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Embattled Rep. George Santos took an almost certainly illegal donation from an Italian national and confessed smuggler of undocumented immigrants—who also happens to be the blood relative of some of his closest local supporters and campaign vendors.

The gift from Rocco Oppedisano—expelled from the U.S. in January 2019, and who was subsequently intercepted piloting a yacht packed with unauthorized migrants and $200,000 in cash toward Florida—was just one facet of the support the freshman Republican and immigration hardliner received from the Queens-based clan that controls upscale eatery Il Bacco.

Former president Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was ordered on Friday to pay a $1.6 million criminal penalty for its conviction on tax fraud and other charges, a stinging rebuke and the maximum possible punishment.

The sentence, handed down by a judge in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, caps a lengthy legal ordeal for Mr. Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, which was convicted in December of doling out off-the-books perks to some of its top executives.

One of the executives who orchestrated the scheme, Allen H. Weisselberg, pleaded guilty and testified at the company’s trial. He was sentenced on Tuesday to serve five months at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

The wife of an Iowa Republican who ran for Congress in 2020 was arrested Thursday and accused of casting 23 fraudulent votes for her husband.

In an 11-page indictment, prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor "visited numerous households within the Vietnamese community in Woodbury County" where she collected absentee ballots for people who were not present at the time. Taylor, who was born in Vietnam, then filled out and cast those ballots herself, the indictment alleges, "causing the casting of votes in the names of residents who had no knowledge of and had not consented to the casting of their ballots."

Taylor is also accused of signing voter-registration forms on behalf of residents who were not present. In all, prosecutors charged her with 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration, and 23 counts of fraudulent voting. Each charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.

The goal, prosecutors allege, was to get her husband, the Republican politician Jeremy Taylor, elected to public office.

WASHINGTON — Matt Schlapp, one of the nation’s most prominent conservative leaders and a top ally of former President Donald Trump, is being accused of sexually groping a male aide on Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign in October.

"He reached in between my legs and fondled me," the former Walker staffer told NBC News in a telephone interview Thursday night. "To my shame, I didn’t say anything" to stop Schlapp. NBC News is withholding the staffer’s name at his request because he fears the allegations against a powerful Republican could harm his own career in GOP politics.

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich slammed GOP lawmakers who said they plan to oppose Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in his bid for Speaker, calling the conservatives holding out against McCarthy “Kamikazes” trying to “sink the whole Republican Party.”

Gingrich, who served as Speaker from 1995 to 1999, said on Fox News on Monday that the handful of Republican House members who have said they would not back McCarthy were choosing “chaos” by not voting for the GOP leader.

As the hardline conservatives hold out, Gingrich warned that he thinks “the Republican Party right now is in the greatest danger of meltdown than it’s been since 1964.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3795677-gingrich-offers-searing-criticism-of-republicans-who-oppose-mccarthy/

@raphjd Link?

WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A Republican arrested after winning his race for a seat in the Georgia House has decided to step aside instead of facing a possible suspension as soon as he was sworn into office later this month,

The decision by Danny Rampey means a special election will be held on Jan. 31 to choose the new representative for the House seat based around Winder, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Rampey, 67, was arrested last month after investigators said he stole prescription narcotics at the retirement complex he manages.

@blablarg18 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

More than two years after his arrest, Adam Fox was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years in prison for plotting the kidnap of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in what the government has described as one of the biggest domestic terrorism cases in recent American history.

The government had sought a life sentence for Fox, arguing he was part of a violent extremism movement that sought not only to kidnap the governor, but to spark a civil uprising.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/12/27/whitmer-kidnap-plot-leader-adam-fox-sentencing/69758678007/

During a discussion about the 2024 presidential election Monday, guest host Charles Payne noted that recent polling from Fox News found 58 percent of registered voters are not “glad” to see former President Donald Trump running again.

‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story

Donald Trump political adviser and Gettr CEO Jason Miller made his position on George Santos abundantly clear this week, calling for the Republican Party to dump the embattled congressman-elect.

Santos has been under fire for days after a New York Times report found he made a series of stunning false claims about his education, personal life and qualifications while campaigning for his House seat. In an interview with the New York Post, Santos admitted to lying and embellishing major details about himself.

@raphjd What does this have to do with Politics?

Herschel Walker: “Do you know we’re the greatest country in the United States…?”

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1591228042617446401

To Trump:
You had your chance, with a Republican House and Senate. You handed domestic policy to your son-in-law and Gary Cohn. You handed foreign policy to your son-in-law and a country that gave your son-in-law $2 billion.

Shut the fuck up, forever.
5:05 PM · Nov 11, 2022

https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1591190349330157568

@blablarg18 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phoenix police confirmed Friday that no powder was found inside an envelope sent to Kari Lake’s campaign office on Nov. 5.

Ross Trumble, a spokesperson for the Lake campaign, told The Republic that a campaign staffer opened an envelope delivered to the office near 40th Street and Camelback Road in Phoenix that contained "suspicious white powder."

The envelopes were sent to a state lab for testing, according to Phoenix police.

“The state lab tested the items turned over to them,” said Donna Rossi, communications director for Phoenix Police Department. The lab "determined there was no substance inside.”

The Lake campaign has yet to respond to a request for comment.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/11/11/no-powder-found-envelope-taken-kari-lakes-campaign-office/10674690002/

“We lost in ’18. We lost in ’20. We lost in ’21 in Georgia. And now in ’22 we’re going to net lose governorships, we’re not going to pick up the number of seats in the House that we thought and we may not win the Senate.

“There’s only one person to blame for that and that’s Donald Trump. The only animating factor (for him) in determining an endorsement is, ‘Do you believe the 2020 election was stolen or don’t you?’

“It’s not, ‘Can you raise money?’ It’s not, ‘Do you have an articulatable vision for the future of your state or your district?’ It’s not evidence of past success in communicating to voters.

“It is a completely self-centered determination.”

– Chris Christie

A Round Rock pastor was arrested by the FBI on child pornography charges Wednesday, the United States Department of Justice announced. David Lloyd Walther, 56, of Georgetown, was accused of knowingly searching for, downloading, distributing and possessing child pornography, according to the DOJ.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/round-rock/doj-round-rock-pastor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/

A Dane County man with a history of making threats against public officials has been accused in federal court with threatening to kill Gov. Tony Evers. Michael Yaker, 52, of DeForest, was charged last week after saying Evers is “a Dead Man Walking” and “Marked For Elimination” in emails to the governor.

He later told a Wisconsin Capitol Police officer he would like to “have my hands around (Evers’) throat. I’d like to bash his head against a Concrete Wall Till The Concrete Turns to Dust. I’d Like to have his Blood On My Hands I’d like to See His Blood Drain Down The Gutter I’d Like Have to have shares of his skull in my Medicine Bag.”

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/08/dane-county-man-charged-with-threatening-to-kill-gov-tony-evers/69628501007/

“I look in the backyard and that man is walking away from my husband, and my husband is on the ground,” the woman says “He has come over like four times confronting my husband because he thought he was a Democrat. Why, why … Please, I don’t understand.”
https://www.journal-news.com/crime/court-docs-man-charged-in-okeana-homicide-admitted-to-shooting-neighbor/R4FEIMGN6BEBVPN2DBWI4XCGR4/