Crooks and Liars

We’re wrapping up a month long tour tonight in OKC and we’ve been lucky to have Melissa Carper out supporting us this run. It’s been a joy hearing her amazing music every night and even more of a joy hanging with her and her peeps. What’s on your turntable tonight?

Chris Hayes asked a very important question last night after Tucker Carlson told his viewers it's "probably not the best time to give up your AR-15s."

Texas GOPers in the state legislature introduced a slate of bills this week designed to subvert elections and curb voting rights in the state. One of them even allows the Texas Secretary of State to overturn election results in the state’s largest Democratic-leaning county on the flimsiest of pretexts. Via Talking Points Memo:

It's weird that Russian tv is treating Trump this way, as they should be his number one fan. And maybe they still are, as even after his indictment they've hailed him as 'Destroyer of America' on Russian State TV. So, for whatever reasons, their delight in putting Trump in an orange jumpsuit, resisting arrest, Trump in prison, etc is quite jarring.

Jeffrey Bellin, William & Mary Law School

When former President Donald Trump turns himself over to authorities in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, and is arraigned, the charges on which a Manhattan grand jury indicted him will likely be made public.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg obtained the indictment on March 30, 2023, following a grand jury vote, but the exact charges against Trump remain sealed. Multiple media sources are reporting the indictment alleges the former president committed business fraud. Читать дальше...

Interestingly, this guy who donated nearly $200,000 to Republicans the past few election cycles for access to high echelon Republican politicians (see photos below), and made appearances on Fox News, as well as other rightwing news outlets, did so so that he could prey on young girls. The jury convicted on all counts and only took a couple of hours to do so. So he's looking at serious jail time.

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Trump kicked off his campaign rally the other day by paying tribute to the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6th. It was despicable and incredibly eerie, as he played an anthem while standing at attention, all while showing scenes from their attack on a large screen.

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/23/03/denver-post-begs-readers-to-reject-lauren-boebert-and-lists-many-reason-why.jpg" //divpRep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) argued that the United States is "not a democracy" in response to teachers union president Randi Weingarten's call to enact gun bans similar to ones in Australia and New Zealand./p pAt an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) meeting Tuesday morning, Weingarten had addressed the Nashville school shooting... Читать дальше...

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2023/03/52242.jpg" //divpDon Jr. called into Charlie Kirk's show amid indictment-gate. Trump supporters are of the notion that their hero is above the law. None of us have seen the evidence yet that was presented to the grand jury, but they're attacking the rule of law. /p pInterestingly, Charles formed his question in a way that suggests that the grand jury is destroying the rule of law. We know he's probably talking about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg... Читать дальше...