Georgia election official hinted at Trump’s post as an administrative official before supporting controversial new rule
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A REPUBLICAN FROM GEORGIA WHOM DONALD TRUMP PRAISED BY NAME AT A Rally in Atlanta on August 3—a member of the MAGA majority in a panel that last week controversial rules backed by the voter rejection movement—got his seat on the panel thanks to the state’s lieutenant governor, who himself was nearly impeached for his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The news that Rick Jeffares, member of the State Election Board, owes his seat to Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones, one of the “wrong voters” from Georgia in 2020, follows the revelation that Jeffares applied for a position in a second Trump administration.
Jones didn’t have to go far to tell Jeffares he wanted him on the board. The two live on the same street as each other, Jeffares said.
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I SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN AFGHANISTAN. In 2008, I helped build hospitals and schools on an Afghan provincial reconstruction team. Four years later, in 2012, I spent a year with a special forces team training an anti-Taliban militia in northwest Kandahar. In the summer of 2014, I returned to advise the top intelligence officers of the Afghan Interior Ministry. When I returned to Kabul for the last time in June 2020 to begin a year as a military diplomat at the American Embassy, I refused to believe—despite mounting evidence—that we were abandoning our allies. And in hundreds of meetings with senior Afghan security officials and politicians, that’s exactly what I told them. That’s what I was supposed to tell them.
Then, in America’s final year in Afghanistan, I watched the country crumble. Three years ago today, on August 15, 2021, Kabul fell, and with it the dream of a free Afghanistan. Everyone watched as our allies clung to American cargo planes as we retreated. When their hope exceeded their strength, they fell to their deaths.
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Happy Thursday! The kids are back in school, it’s 90 degrees, and fall can’t come soon enough. About 21 years ago, it was the Great Northeast Blackout, similarly hot and scary (but ultimately fun) in a post-9/11 world.
It’s not like the Republicans care… But Donald Trump may have voted illegally in Florida (FL Bulldog).
Meanwhile in NYC … Eric Adams and his campaign team receive subpoenas as part of a federal investigation (NYT)
Insights into Project 2025 … Secret training videos (ProPublica) The Daily Show has moreif you are ready.
Hidden camera video shows… Co-author of Project 2025 talks about his secret work to prepare for a second Trump term (CNN)
Mauricio Pochettino agrees… to become head coach of the USMNT (NYT/The Athletic). Now I have a Halloween costume that requires little effort.
It didn’t shock anyone… RFK admits he falls for online misinformation “all the time.” (Mother Jones)
“Listen, I’m not a big fan of spicy spices…” Governor Walz on tacos, music and the future of America. Neither was I when I was growing up in Ohio. Until Tony Chachere’s daughter-in-law became my college professor. Maybe Vice President Harris will convert him.
It seems Neil Cavuto is fed up with his guests… Fact check of eternal rake-stepper governor Sununu on inflation (Raw History).
At home… with the worst team in baseball (Defector).
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