The Republican National Committee began laying off dozens of staffers on Monday, days after Donald Trump’s handpicked team took the reins of the organization, according to two Republican operatives with knowledge of the dismissals.
The layoffs affect staffers across multiple departments, the sources said. The cuts also go beyond senior staff to vendors and mid-level employees, one of the Republican operatives said. Vendor contracts will likely be cut as well.
Some staff who were asked to resign could reapply for jobs at the organization.
You sign a loyalty pledge and you sign a loyalty pledge and you sign a loyalty pledge…EVERYBODY SIGNS A LOYALTY PLEDGE.
There was one interesting exchange when Hur was asking Biden about a document, showing a photo of Biden holding that document as evidence that Biden was aware of the document. Biden pointed out that they are clearly not the same document because the one in the picture has a completely different layout of headings and text from the one Hur had presented.
It was a hack job from the very beginning.
Oh, and Hur resigned yesterday ahead of his testimony today. So he is no longer bound by DOJ rules against injecting personal opinion into his testimony today.
The NY Times ran numerous “above the fold” articles on Biden’s cognitive decline based on Hur’s report. Now that the transcript is out…
Mr. Biden appeared clearheaded most of the time.
Mr. Biden went into great detail about many matters, the transcript shows. He made jokes over the two days, teasing the prosecutors. And at certain points, he corrected his interrogators when they were the ones who misspoke.
Yes. The first time you mention a President or former President, you call them Mr. President. Every time after that, it’s Mr. XXX. In written and spoken form.
Remember when the old demented sock puppet was let off of his classified document case because he was “old and forgets things”? Remember all of the old demented sock puppet’s press conferences and rallies where he goes blank and starts shouting gibberish?
Face it, Limey, your savior has dementia. But we all know he is nothing more than a puppet.
That’s weird. I can understand it with a former president, as they revert to “Mister” upon leaving office. So “former President Obama blah blah blah…Mister Obama etc. etc.” But the current president didn’t stop being president sometime after the first paragraph…and isn’t Beetlejuice.
The transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden is basically a giant pile of dynamite sticks for Democrats to lob at Hur. Swalwell delivering here:
During the interview, Hur complimented Biden on his “photographic” recall. Swalwell hammers Hur’s nuts with a sledgehammer on this blatant contradiction. Also, Swalwell asked Hur if he would promise never to take a job for Trump in the future, and Hur - unemployed as of yesterday - declined to answer.
Schiff gave Hur the third degree on how his editorializing in the report was both factually inaccurate and against department policy. Hur’s only defense was to splutter about it wasn’t his call to make the report public. Schiff not letting him off the hook with that, because any idiot would expect this report to be made public.
While going after this idiot is all well and good, and necessary, Garland still has to answer for this political hit job going out on DOJ letterhead on his watch. Did he read the report before approving its release? Did he not think to check the transcript when he read Hur’s completely unqualified mental health diagnosis of Biden? Merrick got some ‘splainin’ to do.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said Tuesday he will resign from Congress later this month rather than serve out the remainder of his term through 2024.
Why it matters: The surprise announcement will cause House Republicans’ already razor thin majority to dwindle even further.
What he’s saying: “Today, I am announcing that I will depart Congress at the end of next week,” Buck said in a statement posted to social media.
“I look forward to staying involved in our political process, as well as spending more time in Colorado with my family.”
Between the lines: Buck, a member of the right-wing Freedom Caucus, has emerged as a lonely GOP critic of House Republicans’ efforts to impeach President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
As opposed to the lifers on the other side of the aisle who freely sign their names to anything handed to them by the controllers, without even reading it, in exchange for the use of the taxpayers’ credit cards.
