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Protesters clashed with police officers in Brooklyn Center on Sunday after an officer fatally shot a young black man Dante Wright.
20-year-old Daunte Wright was killed by police in Minneapolis suburb, Brooklyn Center, on Sunday.
On Monday, following the shooting, far left Democrat Rashida Tlaib called for complete anarchy and demanded no more police or prisons!
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Black Lives Matter goons have been ripping apart the area, looting, and committing arson after a criminal was shot while slipping out of his handcuffs and jumping into his vehicle during an arrest.
Shots fired Cortez Rice stream #BrooklynCenter pic.twitter.com/KiV5GphCvS
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The shots were picked up on several live streams and an ambulance was spotting heading into the area where the sound had came from.
Ambulance headed into area where police are arresting rioters in Brooklyn Center following reports of shots fired pic.twitter.com/cVYW80CwPo
— Kyle Hooten (@KyleHooten2) April 13, 2021
Shots fired on Unicorn Riot stream a few minutes ago #BrooklynCenter pic.twitter.com/ce5wDZAckA
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Shots fired.pic.twitter.com/Uoyx3KSEw6
— ＢＲＡＶＯ (@BravoCharlie237) April 13, 2021
It is currently unclear who fired the shots.
Police have been deploying less lethal munitions to disperse the mob.
The riot is ongoing and the Gateway Pundit will be continuing to provide updates throughout the evening as the situation unfolds.
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Last week, President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the premier federal firearms enforcement agency. Biden complemented that announcement with a call for a national red flag law to entitle police to preemptively confiscate firearms from citizens suspected of being a threat to themselves or others.
Chipman was a 25-year ATF agent and a key official at the 1994 federal trial of the Branch Davidians who survived the ATF and FBI assaults the prior year. Many federal agents posed for grisly “victory photos” in the rubble of the Branch Davidians’ Waco, Texas, home after it burned to the ground during an FBI assault. One photo allegedly shows Chipman proudly holding a rifle in front of the wreckage where scores of children died shortly before. The White House and Chipman’s current employer, the antigun Giffords organization, did not respond to repeated email requests to confirm or deny that Chipman is the federal agent in that photo; the Daily Mail and many online sites have tagged Chipman as the agent. In a Reddit public question and answer session in 2019, Chipman sought to spur support for an assault weapons ban by falsely claiming that the Davidians shot down two federal helicopters that were attacking their compound.
Biden’s nomination of Chipman has thrust Waco back in the national spotlight. Millions of Americans permanently lost faith in the federal government after ATF and FBI attacks concluded with more than 80 civilians dead. But few Americans are aware of Biden’s role, first in helping cover up the debacle and later, after ample damning evidence had surfaced, exonerating federal law enforcement and instead blaming Americans who distrusted Washington. Biden’s behavior on Waco is a bad portent for anyone who expects federal agencies to be leashed during his reign.
At the time of the federal assault at Waco, Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had primary oversight jurisdiction over the conduct of federal law enforcement agencies. How did Biden react to an FBI tank and toxic gas assault that ended with shocking carnage? On the day after the fire, Biden “cautioned that lawmakers should wait until all the details become available before it begins second-guessing the Justice Department,” the New York Times reported. Biden declared, “We’ve got to wait to figure out what happened before we have hearings.” Delaying hearings until after the federal agencies that had blundered (or far worse) announced the “facts of the matter” would have horrified earlier generations of congressional leaders who courageously exposed federal lies and cover-ups, from Sen. William Fulbright’s investigation of the Vietnam War in the 1960s to Sen. Frank Church’s investigation of FBI and CIA rampages in the 1970s.
Biden conducted zero hearings on Waco while he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. After Republicans captured control of Congress in the 1994 elections, committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) held hearings in late 1995. Despite plenty of damning disclosures of federal misconduct at Waco in the prior two years, Biden was emphatic that the real problem was “a growing number of people across the country who are seizing on the incidents at Waco as well as at Ruby Ridge to suggest that law enforcement is our enemy.”
“The record from Waco does not evidence…any improper motive or intent on the part of law enforcement,” Biden declared. Instead, Biden touted “the excellent overall record of the Federal law enforcement agencies, including both the ATF and the FBI.” Biden vindicated the feds: “The ATF had a legitimate and very important reason to be at Waco in the first place, that is, to serve warrants on those reasonably suspected of violating the Federal criminal laws.” But if the ATF Waco search is Biden’s idea of “legitimate,” the next four years will be hell on civil liberties.
The Waco investigation got rolling in July 1992, when ATF agent Davy Aguilera visited the Branch Davidians’ gun dealer, and suggested the Davidians were illegally converting semiautomatic firearms to full automatic firing capacity, a federal felony. When Davidian leader David Koresh was told about that allegation, he invited Aguilera to visit the Davidians’ residence and conduct an on-the-spot inspection. Aguilera refused the invitation and his subsequent affidavit application to search the Davidians’ residence “contained an incredible number of false statements,” according to a 1996 congressional report.
In an October 1995 Senate hearing, Biden declared, “Nobody in Washington, nobody in ATF, nobody involved with ATF had an idea that, you know, those Branch Davidians are dangerous people, Koresh is a dangerous guy, we have got to be aggressive and go after them.” The ATF’s subsequent conduct reveals Biden’s definition of “non-aggressive.” Instead of conducting a peaceful search of the Davidians’ sprawling wooden home, the ATF chose to launch a massive attack on its peaceful residents. On February 28, 1993, more than 70 ATF agents and three military helicopters launched a Sunday morning attack with no warning. Prior to the assault, the ATF alerted several television stations to assure coverage of a raid expected to seize a big cache of weapons. CBS’s 60 Minutes disclosed that ATF agents said “the initial attack on that cult in Waco was a publicity stunt—the main goal of which was to improve ATF’s tarnished image.” A 1996 congressional investigation noted that ATF deliberately chose a “dynamic entry approach. The bias toward the use of force may in large part be explained by a culture within ATF,” including “promotional criteria.”
ATF claimed a surprise attack was necessary because Koresh almost never came out of his home. Six years after the attack, thanks to FOIA hounding by former federal lawyer David Hardy, the ATF finally disclosed a memo revealing that, nine days before the raid, two undercover ATF agents (recognized as such by Koresh) knocked on the door of the Davidian residence and invited Koresh to go shooting. Koresh, two other Davidians, and the two agents had a fine time shooting AR-15s and SIG Sauer semiautomatic pistols. Koresh provided the ammo and the agents handed him their guns. The ATF undercover agents’ official report, filed before the raid, noted: “Mr. Koresh stated that he believed that every person had the right to own firearms and protect their homes.” Koresh could have easily been arrested that day but that would have preempted the biggest and most glorious raid in ATF history.
Instead, the raid quickly turned into a debacle, leaving four ATF agents and six Davidians dead. The ATF claimed Davidians “ambushed” their agents, a story promoted by the vast majority of the media. But after ATF agents told superiors that the ATF shot first, the ATF ceased its shooting review to avoid creating documents that could subvert the court case against the Davidians. A Treasury Department report written by outside experts and issued in September 1993 condemned “deliberately misleading post-raid statements about the raid and the raid plan by certain ATF supervisors.” After the raid debacle, the FBI took over the scene and ramped up the pressure on the Davidians. The FBI settled on an assault plan that included using military tanks to collapse the building atop the residents. The FBI fired pyrotechnic rounds at the scene, perhaps the source of the conflagration that ended the standoff.
Biden was one of the most fervent champions of the federal drug war in the 1980s and 1990s, but he had no complaint about the ATF’s drug war scam at Waco. Prior to the raid, ATF officials were told that it would be illegal for the U.S. military to assist them unless there was a “drug nexus” to the case. Voila! A few days later, the ATF notified military officials that they suspected the Davidians had a methamphetamine lab in their basement. ATF agents then received training in close-quarters combat and called in military helicopters from the Texas National Guard to assault the Davidians’ home in conjunction with the agents attacking on the ground. Despite such extensive preparations, the drug charge vanished immediately after the raid, and federal prosecutors never raised the issue at the surviving Davidians’ 1994 trial. A 1996 congressional report concluded that the ATF’s actions during and after the raid made it “clear that the ATF believed that a methamphetamine lab did not exist.” The House report concluded that “the ATF intentionally misled Defense Department and military personnel” regarding the existence of the meth lab. But federal agencies treated those lies as a harmless error since they did not reduce government power.
At the trial of the surviving Davidians in 1994, federal prosecutors compared Koresh to Hitler and Stalin and declared that the 11 defendants were “as much religious terrorists as the people who blew up…Pan Am 103.” But the jury found all the Davidian defendants not guilty of murder, though seven were convicted of manslaughter. The New York Times characterized the verdict as a “stunning defeat” for the federal government; a Los Angeles Times headline declared, “Outcome Indicates Jurors Placed Most Blame on the Government.” Jury foreman Sarah Bain commented after the trial, “The federal government was absolutely out of control there…. The wrong people were on trial, it should have been the ones that planned the raid and orchestrated it.”
But neither the jury verdicts nor House hearings in the summer of 1995 that exposed further ATF and FBI deceits and abuses dented Joe Biden’s view. Instead, at the Senate hearings in October of that year, Biden portrayed the real danger as people on the “left and right who see everything as some great conspiracy.” Biden sought “to establish that this wasn’t Big Brother sitting up in Washington.” If the ATF mass assault and the FBI tank-and-toxic-gas attack don’t count as Big Brother, what does?
Biden is making restoring trust in government a theme of his presidency. In his inaugural address, he declared, “Each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders…to defend the truth and defeat the lies.” Biden’s conduct on Waco and his nomination of David Chipman signal that Americans can’t count on any help from the White House in defeating the lies.
James Bovard is the author of Lost Rights, Attention Deficit Democracy, and Public Policy Hooligan. He is also a USA Today columnist. Follow him on Twitter @JimBovard.
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The Centers for Disease Control is an unreliable, politicized agency, in my opinion. But I assume they can aggregate death totals accurately from local sources. For the last year, there clearly have been some excess deaths, from all causes, over demographically predicted norms. That is what the chart below, from CDC’s web site, shows.
But we also know that the overwhelming majority of people who died from covid, or rather had the word “covid” somewhere on their death certificates, were old and already very sick. So it is reasonable to think that most “covid deaths” were people who, absent covid, would have died sometime in the next few months or the next year or two. If that is the case, we should see lower than predicted deaths from all causes going forward.
That is what the current data from CDC show:
Numbers for the last few weeks are incomplete, but already, five weeks ago, reported deaths were below demographic predictions. And the total number of deaths is sinking like a stone. What that means, I think, is that over the next year or two the “covid deaths” that have been counted over the last year will largely be neutralized by fewer total deaths. If so, that will confirm that “covid deaths” overwhelmingly consisted of not just the elderly, but the elderly and already very sick.
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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 12: U.S. President Joe Biden joins a CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience via video conference from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on April 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden joined the summit which focused on the global shortage of semiconductors -- computer chips that run everything from televisions and mobile phones to cars and games consoles -- caused by the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo by Amr Alfiky-Pool/Getty Images)
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Vice President Kamala Harris meets with business leaders to discuss a coronavirus relief package with President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 12: Daymond Johnson leads a chant at the intersection of Florence and Normandie to protest the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The intersection became famous as the flashpoint for the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the brutal police beating of African-American Rodney King by white officers. The shooting of Wright took place about 10 miles from where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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As riots rage on the streets of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, armed civilians are photographed standing guard outside a business to keep looters away.
A massive BLM protest formed outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department Monday night in response to the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Brooklyn Center police gave several dispersal orders before deploying crowd control munitions to push back on the BLM mob.
LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) deployed:
VIDEO:
LRAD is coming out. Tons of officers around the area for a kettle #BrooklynCenter #Minneapolis
LIVE: https://t.co/B11oztwu7r pic.twitter.com/VgAyK2qF0R
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Another dispersal order:
VIDEO:
Another dispersal order pic.twitter.com/UjH4kgWodv
— Sophia (Checkmark Killa) Narwitz (@SophNar0747) April 13, 2021
Police deployed tear gas and flash bangs.
VIDEO:
Here we go!!!! pic.twitter.com/tv4usH57oa
— Sophia (Checkmark Killa) Narwitz (@SophNar0747) April 13, 2021
Additional footage:
Fireworks launched in the air towards the station, police have been firing off flash bangs in response #BrooklynCenter #DaunteWright #BrooklynCenterPolice pic.twitter.com/LUBrTZAOYP
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) April 13, 2021
Confrontations between police and crowd:
Confrontations between police and crowd #BrooklynCenter
Credit – Mercado Media: https://t.co/B11oztwu7r pic.twitter.com/cC9B0ZrpaE
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Police made arrests:
Arrests going down #BrooklynCenter pic.twitter.com/GBsoItYYPk
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We reported earlier that thugs were looting the Dollar Store in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota tonight:
BREAKING: Black Lives Matter Thugs Looting Brooklyn Center Dollar Tree (VIDEO)
While MSNBC was filming the looting at the dollar store the looters notices and attacked the film crew of MSNBC. They got in front of the camera and told the film crew to “Go the f&$k home”.
Watch the video:
The post BREAKING: MSNBC Films Thugs Looting Dollar Tree – Looters Notice – Attack MSNBC on Live TV – Tell Them to Go the F&$k Home (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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FILE - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin listens to a question as he speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, in this Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, file photo. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Tel Aviv with his Israeli counterpart and reinforced American support. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File
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Watch: NBC Reporter Shoved, Cursed At by Minnesota Protesters
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BROOKLYN CENTER, MN - APRIL 11: People confront police outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters on April 11, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Protesters took to the streets today after 20 year old Daunte Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop by members of the Brooklyn Center police. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
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The rioters are currently inside the Dollar Tree located on N. Humboldt Ave., near the Brooklyn Center Police station.
“Peaceful protesters” just broke the window at Dollar Tree located at 6800 N. Humboldt Ave., just down the street from the Brooklyn Center Police station. They are currently looting the store. @MN_CRIME pic.twitter.com/yInu40wVTY
— The Citizen Reporter (@TCReporter) April 13, 2021
Additional video of the looting:
Btw. Looters. pic.twitter.com/heo0SiLG3d
— Sophia (Checkmark Killa) Narwitz (@SophNar0747) April 13, 2021
Nothing in the Dollar Tree costs over $1. The closure of this store for repairs, or possibly permanently, will hurt the lowest income members of the community that they are currently trashing.
A 7 p.m. curfew is currently in place in the area, but does not appear to be being enforced as of 8:45 p.m.
The Gateway Pundit will be providing updates as the riots unfold.
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BLM protests are beginning to pop off all over the country in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
A Brooklyn Center, MN police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright Sunday night.
Police were in the process of cuffing Wright during a traffic stop when he broke free and jumped in his car.
According to the police chief, the officer “accidentally discharged” her weapon instead of using a taser.
Daunte Wright crashed his car after he tried to flee the scene.
A massive BLM protest formed outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department Monday night and other cities joined in solidarity.
BLM thugs shut down the Manhattan Bridge in New York Monday night.
VIDEO:
Protesters shut down the Manhattan Bridge in solidarity with #Dauntewright and the Brooklyn Center community. #blacklivesmatter #justicefordauntewright
— REVOLT TV (@revolttv) April 13, 2021
DEVELOPING…
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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2019, file photo, Rep. Gil Cisneros, D-Calif., speaks as the House of Representatives debate the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington. Cisneros is facing a challenge from Young Kim for California's 39th Congressional District. California’s tarnished Republican Party is hoping to rebound in a handful of U.S. House races but its candidates must overcome widespread loathing for President Donald Trump and voting trends that have made the nation’s most populous state an exemplar of Democratic strength. (House Television via AP, File)
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President Joe Biden failed to offer any short-term solutions to the semiconductor shortage in the United States, choosing instead to promote his multi-trillion-dollar spending plan on Monday. Biden joined a White House video conference meeting Monday afternoon with his advisers
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The rioters were out in force last night looting and destroying their community after police shot and killed wanted gangbanger Daunte Wright.
The rioters looted several businesses including a liquor store, a computer store, and a hair supply store.
During the press conference on Monday leftist reporters tried to lecture Police Chief Tim Gannon on the situation on Sunday night.
One reporter told Chief Gannon that the riot was not a riot!
That’s when Chief Gannon set them straight.
Tim Gannon: “There was… the officers that were putting themselves in harm’s way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks.”
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Gannon: "I was front and center… at the riot."
Reporter: "There was no riot."
Gannon: "There was… the officers that were putting themselves in harm's way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks." pic.twitter.com/aM5rfjYpxx
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 12, 2021
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A massive BLM protest formed outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department Monday night in response to the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Brooklyn Center, MN police on Monday released bodycam footage of the moments leading to the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon called the shooting of Daunte Wright an “accidental discharge.”
“It is my belief that the officer had the intention to employ their taser, but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet,” he said.
Black Civil Rights attorneys are calling for the police chief and police officer to be fired.
Several hundred BLM protesters gathered outside of the police department Monday night and shrugged off a 7:00 PM curfew.
State troopers have been guarding the fenced off police department all day.
VIDEO:
Here’s a look at the protest outside the Brooklyn Center, MN Police Department. These people are here to protest the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. pic.twitter.com/Bt2jXruo51
— Robert Sherman (@RobertShermanTV) April 12, 2021
Protesters laughed off the 7 PM to 6 AM curfew imposed by Governor Walz.
Just before 6pm we all received emergency alert notifications on our phones informing us of the curfew. I watched dozens of people simultaneously pull out their phones and burst into laughter. One man started cackling and exclaimed, “Yeah, right.” https://t.co/zwBgP258km
— Robert Sherman (@RobertShermanTV) April 13, 2021
Small businesses boarded up their storefronts in anticipation of riots and looting.
Watching small businesses in Minneapolis board up their storefronts. Talking to a few locals this weekend, there is a lot of tension in the air here between the Derek Chauvin trial and an officer-involved shooting this past weekend that left a 20-year-old black man dead. pic.twitter.com/wCYg9KohYa
— Robert Sherman (@RobertShermanTV) April 12, 2021
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A video reporting Lyle’s news was created stating that the Maricopa County audit will kick off on April 22nd. The audit will cover the 2.1 million ballots in the county which is about 60% of all the ballots in the state. The audit will be performed in front of cameras. All participants are being reviewed for background checks now.
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America’s adversaries are on the march. China has suppressed Hong Kong and threatens Taiwan, along with Japan and other Asian allies of America. ISIS is rearing its head again in the Middle East. And Russia is once again threatening Ukraine.
Russia now has more troops along its border with Ukraine than at any time since 2014, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has little hope that war can be avoided. Moscow’s demands are impossible to meet.
“A diplomatic solution…requires a radical change in the position of the Kyiv authorities,” said Konstantin Sivkov, a Moscow-based military analyst. “If the Kyiv authorities agree to the recognition of the federal structure of Ukraine, if the authorities agree to the equal status of the Russian language in Ukraine along with the Ukrainian language, then the whole problem in [Donbas] will be removed,” he said.
The Ukrainians fear that giving Russia further opportunity to undermine the government in Kyiv will only result in the slow erosion of their independence.
In the end, it seems that the Ukrainians will have to fight. CNN has a surprisingly intelligent report:
[A]mid growing tensions with the United States and its Western allies, Russian forces have again been spotted on the move across the border sparking concerns the war may be reignited.
Cell phone video has emerged of Russian armored columns driving towards the Ukrainian frontier. Tanks and artillery guns have been seen being transported by rail. There’s also been a build-up reported in Crimea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was briefly famous in the U.S. because President Trump called to congratulate him on his election, the occasion for an insane impeachment effort by the Democrats. But Zelensky’s duties are ongoing:
Ankle-deep in thick black sludge, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky moves stealthily with his troops in single file through the warren of trenches and tunnels that form the tense front lines in the east of his country.
It feels more like the early 20th century than a modern conflict, with tired, nervous soldiers gripping their rifles around him as they reach open ground, scanning the area for movement across no-mans-land.
They know snipers, likely trained by Russians, say Ukrainian officials are looking for a chance to fire. More than 20 of their comrades have been gunned down already this year.
More at the link. Ukraine is trying to prevent being dismembered by Putin’s Russia. Putin, of course, will deny any such intent up until the moment when the dismemberment occurs. One fact you will not see reported by CNN or any “mainstream” news outlet is that the Russians, like the Chinese, are well aware that we have a senile president–and, worse, a president whose administration is anti-American. That means that there is no time like the present for aggressive actions. Sadly, we can expect more hostile moves by our enemies in the months and years to come.
On Saturday, Donald Trump spoke to a Republican National Committee event at Mar-a-Lago. From reports by some in attendance, it looks like the former president, in true Trumpian fashion, aired grievances and bitterly attacked former allies.
Most notably, Trump went after Mitch McConnell. Reportedly, he called the Minority Leader a “dumb son of a bitch” and claimed that Chuck Schumer would never have allowed the 2020 presidential results to be certified. Trump also claimed, again according to accounts, that he won the Kentucky Senate race for McConnell.
Such a claim would be absurd. McConnell crushed his opponent by nearly 20 percentage points in 2020. Kentucky has elected him to the Senate seven times.
We don’t know for sure what Chuck Schumer would have done regarding certification of the 2020 election had the shoe been on the other foot. We know that Schumer did not try to prevent Trump from being the certified winner in 2016 in a race that was about as close as the 2020 contest.
Presumably, Schumer didn’t try to block Trump for the same reason that McConnell didn’t try to block Biden. Neither believed that the results to be certified were invalid, and neither wanted a constitutional crisis or a pitched battle over presidential succession. In my view, Trump has never presented evidence that should have persuaded McConnell that Trump was the proper winner of the 2020 campaign.
We also know that Al Gore didn’t press Democrats not to certify the results of the 2000 election, even though he probably had a better claim than Trump of having obtained the votes needed to win. I don’t consider Gore’s decision dumb, I consider it patriotic.
My favorite line from Trump’s speech, as reported, is this statement about Republicans who voted to impeach him:
We can’t have these guys that like publicity.
If we can’t have politicians who like publicity, we’ll have to fire virtually the entire political class. If we can’t have ones who obsessively crave publicity, Trump will have to be among the first disqualified.
Republicans can talk all they want about divisions in the Democratic party, and they should. However, Trump’s speech reminds us that it’s Democrats who are likely to be passing the most popcorn in the coming years.
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Protestors and City of Brooklyn Center Police Officers clash outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department on April 11, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after the killing of Daunte Wright. Photo: Chris Tuite/ImageSPACE /MediaPunch /IPX via AP
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In a photo taken on March 28, 2021 ranch owner Tony Sandoval (67) stands before a portion of the unfinished border wall that former US president Donald Trump tried to build, near the southern Texas border city of Roma. - The 11,000 inhabitants of the Texas border town Roma have been living with illegal immigrants for decades. Many have mixed feelings about the new arrivals: empathy and compassion on the one hand - especially since many of their family members also arrived in the United States illegally - but also concern and fear about the growing number of migrants in recent months. Sometimes 500 per night, many of them families or unaccompanied minors. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden joined a virtual CEO summit on semiconductor and supply chain resilience on Monday.
Biden met with more than a dozen CEOs and reassured them Congress backed his $50 billion proposal for semiconductor and manufacturing research.
“Taking care of elderly parents and kids with disabilities so people can go to work is investing in infrastructure,” said Biden.
“Chips like the one I have here, these chips, these [semiconductor] wafers, are batteries, broadband — it’s all infrastructure,” he added.
Biden’s handlers aggressively shouted down reporters trying to ask questions after the summit.
WATCH:
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Bodycam footage has been released on the police shooting last night in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Three police officers, one black man, one white man and one woman, stopped a vehicle being driven by 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Wright was wanted on an arrest warrant.
Initially Wright got out of his car, but then apparently changed his mind, fought with police officers, climbed back into his car and drove away. As the officers were struggling with Wright, the police woman attempted to tase him. Evidently she accidentally pulled out her gun rather than her taser and shot Wright with it. I believe the Brooklyn Center Police Department has already fired her, or announced its intention to do so.
Update: Here is body cam footage showing #DuanteWright trying to escape an arrest & getting shot by a female officer. He ended up crashing into another occupied car & dying. The @BPPD police chief says it appears the officer meant to use a taser but accidentally used her pistol. pic.twitter.com/B0v14RHint
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
Wright had been charged with illegally carrying a weapon and with, on that occasion also, fleeing a police officer. He failed to appear for a hearing on April 2.
Latest #BLM violence near Minneapolis sparked by police shooting of #DaunteWright. He was wanted on a warrant when he attempted to flee by car. He was shot & drove a distance before crashing into others. His FB is filled w/him flashing gang signs, using drugs & showing off cash. pic.twitter.com/StANTcJ2bs
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
As shown in photos tweeted above by Andy Ngo, Wright’s Facebook page features a gun, wads of cash, gang signs and what looks like a joint.
This case is somewhat reminiscent of Mohammed Noor’s shooting of Justine Damond in Minneapolis a few years ago. That incident, too, involved almost incredible negligence on the part of the police officer. The difference, of course, is that Damond did nothing whatsoever wrong. Having called 911, she approached the squad car that responded to her call on the driver’s side and Noor, for no discernible reason, pulled his gun and shot her, firing across his partner’s body. In the current case, Wright was resisting arrest and attempting to flee. It was the confusion caused by his struggle that led to the police woman’s fatal error.
Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz must be the most irresponsible governor in the U.S. Before anything was known about the circumstances of last night’s incident, Walz was already making it about race:
I am closely monitoring the situation in Brooklyn Center. Gwen and I are praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) April 12, 2021
It doesn’t appear that there was any racial angle in last night’s fatal encounter at all.
A final observation: At this moment, Governor Walz and others are giving a press conference on last night’s shooting. They recited a list of victims of police shootings, but never mentioned Justine Damond–the one case that is actually analogous.
Byron York begins his article on the present border crisis this way:
Anyone paying attention to the news knows the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible. Anyone who actually visits the border discovers it is worse than that.
Byron bases this statement on his visit to the border, during which he accompanied a group of GOP House members. The observations in his report support his conclusion.
But why is there a border crisis? Byron persuasively argues that it’s the product of Joe Biden’s missteps:
[D]uring his first days in office. . .Biden blew up the foundation of the government’s handling of migrants. With a series of executive actions, Biden threw out key policies with nothing ready to replace them. And he did it using rhetoric that invited migrants to rush to the border — more than 172,000 in March alone, including nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children.
What policies did Biden throw out?
First, he did away with President Donald Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, which required asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico, not in the U.S., while their asylum claims were adjudicated. Second, Biden ended Trump’s asylum agreements with the Northern Triangle countries, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to steer would-be asylum-seekers from those nations into safe countries other than the U.S.
Third, Biden gutted Trump’s use of Title 42, the government’s authority to expel most migrants for the purpose of controlling the spread of COVID. Biden did not throw Title 42 away altogether but is by some accounts now letting most would-be migrants stay rather than be turned away because of the pandemic.
Biden could counter the surge by reinstating these policies, but he doesn’t want to. He’d rather hand the problem over to Kamala Harris, who can’t be bothered to visit the border.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who did visit it as part of the group of GOP legislators, summarized things this way:
What I saw on this trip was chaos and disorder. What the Biden administration does not want you to know is simply that they have handed over the borders of our country to the cartels and smugglers.
Do any Democrats care? Maybe some from districts directly affected by the crisis. Rep. Steve Scalise told Byron that “Henry [Cuellar] is getting to a boiling point, and there a couple of others.” However,
Scalise added that “this is something that you can’t defend, so [Democrats] can only hope that they can keep everybody quiet.”
With the help of the mainstream media, the Democrats’ chances of fulfilling this hope aren’t bad.
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Central American migrants are taken into custody after being detained by members of the U.S. Border Patrol during their attempt to cross the Rio Bravo from Piedras Negras, in Coahuila state, Mexico to Eagle Pass, in Texas, as seen from Piedras Negras on February 17, 2019. - Last week Trump invoked a "national emergency" to justify tapping military and other funds for barrier construction, after Congress approved less than a fourth the $5.7 billion he had sought for border security. A White House top adviser said Sunday that the president's emergency declaration could allow "hundreds of miles" of barriers to be built on the Mexican border before the 2020 election. (Photo by Julio Cesar AGUILAR / AFP) (Photo credit should read JULIO CESAR AGUILAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden nominated the first female Army Secretary on Monday.
If confirmed, Christine Wormuth, the director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corp, will be the first woman in the position.
“Christine is a true patriot with a dedicated career in service to America and our nation’s security,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement urging the Senate to confirm her. “I have no doubt that, if confirmed, she will lead our soldiers and represent their families with honor and integrity as the Secretary of the Army.”
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Wormuth most recently served as the head of Biden’s Pentagon transition team, a role she took over after Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks stepped aside to focus on her own confirmation process.
She last worked at the Pentagon during the Obama administration. From 2014 to 2016, she served as under secretary of Defense for policy, considered the department’s third most-powerful civilian job, a role that saw her “advising two secretaries of Defense on the full range of foreign policy and national security issues,” the White House said.
“As the former under secretary of Defense for policy, Christine advanced the department’s counter-ISIS campaign and the rebalance to Asia, and her deep expertise will be critical in addressing and deterring today’s global threats, including the pacing challenge from China and nation-state threats emanating from Russia, Iran and North Korea,” Austin said in his statement.
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