Originally published at: RFK Jr. Signals Brewing Attack On Abortion Pill Mifepristone - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Thursday to a Senate committee that the Biden administration had hidden evidence of the danger of the abortion drug mifepristone — an age-old anti-abortion smear that gives the movement pretext to make the medicine difficult to obtain. “During the Biden administration, they actually twisted the…
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RFKjr should be removed from his job. He is a clear and present danger to us all
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RFK: “During the Biden administration, they actually twisted the data to bury one of the safety signals.”
No they didn’t, you dumb shite.
Mifepristone (RU-486) safety studies have been conducted for the past 55 years, and deemed safe. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. It is legal in the US since 2000.
Biden had nothing to do with safety studies relative to mifepristone approval.
(Jesus, why isn’t this guy under oath so they can charge him with perjury?)
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To cool myself down, a little humor re: Epstein victims testimony, which should have gotten more play from the media
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I listened to much of the hearings. Typically, RFKjr twisted and made contradictory arguments. For vaccines & mifepristone, he wants some sort of long-term double-blind placebo trials (shades of Tuskegee Syphilis study!). But then complained that ‘ivory tower’ studies hold back important treatments, e.g., some ‘miraculous’ ones by (unnamed) doctors for long-term covid.
No wonder he refused to be sworn.
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Then there is this 
Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, has led the charge in accusing Trump opponents of mortgage fraud. “If somebody is claiming two primary residences, that is not appropriate, and we will refer it for criminal investigation,” Pulte said last month.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer entered into two primary-residence mortgages in quick succession, including for a second home near a country club in Arizona, where she’s known to vacation. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has primary-residence mortgages in New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has one primary-residence mortgage in Long Island and another in Washington, D.C., according to loan records.
(ProPublica)
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Call me crazy, call me foolish, but a person with a drug addled, damaged brain should NOT be in charge of HHS. RFK Jr. demonstrated his exponential incompetence today.
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Bullshitting is much more fun. And stringing folks along making them listen to his drivel.
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Does trump have mortgages on his properties?
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You don’t have to be under oath. Lying to Congress is still illegal.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/98-807
Gawd am I ever sick of this lousy board software being unable to render previews for so many common websites.
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Summary
Federal courts, Congress, and federal agencies rely upon truthful information in order to make informed decisions. Federal law therefore proscribes providing the federal courts, Congress, or federal agencies with false information. The prohibition takes four forms: false statements; perjury in judicial proceedings; perjury in other contexts; and subornation of perjury.
Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, the general false statement statute, outlaws material false statements in matters within the jurisdiction of a federal agency or department. It reaches false statements in federal courts and federal grand jury sessions as well as congressional hearings and administrative matters but not the statements of advocates or parties in court proceedings. Under § 1001, a statement is a crime if it is false, regardless of whether it is made under oath.
In contrast, an oath is the hallmark of the three perjury statutes in Title 18. The oldest, § 1621, condemns presenting material false statements under oath in federal official proceedings. Section 1623 of the same title prohibits presenting material false statements under oath in federal court proceedings, although it lacks some of § 1621’s traditional procedural features, such as a two-witness requirement. Subornation of perjury, barred in § 1622, consists of inducing another to commit perjury. All four sections carry a penalty of imprisonment for not more than five years, although § 1001 is punishable by imprisonment for not more than eight years when the offense involves terrorism or one of several federal sex offenses. The same five-year maximum penalty attends the separate crime of conspiracy to commit any of the four substantive offenses.
A defendant’s false statements in the course of a federal criminal investigation or prosecution may also result in an enhanced sentence under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for the other offenses that were the subject of federal investigation or prosecution.
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Just in:
Now, Trump wants to change the name of the Department of Defense to the department of War.
That will show dos Dems!!
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Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), one of the chamber’s staunchest anti-abortion zealots, nodded along, telling Kennedy to “follow the science”
“…into a dark alleyway, so you can kosh it on the head when no one is looking.”
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If the republican congress is so eager to do as the convicted felon wants, why doesn’t he just ask them to pass a resolution or law to allow it – such as renaming the Department of Defense. Instead he does everything with executive orders.
How many EO’s did he sign (or auto pen signed) does it make now (since Jan. 2025) ??
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Shortly we will be at war with Venezuela, sad to say. And we will have started it.
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Tee Hee Hee…
The real question is “How many mortgages does he have on his properties?”
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Just posting this article from The Sunday Mirror, a paper owned by Robert Maxwell, from the November 23rd, 1997 edition.
Anoushka De Georgiou is one of the girls who is trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein. She bravely has dedicated her life to helping sexual assault survivors, and is one of the Epstein victims who is speaking out.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is his daughter
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I may not remember this right, but some of those 34 felonies were because of mortgage fraud. Wasn’t he diddling his condominium specs for a better mortgage rate and playing it off getting a better tax rate?
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Of the 7 friends I had 1 lived. Heroin is an automatic disqualifier.
Shows you how deep we are right now.
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Another fraud story that just seemed to slip away.
Originally reported as $270 million in forgiveness.
From Oct. 2020
But later upped to $287 million. And should have been reported as income and paid tax on. From Jan. 2022
Forgiveness of $287M in Trump’s Chicago Tower Debt Raises Fraud and Tax Questions
Rather than fight him, they canceled out the debt. He spread it out over 5 years.
The saga surrounding former president Donald Trump’s tax returns includes the revelation that, since 2010, his lenders have forgiven roughly $287 million in the debt that financed the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. The episode underscores the need for lenders to exercise the highest level of diligence when extending credit to borrowers with checkered financial histories.
The New York Times reported, based on an extensive investigation, that Trump failed to repay more than $700 million in loans when they came due in 2008 and again after receiving an extension. He then sued his main creditor, Deutsche Bank, for $3 billion when it denied a request for a second extension, accusing the bank of “predatory lending” practices.
Eventually, Trump reached an undisclosed settlement with Deutsche Bank and another lender, Fortress Investment Group. According to The Times, the creditors found settling preferable to drawn-out litigation against Trump, who by then had earned a reputation for using the legal system to fight debt repayment. Trump’s tax returns revealed that the creditors canceled $287 million in debt related to the Chicago project and that he managed to avoid paying taxes on almost all the canceled-debt income. He spread that income out over five years and offset it by losses sustained from his other businesses.
This type of underhandedness included buying, then overvaluing properties - which led him to his fraud convictions.
The New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney are separately investigating whether Trump overvalued properties when he needed loans or insurance policies, while undervaluing the same properties to achieve tax savings.
For example, the Financial Times reported that Trump bought a property in New York called Seven Springs in 1996 for $7.5 million and, in 2012, valued it at $291 million. Allegedly, Trump inflated the value to attract funding to build a golf course and more than a dozen individual houses on the property. Trump was also attempting to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, so he would have wanted his net worth to look as high as possible to help his chances. But in 2013, Forbes Advisor valued Seven Springs at just $19.5 million.
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