Al Jazeera reports that the US House of Representatives has adopted an amendment to the Ministry of Defense #budget that prevents it from allocating any funds for the reconstruction of #Gaza.
Despite #ICC arrest warrant requests against them, European Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi "honoured to meet" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav #Gallant.
@faab64
All the same breed of far right pricks. Várhelyi is close to Orban (as anyone Hungary sends to the EU) and recently blocked 13M€ which were supposed for the aid of a hospital in East-Jerusalem.
And because this is not enough yet #VanDerLeyen and her "conservatives" intend to increase bonds with #Meloni and her fascist movement.
@faab64
All the same breed of far right pricks. Várhelyi is close to Orban (as anyone Hungary sends to the EU) and recently blocked 13M€ which were supposed for the aid of a hospital in East-Jerusalem.
And because this is not enough yet #VonDerLeyen and her "conservatives" intend to increase bonds with #Meloni and her fascist movement.
#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.
#ChuckZito, helped found in the early 1980s the NY Nomads chapter of the #HellsAngels, the infamous club that started in California. The #DOJ described the org as a #criminal enterprise & linked the NY chapter to the #Gambino#crime family. Zito later left the biker group to try become a movie star in Hollywood.
#ICC / Prosecutor asks for arrest warrants for three leading Hamas leaders, as well ass Netanyahu and Galant
[...] The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday said it was seeking arrest warrants against three leading Hamas militants for their alleged roles in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Watch: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan explains the charges against top Hamas and Israeli leadership in detail in this excerpt from his interview with @amanpour this morning at The Hague
“It turns out that you can assault the criminal justice system and the rule of law, and call for defunding the police, as long as you are well dressed. Wear the right suit, and suddenly a phalanx of microphones appears. The cops are there to protect your criticism, not pepper-spray you.”
“The Brooks Brothers riot showed that occupying a building, threatening and even assaulting public officials could work wonderfully with the right gear. …
Radical messaging designed to reinforce social hierarchies, and protect the criminal acts of the politically powerful turns out to be more palatable than, you know, complaining about inequality or the deaths of civilians.”
Cross-examination of #MichaelCohen resumes, an opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony & perhaps trip up or provoke the state’s key witness. The questioning of Cohen, #Trump’s fmr fixer, is the beginning of the end of Trump’s #criminal trial, which began April 15 & might conclude before Memorial Day weekend at this pace.
That’s the thing about criminals, they work with other criminals.
Duh.
#Blanche is now demonstrating for the jury that #MichaelCohen lied under oath for different reasons. By his own admission, it wasn’t only to demonstrate his #loyalty to #Trump. He lied also, Cohen admits, because the stakes affected him personally.
I think #Fico should now lead by example and enter into "peace" negotiations with his shooter, and continue subsidising the shooter's criminal activities, to remain consistent with what he advocates Ukraine should do about Russia's daily bombardment, shooting, #genocide and occupation in #Ukraine.
#Republican Donald #Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the #history of the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol attack [#insurrection], but positioning the #violent siege & its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the #WhiteHouse.
At a wknd rally in #Ohio, his first as the presumed #GOP presidential nom, #Trump stood onstage, his hand raised in salute to the brim of his red #MAGA hat, as a recorded chorus of prisoners [#criminals] in #jail for their roles in the #Jan6 attack sang the national anthem.
An announcer asked the crowd to please rise “for the horribly & unfairly treated January 6th hostages.” And people did, & sang along.
This isn’t even the 1st time we’ve learned that a person has been #indicted after the #GOP cited his claims. Nor…the 1st time a person has been accused of ties to #RussianIntelligence after the GOP leaned on their version of events.
The…characters #Republicans have sought out to substantiate Pres #Biden’s purported corruption…has come to include half a dozen #convicted & accused #criminals, + mult people the #UnitedStates govt has linked to #Russia, #corruption & subverting American #democracy.
"Of the many faults in our democratic system exposed by Trump and his MAGA following - not least how poor education and a plague of mental illness has left so many voters’ without critical thinking skills - the worst is how he has shattered our self-image of America as a nation of law."
"American streets are crawling with felonious Trump associates, pardonees like Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, and assorted domestic abusers whose toxic masculinity earned them slots on the Trump team. …
The more I think about accused felons Trump and Paxton, roaming free and exercising enormous power, the more I understand that it's really the country's legal system that's broken. It broke before our broken politics."
Kenneth Chesebro: Pro-Trump lawyer pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case, implicates Trump in fake elector conspiracy.
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Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign’s 2020 fake electors plot, pleaded guilty Friday in the Georgia election subversion case to being part of a conspiracy alongside former President Donald Trump and others.
The plea deal is another blow to Trump and a major victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged Trump and 18 others in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It comes one day after former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell also pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony – conspiracy to commit filing false documents.
Side note: Ken Cheesbro is a BFF of Virginia Ginni 'Gitmo' Thomas
3rd Trump ELECTION CRIMINAL BITES THE DUST. They tried to steal our election.
Fani Wallace stopped the steal, ya'll.
A few important points about Chesebro’s guilty plea:
it’s a felony
Trump is a named co-conspirator in the same charge
-these fake elector allegations are also central to Jack Smith’s DC case
-unlike Powell, Chesebro should be a very credible witness