Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell left everyone concerned today when the 81-year-old blanked out at the podium. The Minority Leader was seconds into his weekly press conference when he stopped talking and appeared dazed. He was later led away by fellow Congress members but returned shortly after.
Asked by reporters if he can explain what happened, McConnell only responded that he was fine.
Back in March, McConnell fell and had to be hospitalized.
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Why? Why would you fake their your kidnapping? Are you so starved for attention? Chalk this up to the many other cases that makes no sense at all.
Carlee Russell admitted she did not see a toddler wandering on the side of the highway and lied about being kidnapped in a hoax that set off a nationwide effort to find her, an attorney for the Alabama woman said Monday.
Hoover Police Chief Nicholas C. Derzis read the statement provided by Russell’s attorney during a news conference, in which the 25-year-old nursing student said she was not abducted as the nation was led to believe when she disappeared July 13. Russell said she had not left the Hoover area.
She returned home 49 hours after a call to 911 reporting seeing the child on the interstate.
“My client apologizes for her actions to this community, to the volunteers who were searching for her, to the Hoover Police Department and other agencies as well,” the statement said.
The police department is consulting with the district attorney’s office regarding potential criminal charges, according to Derzis.
According to The Associated Press, these neighbors have been feuding for years. Things finally came to an end with three Latino men shot dead, and a white man in custody.
According to the police charging documents, the six people who were shot were attending a large party when a dispute broke out over a parking issue. Mireles went to Smith’s home to talk about it and was arguing with Shirley Smith when her son Charles Smith returned home and confronted him. The verbal argument became physical.
Smith pulled out a gun and Mireles tried to grab it before Smith shot Mireles and Segovia. Smith “then stood over Mario Mireles and shot him several more times,” the document says. Smith then went into his house, got a rifle and began firing through a window at people who had come trying to help the mortally wounded men. Smith fatally shot Nicolas Mireles, and wounded Rosalina Segovia, Paul Johnnson and Enner Canales-Hernandez, police said.
Smith surrendered when the police arrived, telling officers he shot the victims because they shot at his house. However, none of the witnesses interviewed saw any of the victims with a firearm, according to the charging documents.
The Smith and Mireles families have had disputes for years, even going to court for help at one point. Mario Mireles sought a peace order petition in September 2016, accusing Shirley Smith of harassing him and their neighbors since he was a child. He accused her of directing racial slurs at him and his family, as well as other neighbors who are Black.
I’ve never been one to pay attention to the UFO talk. But when top U.S officials, documents and even videos from military pilots became known, it would be ignorant to close your eyes and pretend there’s nothing to see here. More information is definitely needed.
And Congressional members feel the same way and their frustration is palpable.
“My primary interest in this topic is if there are … object[s] operating over restricted air space, it’s not ours and we don’t know whose it is, that’s a problem that we need to get to the bottom of,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“If there’s an explanation for it that’s being kept from Congress, then we need to force the issue. We’re not getting answers,” Rubio told The Hill.
The Senate has adopted an amendment to an annual defense bill that would require the federal government to collect and disclose all records related to UFOs and UAPs unless a special review board determines they must be kept classified.
The amendment was sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees and is backed by Rubio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), the chairwoman of the Armed Services subcommittee on emerging threats, as well as Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.), a former Marine intelligence officer, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.).
None of my friends have ever been indicted multiple times. As a matter of fact, none of my friends have never been indicted. I would like to think that’s the case for most Americans, but the sad fact is many Americans are getting ready to vote for someone with not one or two, but potentially a third indictment in Georgoa.
Trump has not been convicted of any crime yet, nor is it certain he will be.
But as he faces a potential third criminal indictment, with an additional state-level probe into his actions ongoing in Georgia, the stakes for Trump to win the 2024 election are ratcheting up, with a victory next year perhaps the best way to insulate himself from conviction or jail time.
“It’s a huge factor,” said Sean Walsh, who served in the White House press office in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.
“At a minimum, if he wins the presidency again then he can say he was vindicated in the public eye,” Walsh said. “No. 2, legally if he is president of the United States, he could potentially pardon himself …Trump’s best bet at getting out of all his legal issues is becoming president again. That’s his get out of jail free card.”
The lines between Trump’s political fortunes and his legal ones are steadily blurring as the cases pile up.
afterall, you are known by the friends you keep.
don’t know of anyone with multiple indictments,
