Epstein Survivors, ICE Victims And Nick Shirley: The Guests At Trump’s State Of The Union | EUROtoday

Many Democrats attending Tuesday night time’s State of the Union tackle are bringing victims of Jeffrey Epstein as friends, or individuals wrongfully detained and attacked by ICE brokers ― in the event that they’re going in any respect.

Who are Republicans bringing? Buckle up.

Shirley is a far-right conservative influencer whose viral YouTube video final yr led to spurious claims of rampant fraud amongst Somali-born little one care suppliers in Minnesota.

State investigators who seemed into the claims discovered no proof of large-scale fraud, but Republicans however seized upon the false narrative as a pretense to chop off federal social providers funding for a handful of blue states, in the end focusing on $10 billion price of federal grants to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.

Shirley will however be the visitor of Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) who praised his work as an “investigative journalist who uncovered massive fraud.”

representatives Claudia Tenney (RN.Y.), Dave Taylor (R-Ohio), Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), and Brad Finstad (R-Minn.) are all bringing legislation enforcement officers.

The U.S. males’s hockey crew will attend as friends of President Donald Trump after the squad received gold final week on the Winter Olympics for the primary time in 46 years.

Notably, the U.S. girls’s squad, which additionally received gold, will not attend after Trump was caught complaining about having to ask them throughout his congratulatory name with the boys’s squad.

“And we have to — I must tell you — we’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” mentioned Trump. “[If I don’t] do that, I do believe I probably would be impeached, OK?”

A spokesperson for USA Hockey, which oversees each groups, mentioned the ladies couldn’t attend Tuesday’s speech due to “timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments.”

Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) has invited Claire Lai, the daughter of Hong Kong democracy advocate and media mogul Jimmy Lai, who’s serving a 20-year sentence in China for his high-profile position in pro-democracy protests there in 2019.

The 78-year-old was arrested and convicted below a doubtful and draconian Beijing-imposed nationwide safety legislation.

Also attending: Ziba Murat, the daughter of Dr. Gulshan Abbas, a Uyghur physician who was arrested in 2018 after her sister spoke out about China’s mass detention of Uyghur Muslims. Murat will attend as a visitor of House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.).

Also on Rep. Johnson’s invite record: Trott Hunt, the founding father of Hunt, Guillot & Associates, an oil and fuel conglomerate with workplaces throughout the nation, together with Johnson’s hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.