Tuesday, October 24, and October 25 are two days in the life of the GOP. New York, Atlanta, Washington, take your pick.

Washington

Let’s start with Washington, specifically the House of Representatives. The Republicans in Congress still can’t choose a speaker. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), was the top vote-getter for House Speaker candidate but dropped out a few hours after being given the assignment.| Francis Chung/POLITICO. But, believe it or not, they voted in a 2020 election denier+ as the next speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (R-LA). Election denier+ because he voted to reject the results of the 2020 election, and he got more than 100 GOP colleagues to sign on to an amicus brief supporting the Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxtion’s Texas case to invalidate state elections that Trump didn’t win. Now, will the new speaker, when he goes to a meeting with President Biden, will he admit that he is sitting with the duly elected president?

Mark Meadows has been granted immunity because he has agreed with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s team that Trump was dishonest on the night of the election, telling people he had won, even though Meadows now has admitted that “obviously we didn’t win. In an article by Gabriella Ferrigine, she writes, “The jig is up”: Trump going berserk at news Meadows could “obliterate Jan. 6 defense.

New York

Over the last few days, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” was on the witness stand. It was the first time in 5 years that Trump and Cohen had met. Cohen explained how he worked to inflate the value of Trump’s net worth to match what Trump told him was his net worth. If he said he was worth $6 billion, then Cohen valued all of Trump’s assets, so they totaled Trump’s request. Trump has already been found guilty of financial fraud. In the $250 million lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Trump and others committed repeated fraud by inflating assets on financial statements. Although the case is civil, and no one will go to jail, the outcome could mean that Trump could lose his business in New York. Cohen’s testimony doesn’t help Trump.

Also, in the New York trial, Judge Arthur Engoron fined Trump $10,000 for violating the gag order for the second time. He put Trump on the witness stand and said he didn’t believe Trump’s comments about his clerk (for the second time). Trump, of course, denied this and said he was referring to Michael Cohen. Some suggest that the next time he violates the gag order, he might be imprisoned or fined a massive amount of money.

Atlanta

Another defendant in the Fulton County, Georgia election case pleaded guilty. This is the fourth defendant from a cast of 19 to plead guilty. According to court documents, she agreed to plead guilty of one felony charge of “aiding and abetting false statements and writing. She was fined $5000, has to write an apology letter, and must testify at all proceedings involving others who will go to trial.

Jenna Ellis

According to her bio in Wikipedia, “Jenna Lynn Ellis (born November 1, 1984)^[4] is an American conservative lawyer known for her work as a member of Donald Trump‘s 2020 re-election campaign’s legal team. She is a former deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado.”

Here is another example of a lawyer, a former district attorney who presumably understood the law and pledged loyalty to the Leader.  

2015, she criticized Donald Trump and his supporters but shifted her support once he was nominated for the job. According to Wikipedia, “Ellis was hired by Trump in November 2019 as a senior legal adviser. From November 2020 to January 2021, Ellis was a member of what she characterized as an “elite strike force team” that made efforts to overturn Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

The GOP, event with the election of a new Speaker, is still being led by a corrupt former president who has been charged with 91 felonies in four cases taking place in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Washington.

I’m not making this up. But you know that.

Tomorrow, I’ll be commenting on the opening speech that Speaker Johnson made, and his speech supports a white supremacy concept of America.