NH Election-Denying Senate Nom Suddenly Sees The Light

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.

During a debate with fellow GOP New Hampshire Senate hopefuls last month, retired Gen. Don Bolduc, the proud election truther who won the nomination this week, bragged about signing a letter falsely claiming Trump won the 2020 election. Then Bolduc declared that “dammit, I stand by” the letter and “I’m not switching horses, baby!”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1432398
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Until he did.

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That horse looks like he just got switched.

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Did these migrants flown to MV have the proper identification to fly (required even on charter flights), and was that identification checked properly? Maybe the FAA should look into this.

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Yeah, listening to him hem and haw on that clip is just hysterical.

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I do hope there’s one journalist in New Hampshire with the balls to ask the only question that needs to be asked: “Were you full of shit then, or are you full of shit now?”

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  • Yesterday, Bolduc chucked the horse into a volcano and announced on Fox that “the election was not stolen,” something he discovered after having “done a lot of research on this.”

Speaking of horses, horse hockey. He is saying what will get him elected and the denier position can be somewhat poison in the general. He’s saying this now, but the horse will be of a different color if NH is foolish enough to elect him.

  • James is also reportedly mulling a lawsuit against one of Trump’s adult children who helped him run the business: Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump. It’s unclear which one James is looking at for a potential suit, though.

Hey, Letitia, ma’am… Nike - just do it!!!

  • Democrats are hoping that more Republicans will get on board once they don’t have to sweat over backlash from their conservative voters. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-CO) said yesterday that the bill would get more votes in November and December than it would on Monday.

Tactical error - after the election, the Republicans don’t have to please ANYone. Dems should’ve put this on the floor and said thumbs up or thumbs down.

  • And DeSantis’ genius deputy press secretary tried to defend the grotesque gambit yesterday by essentially agreeing that yes, his boss was, in fact, doing a human trafficking.

If even this guy can see it, why can no one else?

  • But it’ll be months before Willis’ office decides to indict anyone.

And by then, it’ll be too late. It’s a shame, but here’s a pretty good indicator of how this is all going to go - the perpetrators or their ‘descendants’ are free to continue while we wait.

Federal Judge Aileen Cannon is still blocking the DOJ’s investigation into Trump hoarding White House records (some of which were classified) at Mar-a-Lago: On Thursday, she rejected the Justice Department’s request to use the classified documents in its probe.

Hope she’s enjoying the very limited time she will have in the limelight. Wishing the judicial review board would start the investigation into this, but that may be too hopeful.

“By the end of my 10 years, it didn’t matter how much money they threw at me. That job changed me. I didn’t feel like I was even a person anymore. I’d lost my hobbies, my friends, and my fiancée. More importantly, I’d lost any reason to live.”

And people want to know why ‘nobody wants to work anymore’. For many, this same story could be told, regardless of the job.

The California Republican also said he plans on unmasking the culprit sometime in the future.

Please proceed, sir.

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A neighing gelding …

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The answer is an emphatic YES

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Attorney: Migrants were kidnapped - The Martha’s Vineyard Times (mvtimes.com)
Self said she will pursue all legal remedies. “We believe they are victims of kidnapping, and the perpetrators of this breathtakingly cruel political stunt should know that it may well result in every individual who was induced onto those planes by fraud becoming eligible for a U visa

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Not quite off-topic, but a little bit hopeful.

Today, Heather Cox Richardson ended her Letter from an American for the day (no, she’s not stopping the series) with this paragraph:

And I am ending here, on that note, leaving for later the many other things that happened today, because this is the third anniversary of these Letters from an American, and it strikes me what a contrast these stories are to the news of Trump’s phone call asking Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to smear Biden that launched this project. I like that the three-year marker reflects that change, and that it, in turn, reflects you all. These letters are really yours, driven by your questions, complaints, tips, ideas, decency, principles, and kindness. I thank you for all of it, and for your faith, both in me and in American democracy.

How far we’ve come - how much farther we have to go…

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McCarthy Plans To Expose Jan. 6 Call Leaker

As he was instructed to do at the golf course.

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"Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. "

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1907-title-8-usc-1324a-offenses

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Note to Fanni: Lock them up. Lock them all up.

Fun Fact: Felons are ineligible to vote in most states. Sad.

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The requirements to be a major player in the current GOP:

  1. Cynicism
  2. Cruelty
  3. Moral depravity
  4. The ability and willingness to lie at the drop of a hat
  5. A total lack of concern for people outside your defined group (Probably dovetails with 2…)
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So Donny BALDASS had his “Come to Jay-Zuss” moment proving that he’s just like any other Republican that lies their ass off to get power.

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Who could have guessed?

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FIrsT!!! oh, wtf?

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