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Report: Kevin McCarthy ‘Agreed to Cut Aid to Ukraine’ to Secure Speakership
Zelensky also thanked the US and Joe Biden for “the new weaponry”.

Published
3 weeks agoon
Information Liberation

Big, if true.
From The Telegraph, “Kevin McCarthy ‘agreed to cut aid to Ukraine’ to secure US speaker role”:
Kevin McCarthy reportedly agreed to spending caps that would limit future aid to Ukraine as part of the deal with ultraconservatives that enabled him to finally be elected as House speaker on Saturday.
Mr McCarthy, a Republican, secured the position in the early hours, following a historic five-day 15-vote fight that brought Washington to a standstill.
His Right-wing opponents from the chamber’s Freedom Caucus, dubbed the “Taliban 20”, wielded their opposition to US aid for Kyiv as part of their justification for voting against him in the first 14 votes.
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, one of the most hardline aid sceptics, led the charge against Mr McCarthy’s candidacy for speaker before eventually yielding after an extraordinary confrontation in the chamber.
Seeing as how the Taliban defeated the US empire in Afghanistan, I guess Gaetz et al. should take that as a compliment.
According to reports, to end the impasse, Mr McCarthy agreed [to] a deal that the House would commit to passing bills that would cap all discretionary defence spending at 2022 financial year levels, meaning roughly $1.47 trillion. Congress has passed four emergency supplementals totalling more than $100 billion since Russia’s invasion in February.
All that $100+ billion went to Ukraine, in case the wording there wasn’t clear.
President Joe Biden will require Congress to approve any additional military aid later this year. Should one of the rebel lawmakers – who have vowed to oppose any further aid packages – be given leadership roles in the House Rules Committee it could create immense hurdles to passing additional assistance legislation.
The most recent $45 billion package agreed by Congress will not be affected by the new House leadership.
“Haemorrhaging billions in taxpayer dollars for Ukraine while our country is in crisis is the definition of America last,” Mr Gaetz said last month as to why he had stood against Mr McCarthy.
Matt Rosendale of Montana, another holdout, recently voted against US support for Ukraine, citing what he said were more pressing security needs along the southern border with Mexico.
“This is a harbinger for a protracted legislative paralysis,” one diplomat warned, telling CNN that “the Freedom Caucus – which is not particularly pro-Ukrainian – has just demonstrated its clout.”
Well done, Rep. Gaetz.
Today the House didn’t organize
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) January 3, 2023
Biggest loser: Zelensky
Biggest winner: US Taxpayers
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated McCarthy on Saturday, adding: “We’re counting on your continued support and further U.S. assistance to bring our common victory closer.”
Congratulations to @GOPLeader on his election as the Speaker of 🇺🇸 House of Representatives. U.S. support in all fields has been vital for 🇺🇦’s success on the battlefield. We’re counting on your continued support and further U.S. assistance to bring our common victory closer.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 7, 2023
Zelensky also thanked the US and Joe Biden for “the new weaponry” and billions of dollars they sent to drag out the war.
“Thank you @POTUS for the completely new weaponry, incl Bradley vehicles, anti-aircraft missiles,” Zelensky said. “Awesome Christmas present for [Ukraine]!”
I welcome the all-time 🇺🇸 defense aid package. Thank you @POTUS for the completely new weaponry, incl Bradley vehicles, anti-aircraft missiles. It'll strengthen 🇺🇦 Army on a battlefield. Awesome Christmas present for 🇺🇦! Together with 🇺🇸 people we're approaching a common victory!
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 6, 2023
Russian president Vladimir Putin proposed a “Christmas truce” for Orthodox Christmas starting at noon on January 6 until midnight on January 7 which the Zelensky regime rejected immediately by shelling Donetsk.
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Harvard Poll: Six In Ten Have Doubts Over Biden’s Mental Fitness
A quarter of Democrats say he’s too old to be President
Published
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27 January, 2023Steve Watson

A new Harvard/ Harris survey has revealed that six in ten Americans have reservations over Joe Biden’s mentally capacity to run again in 2024, with 65 percent agreeing that at 80-years-old, Biden is “too old” to continue as President.
Over a third of that 65 percent are Democrats, with almost a quarter of Democrats also saying they have doubts about Biden’s mental fitness.
The poll found that a whopping 90 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Independents agree Biden is now showing he is too old and it should preclude him from running again in 2024.

Eighty seven percent of GOP voters say Biden doesn’t have the mental fitness to run again, while 67 percent of independents agree.
The poll also found that 61 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, with a majority, 56 percent, expressing an unfavorable view of Biden.

The survey also notes that just 37 percent approve of how Biden has handled the border crisis, while 62 percent highly disapprove of his handling of the economy.

According to the survey, if an election were held today between Trump and Biden, the former would win by 5 points.

Biden’s mental decline was on display again Thursday, when during an event in Springfield, Virginia, he joked about people thinking he was “stupid” before making yet another embarrassing verbal gaffe, referring to Rep. Don Beyer as “Doug”.
Where's Doug? pic.twitter.com/zbyL4Ct3wy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 26, 2023
He stammered his way through the appearance:
BIDEN: "You know what percentage of AA… NIH…muh…" pic.twitter.com/mj1K4DLnOM
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 26, 2023
Biden also managed to get lost on stage again:
A very confused Joe Biden: "I guess I gotta step down here" pic.twitter.com/14nrkmDOY8
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 26, 2023
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Video: Rand Paul Warns Overclassification Being Used To Cover Up COVID Lab Leak
“The intelligence community does this so they have more power and we have less power”
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26 January, 2023Steve Watson

Senator Rand Paul warned Wednesday that over classification of information is being used to avoid oversight and institute cover ups, such as regarding the origins of COVID.
Appearing on Newsmax TV’s “Eric Bolling The Balance,” Paul explained “I think there’s an overclassification problem here. Everything’s classified. And in all likelihood, what we’ll find is this is not some sort of organized scheme to have the secrets to the nuclear weapon in [Biden’s] Corvette. I think it’s more likely than not that we’ve classified so many documents that it’s hard to find documents that are not classified.”
He continued, “The one problem with classifying so much is that there is, right now, to my knowledge, pretty good information out there in the intelligence community about the virus originating from the lab in China, and yet they classify it to try to prohibit people [like] me giving you the information that we already know that this came from a lab. And so this is a real problem.”
“We need to allow less classification so the American people can understand more about what’s going on with their government,” Paul urged.
He added, “I go to classified hearings, and I haven’t actually been to a classified hearing where I actually thought I heard a secret, to tell you the truth.”
Paul further noted that when President Trump was found to have some documents, “the left-wing media acted as if oh, these are the Manhattan Project. This is the secrets to the nuclear weapon… Really, most of the stuff we see is not really that secret. But it’s all stamped that way.”
“The intelligence community does this so they have more power and we have less power,” the Senator continued, adding “I have long argued that Congress needs to know more and the American people need to know more about what the CIA does, what the FBI does. Because we can’t oversee them, we can’t have oversight and reform if we don’t know what they’re doing.”
“They avoid oversight by classifying things, and often there’s a policy decision like, for example, with COVID, we need to know if COVID came from a lab so we can prevent this from happening again. Some of this is being stymied by the intelligence agencies classifying things that need to be declassified,” Paul further asserted.
Paul has previously labeled the subterfuge over the coronavirus lab leak as “the biggest coverup in the history of science,” and has vowed to continue to expose the origins of the pandemic and uncover a paper trail that he is positive will lead back to the Wuhan lab research funded by Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health.
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Non-Violent J6 Protester Who Put Feet Up On Pelosi’s Desk Found Guilty On All Charges, Faces Life in Prison
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24 January, 2023Chris Menahan | Information Liberation

Richard “Bigo” Barnett, 62, is facing a potential life sentence for peacefully entering the Capitol on January 6th and putting his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk.
Barnett was wildly overcharged by vindictive prosecutors and denied a change of venue out of Washington, DC.
Our team fought like hell. We were relentless, creative, & left no stone unturned in Mr. Barnett's defense.
— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) January 23, 2023
We have multiple appellate issues that we preserved & will litigate.@BigoBarnett could spend the rest of his life in prison—for a trespass. Pray for him & his family. pic.twitter.com/jpLcn5YbEI
We filed motions asking for a change of venue months ago and were denied even though 96% of the DC Jury Pool voted for Joe Biden.
— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) January 23, 2023
We cited the purposeful poisoning of the jury pool by the @January6thCmte and @POTUS's multiple public condemnations of MAGA Republicans as well.
Outside courthouse Bigo Barnett says he didn’t get a fair trial .. claiming he didn’t get a jury of his “peers”… I asked what that meant. And his attorney Joe McBride responded for Barnett pic.twitter.com/2b4NSeUkt9
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 23, 2023
Prosecutors seized on the fact his cane doubled as a stun gun and could have been used as a weapon even thought it wasn’t.
.@BigoBarnett was convicted today after a two-week trial in DC, Dist. Court.
— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) January 23, 2023
An issue at trial was the fact that he legally purchased a self-defense device before traveling to DC in anticipation of a conflict with Antifa.
Antifa is an irrelevant fairytale according to the Gov. https://t.co/GlnTWXVxJG
From The Washington Post, “Man photographed in Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 convicted of 8 counts”:
An Arkansas man who entered the U.S. Capitol with rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, and was photographed lounging at a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite was convicted Monday of eight federal crimes related to the incursion.
Richard “Bigo” Barnett, now 62, who left a crude written message for Pelosi before departing the office suite with a purloined envelope bearing the California Democrat’s digital signature, sat impassively as a jury in U.S. District Court in Washington delivered its decisions.
After nine days of testimony and legal arguments in the trial, the panel began deliberating Monday morning and reached guilty verdicts on all eight counts against Barnett, including four felonies, in less than two hours.
The most serious charge he faced, obstructing an official government proceeding, carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. But advisory sentencing guidelines used by the court are likely to recommend a much shorter term in his case.
[…] Barnett, an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, was carrying a walking stick equipped with a high-voltage stun device when he entered the Capitol. […]
Besides obstructing an official proceeding, Barnett was convicted of two felonies related to carrying a dangerous weapon in the Capitol and a felony charge of civil disorder. The four misdemeanors he was convicted of included theft of government property, meaning the envelope.
DC is currently working to lower penalties for carjackers, robbers and armed felons in the name of fighting “systemic racism” but Bigo and other J6 protesters are getting the book thrown at them.
Carjacking thugs need “restorative justice” but J6 protesters must face retribution.
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