on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
the christmas decorations, and i finally i ve watched all the aaron sorkin movie i was looking for a political analog to the trump years. i didn t find it till i sat through godfather 1 and 2. even restraining the guy who wanted to jump matt gaetz. and marjorie taylor greene running around with uncle donald on the phone and nobody wanted to pick up. it would be comical if it wasn t so dangerous to our democracy. but what are you girding for as they actually are now not just mccarthy and the republicans in control but gaetz and perry and the, you know, insurrectionists in control of the house republican conference. well, they have a very narrow majority, and it looks like the most extreme members of their caucus are calling the shots. now, when democrats had the majority we also had a very slim majority, but we had the capacity to move forward in a very deliberate and non-extreme manner. whether kevin mccarthy is able
mccarthy needed to win the majority in there for the speakership. mccarthy ultimately won 216 votes. the voting on friday night was tense. at one point it almost became physical. mike rogers of alabama had to be physically restrained from going after alleged child sex trafficker matt gaetz. the new york times reports this. marjorie taylor greene was seen trying to push her phone which displayed a call from d.t. on the other end into the hands of representative matt rosendale of montana, a crucial defector. it was mr. trump on the line. rosendale furiously told greene not to put him in that situation, brushing the phone away, according to lawmakers who witnessed it. even more bizarro than all the commotion on the house floor is the concessions that were made by mccarthy to get his brand new title. mccarthy now holds the gavel because he gave up so much, everything really, that those on the far right at the end, even matt gaetz said he didn t know what else to even ask for. let that
to do that is very much in doubt given the debacle that was last week. i hope that he does because there are some important things we need to do for the country. we need to raise the debt ceiling. we need to have appropriations that keeps the government running in an orderly way. i don t know whether gaetz and marjorie taylor greene and boebert and biggs and others, gosar are really going to be calling the shots. but it s something to be concerned about. it might end up being an understatement. what are you prepared for personally? they ve signaled some interest in investigating the investigators of the january 6th select committee. well, it s interesting. they ve threatened to put all the information out there. they must not realize we beat them to the punch. we have put all the information