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GOP Threatens to Stop Paying Donald Trump’s Legal Fees if he Announces He’s Running in 2024

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The Republican establishment is putting up a fight against Donald Trump in a last-ditch effort to maintain control of the party. The GOP leadership has decided that they will no longer pay for the former President’s legal fees if he announces that he’s running in 2024.

Despite the fact that Donald Trump is likely the main reason they have any money at all, the current GOP leadership has decided to lord over Trump rather than help him.

The Daily Mail reports:

Republicans will stop paying Donald Trump‘s legal expenses if he announces he’s running for president in 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday.

The Republican National Committee has shelled out millions of dollars to law firms representing the former president amid government investigations and probes of his business interests.

But officials also worry that Trump could hurt the party’s midterms prospects if he announces a presidential run before this year’s elections.

An RNC official told ABC News that Trump would lose financial support as soon as launch a campaign because of the party’s ‘neutrality policy’ that bars it from taking sides in primaries.

RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel spelled out the stance in an interview in January.

‘The party has to stay neutral,’ she said. ‘I’m not telling anybody to run or not to run in 2024.’

There has been a serious bifurcation in the Republican party since the advent of Donald Trump and others like him. His presidency lead to what’s being colloquially referred to as “America First” politicians, who claim to be decidedly separate from their “Rino” counterparts.

There’s a growing school of thought that has always existed but has become much more prevalent in recent years, that believes career Democrats and Republicans have been two sides of the same corrupt coin, trading power back and forth but always benefiting an international ruling class.

The popularity of Donald Trump and those like him seem to be largely due to his willingness to call out the international corporatocracy and the perceived criminals who’ve maintained a stranglehold on local and national politics for the last century.

Trump created a movement that has only gained steam since the 2020 election. America First candidates defy the implied political mandates and unspoken decorum of Washington DC’s uniparty, and the GOP leadership can’t stand it. That is why they are making this last attempt to dissuade a man who seems to already have his mind made up.

Mika Brzezinski Fuels Antifa Proxy Army, Calls Trump GOP “Danger.. To American Freedom”

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 27th, 2022

Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe and daughter of globalist Warhawk elite Zbigniew Brzezinski, had a very non-objective episode on Monday’s show in regards to the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, and return abortion lawmaking to the states.

During her televised rant, Brzezinski claimed that Trump’s “fascist” GOP and SOTUS nominees were taking over the country and needed to be stopped.

Brzezinski’s rant was also promoted on Twitter, 

“To call Trump’s Republican Party and Trump’s Supreme Court ‘extreme’ understates the danger these institutions pose to American freedom–to our democracy…For all the Democratic party’s flaws, they’re the only party that can stem this continued rise of fascism.”–@morningmika.”

While Brzezinski did not explicitly call for violence, some are claiming that this sort of rhetoric is what leads to physical altercations in the streets as well as vandalism and attempted murder against Civil servants, something we’ve seen attempted several times in recent years with the shooting of Rep Steve Scalise and the recent attempted kidnap/murder of Justice Bret Kavanaugh.

GOP in Texas Add Referendum to Secede from US in 2023

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 21st, 2022

The Texas GOP agreed on Saturday to hold a referendum in 2023 on the matter of secession from the United States. Texas Republicans brought up the issue of secession and declared Joe Biden’s presidential win “illegitimate” during the final day of their State Party Convention at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston. 

According to The Daily Mail, the platform has a section titled “State Sovereignty” that reads “Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.”

The Texas GOP has drawn from the state’s eventful history and constitution when they wrote into their platform that, “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.”

Some may recall that Texas was once it’s own country after breaking from Mexico and becoming the Republic of Texas in 1836. In 1845 Texas became part of the United States and drafted a constitution decades later that reiterated its freedom and sovereignty.

The state has actually had several movements for secession over the years, most recently being “Texit”, which was aptly named after Britain’s successful breaking from the European Union. 

However, the Texas Tribune points out that the Lone Star State, like all states, cannot simply secede from the union, but the situation, at the very least, highlights a growing cultural bifurcation in America that doesn’t seem to have any solid solution.

In addition to the threat of secession, the party’s platform also declared Biden an illegitimate president by saying, 

“We believe that the 2020 election violated Article 1 and 2 of the US Constitution, that various secretaries of state illegally circumvented their state legislatures in conducting their elections in multiple ways, including by allowing ballots to be received after November 3rd 2020.”

Despite Democratic hopes of a purple Texas, the state has become increasingly Republican, many central American immigrants voting red has led to the historic win by Republican Mayra Flores who flipped a 150-year-old blue district red.

Pelosi in Peril: 32 House Democrats Have Announced Retirement

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 14th, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in a real political pickle ahead of November’s midterm elections. Of the 49 House lawmakers who’ve announced they will not be seeking reelection, 32 of them are Democrats.

Fifty-five total members of Congress will not be running this year, which breaks down into 6 U.S. Senators and 49 House lawmakers.

Ballotpedia reports:

  • The 55 retiring members include 32 Democrats and 23 Republicans, accounting for 11.9% of the Democratic caucus and 8.8% of the Republican caucus.
  • The 11.9% retirement rate among Democrats is the largest since 2014 when 8.5% of Democrats did not run for re-election.
  • The 8.8% retirement rate among Republicans is the second-lowest since 2014. The only year with a lower retirement rate was 2016 when 8.6% of Republicans retired.
  • Democrats had their lowest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in 2018 and 2020, when 7.4% and 3.4%, respectively, of the caucus did not seek re-election.
  • Republicans had their highest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in those years, with 12.6% of the caucus retiring in 2018 and 11.5% in 2020.

The 8.8% retirement rate among Republicans is the second-lowest since 2014. The only year with a lower retirement rate was 2016 when 8.6% of Republicans retired. Democrats had their lowest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in 2018 and 2020, when 7.4% and 3.4%, respectively, of the caucus did not seek re-election. Republicans had their highest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in those years, with 12.6% of the caucus retiring in 2018 and 11.5% in 2020

As it stands, Pelosi has a minuscule majority in the House of Representatives and Republicans win back the lower chamber, well, it’s already being reported that Pelosi will likely retire.

Nationwide redistricting is about to take place and will likely see Republicans picking up some seats. Even Democrats see the writing on the wall, many believe they will lose control of the house after the midterms.

While speaking with Politico, Tim Persico, the executive director of the Maloney-led Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), shared data with incumbents showing that several House Democrats are at risk of losing their seats to Republican challengers.

“We are not afraid of this data … We’re not trying to hide this,” Persico told Politico. “If [Democrats] use it, we’re going to hold the House. That’s what this data tells us, but we gotta get in action.”

No matter which way you slice it, Democrats have their work out for them. The GOP are raking in historic gobs of cash, setting fundraising records. In addition to that, the once-in-a-decade redistricting process – pegged to the 2020 census – is expected to generally favor Republicans over Democrats