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by Republins and Democrats, then <a href=" target=_blank>issued an amendment</a> strikg precisely three of them — all programs providg hog and related assistance for those need the LGBTQ+ muny. To add sult to jury, the amendment also banned the display of “extraneo flags” (read: Pri flags) at fund facili and forba discrimatn “agast a person who speaks or acts acrdance wh a scerely held relig belief or moral nvictn of what nstut tradnal marriage.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But discrimatg agast LGBTQ+ people is apparently a-okay.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. 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Mark Pon (D-Wis.), who is gay, ma <a href=" target="_blank">a powerful, personal appeal</a>. “If you were to take away earmarks bee they went to the NAACP or the Urban League, you would, rightfully so, be lled racist bigots!” he shouted. “But when you do to the LGBT muny, ’s another ick’ day Congrs.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Pon spoke of when he received a piece of mail wh the words “Dead Faggot” over his photo, and when he was once beaten bloody and unnsc wh a baseball bat after leavg a gay bar. “This is what you guys do by troducg amendments like this,” he said, addg that the actn was “sptg on every sgle person who is LGBTQ+.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Repeatedly, Harris rose to mand that Democrats’ words be “taken down” for impugng his motiv. His hysterics forced Appropriatns Commtee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Tex.) to ll a seri of recs, g the hearg to drag on for hours.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But Harris’s own words impugned his character more than any Democrat’s uld. The 30 other Republins on the mtee, wns to this ugly spectacle, had not one but two chanc to distance themselv om such flagrant discrimatn. But a pair of party-le vot on the amendment, they stead planted themselv firmly on the si of prejudice.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="O4SF6T24CBHUTH5DRHHDGS723A"><div>But he’s our bigot</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wh irony short supply, Republins went om the scene of Harris’s bigotry to the Hoe floor — where they nounced bigotry. This particular type of bigotry was different, however, bee me om a Democrat.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Praa Jayapal (Wash.) had lled Israel a “racist state” over the weekend. After dozens of her Democratic lleagu and Hoe Democratic lears <a href=" target=_blank>nounced her statement</a>, she <a href=" target=_blank>issued an apology</a> and clarified that “I do not believe the ia of Israel as a natn is racist.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Still, Hoe Republins, sensg a polil opportuny, shed to the floor wh a rolutn affirmg that “the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state” and that “Congrs rejects all forms of antisemism and xenophobia.” Noble sentiments both (’s one thg to ll the Netanyahu regime racist but entirely different to so brand the entire Jewish state), and the rolutn <a href=" target=_blank>passed by an overwhelmg 412-9 vote</a>. Jayapal herself was among the ay.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Only one lawmaker spoke on the floor agast the rolutn: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Unlike Jayapal and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mn.), who showed ntrn and sought nciliatn after g offense, Tlaib, <a href=" target="_blank">as I have </a><a href=" target="_blank">tailed</a>, has been an unrepentant antiseme. She ntued that dishonorable tradn on the Hoe floor this week, absurdly claimg as an example of Israel’s racism that Israel’s print “has long advoted agast terracial marriage.” (His actual ncern is about the loss of Jewish inty <a href=" target="_blank">ter<i>fah</i> marriag</a>.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Tlaib’s bigotry is no more acceptable than Andy Harris’s. Happily, Democrats ma clear that they won’t fend the haters their party jt bee they have the letter D after their nam. Would that Harris’s lleagu had the same urage.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Frh om s p nunciatns of antisemism, the Hoe Judiciary Commtee proceed wh a hearg two days later featurg <a href=" target="_blank" class="ntextual_lk">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a>, now a proment antiseme. Days before his Hoe appearance, <a href=" target=_blank>Kennedy had alleged</a> that vid-19 uld be a “bweapon” that was “ethnilly targeted” to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Che.” But this is a bigot Republins are happy to tolerate — bee he’s mountg a primary challenge to <a href=" target="_blank" class="ntextual_lk">Print Bin</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Kennedy, at the hearg of the “weaponizatn” submtee, labeled the charg of bigotry “famatns and malignanci that are ed to censor me.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But they are his own words. He prevly suggted that public health rtrictns durg the panmic were worse than life for Jews Nazi Germany, bee “you uld hi an attic, like Anne Frank did.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tried to fend Kennedy’s vile ments, enterg to the rerd a medil study that Kennedy said supported his claims. But the study said nothg about ethnic targetg or bweapons.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Kennedy’s crackpot ias go well beyond vid to the bunked claim that childhood vacc e tism, that WiFi “leaky bra,” that chemils the water supply might turn children transgenr, that AIDS might not be ed by HIV, that Republins stole the 2004 electn and that 5G works are ed for mass surveillance.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But Republins on the panel accepted at face value Kennedy’s claims that he’s a victim of ernment censorship — claims he ngoly has ma his many media appearanc, <a href=" target=_blank>tweets</a> to his 2 ln followers and, of urse, this week’s televised ngrsnal hearg, rried live on Fox News. (Unhelpfully to the Republins, Kennedy also ttified that he was censored by the Tmp admistratn.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The weaponizatn panel’s Republin chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (Oh), opened the hearg wh an example of the “censorship” of RFK Jr.: a 2021 tweet which Kennedy said baseball great Hank Aaron’s ath was “part of a wave of spic aths among elrly closely followg admistratn of vid vacc.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><a href=" target="_blank">Jordan said Kennedy</a> was “jt potg out facts” the tweet, yet the Bin admistratn was “tryg to censor the guy who’s actually their Democratic primary opponent.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In realy, Aaron’s ath, om natural , wasn’t spic. And Kennedy wasn’t Bin’s primary opponent 2021. More to the pot, mtee Democrats noted that Twter never took down the tweet, which remas onle to this day.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Apparently, Jordan and Kennedy have both lost their mds as well as their cency. Mt be somethg the water.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="LLCG2DAKMJG6VBZR4ZRJOPWUJY"><div>The Commtee to Invtigate Hunter Bin’s Genals</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Hoe Republins would like you to know that they are not — repeat, <i>not </i>— obssed wh the print’s son, Hunter Bin. No sirree.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“We don’t re about Hunter Bin,” Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) said <a href=" target="_blank">at this week’s </a><a href=" target="_blank">hearg</a> on — you gused — Hunter Bin, held by the Hoe Oversight Commtee. “We re about our untry’s natnal secury cisns and whether our print is promised. That’s why we’re here.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Timmons’s disavowal of an fatuatn wh Hunter Bin, the latt of many such rual nials by Hoe Republins, might have been more persuasive if had not been followed, a mere 46 mut later, by a public display the mtee room of nu photos of Bin engagg sex acts.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I would like to let the mtee and everyone watchg at home that parental discretn is advised,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said cheerily before displayg, for a live televisn dience, three posters featurg blown-up imag, apparently taken om Bin’s laptop, of a nu woman Greene lled a prostute servicg the print’s son a variety of ways. The private parts were blacked out, but not Bin’s face.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font--article-body font-py gray-darkt ma-0 pb-md" dir="null">“Hunter rerd multiple sex tap wh a prostute he had paid for out of his law firm’s bank acunt,” announced one of the posters.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So this is how Republins show that they “don’t re about Hunter Bin.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The panel’s rankg Democrat, Rep. Jamie Rask (Md.), protted. “Should we be displayg this, Mr. Chairman?”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Evintly, Chairman Jam Comer (R-Ky.) thought they should, bee he let Greene exceed her allotted time by 50 percent and did not terpt nor reprimand her for the pornographic display.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">It was yet another low for Hoe Republin “vtigators.” They ntue to e up empty their hop of provg Print Bin rpt. So why not display photos of his son, at the height of his dg addictn, havg sex?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Today’s hearg is like most of the majory’s vtigatns and heargs,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said after Greene’s vulgary. “A lot of allegatns, zero proof, no receipts, but apparently some dick pics.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Last month, the print’s troubled son reached a al wh feral prosecutors which he will plead guilty to two mor tax crim and adm to a gun charge. Comer clared a “sweetheart al” — and said he had two “whistleblowers” who uld prove that Hunter Bin got favorable treatment bee of his father.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Jim Geraghty: Bin liv nial about fay problems. But that’s no way to ern.</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wh great fanfare, he brought them before the mtee Wednday: two IRS agents (one dramatilly advertised as “Whistleblower X”). The pair did ttify that they believed prosecutors had gone easy on Bin for polil reasons. But once aga, Comer’s wns didn’t have the goods.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Their plats about how prosecutors were handlg the Bin se began 2019 and ntued 2020, durg the Tmp admistratn. That’s when, the whistleblowers alleged, “junr varsy” prosecutors the Jtice Department were engaged “electn meddlg” to benef the elr Bin.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So Tmp’s DOJ tried to throw the 2020 electn to Bin by givg his son kid-glove treatment? Mak total sense.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There was also the nvenient matter of the prosecutor who stck the al wh Hunter Bin beg a Tmp appotee — and that Tmp-appoted <a href=" target=_blank>prosecutor’s </a><a href=" target=_blank>ntradictn</a> of the whistleblowers’ claims.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The whistleblowers wanted to charge Bin wh multiple feloni, but the prosecutor disagreed — and that’s a rather mon occurrence. The lead whistleblower, Gary Shapley (Whistleblower X, Joseph Ziegler, works for him), admted that ernment lawyers have disagreed wh his prosecutn remendatns 90 percent of the time.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And what do all this have to do wh the bribery, money-lnrg and fluence-peddlg that Comer acc Print Bin of? Not much. Once aga, Comer’s mtee was left wh nothg but s own wild allegatns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The Amerin people n see pla as day the rptn, bribery and crimal actns of the Bin fay,” Timmons alleged (though even he admted there was no “direct evince” implitg the print). “We are here to do the jobs that the DOJ, the FBI and the IRS refed to do.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And that job is to show a lot of photos of Hunter Bin flagrante licto.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="BRSYP6D2RRFZ5P7KKNJP6CY7VU"><div>A textbook se of an Anti-Edutn Commtee</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Earlier this year, 161 Hoe Republins, or nearly three-quarters of the uc, <a href=" target=_blank>voted </a>to <a href=" target=_blank>elimate </a>the Edutn Department. Those votg to remove the feral ernment entirely om tn clud a supermajory of Republins on the Hoe Edutn and Workforce Commtee.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">It’s the equivalent of havg a supermajory of Republins on the Armed Servic Commtee support of abolishg the ary.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">This might expla why the Edutn and Workforce Commtee has been nspicuoly unproductive this year. Though has had numero heargs on culture-war issu, has held only five markups seven months, producg jt six bills that are remotely tn-related: assertg “parents’ rights,” blockg transgenr athlet and Print Bin’s stunt bt relief, protectg <a href=" target=_blank>sugar-add whole k</a> schools — and two bills opposg the e of school facili to shelter “aliens.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That last one appears to be a solutn search of a problem. Yet this week, the Hoe took up s send bill as many months batg the supposed surge of schools shelterg migrants.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“In May, New York Cy ntemplated an unthkable actn: They planned on g public elementary and sendary schools to hoe migrants seekg asylum,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chairman of the Rul Commtee, said as the latt bill (blockg feral funds for schools that shelter migrants) <a href=" target="_blank">me through his panel</a> this week.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Planned? Has any school <i>actually</i> hoed migrants? Rep. Virgia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the Edutn and Workforce Commtee, had apparently not bothered to fd this out. She blhely claimed was happeng “ blue-state strongholds across the natn” (where, she imaged, the “adult mal” endanger schoolchildren).</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Tera Leger Fernanz (D-N.M.) told Foxx there is only “one state that we do know of that has hoed migrants” schools. “Do you know what state that is, Madam Chairwoman?”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“No ia,” replied Foxx.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It was actually a red state,” Leger Fernanz rmed her. “Texas.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Had not heard that,” the cur Foxx said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Joe Nege (D-Colo.) prsed the chairwoman on the woeful rerd of her anti-tn mtee. He asked whether her panel had moved any bills related to teacher pay, gun vlence schools, panmic learng loss, or school meals and hunger.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Foxx admted she had not. But she had time to mark up two bills persecutg migrants — over which the mtee has no jurisdictn — cludg those legally seekg asylum.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Could we expect otherwise om a woman who voted, as Foxx did, to elimate the entire Edutn Department?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Foxx claimed not to remember the legislatn abolishg the Edutn Department. But, “if the Lord put me charge, I would get the feral ernment out of tn a heartbeat,” she told Nege.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Thankfully, the Lord has ma no such nomatn.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-ipATMk wpds-c-ipATMk-hCiGAB-removeMobileStyl-te"><div class="wpds-c-dhzjXW wpds-c-dhzjXW-iPJLV-css overriStyl mt-md tt"><div id="gift-share-end" data-ttid="gift-share-end" class="PJLV PJLV-idiqKOk-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-iIVoLq-placement-Shortcut foc-highlight"><div class="wpds-c-UazGY" id="gift-share-shortcut" data-ttid="gift-share-shortcut"><svg xmlns=" fill="var(--wpds-lors-primary)" 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