[US] House Republicans drop Jim Jordan as their nominee for speaker, falling back to square one

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House Republicans drop Jim Jordan as their nominee for speaker, falling back to square one
apnews.com

Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel.

The blocked-House impasse deepening, Republicans have no realistic or workable plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.

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Just like he did when he shared highly sensitive information about the defense system in Gaza with Putin, who then traded that info for ammo to the Iranians, who then passed it along to Hamas, who, well, you know how that went.

Funny how this is perfectly plausible.

Source: Mary Trump

Corroborated by the evidence of those boxes of classified material he took home when he left while doing none of the things that would give some benefit of the doubt that he had good intentions, like releasing information to the public like Manning and Snowden did, which might be a part of what someone who really wanted to drain the swamp would do.