The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee has referred George Santos (R-NY) to the Department of Justice (DOJ) after finding the Republican Congressman engaged in “unlawful conduct.”
A statement released by the Ethics Committee says it has found “substantial evidence that Representative George Santos: knowingly caused his campaign committee to file false or incomplete reports with the Federal Election Commission; used campaign funds for personal purposes; engaged in fraudulent conduct in connection with RedStone Strategies LLC; and engaged in knowing and willful violations of the Ethics in Government Act as it relates to his Financial Disclosure (FD) Statements filed with the House.”
The committee added that “Santos’ conduct warrants public condemnation, is branched the dignified of the office, and has brought severe discredit upon the House.”
Shortly after the report was published, it was announced the Republican Chair of the Ethics Committee, Michael Guest, is preparing to file a resolution to expel Santos from the House on the grounds that the evidence uncovered is more than sufficient to warrant punishment.
Santos has similarly been indicted by the United States District Court of the Eastern District of New York on 23 counts, including conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, two counts of wire fraud, and two could of making materially false statements to the Federal Election Commission, among other things. He is due to stand trial for those charges next year.
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The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee has referred George Santos (R-NY) to the Department of Justice (DOJ) after finding the Republican Congressman engaged in "unlawful conduct."
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was forced to broadcast an apology this week, after airing an inaccurate report that claimed Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were deliberately targeting medical staff in Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital.
“During our initial coverage, we stated that medical teams and Arabic speakers were being targeted. This is a misrepresentation of a Reuters report,” a BBC presenter declared. The correct information stated that IDF forces included trained medical teams and Arabic speakers in their operation.
“We apologize for this error, which fell below our usual editorial standards,” continued the presenter.
Further updates revealed witnesses inside the hospital, while hearing sporadic shots, reported no injuries and described a tense yet calm atmosphere as Israeli troops moved around buildings, searching for Hamas terrorists, weapons, and infrastructure.
This comes after several previous instances when the BBC had to retract inaccurate reports related to Israel’s conflict with Hamas.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was forced to broadcast an apology this week, after airing an inaccurate report that claimed Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were deliberately targeting medical staff in Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital.
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Leadership Institute founder and long-standing American Conservative Union (ACU) and Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) member Morton Blackwell resigned his position from Matt Schlapp’s organization this week. Blackwell is the latest in a long-line of resignations of both staff and board members from CPAC, as the Schlapps continue to run the right-wing institution into the ground.
Blackwell, 83, has served on the ACU board since the 1970s, and joins other senior figures such as Charlie Gerow and Bob Beauprez in walking out the door. Beauprez quit in May, alleging a “cancer” metastasizing inside the once-great conservative group which now appears only to exist to line the pockets of Matt and Mercedes Schlapp. Gerow stepped down shortly after, though initially refused to release his letter of resignation.
Schlapp faces a lawsuit for the alleged sexual battery of a younger man, Carlton Huffman, as well as a series of allegations detailing how his organization has failed to adhere to financial rules, with Gerow’s letter – released this week – revealing how the ACU may have even broken the law in its procedures.
The National Pulse has been reporting on the refusal of Schlapp to run the organization properly for over two years, with a number of senior sources inside the organization repeatedly reaching out to sound the alarm.
In his note, Gerow explained how board members were not provided with an affirmation of terms of coverage to sign, as required by law, when CPAC began shelling out vast sums of money for Schlapp’s personal legal defense.
He wrote of being stonewalled when he attempted to acquire the paperwork, explaining he was “presented with reams of paper I had not asked for, [but] this vital sheet of paper was missing,”
Gerow also expressed concern that CPAC failed to carry out “any independent investigation into the underlying accusations made against Matt Schlapp, something any similarly situated nonprofit or for profit corporation would have done.”
He said CPAC staffers were suddenly forced to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) on pain of losing pay, and board members were warned they “serve[d] at the pleasure of [Schlapp].”
Earlier this year, The National Pulse reported on Schlapp’s own ‘DO NOT INVITE’ list for the CPAC conference, which included America First Members of Congress, Trump family members, and even some of his own board members.
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
Ron DeSantis is continuing to nosedive in New Hampshire, with neoconservative Nikki Haley now enjoying more than twice his support and Never Trump also-ran Chris Christie pushing him into fourth place.
Donald Trump dominates the field in the Granite State, on 49 points, with Nikki Haley a distant second on 18 percent. This puts her far above Christie on 9 percent, however, and even further ahead of DeSantis, on seven percent – only two points ahead of the hitherto unknown Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never held a high-profile public office like Haley, Christie, and DeSantis.
DeSantis’s team had put a great deal of stock into winning or at least coming a strong second in Iowa and New Hampshire, in order to build a credible platform to take on the former president. Polls placing him fourth and even fifth in New Hampshire suggest this strategy has failed. DeSantis has even begun to play down the early states, saying: “I think Florida, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, those states will be great for us”.
Trump’s lead over DeSantis is substantial and growing even in his home state of Florida, however.
Ron DeSantis is continuing to nosedive in New Hampshire, with neoconservative Nikki Haley now enjoying more than twice his support and Never Trump also-ran Chris Christie pushing him into fourth place.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign has gone on air with its second television ad in Iowa. The 30-second ad-spot features Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds who endorsed DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination at a sparsely attended event last week. The ad is a part of a $2 million campaign blitz announced by DeSantis in October, despite his campaign committee only have about $5 million cash-on-hand at the time.
The Iowa ad-spot has struck some political observers, including The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam, as being some what ‘off’. The clips featuring Govs. DeSantis and Reynolds in the video were pulled from the Iowa endorsement event, which appears to only have attracted about 150 people. In the ad, however, the audio alludes to far larger and enthused crowd one might see at a full-scale campaign rally.
Attempting to portray a greater degree of support and enthusiasm than there is, the DeSantis campaign appears to have inserted ‘canned’ crowd audio from an unrelated event. After comparing the relevant ad clips with actual video from Reynolds’s endorsement of DeSantis, Kassam was able to confirm that the Florida Governor had indeed substituted the crowd noise from the original.
Did a quick comparison of the ad vs the original audio. Yep. They’ve added canned applause and cheers lmao watch… pic.twitter.com/gpzdnu6SgR
The National Pulse has previously reported the political relationship between DeSantis and Reynolds is more complicated than what was previously known. Reynolds, who has served in leadership roles at the Republican Governors Association (RGA), appears to have directed an unusual amount of campaign funds to DeSantis’s 2022 Florida Governor re-election campaign. Some of that money was later transferred from his gubernatorial PAC to the pro-DeSantis presidential Never Back Down PAC. Gov. DeSantis’s decision to redirect state pension money to financial firms that made large contributions to the RGA raises additional questions.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign has gone on air with its second television ad in Iowa. The 30-second ad-spot features Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds who endorsed DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination at a sparsely attended event last week. The ad is a part of a $2 million campaign blitz announced by DeSantis in October, despite his campaign committee only have about $5 million cash-on-hand at the time.
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Evidence that disgraced attorney Michael Cohen perjured himself before Congress is being referred to the Department of Justice for a second time. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Michael Turner (R-OH) state: “Michael D. Cohen appears to have committed perjury and knowingly made false statements while testifying under oath during his deposition before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on February 28, 2019.” The House Members point to testimony from Cohen from October 25th during the civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump, where he clearly states he lied under oath to Congress in 2019.
“The Biden Justice Department must take off its partisan blinders and investigate disgraced fraudster and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen, a felon previously convicted for lying to Congress, who just admitted to lying again to Congress,” Rep. Stefanik said.
While on the stand as a witness for the prosecution, Cohen initially insinuated Trump had directed him to artificially inflate the value of his financial assets. This directly contradicted testimony Cohen gave to Congress in 2019 where he said that Trump had not directed him to do so. During cross-examination, Trump attorney Alina Habba pressed Cohen, “Mr. Cohen, were you being honest in front of the Permanent Select Committee when you testified on February 28, 18 2019?” Cohen responded, “No.”
Habba followed up: “So you lied under oath in February of 2019? Is that your testimony?” To which Cohen responded, “Yes”. A few hours later, Cohen would contradict himself again, telling another Trump attorney that the former President had not directed him to inflate his asset values.
In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress regarding statements he made to the Senate Intelligence Committee and House Intelligence Committee in 2017 concerning an abandoned Trump real estate deal in Moscow. The 2017 hearings conducted by Congressional Democrats were largely fueled by the now-debunked Steele Dossier.
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Evidence that disgraced attorney Michael Cohen perjured himself before Congress is being referred to the Department of Justice for a second time. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Michael Turner (R-OH) state: "Michael D. Cohen appears to have committed perjury and knowingly made false statements while testifying under oath during his deposition before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on February 28, 2019." The House Members point to testimony from Cohen from October 25th during the civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump, where he clearly states he lied under oath to Congress in 2019.
Far-left U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib has been identified as a member of the Palestinian American Congress, a secret Facebook group known to glorify Hamas, the proscribed terror organization responsible for the October 7th terror raid on Israel.
Hidden from non-members and the platform’s search function, Tlaib has been a member of the ‘Palestinian American Congress’ for six years, and even used it to promote her election campaign in 2018.
Since the October 7th attacks, members have been posting pro-terror messages, including a picture of a Hamas fighters holding an elderly Jewish woman captive with the caption: “We don’t want to throw you in the sea… we want you to ride it back from where you came.”
Group founder Maher Abdel-qader, who has proven ties to Tlaib and links to other leftist politicians, has previously been exposed for sharing content questioning whether the Holocaust really happened and describing Jews as “Satanic”.
Tlaib herself was censured by the U.S. House of Representatives in a 234-188 vote last week.
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Far-left U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib has been identified as a member of the Palestinian American Congress, a secret Facebook group known to glorify Hamas, the proscribed terror organization responsible for the October 7th terror raid on Israel.
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Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been left with egg on his face after claiming New Hampshire business owner Thomas Estey had endorsed him, only for Estey to deny it and announce his support for Donald Trump.
“Ron DeSantis’s team kept bugging me for my endorsement, but I am 100 percent voting for President Trump,” said Estey in comments to local media this week.
“[Trump] is the only one who can save our country from Joe Biden.” Estey added.
Several recent polls support the businessman’s assessment, with Trump beating Biden in five out of six of the nation’s key swing states – sometimes by substantial margins
DeSantis has not been achieving similar results, despite his surrogates claiming one of his key selling points is the fact he carries less “baggage” and has alienated viewer voters, making him a more “electable” nominee.
The Floridian has proved unable to cut through even with Republican primary voters, with his polling in New Hampshire, where he is a distant forth behind neoconservative Nikki Haley and Never Trump hardliner Chris Christie, being particularly abysmal.
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Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been left with egg on his face after claiming New Hampshire business owner Thomas Estey had endorsed him, only for Estey to deny it and announce his support for Donald Trump.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has unveiled the Republican plan to keep the government funded while Congress continues its efforts to pass the 12 appropriations bills that comprise federal budget for next year. The plan, which some have dubbed a “laddered” continuing resolution (CR), is a bit unusual.
Instead of a uniform extension of government funding for all federal agencies, the legislation will provide staggered funding for departments and agencies. Some parts of the government – including veterans programs, transportation, housing, agriculture and energy – will be funded through January 19th, 2024. Agencies and departments dealing with national security and defense, such as the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, will receive funding through February 2nd, 2024. The purpose of extended funding for some parts of the government longer than others is to preserve a sense of urgency and maintain pressure on the Senate to take up the House passed appropriations bills.
In the past when the House adopted clean CRs that extended government funding until Christmas, the Senate has delayed taking up individual appropriations bills and instead took up – at the last minute – a massive omnibus bill cobbled together by Senate appropriators. The deadline created by the CR allowed the Senate to leverage the funding crisis and jam the House, forcing the lower legislative body to adopt the massive funding bill without knowing what exactly was in it. The laddered CR, in theory, should prevent the Senate from being able to jam the House with an omnibus and instead force the upper legislative body to continue negotiations with the House over the individual appropriations bills.
If Johnson can leverage the laddered CR and actually force the Senate to pass federal funding through the normal legislative process – via single subject appropriations legislation – it would be a monumental victory for conservatives. The last time Congress passed all 12 appropriations bills under any semblance of regular order was over 25 years ago. Even then, the 1997 budget required 6 of the 12 appropriations bills to be considered together as a ‘minibus’.
“This two-step continuing resolution is a necessary bill to place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories,” Johnson said in a statement. “The bill will stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess.”
Johnson added: “Separating out the CR from the supplemental funding debates places our conference in the best position to fight for fiscal responsibility, oversight over Ukraine aid, and meaningful policy changes at our Southern border.”
Not all House Republicans are on board with the laddered CR. “It’s a 100% clean. And I 100% oppose,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) posted on X, formerly Twitter. In another post Roy said, “My opposition to the clean CR just announced by the Speaker to the @HouseGOP cannot be overstated. Funding Pelosi level spending & policies for 75 days — for future ‘promises.'”
White House press secretary Kaine Jean-Pierre also panned the laddered CR, calling it “a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns — full stop.”
Despite grumbling from some in the Senate, the White House, House Democrats, and Rep. Chip Roy, House Republicans overall appear open to Johnson’s laddered CR. The full House of Representatives could take up the funding measure as soon as Tuesday. Meanwhile, late Monday, Johnson’s government received the backing of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) – signaling that moderate Republicans in the Senate may dropping their support for Democrat efforts to rush an omnibus spending package.
Funding for the federal government runs out on Friday.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has unveiled the Republican plan to keep the government funded while Congress continues its efforts to pass the 12 appropriations bills that comprise federal budget for next year. The plan, which some have dubbed a "laddered" continuing resolution (CR), is a bit unusual.
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Former President Donald Trump’s bid to retake the White House received big endorsement this morning from the newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Johnson was pressed by host Joe Kernen as to who he was supporting in the Republican presidential primary to which the Speaker responded: “I’m all in for President Trump.”
Addressing the Department of Justice, as well the New York and Georgia, prosecutions against former President Trump, Johnson made it clear that he believed they were politically motivated, stating: “We call it lawfare… And what’s happened to President Trump is unprecedented.” The House Speaker went on to point out that “every time a new indictment drops, it follows after some favorable thing he gets in a poll…”.
Before becoming Speaker, Johnson was a vocal proponent of Donald Trump in the House of Representatives. Along with 125 other House Republicans, Johnson was a signer of an amicus brief in Texas v. Pennsylvania. The case, brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, argued that states which changed election procedure during the 2020 presidential contest without legislative approval were in violation of the U.S. Constitution – specifically the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, arguing that Texas lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.Mik
Johnson is the 91st Member of Congress to endorse Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has just 6 Congressional endorsements, while former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum each have one respectively.
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Former President Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House received big endorsement this morning from the newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA).
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