The Daily Jot

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

THIS JUST IN! CHUMP TRIES TO PASS OF BIDEN'S PLAN AS HIS OWN!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CONVICTED FELON DONALD CHUMP SPOKE TO THESE REPORTERS THIS EVENING AT THE WHITE HOUSE -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS. HE SEEMED DAZED AS WE WERE USHERED INTO THE OVAL OFFICE. "DID YOU LIKE MY 'SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY THIRD TERM' LINE," HE ASKED.

NO, WE DID NOT. AND WE DID NOT HEAR ANYTHING NEW IN HIS SPEECH. IT WAS THE SAME NONSENSE HE'S BEEN SPOUTING FOR MONTHS AND YEARS. NOT ONE WORD WAS ABOUT BRINGING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER. HE HAD NO POLICY SUGGESTIONS, LET ALONE PROPOSALS.

THE CLOSEST YOU HAD TO A POLICY PROPOSAL WAS THE PROGRAM YOU CLAIMED THAT WOULD GIVE AMERICANS 401KS AND THAT'S SOMETHING PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SIGNED INTO LAW IN 2022.

THAT WOKE THE SLEEPY GRUMP UP.

"I HAVE SHOWN AMERICA WHAT WINNING IS!" HE SHREIKED. "NEVER BEFORE HAS AMERICA WON! ONLY WHILE I AM IN THE WHITE HOUSE DOES AMERICA WIN!"

REALLY? WE DIDN'T WIN IN WWII? OR IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR? OR DURING THE POST-WAR ECONOMY? WE DIDN'T WIN WHEN WE CAME UP WITH VACCINES AND IMMUNIZATIONS? WE DIDN'T WIN --

"NO!" HE HISSED, TOSSING HIS HEAD BACK SO HARSHLY THAT HIS JOWLS SHOOK AND HIS COMB OVER FELL TO THE SIDE. "PEOPLE TELL ME, 'WE'RE NOT USED TO WINNING IN OUR COUNTRY UNTIL YOU CAME ALONG'."

THESE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU THAT, WE ASKED, DO YOU SEE THEM RIGHT NOW?

"YES, I DO!" CHUMP YELLED AND POINTED TO AN EMPTY SPACE ACROSS FROM HIS DESK.

IF THE ECONOMY IS DOING SO GREAT, AS HE FALSELY CLAIMED, WHAT ABOUT SPEAKER OF THE CLOSET MIKE JOHNSON TELLING CBS NEWS YESTERDAY OF THE ECONOMY -- CHUMP'S FAILED ECONOMY -- THAT "YOU DON'T FLIP A SWITCH RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION AND IT ALL JUST IS FIXED MAGICALLY"?

CHUMP'S EYES WENT WIDE AND HE STARTED TO SPEAK BUT SUDDENLY HIS HEAD DROPPED TO HIS CHEST, HIS EYES FIRMLY SHUT, AND HE BEGAN SNORING.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Let's start with the big news, Convicted Felon Donald Chump's actions have been covered up by Attorney General Pam da Bimbo Bondi. Edith Olmsted (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:

The Department of Justice withheld multiple documents including allegations against President Donald Trump from its release of files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to an investigation by NPR.

The Department of Justice failed to release documents relating to three interviews the FBI conducted between July and October 2019 with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child. Only the first interview, conducted on July 24, 2019, is available to the public. In that conversation, she doesn’t mention Trump at all.

However, the woman’s allegations against the president still appeared in a 21-page slideshow included in files. “[REDACTED] stated Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit,” the FBI said. “In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.” This allegedly occurred in the mid-1980s when she was “approximately 13-15 years old.”

A record of the FBI interviews does appear in the files—on a list of discovery files given to Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell before her trial. By allowing Maxwell to retain information that the public does not have, Trump’s DOJ has enabled her to maintain potential blackmail over the president, according to independent journalist Roger Sollenberger.

Colby Hall (MEDIAITE) adds:

On Tuesday morning, NPR published a stunning report on serial numbers and discovery logs that do not line up with what the Justice Department has posted online. Some of the missing materials relate to allegations involving President Donald Trump. The department declined to explain the discrepancies.

Congress ordered the release of these files. The DOJ controls the archive. Reporters compare internal catalog numbers to public postings and find gaps. The department offers assurances but no reconciliation of the record.

The allegations are grave — they involve claims of sexual abuse of minors — and they remain unproven. FBI case files contain interviews and leads that do not automatically translate into charges. That distinction matters, and it makes the integrity of the release process more important, not less.

The Epstein rollout has been ragged from the start. Victim names were exposed and then corrected. Documents were pulled down and reposted. Privacy reviews were cited. Deadlines were blamed. Now the public learns that dozens of pages reflected in official logs are not available for review. Even if each decision has an internal explanation, the outward picture is disorder in the execution of a congressionally mandated transparency law.

Disorder produces the same practical result as concealment. The public cannot tell what is complete, what is withheld, and why. The record becomes contestable. Accountability drifts.

Last week, I argued that the Epstein file rollout carried the feel of a cover-up because the public was being asked to trust a process it could not independently verify. NPR’s reporting moves that concern from instinct to documentation. When internal logs point to pages the public cannot see, the question stops being rhetorical and becomes procedural.

There is also a political fact that cannot be ignored: This is very clearly Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche serve at his pleasure. The release process that now appears to shield him from clarity is being overseen by officials loyal to him. That reality demands a level of precision and documentation that leaves no room for doubt.

The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee issued the following statement:

For the last few weeks, Oversight Democrats have been investigating the FBI’s handling of allegations from 2019 of sexual assault on a minor made against President Donald Trump by a survivor.

Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor.

Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up.

And the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee also issued this yesterday:

Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after it was exposed that the Department of Justice withheld and removed some Epstein files related to allegations that President Donald Trump sexually abused a minor, a violation of both the Oversight Committee’s subpoena and the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

“For the last few weeks, Oversight Democrats have been investigating the FBI’s handling of allegations from 2019 of sexual assault on a minor made against President Donald Trump by a survivor.

“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes. Oversight Democrats will open a parallel investigation into this.

Under the Oversight Committee’s subpoena and the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these records must immediately be shared with Congress and the American public. Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up,” said Ranking Member Robert Garcia

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Dan Mangan (CNBC) reports it as follows:

The Department of Justice has withheld from public disclosure in its Epstein files database memos and notes about FBI interviews, including those of a woman who has alleged President Donald Trump sexually abused her when she was a minor, MS NOW reported Tuesday.

The woman, who was interviewed in July 2019 by the FBI about allegations against convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, alleged that "Trump forced her to perform oral sex on him 35 years ago, when she was 13 or 14 years old, and subsequently hit her," MS NOW reported, citing a source who has reviewed unredacted documents.

"That allegation appears in a 2025 PowerPoint presentation detailing each of the FBI's Epstein-related investigations and a spreadsheet of unconfirmed tips called into the bureau's National Threat Operations Center reviewed by MS NOW," the outlet reported. "MS NOW has found that of at least four interviews the FBI conducted with the woman related to the Epstein investigations, only one memo — and no handwritten notes — reflecting such an interview is included on the DOJ site."

MS NOW's report came hours after NPR first reported that the DOJ withheld from its public database of Epstein documents files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor.

DOJ "also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump," NPR reported.

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Monday, January 12, 2026

THIS JUST IN! JARED POLIS REMOVES HIS SPINE

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

WOULD BE MAGA JARED POLIS IS CONTEMPLATING PARDONING TINA PETERS. REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, COLORADO GOVERNOR POLIS EXPLAINED, "WELL I'VE ALWAYS BEEN WORTHLESS. BECAUSE I WAS GAY AND RAN AS AN OUT GAY MAN FOR CONGRESS YEARS AGO, YOU MADE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING I HAD BRAVERY. BUT YOU KNEW I DIDN'T. IN FACT, YOU ESPECIALLY KNEW AND CALLED ME ON IT."

"YOU ESPECIALLY" FOUND HIM POINTING AT C.I. AND HE WAS REFERRING TO WHEN NOURI AL-MALIKI WAS OVER IRAQ (DUE TO THE U.S.) AND TARGETED GAY MALES AND MALES WHO MIGHT APPEAR GAY AND WENT AROUND TO SCHOOLS SAYING THAT THEY WERE SATAN AND VAMPIRES AND MUCH WORSE AND IRAQIS RESPONDED BY SEALING THE MALES' ANUSES WITH SUPER GLUE WHCIH WILL KILL A PERSON (AND KILLED MANY). C.I. WAS WRITING ABOUT IT -- AND A NEWSPAPER EVEN STOLE HER WRITING AND PASSED IT OFF AS THEIR OWN. THE OTHER U.S. PAPERS WERE IGNORING THE STORY. JARED WENT ON THE LATE LILA GARRETT'S KPFK RADIO PROGRAM AND TALKED ABOUT IT -- LILA FOUND THE NEWS SHOCKING -- AND C.I. SAID TO JARED, "YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO DO ANYTHING ELSE ON IT, ARE YOU?" AND, NO, HE NEVER DID ANYTHING ELSE ON IT. HE COULD TALK ABOUT IT ON A RADIO SHOW BUT DESPITE BEING A MEMBER OF CONGRESS COWARD POLIS DID NOTHING.

ON TINA PETERS, COWARD POLIS STATED SHE "GOT A SETENCE THAT WAS HARSH. IT WAS A NINE-YEAR SENTENCE." HARSH? SHE NOT ONLY VIOLATED HER OFFICE, SHE USED SOMEONE ELSE CREDENTIALS TO COVER HER ACTIONS . POLIS SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS MAKING HIS POT BELLY EVEN MORE PRONOUNCED AND THEN DECALRED, "WE ALWAYS LOOK AT PEOPLE'S SENTENCES, AND WHEN THEY ARE ELDERLY, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS ACROSS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE -- PEOPLE IN THEIR 70S AND THEIR 80S IN OUR SYSTEM -- HOW MUCH OF A THREAT TO SOCIETY ARE THEY? AND WE BLANCE THAT IN A WAY THAT MAKES SURE THAT THEY CAN SPEND THEIR LAST FEW YEARS AT HOME."

AT THIS POINT, WE INFORMED POLIS, "YOU, SIR, ARE NOT JUST A COWARD, YOU'RE A DAMN LIAR.

MILLER HUDSON OFFERS THIS PERSPECTIVE:

She is not a political prisoner, as alleged by the White House, but a felon charged by a genuine Republican District Attorney in Mesa County and her infractions were confirmed unanimously by a jury of her peers — drawn from a blood-red citizenry that had to include fellow partisans. In her defense, my own assessment tells me her bulb was not the brightest on the Christmas tree at the La Vista Correctional Facility for women in Pueblo during the recent holidays. Stupidity is not a defense, of course, but certainly seems a contributing factor. Judge Mattew Barrett’s sentencing statement is worth reading, as well. The judge identifies her as the most “defiant defendant” he has ever encountered.

WIKIPEDIA NOTES:

Indictment, trial and conviction

Peters was indicted on March 9, 2022, on 13 counts: three counts of attempting to influence a public servant (class 4 felonies), two counts of conspiracy to commit attempting to influence a public servant (class 5 felonies), first-degree official misconduct (a class 2 misdemeanor), violation of duty (a misdemeanor), failing to comply with the secretary of state (a misdemeanor), obstruction, contempt of court, criminal impersonation, and identity theft of Gerald Wood.^[64]^[65] She was reported to have "sought to prove that widespread fraud had occurred in the state's 2020 presidential election",^[19]^[66]^[67] Knisley was indicted alongside Peters, on six counts: attempt to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failure to comply with the requirements of the Secretary of State.^[64]

Despite having acknowledged in earlier court appearances that a non-employee had been present,^[11] she claimed that Gerald Wood had perjured himself on the stand when he denied being at the unauthorized breach.^[65] Conan Hayes admitted to using Wood's badge, and Patrick M. Byrne told The New York Times that Hayes was on his payroll and had used FaceTime with him from inside Mesa County election offices saying a government official invited him to make backup copies of machines. Byrne told the Times he could see Hayes was wearing "someone else's" identification badge.^[68] Peters was barred from supervising local elections in 2022 as well.^[19]^[69]^[18]

Three ethics complaints have also been filed against Peters. On August 16, 2021, she was alleged to have accepted plane rides and other gifts from Mike Lindell in excess of the state gift limit of $65.^[70]^[71] In April 2022, at an appearance with Peters, Lindell disclosed having personally donated an amount in the $200,000 to $800,000 range to her legal defense fund and campaign.^[72] As this was also in apparent violation of the $65 state limit, the Colorado ethics commission approved a second ethics complaint that had been made in January 2022 and investigated Peters' elections fund.^[73]^[70]^[71] Peters denied prior knowledge,^[74] despite previously directing supporters to Lindell's legal defense fund.^[72] On May 17, 2022, the commission found a third ethics complaint filed on May 9 non-frivolous. This complaint was based on Lindell's comments at an "Election Truth Rally" and alleged that Peters knew of these payments, as evidenced by recorded comments she made at the rally.^[75]^[76]

In July 2022, a warrant was issued for Peters' arrest after she traveled out of state without the required court permission to appear at another Lindell event in Las Vegas.^[77] Peters claimed not to know of the restriction, her three attorneys claimed not to have told her, and the arrest order was canceled;^[78] but later the same month, a second warrant for her arrest was issued because she emailed multiple county clerk's offices informing them that she was seeking a recount with hand counting, violating the bond conditions of her arrest for election machine tampering. Peters turned herself in, was arrested, was allowed to repost bond, and was again released.^[79] County Elections Manager Sandra Brown also turned herself in for arrest on July 11, 2022, on an affidavit naming her in a conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and attempt to influence a public servant. She was released from custody after posting a personal recognizance bond.^[80]

Peters claimed in a July 29 press release that El Paso County's logic and accuracy test (LAT) failed "in a spectacular fashion, with over a 50% error rate out of the 4,000+ ballots tested."^[81]^[82] The release also claimed that "Griswold did not provide reasonable advance notice of the LAT to the Tina Peters Campaign, thereby denying them their right to have an [sic] appointed watchers present during the test," however, the Colorado Springs Gazette showed representatives for Peters' campaign present at the test.^[83] Peters filed suit challenging methods used in the recount, and on August 6, 2022, that suit was dismissed.^[84]

On August 7, 2022, Peters pled not guilty to all charges related to the alleged election machine tampering, and a trial was set for March 2023.^[85] On August 20, 2022, Peters and Sherronna Bishop appeared in a documentary released by Mike Lindell titled "[S]election Code".^[86]^[87]^[88]

On August 25, 2022, Knisley pled guilty to three misdemeanor counts of trespass, official misconduct, and violation of duty, having cut a plea deal with prosecutors to keep her out of prison in exchange for testifying against Peters and others in the case. Court documents say Knisley admitted she knew about and participated in a "scheme with Tina Peters and other identified people to deceive public servants from both the Colorado Secretary of State's Office and Mesa County."^[89] The document continues to state, "This scheme, which was significantly directed by Tina Peters, ultimately permitted an unauthorized individual to gain access to secure areas inside the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's Office so that this person – fraudulently held out to be improperly titled as Gerald Wood, but who was later identified to actually be Conan Hayes – could participate in Mesa County's trusted build with Tina Peters and Sandra Brown."^[90]

On November 30, 2022, Sandra Brown pled guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, and official misconduct, a misdemeanor, as part of a plea agreement that required her to testify against Tina Peters and her performance on the witness stand would play a factor in her eventual sentencing. Brown's deal, which 21st Judicial District Judge Matthew Barrett did not decide whether to accept until sentencing, would require her to serve up to 30 days in jail for the misdemeanor and would allow the felony conviction to be erased after two years if she complied with conditions he sets, such as requiring community service, for those two years. "There were things going on that I should have questioned and I didn't," Brown told Judge Barrett.^[91]

In March 2023, Peters received a Mesa County jury trial for charges related to her recording the court proceedings of Knisley with an iPad and for obstructing investigators who tried to execute a search warrant to seize her iPad with the video footage the next day. During the trial, testimony and statements from Peters' attorney revealed that Tammy Bailey was an alias that Peters had created for herself; during the time of the search warrant, Peters had repeatedly told investigators that the iPad did not belong to her and that she could not provide the password because it belonged to someone else named Tammy Bailey. The jury ultimately convicted her on a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of government operations but acquitted her on the charge that she obstructed a peace officer.^[92]^[63] The court sentenced Peters to four months of house arrest for this misdemeanor, during which she was ordered to wear an ankle monitor, fined $786.35, and ordered to perform 120 hours of community service, which she planned to appeal.^[93]^[94]

Sandra Brown began her 30-day sentence for the misdemeanor of official misconduct. Brown's deal would allow her felony conviction of attempting to influence a public servant to be expunged after two years if she complied with the conditions set by Judge Barrett.^[95]

On May 5, 2023, Peters was held in contempt of court for lying to Judge Barrett about recording court proceedings involving Knisley using her iPad on February 7, 2022. Eagle County District Judge Paul Dunkelman gave Peters a fine of $1,500.^[61] On September 6, 2023, Peters pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempting to influence a public servant (felony), conspiracy to commit trying to influence a public servant (felony), criminal impersonation (felony), two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation (felony), identity theft (felony), first-degree official misconduct (misdemeanor), violation of duty (misdemeanor), and failing to comply with the secretary of state (misdemeanor).^[96] Her trial was pushed back to February 9, 2024,^[97] with the jury selection process to take place on the two preceding days.^[98]

On July 19, 2023, Tina Peters fired her attorney, Harvey Steinberg, and hired new attorneys, Douglas Richards and Madalia Maalik. They requested to push the trial to October 18–30, 2023.^[99]

On November 13, 2023, Peters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado against the United States, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, 21st Judicial District Court Attorney Daniel Rubinstein, and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. The suit alleged that these government officials violated her constitutional rights by retaliating with investigations and charges against her for her alleged misconduct as an election official when she raised election integrity concerns in the 2020 General Election.^[100]

In February 2024, Peters was scheduled to go to court for her criminal case but had fired her attorneys again, claiming to have COVID-19. Attorney Michael Edminister took over the case from Douglas Richards and other attorneys in the Richards Carrington law firm, making him the fifth attorney of record and the fourth time her case has been postponed.^[101] The trial was again delayed until the July and August 2024.^[102]

Peters attempted to have the charges against her dismissed several times. U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang dismissed Peters' motion to dismiss the criminal investigation citing a failure to state a claim, a lack of standing, and a lack of jurisdiction to dismiss the case.^[103]^[104] The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied her appeal of that decision, with a unanimous 3–0 ruling affirming the lower court's decision.^[105]^[106] Then, the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Neil Gorsuch denied Peters' application for an injunction to dismiss or halt a criminal trial against her.^[107]^[108] The trial then proceeded.

Conviction and sentencing

Peters was convicted in August 2024 on seven of ten charges of engaging in a security breach to advance a false conspiracy theory of election fraud. Four of the convictions were for felonies.^[27]^[109] On the day after her conviction, she appeared on the Steve Bannon War Room podcast to insist she would continue to pursue her allegations, referring to a debunked theory originating from former Michigan politician Patrick Colbeck and amplified on Twitter by Rasmussen Reports alleging Dominion engineers based in Serbia could change votes over the internet.^[110]^[111]

Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison and immediately taken into custody in October 2024.^[112] At her sentencing, District Court Judge Matthew Barrett told Peters, "Your lies are well documented... I'm convinced you'd do it all over again if you could."^[113] Peters told the judge, "I've never done anything with malice to break the law. I've only wanted to serve the people of Mesa County."^[112] Barrett told her, "You are no hero. You're a charlatan who used, and is still using, your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that's been proven to be junk time and time again."^[29] Subsequent to the sentencing the courthouse increased security after receiving threats to the judge and staff.^[114]

On February 7, 2025 Peters filed a federal habeas corpus petition in U.S. District Court of Colorado, arguing that she should be released on bond pending the appeal decision. Peters asked the court to appear at the hearing remotely from jail in Pueblo, but the judge denied the request.^[115] Her petition for release pending appeal was denied by Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak on December 8, 2025.^[116]

In May 2025, President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice to take actions to secure Peters' release. In August 2025, Trump issued a social media statement warning that "harsh measures" would be imposed on Colorado if Peters was not released.^[117] On November 12, the Colorado Department of Corrections received a letter from the Federal Bureau of Prisons asking to move Peters to federal custody,^[118] a request denied by state prison officials and Colorado Governor Jared Polis.^[119] On December 11, Trump said he had pardoned Peters, despite having no jurisdiction over convictions under state law. Colorado officials rejected the pardon for lack of jurisdiction.^[120] On December 23, Peters asked the state appeals court to recognize the federal pardon.^[121] On December 31, Trump posted to social media that the governor was a "Scumbag" and the district attorney was "disgusting". He said: "I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell."^[122]

As of December 2025 Peters was housed at La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, Colorado.^[123]

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

What won't Kristi Noem do?

I understand she'll do anything for Mardi Gras beads -- anything. But for the next four weeks, she's mainly going to keep attacking an American citizen shot dead by Chump's gestapo forces that she overseas.

Taking time away from both her husband and also her long alleged boyfriend, Homeland Security Tramp and Monster Kristi Noem appeared on CNN's STATE OF THE UNION. John Bowden (INDEPENDENT) reports:

Jake Tapper pressed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday to explain how the administration was going to guarantee a fair investigation into Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent who was seen on video shooting a woman in her car in Minneapolis last week.

The shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, prompted hundreds of thousands of Americans to protest across the country this weekend.

Ross can be heard on his own cell phone video calling Good a “f***ing b****” before firing into the vehicle as it appears to turn away from his direction. Whether the officer was struck by the side of the car is unclear.

The secretary attempted to blame Democrats and the media for prejudging the officer’s guilt, but had no response when the State of the Union host questioned whether the administration’s stalwart defense of the officer’s actions would harm future investigations.

The whore wants to set the standard for what's allowed. I don't take standard recommendations from 'family values' politicians who are married and have public allegations -- even published in THE NEW YORK POST -- that they are having an ongoing, years-plus affair with another man -- a man that they have brought in as their co-worker at Homeland Security. If I wanted to know a really good mattress, I'd take Kristi's opinion on that or even some really good lubricants. Maybe she's got something to share if you end up with a venereal disease? But I'm not interested in a tramp giving me lectures on standards and what's wrong.

As Mika noted in the MORNING JOE video protests took place around the country over the weekend as a result of the US government murdering Renee Nicole Good.

The US government murdered Renee Nicole Good on January 7th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a man with years of training in using a firearm and who provided training to others ("a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor"), shot and killed the mother of three who was unarmed. Ross, apparently needing to make social content while on the clock, filmed her and when the video was released, the world saw that her last words to him were, "I'm not mad at you." By contrast, he or one of his fellow agents immediately called Renee a "f**king bitch" after plugged her with three bullets. The federal government immediately began attacking Good -- even though they should be stating "I can't comment on an ongoing federal investigation."

Instead, as NPR's Martin Kaste observed on January 9th, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, "And I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the evidence means." Fat and little Vice president JD Vance is a professional troll but his efforts this time are especially outrageous. John Grosso (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) observed:

Yesterday (Jan. 7), 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a residential Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and an U.S. citizen.

Today, JD Vance has taken to social media to justify the shooting and blame Good for her own death.

Though the full circumstances of the situation are still coming to light, widely available video evidence shows the horrific moments before, during and after shots were fired into Good's car. Videos of the shooting and the ensuing aftermath are graphic and disturbing. After Good was shot, her car accelerates, slamming into another car and a pole. In one video, a person can be heard identifying themselves as a physician and offering to help only to be angrily denied by an unidentified ICE agent saying: "I don't care."

The Trump administration was quick to demonize Good. Within hours of the event and before a formal investigation could even be launched, Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem labeled Good's actions as an "act of domestic terrorism." President Donald Trump on Jan. 7 labeled her as "disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Trump went on to say that the ICE officer was lucky to be alive and "is now recovering in the hospital."

[. . .]

As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.

Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.

The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.

Mike's response to Vance's outrageous lies, "As a Catholic, I'm sick of this little bitch distorting my religion. He needs to be excommunicated. I'm not joking. He is presenting as a Catholic -- he's been a Catholic for about five minutes -- and he is distorting our beliefs and our teaching. Two popes have repudiated him -- Pope Francis and now Pope Leo. Excommunicate Vance, don't let him speak for the Church or pose as a Catholic. Whatever crap he was raised before distorted his damn mind. We cannot allow him to pervert the Catholic faith."

At AMERICA: THE JESUIT REVIEW, James T. Keane writes:

After Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in her minivan by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, Vice President JD Vance called her murder “a tragedy of her own making” and claimed that Ms. Good, a community activist and a mother of three, was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.”

Mr. Vance claimed further that Ms. Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer” who shot and killed her, an assertion contradicted by video evidence taken from multiple angles.

Why the obvious lie? Because, similar to Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Haig, Mr. Vance recognizes the potential for this atrocity to turn American public opinion against President Trump’s brutal campaign against undocumented immigrants, particularly because Ms. Good is an American citizen, was apparently denied medical assistance by ICE agents after the shooting and, according to the video evidence, posed no real threat to the shooter. Not even the most fervent supporter of the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrants, one assumes, would defend such Gestapo-like tactics.

The answer? Blame Ms. Good for her own murder.

Mr. Vance’s boss, President Trump, has engaged in further deceit and hyperbole in support of that same goal, claiming that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” She made for an easy culprit for a man desperate to justify ICE’s actions. After all, she was already dead.

The murder of the churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 was not an isolated incident; they shared the fate of tens of thousands of other Salvadorans, including Rutilio Grande, S.J., St. Oscar Romero, and the six Jesuits and two laywomen who were murdered by the Salvadoran military in 1989 in San Salvador. Eventually, the overwhelming evidence of these murders became too much for American politicians to justify, and U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military government dried up. It just became impossible to believe the lie anymore.

On the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the churchwomen of El Salvador, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., preached at a memorial Mass in Rome on the impact of their witness. “Theirs, mysteriously but without doubt, is the triumph because vigorous, courageous acts of solidarity and compassion persist in dreadful, risky conditions,” he said. “Brutal claims failed and fail to stop the evangelizing.”

Let us hope the same will happen in Minneapolis. Nothing can bring Renee Good back; her 6-year-old son is without his mother now, her partner a widow. The masked man who killed her simply drove away. Nor is her death an isolated incident: All over the country, we hear and see more and more examples of violent attacks by masked ICE agents who seem to face no accountability for their crimes. And we hear the brutal claims used after the fact to justify them.

How long before it simply becomes impossible to believe the lie anymore?

Whitney Curry Wimbish (TAP) notes of Kristi Noem, "Noem repeated the lie that the officer who shot Good to death had done nothing wrong and that officers had been “surrounded, assaulted, and blocked in by protesters,” something contradicted by video and eyewitness evidence. She also said that Good had been following officers all day prior to her murder, but would not say for how long or whether there had been earlier interactions, or how many, between Good and the officers."

HARPER'S BIZAAR runs a piece by poet Danez Smith entitled "An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good." Renee was murdered January 7th and that night, in Chicago, Kelly Hayes spoke at a memorial for Renee:

I’m Kelly Hayes. I’ve been organizing for justice for years in this city, and I’ve had the honor of working and thinking alongside many of you in recent months as we’ve held our ground in defense of our neighbors. We are gathered here tonight in the cold, among people of conscience, among neighbors who see themselves in the person who was gunned down in Minneapolis today. She was 37 years old and her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was the mother of a six-year-old child. Her mother described her as “loving, forgiving and affectionate,” and called her “an amazing human being.”

We grieve for Renee, her family, and her community, but even before we knew anything about Renee — including her name — many of us were shaken by her violent death, because a moment that feels inevitable can still be shocking.

Even though we know ICE has killed before — and will again — even though they shot a woman in Chicago and told lies like the lies they are telling now, even though they are fascist purveyors of violence — their brutality has not hardened or corrupted us. We are still shaken and heartbroken by their violence. That is the cost of staying human in inhuman times — and it’s a cost we pay in defense of our neighbors and in defense of our own humanity. We feel what they would have us ignore, and we grieve the violence that their cultish followers applaud.

There is power in grief, because grief draws us together in moments when our enemies would tear us apart. Trump, Miller, Bovino, and DHS want us to believe their violence is inevitable. They want it to become the background noise of our lives — not something we respond to with love, tears, and action. They want us to give up on what the world could be, abandon our decency, and abandon each other. They want us to submit to their violence, and to accept that the cost of disrupting their attacks on our communities is death. And if we refuse to forget our neighbors — if we refuse to become dead inside — they want us to live in fear. They want us terrorized, afraid to show up for each other the way the people of Minneapolis have shown up — and the way Chicago has shown up.

And while this violence didn’t occur in our city, we know what it’s like to have their guns drawn on us. We understand the terror Minneapolis is facing, and we feel their loss deeply. A federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. And with that shot, ICE took aim at every city where people have dared to organize against their violence, every place where neighbors have chosen each other over fear. But people of conscience will not be cowed. Today, I saw our siblings in struggle in Minneapolis chanting, “You can’t kill us all.”

I am grateful to the people of Minneapolis tonight. Their courage in the wake of this violence is a bright light for us to rally around. They have mobilized — just as we have mobilized — to protect one another, to love one another, and to tell ICE to get the fuck out of their communities. And what they have found together — what we have found together, what so many communities have found together through collective efforts to create as much safety and justice as possible — will not be destroyed by acts of violence and repression.

They want us to scatter in fear, to give up hope, and to give up on each other. But we will hold more tightly to one another, plan more strategically, and care even more deeply. We will resist the normalization of their violence, the immobilization of fear, and the sense of inevitability they would impose upon us. We will do what our courageous friends in Minneapolis have done today. We will be a light to all those who resist — to those forced to hide or live in fear, to those who want to love and practice care bravely. We will be a reminder of what people can do when they refuse to give up, and when they refuse to give up on each other.

Renee was not a terrorist. She is an American citizen who was murdered. And the liars in this administration took to the Sunday chat & chews to lie about a dead American who the government killed. Tom Holman and Kristi were among the liars who showed up on the Sunday chat & chews. Some truth tellers also showed up. On NBC's MEET THE PRESS this morning, Senator Chris Murphy called for ICE to stop breaking the law and return to pre-Kristi Noem policies:

We're simply talking about, you know, essentially going back to the way that ICE was operating when they cared about legality, right? Identification of officers, that's something that has been standard practice in every law enforcement agency all across the country. CBP, who are supposed to be at the border, protecting us at the border, operating in the interior with no training on how to deal with complex urban environments, that's brand new. So we just need to get back to a Department of Homeland Security that is prioritizing the law and prioritizing keeping people safe. And yes, I think it is reasonable for Democrats speaking on behalf of the majority of the American public who don't approve of what ICE is doing to say, "If you want to fund the Department of Homeland Security, I want to fund a Department of Homeland Security that is operating in a safe and legal manner."

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