Nation

Scalise: Pelosi’s ‘wasted her speakership on’ trying to remove Pres. Trump

Published

2 years ago

October 9, 2020

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise says the reason House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving to invoke the 25th amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office comes from her lack of confidence in former Vice President and Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden’s ability to govern and her inability to negotiate a bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill for the American people, he revealed on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning.

“This shows you just how misplaced Speaker Pelosi’s priorities are,” Scalise said. “We should be in Washington helping families that are struggling and recovering, small businesses that would love another round of Paycheck Protection Program funding, where there’s massive bipartisan support for Rep. Chabot’s bill to give another round of PPP funding. That could be passed tomorrow, but she’s not bringing us back for that.”

Pelosi signaled Thursday that she plans to move forward with establishing a Commission on Presidential Capacity. She and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) announced the move in a press release. The move would likely die in the Republican-controlled Senate, which Scalise said she knows would happen.

“She has been fixated for the last four years with overturning the results of the last election. Here she is again, on the heels of Vice President Pence winning handily a debate against Kamala Harris. She’s now trying to overturn the results of next month’s election. She’s wanted to remove President Trump from office because she doesn’t agree with the people’s choice from the last election,” Scalise explained.

He added, “Look, they started with the Russia hoax, they did impeachment. This is what you spent and wasted her speakership on. She should be fighting for families and small businesses, not trying to overturn the results of the election because she knows how well President Trump’s doing. And, by the way, what a signal that is to Joe Biden that she’s spending her time trying to remove President Trump from office because clearly, she mustn’t have confidence in Joe Biden’s abilities.”

Middle East

US responds to Iranian drone strike that killed US contractor with “precision airstrikes”

Published

20 hours ago

March 24, 2023

Alexander Carter

The U.S. military launched multiple precision airstrikes in Syria, leaving at least 8 Iranians dead in response to the Iranian drone strike which left a US contractor dead and five service members injured, according to numerous reports.

The DOD said that a UAV belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crashed into a building in northeast Syria at 1:38 p.m. According to a Fox News report, the “U.S. airstrike at an arms depot in Harabesh, in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour left six Iranian-backed fighters dead. A second U.S. bombing at a post near the town of Mayadeen killed another two fighters, according to the Observatory, whose reporting relies on local Syrian contacts.”

U.S. intelligence officials stated that they were able to trace the UAV back to Iran. After President Biden received the details of the strike he gave the authorization to conduct a counter attack.

Moreover, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said, “at the direction of the President, I authorized U.S. Central Command forces to conduct precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),” he said.

“The airstrikes were conducted in response to today’s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC,” he added.

General Michael Kurilla, Commander of CENTCOM (United States Central Command), also stated that the airstrikes were in response to the attack on an American contractor and wounded troops.

“This evening, we responded to an attack on our forces that killed an American contractor and wounded our troops and another American contractor by striking facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Krill said. “This was another in a series of attacks on our troops and partner forces.”

He shared his condolences with the families by stating that “thoughts and prayers of US Central Command are with the Family of our contractor killed and with our wounded service members and contractor.”

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