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Kathryn Wilkens @ Mediaite: GOP Rep Falsely Claims 82% of Women Vaccinated in First Two Trimesters Miscarried

Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) pushed the unfounded claim on Fox Business Tuesday that 82% of women who received a COVID-19 vaccine during their first or second trimester suffered a miscarriage.

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A Michigan Republican Congresswoman is telling Democrats that bomb threats and public calls for their death are "consequences" they face as a result of that they don't have to follow unlawful orders.

In an interview with CNN on Monday, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), who also serves as the House Republican Conference Chair, said that bomb threats might be wrong, but Democrats "started it" with their video.

Last week, former military and intelligence members who were elected to Congress released a video where they said simply that service members don't have to follow orders that they believe are unlawful. The members didn't say President Donald Trump's name, nor did they cite any specific orders he or anyone else had given. They only repeated that the military swears an oath to the U.S. Constitution and pledges to follow the law.

McClain said she agreed with Trump, who she claimed "brought attention to the seriousness of the video."

"Think of what the Democrat senators are doing," McClain said. "[They're] telling rank-and-file military members that they can obey unlawful orders. You don't need to follow your commander-in-chief."

McClain's statement was a misquote of the video: Democrats never said members can "obey unlawful orders." Instead, they said members can "refuse illegal orders."

"That is extremely dangerous," McClain said, citing "national security."

"And for Democrats to put out this video as an obstructionist just doesn't make sense. That is not what is supposed to happen," she said.

CNN co-host Pamela Brown said that she understood McClain disagreed with the video, but wondered if the Republican lawmaker condemned threats of violence against the officials. Brown specifically pointed to Trump's claim on Truth Social that the video amounted to.

McClain said that violence is never an acceptable response; however, "I think what the president was doing, though, is reminding you of the oath you did take, and there are consequences. So, you can have freedom of speech. But freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. ... So I think everyone focused on you can say whatever you want. Yes, you can, but there are consequences for what you say, and I think that's what he was saying with that message."

Brown asked McClain whether repeating calls for hangings could be dangerous when there are "unhinged" people willing to carry out such violence against the officials.

McClain talked about her own death threats and how awful they are.

"But take a look at who started this," she continued. "Those senators got online and said, 'Hey, go ahead and disobey some orders if you don't agree with them. If you think they're unlawful.'"

Brown mumbled over McClain. The video never says that a service member can randomly disobey orders they disagree with. It specifically cited "illegal orders."

"We've got to stop this Trump derangement syndrome," she later added.

Wolf Blitzer then cut in to confirm, "Should members of the U.S. military or the intelligence community, for that matter, obey what are clearly illegal orders, if, in their mind, what they're being told to do, is something illegal? Should they still go ahead and follow those rules."

McClain implied that the service members couldn't know what was illegal and that it would be nothing more than their opinion.

"You're asking an enlisted person of their opinion of what is legal or illegal. That's a pretty slippery slope," McClain said.

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all 26 Republicans on the powerful House Oversight Committee have refused to sign a simple, two-sentence statement denouncing white supremacy.

"We, Members of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, together denounce white nationalism and white supremacy in all its forms, including the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory. These hateful and dangerous ideologies have no place in the work of the United States Congress or our Committee," the statement (copy below) from Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reads.

It comes after several Oversight Committee Republicans "invoked dangerous and conspiratorial rhetoric echoing the racist and nativist tropes peddled by white supremacists and right-wing extremists," during a February hearing on the "border crisis," Ranking Member Raskin said in a March 5 letter to Committee Chair James Comer (photo, top.) The Washington Post first reported on Raskin’s letter.

"In particular, some Members repeatedly described the number of migrants arriving at the border as an 'invasion,' and even went so far as to falsely accuse the Biden-Harris Administration of implementing a plan 'to deliberately open our border' for purposes of 'changing our culture'—mirroring language often used by MAGA extremists who believe that pro-immigration policies are designed to replace white populations with non-white immigrants and other racial minorities," Raskin's letter says.

Congressman Raskin is a former constitutional law professor who gained national prominence as the impeachment manager during the second impeachment of Donald Trump.

"As I explained to you at the hearing," his letter to Comer continues, "such language borrows from the 'Great Replacement' theory, the central dogma of contemporary white supremacy that has been repeatedly invoked by white nationalists to justify violent acts of domestic terrorism, including the mass murders of dozens of Americans at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a Walmart in El Paso, Texas."

All 21 Democrats on the Oversight Committee signed the statement, and all 26 Republicans refused. A Committee spokesperson called the statement a "distraction," according to The Independent.

the 26 Republican Representatives who refused to denounce white supremacy and white nationalism are (in order of appearance on the statement): James Comer, Jim Jordan, Mike Turner, Paul Gosar, Virginia Foxx, Glenn Grothman, Gary Palmer, Clay Higgins, Pete Sessions, Andy Biggs, Nancy Mace, Jake LaTurner, pat Fallon, Byron Donalds, Kelly Armstrong, Scott Perry, William Timmons, Tim Burchett, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lisa McClain, Lauren Boebert, Russell Fry, Anna Paulina Luna, Chuck Edwards, Nick Langworthy, and Eric Burlison.

See a copy of the signed/unsigned statement below or at this link.