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Aug 1, 2016
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, defends publishing the DNC emails that were the result of a hack and led to Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepping down from her position as Chair.
>WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, defends publishing the DNC emails that were the result of a hack and led to Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepping down from her position as Chair.
>Fauci on the WEF panel today
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>Gen. Mark Milley tests positive for COVID-19
Can he jump over an office chair from a standing position in a single leap?
>It's been 2 fucking years!
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Northam pardons Sen. Joe Morrissey for his interaction with 17-year-old
Gov. Ralph Northam has pardoned Sen. Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, for a misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor related to his relationship with a 17-year-old law firm assistant who later became his wife.
Morrissey, then a delegate, was convicted in 2014. He and his wife, Myrna, are now raising four children.
Morrissey said he learned of the pardon on Thursday. Northam granted him what’s called a simple pardon.
“To say that I was extremely pleased with what the governor did would be, perhaps for me, the understatement of the 2022 General Assembly session,” he said.
“Most importantly, my wife is grateful,” he said.
And although their young children don’t understand a pardon yet, they’ll be grateful someday for the governor’s action, Morrissey said.
Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, was Morrissey’s attorney in his pardon request.
“A simple pardon doesn’t change any legal consequences associated with a conviction, but I think in a lot of ways it serves as a sort of validation that somebody moved on from the situation that led to the crime at issue and has done a lot to redeem themselves,” Surovell said.
Morrissey, who was 57 in 2014, entered an Alford plea to the misdemeanor count and was sentenced to 12 months in jail with six months suspended. He was allowed to work as a state delegate from Henrico County through a work release program, spending nights in jail in 2015.
He lost a bid for mayor of Richmond in 2016. In June 2019, he defeated Sen. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg, in a primary.
Morrissey, a former Richmond prosecutor and local defense attorney, has been disbarred but now wields significant power as a member of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, often scrutinizing judges, and expresses more independent views than other Senate Democrats.
His license was previously revoked in 2003, and he won reinstatement in 2012 in a 4-3 decision by the Virginia Supreme Court.
His pardon petition to Northam was dated Nov. 29.
“In 2013 it was alleged that Joe and Myrna engaged in consensual sexual intercourse,” the petition said. “Assuming that this happened, it is important to consider today’s reality. It should also be noted that when Myrna applied for a job with Mr. Morrissey, she misrepresented her age when she submitted her resume.”
The petition later continued:
“Myrna will be the first to acknowledge that she was not in any way manipulated by Joe and that she was in no way coerced by him. … They worked together, they were attracted to each other, they fell in love, married, and are raising four (4) wonderful children together. A beautiful and happy family living the American Dream.”
Morrissey said in the petition that although many members of the public love him, he is “a politically polarizing figure.”
One Democrat who was unhappy with the pardon on Friday was Lizzie Hylton, the political and legislative director for the special interest group Clean Virginia.
“Never in my life have I been so ashamed to be a Democrat,” she wrote on Twitter. “Thanks @GovernorVA for spitting in the face of me and every other survivor of sexual assault in VA on your way out of office.”
The petition included affidavits from Myrna Morrissey, her mother and grandmother in support of her relationship with Joe Morrissey and the pardon.
“I was a mature woman who knew exactly what I was doing,” Myrna Morrissey wrote. “This prosecution continues to hang over our family.”
Northam leaves office on Saturday as Glenn Youngkin is inaugurated as Virginia’s 74th governor.
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How’s he doing? Americans weigh in on Biden’s performance
President Joe Biden took office at a particularly polarized time in American history, so it’s not surprising that citizens are divided on his performance at the one-year mark.
A Georgia history teacher who voted for Biden would give him a “C” grade, faulting the president for not pushing earlier to end the filibuster in the Senate but supportive of his Build Back Better plan.
A retired nurse in Iowa who supported Pete Buttigieg in the Democratic primary says she’s been impressed by the way Biden has upheld the dignity of the office.
A registered independent in Arizona who voted for former President Donald Trump says Biden’s first year has been “pretty bad,” citing the shutdown of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal.
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>Newsweek found dozens of accounts across social media platforms Telegram and Twitter that have pushed the baseless claims since Saturday.
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