Month: August 2022

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will not have to appear in court Thursday after he asked a judge to throw out a subpoena from Atlanta prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election and accused prosecutors of of political motivations. Why it matters: While Kemp famously resisted former President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, his lawyers on Wednesday accused the district attorney’s office of using the investigation “as a sword to influence the 2022 election.” However, it has not yet been decided whether Kemp will have to testify. Driving the news: A spokesman for the governor’s office told Axios…

Hoppy Kercheval of WV MetroNews wrote a commentary on August 16 titled “GOP Candidates Find Success in The Big Lie.” He followed up his comment that day on his state radio show by saying yes “ready to move on” of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Respectfully, I offer a different take on Hoppy’s comment to identify the real battleground in America. While the media and supporters refer to the situation as “The Big Lie” what is really at stake here is electoral integrity and voter confidence. When the media overlook electoral integrity, process transparency and election security, they miss the…

It’s time to catch up with a new single Kim Kardashian. The star of the Kardashians and Pete Davidson have broken up and decided to just be friends, sources close to the couple exclusively tell E! news Insiders share that while the couple has “a lot of love and respect for each other,” they found that the long-distance dynamic and their demanding schedules “made it very difficult to maintain a relationship.” The split happened sometime this week. Pete has spent part of the summer in Australia working on the movie Wizards!. As for Kim, she continues to raise four children…north,…

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence pleaded with fellow Republicans Wednesday to stop attacking the FBI over the search of Donald Trump’s Florida home and denounced calls from some of the president’s allies former president to defund the FBI, saying it was “as bad” as a push by Democratic activists to shift police money. Pence also said he would give “due consideration” to being asked to testify before the House committee investigating the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Their pleas for restraint come as law enforcement officials warn of a growing number of…

Former Vice President Mike Pence indicated Wednesday morning that he would consider testifying before the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The results of the 2020 election, which he and Trump lost, told a crowd at Saint Anselm College that he would consider testifying if invited. “If there was an invitation to participate, I would consider it,” Pence said. “But you heard me mention the Constitution a few times this morning. (Through) the Constitution, we have three co-equal branches of government and any invitation that would be directed at me, I would have to think…