7. U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is guilty of 16 felony counts which could bring 222 years in prison, including bribery and acting as a foreign agent, for his role in a bribery scheme involving cash, gold bars, and a Mercedes-Benz. Despite the conviction, he remains free until sentencing on Oct. 29. He plans to appeal the verdict and remains a U.S. senator despite calls for his resignation from his colleagues and even U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
6. Alabama’s liberals love some political violence, with one taking to a skateboard park near Mobile Police Headquarters to vandalize it with “RIP Thomas Matthew Crooks” graffiti supporting the shooter in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and symbols like “#BLM” and a hammer and sickle. But they are not alone, there are multiple instances of this nonsense taking place across the country with musicians, more than one mayor, teachers, public officials, and other morons celebrating political violence before they get fired.
5. One of Alabama’s shining stars, U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), had a message for Alabama’s biggest embarrassment in the national media, Kaitlan Collins of CNN, stop being terrible at your job because “unity is out there.” Britt suggested, “To be honest, I really wish the media would do a little bit better job of covering when we do work together because there are a number of things where we have pieces of legislation, like Senator Laphonza Butler and I working on the NIH Improve Act or working on mental health with Amy Klobuchar.”
4. Looks like former President Donald Trump was right again, Milwaukee is a “horrible city,” and there was a shooting “near” the security zone for the RNC that caused a little fear and confusion. Fear not, it was just regular gun violence that is common in Milwaukee BUT Capitol Police monitoring the RNC’s secure perimeter stopped a suspicious man in a ski mask several blocks from Fiserv Forum. Reports indicate he had an AK-47 pistol, a full magazine, and a Scream mask in a large backpack.
3. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, who is not Batman, has finally seen enough and promises to get tough on crime after years of doing the exact opposite and demonstrated this with an AR-15 rifle and a Micro Draco handgun at a city council meeting, emphasizing the need to address gun violence following a weekend homicide spree. While Woodfin called for stricter state laws and more aggressive collaboration with federal law enforcement to combat crimes, he urged residents to report illegal activities in their communities but it seems pretty clear he fears state involvement in local law enforcement that can not come soon enough.
2. Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is adamantly insisting that she will not resign but she is making her own life pretty hard after her agency’s failure to secure a rooftop from which Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump. Cheatle noted the sloped roof in one of her terrible excuses: “That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.” Oddly, the team that killed the would-be assassin was able to get on a sloped roof and White House itself has sloped roofs.
1. With a gaggle of House Democrats demanding President Joe Biden’s nomination be delayed and U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) saying the Democrats will lose the Senate if Biden is the nominee, the effort to remove him seems rather half-hearted, new polling shows former President Donald Trump continuing to lead Biden in each and every swing start. A new survey from The Times/SAY24 indicates Trump is ahead in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, with his largest lead in Arizona at 44% to Biden’s 37%, and the closest races are in Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Trump has slight leads.
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