A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
One of the women who had anonymously accused GOP Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster of groping her has now identified herself publicly: Elizabeth Todsen, a former political aide, was among eight women who originally alleged last month that Herbster groped them. Todsen, who alleges that Herbster groped her at a political event in 2019, is the second accuser to reveal her name publicly.
2 things: 1. I read the 1st installment of the NYT Carlson series. It is well written and chilling. 2. Complaints of sexual abuse against Mr. Herbster isn’t going to hurt him at all on the GOP side. Misogyny is now one of the main (and few…) pillars of GOP policy.
Trump, who has endorsed Herbster, defended him at a rally for him last night and claimed without any evidence that the allegations were a political hit job against the candidate. In fact, the ex-president said it was because of the allegations that he went to the rally; to defend the “badly maligned” Herbster.
And the Right will allow this guy to wear the harassment as a badge of honor.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led a delegation of House lawmakers to Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a trip that was kept secret until she announced the visit afterward on Sunday.
And the GQP 7 are scheduling another visit to Moscow for July 4th??
Speaking of major breakthroughs in the committee’s hunt for email data, ex-Trump legal adviser and coup architect John Eastman is expected to hand over 10,000 pages of his Trump-related emails.
Seems odd that this is almost a footnote, but I believe there was mention of this over the weekend.
…a Trump-appointed federal judge shot down the Republican National Committee’s effort to block the House Jan. 6 Committee from accessing documents that would help the panel figure out whether the RNC fundraised off of Trump’s 2020 election lies before the Capitol attack.
Those that have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors will start choosing members of the special grand jury today in her investigation into Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election.
I wonder if that guy in NYC is taking any notes? The one that allowed the GJ to expire on the TFG charges.
Not a single Republican went with her, even though they were offered. All the testicle tanning in the world will not make up for their lack of manhood.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has sparked outrage in Israel after telling the Italian television news program Zona Bianca that even Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood.”
Lavrov, largely unchecked by host Giuseppe Brindisi, went on to blame Western media for “misinterpreting” the facts of his boss Vladimir Putin’s deadly “special operation” in Ukraine. He repeated the lies that Russian forces had only hit military targets and that the Bucha massacre was a staged event.
Given what Hannity and others have said about Biden, I guess forgetting Vance’s name definitely proves that the Orange Asshole doesn’t have the mental capacity to be President…but, hell, we all knew that.
Turds of a feather. The sexual assaulters, abusers and harassers have to stick together. I can’t keep track anymore of the scumbags DFG has publicly supported.
Little boomer boys would dress up as cowboys. It wasn’t so much a thing for grown men to do but times are different now, and there’s less social cost for making an ass out of yourself.
