READ: Feds Charge Nebraska Rep. Fortenberry Over Alleged Lies About Foreign Campaign Cash | Talking Points Memo

Unknown to Fortenberry, prosecutors say, the person Fortenberry called had been cooperating with the FBI since September 2016.

This looks like entrapment. If the @$$holes at the FBI don’t have anything better to do, they should start investigating the deal Jared Kushner got for his building 666 Fifth Avenue. And boy it was way more than 30 grand.

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He’s going to run with that whole “FBI from California” bit to rile up his base. As a fellow Nebraskan I hope they find a nice, dark hole to throw him in.

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These guys are like gang members or mafia, now he’s “made.”

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Yeah… it’s been awhile Osborne was there for like a quarter century… so… yep… Probably why, winning some 80% of your games. Pelini isn’t bad they are just not a ‘must watch’.

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Leased from Warren’s Rent-A-Cornfieldscape.

On Tuesday, Fortenberry released a YouTube video of himself, his wife, and their dog, taken in what appears to be the back of their car with what may or may not be a cornfield as a backdrop.

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Pumpkin Spice Latté drinking elites, out of touch with real Americans!

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Got to admire the brazen R.W. republican style of the guy. Even though he’s been caught bloody-handed taking illegal money, he’s claiming that it is really just food dye thickened with a little Nebraska corn syrup. The guy has the whole good-old boy, corn pone riff down to a “T”: the pickup, the dog, the wholesome-supportive wife, the salt of the earth mid-west accent, and the faux-innocent smile.

If Rolls Royce made a pickup truck, he would probably own one – well, if a corporate donor gave it to him.

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His wife looks very concerned. The dog appears clueless.

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So One Goober is indicted.
When will we read of “individual one” getting his “papers” and perp walked??
Hmmm??

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OT

“I think there’s a real desire on the part of the attorney general, for the most part, not to look backward,” Schiff said in response. “Do I disagree with that? I do disagree with that, and I disagree with it most vehemently when it comes to what I consider even more serious offenses. For example, a taped conversation of Donald J. Trump on the phone with Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state from Georgia, trying to coerce him into fraudulently finding 11,780 votes.

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Schiff is very perceptive, and completely accurate. TMFWWNBN is never going to be criminally charged for election interference (or anything, really) and he’ll pardon himself next time he’s President, he’s not going to make that mistake again - even morons can learn eventually.

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It’s a bullshit process charge, for sure, but since the FEC is usually toothless and blind, I’ll allow it.

Tuesday, the 4th of never.

“It’s all a mistake – I just have a very wide financial stance!”

(h/t Larry Craig)

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Good news that the yahoos are seeing this.

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Well, now we know who actually responds to those emails from Nigerian billionaires.

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Yet more partisan witch hunt prosecutions Biden! Can we have more, please?

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It’s not clear why it took more than two years from that interview to bring charges against Fortenberry.

“Heh, heh. Quaint.”

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… with what may or may not be a cornfield as a backdrop.

"If you billed it, they will come."

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