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‘MAGA Mace’: Trump Endorsement Sparks Massive Criticism for GOP Congresswoman

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Two-term U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is under fire for endorsing Donald Trump on Monday, as critics remind voters of her remarks condemning the then-president after the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

“Today I’m endorsing Donald J. Trump for President. I don’t see eye to eye perfectly with any candidate. And until now I’ve stayed out of it. But the time has come to unite behind our nominee,” Rep. Mace declared, despite Trump having yet to earn the GOP nomination.

“To be honest, it’s been a complete shit show since he left the White House,” wrote Mace, whose choice of language has occasionally entered ribald or vulgar territory. “Our country needs to reverse all the damage Joe Biden has done. By every barometer, our lives and our nation were better under President Trump. The economy was booming, our border was locked down and our nation and her allies were safer because our adversaries feared him.”

Mace’s claims regarding the condition Trump left the country are provably false.

“Trump has become the first president since Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression to depart office with fewer jobs in the country than when he entered,” ABC News reported on the day Joe Biden was sworn-in as President. “The lack of leadership during the [COVID] health crisis was not only deadly — with thousands of Americans dying every day — but also disastrous for the economy.”

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Mace concluded, “Donald Trump’s record in his first term should tell every American how vital it is he be returned to office.”

Many were quick to remind the South Carolina Republican of her words just three years ago.

One critic posted video of Mace on CNN that appears to be from the day after the insurrection. In it she blasts “the rhetoric” from “the president on down,” including her “colleagues in Congress.”

Attorney, former Republican, and MeidasTouch editor in chief Ron Filipkowsi writes that after “Trump endorsed a primary opponent against Mace, Mace ran up to film a thirsty video outside Trump Tower in NYC begging forgiveness, her district got redrawn more red, and now she isn’t this person anymore. She is MAGA Mace.”

“The rhetoric leading up to this vote,” Mace also said, referring to the certification of the election, “the lies that were told to the American people, this is what happens. Rhetoric has real consequences. And people died.”

The following day, described as a “former Trump supporter,” Mace told Fox News, “every accomplishment that the president has had over the past four years has been wiped out.”

“I was really afraid for my children being up there,” in the House chamber on January 6, 2021, “and the outcome was my worst fear.”

After noting that she worked to help get him elected in 2016 and he endorsed her congressional run in 2020, Mace stated point-blank, “the outcome of the rally, some of the rhetoric, led to that violence, and that was a really sad day for our nation.”

One day later The Hill reported, “GOP lawmaker: Trump has no future in the Republican Party.”

“Mace was asked by Fox News host Neil Cavuto if she thinks Trump has a future in the Republican Party. ‘I do not,’ she replied. ‘I don’t know how you go forward and defend the indefensible. What happened last week was a national tragedy.'”

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Calling Trump’s name and brand “tarnished,” she added, “I don’t know how you defend what he did last week by any means.”

Former HRC press secretary and current writer and commentator Charlotte Clymer on Monday noted: “Remember: it wasn’t long ago that much of political media were desperately trying to convince us Nancy Mace is a reasonable, center-right politician. In fact, it was mere months ago. Will they press her on endorsing Trump? Of course not. That would mean having integrity.”

CNN’s Manu Raju added, “Trump endorsed Mace’s primary opponent in 2022, attacking Mace as “the terrible Nancy Mace, who really let us down.” Mace later defeated the primary opponent. Today, she endorses Trump.”

Journalist Aaron Rupar notes, “it doesn’t even dawn on Nancy Mace how incoherent she is. Women’s issues are important and that’s why I’m endorsing a guy found liable of sexual assault who overturned abortion rights.”

Even the Biden campaign was quick to highlight Mace’s total turnabout.

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‘On Day One’: Trump Vows to End Protections for LGBTQ Students

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Donald Trump says the day he enters the Oval Office for a second term he will end anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students implemented by the Biden administration.

Serving up a scattershot series of complaints with the hosts from the Philadelphia-based right-wing talk radio show “Kayal and Company” on Friday, Trump compared LGBTQ+ protections to a “cuckoo’s nest.”

“A lot of things don’t make sense, having to do with what they’re doing, from the border to all of the men playing in women’s sports. I mean, the world is like a cuckoo’s nest right now with what they do,” Trump declared.

One of the hosts alleged President Joe Biden has engaged in “manipulation” of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. She claimed parents now have to “pinch some pennies” to be able to afford private Christian schools for their children, to remove them from the enhancements that go into effect this summer.

“Many schools are grappling with what they’re going to do,” she said, “because as of August 1, as you know, because of Biden’s manipulation of Title IX, these kids, the school boards, have no choice, they’re meeting right now they, many of them perplexed, and they don’t know what to do, Mr. President, because they’re so upset over this that at August 1 a biological boy can change in a locker room.”

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Trump replied, “It’s crazy. Crazy.”

“We’re going to end it on day one,” Trump vowed. “We’re going to change it on day one. It’s going to be changed. We’re going to end it. That’s right.”

“The whole thing is crazy. Look, it’s like men playing in women’s sports. It’s like open borders for the world to come in. Send all their prisoners. We’ll take as many as you can give us. Send all their people from mental institutions.”

“We’ll get that changed. Tell your people not to worry about it. It’ll be signed on day one. It will be terminated,” Trump promised, vowing to end the LGBTQ+ protections which include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.

On his first day in office, President Biden implemented “the most far-reaching of any federal protections yet” for LGBTQ+ people, according to NPR.

In an explainer on the new expanded rules, Ms. Magazine reports “The 2024 regulations prohibit discrimination not only on the basis of sex, but also on the basis of sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”

According to GLAAD, which is tracking “the Biden administration’s executive orders, legislative support, speeches and nominations that affect LGBTQ people and rights,” President Biden has made 337 “moves” in 1206 days.

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Ari Fleischer Offers Donald Trump Advice Attorney Says ‘Effectively’ Violates Gag Order

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A Fox News panel discussing the Trump New York criminal trial debated whether or not the indicted ex-president could attack the judge’s daughter, with former Bush 43 press secretary Ari Fleischer insisting he should, and claiming doing so would not violate the terms of the gag order.

“President Trump needs to stop calling the judge ‘conflicted.’ He needs to explain why he’s conflicted,” Fleischer said Friday to a panel that included former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. “Every day of the trial he goes in there, he says, ‘the judge is conflicted, conflicted bigger than I’ve ever seen anywhere in my life.’ He doesn’t explain how or why. He needs to say that the judge’s daughter works for a Democratic political consulting firm that does anti-Trump business. He needs to explain it. Otherwise, it’s just an assertion with no proof. And the President if he’s going to say it, back it up. Explain.”

“I think that’s a violation of the gag order, is it not?” a Fox panelist replied.

“No, he can criticize the judge,” McEnany responded.

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“Not the judge but the family,” the panelist added.

“But when he says the judge is conflicted, you can still explain how and why, and I think comply with a gag,” Fleischer insisted.

The panelists then agreed Donald Trump has been “measured” in his remarks.

National security attorney Brad Moss weighed in on social media, posting the relevant portion of the gag order and writing that Fleischer “effectively recommends Trump violate the terms of the gag order.”

The gag order in part reads: “Defendant is directed to refrain from” … “Making or directing others to make public statements about (1) counsel in the case other than the District Attorney, (2) members of the court’s staff and the District Attorney’s staff, or (3) the family members of any counsel, staff member, the Court or the District Attorney, if those statements are made with the intent to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with, counsel’s or staffs work in this criminal case, or with the knowledge that such interference is likely to result.”

Despite Trump’s repeated attacks, an ethics panel last year cleared Judge Juan Merchan of any issues surrounding his daughter’s work.

On Monday, Judge Merchan warned Trump he may throw him in jail if he violates the gag order again.

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Bannon Will Be ‘Going to Prison’ After Criminal Contempt Conviction Upheld, Experts Predict

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A federal appeals court panel of three judges has upheld the criminal contempt of Congress conviction of Steve Bannon, the far-right provocateur and former Trump chief strategist and senior White House advisor. Legal experts say he can appeal but ultimately he will he headed to prison.

Bannon had refused to comply with a subpoena lawfully-issued by the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.

“Bannon was sentenced to four months in jail in 2022 by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols after a jury convicted him of two counts of contempt of Congress,” Politico reports Friday. “But Nichols, a Trump appointee, agreed to postpone the jail term while Bannon appealed the decision, agreeing that the complex mix of laws that govern executive privilege and testimonial immunity for White House aides could be overturned by higher courts.”

The appeals court panel includes judges appointed by President Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, according to CNN’s Zachary Cohen.

In their ruling the judges wrote: “Public accounts indicated that Bannon had predicted on a January 5, 2021 podcast that ‘all hell [wa]s going to break loose’ the next day,” and noted, “In addition to the podcast prediction, Bannon had reportedly participated in discussions in late 2020 and early 2021 about efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.”

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Politico noted the “three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bannon’s argument, saying the former aide and prominent podcaster had no legal rationale for his blanket refusal to appeal before the Jan. 6 committee — and that long-standing case law.”

Bannon is a peddler of conspiracy theories whose podcast “was crowned the top peddler of false, misleading and unsubstantiated statements among political podcasts,” according to The New York Times, citing a Brookings study.

“Bannon is unlikely to have to report to prison immediately,” NBC News reports.

Legal experts weighed in on the question of prison for Bannon.

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“And now it’s time for Bannon to be given a date to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons to begin serving his sentence,” remarked MSNBC and NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor.

“Bannon is effectively out of appeals,” observed professor of law and MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney. “He can delay a little bit longer, asking for the full court to review the decision en banc & asking SCOTUS to hear his case on cert, but neither one of those things will happen. Bannon is going to prison.”

Professor of law and former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter remarked, “it’s slammer time.”

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