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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 5/14/24
« Last post by scottfreitas on Today at 01:55:34 pm »Terrific Tuesday thanks, Pookie!
From the "Truth in Advertising" Department:
From the "Truth in Advertising" Department:
This is all about airing out all of Trump's dirty laundry.
Speaker Mike Johnson will address 'sham prosecution' of Trump outside courthouse, days after surviving MTG's ouster attempt
House Speaker Mike Johnson's move to join Trump's court entourage is an extraordinary move for the man who is third in line for the presidency, and is another sign of the total embrace Trump is getting from congressional Republicans.
It comes days after days after the House rejected an effort by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to remove Johnson from office through a procedural motion.
Trump sided with the speaker in the spat, meeting with Johnson and posting in advance that 'this is not the time' to move to vacate the chair, as Greene was proposing.
The Speaker's office left no doubt which side he is on.
'The Speaker will then address media outside of the ongoing sham prosecution of President Trump,' his office announced.
'Speaker Johnson will address the political persecution of the 45th President of the United States by President Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice and the left-wing Manhattan district attorney.'
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1790365490868846815
MOL
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Johnson, Ramaswamy spotted at Manhattan courthouse
By David Spector
House Speaker Mike Johnson was spotted entering the Manhattan courthouse for former President Donald Trump's "hush money" trial.
Johnson (R-La.) is the highest-ranking Republican official to be seen supporting Trump in court.
President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Why it matters: The dismissiveness of the poor polling is sincere, not public spin, according to Democrats who have spoken privately with the president and his team.
That bedrock belief has informed Biden's largely steady-as-she-goes campaign — even as many Democrats outside the White House are agitating for the campaign to change direction, given that Biden is polling well behind where he was four years ago.
The public polling simply doesn't reflect the president's support, they say.