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	<title>Comments on: Friday Talking Points -- Shell-Shocked</title>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/05/01/friday-talking-points-shell-shocked/#comment-222469</link>
		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&quot;I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you&#039;re horrible people. Horrible people,&quot; Trump said. &quot;Yeah, he did write that. I&#039;m not a rapist. I didn&#039;t rape anybody.&quot; &lt;/i&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Reminder&lt;/b&gt;: U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan clarified that a jury found that Trump forcibly penetrated E. Jean Carroll digitally and their verdict &quot;implicitly determined that he... in fact did &#039;rape&#039; Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood.&quot; In addition, Judge Kaplan dismissed Trump&#039;s countersuit against his victim and wrote that Carroll&#039;s accusation of rape is &quot;substantially true.&quot; 

Trump is deeply indebted to his victim for over $80 million dollars for his sexual assault and defamation of her.

&lt;i&gt;O&#039;Donnell interjected, &quot;Oh, do you think he was referring to you?&quot; &lt;/i&gt;

Might have something to do with those two court cases he lost along with the loss of his countersuit wherein the judge refers to his sexual assault as &quot;rape.&quot;

&lt;i&gt;But the president blew past her question, declaring, &quot;I&#039;m not a pedophile.&quot; &lt;/i&gt; 

If Trump isn&#039;t a pedophile, why isn&#039;t he releasing the pedo files?

Why run one of the largest coverups in American history in order to protect multiple pedophiles and then move Epstein&#039;s accomplice and convicted pedophile, Maxwell, to a low-security &quot;Club Fed&quot; in Texas from a Florida prison but not before she met with Trump&#039;s personal attorney and (then) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche who asked her softball questions in order to cover for Donald Trump?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>"I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're horrible people. Horrible people," Trump said. "Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody." </i></p>
<p><b>Reminder</b>: U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan clarified that a jury found that Trump forcibly penetrated E. Jean Carroll digitally and their verdict "implicitly determined that he... in fact did 'rape' Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood." In addition, Judge Kaplan dismissed Trump's countersuit against his victim and wrote that Carroll's accusation of rape is "substantially true." </p>
<p>Trump is deeply indebted to his victim for over $80 million dollars for his sexual assault and defamation of her.</p>
<p><i>O'Donnell interjected, "Oh, do you think he was referring to you?" </i></p>
<p>Might have something to do with those two court cases he lost along with the loss of his countersuit wherein the judge refers to his sexual assault as "rape."</p>
<p><i>But the president blew past her question, declaring, "I'm not a pedophile." </i> </p>
<p>If Trump isn't a pedophile, why isn't he releasing the pedo files?</p>
<p>Why run one of the largest coverups in American history in order to protect multiple pedophiles and then move Epstein's accomplice and convicted pedophile, Maxwell, to a low-security "Club Fed" in Texas from a Florida prison but not before she met with Trump's personal attorney and (then) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche who asked her softball questions in order to cover for Donald Trump?</p>
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		<title>By: italyrusty</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/05/01/friday-talking-points-shell-shocked/#comment-222468</link>
		<dc:creator>italyrusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 07:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And the Democrats in Congress deserve this weeks MIDDOW for sticking to their guns. Some may see the GOP-only-approved funding bill as a loss. But now the GOP will have to burn energy on yet another &quot;reconciliation&quot; bill and the voters will be paying attention this time (we hope) to the fact they are doing Trump&#039;s bidding instead of solving their constituents&#039; problems.

NB: This is the same bill the Senate approved weeks ago, but Speaker Johnson delayed the vote in the House - more evidence of what an ineffective leader he is.
&#039;Republicans would not go along with a plan pushed by Democrats to fund TSA and the other parts of DHS without the money for ICE and Border Patrol. They insisted that immigration operations must not be zeroed out.

After the shutdown intensified, with hourslong lines at airport security screening, the Senate unanimously approved the bipartisan package without the immigration-related funds in a middle-of-the-night vote a month ago. Then the bill languished in the House.&#039;
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-funding-trump-republicans-d377a15c40ad0f430983b6d918b24bb6</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And the Democrats in Congress deserve this weeks MIDDOW for sticking to their guns. Some may see the GOP-only-approved funding bill as a loss. But now the GOP will have to burn energy on yet another "reconciliation" bill and the voters will be paying attention this time (we hope) to the fact they are doing Trump's bidding instead of solving their constituents' problems.</p>
<p>NB: This is the same bill the Senate approved weeks ago, but Speaker Johnson delayed the vote in the House - more evidence of what an ineffective leader he is.<br />
'Republicans would not go along with a plan pushed by Democrats to fund TSA and the other parts of DHS without the money for ICE and Border Patrol. They insisted that immigration operations must not be zeroed out.</p>
<p>After the shutdown intensified, with hourslong lines at airport security screening, the Senate unanimously approved the bipartisan package without the immigration-related funds in a middle-of-the-night vote a month ago. Then the bill languished in the House.'<br />
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-funding-trump-republicans-d377a15c40ad0f430983b6d918b24bb6" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-funding-trump-republicans-d377a15c40ad0f430983b6d918b24bb6</a></p>
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		<title>By: italyrusty</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/05/01/friday-talking-points-shell-shocked/#comment-222467</link>
		<dc:creator>italyrusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 07:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An honorable mention to the Pennsylvania Democrats in their state&#039;s house of representatives:
&#039;The House voted 101-100 on Tuesday to pass House Bill 2103, which would make it unlawful under the state’s Human Relations Act for someone to be denied housing, employment or access to public accommodations based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.&#039;
https://www.cityandstatepa.com/policy/2026/04/house-passes-bill-would-enshrine-lgbtq-nondiscrimination-protections-state-law/413184/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An honorable mention to the Pennsylvania Democrats in their state's house of representatives:<br />
'The House voted 101-100 on Tuesday to pass House Bill 2103, which would make it unlawful under the state’s Human Relations Act for someone to be denied housing, employment or access to public accommodations based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.'<br />
<a href="https://www.cityandstatepa.com/policy/2026/04/house-passes-bill-would-enshrine-lgbtq-nondiscrimination-protections-state-law/413184/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cityandstatepa.com/policy/2026/04/house-passes-bill-would-enshrine-lgbtq-nondiscrimination-protections-state-law/413184/</a></p>
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