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February 12, 2021 9:40 AM Associated Press
John Locher
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, a county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) The second-most powerful member of the House took the unusual step on Thursday of sending his own bill to be amended after a debate on the House floor tilted toward almost certain defeat.
Republican House Majority Leader Mike Moyle made the move on his proposed law that would make it a felony in Idaho for a third party to collect and return multiple ballots to election officials.
The fantasy-industrial complex gave us the Capitol Hill insurrection
This is America’s brain on misinformation.
Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building following a “Stop the Steal” rally.
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American insurrectionists, for the first time in the history of this country, stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. Offices were vandalized. Windows were broken. Statues toppled. A woman was shot and killed. Four others have reportedly died, including a Capitol Police officer. It was ugly, embarrassing, and seditious.
But it wasn’t surprising.
We’ve been inching, inexorably, toward this moment for years. I know this because I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time over the course of this presidency thinking and writing about what you might call the “epistemic crisis” or the “post-truth crisis” or the “misinformation crisis” it all refers more or less to the same thing.
President Donald Trump, less than a month away from leaving office, has named a spate of loyalists to plum boards – placing longtime aide Hope Hicks get the group overseeing Fulbright scholars and putting the businessman who introduced him to the first lady on the Kennedy Center board.
Paulo Zampolli introduced Trump to the the former Melania Knauss when she was a Slovenian model at the Kit Kat club in 1998. He will not sit on the board of the Kennedy Center – nabbing a prestigious perk in Washington social circles (although indoor concerts are shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic).
The Italy-born Zampolli ran a modeling business in New York, and attended the couple s wedding at Mar-a-Lago. He also helped secure Melania her first visa (she is now a U.S. citizen, as are her two parents).