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news.yahoo.com Parkland dad's book looks at NRA's grip on America: 'Stop listening to the liars' Hannah Phillips, Palm Beach Post 5–6 minutes WEST PALM BEACH — For every prayer offered after a mass shooting, Fred Guttenberg is ready with a plea. "Stop listening to the liars," the father of a victim in the Parkland mass shooting tragedy said this month. His new book, "American Carnage," spells out how. Guttenberg's 14-year-old daughter Jaime was one of 17 people killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. Five years later, Guttenberg has teamed up with a Canadian criminologist to combat fiction with fact in the debate surrounding guns in America. Their book, "American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence," chips away at what its authors call the gun lobby's "40-year disinformation campaign" aimed at selling as many guns as possible, no matter the consequence. "America is fed up," Guttenberg said. "And America is now coming to the realization that they've been lied to." Fred Guttenberg's daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland shooting in 2018. The book he co-authored with Tom Gabor, "American Carnage: Shattering the Myths that Fuel Gun Violence," published May 2, 2023. For Subscribers: DeSantis backs lowering age to buy a rifle to 18 Related: On Parkland fifth anniversary, gun safety advocates cite 'less progress' than expected Their book counters refrains like "guns don't kill people, people kill people" with the growing body of research that reveals people with guns kill people, and more effectively than those without. If the weapon is irrelevant, the U.S. could save billions of dollars a year by arming the military with hammers instead of guns, Guttenberg and Gabor say. They take aim at the notion that only a "good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun," — an expression coined by the National Rifle Association that Guttenberg said turned the Sandy Hook massacre into a "gun-sales bonanza." Jaime Guttenberg was among 17 students and staff shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018. Armed citizens often lack the training for high-stakes situations and rarely intervene to stop an active shooter successfully, Guttenberg and Gabor write. "American Carnage" points to shooting after shooting where even armed law-enforcement officers did little to stop an assailant. At Marjory Stoneman Douglas, a resource officer remained outside while the gunman opened fire into classrooms floor by floor. At Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, officers from six law enforcement agencies waited in the hallway with assault-style weapons for more than an hour as a gunman killed 21 children and teachers. To suggest that arming more people will reduce gun violence is as "illogical" as pushing opioids to curb the opioid crisis, Guttenberg and Gabor argue. Parkland: Ex-deputy says he did 'everything humanly possible' to stop mass shooting Tom Gabor poses with a copy of his and Fred Guttenberg's book "American Carnage: Shattering the Myths that Fuel Gun Violence." They argue that the country isn't as hopelessly divided as legislative inaction might suggest. A 2018 survey conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found a number of policies with support from gun owners and non-owners, including universal background checks, better training for concealed carriers and red flag laws. "The gun lobby and gun extremists want to convince people that it's utterly futile to try to introduce gun legislation," Gabor said. "And that simply isn't the case." Gabor began writing the book in 2018 but stopped when news broke of the Parkland shooting and turned his attention to another project exploring solutions to the gun violence crisis. When he picked the project back up years later, he added Guttenberg to the team. "American Carnage" is Gabor's eighth book on criminology, and Guttenberg's second. His first was a personal account of the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, whereas "American Carnage" offers a look at the misinformation that fuels tragedies like it. It leans on decades' worth of research and sometimes hard-to-grasp statistics, but the authors' message at its core is simple: The gun lobby has been lying for decades. "The result of that has been the carnage we see today," Guttenberg said. "My daughter was a cost of doing business." Hannah Phillips is a journalist covering public safety and criminal justice at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at hphillips@pbpost.com. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Parkland shooting victim dad debunks the NRA's stand on gun violence

yahoo.com Louisiana Republicans Kill Rape, Incest Exceptions to Abortion Ban After Unhinged Hearing Lorena O’Neil 3–4 minutes Photo: Melinda Deslatte (AP) After a truly eyebrow-raising hearing on Wednesday, Louisiana’s House criminal justice committee voted against adding rape and incest exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, one of the strictest in the country. Pastor John Raymond of Slidell, La., testified against the bill, saying that an abortion in the case of rape would make it so there are two victims instead of one–a talking point parroted by anti-abortion activists throughout the discussion. Women will “clamor to put old boyfriends behind bars in order to dispense with the inconvenience of giving birth,” he said. Read more 36 Gifts for Your Friend Who Won't Shut Up About Astrology A Hot Girl's Guide to Having Bunions in Your 20s Amber Heard’s Appeal Lists 16 Ways the Court Screwed Her Over in Johnny Depp Defamation Case Raymond, mind you, currently faces numerous criminal charges for cruelty to juveniles, including multiple allegations of physically abusing a 4-year-old, once allegedly holding him upside down by the ankle and whipping his butt. The pastor has also been accused of taping three 13-year-old boys’ mouths shut after they refused to stop talking in class. The rest of the hearing was equally disheartening. Democrat Delisha Boyd, who introduced the bill to add rape and incest exceptions, revealed that she was the product of rape after her mother was sexually assaulted when she was 15. “My mother never recovered,” said Boyd, adding that her mother died just before she was 28 years old. Republicans, of course, were unmoved by this argument. Anti-abortion activist Debbie Melvin said abortion “can be like a second rape.” “A baby is the only beautiful thing that can come from rape,” she said. Most rape survivors who testified supported Boyd’s bill. One survivor wept as she said that if she hadn’t been able to have an abortion she may have died by suicide. Morgan Lamandre, the president and CEO of Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR), said that she used to be vice president of the anti-abortion club at her high school, but changed her mind after working with sexual assault survivors. She pointed out that forcing a person to carry a rapist’s baby is only further traumatizing them. “By forcing survivors to give birth, you are forcing them to forever be connected to their rapist,” Lamandre said. “In Louisiana, men are allowed to choose the mother of their children regardless of what the mother wants.” The House Criminal Justice Committee then killed the bill in a 10-5 vote. All of the Republicans on the committee voted against adding the exception. One Republican representative, Tony Bacala, said he was voting against it because its author, Rep. Boyd, is the product of rape, and she turned out to be a good person. We’re living in hell. and their leader hangs a toddler up by one leg and whips him? what the hell is wrong with you people?

Donald Trump Is Not a Legitimate Candidate for President Jack Holmes 6–7 minutes Donald Trump Is Not a Legitimate CandidateGetty Images CNN will hold a town hall event with Donald J. Trump on Wednesday evening. On the face of it, hosting a presidential candidate to answer questions from voters is an unremarkable cable-network exercise, though in this case it's the day after the candidate in question was found liable by a civil jury for sexual abuse. Even before that verdict, critics were pounding CNN on the basis that in a live format, it will be highly difficult to get viewers the truth alongside whatever Trump is serving up. Moderator Kaitlan Collins has a massive task wading through the river of drivel, but the root question we ought to be asking here is why we, the press and public, have decided to treat Donald Trump as a legitimate presidential candidate. That is what CNN's move—and a whole lot of other coverage we've seen—does: it suggests that this guy is just a candidate, like President Joe Biden or anyone else, who has views on how to fight inflation or whatever. It does not communicate that just last week, members of a right-wing paramilitary group that pledged allegiance to him were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their role in trying to stop Congress from confirming that he would leave power after losing the 2020 election. An attorney for one of the Proud Boys convicted, Joe Biggs, told the jury that they came to Washington on January 6 because their "commander-in-chief" told them to "be there, it's going to be wild." "It was Donald Trump’s words," said a lawyer for another defendant, then-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. "It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th." You might say this is just lawyers trying to get their clients off, but we don't even really need their input on this. The people who attempted to stop the peaceful transfer of power were carrying Trump flags, chanted their allegiance to him, and targeted his enemies—including Vice President Mike Pence. They were marching atop a mountain of bull**** delusion he constructed over many months. The whole thing was supercharged by Trump's deeper emotional appeal, that America itself was being stolen away from its rightful heirs, which was always more important than this or that conspiracy about voting machines. Parallel to the riot, Trump's White House aides and his congressional allies, including Ted Cruz, were working to stop the election certification long enough to establish a "commission" to engage in yet another phantasmagorical assessment of the election-fraud claims, with the ultimate goal of sending it back to Republican-controlled state legislatures. The state-level allies would then hand Trump their Electoral Votes and make him president despite the fact that the actual citizens of those states voted for Joe Biden. Let’s not pretend it’s in doubt who these people were there to represent. Samuel Corum - Getty Images In this, it was an attempt to seize power in contravention of the expressed will of the American people, and a grave assault on the basic foundations of the American republic. (He called up Georgia's chief elections official and demanded that he "find" the exact number of votes that would overturn Joe Biden's win there! It's on tape!) It was disqualifying, in my view, when Trump moved to ban all adherents of one religion from coming to America, or when he unleashed a deluge of nativist hatred against people who want to immigrate to this country. But that was, ultimately, a matter of political preference. His attempt to stay in power after the American people removed him from office is not a policy dispute or a question of differing social values. It is completely incompatible with any attempt to seek an office of the public trust. He should be barred for life from any such office, which he would have been if the Republican Senate had done its duty and convicted him in his second impeachment trial. It still could, theoretically, if Special Counsel Jack Smith chose to charge him for any role in the seditious conspiracy and he were convicted. In that scenario, he could be barred from office per section three of the Fourteenth Amendment. All of that is unlikely to play out before the 2024 election, so there's little doubt that under the law, Donald Trump will be a candidate in good standing for federal office. But legitimacy is about more than just technically qualifying to run. It's also about more than just having supporters. Trump has many, and according to a new poll from CBS News and YouGov, 75% of them say they're voting for him at least in part because they believe his story that he actually won the last election. Never mind all the failed lawsuits and the courts that found no admissible evidence, and never mind that he's never gotten more American citizens' votes than his opponent. All that and the many court cases he's embroiled in are secondary to the simple fact that he has committed crimes against the American republic. As a body politic, we should take this opportunity—having passed on all the previous—to expel him. The political press plays a crucial role in how that body functions, and it is failing. Any news report on Trump's candidacy that fails to mention his attack on the American republic a couple of years ago is failing the American voter. If it doesn't always seem relevant, I invite you to imagine what would have happened if the scheme cooked up amongst Trump's aforementioned aides and allies had succeeded, and he'd stayed in power for another term despite losing the election. How do you think someone who's taken power in these circumstances would respond to the inevitable protests? Do you think that a man who seized power in extralegal fashion would serve out his second term and then leave? Where, in short, does the political press think all this was going? What do they think their lives and jobs might have looked like if he was successful? This is not a game. wow. someone gets it. this was posted wednesday morning before trump showed the world the same old nasty trump.

People want to follow him': What Auburn football is getting in transfer QB Payton Thorne Richard Silva, Montgomery Advertiser 6–8 minutes AUBURN — Former Naperville Central High School football coach Mike Stine saw the parallels immediately. He was at minicamp for the New Orleans Saints a handful of years ago and was given the opportunity to sit in on an offensive meeting. Leading the gathering wasn't coach Sean Payton, nor was it offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael. In fact, it wasn't anyone on the staff. It was Drew Brees. FREEZE'S THOUGHTS: What Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze said about MSU transfer QB Payton Thorne RECRUITING: How Auburn football's Hugh Freeze has done in building relationships with in-state coaches "If you would have come and watched our offensive meetings a lot of times at Naperville Central, Payton (Thorne) ran our offensive film sessions," Stine told the Montgomery Advertiser this week. "He had that ability and we allowed him to do some of that. I’m not saying he’s going to be Drew Brees, but there was a lot of similarities." Stine saw the way Brees commanded a room. Thorne did the same at Naperville Central. He also noticed how people gravitated toward Brees, looking to absorb anything they could from the future hall of famer. Stine couldn't help but think about the same thing happening between Thorne and his teammates. "People want to follow him," said Kofi Hughes, who has been Thorne's trainer for the last seven years. "Payton has always been the guy that’s like, ‘Hey, we’re going this way. Let’s roll.’ He was like that in high school and I’ve seen him do the same thing at Michigan State." Thorne spent four seasons with the Spartans before he entered the transfer portal April 30 and committed to Auburn five days later. He joins a quarterback competition that features incumbent starter Robby Ashford and redshirt freshman Holden Geriner, along with true freshman Hank Brown. But Thorne has something those other QBs don't: Experience. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Illinois native has appeared in 29 college games, completing 61% of his passes for 6,493 yards and 49 touchdowns. He's also been intimately around the sport since he was a child. His grandfather, John Thorne, was a high school coach before leading Division III North Central College to 118 wins over 13 seasons. After John retired, Payton's father, Jeff Thorne, took over and led the Cardinals to their first NCAA Division III national championship in 2019. Michigan State quarterback Payton Thorne throws in the first quarter against Penn State at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, in State College. The Nittany Lions won, 35-16. "He grew up a gym rat," Stine said. "He grew up on the sideline of football (games) with his grandpa and his dad. He grew up in a locker room. ... He grew up in meeting rooms. He’s been around coaches. I don’t know if he has aspirations to be a coach, but he’d be a dang good one because he is detail-oriented. He’ll work one-on-one with receivers to get that exact distance on a route. He’s very detailed that way, and that’s why we really let him run a lot of meetings." Stine was also comfortable allowing Thorne, who started his junior and senior seasons at Naperville Central, to check nearly every play at the line of scrimmage. Stine estimates his former quarterback called about 75% of the team's plays from the line after he saw the defensive alignment. "Sometimes our best was when we just went no-huddle, up-tempo and then Payton was just calling (plays) at the line of scrimmage," Stine said. "He had the ability to digest what the defense (was doing), how they were lining up, what they were going to do and get our guys in the right place. "That's very unique. There’s a lot of college guys that can’t do it, and Payton could do it in high school. He’s been able to do it at the college level, as well.” Auburn coach Hugh Freeze pointed to that acumen when asked what drew him to Thorne. According to Hughes, who was a receiver at Indiana from 2010-13, Thorne's knowledge of what each offensive player on the field must do allows him to challenge his teammates. TRANSFER PORTAL: Will Auburn football continue to be active in the portal? Hugh Freeze is 'open to looking' FREEZE'S STRATEGY: 'I know it can win': Why Hugh Freeze leads recruiting strategy with Auburn football An assistant on Stine's staff during Thorne's time at Naperville Central, Hughes recalled multiple occasions where Thorne would come off the field and not shy away from letting a teammate know he had to do better. "When you talk about intensity in a football player, people usually think of like Ray Lewis at linebacker," Hughes said. "Ultimate intensity, right? I’ve never seen a quarterback play like that. Where he’s coming off and, man, if you didn’t run the right route or if the line wasn’t acting right, you’re going to hear about it. Usually you hear about it from your coach, but you’re going to hear about it from Payton Thorne. "Because there’s just this different level of confidence and there’s this different level of leadership that follows somebody that actually knows what everyone is supposed to do. ... Honestly, anyone who plays the game, you want that. That’s exactly what you want. ... I’ve been playing football my whole life and there’s so many different personalities within the game. The ones that I admire most are the guys that treat it as a profession far before they’re even in the NFL. This is a kid who’s been treating the game as a professional would since he was literally 16 years old." Stine expects Thorne to come in and push not only his teammates, but also the staff to match his work ethic. He wouldn't expect anything less after experiencing that as his coach in high school. "He is so ready for something like the SEC, so ready to contribute to the legacy at Auburn," Hughes said. "Everything that he’s been through these last four or five years, it’s all been pointing in this direction. I can’t say enough great things." Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18. This article originally appeared on Montgomery Advertiser: Auburn transfer QB Payton Thorne brings experience, intensity to Tigers

247sports.com Kirby Smart Hugh Freeze brings tremendous offense back to SEC Nathan King 28–36 minutes Freeze and Smart will face off this season for the first time since 2016 HOOVER, Alabama — For the first time since 2016, Hugh Freeze and Kirby Smart were back on the same grass. They’ll have to wait until Sept. 30 for their first meeting in the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry, though. Freeze and Smart were celebrity participants Wednesday in the 2023 Regions Tradition Pro-Am, an annual golf fundraiser for Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham. Freeze will become the third Auburn coach of Smart’s Georgia tenure when his Tigers host the Bulldogs this fall. And having faced off against him as Alabama’s defensive coordinator four times (2012-15), and once as Georgia’s head coach (2016), Smart is well versed in the challenges posed by Freeze’s offenses. “He does a tremendous job with the RPO game,” Smart said Wednesday when asked what makes Freeze’s teams difficult to defend. “He’s got great belief in his players and his system.” Freeze bested Smart’s Alabama defenses twice in 2014 and 2015, then Ole Miss blasted Smart’s first Georgia team, 45-14 in 2016. In all, Freeze’s offenses at Ole Miss averaged 23.6 points across five meetings against Smart’s defenses. “His players believe in him,” Smart said. “He’s a really good leader and a great football coach.” Freeze’s RPO-based offense — a run-pass-option system where, depending on the defense’s alignment, the Tigers can make decisions on the fly to attack mismatches or weaker areas of the field — was obviously a big emphasis for Auburn’s first-year coaching staff during spring practices. The Tigers’ quarterbacks struggled to grasp the concepts at times, and now Auburn is bringing in a veteran Power Five starter in Michigan State’s Payton Thorne. “It’s always that cat and mouse game that you’re playing with the defense,” Auburn offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery said during spring practice. “And trying to figure out, ‘Where can I take advantage, or what are they giving up to get to the point where they want to be?’ It’s a give-and-take-type system, and a lot of that goes on our quarterbacks.” Since taking over at Georgia, Smart is 7-1 against Auburn, and the Tigers have lost 15 of their last 18 overall against their oldest rival. Georgia is looking to become the first three-peat national champion in modern college football history.

247sports.com How Hugh Freeze evaluates new Auburn WR Caleb Burton Nathan King 30–38 minutes "This one made sense because his high-school tape was pretty dang good. Obviously he was one of the top receivers in the country.” HOOVER, Alabama — Usually when a player is asked to join Ohio State’s receiving corps, it’s a good sign their talent level is more than adequate. That’s partially the reason why Hugh Freeze and his Auburn staff took Caleb Burton in the transfer portal last week — because the former top-75 overall recruit didn’t appear in a game as a true freshman with the Buckeyes. In that sense, Freeze and Auburn’s coaches are viewing Burton’s addition like that of a retroactive freshman signee from the 2022 class. “You went by his high school tape, and what he did there, and then trying to stack your classes in that receiver room where you're not getting all upperclassmen,” Freeze said Wednesday at the 2023 Regions Tradition Pro-Am fundraiser. “And this one made sense because his high-school tape was pretty dang good. Obviously he was one of the top receivers in the country.” Rated as the No. 10 receiver in the country by 247Sports in last year’s recruiting class — and signing with an Ohio State program that has arguably college football’s best track record at the position over the past few seasons — Burton did not appear in any games for the Buckeyes during their run to the College Football Playoff. This spring, Burton was injured on the first day of Ohio State’s practices and missed the rest of spring ball. Burton’s ability to stay healthy at Auburn will be something to monitor, considering he’s played just one full season of football over the last four years following a major knee injury his junior year of high school. Burton visited Auburn last weekend just a few days after entering the portal, and new position coach Marcus Davis made him feel like a major priority to boost a thin unit. “Something they’ve been harping on is (needing) more wide receivers on the team,” Burton said. “And I think that’s a great opportunity," Ohio State returns what’s regarded by many as the top receiving corps in college football, with Marvin Harrison Jr., Emeka Egbuka and Julian Fleming all back — and that’s after the Buckeyes had the first receiver taken in the 2023 NFL draft in Jaxon Smith-Njigba. “(Burton) went to Ohio State — that room is loaded there — so we base that off of his high-school tape, and we're basically getting a freshman,” Freeze said. The 5-foot-11 Burton is the second transfer addition to Auburn’s receiving corps this cycle, joining Cincinnati’s Nick Mardner. Auburn returns starters Ja'Varrius Johnson and Koy Moore — along with exciting sophomore Camden Brown — but the Tigers have struggled to find consistency at receiver over the past couple seasons. Burton should have plenty of opportunities to earn a spot in the main rotation. Michigan State quarterback Payton Thorne is obviously the headliner of Auburn’s post-spring transfer pickups, but the Tigers also brought in more help along the offensive line in the form of Jaden Muskrat, who started at right tackle for Auburn offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery last season when he was the head coach at Tulsa. Of course, Auburn’s probable starting left tackle this season is Dillon Wade, who also followed Montgomery from Tulsa. Auburn seems well positioned already at right tackle with Western Kentucky transfer Gunner Britton, and Freeze said Muskrat is capable of playing an interior spot, too. “He can do both (tackle or guard), which is why he was that high for us — of the ones that went into the portal,” Freeze said. “I think he can do both. Exactly how that looks when we start, I'm not sure yet, but excited to get him.” Defensively, Auburn’s lone transfer addition in the second portal window is App State pass-rusher Jalen McLeod, an All-Sun Belt performer who had six sacks last season and brings a much-needed injection of experience to a jack linebacker position that doesn’t return any of its contributors from last season. “Incredible pass rusher — which we need desperately — and toughness,” Freeze said. “Plays the game hard, high motor. Really excited by Jalen.” Freeze said Wednesday he and his staff would still like to add one or two more wide receivers, another pass-rusher, a linebacker and possibly a defensive back via the transfer portal.

the sad part was she was so right on the deplorables. i mean look what we got in trump. and they are trying again and it is killing this country.

keep polishing the turd known as trump. he is angry but if he gets back in the white house i am in the chris christie camp in he will try to burn the country down. and you morons think he did nothing.

Open in app or online holy s***, CNN, what the **** were you thinking besides "ohmygod the ratings," that is Jeff Tiedrich May 11 just one day after a jury found once-indicted twice-impeached popular-vote-losing insurrection-leading serial-sexual-predating casino-bankrupting hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming classified-document-thieving weather-map-defacing tax-cheating charity-defrauding money-laundering fluorescent tangerine ****face Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, CNN planted a big sloppy wet kiss right smack on his big dumb vacant pumpkin face. there they were, giving a traitor to his country free prime air time and bowing and scraping and calling him ‘mister president’ and giving him the respect and deference he absolutely ******* does not deserve. CNN packed the audience with MAGA enthusiasts. the network bent over backwards to ensure Trump would be able to preen and boast and lie and distort in front of an adoring crowd and receive no push-back at all. it was an uttter ******* embarrassment. Trump mocked the woman he raped. his audience giggled and hooted and cheered. Trump repeated the disgusting fantasy of ‘post-birth abortion.’ “you could kill the baby at 9 months or after it was born.” CNN host Kaitlan Collins let it go unchallenged. what in actual ****. Trump deflected and refused to say he wanted Ukraine to win. his audience swooned. Trump lied once again about the 2020 election. he called January 6th “a beautiful day” and promised to pardon the insurrectionists. his audience broke into applause. Trump called the overturning of Roe v. Wade a “great victory.” ugh. the Trump town hall was a ******* war crime and CNN knew exactly what it was doing, throwing journalism under the bus in a shameless two-fisted grab for ratings. this is dangrous s***, people. normalizing cheap fascism and ****hole loutish behavior is what got us Trump the first time. there’s no reason to believe it can’t happen again. the whole 80 minutes was a tawdry display of lickspittle obsequiousness and no serious person should watch one second of CNN ever again. everyone is entitled to my own opinion is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. i have not watched CNN in years. i got so damn tired of wolfe and breaking news that was not and other things i turned them off. now i am ashamed and disappointed in those guys. and for once lord jesus the next time trump calls a woman nasty when he is what HE is would just slap the crap out of him. it will never happen but a man can dream. besides i do not care if trump is an ex pres he is a traiter to this country and should be behind bars.

guys auburn softball is on at this minute. live right now due to rain delay on the sec network. later.........lol

hindsight is not worth much but we allowed hill to be trashed and we allowed trash in the white house because of it. we would have had few problems if she had been president. i regret voting indie. we allowed trump to make hate popular.

for the last several years the repubs have not won the popular vote. they have been trounced. even hillary stomped trump in the popular vote.

Republicans offer no evidence of crimes at press conference on alleged ‘Biden family corruption’ Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia 11–14 minutes Members of the House Oversight Committee who have alleged that President Joe Biden and members of his family have committed multiple federal crimes failed to offer any evidence that any member of Mr Biden’s family had done anything of the sort, at a press conference to unveil new “evidence” against the Biden family on Wednesday. The nearly hour-long session led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer came one week after Mr Comer and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley alleged in a letter that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has in its records a report detailing “an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions”. Mr Comer had issued a subpoena for the FBI document, known as a FD-1023, and had given FBI Director Christopher Wray until 10am Wednesday to turn over the document. “I mean, guys, you in the press, this is easy pickings,” Representative Byron Donalds of Florida told reporters. “I'm giving you Pulitzer stuff here. Like all you have to do is literally look at our memo and see the level of detail upon which they have created this and it's ... very frustrating.” - ADVERTISEMENT - Flanked by a horde of fellow members of the House Oversight Committee ranging from relatively moderate Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina to opponents of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy such as Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, the assembled GOP representatives tried to make the case that Mr Biden and his family had profited off of his tenure in public service. Republicans attempted to tell the press that the allegations were serious and that reporters should probe into potential illegal activity. In the days leading up to the presentation, Mr Comer and his allies had intimated that they would be presenting bombshell evidence that would show clear instances of wrongdoing. They’d expected a significant turnout and asked reporters attending to RSVP to the press conference. Upon arrival, The Independent was handed a summary of the allegations of impropriety, but when Mr Comer began to speak shortly after 9am, it was clear that seats in the House television studio were not nearly as packed as the chairman and Republican members had likely hoped. As he opened the press conference, Mr Comer noted that the FBI had not yet turned over the report at issue, and said the panel would “report to you only facts when they are verified and indisputable” after receiving the document. He also said his committee “will not pursue witch hunts, or string the American people along for years with false promises of evidence that is beyond circumstantial evidence”. Yet at the same time, the Kentucky Republican offered conclusions for which he had no proof, such as when he told reporters it was “inconceivable that the president did not know” his family members were allegedly receiving “millions of dollars from China”. The House probe being led by Mr Comer, who earlier this year shuttered an investigation into how members of former president Donald Trump’s family came into billions of dollars from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds after he left office in 2017, is a continuation of efforts by top Republicans to tar Mr Biden with corruption allegations through his son, attorney and former lobbyist Hunter Biden, and other members of his family. The first of Mr Trump’s two impeachment trials was touched off by efforts by the then-president and his associates to push Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce sham investigations into both Joe and Hunter Biden, the latter of whom served on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm for several years in the 2010s. In appearances on Fox News, Mr Comer has also alleged that Hunter Biden’s prior business relationship with a Chinese national factored into decisions his father has made as president. He and other top Republicans have accused the president of being “compromised” by his son’s business dealings even though Mr Biden has never been shown to have garnered any financial benefit from them. He has also repeatedly denied having any involvement in his family’s private business affairs. But Republicans have nonetheless attempted to cast the president as somehow leading a family-based enterprise that they’ve unfavourably compared to Mr Trump’s eponymous real estate and branding company, even though two of Mr Trump’s companies were convicted of criminal tax fraud in a New York court last year. Despite promises to prove Mr Biden’s criminality, Mr Comer’s presentation on Wednesday did not allege any criminal acts by Mr Biden or his family – even as he and his fellow committee members told reporters that Hunter Biden, Mr Biden’s brother James, and other members of the president’s family have been involved in “shady business deals that capitalised on Joe Biden's public office and risked our country's national security”. Much of what Mr Comer discussed involved bank records which he said reveal that Hunter Biden had a “lucrative financial relationship” with a Romanian national by the name of Gabriel Popoviciu during the period his father was vice president under Barack Obama. According to The New York Times, Mr Popoviciu retained Hunter Biden, who is a Yale-educated lawyer, to represent him in an effort to fend off criminal charges related to a land deal in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. The funds transfers Republicans suggested were evidence of wrongdoing began in 2015, the year Hunter Biden began representing Mr Popuviciu. Mr Comer described the Romanian national as having been “under investigation for and later convicted of corruption” in his home country, though the Kentucky Republican never alleged that the investigation or conviction had anything to do with Mr Biden or acknowledged that the two men had an attorney-client relationship. One of Hunter Biden’s attorneys, George Mesires, has said his client never discussed the Popoviciu case, Romanian anti-corruption efforts or anything else related to Romania with the then-vice president, his father. Despite the clear explanation for the transactions at issue, the Oversight Committee chairman alleged that Hunter Biden’s relationship with Mr Popoviciu was connected to the then-vice president’s work carrying out Obama administration policy in Romania, which he described as “a foreign adversary” even though Romania is a longstanding American ally and member of Nato. He also suggested that the wire transfers to Hunter Biden, an attorney and lobbyist, were suspicious because they “occurred while Joe Biden was vice president and leading the United States efforts in these countries” and accused the now-president of “lecturing Romania on anti corruption policies” while “walking billboard for his son and family to collect money”. Mr Comer accused the Biden family of engaging in “a pattern of influence peddling” because the end of Hunter Biden’s business relationship with Mr Popoviciu happened around the time the Obama-Biden administration left office, though he offered no evidence that any American policy decision was the result of any undue influence exerted by Hunter Biden or anyone with whom he had a business relationship. Other committee members who spoke after the chairman attacked other members of Mr Biden’s family, including Hallie Biden, the widow of Mr Biden’s eldest son, Beau Biden. Rep Kelly Armstrong noted that bank records show that some of the money paid to Hunter Biden by Mr Popoviciu in 2015 was transferred to Ms Biden, and called those transfers suspicious because then-Vice President Biden had delivered a speech about the dangers of corruption during a May 2014 visit to Romania. “In fact, it's very hard to come up with any legitimate business reason to conduct transactions with this type in this type of complex way,” he said. He also suggested that there was no legitimate reason for Ms Biden to receive any portion of funds paid to Hunter Biden by Mr Popoviciu in late 2015 even though she had by then entered into a romantic relationship with him following the death of her husband in May 2015. Though not a single committee member offered any evidence that the president, his son or his brother had broken any laws, some called for the prosecution of Mr Biden and his family nonetheless. Ms Mace of South Carolina said the Department of Justice “needs to get off its a**” and file charges against the Bidens. “If any these allegations are proven true than someone with the last name Biden needs to be charged, prosecuted, maybe spend a little time in prison to take to account and responsibility,” she said, despite it being unclear what crimes, if any, she was alleging the Bidens to have committed. The presentation by the House Republicans comes as House Democrats, the White House and outside groups are stepping up efforts to defend the president — and his family — from what they describe as unsubstantiated attacks that are heavy on innuendo and lacking in substance. Mr Comer’s Democratic counterpart, Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, said in a statement that the GOP “has failed to provide factual evidence to support his wild accusations about the President” and panned the allegations as “innuendo, misrepresentations, and outright lies, recycling baseless claims from stories that were debunked years ago” made with “cherry-picked bank records, misrepresentations about confidential and unverified bank reports known as SARs, and baseless conspiracy theories to attack the President’s family, including his grandchildren”. “As Republicans use their oversight powers to advance this tiresome and aging smear campaign, they refuse to honor their public commitment to investigate former President Trump and former senior White House advisor, Jared Kushner, their hundreds of LLCs, and the billions of dollars they collected directly from autocratic and corrupt foreign governments. If they’re in search of presidential corruption by foreign powers, the undisputed champion is their own guy.,” Mr Raskin said. An outside group led by veteran Democratic operative David Brock, Facts First, also held a conference call with reporters to debunk the Republican claims shortly after Mr Comer’s session had concluded. Mr Brock noted that the GOP’s own report “showed no payments to Joe Biden, no evidence of any policy decisions influenced by anything other than a US national interests” and mocked Mr Comer’s promise to reveal wrongdoing that would make the Watergate scandal which ended Richard Nixon’s presidency “look like jaywalking”. “The reality is we don't even have a scandal here, much less Watergate,” said Mr Brock, who was followed by former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen, who in 2018 pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, making false statements to a federally-insured bank, and campaign finance violations for actions he has said he undertook at Mr Trump’s behest, told reporters that Mr Comer’s claim of having found “breathtaking foreign entanglements” was “ridiculous and irresponsible” and evidence that the Oversight committee chair is auditioning for a spot on the 2024 GOP ticket alongside Mr Trump. He also said nothing Mr Comer has alleged about the Bidens is worse than what Mr Trump and his family is known to have done during and after his time in the White House. “The Trump children profited more off their father's presidency than anyone in history. For example, Ivanka, and Jared somehow made over $600 million during their time in service as senior advisors to the President. Now, during that tenure, Ivanka also received a series of trademarks on her clothing and her jewellery lines from China. And Jared, shortly thereafter, received a Middle East bailout on his troubled 666 Fifth Avenue property, a property that Jared acquired on behalf of his family, which happens to be noted as the single worst real estate deal in New York City's history,” he said. just more bull from the right.....................a nothingburger. and you righties be sure and read the last paragraph a few times until it sinks in.

news.yahoo.com Ethics Org Hits Trump’s 'Swear' On His Kids With A Scathing Fact-Check Ed Mazza 2–3 minutes Donald Trump swore on his kids during Wednesday night’s messy CNN town hall event ― but one organization says that might not mean much coming from the former president. The moment came when Trump was asked about the civil jury that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. “I swear on my children, which I never do, I have no idea who this woman is,” Trump insisted. But Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a progressive watchdog organization, noted that Trump had a chance to rebut the accusations in court ― and didn’t take it. “He wasn’t willing to swear under oath,” CREW wrote on Twitter. “We guess swearing on his children is a lower bar.” Reminder that Trump refused to testify about it in court—avoiding cross examination—and played golf overseas instead. He wasn't willing to swear under oath. We guess swearing on his children is a lower bar. https://t.co/hWRLmAvluH — Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 11, 2023 The organization, which wants Trump disqualified from the 2024 presidential ballot due to his role in the 2021 insurrection, fact-checked the ex-president throughout the event, including his claim about the classified documents scandal: The Presidential Records Act absolutely, positively, does not say the president can take whatever records he wants with him when he leaves office. https://t.co/xczxSZCExO — Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 11, 2023 The organization also noted that this particular lie could have serious repercussions for the former president. “Look, Trump lies. A lot. He does it multiple times in this clip. And he usually skates by, because hey, we all know Trump constantly lies,” the group wrote in a follow-up tweet. “But this could catch up with him. Because he’s saying that he intentionally took classified information … which he’s under investigation for.”

FBI declines GOP subpoena on Biden ‘alleged criminal scheme’ Emily Brooks 4–5 minutes The FBI declined to immediately provide congressional Republicans with a document the lawmakers say outlines an “alleged criminal scheme” involving President Biden and a foreign national, blowing through a Wednesday deadline to produce the unverified information that was subpoenaed by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.). Christopher Dunham, the FBI acting assistant director for congressional affairs, said in a letter responding to the subpoena that the FBI “is committed to beginning the constitutionally mandated accommodation process” in a response to the request from last week, later adding the agency “would be pleased to coordinate with your staff to discuss whether and how we can accommodate your request without violating our law enforcement and national security obligations.” “Justice [Department] policy strictly limits when and how confidential human source information can be provided outside of the FBI,” Dunham said in the letter obtained by The Hill. In a statement, Comer said that he planned to follow up with the FBI to compel compliance with the subpoena, setting up more potential battles over production of the document. - ADVERTISEMENT - “It’s clear from the FBI’s response that the unclassified record the Oversight Committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the Committee,” Comer said. “We’ve asked the FBI to not only provide this record, but to also inform us what it did to investigate these allegations. The FBI has failed to do both. The FBI’s position is ‘trust, but you aren’t allowed to verify.’ That is unacceptable.” Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said last week that a “highly credible” whistleblower had told them that the FBI possessed a FD-1023 form — which documents unverified information gathered from confidential sources — detailing an “alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.” They provided no other details on the allegations in the letter, and Grassley has said in other interviews that Republicans were not sure if the claims were true. Comer immediately subpoenaed the document rather than requesting voluntary cooperation from the FBI first. “The mere existence of such a document would establish little beyond the fact that a confidential human source provided information and the FBI recorded it,” the FBI said in its response. “Indeed, the FBI regularly receives information from sources with significant potential biases, motivations, and knowledge, including drug traffickers, members of organized crime, or even terrorists.” The subpoena asks for all FD-1023 forms containing the word “Biden” that were created or modified in June 2020, when former President Trump was in office and Bill Barr was attorney general. House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) noted in a statement last week that Rudy Giuliani and Russian agents had been seeking and publicizing “disinformation” about Biden around that time. “The question remains, what did the FBI do to investigate very serious allegations from an apparent trusted FBI source implicating then-Vice President Biden?” Grassley said in a statement. “Today’s letter from the FBI raises additional questions, including whether the FBI has an open investigation based on these allegations.” In a press conference presenting information about foreign money that flowed to businesses associated with the Biden family and associates Wednesday, Comer pledged to not publicize any unverified information gleaned from the FBI form. “We will report to you only facts when they are verified and indisputable,” Comer said. “This committee will not pursue witch hunts, or string the American people along for years with false promises of evidence that is beyond circumstantial evidence.” so i see the right blew right threw their big wednesday tell and NOTHING. just a big ol nothing burger. Comer ran his mouth and is eatting crow. where is the evidence he promised for yesterday? any of you righties know?

yahoo.com Fox News Host Trashes House GOP Probe Of Biden Arthur Delaney ~3 minutes Fox News host Steve Doocy is not impressed by the latest Republican investigation into President Joe Biden’s family. The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released documents reflecting payments from foreign sources to Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and the president’s brother James Biden, but not to Joe Biden himself. Doocy told the committee’s chair, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that his material was weak. “I know the Republicans said that the smoking gun were these financial records that you were able to subpoena and got your hands on,” Doocy said, noting that Comer described $10 million worth of transfers as evidence of “influence peddling” by the Bidens. “But that’s just your suggestion ― you actually don’t have any facts to that point. You’ve got some circumstantial evidence,” Doocy said. “And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit is ― there is no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.” Doocy wasn’t the only right-wing media personality to skewer Comer’s investigation. His Fox News colleague Geraldo Rivera wrote Wednesday that the committee’s “angry allegations are vague and general and do not point to specific crimes.” And former Donald Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka said he was “not impressed” by Comer’s allegations because he hasn’t found a “smoking gun” example of the money actually influencing an official act by Biden. The White House has been gleefully tracking coverage of Wednesday’s presentation by the Oversight Committee and making sure reporters see the disappointing headlines. “Chairman Comer continues to spread evidence-free innuendo, despite months of ‘investigating’ with taxpayer resources, and his latest stunt just further proves this is all a baseless attempt to attack President Biden politically,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said Thursday. On Fox News, Comer defended his work. “Make no mistake. Joe Biden was involved. All these countries that the Bidens were receiving money from were countries that Joe Biden was actively visiting in,” Comer said. “And we’re still looking for more bank records that we believe will implicate Joe Biden’s active participation in this at the end of the day.” pretty tough when your own side throws you under the bus huh? lol they have been investigating biden for years now. years. oh but justice is corrupt. oh bull. sic or more years and when you cannot provide proof you make it up because it is an election year.

i do not believe he was trying to be sarcastic. he ran his mouth and it blew up in his face and he had to have a staff member back it down. i hate it because i loved tubs ability to beat the turds,

thanx for putting up with me tim! you mod work hard for little glory but i see it and i appreciate you guys as well.

this is as stupid and insensitive as it gets folks. hell lets just get two assault rifles and make an altar out of them. i think you folks get my point?

i agree for the most part and on both sides. i tried to watch trumps town hall but forgot about it so i tuned in late and they had a guest who is i think a podcast guy that either got elected or has been allowed into closed door meetings,etc. i think it might have been jeff some thing. he said they hardly do squat and he said the crazies are putting on a front for the most part. he said it was amazing so i want to check his stuff out and see what is up.

al.com Trent Dilfer: Auburn's Hank Brown 'has all the skills' to develop into NFL QB Published: May. 11, 2023, 7:05 a.m. 4–5 minutes Trent Dilfer pulled Hank Brown aside last fall, before the start of Lipscomb Academy’s season, and delivered a message to his starting quarterback. Dilfer had seen firsthand the type of quarterback Brown was and how he was progressing at the position throughout his high school career. So, he wanted to make sure Brown knew what he was capable of if he continued on his trajectory as a signal-caller. Read more Auburn football: Hugh Freeze discusses Auburn’s newest transfers, which positions he still wants to address this offseason Payton Thorne “more proven” than any transfer quarterback Hugh Freeze has coached What the addition of Payton Thorne means for Auburn at quarterback “I told him right before his senior year that if he continued to progress on the track we’re progressing him on, he’ll get drafted,” Dilfer, now the coach at UAB, said Wednesday morning before teeing off at the Regions Tradition Pro-Am in Hoover. It was a lofty perch for Dilfer to hoist Brown — at the time committed to Liberty as a three-star prospect — upon, but few coaches have the experience and eye for quarterback evaluations that Dilfer has. He was, after all, the longtime head quarterback coach of the prestigious Elite 11 camp and spent years mentoring and assessing high school quarterbacks. Brown seemingly took Dilfer’s message to heart, and he followed through with a prolific senior season. He led Lipscomb Academy to a 13-0 record and a Tennessee D2-AA state title while passing for 3,264 yards and 47 touchdowns with a 73.3 percent completion rate last fall. “He’s phenomenal,” Dilfer said. “His instincts are second to none. This is not about me, but that football team last year in Tennessee is the finest football team to ever play Tennessee high school football. And Hank is a huge reason for that. His ability to solve problems, his ability to distribute the football, handle critical situations, handle a week of pressure and high expectations was just phenomenal.” After Hugh Freeze left Liberty and took over as Auburn’s coach in late November, Brown backed off his commitment to Liberty. Freeze then wasted little time in extending a scholarship offer to Brown to come to Auburn. Brown visited campus in December and committed to Auburn on the eve of the early signing period, giving the Tigers their quarterback for the 2023 class. “They got a great recruit,” Dilfer said. “He’s a very talented player, but he’s a better human. He’s one of the finest humans I’ve ever been around; his family is incredible. Work ethic is second to none.” Brown’s name has hardly been mentioned since Freeze’s early signing day press conference on Dec. 21, since Brown was not an early enrollee and much of the discourse over the last several months has been on the Tigers’ returning quarterbacks — Robby Ashford, Holden Geriner and T.J. Finley (who has since decided to transfer) — and their newest transfer addition, former Michigan State starter Payton Thorne. Considering what Auburn has at quarterback heading into next season, and the fact Brown will arrive this summer, it’s safe to assume he’s on track for a redshirt season this fall. Just because the focus will be on Auburn’s other quarterbacks, though, Dilfer believes it won’t take Brown long to get noticed upon his arrival on the Plains. “He’ll know that offense as well as any person in that building after a couple months there,” Dilfer said. “He’ll do the lonely work — the stuff that doesn’t get celebrated, so that he’s prepared.” Dilfer, who took over at UAB at the end of November, steadfastly believes Brown has a bright future ahead of him and NFL potential. He’s also confident Auburn will help get Brown there, though it’s going to take time, and the 6-foot-4, 195-pounder will need to grow into his frame to have a chance to reach his full potential as a passer. “He does need to get bigger and stronger, and he knows that,” Dilfer said. “But Auburn has great resources to do that. He’ll get bigger, stronger and fast. He’ll become more of a man here shortly. He has all the skills it takes to become an NFL quarterback.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

apologies for screwing up the title. dang gummies kickin my behind this morning.