By Michael Woyton
The attorney general of the United States threatened a sitting member of Congress for comments about the world’s richest man.
On Sunday during an appearance on state television Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett should “tread very carefully,” after Crockett suggested “Elon Musk should be ‘taken down’,” according to Fox News.
“She is an elected public official, so she needs to tread very carefully because nothing will happen to Elon Musk, and we are going to fight to protect all the Tesla owners throughout this country,” Bondi said to Maria Bartiromo, making clear that Musk and Tesla owners were going to be protected from what she called “domestic terrorism.”
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The congresswoman was speaking to a Tesla Takedown group about an upcoming nonviolent protest and said that all she wanted to have happen on her birthday was for “Elon to be taken down,” adding that the only language some people understand was money.
Crockett appeared on MSNBC shortly after Bondi made her comment and was asked for a reaction, Daily Beast reported.
She said she has never promoted violence and also never made an excuse for those who rioted at the Capitol Building after Trump lost the 2020 election.
“So Pam Bondi, if you have an issue with terrorism, maybe you should talk to your boss about locking back up those guys that he let out that participated in January 6,” Crockett said.
Nice to know that some people in the U.S. under this administration still have a protected status and won’t be rounded up and disappeared for no reason whatsoever.
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Here’s another “oopsie” that I’m sure that White House comms director Steven Cheung will likely not be addressing any time soon.
Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic penned an article that showcased the competency of the administration of President Donald J. Felon.
The headline reads, “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” The subhead say, “U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.”
Over a couple of days around mid-March, Goldberg was receiving text messages via group chat to which he was subscribed by someone. Identifying initials and/or names led him to believe that group included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, State Secretary Marco Rubio and many others, and they were discussing the possible bombing of Houthi targets in Yemen.
While he was concerned it was a possible disinformation campaign or an AI simulation, he eventually “recognized that his conversation possessed a high degree of verisimilitude.”
It wasn’t until that realization that “this story became truly bizarre,” Goldberg wrote.
Read the entire article. I’m sure you will be picking your jaw up off the floor several times as I did.
Things to consider: the use of the Signal app which is not approved for sharing classified information, federal records law may have been violated and how the hell did a reporter’s phone number get added to the group chat.
Truly this is the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, but also truly, there is the possibility for a ton of friendly fire.
So much for Hillary’s private email server.
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