Anonymous ID: fed966 May 14, 2021, 3:01 p.m. No.13662630   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/how-rebekah-jones-peddled-lies-about-florida-covid-19-deaths/

This is a story about Rebekah Jones, a former dashboard manager at the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), who has single-handedly managed to convince millions of Americans that Gov. Ron DeSantis has been fudging the stateโ€™s COVID-19 data.

 

When I write โ€œsingle-handedly,โ€ I mean it, for Jones is not one of the people who have advanced this conspiracy theory but rather is the person who has advanced this conspiracy theory. It has been repeated by others, sure: by partisans across the internet, by unscrupulous Florida Democrats such as Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, and on television, by MSNBC in particular. But it flows from a single place: Rebekah Jones. To understand that is to understand the whole game. This is about Jones, and Jones alone. If she falls, it falls.

Anonymous ID: fed966 May 14, 2021, 3:58 p.m. No.13663169   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/gov-abbott-says-calls-for-president-trump-to-resign-after-capitol-siege-are-political-machinations/

>Jan 11, 2021

ARLINGTON, Texas (KXAN) โ€” During an event Monday afternoon, Gov. Greg Abbott avoided directly criticizing President Donald Trump even though many blame his false claims about stolen elections and inflammatory language about disloyal politicians for inciting the deadly violence that overtook the U.S. Capitol last week.

 

A reporter specifically asked Abbott whether Trump should resign following the governorโ€™s lengthy update in Arlington about the stateโ€™s effort to distribute and administer COVID-19 vaccines.

 

โ€œHeโ€™s in office, what, another week?โ€ Abbott said about Trump. โ€œListen, all the political machinations in Washington, D.C. about the last few days of his presidency are nothing more than political machinations.โ€

 

The question proved particularly topical after House Democrats introduced a resolution Monday morning to call for Vice President Mike Pence to remove Trump by invoking the 25th Amendment. Republicans, however, blocked this request.

 

When they reconvene Wednesday, House Democratic lawmakers are now expected to take up a single charge of impeachment โ€” โ€œincitement of insurrectionโ€ โ€” against Trump over the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. Passage of the resolution would make Trump the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice.

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