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Lewinski: ‘My Boss Took Advantage of Me, But …’

May 6, 2014 Buck Banks

Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.

— Monica Lewinsky, writing in Vanity Fair.

False Claims By GOP Propagandists Michele Bachmann, Lucianne Goldberg And Others in the U.S. Incite Anti-American Violence in Egypt

July 18, 2012July 18, 2012 Jon Ponder

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It’s just politics, a day at the office, for Republican propagandists like Michele Bachmann and Lucianne Goldberg, but the ridiculous lies they are spinning — especially their tale that Pres. Obama is a secret Muslim who directed the U.S. government to rig the election in Egypt — are having serious consequences on the ground:

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Lewinski: ‘My Boss Took Advantage of Me, But …’

Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.

— Monica Lewinsky, writing in Vanity Fair.

False Claims By GOP Propagandists Michele Bachmann, Lucianne Goldberg And Others in the U.S. Incite Anti-American Violence in Egypt

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I’ve covered Trump’s finances for 8 years and wrote a book about conflicts of interest during his first term. I’ve never seen anything quite like the profiteering that occurred over the last few days.”

— Dan Alexander

“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things.”

— Pope Francis criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace,” CNN reports.

“Welcome home.”

— President Biden, quoted by ABC News, greeting President-elect Donald Trump at the White House.

“After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”

— Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley said he was “deeply grateful” to receive a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden Monday, USA Today reports.

“You have a two-seat majority, and you shot one of your members.”

— A House Republican lawmaker, quoted by Politico, on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ousting House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) and making him “an enemy.”

Numerati

$445 million

Big oil spent a stunning $445 million throughout the last election cycle to influence Donald Trump and Congress, The Guardian reports.

58%

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 58% of Americans are not in favor of President Trump pardoning all of the people who were convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol just over four years ago.

24.6 million

$15 trillion

$25 billion