Trump-backed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Monday slammed attempts to transition Americans over to electric cars during a speech where he heaped praise on “gas guzzling” vehicles. Walker, who faces a runoff election next month against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), told a crowd of supporters that projections about the United States being able to move to green energy are unrealistic.
“Now let me tell you this here: If we was ready for the green agenda, I’d raise my hand right now,” he said. “But we’re not ready right now! So don’t let them fool you like this is a new agenda, this is not a new agenda! We’re not prepared, we’re not ready right now! What we need to do is keep having these gas-guzzling cars, because we got the good emissions under those cars. We’re doing the best thing that we can!” This is not the first time that Walker has spoken confusingly about energy and environmental policy.
READ MORE: Trump claims classified documents automatically became his property by taking them to Mar-a-Lago Earlier this year, for example, Walker seemed to suggest that China was taking America’s “good air” and replacing it with “bad air. ” “Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move,” Walker said. “So it moves over to our good air space.
Then, now, we got we to clean that back up. ” Watch the video below or at this link . u201cGeorgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R): “If we was ready for the green agenda, I’d raise my hand right now.
But we’re not ready right now . . .
What we need to do is keep having those gas-guzzling cars, ’cause we got the good emissions under those cars. “u201d — The Recount (@The Recount) 1668449021 The House Oversight and Reform Committee has obtained some of Donald Trump’s tax information after years of litigation. Among the documents that were handed over to the committee, however, was information about the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.
C. which was blocks from the White House. In a letter to the National Archives, the committee details a laundry list of financial benefits from foreign dignitaries revealed using the hotel ledgers.
Among the information turned over to the committee is the coincidental booking of Qatari government officials at the same time as a room was booked under Ivanka and Jared Kushner. According to the House Committee documents, Qatar ultimately spent $300,000 at the Trump Hotel in early April 2018, when Trump welcomed the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to the White House. Three months leading up to the meeting, the Qatari government and associated entities were already spending money at the hotel.
IN OTHER NEWS: ‘Incompetent’: One by one, longtime Trump allies are trashing him in public after midterm failure At the time that they were meeting, Trump had enforced a blockade of Qatar, a U. S. ally that has a military base with 11,000 U.
S. servicemembers on it. “Between January and early March 2018, the Sheikh Al Thani Family, the ruling family of Qatar, booked an extended stay at the Trump Hotel, spending at least $282,037.
On several occasions during this period, for example, on February 11 and February 12, 2018, a room under the name ‘Ivanka & Jared Kushner’ was booked on the same nights of the Sheikh Al Thani room block,” the House committee document says. In a timeline put together by JustSecurity. com , two months after Kushner and the Qatari family were booked in the hotel, they were negotiating the deal for the 666 Fifth Avenue property.
Aug. 1 through 3, 2018, the Kushners got the bailout money for the property. Qatar Investment Authority insists it had “absolutely no involvement in the 666 Fifth Avenue development.
” “Both Brookfield and the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign fund of the oil-rich Middle Eastern emirate, said the Investment Authority had no knowledge of the deal. A spokesman for the Investment Authority said the fund ‘has no involvement whatsoever in this deal. ’” reported the New York Times , on May 17, 2018.
Brookfield couldn’t finance the deal, however, so they turned to Apollo Global Management, a private equity company with ties to Qatar for a $300 million-plus mezzanine loan . They’d previously loaned $184 million to the Kushners in Nov. 2017.
Reuters ultimately reported that the deal in Aug. 2018 forced Qatar “unwittingly” to play a role as an investor in Brookfield, then prompted the country to rethink its investment strategy. CONTINUE READING Show less Rep.
Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Monday suggested that former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard could be elected as Speaker if Republicans take control of the U. S. House of Representatives.
While speaking to conservative host Charlie Kirk, Gaetz confirmed that he would not vote for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become Speaker. Instead, Gaetz offered a list of people for the position, including some who are not currently members of Congress. “I’ve heard people talk about [former Sen.
] Jim DeMint,” Gaetz explained. “I’ve heard the name Tulsi Gabbard, someone who might actually bring us a few folks from the left who are tired of the corrupt ruling class in this town. ” Gaetz also floated the names of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former DHS Secretary Chad Wolf.
“Right now, there are a lot of the establishment Republicans in denial,” he insisted, “believing that Kevin McCarthy can somehow become Speaker. What I’m here to tell you is there are definitely at least five people — actually a lot more than that — who would rather be waterboarded by Liz Cheney than vote for Kevin McCarthy. ” “And I’m one of them,” Gaetz added.
The congressman said he has broken with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) because she supports McCarthy. “I’m surprised by my friend Marjorie’s decision on this,” he remarked.
Watch the video below from Real America’s Voice. CONTINUE READING Show less A growing number of Trump allies are trashing him publicly and blaming him for Republicans underperforming in the midterm elections. Conservative commentator Candace Owens, a staunch supporter of the former president, went as far as sharing a personal story that made her question his character.
Owens, who once referred to Trump as ” the savior ” of the free world, said on her Daily Wire show that she questioned what type of person he is for the “first time” after he was rude to her, according to Business Insider . Owens recalled the time she defended Trump after he did an interview in which he backed COVID-19 vaccines. In an Instagram video, she said that Trump comes from a generation before people were “able to conduct independent research” and for that reason was easily convinced to support vaccines.
The Daily Beast ran a story headlined “Candace Owens: Trump Is Pro-Vax Because He’s ‘Too Old’ to Understand the Internet. ” This angered Trump so much so that he was rude to Owens the next time he saw her in person, she said. “That is not being a leader, that is not owning things that you did wrong, that is not owning that you misunderstood something about your base,” she said.
“That’s not growing, that’s not developing. ” She added that unlike previous elections where Trump had an energy that “was electric”, he has now become paranoid and remains in “an angry space” after the 2020 election. She also questioned his vision for 2024 and suggested “It needs to be more than, ‘I’m back.
‘” Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also weighed in on Trump announcing his 2024 White House bid, saying that he should wait until after next month’s Georgia Senate runoff election to declare his candidacy, according to The Hill . “I know there’s a temptation to starting talking about 2024 — no, no, no, no, no,” McEnany said on Fox News. She added, “2022 is not over.
Every Republican energy needs to go to grinding the Biden agenda to a halt, and that could go straight through the state of Georgia. ” Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren shared similar views, agreeing with a tweet from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
, saying that the old GOP is “dead” and it’s time to build something new. “A lot of Republican voters are feeling that way,” Lahren said. “But then we have to consider a whole new mess is probably coming our way if we have a Trump announcement this week.
And we’re going to talk about that later, but if we’re divided now between McConnell and Rick Scott and all the rest of it wait until Donald Trump’s name is back in the running officially. ” She added that Trump has been hinting at a run for “a long time,” but when the official announcement comes, it “will impact Georgia”. Another former Trump loyalist, Rep.
Mo Brooks, R-Ala. , said that “It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have Donald Trump as their nominee in 2024,” AL. com reported .
Brooks, who spoke at the Jan. 6 rally that led to the attack on the Capitol and was a prominent election denier, said that Trump alienates independents and Republicans because he is “dishonest”, “disloyal”, “incompetent” and “crude. ” “Even a candidate who campaigns from his basement can beat him,” Brooks said.
Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen took to Twitter, blaming Trump for the Republican Party’s flop in the midterm elections “Amount McConnell spent bailing out Trump candidates: $241 million. Amount Trump spent backing his own candidates: $14. 7 million.
. . But, yeah, let’s get rid of McConnell,” Thiessen tweeted .
Fox News star Brit Hume, a veteran conservative political analyst, agreed with him and tweeted: “Spot on. ” Trump is expected to announce a 2024 presidential bid as soon as Monday night, but some of his advisors and allies are reportedly urging him to delay his announcement. CONTINUE READING Show less.
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