Mid-Day Update： November 21, 2024
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Summary
Matt Gaetz withdraws his name for consideration for nomination as AG, Jussie Smollett is off the hook, Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood President Cecil Richards, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gets a promotion.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, November 21st.
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Matt Gaetz has announced that he is withdrawing his name for consideration for the nomination for attorney general.
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The shocking announcement was posted on X this morning.
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Matt Gaetz tweeting out, quote, I had excellent meetings with senators yesterday.
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I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible support of so many.
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While the momentum was strong and it's clear my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction
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to the critical work of the Trump Vance transition team.
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There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington shuffle.
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Thus, I'll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as attorney general.
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Trump's DOJ must be in place and be ready on day one.
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I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful president in history.
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I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice
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Just like that, Matt Gaetz has caved to the Marxist left.
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Someone who hasn't caved to the Marxist left as a Marxist himself, Jussie Smollett, or as
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Tucker Carlson likes to call him, Jussie Smollett.
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The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of the MAGA hate hoaxer Jussie Smollett.
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The Illinois Supreme Court today reversing that conviction.
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The former Empire actor took his case to the Illinois Supreme Court in September
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in a last-ditch effort to have his 2021 conviction overturned.
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You folks may recall in December of 2021, Smollett was found guilty on five charges of disorderly
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conduct, one count for each time he lied to the police about the hoax attack.
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Smollett was found not guilty on a sixth count of lying to a detective.
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In March of 2022, a judge scolded Jussie Smollett for his narcissism and hypocrisy before
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Smollett was also sentenced to 30 months probation and ordered to pay a $120,000 restitution and
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Smollett has a, we'll call it a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome.
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Smollett laughably claimed that two white men ambushed him at 2 a.m.
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in 20-degree weather in downtown Chicago while screaming, this is MAGA country.
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The Empire actor said the attackers wore bleach on him and put a noose around his neck while
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verbally abusing him with homophobic and racial slurs.
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It turns out, well, part of that story wasn't exactly true.
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The two folks who allegedly attacked Smollett were two Nigerian brothers, obviously not white
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fellas, and they were paid $3,000 to help him pull off this MAGA country hate crime hoax.
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I guess in Corrupt Chicago, if you got a little bit of money and a little bit of influence,
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President Joe Biden, a self-proclaimed Catholic, has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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to former Planned Parenthood President Cecil Richards on Wednesday in a private ceremony.
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Richards oversaw nearly 4 million abortions while leading the organization for 12 years
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between 2006 and 2018, according to the Susan B.
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The Medal of Freedom, as I'm sure you folks all know, is given at the discretion of the
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president to a civilian who has made a, quote, especially meritorious contribution to the
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There goes Joe Biden again, parading around abortions like it's the greatest thing that's
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Folks, these Marxist Dems are absolutely sick in the head.
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But good news, Biden's got less than two months in that White House, and he's probably going
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to take a vacation somewhere in there in between.
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And Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene getting a little bit of a promotion.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is set to chair the subcommittee tasked with working with Elon Musk
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and Vivek Ramaswamy to slash wasteful spending throughout the federal government.
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House Oversight Chairman Jamie Comer is setting up that new subcommittee, the Doge subcommittee.
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Comer says Marjorie Taylor Greene will be responsible for running that committee.
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Folks, please be sure to join us for today's episode of The Great America Show.
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We're joined by brilliant author and author of the all new book, Plan Red, China's Project
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We take up the foreign policy that's going to be.
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The days of weak foreign policy are over, folks.
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Some of you may be upset to hear that, but I'm sure many of you are more happy to hear
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And Gordon and I take up what's going to happen with North Korea, what's going to happen with
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China, and what's going to happen with this whole dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
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We take all that up and much more today on The Great America Show, folks.
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