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Look, the Democrats still control the Senate and President Biden is currently outmaneuvering Donald Trump by having the Senate Judiciary Committee confirm federal judges who President Biden appointed, ensuring that we have pro democracy federal judges in the federal courts and the appellate courts throughout the country. So as Donald Trump was spending his day with Elon Musk and Republican senators watching the SpaceX take off so they could do propaganda events, that's when Biden activated Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and they started appointing judge after judge. Donald Trump then got wind of what was going on. There's been a total, by the way, from the beginning of the Biden administration to now of about 216, 218 or so federal judges who have now been confirmed. About a fourth of, I think all appeals courts have Biden appointed judges on it, which is critical. Donald Trump started freaking out. Here's what Trump posted. He goes the Democrats are trying to stack the courts with radical left judges on their way out the door. Republican senators need to show up and hold the line. No more judges confirmed before Inauguration Day. Well, sorry Donald, that's just not the way it works. Also, the Republican Senators have been spending time with you doing propaganda events. Like three Republican Senators were hanging out with Trump and Musk in Texas yesterday. Instead of trying to block Biden, Schumer Durbin getting these Judges confirmed. Ron DeSantis wrote the following. This leftist judge would have been voted down and the seat on the important 11th Circuit would have been filled by Donald Trump next year had Republicans showed up to the Senate and not been, I guess, at the Trump propaganda events. Now the leftist judge will have a lifetime appointment and the people of Florida, Alabama and Georgia will suffer the consequences of this. Now you have someone by the name of Grace Chung who is one of Steve Bannon's lieutenants, said the following. She attacked J.D. vance and Marco Rubio and said, you guys better show up and do your frickin job. J.D. vance, Vance, Marco Rubio and the rest of you Senate Republicans that didn't bother to even show up. To which J.D. vance, Vice President elect, pains me to say that, but that's the reality. Then responds to Steve Bannon's war room cfo, Grace Chung and he says to her, you are a mouth breathing imbecile is what JD Van says to Grace Chung. He says, grace Chung, you're a mouth breathing imbecile who attacks those of us in the fight rather than making yourself useful. If I had shown up to the vote in question, the nominee would have succeeded 49 to 46 rather than 49 to 45. If every Republican had showed up, Fetterman would have come in and the Democrats still would have gotten their nominee across. When this 11th Circuit vote happened, I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including our F, including for FBI. He goes, then you have Mike Lee, who calls himself based Mike Lee. So, so bizarre. Senator. He goes, trump is right. Senate Republicans need to do everything we can to stop the confirmation of horrible Biden appointed judges. Now Republicans in the comments were freaking out. Comments like this, you Republican F words in the Senate. You keep letting Kamala and Biden get radical leftist judges appointed. You can kiss your jobs goodbye. Stop the bs. But he curses. Um, and then you have Cernovich, another right wing influencer goes Senate Republicans are letting far left wing judges be confirmed by Schumer even though they could stop it. Mike Johnson is doing what he does best, refusing to take a firm stance on significant issues. Welcome to the party. I mean, by the way, Mike Johnson's in the House. They don't have a function of confirming judges. But you know, that's just, just a little bit of civics right there. So one of the things that Chuck Schumer is doing though, he's going all night. He's going all night and then he is making sure that these judges go get confirmed. The Republicans who are showing up in the Senate, they're trying to use whatever delay tactics. They are forcing procedural votes that go all into the night. But Chuck Schumer's like, I'm here. I'm gonna get all these people confirmed. Here is what Chuck Schumer said about the momentum of confirming these judges. This is what he said last night. Play this clip.
