BREAKING: 🇷🇺 Russia’s Counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva has resigned.
Boris Bondarev: “Never have I been so ashamed of my country.”
UN Watch is now calling on all other Russian diplomats at the United Nations—and worldwide—to follow his moral example and resign.
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Maybe bookers should remember this the next time they reach for @mschlapp and @mercedesschlapp phone number to lie, smear and spread this virulent poison with a wink and a nod. Schlapp is Fritz Kuhn and if you work in TV news and don’t know who that is, read more. Disgusting
The Guardian on CPAC: “A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews ‘stinking excrement’, referred to Roma as ‘animals’ and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest.” theguardian.com/world/2022/m…
The Guardian on CPAC: “A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews ‘stinking excrement’, referred to Roma as ‘animals’ and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest.” theguardian.com/world/2022/m…
A legion of former Perdue aides and advisers told the former senator that running was a bad idea. He listened to Mr. Trump instead. Now, Mr. Perdue is staring down an epic defeat at the hands of Gov. Brian Kemp nytimes.com/2022/05/21/us/po…
JUST IN: A shipment of baby formula has arrived in Indianapolis on a US military aircraft from Germany.
The baby formula will be distributed to areas around the country where there is the most acute need, a Biden administration official earlier told CNN.
"For knuckleheads on Fox who say that Biden can’t put two sentences together: He just put NATO together, Europe together and the whole Western alliance together ...to help Ukraine protect its fledgling democracy from Vladimir Putin’s fascist assault." nytimes.com/2022/05/22/opini…
Great investigative work here: Herschel Walker has been claiming he started a program for veterans -- instead he's a well-compensated spokesperson and program is "alleged to have preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government."
NEW: @HerschelWalker says he created the mental health program Patriot Support. But an @AP review reveals a celebrity spokesman who overstated his role in a program that allegedly preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the gov’t apnews.com/article/bb1ef7d86…
"The more that is unearthed about Herschel Walker, the more it is obvious that he should not be in the United States Senate."
politicususa.com/2022/05/22/… via @politicususa
Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military through a program he created, called Patriot Support. But court filings and company documents show Walker did not found the program. It's also not a charity. stripes.com/theaters/us/2022…
"the company pushed staff at its mental health facilities to misdiagnose patients and falsify documents in order to hospitalize those who did not require it" to get insurance payments. Per court records. apnews.com/article/2022-midt…
Nothing to see here. Just a former president of the United States sharing a social media post advocating or predicting civil war in the United States. No biggie.
Russia is permanently banning nearly 1,000 Americans, including President Biden and Vice President Harris, from entering the country.
One prominent name missing from the list: former president Donald Trump. wapo.st/3lz3aLe