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Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk’s investigation revealed Doug Ford’s Conservative government decision to open part of the environmentally protected Greenbelt for development was driven by political influence, and privileged access, or in other words, corruption. His donors received the land.
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Reuters » Meanwhile 35% would.
52% of Republicans said they would not vote for Trump if he were “currently serving time in prison,” while 28% said they would.
CNN » 78% surveyed say politicians in the federal government aren’t doing enough to ensure abortion access, with 60% saying that politicians in their state’s government are also doing too little.
In an interview broadcasted on the right-wing Fox network, Former Vice President Mike Pence said Donald Trump personally asked him to “reject votes” on January 6.
Said Pence » “Let’s be clear on this point. It wasn’t that they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes which would have resulted in the issue of being turned over to the house of representatives.”
He added: “They asked me to reject votes, return votes, essentially to overturn the election.”
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This is why Donald J. Trump is indicted for Conspiring to Defraud the United States.
From the NY Times »
Listening to the men in the short Opinion Video above is like encountering visitors from another planet. They are serving life sentences at Angola prison, in rural Louisiana, with little to no hope for release. Many are elderly; they have not seen the outside world, or their families, for decades.
They do not face execution, but they have been sentenced to death all the same, their lives spooling out endlessly on the cellblock and in the cotton fields, then ending in a prison hospice bed.
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“I don’t know your world,” he said. “Only my world, and memories of the world before I went into the woods. What life is today? What is proper? I have to figure out how to live.” He wished he could return to his camp—”I miss the woods”—but he knew by the rules of his release that this was impossible. “Sitting here in jail, I don’t like what I see in the society I’m about to enter. I don’t think I’m going to fit in. It’s too loud. Too colorful. The lack of aesthetics. The crudeness. The inanities. The trivia.”
Special counsel Jack Smith has encouraged everyone to read the full 45 page indictment and said the US Department of Justice has “remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened” on January 6th, 2021.
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