence taken from multiple angles.
Why the obvious lie? Because, similar to Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr.
Haig, Mr. Vance recognizes the potential for this atrocity to turn
American public opinion against President Trump’s brutal campaign
against undocumented immigrants, particularly because Ms. Good is an
American citizen, was apparently denied medical assistance by ICE agents
after the shooting and, according to the video evidence, posed no real
threat to the shooter. Not even the most fervent supporter of the arrest
and deportation of undocumented migrants, one assumes, would defend
such Gestapo-like tactics.
The answer? Blame Ms. Good for her own murder.
Mr. Vance’s boss, President Trump, has engaged in further deceit and hyperbole in support of that same goal, claiming
that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE
officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” She made for an
easy culprit for a man desperate to justify ICE’s actions. After all,
she was already dead.
The murder of the churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 was not an
isolated incident; they shared the fate of tens of thousands of other
Salvadorans, including Rutilio Grande, S.J., St. Oscar Romero, and the
six Jesuits and two laywomen who were murdered by the Salvadoran
military in 1989 in San Salvador. Eventually, the overwhelming evidence
of these murders became too much for American politicians to justify,
and U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military government dried up. It
just became impossible to believe the lie anymore.
On the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the churchwomen of El Salvador, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., preached at a memorial Mass
in Rome on the impact of their witness. “Theirs, mysteriously but
without doubt, is the triumph because vigorous, courageous acts of
solidarity and compassion persist in dreadful, risky conditions,” he
said. “Brutal claims failed and fail to stop the evangelizing.”
Let us hope the same will happen in Minneapolis. Nothing can bring
Renee Good back; her 6-year-old son is without his mother now, her
partner a widow. The masked man who killed her simply drove away. Nor is
her death an isolated incident: All over the country, we hear and see
more and more examples of violent attacks by masked ICE agents who seem
to face no accountability for their crimes. And we hear the brutal
claims used after the fact to justify them.
How long before it simply becomes impossible to believe the lie anymore?
And
they keep lying. And they keep smearing Renee Nicole Good. Over and
over, multiple times a day. The government just lies. And how's that
going?
Not very well at all.
Tommy Christopher (MEDIAITE) notes, "Americans
favor the filing of criminal charges against U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross for the killing of Renee Nicole
Good — with a whopping 23-point spread between 'yes' and 'no' responses." Christopher explains:
Days
after the shooting, Americans disagreed with Trump and Noem by almost
two-to-one. Respondents to a YouGov poll taken between January 9 and
January 11th uniformly showed opposition to ICE on every question.
Americans were asked, “Do you think the ICE agent should face criminal charges for shooting the woman in Minneapolis?”
Fifty-three
percent answered “yes” versus just 30 percent “no” — including 54% to
23% among independents — with the remainder responding “not sure.”
There
was a similar spread when participants were asked “Do you think the ICE
agent was justified or not justified in the amount of force he used in
shooting the woman in Minneapolis?”
On that question, 53% said “no,” Ross wasn’t justified, to just 28% “yes.”
Elsewhere
in the poll, a stunning 61% said ICE “often” or “sometimes” arrests
immigrants “who are authorized to live in the U.S. and have not
committed immigration or customs violations.”
And
similarly, 60% said that Trump’s ICE agents use “unnecessary physical
force against U.S. citizens who have not committed immigration or
customs violations.”
And
it's not just the public disagreeing with Chump and the other liars in
the administration, it also attorneys with the Justice Dept
Rebecca Morin (USA TODAY) explains, "Joe
Thompson, the acting U.S. Attorney of Minnesota appointed by President
Donald Trump who led a probe that uncovered massive fraud in the state,
has resigned from the position, according to reports. [. . .] The
New York Times reported that Thompson, along with two other federal
prosecutors, resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate
the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE
agent on Jan. 7."
THE TIMES report is by Ernesto Londono (formerly of THE WASHINGTON POST) and he notes:
Six
federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice
Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE
agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter,
according to people with knowledge of their decision.
Joseph
H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office
and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s
political landscape, was among those who quit on Tuesday, according to
three people with knowledge of the decision.
Mr.
Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials
pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of
Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent on
Wednesday.
Mr. Thompson, 47, a career
prosecutor, objected to that approach, as well as to the Justice
Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether
the shooting itself was lawful, the people familiar with his decision
said.
The Minneapolis police chief, Brian
O’Hara, said in an interview that Mr. Thompson’s resignation dealt a
major blow to efforts to root out rampant theft from state agencies. The
fraud cases, which involve schemes to cheat safety net programs, were
the chief reason the Trump administration cited for its immigration
crackdown in the state. The vast majority of defendants charged in the
cases are American citizens of Somali origin.
“When
you lose the leader responsible for making the fraud cases, it tells
you this isn’t really about prosecuting fraud,” Mr. O’Hara said.
The
public sees ICE as having murdered Renee Nicole Good and top prosecutors
see the faux 'investigation' that Chump, Ka$h Patel and Pam Bondi plan
to carry out as a hoax.
Immigration
agents arrested an employee from the New York City Council on Monday
during a routine immigration hearing, according to Speaker Julie Menin.
Menin
said at an emergency press conference that an employee was detained
while attending a routine hearing at immigration offices in Bethpage,
Long Island. The employee was then taken to a local detention center,
where he was given one phone call and chose to call the city council's
human resources department for help, Menin said.
The
Speaker added that she spoke with the local Department of Homeland
Security field office director, who provided no other basis for the
employee being detained other than that he was at an immigration
appointment. Menin said she expressed "extreme frustration" during the
call.
"We are doing everything we can to secure
his immediate release, and we demand swift and transparent action by
the federal government on this apparent overreach," Menin said.
Now
let's circle back to Pam da Bimbo Bondi. Whispers are saying she's
ticked off Donald Chump. At the start of the week it was said of Kristi
Noem. However, despite multiple press reports, I was told that wasn't
accurate so we didn't note those reports. However, I am told that da
Bimbo really is in trouble with Chump.
Graig Graziosi (INDEPENDENT) reports:
President
Donald Trump is reportedly still unhappy with the performance of
Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to a new report.
Trump's
frustration is reportedly an outgrowth of his efforts to pressure the
Justice Department to be more aggressive in its pursuit of his various
priorities, according to the report.
Trump,
79, has also complained that the government’s handling of files on dead
sex predator Jeffrey Epstein has been insufficient, as have her efforts
to try to prove his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from
him.
Some administration
officials said Trump has ramped up his criticisms of Bondi, 60, to get
the Justice Department to move more quickly.
The Justice Department has brought charges against several Trump antagonists, but prosecutors have faced substantial setbacks.
The
government is appealing November’s dismissals of its cases against New
York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey
after a judge ruled that Trump had illegally appointed Lindsey Halligan,
the attorney who obtained those indictments.
Kristi
Noem does exactly what Chump tells her. Pam doesn't. And never has.
He told her to go after James Comey and she wouldn't (because she knew
it could cost her that legal license). He did not like her inviting the
social media crowd and distributing those binders with supposed new
Epstein information. When she then went on to FOX "NEWS" and declared
she had The Epstein List on her desk, he felt she was not serving him
(he only cares about himself, not whether Pam serves the country), he
put her down and stated she was "show boating."
So, yes, Pam is in trouble.
And
she only makes it worse on herself. Today, she was attacking
transgender people and she only ended up bringing The Jeffrey Epstein
scandal back up.
Travis Gettys (RAW STORY) reports on the response she caused:
"Impressive, very nice," posted X user Live Free or Die, using an "American Psycho" meme. "Now let's see the Epstein files."
"You've
NO right to speak on anything law-related," alleged X user Candid
Candor. "You have broken federal law by failing to release all of the
Jeffrey Epstein files, as roughly only 1% have been released. It is now
25 days since the congressionally mandated deadline. You do not belong
in office."
"That's great but still gonna need those Epstein files," said X user thee divine miss m, using an "Office Space" meme.
"Perhaps getting the Epstein files out is actually more important than one percent of our population," suggested X user Cyndie.
"Neat.
When are we going to see corrupt government officials in handcuffs?
Epstein clients? FBI reform?" wondered X user Eight and 3 Nines.
"Epstein files are past due you are breaking the law," said X user Squints.
"What about the EPSTEIN FILES? You are in contempt of court," accused widely followed X user Dede Watson.
Gavin
Newsom was among the many critics of White House Press Secretary
Karoline Leavitt’s wild assertion that Democrats are protecting
pedophiles.
The California governor’s press
office, in a post on X, responded to Leavitt’s comments Monday where she
attacked Democrats for criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
She also once again smeared Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota woman shot
and killed by an ICE agent last week under legally dubious
circumstances.
[We aren't including
Propaganda Pig's attack on a dead woman. It's bad enough that Whore
Leavitt said it and will rot in hell for it, we're not going to add to
it by repeating it. She really is a tacky little slut, isn't she?]
Newsom,
58, honed in on Leavitt’s line about pedophiles, reminding everyone
that the Justice Department has only released a fraction of its files on
Jeffrey Epstein, the dead sex offender who said he was once Trump’s
closest friend, despite the legally mandated deadline of Dec. 19.
“The
Trump Administration has still not complied with Congressional law and
released the Epstein Files … WHY?" he wrote suggestively, as hundreds of
commenters on the Leavitt video expressed a similar sentiment.
“Pedo protector says what now?” the liberal media group Meidas Touch wrote on X, with others also noting the irony.
Pedo Protector! It's what was shouted at Chump yesterday in Michigan when he showed up for a photo op at the Ford factory.
President Trump raised his middle finger
at a heckler who accused him of being a “pedophile protector” while
touring a Ford factory in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday afternoon.
It
was a fleeting interaction that happened while the president was out of
sight of the small group of reporters that travels by his side as part
of the press pool. Footage of the moment, which looked like it was
filmed on a cellphone, appeared on the celebrity gossip website TMZ shortly after Mr. Trump had left the factory.
[. . .]
For once, one topic that did not come up was the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein.
But
as Mr. Trump walked along an upper floor of the factory, one of the men
below began to shout that the president was “a pedophile protector.”
Mr. Trump looked over in the direction of the shouting and twice mouthed
a two-word response. It was difficult to make out what he said in the
clip published by TMZ, though it sure looked like something beginning
with the letter “F” and it wasn’t “Ford.”
The yelling, and Trump’s reaction to it, comes as the Trump administration faces increasing pressure
to release the so-called Epstein files, documents expected to expose
the dealings of the disgraced financier and sex trafficker in greater
detail.
The Department of Justice has released
less than 1% of the files, according to court filings in the first week
of January, even after a federal law required they be released in full
in mid-December. Last week, two US representatives, California Democrat
Ro Khanna and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, pushed a US district
judge to release the files in full.
Instead of dealing
with the lies he tells himself and the ones the yes-men and yes-women
around him repae over and over, Chump had to deal with reality. And it
was too much for him. Learning what people really think of him was just
too much. He was up all night and morning in the Oval Office -- see
Ben's clip above -- and just couldn't get over the fact that we all see
right though him. And that we all heard Marjorie Taylor Green's story
about how he yelled at her over the phone that he couldn't release The
Epstein Files becuase that would embarrass some of his friends.
We heard her, Chump.
We know you're a liar and a pedo protetor.
Sen.
John Kennedy (R-La.) on Monday questioned the Department of Justice
(DOJ) over its probe into the Federal Reserve’s renovation of its
Washington, D.C., headquarters.
“We need this like we need a hole in the head,” Kennedy, a senior member of the Banking Committee, told reporters.
The
Louisiana Republican also warned that “any litigation between the
Federal Reserve and the executive branch of the United States government
is going to cause interest rates to go up, not down.”
“I
know Chairman [Jerome] Powell very well,” he said outside the Capitol.
“I will be stunned — I will be shocked if he has done anything wrong.”
Kennedy
was one of several Republicans to voice disapproval over the
investigation. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who is also on the Senate
Banking Committee, criticized the DOJ’s moves as “another example of
amateur hour, as far as I’m concerned.”
Tillis
accused President Trump’s advisers of deliberately attempting to
undercut the Fed’s independence and threatened to block any of the
president’s nominees to the nation’s central bank until the
investigation is “fully resolved.”
Sen. Lisa
Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she backed Tillis’s proposal to block nominees
and called on her fellow lawmakers to investigate if the administration
is attempting to coerce the Fed into cutting rates more dramatically.
She said the “stakes are too high.”
President
Donald Trump’s administration is facing mounting blowback on Wall
Street over the Department of Justice’s push to launch a criminal
inquiry into outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
“I
want to say that I don’t agree with everything the Fed has done; I do
have enormous respect for Jay Powell, the man,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie
Dimon told reporters Tuesday, shortly after the bank published its
quarterly earnings. “Anything that chips away at [the Fed’s
independence] is not a good idea. And in my view, will have the reverse
consequences. It’ll increase inflation expectations and probably
increase rates over time.”
BNY CEO Robin Vince,
whose bank plays a critical role in markets for U.S. government debt
securities that underpin the global financial system, said that the
investigation into Powell’s statements to Congress risked shaking the
foundations of the bond market and jeopardizing Trump’s affordability
agenda.
It could “potentially do something that
could cause interest rates to actually get pushed up,” Vince said. “The
administration's focused on important things” with regard to
affordability, he added, and “doing things that are going to detract
from that agenda just don't seem like the best thing to do right now.”
The
pushback from some of the most powerful voices in the U.S. banking
industry comes as the White House faces a political pile-up over its
attacks on Powell, a skilled Washington operator who’s spent years
cultivating relationships across Congress. Top Republicans — including
major Trump allies — have cautioned that targeting the powerful central
banker during the final months of his tenure as chair could blow up in
the administration’s face.
So
Powell has the support of Republicans in the Senate and the support of
people in the US banking industry. But it's bigger than just that.
Powell also has global support.
Ashleigh Fields (THE HILL) reports:
Central
bankers overseas issued a joint statement on Tuesday in support of
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who announced on Sunday he’s the
subject of a criminal investigation led by the Department of Justice
(DOJ).
The DOJ opened a probe into Powell last
week, seeking to review his testimony to the Senate Banking Committee
last June regarding the renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters.
Powell
says the move is a pressure tactic meant to undermine the Fed’s
independence, as President Trump pushes to lower interest rates.
“We
stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair
Jerome H. Powell. The independence of central banks is a cornerstone of
price, financial and economic stability in the interest of the citizens
that we serve. It is therefore critical to preserve that independence,
with full respect for the rule of law and democratic accountability,”
international central bankers wrote in a Tuesday statement posted to X.
The
message was signed by Christine Lagarde, the head European Central
Bank, along with the heads of the central banks of England, Sweden,
Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Brazil and the
Bank for International Settlements.
All that support for Powell. And
Paul Hannon (WALL STREET JOURNAL) reminds,
"Former Fed chairs Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen on
Monday rushed to defend Powell and the Fed’s ability to set monetary
policy free from political influence, calling the investigation 'an
unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine that
independence'.”
And for
Chump? None. As Mrs. Meers says in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, "Sad to
be so alone in the world." But Chump's used to it.
None
of this would come as a surprise in totalitarian regimes elsewhere in
the world. Bureaucrats loyal to autocrats regularly engage in
skullduggery that they believe will appeal to the ruler, especially when
it comes to incinerating the independence of any remaining governing
institutions that are refusing to come to heel.
But
in Powell, Trump and his lapdog [Jeanine] Pirro may have bitten off
more than they can chew. “The whole thing is proving a disaster for the
White House,” Politico reported in its Tuesday morning “Playbook” that
is eagerly digested over cornflakes throughout Washington. “You have to
wonder how quickly this probe might get wrapped up,” the newsletter
predicted.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
Senate advanced package in 80-13 preliminary procedural vote on Monday night
Package of funding bills rejects
draconian cuts and policies pushed by President Trump, House
Republicans—and reasserts congressional control over key funding
decisions
ICYMI: Murray, Top Appropriators Release Three-Bill Minibus
***WATCH: Senator Murray’s Remarks***
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA),
Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered the
following remarks at this afternoon’s Senate Democratic leadership press
conference on the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies;
Energy and Water Development; and Interior, Environment, and Related
Agencies fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills as the U.S. Senate
considers the package this week.
Text, summaries, and more information on the three bills in the package are available HERE.
Senator Murray’s remarks, as delivered, are below:
“This week, the Senate has an opportunity to pass three of our
funding bills. They were bills that were a product of a lot of hard work
and some serious negotiations.
“Was there more that I would have liked to do? Of course, but you don’t win anything if you take your ball and go home.
“The programs that are funded in these bills are
meaningful—and because Democrats were at the negotiating table, we were
able to protect resources for programs that families rely on. We
protected programs that help lower families’ energy bills. We protected
funding to prevent violence against women. We honored our commitments to
our Tribes and our Indian Country—and a lot more.
“These are bills that reject the devasting cuts Trump
demanded in his deeply unserious budget he sent to Congress about a year
ago. When just about every Secretary came before our
Appropriations Committee to advocate for those Trump funding cuts, I
made clear to them I planned to rip up his budget and write a newone—and
that is exactly what we are doing.
“Congress has a choice to do our most fundamental job which
is writing and passing these funding bills or hand the pen over to
Donald Trump and Russ Vought. I’m here to do my job.
“I was elected to be a voice for the state of Washington, so I’m
going to vote to pass bills that include the priorities that are
important to my state. And bills that reflect the input of nearly every
Member of this Congress. Bills that reassert Congress’ control over
spending decisions by providing hundreds and hundreds of directives that
were not provided last fiscal year. I have zero intention of letting
Donald Trump and Russ Vought decide how our taxpayer dollars get spent.
“Congress is the people’s representative; we hold the power
of the purse. We are the check on this [president] and on any president.
“So, I am urging my colleagues to join me. We’ve got very limited
time. And we want to hopefully pass these bills before the week is
over.”
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