Boebert uncorks expletive-filled response to Fox News reporter's affair question

Major issue flagged as new Epstein investigation kicks off: 'Fox guarding the henhouse'

While a New Mexico legislative committee began its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling compound known as Zorro Ranch last week, one veteran journalist warned that the effort is analogous to “the fox guarding the henhouse,” flagging what they described as a major “conflict of interest.”Established in February by the New Mexico Legislature, the New Mexico Truth Commission was afforded $2 million in spending and granted subpoena power to investigate the potential criminal activity at Epstein’s New Mexico property, the site of which multiple women have claimed to have been sexually abused as minors.The issue, journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez warned in an analysis published on her Substack Saturday, was that the commission, “in reality,” appeared to be “mostly public relations crisis management and damage control for a political establishment in New Mexico that suddenly realized the world could see just how corrupt they’d been with regards to Epstein for decades.”“The commission recently selected a law firm to lead its investigation, and when you look hard enough at the firm you start to see that the commission is mostly a PR stunt that doubles as a bag of cash for political donors,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote.That law firm was Fadduol, Cluff, Hardy & Conaway (FCHC), an Albuquerque-based personal injury law firm. As flagged by Valdes-Rodriguez, the firm’s founding partners each “donated the maximum allowable contribution of $2,300” to the presidential campaign of former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who was accused by prominent Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre of being sexually trafficked to by Epstein. Richardson had also accepted $100,000 from Epstein in campaign contributions in his re-election bids for governor, according to news reports.“[Richardson] is a central figure in the very conduct the commission is supposed to be investigating. Whoops. Nothing to see here, folks. Keep moving,” Valdes-Rodriguez sarcastically wrote.“If that seems like a conflict of interest, rest assured the people who selected this firm, who also got political donations from its members, have considered the matter carefully and arrived at the conclusion that it is fine.”

Trump's big promise to financially 'benefit' Americans implodes in real time: report

President Donald Trump vowed back in January that his administration’s takeover of Venezuela would “benefit” Americans, and yet, just over six months later, that promise appears to be imploding after key players have reportedly gotten cold feet, The Washington Post reported Sunday.In the immediate aftermath of the unprecedented U.S. attack on Venezuela earlier this year, the Trump administration took control of the nation’s oil revenue, which Trump claimed at the time would be “used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States.” The Trump administration had hoped U.S. companies would invest $100 billion into the South American nation’s energy infrastructure.“But businesses don’t want to spend big on capital-intensive projects to extract heavy crude, which take decades to pay off, if there’s a high chance the government will backslide,” the Post’s report reads.“ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance said recently that Venezuela has ‘a lot more work to do on their side of the equation.’ He said the overhaul of the hydrocarbon law was insufficient ‘to attract a whole lot of investment’ because it could amount to a ‘95 percent government take.’ Chevron CEO Mike Wirth has expressed similar sentiments.”The Trump administration was recently in hot water over its handling of Venezuela’s oil revenue. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week during a congressional hearing on whether the administration was concealing lucrative private contracts related to Venezuela’s oil.“The Venezuelan government’s illegitimacy raises the risk of investing capital,” the Post’s report reads. “Once real elections are held, U.S. companies will gain a clearer sense of whether it’s worth pouring in money.”

Lauren Boebert curses out reporter who asks about alleged affair with Thomas Massie

One of the Republican lawmakers who stood up to President Donald Trump over his longtime friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein cursed out a Fox News journalist who accused her of an affair with another anti-Epstein Republican.“F--- you, first of all!’ Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) told a Fox News Digital reporter on Saturday when the latter brought up the allegations from a woman who claims to have been Massie's ex-girlfriend.The longtime MAGA supporter then added, “If you’re gonna bring me into this, like, the sexist stuff is like out of control. So there’s your clickbait that you were looking for.”Massie and Boebert have both been targets by Trump and his media surrogates ever since they broke with the president over releasing the Epstein files last year. Despite Trump downplaying their relationship and falsely claiming he kicked Epstein out of his home after learning about his Epstein connections, Trump in fact was close friends with Epstein for more than two decades. In September Massie came forward as the only male Republican lawmaker willing to oppose Trump on his refusal to release the un-redacted Epstein files.“It’s myself and three women, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert," Massie said at the time. "And these are women taking up for women. And I think we need more men on the Republican side of the aisle to step forward and do the right thing.”Asked about Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) attempts to thwart the release of the files, Massie said that "what Mike Johnson is doing by having his own resolution is to give political cover to those people who aren't supporting the effort by Ro Khanna and I. But here's the problem. When people go through this trove of documents, the political cover is going to go away."Massie added, "And they're going to be exposed once again... They're only going to increase the outrage. And in the meantime, you've got these survivors who are still not getting their justice. By the way, Mike Johnson has panned the legislative effort by Ro Khanna and I, saying it's poorly drafted, but he took three pages out of our bill and put them verbatim in his bill — completely cribbed them."He continued, "But he took the teeth out of it, is what he did. So he's got a meaningless resolution to provide a fig leaf to the people who are afraid to stand up for these survivors."

MAGA world sent into frenzy over 'bombshell' news on Trump shooter's emails to cop

The release of heavily redacted FBI records showing that a sheriff's deputy exchanged emails with would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks before the July 13, 2024 shooting — as Raw Story reported — sent MAGA world into overdrive this weekend, with commentators across the political spectrum demanding answers about what those emails said and why the documents remain concealed.MeidasTouch, the liberal political media outlet, reached nearly 500,000 views with a post summarizing the Judicial Watch release, noting that "the records remain heavily redacted, concealing the nature of the communications."Kaelan Deese, a political reporter, called it "a bombshell in their Thomas Crooks FOIA fight," and flagged the recovery of the gray remote device with an antenna from Crooks' pocket as a detail warranting further scrutiny.Sara Gonzales, a conservative commentator at The Blaze, kept her focus on the emails: "The public deserves to know why and when Crooks contacted law enforcement."Not everyone agreed the word "exchange" was warranted. Heather Champion, a conservative social media personality, urged precision: "I don't know if 'exchange' is correct but they did receive emails from Thomas Crooks before the July 13 Trump rally."Left-wing podcaster Jimmy Dore, who has previously raised questions about the official account of the shooting, used the records to revisit a string of unresolved details. "So you're telling me there's some nefarious stuff surrounding the supposed assassination attempt of Trump?" he wrote. "You mean the one where the cops admitted to seeing him THREE TIMES in a restricted area with a scope and a backpack and yet never did anything? The one where a bunch of people in the crowd saw the shooter on the roof but no cops or secret service officers or sheriff's deputies or State troopers saw him?"Shane Cashman, a journalist, offered the most pointed response, cataloging the same unanswered questions in a sardonic thread while warning against the leap to conspiracy. "There's literally nothing weird about Thomas Matthew Crooks emailing a deputy from Butler, PA before the assassination attempt," he wrote, before listing item after item: that Crooks practiced at the same range Homeland Security used, that local police and Secret Service spotted him with a rangefinder and texted about him for over an hour before he climbed the roof, that no Secret Service drones were flying that day while Crooks allegedly had one, that his house had no trash or silverware and his body was cremated ten days later before Congress could view it. "This is like when people say the CIA was shadowing Oswald before he, and he alone, shot JFK."What nobody knows, still, is what those two emails said.

A Day in the Lie (I read the news today, oh boy)

I was beginning to wonder lately if I was unduly harsh in my evaluation of Trump as a do-nothing talentless twit. Because when I look back over the 501 days (as I write this) since Trump re-insinuated himself into the Oval Office, and I contemplate the wreckage that used to be the country of my… The post A Day in the Lie (I read the news today, oh boy) appeared first on Palmer Report.

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Ken Paxton’s years-long ‘war’ on Hispanic groups could come back to bite him: report

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the state’s GOP Senate nominee, had spent years as the state’s top law enforcement officer “waging war on Democratic and Latino-led groups” amid his amplification of false claims of widespread voter fraud, but in doing so, may have created a powerful obstacle in his bid for higher office, The New York Times reported Saturday.“The stakes of the fight with groups determined to mobilize Texas’ fast-growing Hispanic electorate changed significantly last month when [Paxton] won the Republican Party’s nomination for Senate,” the Times’ report reads. “Now it is personal and could help determine his own political future – and which party controls the Senate.”Paxton regularly targeted progressive Hispanic groups in Texas under a state law passed in 2021 designed to strengthen “election integrity.” The law criminalized “what had been fairly routine tools for civic groups,” and “particularly in Latino communities,” the Times wrote, resulting in “a trail of ransacked residences, shellshocked volunteers, struggling organizations and indictments.”The result of the law was a dramatic reduction in voter outreach efforts among Hispanic communities. Jolt Initiative, for instance, the “largest youth outreach group in Texas,” typically registered more than 12,000 voters a year, but in 2025, only registered 3,586 voters.Paxton's office did not return the Times' request for comment, but Texas Hispanic voters and advocates were eager to make clear exactly what they believe is at stake in his Senate bid.“It doesn’t look good for us, but we are going to keep fighting,” said Gabriel Rosales, who heads the League of United Latin American Citizens in Texas as its director, speaking with the Times.