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ABC News reports that Trump co-conspirator in the Fulton County racketeering case Ken Chesebro rejected a plea agreement presented by District Attorney Fani Willis that would have allowed him to avoid prison time and expunge his record after three years.  Offered in September, the deal would have been for a guilty plea to one felony racketeering charge, a formal letter of apology, a commitment to testify against his co-defendants, a $10,000 fine and three years’ probation.  If he completed the probation without violation, he could move to have the criminal conviction expunged from his record.  Chesebro’s trial is scheduled to open this week; his co-defendant in the “early trial” request, Sidney Powell, accepted a deal earlier today.

A day after traveling to Israel to demonstrate US support in its fight against Hamas, President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office in which he’s expected to re-assert America’s policy of aiding democracies in fights against terrorist and autocrats.

“Defendant Donald J Trump moves to dismiss the indictment, asking the Court to afford him absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for what he expansively claims was official conduct during his presidency. That novel approach to immunity would contravene the fundamental principle that ‘[n]o man in this country is so high that he is above the law.’ The defendant is not above the law. He is subject to the federal criminal laws like more than 330 million other Americans, including Members of Congress, federal judges, and everyday citizens. None of the sources the defendant points to in his motion – the Constitution’s text and structure, history and tradition, or Supreme Court precedent – supports the absolute immunity he asks the Court to create for him.”

“In staking his claim, he purports to draw a parallel between his fraudulent efforts to overturn the results of an election that he lost and the likes of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and George Washington’s Farewell Address. These things are not alike. The more apt parallel the defendant identifies is to judges, who, like a former president, enjoy absolute immunity from civil damages liability for certain conduct but who are ‘subject to criminal prosecutions as are other citizens.’ The same is true for the defendant. For the reasons set forth below, the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment based upon presidential immunity should be denied,” writes Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith in response to Trump’s bullshit “presidential immunity” dismissal attempt.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan will challenge his enemies to one (possibly) final battle royale on the full House floor at 10 AM Friday, the Messenger’s Steven Neukam reports.

A source close to Colorado Congressman Ken Buck tells Axios’s Juliegrace Brufke “the landlord for one of his offices is terminating the lease presumably because of his vote against Jordan.”

🔥🚨COLORADO🚨🔥

There are 2 #JordanForSpeaker rallies planned tomorrow in #CO04 @RepKenBuck’s district!

📆 Friday, OCT 20th

CASTLE ROCK
⏰ 9 AM
📍 900 Castleon Rd.

WINDSOR
⏰ 1 PM
📍 1613 Pelican Lakes Point

These are peaceful assemblies to encourage Rep Buck to support… pic.twitter.com/MVMuOPOm01

— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) October 19, 2023

It’s not clear if the landlord is a Jim Jordan fan or was simply pissed that a bunch of MAGA assholes will be showing up to his property and disrupting other tenants’ businesses, but either way it looks like the terrorists have notched a win against Buck by getting him evicted even before they go annoy the shit out people. As for actually changing his mind on voting for Jordan, no. They didn’t win as Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports “every Republican who met with Jordan today told him they would not back his candidacy for House speaker, according to multiple sources in the room.”

Walking out of a meeting with the holdouts against him, Congressman Gym Jordan wouldn’t answer any questions at all including on whether he made any progress in flipping them or if there would even be another Speaker vote on Thursday, Punchbowl’s Mica Sollener reports.

Newly-appointed California Senator Laphonza Butler on Thursday announced she won’t be running for reelection, keeping the primary battle between three House members relatively simple.

Testifying in the trial over New York State Attorney General Letitia James’s $250 million lawsuit against disgraced former President Trump’s corrupt business empire, an exective from real estate development company Cushman and Wakefield kind of contradicted sworn testimony by Donald’s moron son Eric Trump in a deposition, the Messenger’s Adam Klasfeld reports.

In question is Eric’s role in the development of the Trump National Golf Club at Briarcliff Manor in Westchester, something he had described as “I pour concrete. I operate properties. I don’t focus on appraisals between a law firm and Cushman. This is just not what I do in my day-to-day responsibilities. And you know, I hardly recognize the names on here,” in tape of the deposition played during Cushman exec David McArdle’s testimony to jog his memory. When a counsel with the AG’s office asked if that was consistent with Eric’s actual role, McArdle flatly answered “no.”

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City’s humans, met with Sally Long, a Bassett Hound elected as honorary mayor of New York City’s dogs in a ceremony at City Hall on Thursday, 1010 WINS reports.

In related news about the ongoing and accelerating collapse of the House GOP, loser Jim Jordan told reporters he’s “still running for speaker. I plan to go to the floor and get the votes,” while loser former Speaker Kevin McCarthy recounted the tension at the caucus’s meeting, telling the media he “told him to sit down and he sat down…I think the entire conference screamed at him…The whole country I think would scream at Matt Gaetz right now.” Kev squeezed in a parting shot at Dems, saying they were responsible – along with the “Crazy 8” who voted him out – for this shitshow.

“Forbes Magazine is owned by Communist China. Nobody hates ‘TRUMP’ more than they do. I told my people, years ago, don’t waste your time talking to them, it’s a giant Scam. Besides, Forbes is dying a slow death!” wrote disgraced former President Trump on Truth Social Thursday.

Now you might be tempted to think that he’s still upset over being dropped from the Forbes 400, and no doubt that remains a sore spot. But we would hazard a guess he’s far angrier that writer Dan Alexander accused former Trump Org CFO Allen Weaselberg Weisselberg of perjury and that New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday told Judge Arthur Engoron about it. That just might be a bigger deal and enough for Trump to accuse them of being ChiCom agents.

One of the 16 fake Trump 2020 electors has signed a cooperation agreement with Attorney General Dana Nessel and had his charges dropped in exchange for testimony, the Detroit News reports.

“We’re excited for this result,” said Clint Westbrook, attorney for James Renner, who had been facingeight felony charges, including forgery allegations, that all 16 had been stuck with.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: This [Republican] conference is broken… This is not a plan for a strong majority pic.twitter.com/XbxnLXREIw

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) October 19, 2023

Things are becoming maybe more than just a little bit heated inside the House GOP’s private meeting while they try to get a resolution empowering Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry to the floor, as Axios’s Juliegrace Brufke reports Kevin McCarthy “screamed at Matt Gaetz to sit down when he went to the mics, with the source saying [Illinois Congressman Mike] Bost ‘almost lunging at him.'” Brufke added that McCarthy was advocating for the McHenry plan.

Leaving the Republican conference meeting, a “deflated” looking Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher told CNN’s Haley Talbot he was “going up to the chapel to pray the rosary.”

A Pembroke Pines, Florida GameStop employee has been charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting a shoplifter who stole $600 worth of premium Pokemon playing cards from the store on Tuesday, ABC News reports on a case that Detective Pikachu won’t have to work too hard to solve.

GameStop employee Derrick Guerrero, 33, probably isn’t going to be able to argue a “stand your ground” defense as security video reveals the unnamed suspect, who was able to flee but died at a hospital 3 hours later, did not threaten violence or have a weapon himself. It’s too bad that Guerrero didn’t have a Pokeball he could use to capture the guy and train him to fight other shoplifters.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Congressman Jim Jordan on Thursday morning scrapped another round of failing to become Speaker of the House and will tentatively back the plan to empower Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, the Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

MAGA lawyer Sidney “Kraken” Powell pleaded guilty on Thursday to the charges of a RICO violation count, two counts of conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, conspiracy to commit computer trespass, conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy, and conspiracy to defraud the state for her involvement in the Trump Regime’s post-2020 election coup attempt in the Peach State, Lawfare’s Anna Bower reports on a massive surprise win for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in her pursuit of the Orange God Emperor.

The Kraken was sentenced to six years’ probation and a $6,000 fine in exchange for agreeing to testify truthfully in all future trials against the 17 remaining co-defendants. The plea comes just a day before jury selection was to begin in the trial in which other MAGA lawyer Kenny Chesebro, whose crimes sat on a separate prong of the sweeping case from the Kraken’s and might’ve made for an unwieldy and awkward prosecution in front of a jury that could’ve ended up sparing one or both of them from conviction. The Kraken’s more direct co-conspirator in the breach of the Coffee County Clerk’s election server Scott Hall pleaded guilty last month and had agreed to testify against her.

Hamas terrorists likely used North Korean weapons during brutal attack on Israel, evidence shows https://t.co/FHddBOTXfR

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 19, 2023

We get why they had to back off from that “Biden gave $6 billion to Iran which then immediately got spent on supporting the Hamas attack on Israel” line when the Israelis themselves obviously didn’t buy into that bullshit and praised Biden for his support, but what’s the angle supposed to be here?

How does saying North Korea was behind it hurt Biden politically? If anything it was his fat, despotic predecessor who created a “beautiful relationship” with the fat, despotic ruler whose military is said here to have supported the attack on Israeli civilians. Is this going to be one of those times again where fanboys absolutely lose their shit over Fox News not telling them what they want to hear?

Sources tell CNN’s Manu Raju that spandex-wearing grapple-freak Congressman Jim Jordan is poised to lose as many as 30 votes on the third round of voting for Speaker of the House and it’s unclear if he’s even going to try to do it again as scheduled at noon on Friday.

To be fair on the numbers however, there was a shit ton of reporting saying that Gym would lose a double-digit number of votes between Tuesday and Wednesday and he only lost net two – or one really – because one member, Florida Congressman Gus Bilirakis, who was out of town for a funeral on the first vote showed up and cast a vote for Jordan on the second round.