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Michael Steele predicts GOP electoral catastrophe after Brian Kemp signs voter suppression bill

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Republicans in the Georgia legislature on Thursday passed a 95-page voter suppression bill through both chambers in one day. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp then signed the legislation into law.

For analysis, MSNBC chief legal correspondent Ari Melber interviewed former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele.

“The question to reps and voters in Georgia and Arizona and elsewhere, who are taking rights away from Black people across this country in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, how do you think this ends?” he asked. “How do you think this ends? Do you think black folks will just sit by and let you get away with this?” Continue reading.

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele endorses Joe Biden

Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has endorsed Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. Steele announced he was votingagainst the Republican Party in an ad by the Lincoln Project, a group of Republican strategists dedicated to seeing President Trump’s defeat.

“For four years, many have said there will come a moment. Well, this is the moment. Because this ballot is like none ever cast,” Steele said in the ad released Tuesday. “Now, I’m a lifelong Republican – and I’m still a Republican. But this ballot is how we restore the soul of our nation: Electing a good man, Joe Biden, and a trailblazer, Kamala Harris, and ensure an orderly transfer of power, or plunge our country into chaos.”

“America or Trump? I choose America,” Steele said. Continue reading.

Ex-RNC chair Steele ‘exasperated’ by ‘dumba–‘ Trump supporters who refuse to wear masks

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele said Wednesday he’s “exhausted” and “exasperated” by what he described as “dumbass” Trump supporters who refuse to wear masks.

“I’ve talked to enough of them over the last few days,” Steele said on MSNBC. “I’m exhausted, I’m exasperated. You know, at this point it’s like, save who you can save because there’s only so much you can do.”

“The fact that we have to literally beg people to wear a mask to save their own dumb ass from getting sick — I’m sorry, to me, it is beyond the imagination,” added Steele, who was RNC chairman from 2009-2011. Continue reading.

Former RNC chair Michael Steele joins anti-Trump group

Former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele is joining the Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans working to prevent President Donald Trump’s re-election. 

“Today is the day where things should matter and you need to take stock of what matters to you — and the kind of leader you want to lead in these moments. And for me, it ain’t him,”

Steele, a political analyst for MSNBC said making the announcement to host Nicole Wallace on Monday afternoon. Steele was the first African American to be elected to statewide office in Maryland, serving as lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2007. He was also the first African American to serve as chairman of the RNC. Continue reading.

Trump campaign just delayed a rally to avoid ’political embarrassment’: Ex-RNC head

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump postponed his New Hampshire rally due to weather concerns, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele thinks that’s a bogus excuse.

Saturday’s rally at a Portsmouth airport will be rescheduled for later after forecasts called for storms early in the day, with a 20 percent chance of rain by evening, but new reporting suggests the Trump campaign was concerned about attendance.

“Carol Lee and her team are reporting that some White House officials are saying, ‘We don’t need another Tulsa,’” said MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Continue reading.

Ex-RNC Chair Torches McConnell’s Claim Obama ‘Should’ve Kept His Mouth Shut’

Michael Steele noted that Trump “has yet to keep ‘his mouth shut’” about Obama.

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele rebuked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday after McConnell labeled former President Barack Obama as “classless” for criticizing his successor’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

McConnell had declared Monday that Obama “should have kept his mouth shut” about President Donald Trump’s response to the health crisis. But Steele disagreed, tweeting that the former president is entitled to voice his view. He also noted that Trump has “yet to keep ‘his mouth shut’” about Obama.

The president has persistently attempted to blame Obama for testing failures and a shortage of medical supplies during the pandemic and has this week peddled a fringe theory accusing his predecessor of “the biggest political crime in American history” while declining to specify what that alleged crime would be. Continue reading.

Former RNC head drops the hammer on Republicans who claim the Bible says they don’t have to help the poor

AlterNet logoAppearing on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” former National Republican Committee head Michael Steele slammed GOP lawmakers who have attempted to use the Bible as a defense for ignoring the needs of the poor and the helpless.

Speaking with host Joy Reid, Steele said that there will be reckoning one day for the Republican Party.

“Michael, this week Donald Trump lied to my colleague who asked him about this [immigration] policy and lied that he inherited the separation policy from President Obama and that he ended it, which is just a blatant flat out lie, right?” host Reid proposed. “You have members of Congress saying the Bible doesn’t say we’re supposed to care for the poor. I mean, you actually have a sense of moral disconnections in your party that I don’t understand, and I need your help.”

View the complete June 23 article by Tom Boggioni from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

Feud over Trump dossier intensifies with release of interview transcript

The following article by Devlin Barrett and Tom Hamburger was posted on the Washington Post website January 10, 2018:

Glenn R. Simpson, former Wall Street Journal journalist and a founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, arrives to appear before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing in November. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

The political battle over the FBI and its investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election intensified Tuesday with the release of an interview with the head of the firm behind a dossier of allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump.

The transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson’s interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee was released by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the panel’s senior Democrat, over the objections of Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa). Continue reading “Feud over Trump dossier intensifies with release of interview transcript”