Republican fabulist George Santos announces re-election bid – as it happened | Republicans

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The center of US politics migrated temporarily to New York City, where Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy gave a speech reiterating his stance that Democrats need to agree to cut spending before the GOP will vote to raise America’s debt ceiling. That prompted Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the House Democrats, to accused McCarthy and the Republicans of taking the US economy hostage. Meanwhile, the GOP-led House judiciary committee held a hearing on crime in New York City, in an attempt to tar Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who called the panel a “political stunt”. Why him? Probably because he indicted Donald Trump.

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Here’s what else happened today:

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• The trial of Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News was delayed for a day, in what could be an indication the two sides were working on reaching a settlement.

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• The justice department announced arrests and indictment related to China’s attempts to surveil and harass its diaspora.

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• Gun control advocates don’t think much of the GOP’s hearing on crime in New York City.

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• A judge turned down a request from an attorney for Trump, who asked for a delay in the trial of a defamation suit filed by a woman who says the former president raped her.

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• Even Clarence Thomas’s friends think the conservative supreme court justice should be investigated for failing to declare gifts from and other ties to a Republican megadonor.

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George Santos, who admitted to fabricating parts of his resume in his successful bid for a seat in the House of Representatives, announced he will stand for a second term representing his New York district:

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ANNOUNCEMENT: I am proudly announcing my bid for re-election for #NY03. This is about TAKING BACK our country and restoring greatness back to New York.

To support donate here:https://t.co/BH2nGK54vp pic.twitter.com/LGJdPcsyP6

— George Santos (@Santos4Congress) April 17, 2023

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Santos, a Republican whose district is focused on New York City’s suburbs, is the subject of an inquiry by the House ethics committee, as well as complaints alleging sexual harassment and campaign finance violations. Shortly after he admitted to lying during his election campaign last year, Santos stepped down from all committees. He is expected to face many challengers in the Republican primary for the district, which leans Democratic.

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Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has released a statement condemning today’s House judiciary committee hearing on crime New York City as a “political stunt”.

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The statement released through a spokesman comes after House Republicans concluded their hearing, which featured testimony from victims of crime in America’s most-populous city and their relatives. The GOP convened the hearing after Bragg filed felony charges of falsifying business records against Donald Trump, which the former president traveled to the city earlier this month to answer.

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Here’s the full statement from Bragg:

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— Alvin Bragg (@ManhattanDA) April 17, 2023

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The Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina had another uncomfortable experience in front of a judge today, as his request for a one-month delay in the former president’s looming New York rape trial was denied.

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The writer E Jean Carroll says Donald Trump raped her in a department store in New York in the mid-1990s. Trump denies it. Carroll filed a civil suit, for defamation. She has also brought a civil suit under a New York law that gives alleged victims of historic sexual assaults a window in which to sue.

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Trial in the first case has been postponed. The trial set to begin on 25 April concerns the second case.

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As the Associated Press reports, Tacopina – who attracted national attention through his work for Trump in the hush money case which led to Trump’s indictment in New York earlier this month – argued today that the first case created such negative publicity that the Carroll trial should be held for a month. The judge, Lewis A Kaplan, disagreed:

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“There was, of course, a great deal of media coverage – some of it invited and, indeed, provoked by Mr Trump – first of the apparently impending indictment, then the indictment itself, and finally the arraignment. But the connection that Mr Trump seeks to draw between that coverage and either the need for or the effectiveness of a ‘cooling off’ period is unsupported by any evidence.”

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Kaplan also said a portion of coverage of Trump’s indictment was “of his own doing” as Trump made public statements on his social media platform, in press conferences and in interviews.

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“It does not sit well for Mr Trump to promote pretrial publicity and then to claim that coverage that he promoted was prejudicial to him and should be taken into account as supporting a further delay,” the judge said, adding that he was also concerned that the request was a “delay tactic by Mr Trump”.

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He noted that it was not necessary to find jurors who had never heard of Trump’s legal woes as long as jurors agreed to be fair and impartial.

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“There is no justification for an adjournment. This case is entirely unrelated to the state prosecution.”

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Tacopina did not comment to the AP, which also noted the deadline for Tacopina to say whether Trump will attend the Carroll trial falls this Thursday.

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Trump was in New York again last week, for a deposition in a civil suit brought by the state attorney general, Letitia James, over his business and tax affairs.

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He also faces a justice department investigation concerning his handling of classified documents, the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on Congress; and an investigation into his election subversion in Fulton county, Georgia.

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The justice department on Monday announced a crackdown on China’s efforts to surveil and harass its diaspora in the United States, with the arrests of two men accused of running a Chinese police station in New York City and the indictment of dozens of others on charges of surveilling Chinese citizens in the US.

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New York City residents Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping were arrested on allegations that they ran an illegal police station connected to the Fuzhou branch of the Ministry of Public Security in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, the justice department said.

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“The PRC, through its repressive security apparatus, established a secret physical presence in New York City to monitor and intimidate dissidents and those critical of its government. The PRC’s actions go far beyond the bounds of acceptable nation-state conduct. We will resolutely defend the freedoms of all those living in our country from the threat of authoritarian repression,” Matthew G. Olson, an assistant attorney general in the justice department’s national security division said.

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Separately, prosecutors announced indictments against 44 people for harassing Chinese nationals in the United States through social media. All of the suspects remain at large in China, the justice department said.

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The center of US politics has migrated temporarily to New York City, where Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy gave a speech reiterating his stance that Democrats need to agree to cut spending before the GOP will vote to raise America’s debt ceiling. Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the House Democrats, accused McCarthy and the Republicans of taking the US economy hostage. Meanwhile, the GOP-led House judiciary committee was holding a hearing on crime in New York City, in an attempt to tar Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg. Why him? Probably because he indicted Donald Trump.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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• The trial of Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News was delayed for a day, in what could be an indication the two sides were working on reaching a settlement.

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• The justice department will soon announce arrests in a “significant national security matter”.

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• Gun control advocates don’t think much of the GOP’s hearing on crime in New York City.

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Top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries accused Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans of orchestrating a “hostage situation” with the debt ceiling, after the House speaker’s speech in which he said spending would need to be cut before his lawmakers would agree to raise the US government’s borrowing limit.

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Here’s Jeffries’s full statement:

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A speech is not a plan. Extreme MAGA Republicans continue to treat the full faith and credit of the United States as a hostage situation while their so-called budget proposal remains in the witness protection program. As always, we will evaluate any legislative text when and if House Republicans can ever agree with themselves about how much they want to devastate American families in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthy, well-off and well-connected.

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The justice department has just scheduled a press conference in Brooklyn, New York for 1 pm eastern time, where officials will announce arrests and charges in a “significant national security matter”.

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A press release from the department did not give further details on the case. The announcement will be made by principal deputy assistant attorney general for national security David Newman, US attorney for the eastern district of New York Breon Peace and Michael J. Driscoll, assistant director of the FBI’s New York field office, among other officials.

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In his speech at the New York Stock Exchange, Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy rejected Joe Biden’s insistence that America’s debt ceiling should be raised without cutting spending:

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McCarthy: "A no-strings-attached debt limit increase will not pass. But since the President continues to hide, House Republicans will take action."

— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) April 17, 2023

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Instead, he vowed to push through the House Republican’s proposal, which would cut spending and satisfy a number of other conservative economic goals:

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McCarthy says House GOP debt limit bill would

– lift the debt ceiling into next year
– save taxpayers trillions
– make U.S. less dependent on China
– curb high inflation
– not touch Social Security and Medicare

— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) April 17, 2023

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McCarthy says House Rs debt limit proposal would reduce fed spending to fiscal 2022 levels and then limit the growth of spending during the next decade to 1%

— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) April 17, 2023

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At this point, it appears highly unlikely that such a wide-ranging Republican bill will be enacted into law, since Democrats control both the White House and Senate. Consider this more of a proposal that will act as the starting point for negotiations with Biden – should they ever occur.

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In 1985, Ronald Reagan gave a speech at the New York Stock Exchange in which he outlined his economic priorities. The former president is today beloved among conservatives, and House speaker Kevin McCarthy apparently hopes to benefit from those good vibes when he makes an address from the same venue today, with the subject being the modern-day struggle to raise the debt ceiling.

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While the chamber’s Republican majority has not released a budget yet, they’re reportedly looking to demand everything from spending cuts to the enactment of GOP economic priorities in exchange for their votes to increase the borrowing limit. It’s a high-stakes negotiation, because if they can’t reach an agreement with the White House and Democrats in the Senate by the time the government runs out of money – thought to be sometime in June, but potentially sooner or later – the United States could default on its debt obligations for the first time ever.

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“We are seeing in real-time the effects of reckless government spending. Record inflation, and the hardships it causes. Rising interest rates. Supply chain shortages. Instability in the banking system. And uncertainty across the board,” McCarthy will say in his speech at the New York Stock Exchange, according to Punchbowl News.

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“Unlike President Biden, I don’t dismiss Americans’ fears about higher prices. I share them. And I share their conviction that we must change course before it’s too late.”

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Joe Biden, meanwhile, refuses to negotiate over the debt ceiling, saying that rather than use it as leverage to accomplish other priorities, the GOP should agree to raise it without preconditions. Here’s deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates this morning with a remainder of how Republicans have handled the issue in the past:

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One of the only bipartisan norms the Trump Administration didn't break? Not negotiating over avoiding default. @SpeakerMcCarthy agreed with him.

Trump in 2019: "I can’t imagine anybody ever even thinking of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge." https://t.co/luLLIAqnGD https://t.co/t8vozgafaK

— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) April 17, 2023

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Elsewhere in the city, the House judiciary committee has convened their hearing into crime, but before that began, the committee’s Democrats gathered to argue that the panel is really just about Donald Trump. Here’s Punchbowl News:

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.@HouseJudiciary Democrats are holding a presser with @NYCMayor Eric Adams ahead of GOP’s crime hearing.

Ranking Member Jerry Nadler accuses Jim Jordan of engaging in an “outrageous abuse of power” by holding this hearing, which he says is disguised as a defense of Trump. pic.twitter.com/FYzjHengik

— Mica Soellner (@MicaSoellnerDC) April 17, 2023

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Enraged over Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump and insistent that Joe Biden acquiesce to their demands in order to raise the debt ceiling, top House Republicans have relocated New York City today to press their cases in unique venues. Led by Trump ally Jim Jordan, the judiciary committee will hold a hearing on crime in New York, an issue they say Bragg is ignoring in favor of Trump’s prosecution. Expect Democrats to respond forcefully to the allegation. Meanwhile, House speaker Kevin McCarthy will give an address at the New York Stock Exchange and warn of the consequences of not increasing America’s borrowing limit, while arguing that the GOP’s demands for spending cuts and other reforms aren’t unreasonable. We’ll be keeping an eye on these events as they happen.

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Here’s more about what to expect today:

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• The House judiciary committee convenes their hearing at 9am eastern time.

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• McCarthy is scheduled to speak at 10am eastern time, a half hour after markets open.

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• The Fox News-Dominion trial has been delayed by a judge with no reason given, indicating the two sides may be making progress on reaching a settlement.

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Key events

Martin Pengelly

The supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must be investigated over allegations of corruption, his friend, the Fox News analyst Juan Williams, wrote today.

Williams, who said he enjoyed a close multi-decade friendship with the controversial conservative justice, wrote that Thomas “always represented the best ideals of what Black men … could achieve in modern America” but that growing scandal over his relationship with the rightwing mega-donor Harlan Crow was worthy of investigation.

In a column for the Hill, Williams added: “There is an old Latin saying [corruptio optimi pessima] that translates into English as ‘Corruption of the best is worst of all’.

“That’s how I feel about my old friend.”

As reported by ProPublica, Thomas accepted from Crow – and largely failed to declare – lavish gifts including luxury travel and resort stays.

ProPublica also reported how Crow, a collector of far-right memorabilia including statues of dictators and paintings by Adolf Hitler, purchased property from Thomas, who did not disclose the sale.

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Judge: no delay in Trump rape trial

Martin Pengelly

The Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina had another uncomfortable experience in front of a judge today, as his request for a one-month delay in the former president’s looming New York rape trial was denied.

The writer E Jean Carroll says Donald Trump raped her in a department store in New York in the mid-1990s. Trump denies it. Carroll filed a civil suit, for defamation. She has also brought a civil suit under a New York law that gives alleged victims of historic sexual assaults a window in which to sue.

Trial in the first case has been postponed. The trial set to begin on 25 April concerns the second case.

As the Associated Press reports, Tacopina – who attracted national attention through his work for Trump in the hush money case which led to Trump’s indictment in New York earlier this month – argued today that the first case created such negative publicity that the Carroll trial should be held for a month. The judge, Lewis A Kaplan, disagreed:

“There was, of course, a great deal of media coverage – some of it invited and, indeed, provoked by Mr Trump – first of the apparently impending indictment, then the indictment itself, and finally the arraignment. But the connection that Mr Trump seeks to draw between that coverage and either the need for or the effectiveness of a ‘cooling off’ period is unsupported by any evidence.”

Kaplan also said a portion of coverage of Trump’s indictment was “of his own doing” as Trump made public statements on his social media platform, in press conferences and in interviews.

“It does not sit well for Mr Trump to promote pretrial publicity and then to claim that coverage that he promoted was prejudicial to him and should be taken into account as supporting a further delay,” the judge said, adding that he was also concerned that the request was a “delay tactic by Mr Trump”.

He noted that it was not necessary to find jurors who had never heard of Trump’s legal woes as long as jurors agreed to be fair and impartial.

“There is no justification for an adjournment. This case is entirely unrelated to the state prosecution.”

Tacopina did not comment to the AP, which also noted the deadline for Tacopina to say whether Trump will attend the Carroll trial falls this Thursday.

Trump was in New York again last week, for a deposition in a civil suit brought by the state attorney general, Letitia James, over his business and tax affairs.

He also faces a justice department investigation concerning his handling of classified documents, the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on Congress; and an investigation into his election subversion in Fulton county, Georgia.