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So nobody says to him "what are you talking about?" They just let him talk out his ass... for their own amusement?
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Press still tip toes around the nigga cause if they don’t they’ll be banned from the press pool like others before them
 
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Ted Cruz Compares Himself To Rosa Parks

Sen. Ted Cruz argued that a limit on how much his campaign can pay back him back after an election was like making Rosa Parks sit in the back of the bus.
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Cruz Compares Himself To Rosa Parks In Fight Against A Campaign Finance Regulation



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued on Friday that a campaign spending law that limits how much his campaign can pay back him back after an election was like making civil rights leader Rosa Parks sit in the back of the bus.
Wait, what?

Cruz is suing the Federal Elections Commission to strike down a rule in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that forbids campaigns from spending more than $250,000 in post-election campaign contributions to pay back the candidate’s personal loans to their own campaign.

The Loan Repayment Limit is an anti-corruption measure aimed at preventing newly-elected officials from paying off their campaign loans by promising post-election donors that they’d use their new position to vote according to the donors’ wishes.

Cruz is arguing that the limit is an infringement on his First Amendment rights, but as Open Secrets points out, removing the limit would give lobbyists even more influence on politicians’ voting decisions.

According to Cruz’s team, Cruz took out a $260,000 loan to fund his 2018 Senate reelection campaign right before the election in November. After the election, the Cruz Committee could only pay back $250,000 to Cruz, meaning the GOP lawmaker wouldn’t get back $10,000.

The FEC has filed to dismiss the suit, saying that the damage was “self-inflicted” because Cruz’s campaign could’ve easily paid back the senator with the $2.2 million dollars it had raised before the election. The agency also alleges that Cruz only gave that loan to the campaign for the purpose of challenging the limit.

“The FEC also asserts that Senator Cruz and the Cruz Committee inflicted their injuries on themselves because they could have arranged to repay the Senator’s loans using pre-election funds,” Cruz’s legal team wrote in Friday’s filing. “Yes, and Rosa Parks could have sat in the back of the bus. FEC’s argument essentially faults Plaintiffs for not forfeiting the very constitutional right they seek to vindicate in this litigation.”
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CNN: Pompeo Using Security Agents As ‘UberEats With Guns’

House Democrats are investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo possibly using his security detail to run personal errands, according to a Monday CNN report.
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CNN: House Dems Probe Claim Pompeo Uses Security Agents As ‘UberEats With Guns’

House Democrats are investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo possibly using his security detail to run personal errands, according to a Monday CNN report.

A “key House congressional committee” (staffers asked CNN not to name the committee) is looking into Pompeo allegedly using security officials as “UberEats with guns.”

A whistleblower in the State Department reportedly told Democrats that Pompeo asked an agent to pick up some Chinese food (the secretary himself was not in the car). Another security agent was tasked with picking up Pompeo’s dog from the groomer.

The whistleblower also gave Democrats a document that detailed a request from Pompeo’s office asking agents to pick up Pompeo’s son, who is an adult, from a train station in D.C.

“I was head of Secretary Pompeo’s security detail since his first day on the job,” the Diplomatic Security chief, Lon Fairchild, told CNN in a statement. “At no point during my service did he or any member of his family ask me or any member of my team to act in any way that would be inconsistent with our professional obligation to protect the Secretary 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.”

However, CNN noted that Fairchild didn’t actually deny that Pompeo had been ordering the agents to carry out the tasks.
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ROFL @ “Draining the Swamp”...
 
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