May 2, 2022

An upcoming memoir from former Defense Secretary Mark Esper details that Donald Trump repeatedly asked military officials and cabinet members to “just shoot” BLM protestors who were demonstrating in the DC streets after the death of George Floyd.
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The Young Turks: May 2, 2022

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Myorkas was pressed by CNN’s Dana Bash on the newly founded Disinformation Governance Board where he failed to give straight answers on the actions of the Board and the authority they have.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has broken ranks with her colleagues in the Congressional Progressive Caucus by endorsing Nina Turner over Shontel Brown for her campaign in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District. Too bad it took AOC until the day before the election to give her public endorsement.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s antics are coming back to bite him again as Mexico has decided to move a trade railway crossing to New Mexico over Abbott’s political stunt in holding up commercial trucks at the border for secondary inspections. In addition to the estimated $4.2 billion lost from the trucker inspections, the state will now lose billions upon billions of dollars in commercial trade by missing out on this railway crossing.
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An upcoming memoir from former Defense Secretary Mark Esper details that Donald Trump repeatedly asked military officials and cabinet members to “just shoot” BLM protestors who were demonstrating in the DC streets after the death of George Floyd.
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Trump-endorsed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake flat-out rejected the notion of following President Biden’s authority and even won’t recognize him as the legitimate president. Lake also promised to carry out more forensic audits of the 2020 election as well as the state’s election services as a whole.
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Russian oligarch banker Oleg Tinkov put out an Instagram post criticizing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and just a day later, Putin’s administration threatened to nationalize his bank unless Tinkov unloaded his 35% stake to a Putin-friendly mining billionaire. Tinkov took a massive financial loss in the deal and described it as a hostage situation where the Kremlin forced him to take whatever deal was on the table.
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Trump had a blatant mental lapse as he mistakenly combined his endorsed candidate with his opponent during a recent rally appearance in Nebraska. He was supposed to plug his endorsement for far-right Ohio candidate JD Vance but mistakenly called him “JP” before confusing his name with Vance’s opponent Josh Mandel, ultimately ending up shouting out “JD Mandel”.
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Far-right Ohio congressional candidate JD Vance fear-mongered about illegal immigration by claiming that President Biden intentionally wants to “kill a bunch of MAGA voters” by opening up the southern border, leading to an uptick in deaths from fentanyl overdoses. Not only does the Biden administration not support an ‘open border’ policy, but the administration has also done much more significant work in stopping fentanyl traffickers at the border than the Trump administration.
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An anonymous donor has sent right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones $1 million in Bitcoin after the charlatan’s businesses declared bankruptcy in April. The wallet was publicly advertised on the InfoWars website to solicit donations and just days after the massive donation was placed, Jones withdrew the $1.3 million of cryptocurrency from the wallet, and then removed the wallet from his website.
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