Rudy Giuliani: Office and Apartment RAIDED
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Rudy Giuliani's office and apartment were raided by federal investigators.
Federal agents raided the apartment and office of former President Donald Trump's longtime attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, an extraordinary move in the Justice Department's ongoing criminal probe.The shocking development is part of the two-year investigation into Giuliani's political activities in Ukraine. He hasn't been charged and denies all wrongdoing.
CNN
This roughly translates to “he will be charged and convicted.” A federal grand jury has been impaneled for the Giuliani investigation.
Apparently, all Rudy roads lead to Ukraine. Remember, Giuliani got a very well-respected ambassador fired (Marie Yovanovitch) back in May 2019. She became a critical witness in the first Trump impeachment.
Remember this name: Robert Costello. He's Giuliani's lawyer. He also represents Steve Bannon. He's got a bigly job ahead of him.
You'll be hearing his name a lot, I suspect.
More coverage here.
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Biden delivered 99-day speech to Congress. 85 percent liked it. 15 percent fell asleep (I'm looking at you, Raphael Cruz).
President Biden on Wednesday night used his first speech to a joint session of Congress to argue for a dramatic expansion of government services, making a plea for sweeping plans to provide universal preschool, free community college and expanded health care and new tax breaks for families — much of it funded by higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
While he also renewed calls for an array of priorities — including immigration changes, gun control and police reform — Biden more broadly portrayed a country that is rapidly emerging from the depths of a global pandemic and has survived events that, in his view, tested American democracy as rarely before.
“We have stared into an abyss of insurrection and autocracy — of pandemic and pain — and ‘we the people’ did not flinch,” he said toward the end of a 65-minute speech.
Washington Post
While Democrats applauded most of the measures, and 85 percent polled approved of the speech, some Republicans fell asleep, some twittered away at their phones (Boebert is adept at this, having earned her chops tweeting out sensitive intel during the January 6 insurrection), and Liz Cheney fist-bumped the President.
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The US economy is SIZZLING!
Q1 GDP grew at a 6.4 percent annualized rate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Powered by consumers, the U.S. economy grew at a brisk 6.4% annual rate last quarter — a show of strength fueled by government aid and declining viral cases that could drive further gains as the nation rebounds with unusual speed from the pandemic recession.
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product — its total output of goods and services — accelerated in the January-March quarter from a 4.3% annual gain in the final quarter of 2020.
Growth in the current April-June period is expected to be faster still, potentially reaching a 10% annual pace or more, led by an increase in people willing and able to travel, shop, dine out and otherwise resume their spending habits.
AP
It will be interesting to see how the Federal Reserve responds to this. They have traditionally “removed the punch bowl from the party” before things heated up too much. Expect interest rates to rise, albeit slightly. The bond market has already taken notice.
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“The American right is becoming completely untethered from reality.”
This is your “duh” moment of the day. Give it a read, though. It's written by Max Boot, a prominent conservative voice, who famously left the Republican party when you-know-who was elected.
The Republican Party is increasingly catering to people who live in an alternative universe of false narratives spread by media outlets such as Fox News and Newsmax and on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google/YouTube. A major political movement becoming completely untethered from reality is terrifying to see — and often accompanies the slide into authoritarianism.
Washington Post
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Pitcher nails batter in the face. It's ugly. And then…he does it again.
It's always bugged me when pitchers hit batters with a 95 mph fastball. They've spent their whole life perfecting their pitches. They should have uber control.
(They do. When they hit a batter, they mean to. Just my opinion. I am not a professional baseball player. LOL)
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Ethereum jumps to record high on report of European Investment Bank plans to sell a digital bond.
What?
A few key BIG institutions are putting their money where there mouths are: They are investing in ethereum, the second-biggest cryptocurrency around (Bitcoin is #1, based on market cap). Goldman Sachs is one of the players.
Watch this space. Ether could go through the roof. It's the currency behind NFTs, too.
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