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The other night, Tucker Carlson discussed the ongoing campaign of otherization directed against Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Upfront, I’ll say that I’m afraid I have to disagree with some of the
outrance things that she has said. I’ll also say that it is not my role to enforce the kind of false and petty purity tests on Republican officials that saw the worst of the establishment GOP types at National Review and The Dispatch and other places willingly hand the nation over to Joe Biden because Donald Trump offended their tender sensibilities and sent mean tweets. (READ Republicans Need to Stop Falling for Media’s ‘Condemn the Politician’ Games). Furthermore, when the Democrats decide to purge their ranks of raging, slobbering anti-Semites and some of the most vile racists to appear in public life in the last 20 years (yes, if you hate people based on their race, you are a racist, I don’t care what your Critical Race Theory consul
By Zoe Tillman, BuzzFeed, February 1, 2021
A judge on Monday ordered Couy Griffin the Cowboys for Trump founder charged with participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection [
Sic] to remain in jail pending trial, agreeing with prosecutors that he was a flight risk and posed a danger to the community if released.
Griffin, a county commissioner in Otero County, New Mexico, is charged with one count of illegally entering a restricted area. In other cases where the government has argued for pretrial incarceration for people charged in the insurrection, the defendants have typically faced more serious felony counts, such as assaulting law enforcement or conspiracy. But prosecutors argued that a combination of factors made Griffin a danger, including his threats of violence if he returned to Washington, DC, for President Joe Biden s inauguration prosecutors quoted him saying there s gonna be blood running out of that building in a now-deleted Facebook video and his refusal to recogn
UPDATE: No bail for braggart Bigo Barnett.
January 28, 20213:14 pm
A hearing is underway now in the case of Richard Barnett, one of the Capitol insurrection defs (photographed at Pelosi’s desk) the govt is challenging an Arkansas magistrate judge’s release order. Chief Judge Beryl Howell in DC halted his release until she rules on the matter
Zoe Tillman, a reporter for Buzzfeed News, has a good Twitter thread going on the detention hearing for Richard ‘Bigo’ Barnett of Gravette, arrested for his incursion in Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. capitol.
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An Arkansas magistrate was willing to allow Barnett to be free on home detention, but a district judge in Washington, where he will be prosecuted, countermanded that and is holding a hearing today.