Politics & Government

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Erie County Dems Endorse Tim Kennedy for NY26

Erie County Democrats Thursday unanimously endorsed state Senator Tim Kennedy for the 26th  Congressional District seat soon to be vacated by Congressman Brian Higgins.   Today’s...

No follow up to OTB ticket scandal

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What’s included, and missing, in Hochul agenda

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Almost fired, then promoted

A Buffalo police officer once charged with assault, tagged for termination and barred from the witness stand has been promoted to detective and is...
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‘Hoax!’ Trump responds to Jack Smith hearing with unhinged rant from Stephen Miller



President Donald Trump responded to former special counsel Jack Smith's first public testimony by sharing a video of aide Stephen Miller shouting about "the Russiagate hoax."

As cable news stations fixated on Smith, Trump responded with a post on Truth Social.

"Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Obama, Monaco, all conspired together, all worked together to try to sabotage, undermine, unravel the democratic institutions and structures of this country," Miller rants in the video posted by Trump. "The Russiagate hoax, the Russia gate conspiracy and all of the assaults against our liberties that went with it."

"The pre-dawn raids, the handcuffing of innocent Americans," he continues. "The removal of his national security advisor, One fake indictment, one fake charge after another, the special counsel, all of it, was a unrelenting attempt to overthrow the government the American people voted for."

"I cannot find words harsh enough to condemn the conduct of these conspirators, these insurrectionists."

For his part, Smith insisted Trump "willfully broke the law."

"Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power," the former prosecutor noted. "After leaving office in January of 21, President Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Social Club and repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. Highly sensitive national security information was held in a ballroom and a bathroom."

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