When you've lost Dan Crenshaw

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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Dan Crenshaw asking to be excommunicated from the GOP

“It was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up,” [Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas)] said of the lie that Donald Trump was cheated by widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election during the latest episode of his “Hold These Truths” podcast.

“I’ve talked about this ad nausea, it really made me angry,” the former Navy SEAL told election reform advocate Nick Troiano. “Because I’m like, the promises you’re making that you’re gonna challenge the Electoral College and overturn the election, there’s not even a process for you to do that. It doesn’t even exist.”

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The lawmaker [continued]:

But even just the others, they’re like, ‘Yeah, we know that, but we just, you know, people just need their last hurrah. Like, they just need to feel like we fought one last time. Trust me, it’ll be fine.’ And I was like, ‘No, it won’t. That’s not what people believe and that’s not what you’re telling them. And maybe you’re smart enough to know that but like …’ So we have a lot of people in the political world that are just willing to say things they know aren’t true, they know aren’t true. It’s a huge manipulation.

  HuffPo

I never would have expected it from Crenshaw.

Crenshaw, in the aftermath of the 2020 election, supported a Texas lawsuit that challenged Trump’s defeat, but he’s now a fierce critic of those who falsely claim Trump was the election winner.

What happened?

It's Sunday

Snowflake!

Aftermath of an attempted coup - Part 5 /Trump aiders and abetters attempt to extricate themselves from the shit they stirred

It will be interesting to see how Trump attacks Mike Pence in the next couple of weeks.

Yeah, Mike. Too little, too late. You've been abetting Trump's incitement to violence for four years.

An attorney representing President Trump in one of his dozens of lawsuits challenging the 2020 election moved to withdraw from the case on Thursday, telling a federal court that the president used him to "perpetrate a crime."

Philadelphia-based attorney Jerome Marcus asked the court to allow him to withdraw, citing concerns over Pennsylvania's professional conduct standards for lawyers.

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The case Marcus was involved in was one of the earliest election challenges that Trump filed and one of the most short-lived. Submitted just two days after the election, it sought to halt the vote counting in Philadelphia, accusing elections officials of illegally excluding Trump's poll watchers from observing the process. A federal judge denied Trump's motion for an emergency injunction on the same day that the lawsuit was filed.

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Marcus wrote that "the client has used the lawyer's services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement."

  The Hill

What? He just now figured that out? Didn't he read the lawsuits he was filing?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Fuck off back under your rock.  You have been instrumental in keeping Trump afloat by betraying YOUR office.

Yeah, not to mention, if he didn't know, he found out real quick and didn't say anything.

Only six Republican senators ultimately voted to sustain an objection raised by Cruz to Arizona’s electoral slate on Wednesday after 13 Republicans signaled before the polls closed in Georgia Tuesday that they would support such an objection. Only seven GOP senators supported a second objection raised by Hawley to Pennsylvania’s election results.

The drop-off in support was a reflection of Trump’s plummeting political stock after the loss of the Senate majority and his response to the rioting in the Capitol.

Many Republicans are scrambling to distance themselves from Trump after he publicly pressured Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election at a joint session of Congress on Wednesday and then kept silent after a pro-Trump mobbed swarmed the Capitol and Senate chamber, sending lawmakers to secure rooms while police locked down the campus.

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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who has been a strong Trump ally during his first term, late on Wednesday said [...] “I do think the president bears some responsibility. Certainly, he bears responsibility for his own actions and his own words and today in watching his speech, I have to admit I gasped,” Cramer said.

  The Hill

Apparently Senator Cramer has had his head in the sand for four years.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that Donald Trump should resign the presidency immediately and that if the Republican Party cannot separate itself from Trump, she isn’t certain she has a future with the party.

  Anchorage Daily News

What was that she said when she voted "no" on impeachment?  Oh yeah, she said she thought he'd learned his lesson.

Fox News contributor and formerWhite House press secretary Ari Fleischer has vowed to no longer “defend” President Trump following Wednesday’s pro-Trump riot that overtook the Capitol.

“At this point, I won’t defend him anymore,” Fleischer, who served in the George W. Bush administration and who voted for Trump in 2020, told The Associated Press.

“I won’t defend him for stirring the pot that incited the mob,” the GOP strategist added. “He’s on his own.”

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Fleischer had previously vocalized support for Trump, writing in an October opinion piece for The Hill that he planned to cast his vote for the sitting president in the 2020 election, viewing the choice between Trump and Biden as “between a personally offensive outsider who signs good policies and a professionally offensive politician who will turn bad ideas into law.”

“Say what you will about Trump violating norms, he has never tried to redo the balance of power by irregular means,” Fleischer wrote at the time.

  The Hill

And where the Hell does Kellyanne Conway get off?  She's been one of Trump's biggest enablers.

Crenshaw implicated in Trump admin smear attempt

At least two veterans groups, along with more than a thousand individual former service members and Department of Defense civilians, have called for the resignation of Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) over his alleged role in helping [Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie] collect discrediting information about a female veteran who said she was sexually assaulted.

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Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, and [the female Navy veteran] at one point served in the same command unit together.

"As a veteran, Dan Crenshaw swore the same oath we did to protect the Constitution, yet in Congress, he's doing the exact opposite, enabling Trump and now, silencing and smearing his fellow veterans," Common Defense said in a statement. "It's clear: Dan Crenshaw is not morally fit to be a member of the House of Representatives."

The push comes as Vote Vets and hundreds of individual veterans have also said Crenshaw should vacate his office.

A nearly yearlong investigation by the VA inspector general (IG) released last week showed an orchestrated effort by Wilkie, a Trump appointee, to collect dirt on Goldstein that could discredit her claim that a man sexually assaulted her at a VA facility in September 2019. Crenshaw told Wilkie that Goldstein has made past frivolous sexual assault allegations in the Navy, Wilkie's top deputies told investigators, an allegation that Crenshaw has vehemently denied.

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Crenshaw's communication director, Justin Discigil, provided the same statement to Newsweek that it did earlier this week when two of Crenshaw's Democratic veteran colleagues—Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Jason Crow (D-Colo.)—called for a congressional ethics probe into the Republican.

"This is a completely fabricated narrative that has no truth to it. Rep. Crenshaw never participated in a 'smear campaign,' as he has said repeatedly," Discigil said. "Any claim to the contrary is a slanderous political attack and nothing more."

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The IG report also said that Wilkie and his senior officials worked to erode Goldstein's reputation both within the VA and to the press by funneling potentially damaging information to reporters. The report labeled actions by Wilkie, his top aides and Crenshaw as "unprofessional and disparaging."

Goldstein is a staffer for House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano (D-Calif.), which led Wilkie and Crenshaw to claim her sexual assault allegations were part of a Democratic plot against the men.

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The report concluded that no criminal evidence was found for either Wilkie or Crenshaw, but the internal watchdog noted that it could not fully investigate because the two men refused to cooperate. Crenshaw would not speak with the IG while Wilkie declined follow-up interviews.

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In less than 24 hours, more than a thousand individual veterans have also signed onto an open letter for Crenshaw's resignation.

  Newsweek

Pity poor Georgia

Texas Republicans already claimed sovereignty over Georgia this week, and they might have gotten away with it if not for a pesky U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Now a Texas congressman wants to mount a one-man invasion of Georgia.

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw released a polished 3-minute video over the weekend featuring him as a soldiering crusader who, with the help of a British-accented computer, parachutes into Georgia to battle “antifa.”

At one point, his bodyguard mispronounces U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s name. At another, he calls for Republicans to “bring everyone” to help ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs -- right before he jumps off a plane solo.

Republicans have warned of legions of out-of-state Democrats seeking to infiltrate Georgia to help Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Now there’s splashy video evidence of a Texas congressman urging Republicans to do just that.

It wasn’t lost on many that Texas had, a few days earlier, filed a lawsuit riddled with conspiracy theories and specious claims that sought to overturn Georgia’s election results.

“For real though, Texas has done enough this week,” said state Sen. Jen Jordan, D-Sandy Springs. “You can sit tight, hoss.”

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Dan jumped the gun

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Cue Louie Gohmert on Fox News

He will be saying how he wasn't actually apologizing for the president.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) thanked House Republicans for their outpouring of support Thursday after President Trump’s suggestion during a campaign rally that her late husband, John Dingell, might be “looking up” from hell.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) thanked House Republicans for their outpouring of support Thursday after President Trump’s suggestion during a campaign rally that her late husband, John Dingell, might be “looking up” from hell.

The previous night, after the House’s tense debate to approve two articles of impeachment against Trump, the president lashed out at Dingell for her vote against him, especially after he gave military support for John Dingell’s memorial services.

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Dingell appeared Thursday morning on CNN, and host Alisyn Camerota queued a clip of Trump’s incendiary remarks with Dingell on a split screen. The congresswoman’s face remained stoic as Trump mimicked her in a phone call he made to Dingell after her husband died.

But her eyes closed tightly for a moment when Trump arrived at the line she knew was coming.

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“ ‘John would be so thrilled. He’s looking down,’ ” Dingell told him, according to Trump, who then said to the crowd: “Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know.”

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Despite an uproar from Democrats and some Republicans, Trump has not apologized.

  WaPo

Trump does not apologize. You'll die waiting for that day.

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a close family friend who served as a eulogist at Dingell’s February funeral Mass in Georgetown, called on Trump to apologize. “I’ve always looked up to John Dingell,” Upton tweeted. “. . . There was no need to ‘dis’ him in a crass political way. Most unfortunate and an apology is due.”

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“Merry Christmas Debbie, you deserve to be able to heal in peace. Those comments were totally unnecessary,” tweeted Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Texas conservative and frequent Trump defender.

When will Upton and Crenshaw be announcing their retirement?

[Minority leader Kevin] McCarthy — who, at Dingell’s funeral, sat in the front pew with Pelosi and other congressional leaders — declined to address Trump’s comments Thursday at a news conference, describing the Dingells as “very good individuals.”

Bold stance, Kev.

Trump’s remarks Wednesday echo his unrelenting attacks against the late senator John McCain of Arizona even after his death, which have drawn criticism from Republicans. In the same way Trump attacked Dingell for voting to impeach him despite “A-plus treatment” for her deceased husband, he went after McCain’s loved ones for not sufficiently thanking him for McCain’s funeral.

“I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted, which as president I had to approve,” Trump inaccurately said in March, apparently referring to authorizing the military transport of McCain’s body. “I don’t care about this. I didn’t get a thank-you — that’s okay. We sent him on the way.”

It couldn't be more obvious that he does indeed care. 

America's petty, disgusting and dickless IMPOTUS.

A Congressman's argument against universal background checks

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Look who he's retweeting now

In case you have been spared, Bongino is a right-wing radio host, who, as you can see, puts out a bunch of shit.

But I don't know what the hell is wrong with this guy:



In San Francisco, non-citizens with certain qualifications are allowed to vote in school board elections.  That's it.

And while I'm on the asshat's tweets, because I don't want to do another post today about them, check this one out: does he assume his base don't know what the word "apprehend" means? 



Also, the wall is not being built.  And why do we need it if the Border Patrol has the situation in hand?  Tweets like this are going to be evidence in court in cases challenging his "emergency" declaration.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.