Well Johnson finally got aid to Ukraine passed. And even though Johnson said he supports aid to Ukraine himself he has also let it slip he didn't really have any choice. Supporters of Ukraine aid said if Johnson does not bring it to the floor for a vote they would force a vote with a "discharge petition" which would require 218 votes. And apparently Johnson was informed they had the votes and would vote in favor of the Senate package. So to save his own bills Johnson bit the bullet and called for a vote which of course passed.


And MTG is stomping around the Capitol and frothing at the mouth about it but the one thing she has not done is file her motion to vacate like she has been threatening for weeks. And even though she has actually picked up a little more support for it I think the heat is getting to her and she's getting cold feet and chickening out.



US House approves $61bn in military aid for Ukraine after months of stalling
Ukrainian president thanks America after Speaker Mike Johnson de-coupled vote from Israel funding amid fierce GOP resistance

Robert Tait, Joan E Greve and Chris Michael
Sat 20 Apr 2024 14.10 EDTFirst published on Sat 20 Apr 2024 13.56 EDT

House of Representatives finally approved more than $61bn worth of military assistance to help Ukraine in its desperate defense against Russia.

The bipartisan vote saw 210 Democrats and 101 Republicans join to support Ukraine, with 112 Republicans – a majority of the GOP members – voting against. It came after the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, forced a series of bills onto the floor in the face of fierce resistance within his own Republican party, many of whom oppose spending more on Ukraine’s defense.




Voting began hours ahead of schedule in an extraordinary Saturday session that delayed the House’s planned recess. The House erupted into applause when the Ukraine bill passed, with the chair, Marc Molinaro of New York, admonishing members not to wave Ukrainian flags.





In a powerful effort to sum up the stakes before the vote, the former Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi, made a stridently graphic appeal: “I hope our colleagues will choose democracy and decency rather than autocracy and evil because I fear if you choose the Putin route, you will have blood on your hands, blood of the children, blood of their mothers raped in front of their parents, raped in front of their children,” she said.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, recently warned that his country “will lose the war” without US assistance, as its military has struggled with ammunition and air defense shortages and Russia has pressed a growing advantage in firepower as Congress prevaricated.

Immediately after the bill passed, ZelenskIy released a statement expressing his gratitude to both parties “and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track”.

“Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to protect it,” he said. “The vital US aid bill passed today by the House will keep the war from expanding, save thousands and thousands of lives, and help both of our nations to become stronger. Just peace and security can only be attained through strength. We hope that bills will be supported in the Senate and sent to President Biden’s desk. Thank you, America!”


Members were voting on a package worth close to $95bn in total, but which had been broken up into four separate bills, as Johnson effectively de-coupled the vote on Ukraine from funding for Israel, which is more widely supported among both Democrats and Republicans.

The vote on granting additional funding for Israel also easily passed the House, with 365 in favor and only 57 opposed: 36 Democrats and 21 Republicans.

By splitting the bill into four, Johson sought to give recalcitrant far-right members of his own GOP conference the opportunity to vote with their conscience on the parts they disliked.

First to be voted on was a bill including legislation on border security, which failed, as expected. Many rightwing Republicans do not want the Biden administration to win credit for resolving a crisis at the US border with Mexico, where there has been an upsurge of asylum seekers, during an election year. The GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is seeking to make the border an election issue.

The $95bn in total funding includes roughly $26bn for Israel, $61bn for Ukraine (with much of the funding going towards replenishing American munitions), $8bn for US allies in the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan, and $9bn in humanitarian assistance for civilians in war zones, such as Gaza.

In the Ukraine bill, of the $60.7bn, a total of about $23bn would be used by the US to replenish its military stockpiles, opening the door to future US military transfers to Ukraine. Another $14bn would go to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, in which the Pentagon buys advanced new weapon systems for the Ukrainian military directly from US defense contractors.

There is also more than $11bn to fund current US military operations in the region, enhancing the capabilities of the Ukrainian military and fostering intelligence collaboration between Kyiv and Washington, and about $8bn in non-military assistance, such as helping Ukraine’s government continue basic operations, including the payment of salaries and pensions.

The package largely mirrors the foreign aid proposal passed by the Senate in February, although it designates $10bn of the Ukraine funding as a repayable loan to appease some Republican members.

One of the bills that passed focused on support for American allies in the Asia-Pacific region, chiefly Taiwan, including more than $8bn for countering Chinese activities, about $3.3bn for submarines and $2bn of military assistance to Taiwan.

Another of the bills included a provision to force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell its popular social media app TikTok, which Congress is worried gives China the ability to gain information about American citizens. That bill – the 21st Century Peace through Strength Act – also included the seizure of frozen Russian sovereign assets, and more sanctions on Iran.


The passed bills will be combined into a single package to simplify the voting process for the Senate, which will need to reapprove the proposal before it can go to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.

Simply getting the bills to a vote on the floor, however, required Johnson to seek help from Democrats across the aisle. A procedural vote to get it to the floor was 316-94, with 165 Democrats and 151 Republicans supporting the motion.

Johnson’s reliance on Democratic votes to pass key pieces of legislation, including a major government funding bill that cleared the House last month, has outraged some hard-right Republicans.

“What else did Johnson give away while he’s begging Democrats for votes and protection?” Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representative of Georgia, said on Friday on X. “We do not have a Republican majority anymore, our Republican Speaker is literally controlled by the Democrats and giving them everything they want.”

Last month, Greene unveiled a motion to remove Johnson as speaker, although she has not yet moved to force a vote on the matter. In the past week, two more House Republicans – Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Paul Gosar of Arizona – have signed on as co-sponsors.

Democrats have said they may support Johnson in any effort by the Republican far-right to oust him over Ukraine aid.

Speaking from the Capitol earlier this week, Johnson said providing aid to Ukraine was “critically important” and “the right thing” despite the potential power of his opponents to bring him down in yet another internal party coup.

“I really believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten,” Johnson said. “I believe that Xi and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil. I think they are in coordination on this. I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe.

“I am going to allow an opportunity for every single member of the House to vote their conscience and their will,” he said, adding: “I’m willing to take a personal risk for that, because we have to do the right thing. And history will judge us.”

The US has so far sent Ukraine roughly $111bn in weapons, equipment, humanitarian assistance and other aid since the start of the war more than two years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/us-house-approves-61bn-aid-ukraine
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Interesting.
In 2016 then Vice President Biden used the threat of withholding $1 BILLION in US aid to Ukraine to stop the investigation into Burisma, his son's employer.
In 2024 President Biden used the threat of the ouster of the deplorable speaker of the House to get more aid for Ukraine.

Since when does American politics call for threats and intimidation to further public policy?

Oh.

Since despicables hold the reins, apparently.

 

Speaker Johnson might as well be skipping back and forth on the stage with his thumbs in his ears wiggling his fingers signing nany nany goolas you can't get me. Right now it doesn't matter what MTG or Trump tries to do. Johnson knows the Democrats will save him. Although it would be funny as fuck to me if the Democrats suddenly said Mikey I think we've milked you for all we can get so we're going to let you go down. And just let the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican chaos and civil war ensue.



Trump 'won't lift a finger' to save Mike Johnson as he faces GOP House revolt: insiders

Tom Boggioni
April 21, 2024 7:54AM ET




U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says he will hold a long-delayed vote Saturday on US military aid to Ukraine and Israel © Julia Nikhinson / AFP




Facing a possible motion to vacate his high-ranking position in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shouldn't expect Donald Trump to ride to his rescue according to Trump World insiders.

On Saturday, Johnson took the lead in getting a massive aid bill passed that provides billions for embattled Ukraine which has infuriated far-right members of his caucus, thus putting his leadership position in jeopardy.

Following the passage of the bill that 112 Republicans opposed in the final vote, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was quick to tell the assembled press that the vote was "b------t" and label Johnson a "lame duck."

ALSO READ: Revealed: What government officials privately shared about Trump not disclosing finances

With the clock ticking on how soon Greene and her allies will move for an ouster, the Daily Beast is reporting that Trump may stay out of it on the advice of some of his closest advisers and instead concentrate on his own legal problems — of which there are many

According to the Beast's Reese Gorman, "Johnson, who’s long been a loyal Trump soldier, needs his help now more than ever. But there’s a brutal truth for Johnson that’s becoming increasingly clear: Trump isn’t coming to his rescue," adding, "Another Trump source was just as clear: the former president isn’t going to lift another finger."

One unnamed Trump insider explained, "There were a few of us that were still going to bat for him and defending him. I don’t know a single person that will defend him after this complete and stunning surrender. We’re obviously not going to get everything we want with a slim majority in the House. But there’s not a single thing he can point to in these bills that resembles a Republican win. He got nothing. He got rolled.”

Another added that further Trump support does not appear to be in the cards.

“Johnson has already gotten everything he should expect to get from Trump,” they remarked. “It’s not Trump’s job to save his ass because he can’t manage his caucus.”

The Beast's Gorman added, "While it’s always possible Trump changes his mind and more aggressively tries to help Johnson, few in Trump’s orbit seem inclined to nudge the former president to bail him out—particularly when Trump is facing his own problems with the start of his criminal trial."

The writing might already be on the wall as former Trump adviser Steve Bannon proclaimed, "Johnson is [a] dead man walking.”

You can read more here.



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-mike-johnson/

 

Huh.
Mike maybe should have talked with Liz Cheney, Diane Feinstein and Dr. Ford before giving the despicables anything they were demanding.
At least, according to american hater, who seems to be saying he'd like to see despicables dump Mike like they dumped Cheney, Ford and Feinstein.

 

All the great Christian Mike Johnson does is just lie through his non fucking teeth. But he is also tripping up the idea that treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are not antisemitic. Because he rushes to the George Soros antisemitic troupe.












Mike Johnson’s Ugly New Lie About Campus Protests Hands Dems a Weapon
Greg Sargent
Sat, May 4, 2024 at 4:00 AM MDT·6 min read
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This week, Mike Johnson floated a wild-eyed theory about the pro-Palestinian protests that have been rocking college campuses. The House speaker called on the FBI to get involved, adding: “I think they need to look at the root causes and find out if some of this was funded by, I don’t know,

Because such talk has become routine, Johnson’s claim didn’t garner much media attention. But Democrats can and should act to compel media attention to it. And they have a big opportunity to do so: Johnson is planning high-profile hearings about the protests in coming weeks, which will include grilling university officials about whether administrators are doing enough to combat antisemitism on campuses.

Republicans are being open about their aim here, which is to divide Democrats between those who will defend nonviolent protest and those who fear association with campus unrest. And many Democrats are feeling deeply skittish about all this.


That’s in some ways understandable. But Democrats should view upcoming hearings as an opportunity to reset the argument. Johnson’s Soros quote—and others from Republicans just like it—give Democrats a way to go big. They should hold the GOP and the MAGA media complex accountable for the ugly reality that a whole range of white nationalism-adjacent ideas—especially ones with antisemitic overtones—have been festering inside the House GOP for years and have even been mainstreamed at the highest levels of Republican power.

“They don’t actually care about Jewish people or antisemitism,” Democratic Representative Daniel Goldman of New York told me, speaking of Republicans. “When they start using antisemitic tropes,” such as “globalist” and “elite” in this context, Goldman continued, it “shows their true colors.”

Many Republicans, including Johnson, have also trafficked in the “great replacement theory.” The most important Republican of all, Donald Trump, recently hosted antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort. As Goldman told me: “These are House Republicans who did not condemn Donald Trump for having dinner with a neo-Nazi.”

Johnson isn’t even the only GOP leader to push the Soros libel. Representative James Comer, chair of the Oversight Committee, says that “global elites are funding these hateful protests.” The language of GOP leaders has merged with that of the fringe: Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that Soros “funds” the “pro-Hamas protests.”

Several Jewish Democrats have already called this out, with one lawmaker labeling it “one of the oldest antisemitic tropes in the world.” But Democrats can do more. At the hearings, which the political press will cover intensely, they can put those Soros quotes up on big screens and make Republicans defend them.

True, this is tricky political territory for Democrats right now. The party is divided over President Biden’s handling of Israel’s attack on Gaza, with some Democrats demanding that Biden withhold weaponry from Israel that could be used for its expected offensive in Rafah, arguing that the law requires this given Israel’s killing of civilians and blocking of humanitarian assistance to desperate victims.

Meanwhile, Democrats are divided over the protests themselves. When President Biden spoke out about them this week, he rightly distinguished between peaceful protest and unacceptable violence, casting the latter as a threat to civil society, but he conspicuously said little about how appallingly disproportionate the police response has been. Some Democrats seem reluctant to seriously defend peaceful dissent, which is what many of the protests have offered.

But surely Democrats can navigate their differences and get the balance on all this right. They can use the hearings to voice support for core, clarifying principles: It’s possible to condemn the horrifying outbreaks of antisemitism on campuses, some of them violent, while also insisting it isn’t inherently antisemitic to criticize Israel’s treatment of Palestinian civilians. It’s possible to draw a line between civil disobedience with a long tradition in American life and wanton, destructive violence—even if the exact location of that line is hard to pin down and will be deeply contested.

And it should be possible to call out the towering absurdity of the Republican effort to cast the Democratic Party as an aider and abettor of antisemitic violence. “It’s entirely navigable,” Goldman told me. “You can oppose U.S. policy toward Israel” and also “oppose antisemitism on campus,” he said, while also challenging those who are “exploiting antisemitism for purely partisan gain.”

Others might object that indicting Republicans over all this is a tough sell. After all, Johnson is himself denouncing antisemitism. How can he simultaneously be pushing an antisemitic trope? Did he really intend the Soros smear that way? The truth is we don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter what he intended.

What does matter is that this kind of talk has become tantamount to the air Republicans and many of their voters breathe. As the Anti-Defamation League explains, Soros’s identity is well known. He’s been elevated for decades by malignant nationalists across the world into a symbol of nefarious globalist forces seeking to manipulate fifth-column agitators to destabilize nations from within. People steeped in these ideas will receive such remarks in exactly that way.

Some Republicans have ventured another version of these claims, insisting Soros funds organizations behind the protests. But Politifact looked exhaustively at this and found that it relies on a comically tortured chain of logic. As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump noted, the connections are “so tenuous as to be obviously contrived.” The crucial point here is that such conspiracy theories often map onto a kind of a spectrum, where softer versions are available that allow proponents to invoke the most pernicious versions while retaining plausible deniability. That doesn’t make it any more defensible.

Indeed, this is exactly how “great replacement theory,” also works: Many Republicans, including Johnson, push a soft version that doesn’t accuse Jewish elites of promulgating the conspiracy. But that’s what untold numbers of people will hear, and its proponents know it.

On top of all this, Democrats should challenge the GOP push aggressively because Donald Trump is advancing a vile line of propaganda, in which violent protesters are getting lenient treatment while the insurrectionists of January 6, 2021, are victims of overzealous law enforcement. More broadly, as Substacker Jamison Foser notes, Trump is openly campaigning on the language of authoritarians and dictators, and talk of an axis of “globalists” and domestic leftist agitators is a central pretext for threatening an authoritarian crackdown as president. The valorization of Trump’s paramilitary mobs as patriots and heroes alongside the demagoguing of protesters as the “real” enemy within, the vow to persecute “vermin” and prosecute treasonous political foes, the threat of mass removals of alien “invaders”—they’re all part of the same ugly story, and all should be contested vigorously.

So come on, Democrats: Use the hearings to remind everyone that Trump and the complicit GOP are the party that brought us the most serious outbreak of U.S. political violence in recent memory. Who do Republicans think they’re kidding, using campus protests to push their contemptible historical mythmaking designed to transparently sanitize that all away? Treat GOP demagoguery about the protests with the unbridled contempt it deserves.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-ugly-lie-campus-100000034.html

 

A full page of bloviation in a silly attempt to divert from the fact that as arrests are made at pro palestinian college protests, authorities are discovering that an alarming number of protesters are outside agitators.

Shooter bets, soros funded agitators.

Can't hate America more than that.

 

When does a number become "alarming"? This is important because while Soros rich, he's not made out of money. Why pay for more agitators than needed? Since you're in a betting mood, what odds did you get on Soros paying for Pro-Palestinian demonstrations?

"Outside agitators". I haven't heard that term in many years.

It once was code for "Our (insert minority epithet) were content to be treated as a subhuman species until someone told them about the Constitution."


It does fit the neocon narrative. After all, it was fairly easy for Antifa agitators to entice Trump supporters to assault police officers with bear spray. If not for Antifa passing out free bear spray, the Jan6 insurrectionists would be just a bunch of tourists posing for pics on the Capitol steps.

 

As usual the liberals will divert and avoid the idea that protests are anything but spontaneous protests against evil forces.

They forget why Israel is once and for all putting an end to HAMAS terrorism, that HAMAS is our enemy as well, and that innocent people remain captives of the vermin they are protesting to support.

 

House set to vote on Marjorie Taylor Greene effort to remove Mike Johnson
Joan E Greve in Washington
Mon, May 6, 2024 at 4:00 AM MDT·4 min read
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Mike Johnson, the House speaker.Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

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The House is expected to vote this week on a motion to remove Republican Mike Johnson as speaker, but the effort, spearheaded by hard-right congresswoman leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Marjorie Taylor Greene, faces virtually no chance of success.

Greene announced on Wednesday that she would move forward with forcing a vote on Johnson’s removal this week, following through on a threat she first issued in late March. Greene has consistently attacked Johnson for advancing bills that have attracted widespread bipartisan support, such as the government spending proposal approved in March and the foreign aid package signed into law last month.

Related: Experts dismiss Kristi Noem’s ‘dubious’ claim to have met Kim Jong-un


As she called for Johnson’s removal, Greene accused the speaker of abandoning his Republican principles in favor of Democratic priorities, such as Ukraine funding.

“Mike Johnson is giving [Democrats] everything they want,” Greene said Wednesday. “I think every member of Congress needs to take that vote and let the chips fall where they may. And so next week, I am going to be calling this motion to vacate.”

But Greene’s proposal is widely expected to fail, as House Democratic leaders indicated last week that they would vote to table, or kill, the motion to vacate the chair. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the three leaders cited the passage of the foreign aid package, which included nearly $61bn in funding for Ukraine, to justify their stance.

“At this moment, upon completion of our national security work, the time has come to turn the page on this chapter of pro-Putin Republican obstruction,” the leaders said. “We will vote to table Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate the chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed.”

Among House Republicans, Greene’s campaign has attracted little interest, as only two of her colleagues – Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Paul Gosar of Arizona – have expressed their support of the motion.

Although the effort will almost certainly fail, Greene can still force a vote on her motion to vacate. Current House rules stipulate that a single member of the chamber may “offer a privileged resolution declaring the Office of Speaker vacant”. Greene introduced such a resolution in March, but she stopped short of calling for a vote on the matter.

Greene plans to move forward with requesting a vote on the motion, which will force the House to take up the matter within two legislative days.

Before voting on removing the speaker, one of Johnson’s allies is expected to introduce a motion to table the proposal. When then speaker Kevin McCarthy was facing the threat of removal in October, his allies tried the same tactic, but the motion to table failed in a vote of 208 to 218.

This time around, the House will almost certainly be able to pass a motion to table Greene’s resolution. With House Democratic leadership signaling that they will support the motion to table and only two Republican colleagues joining Greene’s cause, she remains hundreds of votes short of the majority that she will need to remove the speaker. (However, Democrats are not expected to unanimously back the motion to table, as some have signaled they will oppose it or vote “present”.)

Johnson himself has appeared largely unbothered by Greene’s threats, criticizing her motion as “wrong for the Republican conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country”. At a press conference on Tuesday, Johnson insisted that he remained laser-focused on advancing House Republicans’ legislative priorities.

“I have to do my job. We have to do what we believe to be the right thing,” Johnson said. “We need people who are serious about the job here to continue to do that job and get it done.”

If Johnson were ousted, he would become only the second House speaker in US history to be formally removed from the position – and yet he would also be the second speaker removed in less than a year. In October, a small group of Republicans joined Democrats in ousting McCarthy, making him the first House speaker to ever endure that humiliation.

McCarthy’s departure set off weeks of chaos in the House, as Republicans repeatedly failed in their efforts to choose a new speaker. The House remained at a complete standstill for three weeks, unable to conduct any official business, until Johnson (the conference’s fourth speaker nominee) won election.

Johnson has often referenced that embarrassing episode in recent weeks, as he has attempted to dissuade Republicans from joining Greene’s campaign.

“We saw what happened with the motion to vacate the last time,” Johnson said on Tuesday. “Congress was closed for three weeks. No one can afford for that to happen.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-set-vote-marjorie-taylor-100037516.html

 

You've got your fake Christians and then you've got the biggest, phoniest, most blasphemous, hypocritical non fucking fake Christians that ever lied through his teeth.



Cheney on Johnson at Trump trial: ‘Not that concerned with teaching morality’
Lauren Irwin
Tue, May 14, 2024 at 8:52 AM MDT·1 min read
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Cheney on Johnson at Trump trial: ‘Not that concerned with teaching morality’

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Former Rep. leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) criticized Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for showing up to former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Tuesday.

“Have to admit I’m surprised that @SpeakerJohnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club,” Cheney posted on the social platform X. “I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”

Johnson appeared with other Republican lawmakers at the Manhattan courthouse where Trump is on trial for falsifying business records connected to an alleged affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels.


In a statement confirming his appearance in New York, the Speaker’s office said the hush money case was a “sham prosecution of President Trump” and criticized the “left-wing Manhattan district attorney” Alvin Bragg, who led the investigation into Trump.

His appearance at the courthouse signals that, despite Trump’s legal troubles and the details exposed about his alleged sexual encounter with Daniels, House Republicans are backing him ahead of the November election.

Cheney was driven out of Congress after becoming a vocal Republican Trump critic following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Johnson is a Christian conservative, and his religious values have been highlighted since he took the gavel last year. He brought his Bible to the rostrum before taking the oath of office and has maintained that he is an anti-abortion “Bible-believing Christian.”

The Hill has reached out to Johnson’s office for comment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cheney-johnson-trump-trial-not-145221351.html

 

Speaking of Cheney, we see now that House investigators want to see all of Cheney's communications with Cassidy Hutchinson. They specifically wanted all communication between the two, any communication about book deals, and with other Trump white house staff.

It appears that what the Nancy Antoinette star chamber bunch archived, what Hutchinson has provided the investigators already doesn't match up very well, raising yet again the suspicion that the star chamber bunch haven't been quite as honest as they'd like us to believe with their record keeping.
Surprised?
Shooter isn't.

Liz Cheney's communications with star Jan 6 witness sought by House GOP investigators (msn.com)

Liz Cheney's communications with star Jan 6 witness sought by House GOP investigators
Story by Elizabeth Elkind
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House GOP investigators are seeking all communications between former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and people related to the now-defunct House select committee probing Jan. 6, including the panel's former vice chair, ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the Committee on House Administration’s oversight subcommittee, wrote to Hutchinson on Wednesday asking for her exchanges with Cheney, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, ex-White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House deputy chief Anthony Ornato, and Secret Service agent Robert Engel, among others.

Hutchinson, who published a memoir last year, was also asked for "all communications referencing or referring to potential publishing or book deals or related compensation."

The former Trump administration aide was a star witness for the Jan. 6 committee, set up by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. She had testified that former President Trump physically lunged at Engel, who was his driver, when the agent refused to drive him to the U.S. Capitol. Trump and others linked to the story have denied her claims.

She and Cheney appear to have grown close since then. Hutchinson lauded Cheney in a September 2023 MSNBC interview: "Liz Cheney is the leader that we all need to aspire to be, and she is the leader that we need as a country to come together and find people to elect people like Liz Cheney."


Loudermilk’s subcommittee, which has been investigating the House Jan. 6 probe, accused the Democrat-led committee of having "failed to properly archive their records, including as many as 900 interview summaries or transcripts, over one terabyte of digital data, and over 100 deleted or encrypted documents."

"Therefore, the Subcommittee must now determine what documents were not properly archived, and assess what documents are necessary to accomplish a productive investigation. The Subcommittee has no choice but to repeat much of the work of the Select Committee to understand their investigative findings," he wrote.

The Georgia Republican acknowledged that Hutchinson had provided his committee with documentation that she had also given the Jan. 6 panel, but said she did not produce "all records, notes, or documents prepared by you for interviews with the Select Committee or the Department of Justice," which Loudermilk asked for earlier this year.

He also noted that some of the information she produced – including messages between herself and former Trump officials John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel – were not archived by the Jan. 6 committee.

HOUSE GOP REPORT ALLEGES JAN 6 COMMITTEE 'DELETED RECORDS AND HID EVIDENCE'

"As such, the Subcommittee is working to determine why the Select Committee did not archive these documents produced by or related to you. Given the extensive interviews, lengthy errata sheet, and ex parte conversations with Select Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, the failure to archive certain parts of your production is concerning," Loudermilk wrote.

Fox News Digital reached out to an attorney for Hutchinson and a representative for Cheney for comment.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the former Jan. 6 committee chair, defended his panel's handling of documents.

"This letter was not addressed to me, but I can tell you that Mr. Loudermilk’s previous correspondence to me has been riddled with significant factual errors," Thompson said. "As I have said time and again, the Select Committee archived its official records in accordance with House rules. It seems Mr. Loudermilk is using this fishing expedition to distract from the fact that their release of security camera footage is completely failing to provide any evidence to support extreme MAGA Republican conspiracies about Jan. 6 – and is only bolstering the work we did in investigating the circumstances surrounding that terrible day."


Wonder if the White House has ever provided the redacted records Benny gave them just before the star chamber bunch shut down?

 

I am going to say I am disappointed because this mean girl middle school shit show is all over the national news. But I am not going to say anything to MTG let alone God forbid actually try to do something about her behavior because she terrifies me and might try to take my gavel or snip my nuts.




Johnson disappointed that House committee meeting devolved into chaos over Greene's 'fake eyelash' comments
LAUREN PELLER, JAY O'BRIEN and ARTHUR JONES II
Fri, May 17, 2024 at 9:43 AM MDT·3 min read
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Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday said he is disappointed in the chaos and name-calling that happened during a raucous House Oversight Committee markup on Thursday night when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clashed over Greene's comments that Rep. leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Jasmine Crockett wore "fake eyelashes."

"It was not a good look for Congress," the speaker told ABC News. "We all -- I think -- need to control the emotions better and get the job done."

Tension flared Thursday night during the committee's markup of a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the audio recording of President Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. However, the drama had nothing to do with that, and led to a nearly hourlong disruption where lawmakers shouted over eachother.

MORE: Biden asserts executive privilege over audio of interview with special counsel Hur


PHOTO: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks on the steps of the House, May 17, 2024, in Washington. (POOL/ABC News)
"I think the decorum in the house is an important tradition to maintain," said Johnson, the top Republican in Congress who is known for his civility. "So we'll be talking about that with our members. I think Hakeem Jeffries needs to do the same on the Democrat side."

It all began when the Georgia Republican made a crack about the Texas Democrat's eyelashes -- "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading" -- which was made when Crockett pushed back to a line of questioning from Greene.


PHOTO: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, Rep. listens at a hearing for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, May 16, 2024, in Washington. (POOL/ABC News)
Democrats called for Greene's eyelash comment to Crockett to be stricken from the record and the congresswoman to be barred from speaking for the rest of the proceedings. Greene repeatedly shouted she was "not apologizing."

"That is absolutely unacceptable, how dare you attack the physical appearance of another person," Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, said.

"Are your feelings hurt?" Greene responded.

"Oh baby girl … don't even play," Ocasio-Cortez shot back.


PHOTO: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, May 16, 2024. (POOL/ABC News)
The proceedings devolved then into further chaos with lawmakers shouting over each other and Democrats repeatedly trying to force Greene to apologize. At times, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer said he struggled to hear over the shouting and repeatedly worked to bring order to the proceedings. Comer even called a brief recess to figure out how to parliamentary respond to Greene's remarks.

"Why don't you debate me … you don't have enough intelligence," Greene said to Ocasio-Cortez during the exchange.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., made a crack about Democrats on the committee not wanting to work.

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., shot back, "like showing up for a vote?" -- presumably a jab at the fact that Luna and several other members missed much of Thursday on Capitol Hill attending former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York.


PHOTO: Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., left, and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., listen at a hearing for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, May 16, 2024, in Washington. (POOL/ABC News)
MORE: Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert are latest loyalists to appear at Trump's New York trial

"You have a lot to say being that you're on retainer for the judge's daughter. Sorry trust fund kid," Luna replied -- a reference to the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump's trial. The judge's daughter has been the target of Trump and Republican's criticism over her work for a digital consulting firm that they claim creates an "ongoing financial interest" tied to the former president's criminal trial.

Luna also said Democrats should be disciplined for making unspecified cracks about "Marjorie's body."

"I hope you brought your popcorn," Greene added, then moved on to talking about how her "body is pretty good" given how she is "going to turn 50 this month."

After a vote to strike Greene's comments failed along party lines, Greene eventually continued her remarks and the hearing continued.

Despite the chaos and disorder that unraveled during the markup, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee ultimately voted 24-20 late Thursday to approve a report recommending a contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland for his failure to turn over audio recordings of the Special Counsel Robert Hur interview with President Joe Biden.

The Garland contempt resolutions now head to the full House for a vote.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnson-disappointed-house-committee-meeting-154306812.html

 

So AOC triggered over Greens fake eyelashes remark?
OMG
Suck it up, buttercup, you ain't behind a bar anymore. You're playing with adults now, and if someone says something that triggers you take it up with them. Bitching on open record and whining about it won't fix it.

Congressional decorum aside, Green clearly got a fuck you point after AOC tried to inject her own trolling into the discussion.
Too bad, so sad.

 

We no longer have a Constitutional Republic. Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans have rejected the Constitution, the rule of law, and democracy itself . All for nothing more than service to just one man. The most mentally ill, stupid and ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, deadly, and treasonous man ever elected president. Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans cannot possibly hate our country more than that and they are traitors to the United States of America one and all.



Johnson’s Trump trip unsettles some Republicans: ‘Tell me this isn’t so’
Mychael Schnell
Sat, May 18, 2024 at 4:00 AM MDT·7 min read
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Speaker leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with a porn star.

These Republicans, who requested to speak anonymously to discuss the sensitive topic, are accusing Johnson — a devout Southern Baptist who built a career around the fight for Christian values and moral conservatism — of undermining the party’s family values image simply to ingratiate himself with Trump, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

“It’s clear that Johnson thinks that this is to his political advantage to be at the courthouse at the most salacious bits of detained, pornographic testimony. I think he’s got to answer for that,” one House Republican told The Hill.


“It seems like an odd place for him to be given what he has said.”

In one sense, there’s little surprise in Johnson’s visit to New York this week.

The Speaker has been a long-time Trump supporter, endorsing him early in the GOP primary and leading a House GOP conference that’s overwhelmingly loyal to the former president. Trump also backed Johnson as he faced a recent ouster threat in the Capitol, perhaps saving his gavel.

Yet Johnson has also fashioned a professional identity — both before and after his arrival on Capitol Hill — centered around his deeply rooted evangelical faith and the fight for traditional conservative values, both of which are being challenged by the allegations against Trump.

That striking dichotomy has not been overlooked by some in Johnson’s own House conference, who are scratching their heads over the Speaker’s decision to stick his neck out with his recent public appearance at the site of Trump’s hush money trial.

“I was watching the newscast and I saw him in the background, and I thought, ‘Tell me this isn’t so.’ Because there is no debating the fact that Mike Johnson is a devout Christian human being,” said a second Republican lawmaker, who also requested anonymity to speak candidly. “That is not even subject to a debate.”

“It’s not a good look — at all,” echoed a third GOP lawmaker.

The first Republican who spoke to The Hill referenced comments Johnson made in 2022 — which were unearthed last year — that he and his son monitor each other’s porn intake with the app Covenant Eyes, a platform that “helps you live porn-free with confidence,” according to its website. The Louisiana Republican said at the time, “I’m proud to tell you, my son’s got a clean slate.”

“I wonder if he had to report [the New York visit] to his son,” the lawmaker said facetiously.

“If you’re going there and talking about the other trials, that’s different. That looks different than this trial,” the GOP lawmaker added, alluding to separate criminal cases involving Trump’s handling of classified documents and his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.

“This is exactly what has been the discussion among tons of Republicans this week.”

Johnson, for his part, has defended his visit to Manhattan, saying it has nothing to do with the affair allegations — which Trump has denied — and everything to do with the process by which Trump is being tried.

Pressed on Tuesday about the fact that the case is centered on an alleged affair and subsequent hush money payments, Johnson pivoted to procedure.

“They have weaponized and politicized the American judicial system to go after a political opponent. It is wildly inappropriate,” the Speaker said. “As a former litigator and attorney myself, I find it to be outrageous, and I think it was certainly appropriate for me to state that there on the grounds.”

While Johnson’s House critics have been reluctant to voice their concerns publicly, Trump’s most vocal GOP detractors outside the chamber have blasted the Speaker for his decision.

“I think it’s a little demeaning to show up in front of a courthouse and — particularly one where we’re talking about an allegation of paying a porn star,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), a noted Trump critic, said this week.

“Do we have something to do around here other than watch a stupid porn trial? I mean, this is ridiculous,” echoed Rep. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), also not a fan of the former president.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), yet another Trump critic, was even more biting, accusing Johnson of abandoning his commitment to advancing high-minded moral principles.

“Have to admit I’m surprised that @SpeakerJohnson wants to be in the “I cheated on my wife with a porn star” club,” Cheney posted this week on social platform X. “I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”

At the center of the New York case are allegations that Trump in 2006 had sex with Stormy Daniels — a porn star who was then less than half his age — right after his wife Melania gave birth to Trump’s youngest son, Barron. A decade later, prosecutors say, Trump paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet so the affair wouldn’t damage his 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump has denied all the charges. But the trial has captivated the country for weeks as Daniels spilled her lurid version of the alleged affair and Trump’s former fixer, attorney Michael Cohen, detailed his allegations that Trump had orchestrated the payments for purely political reasons.

The trial has sparked an outcry from Trump’s GOP allies on Capitol Hill, and many of them have paraded up to Manhattan in recent days to stand behind the former president to protest what they say is a political witch hunt designed solely to damage Trump’s election chances in November.

Most of those lawmakers represent the right fringe of the GOP conference, including Freedom Caucus leaders, such as Reps. Bob Good (Va.) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.), and hard-line agitators like Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.).

But on Tuesday, Johnson joined Trump’s entourage alongside Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) and former primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — all of whom have been floated as potential Trump running mates. Johnson became the highest-ranking lawmaker to appear alongside the former president in Manhattan.

“President Trump is innocent of these charges,” Johnson declared outside the courtroom.

Plenty of Republicans, to be sure, have defended Johnson’s trek to New York, arguing that prosecutors have a weak case that rests on testimony from Cohen, who has a history of lying under oath to Congress and banks.

“I don’t have a problem with him going up there,” Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) said of Johnson. “He’s our nominee for president, he’s on trial in the weirdest, dumbest legal case I’ve ever seen.”

But when pressed on the specifics of the case, Republicans have gone out of their way to note that they are defending the former president from the process and not necessarily the charges itself.

“I don’t think it has anything to do with what he’s charged with. I think it’s all about, just the way that the trial itself has been conducted and the fact that there’s a lot of unfairness that’s going on,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) said.

Democrats have argued it was irresponsible for the Speaker — a figure who is second in line to the presidency — to disparage the country’s judicial system, thereby undermining the public’s trust in a foundational institution that’s long been a source of national pride.

“It’s disappointing to see someone in that position, as Speaker of the House, to go up and to speak negatively of independent criminal investigations,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), the chair of the House Democratic Caucus. “But that’s the price that House Republicans have to pay. And that’s the price, specifically, Speaker Johnson has to pay to have President Trump have his back.”

Democrats are not alone in that criticism. Another House Republican who also requested anonymity to candidly discuss the Speaker’s trip raised concerns that Johnson, a constitutional lawyer, was casting doubt on the judicial branch.

“What I really didn’t like was the fact that as an officer of the court, he walked out and bashed the proceedings, the court, the judiciary, and that’s not fair,” the GOP lawmaker said. “And as an officer of the court you have a duty to uphold that.

“It’s one thing when Trump, who’s not a lawyer, does it. It’s quite another thing for a member of the bar.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnson-trump-trip-unsettles-republicans-100000482.html

 

Well, we see american hater putting a bit of class to his rants about America being a "shithole country" and a "banana republic".

Now hes saying "we no longer have a Constitutional Republic".

Liar.

 

Mike Johnson reeling after aides' resignations strip him of 'brain trust': report

Alex Henderson, AlterNet
May 21, 2024 2:39PM ET




WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 25: U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) applauds alongside fellow lawmakers as the House of Representatives holds an election for a new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol on October 25, 2023. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)




House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) enjoyed a major victory when lawmakers — including a long list of Democrats — decisively voted down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) proposal to oust him from his position. It remains to be seen whether Republicans will keep or lose their small House majority in the November elections, but for now, Johnson's speakership appears to be safe.

However, Johnson is still facing his share of challenges.

According to Punchbowl News reporters Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan, three "leading members" of the speaker's policy team will be leaving "by the end of May" — thus "robbing the House's top Republican of a critical core of experienced aides.

READ MORE: GOP donors say Mike Johnson’s fundraising won't 'ever get to the level of McCarthy'

Johnson aides Brittan Specht, Jason Yaworske and Preston Hill worked for former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) when he was speaker and will be joining the well-known lobbying firm Michael Best Strategies.

"The departure, which is striking in size and in experience, strips Johnson of a significant amount of expertise in his domestic policy shop," Sherman and Bresnahan explain. "Specht was McCarthy's policy director and was key in crafting the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which raised the debt limit and set budget levels for two years."

The Punchbowl reporters add, "Yaworske is a well-respected adviser to the speaker on the appropriations and budget matters. As the House Appropriations Committee begins marking up the FY2025 spending bills, Yaworske's expertise on government spending is in demand. And Hill, a longtime figure in GOP leadership, was in charge of overseeing House Republican policy in burgeoning policy areas such as cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence as well as Education and the Workforce and Financial Services."

Sherman and Bresnahan note that Specht, Yaworske and Hill were valuable to Johnson by being "at the table during high-stakes negotiations."

READ MORE: Mike Johnson skips out on getting must-pass bill through House to praise Trump in Manhattan

"Team Johnson says they will be hiring new policy staff soon," according to the Punchbowl journalists. "But we’ll see who is willing to commit with the election only 167 days away."

McCarthy told Punchbowl, "Brittan, Jason, and Preston are the strongest brain trust in the Capitol. They have been involved in every major negotiation over the last seven years. Whether it's tax, appropriations, financial services, or defense, AI and the debt limit, they've been in the room and at the table with the highest stakes."

READ MORE: MTG 'lost a whole lot of respect in her district' after failing to oust Mike Johnson: report

Read Punchbowl News' full report at this link.


https://www.rawstory.com/striking-d...strips-speaker-johnson-of-significant-expert/

 

‘Get the demons out’: Marjorie Taylor Greene demands ‘exorcism’ of Mike Johnson

David Edwards
June 4, 2024 11:05AM ET




Marjorie Taylor Greene (Screen grab from Steve Bannon's War Room)




Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) demanded that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shut down the federal government until the state of New York overturns former President Donald Trump's conviction.

During a Tuesday interview with convicted criminal Steve Bannon, Greene claimed Johnson wasn't doing enough to fight for Trump.

"Because Steve, our country is gone!" she exclaimed. "We are post-Constitution, and that's because the Democrats in New York, the state of New York, convicted President Trump for 34 felony counts that are fake charges and nothing but a political attack and lies. And Steve, I'm done."

The Georgia lawmaker said Republicans were at "literal war" with Democrats and the New York court system.

"What I wanted to hear in our conference today is that we were going to shut down the government and demand that the state of New York turn over these convictions," she insisted.

"Republicans up here in Washington just want to toss it over to the Supreme Court and say the Supreme Court needs to do their job, and they need to stop all of this mess."

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Greene suggested a government shutdown would not happen because of "demons" in Johnson.

"I mean, we're going to have to literally have an exorcism of Mike Johnson and get the demons out of him so that he can think clearly again and stand up to Hakeem Jeffries and stand up to Chuck Schumer and tell Joe Biden to go kiss his a--," she concluded.

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-demons/

 

The biggest "defund the police" in the history of the country. And why? Because a state court convicted their Chosen One Traitor Trump of 34 felonies. So their response is to defund the biggest federal law enforcement agency we have. Fuck protecting us from terrorists. Fuck national security. Fuck human traffickers. Fuck gangs and organized crime. Fuck murderers, bank robbers, rapists, kidnappers. Fuck protecting the American people from all those threats that happen every day.

Trump got convicted in New York so fuck the safety of the whole country.



GOP will defund DOJ in retaliation for Trump conviction: Speaker Mike Johnson

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
June 4, 2024 4:34PM ET




Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) talks to Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) on October 25 before he was elected Speaker of the House. Win McNamee/Getty Images




The embattled Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is vowing to use the arsenal of tools at his disposal, including defunding, to target the U.S. Dept. of Justice after ex-president Donald Trump was convicted in a New York State prosecution on 34 felony charges last week.

In a Tuesday meeting behind closed doors with his House Republican conference members, Johnson said “he will do everything he can to go after the Department of Justice,” CNN reported, “and said the verdict has ignited support for the former president, two sources familiar with the comments told CNN.”

The Speaker “presented a three-pronged approach of oversight, funding and legislation,” and “specifically walked through the funding cuts that House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan has proposed to the Appropriations Committee, the sources added.”

Just as U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did Tuesday morning in a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland, Johnson conflated the State of New York’s prosecution with the federal cases against Donald Trump. Federal and state prosecutions are separate.

In remarks to the press, Johnson echoed those he made earlier Tuesday, while adding claims about the state of the 2024 presidential race between President Joe Biden and ex-president and now convicted felon Donald Trump.

READ MORE: ‘I Worship God’: Greene Melts Down Again After Attacking Fauci in Profane Lie-Filled Rant

Johnson, under fire for what some experts see as a possible admission he has been talking to Supreme Court justices about the Trump prosecutions, “briefed former President Trump on the plan before announcing it Tuesday morning,” Fox News reported, citing an unnamed lawmaker.

He also called the prosecutions of the ex-president “a new low” and “dangerous.”

The Speaker claimed, “People realize that we have reached a new low and when you have activist prosecutors and the Democratic Party who are so desperate because of the presidential campaign and the way it’s going, they understand that Donald Trump, all the polling shows is crushing Joe Biden.”

READ MORE: Supreme Court ‘Puppetmaster’ Slammed Over Report He’s Flying Alito’s ‘Theocratic’ Flag Again

“They’re in, they’re in panic mode on the Democratic side,” Johnson continued, “and they are so desperate to stop Donald Trump. He’s winning in the swing states. He’s winning among the people. He’s winning among new demographics that have never voted Republican before. They see this happening. And they’re so desperate to stop him that they are willing to use the judicial system to do so.”

Donald Trump was indicted by grand juries on a total of 91 felonies in cases at the state and federal level. Three of the charges were later dropped.

Two months ago Johnson had also threatened to defund the DOJ and other agencies.

“We also advanced cuts … to some of the agencies that we believe are really overreaching, and have been turned in some ways against the American people. We are going to cut 3% from DOJ, 7% from the ATF, 6% from the FBI, and 10% from the EPA,” he told



https://www.rawstory.com/gop-will-d...on-for-trump-conviction-speaker-mike-johnson/

 

Probably more accurate to say it's a defund the politicians than defund the police.

Shooter seriously doubts anyone at the DOJ has ever written a ticket, saved a life or done street patrol.