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but like I'm old enough to remember it, so maybe
maybe you do too. Remember when the government was shut
down and everybody was like, hey, we got to get
these people back into session. They need to be working
for the American people and all of that. Well, now
they're back in session and man it is lit. They
are just like censuring each other. They're just they're just
going at it. So is this really what we wanted them? Like,
we can we shut it down again? How about we
just shut down? Can we just shut down the Congress
for a little while, just the Congress? Maybe? How about
we try that, you know, like a control all delete
kind of a thing, Like can we just try to
like shut it down, give it five minutes or something,
and then bring it back online see if it resets.
You know. So over the last few days, while we've
been focusing a lot, and rightfully so, on the customs
and Border patrol operation here in Charlotte, the members of
Congress have just been ripping each other apart, trying to
pass all sorts of resolutions, saying this person stinks. That
person stinks. I don't like them, they did wrong, They're bad.
All this stuff. None of them have passed, but that's
what they But they keep running, which like I don't
know why I do, well, I do know why. This
is great for fundraising. Okay, this stuff is great for funding,
and you know, try to think of like where people's
incentives may be on some of this stuff. All right,
So I'm gonna get to him and try to hit
all of these different censure moves that have been going on.
But I have to start first with the previously unknown
Democrat Representative Sheila Cherphillis McCormick. She has been indicted on
charges of stealing five million dollars in federal disaster funds
and then using some of that money to assist her
in her twenty twenty one congressional campaign. So woh, so
she's like a national version of Tijuana Brown here in Charlotte,
except she used the money to get elected rather than
on like an extravagant birthday party with a horse drawn
carriage in a queen's throne. The Florida Democrat is accused
of stealing FEMA payments. FEMA money in the form of
overpaid so FEMA paid her too much money that her
family healthcare company had received through a federally funded COVID
nineteen vaccination staffing contract. A portion of the money was
then funneled to support her campaign through candidate contributions. According
to prosecutors who laid this out in their charges, I
have never heard of this one. But look, there's four
hundred and thirty five members of Congress. I probably don't
know half of them at least. Okay. Sherphillis McCormick's attorneys,
David oscar Marcus Margo Moss, and Melissa Madrigal, I think
you have to have the last name that starts with
an M to get on that legal team. Anyway. They
said in a statement that Sherphillis McCormick quote is a
committed public servant who is dedicated to her constituents. We
will fight to clear her good name. Which is not
exactly a denial that I'm going to read this sentence
again because this is like, I know, there's an inference
of innocence, but everybody has that presumption. They say she's
a committed public servant who is dedicated to her constituents,
and the lawyers are going to fight to clear her
good name. That is not like maybe they have a
different statement maybe out there saying something a little bit
more specific, maybe more explicitly saying, you know, she's innocent
of all the charges. She didn't do this, we will
prove it whatever. She was first elected to Congress in
twenty twenty two in Florida's twentieth district, representing parts of
Broward County and Palm Beach County. This was a special
election that was held after Representative Alce Hastings died in
twenty twenty one. One. So fast forward then to twenty
twenty four, a Florida state agency sued a company owned
by her family. Right the Florida State agency, the Florida
Division of Emergency Management, sued her company, saying that her
company had overcharged the state by almost five point eight
million dollars for work that they did during the pandemic,
and the company said they were not going to give
the money back to the State of Florida. Right, They're like, no,
we we did everything that we said we would do.
We fulfilled the contract. The Florida Division of Emergency Management
said that it made a series of overpayments to Trinity
Healthcare Services. Okay, that's her family's company, after the state
hired Trinity in twenty twenty one to register people for
COVID nineteen vacations. The agency says that it discovered the
problem after a single overpayment of five million dollars drew
their attention, which that does tend to happen with a
five million dollar draw down, right, And Sherphillis McCormick, the
now congresswoman, she was the CEO of Trinity at that time. Now,
the Office of Congressional Ethics said in a January report
that Sherphillis McCormick's income in twenty twenty one was coincidentally
a little bit more than six million dollars higher than
it was the previous year, which is pretty close to
the five million, five point eight million overpayment. You know,
it's a little that number looks a little weird. In July,
the House Ethics Committee unanimously voted to reauthorize and invest
the Degative Subcommittee to examine the allegations involving Sherphillis McCormick.
But now she's got bigger problems, because you know, congressional
ethics is one thing, but besides the oxymoron. But now
now she's got an indictment on federal charges of stealing
the five million dollars in disaster funds. So there's that.
Then there is the censure fest that's been going on
up in Washington. So I'll start with the attempted censure
of Corey Mills, also from Florida. Corey Mills is a Republican.
Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace from South Carolina introduced a resolution
to censure Corey Mills and remove him from all of
his committees. She listed allegations of harassment, assault, stolen valor,
as well as improper contracts by his Arms Safells company. Now,
this motion failed, this censure resolution that was offered up
it failed. Mills narrowly avoided a formal rebuke by his colleagues.
Last night, Mace stood at the podium while her censure
resolution was read and stared directly at Mills, who sat
just a few seats away from her. Seven Republicans voted
with her and that that is not enough. That's just
not enough, not enough votes to get that done. That
included Representatives Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Marjorie Taylor Green
of Georgia, Lauren Bobert of Colorado, Timberchett of Tennessee, Joe
Wilson of South Carolina, Kat Camick of Florida, and Harriet
Hageman of Wyoming. Now, I don't know, well, Nancy mas
is running for governor of South Carolina, right, so I
don't know if this is part of like a political calculation. However,
there may be a bit of there may be a
bit of personality conflict going on here or personal animis.
Maybe At the Hill dot Com they kind of go
through the sort of what led up to this, and
there are accusations that there are deals being made to
protect members from censure resolutions, and this is a bipartisan thing,
Democrats trading Republicans and vice versa in order to protect
their own members, So like, we won't vote for your
censured your censure resolution if you don't vote against our person.
That kind of a deal.
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she introduces this censure resolution against one of her Republican
colleagues in the House named Corey Mills from Florida, and
the failed censure effort comes after the House Ethics Committee
announced the creation of a new subcommittee yesterday to investigate
the allegations against Mills involving sexual misconduct and financial impropriety.
Mills has consistently denied any wrongdoing. Nancy Mays slammed the
creation of this ethics panel just hours before her censure resolution.
She called it a naked attempt to kill my resolution
to censure Mills, right, because well, we have this investigation
now set up, so we don't need to censure him.
House Democrats have previously threatened to advance a censure measure
against Mills on several occasions in an attempt to ward
off GOP led efforts to formally rebuke Democrats. So Democratic
New York Representative Evette Clark she submitted a censure resolution
against Mills Tuesday night, but that was after Republicans. She
withdrew her resolution after Republicans did not secure enough votes
to reprimand Democratic Delegate Stacy Plaskett over her ties to
the late convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. See, so Democrats
have been holding this censure of Mills as a as
a sort of sort of damoclet. He's like, if you
try to censure any of us, we're gonna censure Corey Mills.
So Nancy Mays is like, let's do it, and then
all the Democrats vote no, and that indicates right that
there is some coordination about this stuff going on. Democrats
have actually done three different efforts to censure Corey Mills
in the recent months, but every one of those was
a retaliatory threat in response to a Republican attempt to
censure a Democrat. The censures of those Democrats all failed,
So then the Democrats declined to force votes on censuring Mills.
Three Republicans voted with all the Democrats against the censure
resolution of Stacy Plaskett and three other Republicans voted present,
so that measure failed. Annapaulina Luna, Republican from Florida, insinuated
a shady deal had led to the plasket resolution failing
in order to protect Mills, which that is what it
looks like. Mills put out a statement he said he
expected that censer to succeed against him, saying, I voted
to center plasket, so I didn't cut any deal. He said.
Let me be perfectly clear, there was no backroom deal,
no negotiation, and no quid pro quo of any kind
that would have forced the Democrats to stand down on
that vote against me. Anyone pushing that narrative is just wrong.
Another censure of Mills that never moved forward came after
the House in September rejected an effort also brought by
Nancy Mays. She was trying to censure Representative ill On
Omar over comments that she posted about the killing of
conservative activist Charlie Kirk Mills, who was facing a retaliatory censure.
If Omar's reprimand had succeeded, he was going to get one.
He was the last minute deciding vote to sinc ilan
Omar's censure Mills denied his vote against the censer was
a way to protect himself. It just worked out that
way for him. That's when Mace went on the offense
against Corey Mills. So when Mace put this up up
for ilan Omar up for a censure resolution, it lost
by one vote. Corey Mills was won. And then after
that vote they withdrew the censure resolution against Mills. The
Democrats withdrew their motion, and that's what got Nancy mas
All upset. A similar retaliatory center of Mills was also
abandoned in September when Republicans killed a resolution that was
trying to censure Representative La Monica mc iver, she of
the famous TV show democrat from New Jersey who was
facing charges resulting from her fisticuffs clash with the immigration
officials at that detention center in New Jersey. So Republicans
put a centre resolution up against her, and the Democrats said, oh, well,
then we're going to cent your Corey Mills again, and
then Republicans tabled THEIRS and Democrats withdrew THEIRS in response.
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One of the members of Congress that was targeted for
a censure in the Centurefest twenty twenty five up in
the House of Representatives was Stacy Plasket. Plasket never heard
of her. She doesn't even really have a vote. She
is just a delegate from the US Virgin Islands. And
this is because Jeffrey Epstein, the now dead convicted pedophile,
was apparently feeding questions to her during a twenty nineteen
congressional hearing and giving her real time help on how
to damage President Trump's reputation. This was part of the
batch of emails and documents that the House Overside Committee dumped.
There was like twenty thousand of these emails and they
dumped all this stuff out. The texts were first reported
though by the Washington Post, and it shows they lined
this up with the video and everything from the hearing
and shows that Epstein was chatting with Plasket during a
February twenty seven, twenty nineteen House Overside Committee hearing in
which Trump's former fixer, attorney Guy Michael Cohen, was testifying
about Trump's alleged payments to mistresses in order to silence
stories before the twenty sixteen election. Right and in the text,
Epstein appeared to be watching on TV while Cohen brought
up a former Trump executive assistant named Rona graph ronagraph
no relation to the phonograph. Okay, Cohen, this is what
Epstein texted. Cohen brought up Rona, keeper of the secrets,
and he misspelled her first name. But Plaska didn't know
what he was talking about because he all capped her
name and misspelled it. So it's r O NA And
so she responds, rona question mark question mark quick, I'm
up next? Is that an acronym? So she didn't know
what he was talking about. So she's responding to him like, oh,
brought up Rona. What's Rona? Tell me what the acronym
name means? I'm up next? She has to In other words,
her time is about to start. Epstein quickly responds, that's
his assistant. He has opened the door to questions regarding
who are the other henchmen at Trump dot org or
at Trump Org. She says, yep, very aware and waiting
my turn. She then begins questioning Cohen at two twenty eight,
and she asks about Rona Graf as well as with
other Trump associates Epstein had mentioned. Are there other people
that we should be meeting with? She asks Cohen, and
Cohen says so, Alan Weiselberg is the chief financial officer
in the Trump organization. And then she says, you've got
to quickly give us as many names as you can
so we can get to them. Is what is miss
Rona's name? Rona Graf? She's executive assistant. Cohen responds, her
office is directly next to his. She's involved in a
lot of what went on. And then Plasket's time expires
and Epstein sends her attacks that says, good work. The
documents redacted Plasket's name. So had the Washington Post not
done this analysis, had not found these emails and lined
it up with a congressional hearing, we would not know this. Now,
keep in mind, this is twenty nineteen. Epstein was already
convicted on state prostitution charges and just a couple months later,
he would be charged with sex trafficking of minors. Epstein
owned two private islands in the US Virgin Islands, which
the FEDS have called the nexus of his sex trafficking operations.
Plasket initially declined comment, but after the newspaper published its story,
her office issued a statement confirming yes, she did have
contact during the hearing with her former campaign donor, Jeffrey Epstein. Quote.
During the hearing, Congresswoman Plasket received texts from staff, constituents,
and the public at large offering advice, support, and in
some cases, partisan vitriol, including from Epstein. As a former prosecutor,
she welcomes information that helps her get at the truth
and took on the GOP that was trying to bury
the truth. She's previously made clear her long recording combating
sexual assault and human trafficking, her disgust over Epstein's devian behavior,
her support for his victims. The Virgin Islands delegate in
July of twenty nineteen said she would part ways with
over eight thousand dollars in campaign donations that he had
given her, after initially saying that she was going to
keep the cash, but then she caved on that credit
to Caitlin Collins because she had Hakeem Jeffreys on the
House Minority Leader and asked him about this.
Speaker 2: Have you heard Stacy Plaskett there, she was arguing her
text with that Jeffrey Epstein were not illegal, but in
your view, were they appropriate?
Speaker 3: Well, Stacey Plaskett is not accused of violating any House rule,
any law, any statute, and she's clearly and on the
quick denounced Jeffrey Epstein. And I think what the survivors
fought for today is the type of transparency that came
out of the House, went through the Senate, and is
now on its way to Donald Trump's death where hopefully
he'll sign it into law. Because at the end of
the day, all the American people I'm asking for is
just the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
which is why these Epstein files that Donald Trump and
his administration has been hiding for months need to be released.
Speaker 2: But do you think it was appropriate for her to
be texting with Jeffrey Epstein eleven years after he pleaded guilty.
Speaker 3: I mean, I have not had a conversation with Stacey
Plaskett to discuss this issue because we've been focused today
on making sure that there was a decisive vote as.
Speaker 1: A related tests, not an answer.
Speaker 3: The Epstein files and the release.
Speaker 1: Do you think it was appropriate of.
Speaker 3: Representative massity of Rocanna? But most importantly the survivors.
Speaker 2: Do you plan to talk to her about it?
Speaker 3: I think that we successfully defeated a resolution that lack
any basis was incredible, was not credible, and was being
brought by an individual who was trying to weaponize this
issue to reinvigorate his own failed gubernatorial campaign in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: All Right, so doesn't answer the questions is it appropriate
that she was texting? Are you planning to talk to
her about it? Doesn't answer any of those questions, but
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media landscape more transparent. As part of the censurefest that
resulted in zero censures in DC, another one that was
floated was against Jasmine Jazzy Jazz fresh Face Jasmine Crockett
from Texas, the code switcher in chief, and this was
because she got onto the floor of the house where
you can say whatever you want and not be sued
for defamation or slander because you have a protection there.
So she gets up on the floor and she's accusing
all of these Republicans of taking money from Jeffrey Epstein,
one of the people she accused of taking and this
was in response to the news that class Get was
getting these texts or was swapping texts, which, by the way,
she initiated. She reached out to Jeffrey Epstein during that
hearing of Michael Cohens. She was the one that initiated that,
and she now says, oh, I was just trying to
get information to help with the questioning and whatever. So
that prompted the backlash from Democrats that are like, oh, yeah,
well you took money too. And she lists Lee Zelden,
who's the EPA chief now former congressman. He ran for governor,
a Republican, and her staff went through the FEC filings
and found these Republicans that took money from Jeffrey Epstein.
So she gets on the House floor and accuses them
of taking money from Jeffrey Epstein. Slight problem, as Lee
Zelden pointed out, if you actually looked at the documents
that are uploaded to the FEC, the Jeffrey Epstein that
gave money to Lee Zelden is actually a physician and
not the other Jeffrey Epstein, not the guy who hanged
himself or maybe did not that guy. It's just he's
a doctor who has the same name. And he made
his donation to lee Zelden on August thirty first, twenty twenty,
which is after the other Jeffrey Epstein killed himself or
did it like That's so it would not be possible
for that donation to have occurred. But they didn't even
do any research on it. They just saw a name,
Jeffrey Epstein, and they said that must be the guy,
and they smeared lee Zelden. Now and by the way,
Trump did sign that. I think there's a loophole here
and one other point here on the centrefest, and I'll
go into this because this is just classic Democrat being
Democrat behavior. Chewey Garcia out of Illinois. There was also
a condemnation against him that was floated by a Democrat
because of the way he obviously rigged his seat for
the next election because he decided not to run again
and he cleared the field in order for his preferred
candidate to take the seat. That one didn't go anywhere either,
but that was part of the Centerfest. But sticking with
the Epstein files story, Trump last night signed the bill
ordering the Department of Justice to release its records on Epstein.
The Department now has thirty days to comply with the
bill and release the evidence and records that it has
compiled on Epstein. Here's the key from Daily Wire, notwithstanding
any redactions to the materials. Okay, so they're gonna they're
making redactions. So that's the first thing to keep in mind.
The bill reached the President's desk after the House voted
to approve the release of the records earlier this week.
The President had long resisted the efforts to release the files,
calling accusations that he was attempting to hide the facts
of the case a hoax while blaming Democrats for pushing conspiracies.
The President switched to supporting the file's release on Monday,
urging House Republicans to support the measure after it became
clear that the bill would pass regardless. Under the bill,
Attorney General Pam Bondi has thirty days to release all
unclassified information. There's another one unclassified related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Bondi is allowed to withhold or redact int that could
jeopardize a federal investigation. Now, this is the problem because
subpoenas went out to banks for Epstein's financial records and stuff.
So does that mean that they're going to now shield
a bunch of stuff because they say it's part of
an ongoing investigation. Much of the remaining materials cannot be
released also because they are under seal by a court order,
so they're not going to be allowed to release that
stuff either. So I'll be watching, I'll be watching. We'll
see what happens there on o'clock now thirty days. All right,
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