Author: Freedom Watch
Former AOC aide: ‘Old as s–t, ineffective’ Biden could lead Dems toward 1992-style election turmoil By Charles Creitz Fox News January 8, 2022 A former top aide to New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that President Biden has continued to fail at connecting with the American people and could face a Democratic primary challenger in 2024. No Excuses PAC founder Corbin Trent told Fox News on Friday that he and others believe the economy and general state of the country are more positive than it appears and that part of the problem is communication on the part of…
Spreaker January 8, 2022 Click to View Podcast
By Jonathan Edwards Washington Post January 7, 2022 If Anthony Williams had his way, he’d be in sunny Jamaica later this month, vacationing with his girlfriend and impressing her family. But Williams, a Michigan man accused of storming the U.S. Capitol a year ago in what he allegedly called the “proudest day of my life,” can’t travel outside the country without a federal judge’s approval. So on Thursday, the anniversary of the Capitol riot, he filed a motion to get it. Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell denied his request within hours. Continue Reading…..
Twitter January 7, 2022 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) tweeted at 6:02 PM on Thu, Jan 06, 2022: Yesterday, I used a dumb choice of words and unfortunately a lot of people are misunderstanding what I meant. Continue Reading…..
Pope Francis praises Sister Jeannine Gramick’s 50 years of L.G.B.T. ministry in handwritten letter America Magazine January 7, 2022 In a handwritten letter, Pope Francis congratulated Sister Gramick on “50 years of closeness, of compassion and of tenderness” in a ministry that he described as being in “‘the style’ of God.” In another sign of support for L.G.B.T. Catholics and those who advocate on their behalf, Pope Francis sent a handwritten letter on Dec. 10 to Sister Jeannine Gramick. Pope Francis’ letter to Sister Gramick is the latest in a series of letters from the pope written to…
Biggest investigation in FBI history still has Merrick Garland in the hot seat By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz CNN January 7, 2022 (CNN)A year after the January 6 insurrection, the Justice Department continues to press forward on the biggest investigation in FBI history, with 700 people already arrested and hundreds more offenders still at large and several more years of prosecutions ahead. But the expansive investigation has yet to shed light on how vigorously the former President and political allies could be investigated for inciting rioters by spreading a lie that the election was stolen and asking…
Ted Cruz walks back Jan. 6 ‘terrorist’ remark in heated exchange with Tucker Carlson By Myah Ward POLITICO January 7, 2022 Ted Cruz on Thursday walked back his use of the word “terrorist” when describing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol during an intense back and forth with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who repeatedly questioned the validity of the Republican senator’s explanation. Cruz was lambasted during Carlson’s Wednesday night show for describing Jan. 6 as “a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol.” During his Thursday night appearance, when Carlson asked him why he used the word…
The immovable Republican Party and ‘ink-blot politics’ NPR.org January 7, 2022 Supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It was an effort to stop the procedural certification of a presidential election that Joe Biden won and Trump lost. The mob was egged on by conspiracies and Trump’s lies about that 2020 election. Those are facts. One year later, and a day after the commemoration on Capitol Hill of that attack, those facts should be indisputable. And yet millions on the right do dispute them. They’ve been convinced by Trump, reinforced by…
Spreaker January 7, 2022 Click to View Podcast
By Sophia Ankel Business Insider January 6, 2022 A jailed Capitol-riot defendant said he was disappointed in Donald Trump for canceling his January 6 press conference and suggested that the former president had abandoned his supporters. “There should be a hundred thousand people in DC tomorrow at the very minimum,” Edward Jacob Lang, 26, told “The Stew Peters Show” in a Wednesday phone interview from jail. He continued, “I am so disappointed with Trump and with the American people at large that just do not get behind the January 6 political prisoners.” “I feel like I’ve been completely abandoned…