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@RepThomasMassie Hunter might deserve to be in jail for something, but purchasing a gun is not it. There are millions of marijuana users who own guns in this country, and none of them should be in jail for purchasing or possessing a firearm against current laws.

Some Senate Republicans are expressing concerns over former President Trump’s calls for political vengeance after the 2024 election, warning that retaliatory prosecutions will lead the country down a bad road. The Senate GOP’s top leaders — Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Whip John Thune (S.D.) — have shown no desire to embrace Trump’s calls to prosecute senior Biden administration officials or his longtime nemesis Hillary Clinton. And some GOP senators are pushing back against conservative colleagues who want to freeze Justice Department funding or defund special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions of Trump. They don’t want to stumble into a...

@RepThomasMassie The Republican House should, by an official vote of the House, declare the subpoenas on Bannon and Navarro to have been illegitimately issued, and vote to repeal them. @RandPaul When the GOP took the House in 2020, I advocated keeping Jan 6committee with new members long enough to repeal subpoenas on Bannon and Navarro. No one listened then. Will they listen now?

A Reform UK candidate claimed the country would be "far better" if it had "taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality" instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two. Ian Gribbin, the party's candidate in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the "sponging gender" and should be "deprived of health care". In posts from 2022 on the Unherd magazine website, seen by the BBC, he said Winston Churchill was "abysmal" and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin. A Reform spokesman said the comments were not "endorsements" but "written with an eye to inconvenient perspectives and truths",...

Rishi Sunak did not consider resigning in the wake of the D-Day controversy, he said on Monday as he criticised Nigel Farage's claim he does not understand "our culture". After lying low over the weekend, the prime minister on Monday sought to draw a line under the controversy over his early departure from D-Day commemorations in Normandy. Striking a more conciliatory tone than his apology on Friday, Mr Sunak today said he "[hopes] people can find it in their hearts to forgive me". The Liberal Democrats said the PM had hit "rock bottom" by being forced to dismiss resignation rumours.

If nominated [as AG] Paxton would need to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The chamber is narrowly divided along party lines, with Democrats holding a 51-49 majority. One of the most prominent Republican members, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, has been an outspoken critic of Paxton, while Paxton has openly entertained the idea of challenging Cornyn in 2026.

The Liberal Democrats want to introduce free personal care in England - similar to the system which operates in Scotland - where people needing help with daily tasks such as washing or eating do not have to pay for the support. Currently it is means-tested in England with only the poorest receiving help. The policy sounds attractive, but as has been shown in Scotland, it's not a silver bullet. Much depends on who is eligible for free personal care. While anyone is entitled to ask for an assessment, that does not mean they will get support. Only those with significant...

The Liberal Democrats will commit to a £1.5bn overhaul of carer’s allowance, including a £20-a-week boost for more than 1 million people who devote their lives to looking after frail, ill and disabled loved ones, in their general election manifesto. An ongoing Guardian investigation has revealed that tens of thousands of unpaid carers have been forced by the government to pay back huge sums – and in some cases have faced criminal prosecution – for minor and accidental breaches of carer’s allowance earnings rules. Proposed reforms to be unveiled on Monday by the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, will include...

It was the shocking true crime that gripped Netflix subscribers who watched documentary The Parachute Murder Plot and now Channel 4 looks to retell that jaw-dropping story. A brand new series will lay bare the incidents of the attempted murder of skydiver Victoria Cilliers by her husband Emile - over three nights with dramatic reconstructions In April 2015, Victoria plummeted a horrifying 4,000ft at Netheravon airfield, Wiltshire, after her main and reserve parachutes failed to open. Miraculously, although she suffered a broken spine and pelvis and fractured ribs, she did survive because she landed on freshly plough farmland. The subsequent...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has moved to liquidate his personal assets in order to pay the $1.5 billion he owes the families of Sandy Hook massacre victims, who say they were harassed by Jones’ followers who believed his lies that the 2012 school shooting was a hoax. Jones asked a judge to convert his bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation, relinquishing his desperate effort to save InfoWars, the conspiracy platform from which he regularly spewed baseless claims. Last weekend, he blubbered on air that he was being “targeted for abuse” by “deep state” actors who wanted to shut down his...

WASHINGTON — Like every other Kentucky Republican on Capitol Hill, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., criticized the New York criminal case that ended in a guilty verdict for former President Donald Trump. Paul posted on social media, “This verdict will tragically undermine Americans’ confidence in impartial justice. A sad day for America.” Yet unlike Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and most of the commonwealth’s Republican congressmen, Paul said he has not yet decided whether to endorse Trump. “I think that it’s important that if he wants to get my vote and my support and wants me to be more active...

Some notes: ● 50 billion in spending cuts ● Wants to raise the rate you pay tax at to £20,000 ($25k) ● Wants to increase the inheritance tax threshold to 2 million ● "This Election is over in terms in who will win, it's about who will form the opposition" Will lay out more plans tomorrow on how the cuts will be made, etc.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning isolationists within his party on the 80th anniversary of D-Day not to forget the hard-won lessons of World War II and not to fall prey to “the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences” for the United States. McConnell marked the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France with a New York Times op-ed that lauded the “immense sacrifice” of American troops who stormed the Omaha and Utah beaches and scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc to capture German gun emplacements. And he used the occasion to remind his fellow...

Rishi Sunak says it was a "mistake" to leave D-Day commemorations in Normandy prematurely on Thursday Reports had circulated that Sunak left ahead of world leaders gathering on Omaha Beach, and it later transpired he'd taken part in an ITV interview Sunak says "it was a mistake not to stay in France longer, and I apologise" - Labour accuses him of a "dereliction of duty" Earlier, Sunak denied that claims he made about Labour's tax plans were dubious, after Keir Starmer accused him of lying Asked in the ITV interview if he would lie "to stay in power", the prime...

@benrileysmith Breaking: New poll has Reform within **two points** of the Tories after Nigel Farage's return. Tories 19% Reform 17% Via Sky

Commemorations have begun to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France which changed the course of the Second World War liberating Europe from the Nazi's.

@RepThomasMassie Is Special Counsel Jack Smith's office Constitutional? Unlike U.S. Attorneys, he wasn't appointed by the President and wasn't confirmed by the Senate. Congress never even authorized a Special Counsel office to exist. We shouldn’t pretend this position is legal or independent.

Nigel Farage has urged the voters of Clacton to “send him to Parliament to be a bloody nuisance” as he relaunched Reform’s general election campaign this afternoon. Addressing a large crowd in the seat he will fight for on July 4, the Reform leader said: “I will stand up and fight for you, I will give you my best and I will do what I have done for the last quarter of a century in politics. “I will be unafraid, despite what everybody says, despite what names they call me, they are so stupid it only encourages me really, in...

Prime Minister Modi says his alliance, the NDA, "continues her time" and will form a government. "Today's victory is the biggest in the world," he says, describing it as as "victory for the Indians". He thanks the election committee for its work, especially in the "extreme hot weather". "They have done it with so much skill... there were so many polling stations", he says, adding that every worker has "done their duty and they have fulfilled their responsibility". ... Modi heaps more praise on India's election process. "Every Indian feels proud because of it," Modi continues, describing Indian democracy as...

@Nigel_Farage Thank you, Clacton.