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JD Vance Shows His True Colors
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2020 Election Immunity Jan. 6 JD Vance TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellWhen Senator J.D. Vance was asked during Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate if former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he refused to answer. Vance doubled down suggesting the presidential transition was peaceful. Peaceful? Vance has to know that Trump incited that day’s violent attack, urging his followers to go to the Capitol and telling them, […]
Trump’s Election Deniers In Action
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Election Deniers TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellFor the past four years, former President Donald Trump has been building a cult of election deniers who believe his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. They don’t care that no one has ever presented a shred of credible evidence to support Trump’s blatantly bogus claim. Notwithstanding the lack of […]
Chief Justice John Roberts Bends The Knee To Trump
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Immunity Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellChief Justice John Roberts appears to have sold out the independent third branch of government he leads, by choosing to bend the knee to former President Donald Trump. Roberts has appeared in recent years to lose his leadership of the Supreme Court to the Trump-aligned wing of the Court. Roberts’s response has been to seize […]
A Corrupt & Obscene Campaign Finance System
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Campaign Finance Reform Money In Politics Special Interest Moneyby Jackie HowellToday’s campaign finance system floods Washington with unprecedented levels of influence-seeking and influence-buying campaign money. It is an unfair and corrupt system. It is also an obscene system where, for example, former President Donald Trump reportedly told top oil executives they should raise $1 billion for him. In return Trump said he would, if elected, immediately reverse […]