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A spokesperson for Manchin told The Hill he will vote yes on the confirmation of Tracy Stone-Manning, whose nomination would likely have been doomed without the West Virginia Democrat’s backing.
In the 1990s, Stone-Manning testified that she had sent a letter given to her by another activist threatening tree-spiking, in which trees intended for logging are spiked with metal rods. The tactic is intended to create potential damage to logging equipment but can lead to human injury as well.
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She told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which Manchin chairs, that she had “no involvement in the spiking of trees.” In 1993 she testified that she delivered the letter “because I wanted people to know that those trees were spiked. I didn’t want anybody getting hurt as a result of trees being spiked.”
GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy names five Republicans to committee investigating the origins of the Jan.6 Capitol riot including top Trump ally Jim Jordan: Pelosi says she is reviewing the picks with her veto
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy named five members of his party to serve on a special Congressional panel probing the January 6 Capitol riot
Among those chosen was staunch Trump ally, Rep. Jim Jordan
McCarthy also announced Reps. Jim Banks, Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls to the select committee You know what this is about? This is about going after President Trump, Jordan told CNN after his name came out as one of McCarthy s selections
Trump Ripped Former GOP Allies In Furious Interview
Sen. Mitch McConnell, top left, former Vice President Pence, top right, and former Attorney General William Barr . Photos, top right and left, by Gage Skidmore (CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.0). Photo, bottom, by the Justice Department (Public Domain)
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No matter how much a Republican has done for Donald Trump, the former president can easily turn against them if he feels they have let him down in some way â and that includes former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They all were his targets for an interview featured in Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker s new book,
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