Georgia Election Official Hinted at Trump Admin Job, Before Backing Controversial New Rule
Plus: Three Years After the Fall of Kabul, These Afghans’ Stories Are Our Stories
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JUSTIN GLAWE: MAGA Member of Georgia Election Board Hinted at Trump Admin Job Before Backing Controversial New Rule
A GEORGIA REPUBLICAN WHOM DONALD TRUMP PRAISED by name at an Atlanta rally on Aug. 3—a member of the MAGA majority on a board that last week implemented controversial rules backed by the election-denial movement—got his seat on the board thanks to the state’s lieutenant governor, who was himself nearly indicted for his role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
The news that State Election Board member Rick Jeffares owes his seat to Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, one of the “phony electors” from Georgia in 2020, comes on the heels of the revelation that Jeffares had pitched himself for a position in a second Trump administration.
Jones didn’t have to go far to tell Jeffares he wanted him to serve on the board. The pair live down the street from each other, Jeffares said.
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WILL SELBER: Three Years After the Fall of Kabul, These Afghans’ Stories Are Our Stories
I’VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN AFGHANISTAN. In 2008, I helped build hospitals and schools on an Afghan Provincial Reconstruction Team. Four years later, in 2012, I spent a year with a special forces team training an anti-Taliban militia in northwest Kandahar. In the summer of 2014, I returned to advise the top intelligence officers in the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs. When I returned to Kabul for the last time in June 2020 to begin a year as a military diplomat at the American embassy, I refused to believe—despite mounting evidence—that we would abandon our allies. And in hundreds of meetings with senior Afghan security officials and politicians, that’s what I told them. That’s what I was supposed to tell them.
Then, during America’s final year in Afghanistan, I watched the country disintegrate. Three years ago today, on August 15, 2021, Kabul fell, and with it, the dream of a free Afghanistan. Everyone watched our allies cling to American cargo planes as we retreated. When their hope outlasted their strength, they fell to their deaths.
🚨OVERTIME🚨
Happy Thursday! The kids are back in school, it’s 90 degrees out, and fall can’t come soon enough. About 21 years ago, it was the Great Northeast Blackout, similarly hot, and scary (though ultimately fun) in a recently post-9/11 world.
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Mauricio Pochettino agrees… to become USMNT head coach (NYT/The Athletic). Now I have a Halloween costume that requires little effort.
To the shock of no one… RFK admits that he falls for online misinformation “all the time.” (Mother Jones)
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It seems like Neil Cavuto is getting sick of his guests… Fact checking perennial rake stepper Gov. Sununu on inflation (Raw Story).
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