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Pelosi is re-nominated for speaker by House Democrats
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was renominated for her position of Speaker of the House of Representatives by the members of the House Democrats on Wednesday after running unopposed, paving the way for a fourth two-year term in the role and securing her another term as the leader of the Democrats in the House.
During the 2018 midterm elections, Pelosi, who is now 80 years old, vowed that she would not run for re-election as Speaker of the House in 2022. This will most likely be her final term in the position and, with Democrats still holding a majority of House seats, she is widely expected to win re-election.
Pelosi first became speaker in 2006 after that year’s midterm elections that saw a blue wave sweep the House amidst an embattled George W. Bush administration, making her the first, and still only, female to ever hold the speakership.
Pelosi’s renomination comes off the heels of an election which saw Democrats lose six seats in the House, which has rehashed tensions between the progressive and moderate wings of the party as one side blames the other for losing those seats.
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Former President and current Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, has been indicted and is facing 37 counts in connection with his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The 49-page document was unsealed Friday.
The indictment contains charges of the following: Willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal, and making false statements and representations.
Trump announced the indictment Thursday night on Truth Social, his social media platform:
“The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is ‘secured’ by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time.”
Trump declared himself an “INNOCENT MAN” and the subject of the “Greatest Witch Hunt of all time.” The Biden administration, he claimed, is ‘TOTALLY CORRUPT.”
The former president has argued that all the documents in question were declassified when he left the White House. “You’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview last year.
Trump was on to Biden's deep corruption re Ukraine and wanted it investigated, so they impeached him.
Now that many of Biden's crimes are being exposed, naturally they're going to indict Trump again.
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) June 8, 2023
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