It takes a story of profound significance to bump the indictment of Donald Trump from the headlines. After all, when was the last time a twice-impeached, pathologically lying, former TV game show host, and aspiring dictator, was charged with 34 felonies for crimes ranging from election interference to tax fraud?
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The arraignment of Trump in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday afternoon was a historic event that saw Trump sitting feebly in the embrace of his lawyers at the defendant’s table like any other alleged criminal. It signaled the resilience of the American idiom that “no one is above the law.” It also triggered a typically psychotic “death and destruction” response from Trump, whose mental state in court was noticeably tempered, but wildly loosed online.
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On Thursday morning such a story was published by the investigative journalists at ProPublica. The story detailed how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from a right-wing billionaire without disclosing them as the law requires. According to ProPublica…
“For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them.” […]
“[Thomas] has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.” […]
“These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures. His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts.”
For the record, Harlan Crow is a notorious conservative and Republican donor who often has cases before the court that would impact his business interests. What’s more, the “vacations” that Thomas enjoyed at Crow’s expense regularly included other conservative businessmen and politicos who would have reasons to want to rub elbows with a Supreme Court Justice.
This is a blatant breach of judicial ethics and federal law. Although it is not surprising that Thomas would stoop to violate the standards of behavior for a Justice, considering his long history of such ethical lapses. For instance, Thomas refused to recuse himself from matters that directly involved his wife, Ginni Thomas, and her efforts to undermine democracy in support of the January 6th insurrection and coup plotters. A story that Fox News didn’t bother to cover.
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Similarly unsurprising is the fact that Fox News is ignoring this new Clarence Thomas story. In the past several hours most of the credible media has picked up the ProPublica report. But it has yet to appear on Fox News or their website.
This is their modus operandi for any news event that reflects poorly on Republicans and Trump. The revelations from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News (which Fox News initially refused to cover) exposed them as deliberate liars who placed their politics and greed above truthfulness and patriotism.
Even after the humiliation from the Dominion disclosures of the private communications of Fox executives and hosts, this censorship by omission is further proof that Fox couldn’t care less about honest journalism or holding the powerful accountable. They only care about disseminating right-wing propaganda and goosing their ratings.
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UPDATE I: Clarence Thomas pathetically and dishonestly responds to the charges that he secretly took numerous luxury gifts from a right-wing billionaire.
UPDATE II: ProPublica published a follow-up story that reveals that Clarence Thomas sold real estate properties to Harlan Crow (at inflated prices), that Thomas never disclosed. Which is a federal crime.
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I tried calling my cable company and asking if I could block Fox “News”. They said I could, but when I tried to block this republican propaganda channel, the cable box thought I wanted to block all “R” rated movies along with the Rupert Murdoch disseminators of sedition against the United States of America. I love “R” rated movies, and do not understand why they are included in the channel block.
Also, Fox “News” charges our cable company a fee for allowing the cable to carry Rupert’s seditious programming. I don’t see why this fee is included as part of my monthly bill. Nor do I understand why I can’t block Rupert’s lies, so that channel-surfing family members are not inadvertently exposed to the Murdoch-mandated treachery against our beloved democracy.
Fox Spews is listed on my streaming device too, and there is no way i can block it. Even though it makes me angry to see their pitifully ugly logo on there, i just ignore it now, also, that Spewsmax and OANN is listed too. I also ignore those too. I wonder what those vertical lines mean on the Fox Spews stupid logo?? Is it something to attract attention???? Clarence Thomas is just another corrupt, lying, Rethuglican, these people just do what they please even if it’s breaking the law without be held accountable. Thomas is supposed to uphold the law, but i suppose he knows he is above the law just because he is an Extreme Court Judge. I am all for the impeachment of this fat scumbag being impeached. He needs to be in a prison cell for the rest of his sorry life and so does his brutally ugly ass wife. The Rethulican party has become the party of criminals and domestic terrorists. I am damn sick of these bottom dwellers of a cesspool..
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