Trump-Endorsed Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Kari Lake raised a record-breaking one million dollars on Wednesday at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser with President Trump, Roger Stone, and conservative comedian Roseanne Bar in attendance.
“We made history at Mar-A-Lago,” Lake said on X.
We made history at Mar-A-Lago.
One million dollars in one day.
Thank you to everyone who made this possible.
Both the White House & the Senate majority run through Arizona.
We need all hands on deck to save America from the radical left.https://t.co/rAVvdrkZP7 pic.twitter.com/FAAhBqFu0F
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 4, 2024
According to sources who spoke to Breitbart, Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno held the previous record for a non-incumbent of $350,000.
Kari Lake has not released fundraising numbers for the first quarter of 2024. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Lake announced in January that her campaign raised a whopping $2.2 million in quarter four of 2023 after announcing her candidacy on October 10.
Kari Lake also leads in general election polling, a trend that has remained unchanged since before she announced her Senate bid.
Incumbent Kyrsten Sinema announced that she will not run for re-election last month, leaving Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego (D) in a race where Kari Lake wins regardless, according to a recent Rasmussen poll:
The latest poll from @Rasmussen_Poll shows that any way you slice it, with Sinema or without, I am beating @RubenGallego.
The people of Arizona despise @JoeBiden‘s agenda, & they’re not going to send the radical (Ruben) who enabled it to the United States Senate.
I am on a… pic.twitter.com/Umq0pVQp7w
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) February 29, 2024
Breitbart reports,
Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno previously held the record with a $350,000 haul earlier this year, according to sources.
The massive haul gives Lake a boost going into the new quarter with just seven months until election day.
Gallego, the expected Democrat nominee for the Arizona senate seat, raised $3.3 million last quarter for a total of $9.6 million cash on hand, his campaign announced.
Lake leads Gallego in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a poll conducted in February for Lake’s campaign.
You can donate to Kari Lake’s campaign to help her defeat radical left Soros-tied Marxist Ruben Gallego here.
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Joe Biden is in Baltimore, Maryland to visit the recently collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and “deliver remarks reaffirming his commitment to the people of Baltimore,” following a fly-by tour on Air Force One the White House said.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the collapse of the bridge after a cargo ship collided with and took out a support column.
The Key Bridge is a major commuter route carrying the Baltimore Beltway I-695 over the Patapsco River at the southern end of the Baltimore Harbor.
Two weeks later, it is still unclear how this happened, but Old Joe’s coming to the rescue.
Per AP:
BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Bide got a firsthand look Friday at efforts to clear away the hulking remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, as cranes, ships and diving crews work to reopen one of the nation’s main shipping lanes.
Aboard Marine One, circling the warped metal remains and the mass of construction and salvage equipment trying to clear the wreckage of last week’s collapse, Biden got his first up close view of the devastation. On the ground, he was set to receive updates from local officials, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers.
Eight workers — immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — were filling potholes on the bridge when it was hit by a huge cargo ship and collapsed in the middle of the night of March 26. Two men were rescued, but the bodies of only two of the six who died have been recovered. The president was also set to meet with the families of the victims.
Watch live below:
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Arizona Senate Candidate and current Congressman Ruben Gallego, who represents crime and drug-infested South Phoenix, recently attacked Kari for hosting a fundraising event at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump-Endorsed Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Kari Lake raised a record-breaking one million dollars on Wednesday at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser with President Trump, Roger Stone, and conservative comedian Roseanne Bar in attendance.
Kari Lake SMASHES Fundraising Record – Raises ONE MILLION Dollars at Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser
Gallego was quick to criticize Lake’s fundraiser, saying in a social media post, “I’d take a town hall with hardworking Arizonans over Mar-a-Lago any day.”
I’d take a town hall with hardworking Arizonans over Mar-a-Lago any day. pic.twitter.com/2GH5v7jFrn
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) April 4, 2024
However, as many pointed out, Gallego recently attended a fundraising event in his honor with Alex Soros, son of leftist billionaire megadonor George Soros, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of ‘Hamilton.’ It does not appear that this event was held in Arizona, and it was definitely not held with the “hardworking Arizonans” that Gallego portrays to affiliate with.
But @RubenGallego does love a fancy banquet with George Soros’s son in NYC! #AZSen https://t.co/9ERKIlW35l pic.twitter.com/jnq5UzV5JX
— Austin Kruger (@AustinKruger) April 4, 2024
Soros tweeted about the event in mid-March:
Soros: Kicking off campaign season with my co-host @Lin_Manuel for congressman @RepRubenGallego’s senate run in Arizona. Ruben has an impressive life story and the stakes of this year’s election couldn’t be higher, they’re existential.
Kicking off campaign season with my co-host @Lin_Manuel for congressman @RepRubenGallego’s senate run in Arizona. Ruben has an impressive life story and the stakes of this year’s election couldn’t be higher, they’re existential. pic.twitter.com/Gme5zJD6yg
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) March 19, 2024
Fox reported,
Alex Soros, son of liberal billionaire George Soros who now leads his father’s nonprofit empire, has continued huddling with Democrats leading up to the 2024 elections.
Soros posted a picture “kicking off campaign season” on social media this week with likely Democrat Arizona Senate nominee Rep. Ruben Gallego, who has received thousands of dollars from Soros this cycle.
Gallego attended the affair alongside Soros despite previously declaring the “ultra-wealthy don’t need any more advocates in Washington” and knocking the GOP for standing with “special interests and their billionaire buddies.”
Soros, meanwhile, has been an ardent supporter of Gallego. Federal Election Commission records show that he maxed out $6,600 in donations to his campaign for the 2024 elections.
As RAV correspondent Ben Bergquam noted last month, Gallego was hugging Soros “like a little schoolboy” and “sucking up to the communist left.”
“This might be one of the most pathetic pictures I’ve ever seen,” said Bergquam captioning the photo of Ruben Gallego appearing to kiss Soros’s ass:
This might be one of the most pathetic pictures I’ve ever seen. Look at cartel sellout @RubenGallego hugging Alex Soros (George Soros’ son), like a little schoolboy – Sucking up to the communist left.
All you need to know about Ruben is he is owned by the cartels and the… pic.twitter.com/824JmHKrR9
— Ben Bergquam – Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News (@BenBergquam) March 23, 2024
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President Trump reportedly raised more than $50 million at a fundraiser on Saturday, smashing the record set by two Presidents and the alleged 81 million vote-getter, Joe Biden.
Per Fox, Trump went into the event with expectations of raising $33 million after Trump and the RNC raised $65.6 million in March.
As Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined forces with Joe Biden and leftist celebrities Stephen Colbert and Lizzo, who got sued for sexual harassment, in an out-of-touch event that raked in an unprecedented $25 million on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, as The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump made an appearance in Massapequa Park, New York, to pay his respects to Officer Diller, who tragically lost his life after being shot by a repeat offender with 21 previous arrests and nine felony charges during a routine traffic stop in Queens.
Trump’s presence at the wake was seen by many as a sign of solidarity with the police force and the grieving family. He also made a contribution to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, an organization that assisted the Diller family by paying off their mortgage.
Charlie Kirk said after the news of Biden’s record-setting fundraiser, “We are outgunned and will be outspent.”
Tonight will be the largest fundraiser in political history – $25,000,000 in hard money raised in a single evening for Biden.
This is more raised in one night than Trump raised the entire month of February.
Democrats are beginning to fine tune their messaging, and they have a…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 28, 2024
However, Trump brought in a new record on Saturday, doubling Joe Biden’s $25 million night.
Fox News reported,
“It took three Democrat presidents to raise $25 million and one president to raise over $50 million, Donald J. Trump,” campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez boasted.
Saturday’s fundraiser took place at a private home in Palm Beach, hosted by billionaire and hedge fund founder John Paulson. Among the 100 or so guests will be heavy-hitters like casino mogul Steve Wynn, Bigelow Aerospace Founder and President Robert Bigelow, and former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
“The response to our fundraising efforts has been overwhelming, and we’ve raised over $43 million so far,” Paulson said in a statement. “There is massive support amongst a broad spectrum of donors.”
Though the fundraiser is expected to take in tens of millions, Trump still needs to close the gap with his Democratic rival, incumbent President Biden, who is reported to have around $192 million on hand compared with just over $93 million for Trump.
President Trump spoke to the media before the event, stating, “This has been some incredible evening before it even starts because people – they wanted to contribute to a cause of making America great again, and that’s what’s happened.”
Trump later said on Truth Sociail,
Biggest night in Fund Raising of ALL TIME!!!Will double up the Biden number of last week at Radio City. People are desperate for change. They want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! DJT
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Then-President Donald Trump holds two thumbs up at a campaign rally for incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of Senate runoff in Dalton, Georgia on Jan. 4, 2021. (Mandel Ngan - AFP / Getty Images)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is hosting a town hall to hear her constituents about the issues affecting them in Tunnel Hill, Georgia, tonight before she heads back to Washington, D.C., tomorrow.
I’m looking over some notes on my way to my District 14 Town Hall.
Hearing from my constituents before returning to Washington tomorrow morning is so important! pic.twitter.com/BSwzEFGToQ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
It can be recalled that the Georgia Congresswoman filed a motion to vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker thanks to his actions over the House Omnibus bill, which will fund the government until September 30.
The legislation passed by a 286-134 vote, achieving the necessary 2/3 vote to avoid a government shutdown. Democrats bailed out Johnson after over 100 members of his caucus rebelled.
During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show on Wednesday, Greene expressed bewilderment at Johnson’s recent legislative decisions, which she argues starkly contrast with his proclaimed values and the expectations of his conservative base.
The more than 1,000-page spending bill was made public at 2:32 am on Thursday while Americans were asleep, which MTG says “violated the 72-hour rule” that requires the text of a bill or resolution to be available to members for at least 72 hours before a vote.
Not only did the bill leave our border wide open for Joe Biden and his dangerous illegal immigrants, but it also continued the practice of flying millions of illegals into and across the United States. It further allocates millions of dollars for abortions up until birth and for youth transgender or LGBTQ programs.
MTG told Tucker Carlson that Mike Johnson’s radical departure from his known conservative stances is what she believes is a result of “being blackmailed.”
MTG went off earlier today on Twitter, slamming Mike Johnson for being “the Democrat Speaker of the House” and for “serving the Deep State and betraying Americans!”
Our Republican Speaker of the House is upsetting many of our members by relying on Democrats to pass major bills and working with Dems by giving them everything they want.
That makes him the Democrat Speaker of the House not our Republican Speaker of the House. https://t.co/5P7I9QErRU
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
Important thread about how Speaker Johnson is once again serving the Deep State and betraying Americans! https://t.co/VpKuRIhrKK
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
Watch live below:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene holds a town hall in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District to discuss the issues affecting Americans today.
Tune in to RSBN at 6:00 p.m. ET on April 8, 2024.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Hosts a Constituent Town Hall in Tunnel Hill, GA https://t.co/iXkwXHqShA
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
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The Village of Dolton, Illinois’ voted Monday to hire failed former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who let her city burn with rampant crime and violence, to investigate Democrat Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s corruption for a hefty $400 an hour.
Henyard is already under FBI investigation for abusing her power after she shut down businesses that didn’t donate to her campaign.
She has also been accused of stealing charitable funds and even using taxpayer dollars for personal use.
Last month, the corrupt mayor even vetoed an investigation after the Dolton Village Board of Trustees voted unanimously to probe Henyard’s spending and invite the FBI to investigate her scandalous activity.
According to The New York Post, “The heart of her scandals, however, center around a tax-funded ‘economic development’ trip to Las Vegas last May,” which includes allegations of sexual assault.
Residents have dubbed her the “worst mayor in America.”
Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Dolton trustees were considering hiring Lightfoot to lead the investigation into her fellow Democrat.
City of Dolton to Hire Worst Mayor of Chicago to Investigate “Worst Mayor in America”
“She’s the best they can find?” the New York Post asked.
And it appears she is, as the Board officially tasked Lightfoot with “figuring out what happened in Vegas,” as Dolton Board of Trustee member Brittney Norwood put it.
Will Lightfoot do any better than the highly political FBI, or will what happened in Vegas stay in Vegas?
Fox News reported on Monday:
Starting Tuesday, Lightfoot will be paid $400 an hour to gather information on Henyard’s alleged spending and finance mismanagement as well as “any state and federalviolations.”
Ahead of Monday’s vote, Lightfoot said she understood the residents want to go in a different direction from Henyard, and promised to “follow the facts where they lead.”
At the end of her investigation, Lightfoot will present a report to the Village of Dolton on her findings. The findings in the report will determine what happens beyond that.
Henyard has been accused of misdeeds ranging from weaponizing police in retaliatory business raids to spending taxpayer money on luxuries like traveling to Las Vegas. Last month, Henyard reportedly vetoed the board’s resolution to probe her spending over purported misuse of funds.
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Tiffany Henyard, mayor of the Chicago suburb of Dolton, is under the spotlight for possible misuse of taxpayer funds. (@nypost / X screen shot)
ATTENTION READERS: BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE ALL-IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION INCLUDED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE AND ATTEND CARA’S EMERGENCY COURT HEARING TOMORROW AT 9:30 AM ET.
MAGA U.S. Senate candidate Cara Castronuova (R-NY) will represent herself at a historic emergency hearing tomorrow in her lawsuit to ensure free and fair elections for candidates chosen by the people, not political insiders and establishment hacks, in the state of New York.
As Paul Ingrasia previously reported for The Gateway Pundit, Cara Castronuova filed a lawsuit in New York State Federal Court that seeks to change New York’s notoriously draconian and anti-democratic ballot eligibility laws. Under current law, candidates running for public office who are not chosen by the Ed Cox-led state party apparatus, like Cara Castronuova, who hopes to secure the Republican Party nomination for Senate, must collect 15,000 pen ink original signatures over 37 calendar days in order to qualify.
State Party Chairman Ed Cox has operated effectively as the gatekeeper for a trenchant New York State Republican Party that refuses to change with the times, particularly with regard to selecting candidates who are stridently and unapologetically pro-Trump and pro-America First, much like Cara Castronuova. As evidence: the State Party’s last two candidates for major electoral offices – Mike Sapraicone, whom the Party handpicked in a closed-door convention in February for Senate, is a well-known Trump hater who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats over the years. As recently as 2022, Sapraicone made contributions to Trump-hating District Attorney Letitia James, who is spearheading the ongoing political prosecution against President Trump in New York State, including overseeing his criminal trial set to begin in Manhattan, later this month.
Cox previously picked loser Mitzi Phillips, a registered Democrat at the time she ran in the special election for George Santos’ former seat in Congress and lost against Democrat Tom Suozzi.
As reported by Ingrasia, in 2000, when John McCain was running in his first bid for President in the Republican Primary, he too challenged New York State on the basis of its arbitrary and unduly burdensome signature requirement laws. A judge at the time found McCain, a major presidential candidate with national name recognition and enormous resources behind him, to have a valid constitutional claim against New York State’s onerous so-called “petition gathering scheme.” Steve Forbes too, another billionaire candidate with significant financial resources to expend on paid “volunteer walkers,” was also found by New York courts to have a valid legal claim because of the undue burden imposed by New York’s onerous election rules – Forbes and McCain’s cases (on the books as Molinari v. Powers) were cited as controlling authorities by Castronuova in her lawsuit.
However, unlike John McCain, Cara is an America First Gateway Pundit reporter and outspoken supporter of President Trump, as well as a born fighter with two Golden Gloves Boxing Championships under her belt–which is why the RINO Uniparty Establishment is trying so desperately to stop her.
If successful in her lawsuit, Castronuova will be permitted to run in a three-way Republican primary and eventually against Kirsten Gillibrand, the current Democrat Senator from New York.
Cara told The Gateway Pundit,
The Board of Elections and the two parties have crafted a scheme called the “petition gathering scheme”. This SCAM requires a candidate that is not the establishment’s “favored candidate” to get upwards of 15,000 signatures, and they suggest you get triple the amount (45k!) in order to get on the ballot. Keep in mind, the establishment pick in my case doesn’t have to get a single signature. The only “signature” he got was from the chairman of the GOP party here in New York State. Meanwhile, I got upwards of 15,000 signatures from actual, real American people. What makes the Republican chairman’s signature count more than those 15,000+ people who want me on the ballot?
Once a candidate gets their signatures, the Republican and Democrat parties will get their proxies to fight to the death to get the signatures invalidated and knocked out in court. (This is absolute utter disrespect to the voter who signed the petition.) No average American stands a chance or has the money to pay the legal fees that would be necessary to challenge the party. So, most average Americans, the very ones that should be representing us in government, can ever run for office thanks to this unconstitutional SCAM. And that is why we are in the horrific state we are in in New York. It is almost impossible for 99.9% of the population to challenge anyone in the high government offices. The only people they will put into those positions are (in my opinion) either compromised because they owe their election win to the party or incredibly wealthy people who gave “donations” to all right people to get to the top.
You can support Cara tomorrow at 9:30 AM at the Federal Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, NY 11201!
You can also help Cara with her legal costs and support her campaign here.
EMERGENCY HEARING IN THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN BROOKLYN TOMORROW FOR MY BALLOT ACCESS CASE!
We The People want to pick our own candidates. We are and tired of the coronations. We are sick of the tomato can candidates the establishment keeps putting up to lose.
Please come down tomorrow morning to the federal courthouse on 225 Cadman Plaza East, meet us at 9:30am outside and then come watch my emergency hearing at 10 AM. I will ask the judge in an emergency hearing for immediate ballot access for the Republican Primary.
I got the ridiculous 15,000 signatures required (an unconstitutional requirement by the way) and almost killed myself doing it. Now is the STALLING period that the NY State Republican Committee and Board of Elections crafted to give my opponent an unfair advantage.
My opponent is out there campaigning and fundraising for close to 50 days now while I’m dealing with this NONSENSE of signature gathering and worrying about legal battles.
My opponent has an unconstitutional head start and it’s a violation of my equal protection, under the constitution of the United States. While I was out there for over a month gathering tens of thousands of signatures in the pouring rain, and on holidays, he was sitting on his you know what…hobnobbing, fundraising, appearing in media.
This individual was not required to collect a single signature, which again is unconstitutional, and a violation of equal protection. This will be addressed in court.
Please come support me and the Constitution, and We The People’s right to pick our candidates without unconstitutional intervention.
EMERGENCY HEARING IN THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN BROOKLYN TOMORROW FOR MY BALLOT ACCESS CASE!
We The People want to pick our own candidates. We are and tired of the coronations. We are sick of the tomato can candidates the establishment keeps putting up to lose.
Please come… pic.twitter.com/lLUYwxLl3w
— Cara Castronuova (@CaraCastronuova) April 9, 2024
Cara also posted a video about her ongoing case with a call to action on her Instagram on Monday.
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***IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION***
READERS: If you are OUTRAGED by what Ed Cox and the New York State Uniparty is doing by denying quality candidates, like Cara Castronuova and Josh Eisen, from their constitutional right to ballot access – while stripping regular New Yorkers of their rights in turn, CALL Ed Cox’s office and TELL him to allow an OPEN PRIMARY by PUTTING CASTRONUOVA and EISEN on the BALLOT.
PHONE: (518) 462-2601. FAX: (518) 449-7443.
ALSO, PLEASE COPY & PASTE THE FOLLOWING EMAIL, AND SEND IT TO ED COX AND THE NY STATE GOP APPARATUS, DEMANDING THAT THEY ALLOW OTHER CANDIDATES, LIKE CASTRONUOVA AND EISEN, TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PRIMARY IN A HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCHUP AGAINST THEIR HANDPICKED, ANTI-TRUMP RINO CANDIDATE IN MIKE SAPRAICONE:
EMAIL: FRONTDESK@NYGOP.ORG
SUBJECT: ALLOW CASTRONUOVA AND EISEN BALLOT ACCESS
HELLO,
I AM AN OUTRAGED, AMERICAN PATRIOT, TRUMP SUPPORTER, AND NEW YORK VOTER WHO DEMANDS THAT YOU INCLUDE CARA CASTRONUOVA AND JOSH EISEN ON THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT – AND NOT CONTINUE TO DENY NEW YORKERS THEIR FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CHOOSE THEIR DESIRED CANDIDATE.
IN ADDITION, PLEASE GET RID OF THE COMPLETELY ARBITRARY AND ONEROUS “PETITION GATHERING SCHEME,” WHICH UNCONSTITUTIONALLY EXCLUDES OTHERWISE BETTER QUALITY AND ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES FROM BALLOT ACCESS BASED ON THE ARCANE RULES SET BY PARTY LEADERS THAT STRIP THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR TRUE AMERICA FIRST CANDIDATES FROM WE THE PEOPLE!
SINCERELY,
OUTRAGED NEW YORK RESIDENT/AMERICAN CITIZEN
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Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who recently resigned from his role in the Georgia indictment against President Trump and 18 co-defendants, is now pleading poverty to skip out on his divorce agreement to pay alimony and child support.
Wade withdrew from the Trump lawfare RICO case after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled that he must be removed in order for Soros Funded District Attorney Fani Wills to continue her RICO case against Trump and the co-defendants.
During his time at the District Attorney’s office, after Willis improperly hired Wade to prosecute Trump while she was sleeping with him, Wade was paid more than $700,000!
It can be recalled that Soros-funded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was subpoenaed to testify in the divorce proceedings of Nathan Wade and Joycelyn Wade. According to a court filing obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Willis was served a subpoena at her Atlanta office for her testimony.
These revelations about Willis and Wade’s secret and nefarious relationship came to light after Mike Roman, a former Trump campaign official and co-defendant in the racketeering case led by Willis, moved to accuse both Willis and Wade of misconduct. The motion, spearheaded by Roman’s attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, alleges an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” between Willis and Wade.
Now, Wade is claiming he’s broke and asking for an emergency hearing to lower the amount of money he agreed to pay his ex-wife in their divorce settlement.
The Gateway Pundit reported last week that Joycelyn Wade, the ex-wife of Nathan Wade, filed for contempt of court, accusing her him of failing to comply with financial obligations amidst her ongoing health struggles.
Court documents reveal that Nathan Wade has allegedly ceased financial assistance for their daughter’s education and living expenses and their son’s nascent soccer career in Europe.
Joycelyn Wade, who has been facing severe health issues necessitating urgent medical procedures, including an endoscopy and colonoscopy, claims Nathan Wade abandoned her financially during this critical time.
New York Post reports,
Nathan Wade is pleading poverty since losing his prosecutor role in the Donald Trump election fraud case and trying to avoid paying his estranged wife alimony, new court papers show.
Wade — forced to step down as special prosecutor in the Georgia case following the revelation of his affair with District Attorney Fani Willis — says he can no longer afford to honor the terms of a temporary agreement he reached with wife Joycelyn Wade less than three months ago, according to the filing.
“With the income from [Wade’s] employement as the Special Prosecutor no longer coming in, and with income from [his] private practice being diminished, [he] is no longer able to … meet the financial obligations set forth in the temporary order,” Wade’s divorce lawyer M. Scott Kimbrough wrote in papers filed Monday.
During the investigation into his affair, it was revealed he had made over $700,000 while working for the DA, and had spent thousands on lavish trips for himself and Fani to the Caribbean, Central America and California.
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James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group has released undercover footage of a Federal Reserve employee admitting to how Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sabotaged President Trump and wants to go down in history as “someone who held the line against Trump.”
Principal Economist Aurel Hizmo, a self-proclaimed liberal, told an undercover journalist more about Powell’s hatred for Trump, saying, “As soon as he became Chair, Trump wanted him to lower interest rates. Because when you lower interest rates, it stimulates the economy, and Trump was President. He wanted to stimulate the economy, but he wouldn’t do it. And he started raising interest rates, and doing the opposite of what Trump wanted. Trump tried to find all the loopholes to fire him.”
The Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates under Joe Biden, which Hizmo says is to prevent a recession and the economy from crashing.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates at least 11 times since 2022 – 7 times in 2022 and 4 times in 2023 – in an effort to hedge inflation.
But it hasn’t worked, as Americans are still getting crushed by Joe Biden’s inflation crisis.
JUST IN: Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 22 Years
Hizmo further told the journalist that conservatives at the Federal Reserve are “dumb” and would be discriminated against depending on how ‘out there’ they are.”
“I don’t think there are any conservatives in the field,” he said, adding, “all the people I work with are academics.” He continued, “Trump supporters are not voting for him for logical reasons,” and implied that President Trump is stupid.
Aurel Hizmo is a former finance professor who now works as a subject matter expert who even writes speeches for Jerome Powell. The people behind the scenes, who are running our institutions into the ground and pulling the strings behind the public figures, think you’re stupid!
Finally, Hizmo told the undercover journalist how the Federal Reserve’s priorities are turning to focus more on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and climate change and to apparently implement environmental and social governance (ESG) policies to include “wealth inequality as part of the mandate” and “create[ing] an environment” for climate scientists.
When confronted by James O’Keefe and two reporters, Hizmo denied saying any of this! Stay tuned for more footage…
Watch below via James O’Keefe:
BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not just be establishing interest rates, but to be setting policies for desired social outcomes.
“Under Powell, the Fed has changed to think about equity issues, like racial issues, think about wealth inequality as part of the mandate, as part of the things we are following. Think about climate change.” Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve, who prior to working at the Fed was an Assistant Professor @NYUStern and received his PhD in Economics from @DukeU, helps write speeches for Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell for the Federal Open Market Committee.
Hizmo says “Trump is just a crazy person” and conservatives are “dumb” as he describes to OMG’s American Swiper Citizen Journalist a politicized Federal Reserve Board where Powell has promoted ESG issues like climate change and “wants to be remembered in history” “as a savior.” But shhh…don’t tell anyone because Hizmo says: “I’m just really worried that I’m saying stuff that’s classified…It’s all classified.” @RonPaul @RandPaul
BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not… pic.twitter.com/5CqZX2LhwT
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 10, 2024
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California State Assemblyman Bill Essayli announced on Wednesday his plans to introduce legislation that would require California law enforcement to comply with immigration authorities and allow them to detain and deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes against minors.
Contra Costa News reports,
“It is completely unacceptable that California law currently requires local law enforcement to protect illegal immigrant pedophiles from deportation under our ‘sanctuary state’ policy. I am amending AB 2641 to correct this gross injustice, remarked Assemblyman Bill Essayli.
“As the son of legal immigrants, I was raised to love our country and respect the law. Anyone here in this country illegally who dares commit a sex crime against a minor must be prosecuted and deported expeditiously–this is common sense,” added Assemblyman Bill Essayli.
The language of AB 2641 is currently being amended and will be available in the coming days as it moves through the California Legislature.
This comes after a Colombian illegal immigrant, who was previously convicted for sex crimes against a minor in California, was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts, last week.
While illegally in the United States on an expired visa, the Colombian national was convicted in December 2022 of sexual intercourse with and oral copulation of a minor, which carried a combined prison sentence of four years. However, the illegal immigrant and child sex offender was later released from California state custody on an unknown date, and he moved to Massachusetts.
It is currently unclear why he was released without serving the full term of his sentence.
According to an announcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, San Bernardino County refused to honor ICE’s request for advance notification of release to the San Bernardino County-West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, California before the illegal was released into the public.
Essayli states, “the laws of California prohibit law enforcement from handing over convicted child pedophiles to ICE for purposes of deportation,” making it so that San Bernadino County could not legally comply with ICE’s requests.
“On April 2, deportation officers from ERO Boston took him into custody and served him with a warrant for his arrest and a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge. The Colombian noncitizen will remain in ICE custody pending his removal proceedings,” reads the announcement from ICE.
Bill Melugin reported on Wednesday,
NEW: ICE says San Bernardino County, CA ignored their detainer request and released a Colombian sex offender from custody who had been convicted of sex crimes against a California minor. He made his way to Massachusetts, & Boston based ICE officers found & arrested him last week.
NEW: ICE says San Bernardino County, CA ignored their detainer request and released a Colombian sex offender from custody who had been convicted of sex crimes against a California minor. He made his way to Massachusetts, & Boston based ICE officers found & arrested him last week.… pic.twitter.com/V7xPjLgBp6
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 10, 2024
Assemblyman Bill Essayli chimed in, asking, “Why do California Democrats support pedophiles?”
San Bernardino was FORCED by state law to protect this pedophile because of our sanctuary state laws. This is completely unacceptable. As a California legislator, I will not stop until we get these misguided policies reversed. Why do California Democrats support pedophiles? https://t.co/JaDSfGbfzl
— Bill Essayli (@billessayli) April 10, 2024
Essayli released a video statement earlier, announcing his plans to “end California’s Sanctuary State for illegal immigrant pedophiles” with legislation he says will “require law enforcement to comply with federal immigration authorities in cases involving illegals convicted of child sex crimes.”
Watch below:
Essayli: Hi, I’m Assemblyman Bill Essayli here with an urgent legislative announcement. Recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Colombian illegal immigrant who had been convicted of sex crimes against a minor in the state of California. ICE issued a detainer to release him into their custody for deportation. San Bernadino was unable to honor the detainer due to California sanctuary state laws. Yes, the laws of California prohibit law enforcement from handing over convicted child pedophiles to ICE for purposes of deportation. This is unacceptable in a civilized society. That is why today I am announcing that I have introduced legislation to reverse this misguided policy in the state of California and allow law enforcement to hand over pedophiles, people convicted of child sex offenses, to immigration to deport them and to get them out of our country. They have no business remaining here. Thank God, ICE was able to find and apprehend this individual before he’s able to hurt anyone else. This should never happen, and as lawmakers, we have an obligation and a duty to protect the citizens of this nation. And that is what I intend to do with this bill. Thank you
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Today I am introducing legislation to end California’s Sanctuary State for illegal immigrant pedophiles.#AB2641 will require law enforcement to comply with federal immigration authorities in cases involving illegals convicted of child sex… pic.twitter.com/ungMMDhnO8
— Bill Essayli (@billessayli) April 10, 2024
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The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government is currently hosting a hearing on freedom of the press and protecting journalists, as the Biden Regime attempts to infringe on the rights of the press and shape news stories to fit their narrative.
Rep Chip Roy opened the hearing at 9:30 am ET, remarking, “Today’s hearing is about defending our fundamental liberty and protecting journalists and their sources from these attacks. We will examine the federal government’s infringement on the freedom of the press and examine the prospects for federal shield law.”
Witnesses include investigative journalists Catherine Herridge and Sharyl Attkisson and Chief Broadcast Officer at SAG-AFTRA News & Broadcast Department Mary Cavallaro.
Recall that last month, Catherine Herridge, an Emmy-winning and nominated reporter known for her work on national security and intelligence, was held in civil contempt by an Obama-appointed federal judge for her refusal to unmask her confidential sources related to a blockbuster story on how there is infiltration from China in US universities.
The judge ordered Herridge to turn over her source(s) in response to a lawsuit that was filed by Chinese-American scientist Yanping Chen against the FBI. Chen subpoenaed Herridge in an effort to find out who her sources were. When Herridge refused, she was threatened with contempt charges and potential jail time.
Via House Judiciary Committee:
REMINDER
Hearing Advisory.
Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources
Tomorrow. 9:30 am. @C__Herridge, @SharylAttkisson. pic.twitter.com/7kK9JUXutv
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 10, 2024
Date:Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. ET. The hearing, “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources,” will examine the federal government’s infringement on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press, as well as federal shield law proposals.
WITNESSES:
- Catherine Herridge, Investigative journalist
- Mary Cavallaro, Chief Broadcast Officer, SAG-AFTRA News & Broadcast Department
- Sharyl Attkisson, Investigative journalist; managing editor, “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson”
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Kari Lake recently pled no contest in the lawfare defamation case brought against her by fake “Republican” Stephen Richer and Protect Democracy – a far-left group of Soros and Obama-linked henchmen who are trying to silence all election critics on the right.
Instead of allowing the Soros-linked far-left Protect Democracy to subpoena and dig through her personal communications and campaign secrets and wasting more time or money on the bogus lawsuit, Lake decided it’s time to focus on her campaign. Lake is expected to face Soros-backed far-left Marxist Ruben Gallego in the 2024 general election for the US Senate.
This clearly is a hit job on Kari Lake by her political opponents.
In fact, George Soros’ son recently hosted a fundraiser in Gallego’s honor, which likely led to Lake’s decision to file for default judgment shortly after in the lawsuit filed by Soros-linked attorneys.
Then, ironically, as The Gateway Pundit reported Gallego resorted to attacking Kari Lake for her fundraising event last week with President Trump at the Mar-A-Lago, where she raised a record-shattering one million dollars. This money can now go to her campaign instead of fighting the bogus lawsuit that is simply meant to bankrupt her.
Lake only moved to determine the amount of damages Stephen Richer wants her to pay for the statements that the elected government official didn’t like and allegedly caused him pain and suffering.
However, that didn’t stop Richer and his leftist friends in the fake news media, who quickly started promulgating a narrative that Kari Lake admitted guilt. Headlines such as “Kari Lake admits fault in Stephen Richer defamation case” and “Kari Lake admits she defamed Republican election official” began popping up in Arizona media, and national mainstream media outlets followed.
As for Richer, he told the local KTAR news station, “We now have a judgment saying that Kari Lake lied about me, lied to the world, lied to Arizona, lied about the 2022 election. And so that will be entered in a court of law, and now we’ll move on to assess just how much it damaged me, and we’re going to say it damaged me a lot” — a total lie.
Howard Fischer, a leftwing hack journalist who despises Kari Lake, wrote for Tucson.com, “In a video statement explaining her decision, Lake insisted her legal capitulation has nothing to do with conceding that her statements were wrong — even though her court papers admit that they were” — another lie.
Lake never admitted to defamation. She only conceded that she did say things that hurt Richer’s feelings while still maintaining that nothing she said was defamatory.
Lake said in a video statement on March 26, “Behind this ridiculous lawsuit are a dozen East Coast lawyers funded by special interests who have rolled into Arizona to interfere in my campaign for US Senate. It’s a political witch hunt, and everyone knows it.”
She continued, “By participating in this lawsuit–it would only serve to legitimize this perversion of our legal system and interfere in our elections. So I won’t be taking part.”
“Instead, I will focus– continue to focus on the issues that matter to the people of Arizona: securing the border, bringing back our economy, improving healthcare and education,” she added:
Lake’s Motion for a Default Judgement even states, “It is often said that defaulting admits the allegations in the operative complaint. This is a misnomer.” The filing then cites case law, which states, “An entry of default serves as a judicial admission of all well-pleaded facts in the complaint. A party against whom default is entered, however, is not held to admit facts that are not well-pleaded or to admit conclusions of law. If a complaint does not include well-pleaded facts for a required showing, entry of default does not mean that required showing has been made.“
The motion clearly stipulates that Lake’s entry of default judgment does not admit to the allegations of defamation or that Richer’s complaint had the required showing of well-pleaded facts.
Read the full filing here.
Kari Lake only admits to making the statements that left Richer butthurt and took a toll on his emotions.
Attorney Mike Davis called it a “shrewd move,” noting that by pleading no contest, her time and money could be better spent winning her race for the Senate than fighting a bogus lawsuit funded by a dark money organization.
This is a very shrewd move by @KariLake.
She essentially said:
“Even if I defamed you, which I did not, your supposed damages are much less than the money and time I’d spend defending against this Democrat lawfare and election interference.”
Kari Lake outfoxed them. https://t.co/U7PCn3YpOj
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) March 27, 2024
Lake joined Bannon’s War Room after filing her Motion for Default Judgement. “My words are true, but how did they hurt you?” Lake said she’s telling Stephen Richer and the far-left group behind his election interference lawfare:
LAKE: This is the most important Senate race in the country, and let me just remind you, my opponent has been endorsed by Hillary Clinton and the Soros family. And all these attorneys, by the way, in this case that I just said, we’re going to call your bluff. All these attorneys, about a dozen of them, all of them coming from New York, Washington, DC, Harvard, rolling into town— many of them with associations, and affiliations, their groups, with Soros. So, this is just a witch hunt, a political witch hunt, designed to pull me off the campaign trail and try to coordinate this mini-me of Joe Biden. And we’re not going to have it. I’m not going to have them interfering in this all-important race. This is so critical in Arizona. So, I just said to Richer, cut to the chase, what are your damages, where did I hurt you, how did my words hurt you? My words are true, but how did they hurt you? You said you have mental issues because of it? Show us what drugs you’re on, and we’ll reimburse you for the drugs. What are your medical issues? We’ll have a psychiatrist look at you and let us know— an independent medical examiner to look at you and let us know what your issues are because of my words.
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James O’Keefe has released footage from his cell phone confrontation in Washington, D.C., with a principal economist at the Federal Reserve who nervously paced away, followed by cameramen, from the public pier near Nationals Park baseball stadium.
Economist Aurel Hizmo thought he was meeting the undercover journalist he was dating at a bar when OMG cameramen approached him, saying, “Are you [redacted]’s friend? She’s on the phone right here.”
But she wasn’t on the phone; James O’Keefe, working on a project at the California/Mexico border, was!
Earlier this week, O’Keefe Media Group released a stunning report of a top economist for the Federal Reserve admitting in an undercover video that Jerome Powell was a Trump-hater who wanted to be remembered in history for undermining President Donald Trump.
O’Keefe’s reporting on this comes years after and confirms The Gateway Pundit’s previous reporting of Jerome Powell raising the interest rates AGAIN under President Trump, following Trump’s 102nd stock market record in October 2018. The Dow Jones then crashed 1,501 points in just one week.
Right after Barack Obama was elected President, on December 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve (The Fed) lowered the Fed Funds rate by an entire percent, from 1% down to 0%.
The Fed had not lowered the Fed Funds rate by such a large amount (1% ) since at least before 1990, if ever. The Fed kept this 0% rate for most of Obama’s eight years in office.
President Trump said the “Fed is crazy.” He was right.
CNBC reported in December 2015 that President Obama oversaw “seven years of the most accommodative monetary policy in U.S. history” (from the Fed). The Fed Funds rate was at zero for most of Obama’s time in office. Finally, in December 2015, the Fed announced its first increase in the Fed Funds rate during the Obama Presidency.
The Fed Funds Rate significantly impacts the economy:
Lower interest rates usually spur the economy by making corporate and consumer borrowing easier. Higher interest rates are intended to slow down the economy by making borrowing harder.
As liberal fed economist Aurel Hizmo stated, “Trump wanted him to lower interest rates because when you lower interest rates, it stimulates the economy, and Trump was President. He wanted to stimulate the economy, but [Powell] wouldn’t do it. And he started raising interest rates, and doing the opposite of what Trump wanted.
When James O’Keefe confronted Hizmo with his statements that Powell wants to go down in history as “someone who held the line against Trump,” Hizmo replied, “I never said that.” He continued to double down after it was revealed they have him on tape, and said, “No, I never said that, I would never say that… I’m not commenting on any of this.” He continued to deny the statements he made as he walked away from cameramen holding a phone with James O’Keefe on the other line.
Clearly nervous that he was busted revealing the truth about the politically weaponized federal reserve, Hizmo slipped up, saying, “I’m not giving you any comments. I haven’t said anything about Jerome Trump… I don’t talk about Jerome Trump.”
He even desperately claimed that he is “not a Federal Reserve official” and “cannot talk for anybody at the Federal Reserve” before getting into his car and driving away.
While it is unclear if he is considered a “Federal Reserve Official,” Aurel Hizmo, a former finance professor, now works as a subject matter expert and even writes speeches for Jerome Powell.
After the undercover footage was released earlier this week, Hizmo deleted his LinkedIn profile, which says he works as a “Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve Board.”
DELETED: Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist at @federalreserve TAKES DOWN his LinkedIn.
We saved everything. And have more video coming today… https://t.co/aL6Etm1GLK pic.twitter.com/G5Fd5yJZca
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 11, 2024
Watch below:
“I DID NOT SAY THAT AT ALL”: Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist for the Federal Reserve denies every one of his quotes when confronted by O’Keefe and OMG. pic.twitter.com/4JqiDAu8qE
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 11, 2024
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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, the dirty RINO who sued Kari Lake for defamation backed by the far-left Soros and Obama-linked henchmen at Protect Democracy who are trying to silence all election critics on the right, has come under fire for reportedly using staff and public funds to gather media content and likely evidence pertaining to his lawsuit against Kari Lake.
This could also be seen as an effort to influence Kari Lake’s election and stop a political opponent utilizing public funds. While Richer claims to be a Republican, he has made it a goal to stop people like Kari Lake from being elected to office.
Richer, who oversaw early voting in Lake’s stolen 2022 election for governor, founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans PAC, a dark money PAC aimed at eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda. It was later revealed that Richer’s office colluded with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to censor information they disagree with surrounding elections in Maricopa County, explicitly mentioning The Gateway Pundit’s reporting.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Kari Lake recently pled no contest in the lawfare defamation case, which is backed by a Soros-linked nonprofit, so that she could focus on her campaign against Soros-funded Democrat Ruben Gallego.
The latest stunt is nothing new for Stephen Richer.
Richer previously came under fire for potentially violating the law and using his office for political gain to stop an election integrity ballot measure that would have prevented bogus mail-in ballots from being counted.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Richer was accused in a complaint filed with former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich of illegally using his office and public funds to campaign against the 2022 ballot initiative, Proposition 309, which would have created universal voter ID requirements for all voters to cast a ballot.
Proposition 309, named the Arizonans for Voter ID Act, would have required all voters to have proof of registration regardless of how, when, or where their ballot is cast, including when voting by mail. This is a common-sense measure to protect elections, but Richer lobbied against this ballot initiative and reportedly published a document, written by a County employee during work hours, in opposition to the County website, which appears to be illegal under Arizona laws that prohibit the use of public funds to influence an election.
The ballot initiative failed to pass by less than one percent last election cycle, where 60% of voting machines failed on election day and severely disenfranchised Republican in-person voters.
Similarly, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs recently came under fire after it was discovered her office may have violated the law by using government resources to advance her political career and influence elections in early 2019, immediately after she entered the Secretary of State’s office. As uncovered in public records, an employee at the Secretary of State’s office used government resources to acquire a blue ‘verified’ checkmark for Katie Hobbs’ personal and campaign Twitter page.
An Arizona legal expert told The Gateway Pundit, “At the time, this privilege was only available under very specific circumstances and, based on Twitter’s response, was not readily available to her, which could be a violation of ARS 38-504(C),” said the attorney. This was the same Twitter account that Hobbs used in 2017 to label Trump supporters “neo-Nazis” and for her political campaign in the last election.
AZ Free News reports,
Public records revealed that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer tasked staff with compiling articles and online content pertaining to his personal defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake — Senate candidate and 2022 gubernatorial candidate — as well as topics of personal political interest.
Richer also tasked staff with printing his favorite articles and pieces of online content from these lengthy daily news compilations and organizing them in a binder. Richer admitted in one email obtained by public records that this daily content gathering assignment took a “significant amount of time” for staff to put together.
Richer filed his defamation lawsuit last June against Lake over her claims of him improperly administering the 2022 election. Lake has unsuccessfully petitioned to dismiss his lawsuit; her petition was denied earlier this month.
Records reveal that Richer has regularly tasked staff with tracking a wide variety of media reports and other online content on topics of personal political interest to Richer, unrelated to the statutory duties of the recorder’s office. This included coverage of other elected officials in Arizona and across the nation; the political landscape for the 2024 election; the indictments against former President Donald Trump; developments in social media; and updates on various public policies.
Some news and online content gathered by staff touched on legal challenges to free speech.
According to AZ Free News, Richer’s office responded to a request for comment with a statement that said, “Providing leadership with news clips relating to the office and regarding current events is a standard practice. It has been a practice of this office for the past three years and it was originally implemented by staff from former Senator McSally’s office, where it was a standard practice, who joined the Recorder’s Office in January 2021… Recorder Richer values news and being aware of developments within our state and relating to our statutory responsibilities.”
However, they did not respond to additional questions regarding what content was gathered and used in Richer’s defamation lawsuit and why staff were tasked with gathering content on Richer’s personal lawsuit and political topics unrelated to the Recorder’s office.
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California State Assemblyman Bill Essayli spoke to The Gateway Pundit yesterday about new legislation to end California’s practice of releasing dangerous pedophile illegal immigrants back into the community and ignoring requests from ICE for deportation.
Essayli said California law enforcement is being “compelled by state law” to release illegal immigrants who are convicted of crimes back into the community. “The California legislature is very radical and extreme. They have passed sanctuary state laws that say it is illegal for any sheriff or any member of law enforcement to cooperate with ICE or to recognize any ICE detainers,” Essayli added.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “Detainers request that state or local law enforcement agencies maintain custody of the noncitizen for a period not to exceed 48 hours beyond the time the individual would otherwise be released, allowing ERO [Enforcement and Removal Operations] to assume custody for removal purposes in accordance with federal law.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Assemblyman Essayli announced on Wednesday his plans to introduce legislation that would require California law enforcement to comply with immigration authorities and allow them to detain and deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes against minors.
This comes after a Colombian illegal immigrant, who was previously convicted for sex crimes against a minor in California, was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts, last week.
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Essayli released the following video statement on Wednesday after the illegal immigrant, who was convicted of sexual intercourse with a minor in California at the end of 2022, was released and arrested all the way in Boston, Massachusetts. This is despite receiving a prison sentence in California of about four years.
Essayli: Hi, I’m Assemblyman Bill Essayli here with an urgent legislative announcement. Recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Colombian illegal immigrant who had been convicted of sex crimes against a minor in the state of California. ICE issued a detainer to release him into their custody for deportation. San Bernadino was unable to honor the detainer due to California sanctuary state laws. Yes, the laws of California prohibit law enforcement from handing over convicted child pedophiles to ICE for purposes of deportation. This is unacceptable in a civilized society. That is why today I am announcing that I have introduced legislation to reverse this misguided policy in the state of California and allow law enforcement to hand over pedophiles, people convicted of child sex offenses, to immigration to deport them and to get them out of our country. They have no business remaining here. Thank God, ICE was able to find and apprehend this individual before he’s able to hurt anyone else. This should never happen, and as lawmakers, we have an obligation and a duty to protect the citizens of this nation. And that is what I intend to do with this bill. Thank you
Voters can contact state legislators in California and demand that they allow ICE to deport illegal immigrants who are found guilty of sex crimes against minors.
Essayli joined The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson with more on Thursday.
Bill Essayli is running for re-election to represent California’s District 63 in the State Assembly. Learn more and support his campaign here!
Watch below:
Essayli: I woke up yesterday, and I saw Bill Melugin’s reporting. He does great work for the border. And he was reporting how ICE had arrested this pedophile, this child sex offender in Massachusetts, who was released from San Bernadino County Jail, and I immediately engaged because I know the Sheriff of San Bernardino, and it was not his fault. He was compelled by state law to release him into the community. The California legislature is very radical and extreme. They have passed sanctuary state laws that say it is illegal for any sheriff or any member of law enforcement to cooperate with ICE or to recognize any ICE detainers. It is illegal for them to do that, which is outrageous. So what I did is I had my staff craft a very narrow bill. Let’s make it very clear, if you’re a convicted child sex offender, you must be handed over to ICE. So, it’s going to require local law enforcement to cooperate with immigration authorities when an illegal alien criminal has been convicted of sex crimes against children. That’s what the bill does.
Conradson: Why stop at just pedophiles? Don’t you agree that all sanctuary laws in the state should be abolished?
Essayli: 100%. I mean, if I was running the place, I would get rid of all of it. But we have a super-majority Democrat legislature here and what they usually do, their tactic is if you just bring a blanket policy, they’re gonna pull out a grandma or some sob story of some guy who was popped for smoking weed, and they say, “oh, it’s not fair to deport this person who’s part of our community, blah, blah, blah.” So, to avoid all those ridiculous arguments, I brought a very narrow bill. So, I said, let’s just focus on illegal aliens, who’ve done the worst thing ever, which is commit a horrible act against a child. So, what is your excuse? I want to hear from the Democrats. What is your explanation and justification for shielding that individual from deportation? So, it’s a strategy to hold them accountable and expose their extreme, radical viewpoint. We did something similar last year with SB14, where we try to make child sex trafficking a serious felony. It initially was killed in the Public Safety Committee, and because of the outcry from the public, Newsom actually picked up the phone and called the Speaker of the Assembly and said, “What the hell are you guys doing? You guys need to reverse this.” It was making him look bad. So, we’ll see if we can shame them into doing the right thing again here.
Conradson: This guy was arrested on sexual intercourse and oral copulation with a minor. It carried a prison sentence of about four years, how have you figured out how he got out of prison or custody so quickly?
Essayli: What they’ve done with the prison system in California is a whole nother story. They have dumped prisoners out on the street because of our laws here. We went from 180,000 prisoners; now we’re down to 90,000 prisoners. So, what they’ve done is they’ve made it harder to keep people in prison for a long time. So, it’s not uncommon for people to serve no more than half their sentence in the state of California. So, if you’re sentenced to four years, you’ll never do more than two years, and now they’re coming up with all kinds of credits and ways to expedite even that timeline to get people out of prison.
Conradson: I thought you asked a great question on Twitter. Why do California Democrats support pedophiles? Do you know why that might be?
Essayli: Well, let’s see what they have to say. I’m gonna give them the opportunity to respond. So, I posed the question because that’s the effect of their policy is they are shielding and protecting pedophiles. So, let’s see; maybe that wasn’t their intent, and now they have the opportunity to do the right thing. And if not, then they can explain to us why they seek to protect pedophiles. I’d like to know the answer myself.
Conradson: Do you find it strange that the same party protecting these pedophiles is the same party that’s pushing this perverted sexual education, telling kids they are old enough and mature enough to choose their own gender and sexual identities in public schools?
Essayli: Make no mistake the Democrat Party, the radical elements of the Democratic Party are after your kids. They want to raise your kids. They want to indoctrinate your kids. And so it is totally consistent with their radical ideology, because they’re making a play for the next generation. And look, if you can convince a child that they can pick any number of genders, you can pretty much convince them of anything. So they’re making a play to separate children from their parents.
The post EXCLUSIVE: California Assemblyman Bill Essayli Discusses Legislation to End Sanctuary Protections and Release of Illegals Convicted for Sex Crimes Against Minors (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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President Trump arrived in Pennsylvania earlier, where he is set to deliver remarks at a campaign stop in the town of Schnecksville, located north of Philadelphia.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Biden, too, will be in Pennsylvania next week for multiple low-energy campaign events after taking the weekend off at his home in Rehoboth Beach. After one day at the White House and campaigning in Pennsylvania next week, Biden will return to his beach house for another weekend.
Meanwhile, President Trump will be fighting off the Biden Regime’s lawfare attempts and the far-left judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels ‘hush payment’ trial on Monday.
Supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida cheered Trump on earlier as he departed from Palm Beach International Airport en route to Pennsylvania:
Scene outside of Palm Beach International for President Trump’s departure to Pennsylvania! pic.twitter.com/3EKw1ubcAo
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) April 13, 2024
President @realDonaldTrump is wheels down in Pennsylvania! pic.twitter.com/BIVbXkppnE
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) April 13, 2024
In Pennsylvania, rally-goers packed in hours early to see the 45th and 47th President speak:
Pennsylvania is FIRED UP to see 45th & 47th President Donald Trump tonight!! pic.twitter.com/4l8MNxid1k
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) April 13, 2024
By 2 pm, the line had thousands of supporters ready and waiting for doors to open at 3 pm:
Thousands of people lined up in Pennsylvania to see President Trump speak 5 hours from now.
Pennsylvania is undoubtedly Trump Country! pic.twitter.com/GeWkQRBzFe
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) April 13, 2024
Trump is scheduled to speak at 7 pm ET.
Trump will likely respond to the Iranian missile and drone attacks on
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The months-long battle over FISA Section 702 reform legislation introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) to end warrantless surveillance of Americans and Biden Regime dissidents and the Intelligence Committee’s bill to reauthorize the controversial spying tool came to an end on Friday when 126 House Republicans joined Democrats to renew the FISA 702 by a vote of 273 to 147.
The final vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act was 273-147, with 126 Republicans in favor of betraying the American people. The legislation now heads to the Democrat-led Senate where it will presumably pass and then be signed into law by Joe Biden.
This legislation permits U.S. agencies to monitor foreign targets abroad but has come under scrutiny for its implications and past misuse in surveilling American citizens. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
Section 702 was scheduled to expire on April 19.
Shortly before final passage, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs, which would require a warrant to spy on Americans. 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
This is despite official intelligence documents showing that the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans, including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, less than 24 hours after the bill passed in the House, Speaker Johnson posted on X about America’s founding principles — after giving the regime power to spy on any American at will! Many see what he did as a betrayal of Americans and disregard for the US Constitution and ‘ratioed’ him with 3500+ comments and only 1400 likes.
Because of Mike Johnson and the RINOs, the FBI has renewed authority to spy on Trump and innocent Americans, as they previously did, leading up to the 2024 election.
Congressman Eli Crane (R-AZ) told The Gateway Pundit in December that he believes the federal government will abuse FISA authority and weaponize it against Trump again “in a heartbeat.”
“Anytime you try and change stuff up here in Washington, DC, the fearmongers always come out and start threatening people. I think Speaker Johnson fell prey to that,” said Crane after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled a vote on FISA reform legislation on the House Floor late last year.
Loomer Unleashed correspondent Charles Downs confronted silent FBI Director Chris Wray on the FBI’s election interference last week.
Watch below:
Do you want to reauthorize #FISA so the FBI can spy on President Trump’s campaign again?
Do you want to spy on the Trump campaign again?
WATCH:
FBI Director Christopher Wray was just confronted by @LoomerUnleashed DC Correspondent @TheCharlesDowns today.
“Do you want to reauthorize #FISA so the @FBI can spy on President Trump’s campaign again? Do you want to spy on the @TeamTrump campaign again?” pic.twitter.com/SaO0WurH9j
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 11, 2024
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President Trump’s Manhattan “hush money” criminal trial kicks off today with jury selection.
The Gateway Pundit reported last month on President Trump’s court hearings in New York, where Far-left Judge Arthur Engoron’s outrageous $464 million judgment in Marxist AG Letitia James’ civil fraud case was overturned, and Far-left Judge Juan Merchan set the Stormy Daniels trial for April 15. Trump held a press conference at his 40 Wall Street building where he slammed the judges and prosecutors for their election interference attempts to take out the leading presidential candidate.
Far-left New York Judge Juan Merchan released his questionnaire for potential jurors late Monday night, including questions about where the jurors get their news from, whether or not they’ve attended a Trump rally, and whether they follow President Trump on social media. The questions also ask if they have ever supported Q Anon, Proud Boys, Antifa, Boogaloo Boys, Three Percenters or Oath Keepers.
The highly conflicted judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, who, according to The New York Post, helped Democrats raise $93 million off of her father’s case, is a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign. Merchan’s firm, Authentic Campaigns, Inc., has also received tens of millions of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
President Trump recently said the daughter of the far-left judge posted a photo of him behind bars. Merchan responded by expanding Trump’s gag order to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members.
For these reasons, Trump filed a motion to recuse Merchan from presiding over this unfair trial brought by Biden’s thugs earlier this month.
Recall that Trump’s lawyers also asked for a 90-day delay so they could pour over the thousands of pages of discovery, but the judge denied their request.
Trump blasted the Merchan yesterday, calling him “perhaps the most highly conflicted Judge in New York State history,” for giving his lawyers a short period of time to read through the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg illegally hid.
FIREWORKS! Trump Blasts Judge Overseeing Stormy Daniels ‘Hush Money’ Lawfare Case on Eve of Trial
According to pro-Trump New Yorker Dion Cini, a rally in protest of Manhattan District Attorney “Fat Alvin” Bragg is scheduled from 8 am until 6 pm outside the courthouse at Collect Pond Park:
Reminder, all day tomorrow. Take the day off or quit your job, your life depends on it! https://t.co/79QdKTccP3
— Dion Cini (@dioncini) April 15, 2024
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President Trump, refusing to be silenced by a leftwing judge and Soros-funded prosecutor, is facing scrutiny for sharing a video of his allies exposing the conflicts of interest in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case.
Jury selection is still underway for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawfare case against Trump. Last April, Trump was hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
The far-left judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels trial trampled all over Trump’s First Amendment rights with a strict gag order.
Juan Merchan earlier this month expanded Trump’s gag order to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members after it was learned that the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign and received tens of MILLIONS of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, prosecutors are now seeking to hold President Trump in contempt for ‘violating’ the gag order and asking the court to impose sanctions while threatening Trump with jail time if he continues to speak out against this political witch hunt.
“Donald Trump did nothing wrong,” Laura Loomer began chanting outside the courthouse before she and Andrew Giuliani ripped into Judge Merchan, his wife, Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg, and Bragg’s star witness, admitted perjurer Michael Cohen.
“The facts–think about this–are so weak in this case that Joe Biden would not even bring this case. That’s how bad this is. It took a Soros funded District Attorney in order to bring this case. There’s no underlying felony,” exclaimed the son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
As Bradley Smith, Institute for Free Speech Chairman, Capital University law professor, and former Federal Election Commission Chairman, notes in an op-ed for The Federalist, the made-up felony charges against Trump are completely baseless, setting aside the clear conflicts of interest with the prosecution and the judge.
DA Alvin Bragg argues that Trump falsified business records in order to “conceal crimes that hid information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election” and “boost his electoral prospects.” Under this theory, Bragg claims that Trump violated campaign finance laws by not publicly reporting so-called campaign expenditures to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
However, as Smith writes,
Misreporting business expenses is normally, at most, a misdemeanor. Bragg seeks to ratchet it up to a felony here by arguing that the misreporting was done to cover up a crime. That alleged crime is a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The theory is that Trump’s payments to Daniels were campaign expenditures and thus needed to be publicly reported as such. By not reporting the expenditure, the theory goes, Trump prevented the public from knowing information that might have influenced their votes.
But let’s think about this for a minute. Political candidates do things all the time that are “for the purpose of influencing an election,” but that, nonetheless, are not considered campaign expenditures. For example, a candidate cannot buy a new suit, get his teeth whitened, or pay for cosmetic surgery with campaign funds, even if he does so for the purpose of looking good on the campaign trail.
That’s because, in campaign finance law, these types of expenditures are known as “personal use.” FECA specifically prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to personal use, defined as any expenditure “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
Does anyone really think a candidate should be able to use campaign funds to settle lawsuits, or threatened lawsuits, arising from activities that occurred long before his candidacy? It’s stressful being a candidate, and a little relaxation may make the candidate more effective on the stump. Does that mean your campaign contribution should pay for a candidate massage? How about a country club membership, or tickets to the Super Bowl (after all, the candidate might take along a potential donor)?
Herein lies the most frightening part of this prosecution: Had Trump made these payments with campaign funds, it seems a near certainty he would now be facing criminal charges for a knowing and willful diversion of campaign funds to pay personal obligations. If Bragg’s prosecution is successful, it will mean a candidate can use campaign funds to pay almost any obligation that, the candidate might argue, would benefit his candidacy. Perhaps worse, zealous prosecutors could get a candidate coming or going — falsification of records if campaign funds are not used, and illegal personal use if campaign funds are used.
President Trump Truthed the following video from today’s protest outside the courthouse:
Loomer: We’re gonna be here every single day, talking to all of you fake news media freaks and letting you know that Donald Trump did nothing wrong until you start to report the truth. Judge Merchan’s wife literally worked for Letitia James. Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Andrew Laufer’s, Twitter profile banner is a photo of him with Letitia James, talking about getting Trump. He said that he had fundraisers for Kamala Harris. Tell me that this isn’t the witch hunt. How is this fair? How is this fair to Donald Trump?
Giuliani: You’re absolutely right. We’ve got to be out of here for President Trump. Let them know that he did nothing wrong. Let them know this is a political persecution by prosecution of the leading candidate for President of the United States. That’s what’s going on here. That’s what’s going on in the United States of America. The facts–think about this–are so weak in this case that Joe Biden would not even bring this case. That’s how bad this is. It took a Soros funded District Attorney in order to bring this case. There’s no underlying felony.
Shortly after posting this, Politico criticized Trump for “test[ing] the boundaries of the gag.”
Donald Trump doesn’t need to oblige the communist, crooked Judge Merchan.
If they arrest Trump he will raise over $100 MILLION.
Donald Trump Did Nothing Wrong!
He has a right to defend himself!
I will happily be a bullhorn in support of Trump since he’s been silenced! https://t.co/TN1g4RTaD5
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2024
Politico reports,
Even as prosecutors were seeking a contempt ruling against Donald Trump for violating the gag order in recent days, Trump once again tested the boundaries of the gag during the trial’s lunch break.
He posted a video of one of his prominent allies, Laura Loomer, announcing through a bullhorn that “Donald Trump did nothing wrong.” Notably, Loomer used the same moment to criticize Justice Juan Merchan’s wife for purportedly working for New York Attorney General Tish James, a Trump political foe. Loomer also criticized prosecutors’ star witness, Michael Cohen, for employing the services of a lawyer with ties to Trump’s political opponents.
While Loomer’s views are well known, Trump’s decision to amplify them on Truth Social could be viewed as violating the gag, which prohibits him from commenting on Merchan’s family members or any witnesses in the case.
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on the ongoing jury selection in Alvin Bragg’s election interference case against Donald Trump.
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UPDATE: RINOs voted to pass the Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888 and reauthorize warrantless spying on Americans:
The months-long battle over FISA Section 702 reform legislation introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) to end warrantless surveillance of Americans and Biden Regime dissidents and the Intelligence Committee’s bill to reauthorize the controversial spying tool seemingly came to an end on Friday when 126 House Republicans joined Democrats to renew the FISA 702 by a vote of 273 to 147.
The final vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act was 273-147, with 126 Republicans in favor of betraying the American people. The legislation was headed to the Democrat-led Senate where it would presumably pass and then be signed into law by Joe Biden.
However, tonight, following a vote on a motion to table, requested by House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH), the House of Representatives will vote on a motion to reconsider the renewal of FISA 702. Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) called for reconsideration of the bill after it passed in the House on Friday, which was met with pushback from Turner.
Watch the votes live below.
Recall that Mike Turner, a staunch opponent of FISA reform to end warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans, came under fire earlier this year for sending a letter to colleagues and raising concern over “an urgent matter with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability that should be known by all Congressional Policy Makers.” According to Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who asked Speaker Johnson for an inquiry and possible removal of the House Intelligence Chair from his committee, this was an attempt by Turner to create unfounded worry in pursuit of a “political agenda” to prevent the passage of FISA reform legislation.
Friday’s legislation permits U.S. agencies to monitor foreign targets abroad but has come under scrutiny for its implications and past misuse in surveilling American citizens. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
Shortly before final passage, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs, which would require a warrant to spy on Americans. 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
Biggs’ amendment would end the FBI’s ability to surveil Americans and end the current practice of collecting, storing and digging through Americans’ communications without a warrant.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has not given up following Friday’s disappointing vote by RINOs, Democrats, and Speaker Johnson, sending a letter to all 435 members of Congress on Monday urging them to protect civil liberties, follow the U.S. Constitution and fix the current legislation to make it constitutional.
“I urge all Members of Congress to vote NO on the motion to table the motion to reconsider,” states the letter. “I am specifically asking the 56 Members of Congress who voted for final passage of H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, after supporting and voting for Biggs Amendment #1 to vote NO on the motion to table.”
Recall that official intelligence documents show that the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans, including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families. If Republicans in Congress continue to screw the American people and allow unwarranted search and seizure of our private communications, the Biden Regime and FBI will have renewed authority to spy on Trump and innocent Americans, as they previously did, leading up to the 2024 election.
Andy Biggs called on his colleagues to “vote down the expansion of Biden’s surveillance state” by adding the warrant requirement he previously requested to FISA:
The House has one last chance to vote down the expansion of Biden’s surveillance state.
We cannot reauthorize FISA without a warrant requirement.#KillFISA https://t.co/ltiB3utZ6V
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) April 15, 2024
Luna released the following video, where she slammed the two-tiered spy program and its weaponization against Americans on X, commenting, “Today we have an opportunity to #killFISA. IT NEEDS TO BE AMENDED TO REQUIRE A WARRANT FOR SURVEILLANCE. Voting starts at 6:30pm. Please phone your rep and ask them to protect your 4th amendment.”
Luna: [FISA] literally has been responsible and reached, I think, over a quarter of a million times, in addition to the fact that they actually had made carve-outs in this legislation for members of Congress, but not the general population, meaning that if you’re a member of Congress, you’ll be notified by the FBI nicely that you’re being under surveillance. But if you’re a normal person, you’re not, so that’s completely unacceptable.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview with Maria Bartoromo this weekend, also slammed Mike Johnson for voting with Democrats again to break the tie and “abdicating the power of the purse” to the Democrats in the latest spending package. “As I see it now, I’m not sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge,” Senator Paul remarked:
Paul: Americans shouldn’t be spied on by their own government. The Fourth Amendment was put in by our founding fathers to protect us. FISA doesn’t obey the Fourth Amendment. And so, Speaker Johnson was incredibly wrong. He broke the tie. He voted with the Democrats. Here we have the leader of the Republicans in the House votes with the Democrats against a warrant requirement. We also have Speaker Johnson voting for the spending package, once again, with a majority of the Democrats. As I see it now, I’m not sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge. The debt, the deficit this year will be $1.5 to $2 trillion, and that’s Mike Johnson’s bill. He put it forward, he supported it with a minority of Republicans with a majority of Democrats. This is not using the power of the purse. This is abdicating the power of the purse.
Per the Washington Examiner:
Monday’s motion to table vote is the culmination of months of infighting within the Republican Party over how to reform the key surveillance program. Though House Judiciary Committee members and other privacy hawks secured wins with a two-year sunset and a stand-alone vote on Rep. Warren Davidson’s (R-OH) bill, the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, sometime this week, House Intelligence Committee members and national security allies ultimately secured victory with no warrant requirements and a mostly-agreed upon base text.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced severe backlash for the Biggs amendment, as the House tied 212 to 212, causing the amendment to fail. Many members accused the speaker of being a “tiebreaker” vote, despite his office claiming he was not the last member to vote on the amendment.
How the vote on the motion to table swings could impact whether the House needs to prepare for another FISA vote and whether Johnson needs to prepare for a possible motion to vacate. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had said ahead of the vote that her decision on whether to move forward with the motion would depend on Johnson’s approach to FISA and Ukraine aid.
Watch the House vote live below at 6:30 pm E.T.:
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The House of Representatives on Monday passed a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888, which passed on Friday to renew FISA 702 and allow warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans.
This was a betrayal of Americans.
Shortly before the final passage of H.B. 7888 on Friday, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), which would have required a warrant to spy on Americans. However, 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview with Maria Bartoromo this weekend, slammed Mike Johnson for voting with Democrats again to break the tie and “abdicating the power of the purse” to the Democrats in the latest spending package. “As I see it now, I’m not sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge,” Senator Paul remarked:
Recall that official intelligence documents show that the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans, including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families. Republicans in Congress chose to screw the American people and allow unwarranted search and seizure of our private communications, giving the Biden Regime and FBI renewed authority to spy on Trump and innocent Americans, as they previously did, leading up to the 2024 election.
The final vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act was 273-147 on Friday, with 126 Republicans in favor of betraying the American people. On Monday, the legislation was brought back to a vote on a motion to reconsider, requested by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and demanded by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in a recorded vote.
However, 117 Republicans voted with 142 Democrats in favor of a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider, which was requested by House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH). The legislation now heads to the Democrat-led Senate, where it will presumably pass and then be signed into law by Joe Biden.
Recall that Mike Turner, a staunch opponent of FISA reform to end warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans, came under fire earlier this year for sending a letter to colleagues and raising concern over “an urgent matter with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability that should be known by all Congressional Policy Makers.” According to Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who asked Speaker Johnson for an inquiry and possible removal of the House Intelligence Chair from his committee, this was an attempt by Turner to create unfounded worry in pursuit of a “political agenda” to prevent the passage of FISA reform legislation.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), following Friday’s disappointing vote by RINOs, Democrats, and Speaker Johnson, sent a letter to all 435 members of Congress on Monday urging them to protect civil liberties, follow the U.S. Constitution and fix the current legislation to make it constitutional.
“I urge all Members of Congress to vote NO on the motion to table the motion to reconsider,” states the letter. “I am specifically asking the 56 Members of Congress who voted for final passage of H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, after supporting and voting for Biggs Amendment #1 to vote NO on the motion to table.”
Friday’s legislation permits U.S. agencies to monitor foreign targets abroad but has come under scrutiny for its implications and past misuse in surveilling American citizens. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
Shortly before final passage, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs, which would require a warrant to spy on Americans. 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
Here are the 117 RINOs who voted in favor of warrantless spying on the American people and President Trump’s campaign:
| Aderholt | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Allen | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Amodei | Republican | Nevada | AYE |
| Babin | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Bacon | Republican | Nebraska | AYE |
| Balderson | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Barr | Republican | Kentucky | AYE |
| Bergman | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Bice | Republican | Oklahoma | AYE |
| Buchanan | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Bucshon | Republican | Indiana | AYE |
| Burgess | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Calvert | Republican | California | AYE |
| Carey | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Carl | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Carter (GA) | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Carter (TX) | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Chavez-DeRemer | Republican | Oregon | AYE |
| Ciscomani | Republican | Arizona | AYE |
| Cole | Republican | Oklahoma | AYE |
| Crawford | Republican | Arkansas | AYE |
| Crenshaw | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| De La Cruz | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Diaz-Balart | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Duarte | Republican | California | AYE |
| Dunn (FL) | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Edwards | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Ellzey | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Emmer | Republican | Minnesota | AYE |
| Estes | Republican | Kansas | AYE |
| Ezell | Republican | Mississippi | AYE |
| Feenstra | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Ferguson | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Fitzpatrick | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Fleischmann | Republican | Tennessee | AYE |
| Flood | Republican | Nebraska | AYE |
| Foxx | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Franklin, Scott | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Gallagher | Republican | Wisconsin | AYE |
| Garbarino | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Garcia, Mike | Republican | California | AYE |
| Gimenez | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Gonzales, Tony | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Graves (LA) | Republican | Louisiana | AYE |
| Graves (MO) | Republican | Missouri | AYE |
| Green (TN) | Republican | Tennessee | AYE |
| Grothman | Republican | Wisconsin | AYE |
| Guest | Republican | Mississippi | AYE |
| Guthrie | Republican | Kentucky | AYE |
| Hill | Republican | Arkansas | AYE |
| Hinson | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Houchin | Republican | Indiana | AYE |
| Huizenga | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Jackson (TX) | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| James | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Johnson (SD) | Republican | South Dakota | AYE |
| Kean (NJ) | Republican | New Jersey | AYE |
| Kelly (MS) | Republican | Mississippi | AYE |
| Kelly (PA) | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Kiggans (VA) | Republican | Virginia | AYE |
| Kiley | Republican | California | AYE |
| Kim (CA) | Republican | California | AYE |
| LaHood | Republican | Illinois | AYE |
| LaLota | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Lamborn | Republican | Colorado | AYE |
| Latta | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| LaTurner | Republican | Kansas | AYE |
| Lawler | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Lee (FL) | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Lucas | Republican | Oklahoma | AYE |
| Malliotakis | Republican | New York | AYE |
| McClain | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| McHenry | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Meuser | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Miller (OH) | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Miller (WV) | Republican | West Virginia | AYE |
| Miller-Meeks | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Molinaro | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Moolenaar | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Moore (UT) | Republican | Utah | AYE |
| Moran | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Murphy | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Newhouse | Republican | Washington | AYE |
| Nunn (IA) | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Obernolte | Republican | California | AYE |
| Pfluger | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Reschenthaler | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Rodgers (WA) | Republican | Washington | AYE |
| Rogers (AL) | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Rogers (KY) | Republican | Kentucky | AYE |
| Rouzer | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Rutherford | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Salazar | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Scalise | Republican | Louisiana | AYE |
| Scott, Austin | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Sessions | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Simpson | Republican | Idaho | AYE |
| Smith (NE) | Republican | Nebraska | AYE |
| Smucker | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Stauber | Republican | Minnesota | AYE |
| Steel | Republican | California | AYE |
| Stefanik | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Steil | Republican | Wisconsin | AYE |
| Strong | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Tenney | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Thompson (PA) | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Turner | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Valadao | Republican | California | AYE |
| Van Duyne | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Wagner | Republican | Missouri | AYE |
| Walberg | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Waltz | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Wenstrup | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Williams (NY) | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Wilson (SC) | Republican | South Carolina | AYE |
| Wittman | Republican | Virginia | AYE |
| Womack | Republican | Arkansas | AYE |
The Motion to Table a Motion to Reconsider solidified the vote for tyranny.
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Terrorist sympathizing protestors in New York City wielded Hezbollah flags and chanted “Death to America” in New York City today.
More from Laura Loomer on Bannon’s War Room:
As The Gateway Pundit reported, far-left pro-Palestine protestors blocked the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday afternoon.
This is after pro-Palestine activists shut down the Golden State Bridge and blocked the entrance to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
Pro-Palestine Protestors Take Over the Brooklyn Bridge, Block Traffic (VIDEO)
Chants of “Death to America” were also heard earlier in New York City, and one protestor burned an American flag.
As seen in the footage, a young man carrying an American flag is nearly set on fire as the flag he is carrying is torched, and his shirt catches flame. One self-hating American woman shouted, “I love it. Burn it down,” when asked what she thought of burning the American flag.
Laura Loomer shared footage of her confrontation with a Hezbollah flag-waving woman on Wall Street. At the same time she was confronting the woman who confirmed she does, in fact, support Hezbollah, the idiot next to her repeatedly said, “Donald Trump is antisemitic.” Another woman said, “America is a terrorist organization.”
Watch below:
Loomer: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:
HEZBOLLAH FLAGS IN NYC!
A woman was waving a HEZBOLLAH terrorist flag on Wall Street in NYC at the pro HAMAS rally moments ago. I confronted her about it on video, and she shoved it in my face and screamed obscenities at me. One of the women told me my future children should be aborted because I’m Jewish.
Hezbollah was designated as an Islamic terrorist org by the US Justice Department in 2001. In 2010, State Department officials described Hezbollah as the most technically capable terrorist group in the world and a continued security threat to the United States
These pro-Palestine rallies are terrorist rallies. This is video evidence.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:
HEZBOLLAH FLAGS IN NYC!
A woman was waving a HEZBOLLAH terrorist flag on Wall Street in NYC at the pro HAMAS rally moments ago. I confronted her about it on video, and she shoved it in my face and screamed obscenities at me. One of the women told me my future… pic.twitter.com/DaSfRht1tL
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2024
One young woman who got in the face of NYPD Deputy Chief Timothy Beaudette earlier in the day, screaming, “Are you f*cking kidding me?” was neutralized by the Chief:
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Former GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who made waves for being the youngest challenger to Donald Trump in the race and perhaps the most likable, came out with a statement on Monday condemning Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawfare against President Trump.
Vivek always stood up for President Trump in the ongoing attempts by Democrats to take him out by other means, like sham indictments and challenges to remove him from the ballot, and destroyed GOP Primary opponents who refused to condemn the Biden Regime’s fascism. He frequently took aim at and destroyed neocon Nikki Haley for being a member of the RINO establishment who was happy to let the deep state destroy American civil rights and the leading Presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
After Vivek Ramaswamy’s departure from the race, President Trump invited him on the stage at a campaign event in Atkinson, New Hampshire, where Vivek declared, “We need a commander-in-chief who will lead us to victory in this war.”
Vivek, in his statement on Bragg’s ridiculous and legally flawed indictment, cited Bradley Smith, Institute for Free Speech Chairman, Capital University law professor, and former Federal Election Commission Chairman. Smith noted earlier in an op-ed for The Federalist that the made-up felony charges against Trump are completely baseless, setting aside the clear conflicts of interest with the prosecution and the judge.
DA Alvin Bragg argues that Trump falsified business records in order to “conceal crimes that hid information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election” and “boost his electoral prospects.” Under this theory, Bragg claims that Trump violated campaign finance laws by not publicly reporting so-called campaign expenditures to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
“That’s bunk,” says Vivek Ramaswamy.
As Smith writes,
Misreporting business expenses is normally, at most, a misdemeanor. Bragg seeks to ratchet it up to a felony here by arguing that the misreporting was done to cover up a crime. That alleged crime is a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The theory is that Trump’s payments to Daniels were campaign expenditures and thus needed to be publicly reported as such. By not reporting the expenditure, the theory goes, Trump prevented the public from knowing information that might have influenced their votes.
But let’s think about this for a minute. Political candidates do things all the time that are “for the purpose of influencing an election,” but that, nonetheless, are not considered campaign expenditures. For example, a candidate cannot buy a new suit, get his teeth whitened, or pay for cosmetic surgery with campaign funds, even if he does so for the purpose of looking good on the campaign trail.
That’s because, in campaign finance law, these types of expenditures are known as “personal use.” FECA specifically prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to personal use, defined as any expenditure “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
Does anyone really think a candidate should be able to use campaign funds to settle lawsuits, or threatened lawsuits, arising from activities that occurred long before his candidacy? It’s stressful being a candidate, and a little relaxation may make the candidate more effective on the stump. Does that mean your campaign contribution should pay for a candidate massage? How about a country club membership, or tickets to the Super Bowl (after all, the candidate might take along a potential donor)?
Herein lies the most frightening part of this prosecution: Had Trump made these payments with campaign funds, it seems a near certainty he would now be facing criminal charges for a knowing and willful diversion of campaign funds to pay personal obligations. If Bragg’s prosecution is successful, it will mean a candidate can use campaign funds to pay almost any obligation that, the candidate might argue, would benefit his candidacy. Perhaps worse, zealous prosecutors could get a candidate coming or going — falsification of records if campaign funds are not used, and illegal personal use if campaign funds are used.
According to Smith, Trump “has a defense on the merits, and his supporters should use it.”
Trump shared Smith’s piece earlier on Truth Social:
Regardless of the facts, they don’t even have a case against Trump. As Vivek put it, “The complete absence of a legal argument even to bring this case against Trump isn’t just embarrassing to Alvin Bragg, it’s embarrassing to our country.”
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that prosecutors requested earlier during jury selection that the court hold President Trump in contempt for ‘violating’ his gag order and asked the court to impose sanctions while threatening Trump with jail time if he continues to speak out against this political witch hunt. They are trying everything possible to nail Trump with a fake crime and take away his right to a fair trial.
Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said to a crowd of protesters outside the Manhattan courthouse, “The facts–think about this–are so weak in this case that Joe Biden would not even bring this case. That’s how bad this is. It took a Soros-funded District Attorney in order to bring this case. There’s no underlying felony.”
“Alvin Bragg‘s case against Trump rests on the ludicrous legal premise that a candidate must use *campaign* funds to make personal hush money payments. Yet if Trump had done that, they’d undoubtedly be going after him for that. This isn’t the pursuit of justice, it’s a political persecution that is tearing our country apart,” commented Vivek with a video statement attached.
Watch below:
Ramaswamy: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump and its trial begins today. What a joke. I’m against these prosecutions on principle. I think they’re destructive to our country. But let’s just examine the facts and the law here. Alvin Bragg, effectively, is prosecuting Donald Trump for making hush-money payments—allegedly—to stormy Daniels and then paying Michael Cohen in a means that Alvin Bragg thinks is falsifying business records. Well, first of all, falsifying business records in New York is a misdemeanor, not a felony. And it falls outside of the statute of limitations, meaning it happened so far long ago that Alvin Bragg can’t bring the case unless he charges it as a felony, which requires an underlying crime that he’s advancing by falsifying those business records that was also a felony.
Here’s where the legal stretch really begins. That requires Alvin Bragg to say that Donald Trump’s payments should have been made out of a campaign account. That’s his theory of the case, instead of being made personally or else it’s a constructive campaign contribution. That’s bunk. Think about it. Look at smart people like former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith, who has correctly pointed out that if Donald Trump did use campaign money, campaign contributions, to pay off hush money, that would arguably be an even stronger legal case to bring against him than the case they’re bringing now. So, in that version of the world, it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t; they’re gonna get him going, or they’re going to get him coming. It’s almost as though they decided this is the person we’re going to prosecute. And then we’re going to figure out what we’re going to charge them with after the fact.
Well, guess what? That’s exactly what happened. You have Alvin Bragg, a Manhattan DA, who was elected on the promise of going after Donald Trump. For what crime? We had no idea, just the idea that they had to go after Donald Trump. This is a politician keeping his campaign promise. That is a bastardization of our legal system. That’s not how we do things in the United States, and that motivation accounts for why this case is so weak and emblematic of the other prosecutions that have since followed against Donald Trump. I think Trump is going to prevail. But most importantly, I hope we move beyond this phase of our history, where you have one political party that thinks it can use the legal system to prosecute its opponents. The same shoe can fit the other foot, and if we keep going down this direction, we’re not going to have a country left. And the complete absence of a legal argument even to bring this case against Trump isn’t just embarrassing to Alvin Bragg, it’s embarrassing to our country. I hope Donald Trump not only prevails in this trial, but that we prevail as a country to move beyond this phase of our national history. That’s what it’s going to take to reunite and rebuild this nation.
Elon Musk also commented on Vivek’s post:
This case is obviously a corruption of the law.
Lawfare.
This case is obviously a corruption of the law.
Lawfare.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2024
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The House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs is hosting a hearing titled “How the Border Crisis Impacts Public Safety” this morning to “examine how the Biden Administration’s policy changes have benefitted criminal illegal aliens to the detriment of the safety and security of American citizens and legal residents,” according to a press release.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 am ET. Watch live below.
Biden facilitated the unprecedented border invasion. He took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to weaken border security.
President Trump has more accurately dubbed the border and public safety crisis “Biden’s Border Bloodbath.”
Trump’s figurative use of the word ‘bloodbath’ while talking about the effects of foreign trade policy on the U.S. auto industry at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on March 16, provoked outrageous smears from liberals and reporters who took his remarks out of context. Trump recently posted a video rebuking the smears and talking about the quite literal “Biden’s Border Bloodbath.”
One of the most notable effects of Biden’s Border Bloodbath was the horrific murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old student at the University of Georgia, whose skull was disfigured by a savage illegal alien that Joe Biden welcomed into the country.
More recently, an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported by the Trump administration in 2020 was charged in the March 22 murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, whose bullet-riddled body was found dumped on a Grand Rapids highway.
According to ICE, Ortiz-Vite was previously deported under the Trump Administration in 2020.
Yet Joe Biden takes no responsibility and even apologizes for calling these animals “illegal.”
Witness Ken Cuccinelli, Senior Fellow for Immigration and Homeland Security at the Center for Renewing America, retweeted an image from Libs of TikTok, which showcases some of the countless Americans who have fallen victim to Biden’s open border, commenting, “I will be testifying tomorrow in the House on crime emanating from @JoeBiden‘s open border. Sad.”
Libs of TikTok: These are the faces of Americans who lost their lives at the hands of criminal illegal aliens who were allowed to roam our country under Joe Biden. The same administration would want nothing more than to get rid of voter ID so these illegals can vote. Chip Roy and Speaker Johnson will be introducing the ‘Safeguard American Voter Eligibility’ (SAVE) Act which will make it a crime for any non-citizen to vote, impose penalties for any election official who registers an illegal voter, and require proof of citizenship to vote. The SAVE Act must pass!
I will be testifying tomorrow in the House on crime emanating from @JoeBiden‘s open border.
— Ken Cuccinelli II (@KenCuccinelli) April 15, 2024
Sheriffs Bill Waybourn of Tarrant County, Texas, and Mike Chapman of Loudon County, Virginia, will also provide the committee with expert testimony on the open border’s impact on public safety.
Via House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs:
Grothman Announces Hearing on Biden Border Crisis’ Impact on Public Safety
WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) announced a hearing titled “How the Border Crisis Impacts Public Safety.” The subcommittee hearing will examine how the Biden Administration’s policy changes have benefitted criminal illegal aliens to the detriment of the safety and security of American citizens and legal residents.
“The words coming from President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas on their efforts to apprehend and remove illegal aliens are empty. The Biden Administration’s policies have allowed criminal aliens to roam freely in the United States, which exacerbates the harmful impacts felt by communities both along the border and across the nation. Every crime committed in the United States by an illegal immigrant is preventable yet Democrats seem to be allergic to discussing this issue due to their blind loyalty to President Biden and his disastrous policies. The safety and security of Americans should not be a partisan issue. I look forward to discussing with the expert witnesses invited before the subcommittee on what needs to change and why it hasn’t,” said Subcommittee Chairman Grothman.
WHAT: Hearing titled “How the Border Crisis Impacts Public Safety.”
DATE: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
TIME: 10:00 a.m. ET
LOCATION: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
WITNESSES:
- Hon. Ken Cuccinelli, Senior Fellow for Immigration and Homeland Security, Center for Renewing America
- Bill Waybourn, Sheriff, Tarrant County, Texas
- Mike Chapman, Sheriff, Loudoun County, Virginia
The hearing will be open to the public and press and will be livestreamed online at https://oversight.house.gov/.
Read More:
Hearing Wrap Up: Biden Administration’s Catch and Release Operation Has Inflamed the Raging Crisis at the Southern BorderWrap Up: Biden Administration’s Policies Have Fueled Worst Border Crisis in U.S. History
Watch live below at 10 am ET:
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The House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold another hearing to look at “inappropriate influence exerted by the federal government over research publications related to COVID-19” after recently obtaining evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins were in communication with multiple scientific journals.
This is similar to the allegations in Murthy v. Missouri, a lawsuit against the Biden administration and an army of government agencies for conspiring with social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, to censor the speech of millions of American citizens, particularly following the election of Donald Trump and amid the government manufactured Covid 19 pandemic.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The US Supreme Court heard arguments last month from The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and our co-plaintiffs in the lawsuit against federal agencies that censored the truth about COVID-19.
Via House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic:
Wenstrup Announces Hearing on the Possible Inappropriate Relationship Between Top Scientific Journals and U.S. Government
WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review” to explore any potential inappropriate influence exerted by the federal government over research publications related to COVID-19. The Select Subcommittee recently obtained evidence that indicates top scientific journals Science, Nature, and The Lancet were in communication with federal government officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, during the pandemic. This hearing seeks to ensure that the federal government is not granted undue access to the scientific review process during a future health crisis.
WHAT: Hearing titled “Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review”
DATE: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
TIME: 2:00 PM ET
LOCATION: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
WITNESSES:
Holden Thorp, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
Science Journals
American Association for the Advancement of Science
*Declined to participate*
Magdalena Skipper, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
Nature
*Declined to participate*
Richard Horton, BSc, MB, ChB
Editor-in-Chief
The Lancet
Read more about the Select Subcommittee’s invitations to the respective Editors-in-Chief of Science, Nature, and The Lancet here.
Watch live below:
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The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government is holding a hearing this afternoon to “examine the federal and state responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and the effects on the civil liberties of Americans,” according to the committee’s webpage.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 2 pm. Watch live below.
Simultaneously, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the House Oversight Select Subcommittee is holding a hearing to examine evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins exerted influence over multiple scientific journals to craft a narrative about COVID-19:
Former RNC Chair candidate and Founder and CEO of the Center for American Liberty Harmeet Dhillon will testify on the government’s overreach during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WATCH: @pnjaban will be testifying today at 2:00pm ET before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government about government overreach during COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/sWnEGsl0L7
— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) April 16, 2024
Other witnesses include State Surgeon General of Florida Dr. Joseph Ladapo and Co-Founder of Freedom in Education Beanie Geoghegan.
Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, has been vocal about his concerns with the COVID-19 vaccines. As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Ladapo slammed Dr. Fauci in an interview with Russell Brand, calling him “a dishonest, self-serving political animal who happens to have scientific training.”
Via House Judiciary Committee:
Liberty, Tyranny, and Accountability: Covid-19 and the Constitution
- Harmeet Dhillon, Founder and CEO, Center for American Liberty
- Dr. Joseph Ladapo, State Surgeon General of Florida
- Beanie Geoghegan, Co-Founder, Freedom in Education
Watch live below:
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The Gateway Pundit contributor Paul Ingrassia and investigative journalist Laura Loomer on Tuesday provided updates on the ongoing election interference lawfare against Donald Trump taking place less than a mile away from illegal aliens protesting at New York City Hall.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday that more than 1,000 illegal aliens from Africa swarmed New York City Hall on Tuesday after they were falsely promised work visas and green cards.
Ingrassia, a New York resident, told us more about the thousands of illegals from Guinea and other African countries “demanding housing, work permits and health care.” Ingrassia continued, “Meanwhile, all the resources are being used to prosecute Donald Trump just two blocks away from here.”
He also shared updates on President Trump’s trial, the conflicts of interest with bad actors trying to take Trump down, and the highly partisan questions for jury members in the ongoing jury selection.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, they’re trying to ruin President Trump not only in his legal and business life but also in his personal life—preventing him from attending his son’s graduation and threatening arrest if he is not present for every day of the witch hunt trial.
Ingrassia noted the disrespect and total disregard from the judge toward a President of the United States and a leading candidate, adding that Judge Merchan “is violating every rule, every custom, every norm, every precedent.”
“This is a kangaroo court. This is a banana republic system of justice that we’re seeing in New York. It’s very shameful, and, you know, as that goes on, you have illegals flooding the streets just blocks away from the courthouse. It’s a true disgrace.”
More:
The disrespect is further seen with the far-left judge’s trampling of Trump’s First Amendment rights with a strict gag order, which was recently expanded to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members. This comes after Trump sounded the alarm on the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign and received tens of MILLIONS of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Monday, President Trump shared a video of Laura Loomer and Andrew Giuliani making true statements about the trial, the judge, and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and came under fire for a potential violation of his gag order.
Merchan is reportedly considering fining Trump $3,000 for sharing this video of Loomer “verbally attacking Merchan’s wife.” Loomer simply pointed out that “Judge Merchan’s wife literally worked for Letitia James.”
Trump trial: Judge Merchan mulls prosecution request to fine Trump $3,000 for attacking witnesses
“During a lunch break, Trump posted a video of right-wing ally Laura Loomer verbally attacking Merchan’s wife.” —-@YahooNews
“Attacking” https://t.co/j6fNstfFsG
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 16, 2024
Loomer spoke to Ingrassia and The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson on Tuesday with more on the “all Muslim” illegals from Africa and threatened consequences against Trump for sharing her video:
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Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has reportedly raised nearly $1 Million since making good on his campaign promises to indict Trump.
Per the New York Times, “Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A., campaigned as the best candidate to go after the former president.”
Jury selection is still underway for Bragg’s election interference lawfare case against Trump. Last April, Trump was hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
The far-left judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels trial trampled all over Trump’s First Amendment rights with a strict gag order.
Juan Merchan earlier this month expanded Trump’s gag order to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members after it was learned that the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign and received tens of MILLIONS of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the first seven jurors in liberal Judge Juan Merchan’s Kangaroo Court, and they all get their news from the far-left New York Times. The trial is rigged.
Right Side Broadcasting Network reports,
Amid the start of President Donald Trump’s now-infamous “hush money” trial in a Manhattan Criminal Court, disturbing allegations have emerged that paint a picture of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s possible financial boons for prosecuting the 45th president.
According to a report from Newsweek, based on campaign finance data, Bragg has raised more than $800,000 since indicting the 45th president in 2023. If he is not reelected in 2025, his term as DA in Manhattan will end in 2026.
The outlet stated that the money was raised between March 2023 and the last reporting date of January 2024.
It can be recalled that Bragg, in 2022, reduced 52% of all felony charges to misdemeanors. He then elevated a misdemeanor charge against Donald Trump, where the statute of limitations had already expired, to felony charges last year.
As Bradley Smith, Institute for Free Speech Chairman, Capital University law professor, and former Federal Election Commission Chairman, notes in an op-ed for The Federalist, the made-up felony charges against Trump are completely baseless, setting aside the clear conflicts of interest with the prosecution and the judge.
DA Alvin Bragg argues that Trump falsified business records in order to “conceal crimes that hid information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election” and to “boost his electoral prospects.” Under this theory, Bragg claims that Trump violated campaign finance laws by not publicly reporting so-called campaign expenditures to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
As Smith writes,
Misreporting business expenses is normally, at most, a misdemeanor. Bragg seeks to ratchet it up to a felony here by arguing that the misreporting was done to cover up a crime. That alleged crime is a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The theory is that Trump’s payments to Daniels were campaign expenditures and thus needed to be publicly reported as such. By not reporting the expenditure, the theory goes, Trump prevented the public from knowing information that might have influenced their votes.
But let’s think about this for a minute. Political candidates do things all the time that are “for the purpose of influencing an election,” but that, nonetheless, are not considered campaign expenditures. For example, a candidate cannot buy a new suit, get his teeth whitened, or pay for cosmetic surgery with campaign funds, even if he does so for the purpose of looking good on the campaign trail.
That’s because, in campaign finance law, these types of expenditures are known as “personal use.” FECA specifically prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to personal use, defined as any expenditure “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
Does anyone really think a candidate should be able to use campaign funds to settle lawsuits, or threatened lawsuits, arising from activities that occurred long before his candidacy? It’s stressful being a candidate, and a little relaxation may make the candidate more effective on the stump. Does that mean your campaign contribution should pay for a candidate massage? How about a country club membership, or tickets to the Super Bowl (after all, the candidate might take along a potential donor)?
Herein lies the most frightening part of this prosecution: Had Trump made these payments with campaign funds, it seems a near certainty he would now be facing criminal charges for a knowing and willful diversion of campaign funds to pay personal obligations. If Bragg’s prosecution is successful, it will mean a candidate can use campaign funds to pay almost any obligation that, the candidate might argue, would benefit his candidacy. Perhaps worse, zealous prosecutors could get a candidate coming or going — falsification of records if campaign funds are not used, and illegal personal use if campaign funds are used.
On Thursday, Joe Hoft published an article further explaining the complete lack of criminal conduct asserted by radical Soros-funded New York City Alvin Bragg in his lawsuit against President Trump. Joe Hoft was then invited on The War Room with Steve Bannon to discuss his investigation:
Per Greg Price on X:
In 2022, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg reduced 52% of all felony charges to a misdemeanor.
In 2023, he then elevated a misdemeanor to a felony that both the DOJ and his predecessor refused to go after so he could indict the Republican nominee for president.
Today, Donald Trump will be in court for it because America is currently making Putin’s Russia look like a free country.
In 2022, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg reduced 52% of all felony charges to a misdemeanor.
In 2023, he then elevated a misdemeanor to a felony that both the DOJ and his predecessor refused to go after so he could indict the Republican nominee for president.
Today, Donald Trump will…
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 15, 2024
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Joe Biden, Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the RINOs are colluding on an aid package for Ukraine, which may upset plans by some Republican lawmakers to remove Johnson from the Speaker’s chair.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Palestine. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who recently announced that we will cosponsor a motion to vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker, said on X, “Biden backs Johnson’s plan because Johnson’s plan is Biden’s plan.”
Biden backs Johnson’s plan because Johnson’s plan is Biden’s plan: https://t.co/A60ILkeawg
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 17, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) the motion thanks to his actions over the House Omnibus bill, which will fund the government until September 30.
Massie announced in an X post on Monday, “I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by Rep. MTG. He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.”
I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by @RepMTG.
He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 16, 2024
Massie further slammed Johnson for leading the House to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and his push for another disastrous foreign aid package:
Speaker Johnson has led the GOP to pass:
1) an omnibus that spends more than Pelosi’s highest year
2) an expansion of the domestic warrantless surveillance program
and this week he’s pushing
3) Schumer’s dream bill which contains $100 billion of foreign aid, mostly for war.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 16, 2024
Massie’s support is pivotal given the slim Republican majority in the House, which has been further diminished by the resignations of several GOP members and the ousting of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). This delicate balance suggests that a unified Democrat vote, coupled with the motion to vacate, could end Johnson’s tenure as Speaker.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Johnson was in negotiations with the Biden regime to introduce a substantial funding package for foreign conflicts and whip up opposition from the Democrats to a Motion to Vacate against him.
On Monday, Johnson said he is ready to fund the hapless Ukraine War. Johnson is not capable of fighting back against the Uniparty cabal so he joined them – once again.
Still no southern border security… These people care more about protecting Ukrainians than they do Americans.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) also slammed the foreign aid bills, asking, “Where is the funding for our border? $48.43 BILLION more for Ukraine but NO security for AMERICANS?”
Where is the funding for our border?
$48.43 BILLION more for Ukraine but NO security for AMERICANS?
Unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/lhWCact7mJ
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) April 16, 2024
The Biden White House released the following statement on Johnson’s Ukraine funding package:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the House’s National Security Supplemental
I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. Israel is facing unprecedented attacks from Iran, and Ukraine is facing continued bombardment from Russia that has intensified dramatically in the last month.
The House must pass the package this week and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: We stand with our friends, and we won’t let Iran or Russia succeed.
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Tyler Robinson, a special advisor at the United States Small Business Administration (SBA), recently revealed to an O’Keefe Media Group undercover journalist the inner workings of the Biden Administration and who is really running the White House.
Robinson says he reports to Arthur Plews, SBA Chief of Staff, who reports to SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman.
He revealed that some refer to former Facebook board member and Biden Chief of Staff Jeff Zients as “the second most powerful person in Washington” and that “by getting Jeff’s sign off, you’re getting the President to sign off.”
“Whatever this guy says, it’s what the President says,” Robinson told an undercover journalist. Robinson also said Jeff Zients is the most powerful person at the White House, “other than like the President.” Zients is even more powerful than Kamala Harris “in some ways” but “not legally,” according to Robinson.
Zeints’ approval for activity within the Administration includes his sign-off on activity that potentially violates the Hatch Act, which prevents federal employees from taking part in partisan activity or influencing an election. Robinson says that SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman indirectly campaigns for Joe Biden and helps to get Democrats elected in Congress. “Pretty much every week, she goes somewhere in the country… We can tell their accomplishments; she can’t like go on a stage and be like, ‘Hey, vote for Joe Biden.’ Like that’s illegal,” said Robinson.
“Any time we go [to a state], we try to visit with a Member of Congress, if they’re a Democrat… because then we can help them get reelected as well. So we’re going to Montana because Senator Tester, he’s the Democratic Senator from Montana, like he’s in a tough reelection race, and that’s like a seat we need in the Senate to maintain a majority.” Robinson added, “We all, like as an office, were going, and the White House was like, ‘yes, go. Invite Senator Tester. Don’t invite the other Senator because he’s a Republican, and don’t invite the two members of Congress because they’re Republicans.'” He then confirmed that the White House authorized the SBA to campaign for this Senator.
Robinson also revealed that Biden’s shadow cabinet of advisors, which includes Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton. According to Robinson, Hillary Clinton is close to people in the White House, such as Director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, a former employee of Hillary Clinton, and uses them to influence policy. “She does a lot of the international stuff… They have like the Clinton Initiative,” he added.
Recall that O’Keefe previously exposed another White House official who admitted that Joe Biden’s mental health is in decline and that there are closed-door discussions about how to remove Kamala Harris from the 2024 ticket without stirring a “scandal” and giving poor optics to the American people.
Now we know who’s running the White House behind Joe Biden’s rapidly declining ability.
Watch below via James O’Keefe:
BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Uncovers who is really running the White House. Undercover cameras catch Special Advisor @SBAgov call former @facebook Board Member @WHCOS @ZientsJeff27574 “the second most powerful person in Washington” where “whatever this guy says, it’s what the President says.” Asked by OMG’s American Swiper Citizen Journalist “is Jeff [Zeints] more powerful than Kamala,” Robinson confirms “Yeah.” @VP @KamalaHarris. Robinson also states that @BarackObama and @HillaryClinton are still involved behind the scenes at the White House.
Tyler Robinson, Special Advisor to the Chief of Staff of Administrator @SBAIsabel Guzman, details how @WhiteHouse directs @SBAIsabel Guzman to campaign for @POTUS so constantly that “[Guzman] is the most traveled member of the cabinet. Like pretty much every week.” Under the guise of talking to small business owners, Guzman travels across the country to help elect Democrats – especially swing state Democrats like @SenatorTester: “The White House was like, yes, go. Invite Senator Tester. Don’t invite the other Senator because he’s a Republican. And don’t invite the two members of Congress because they’re Republicans.” Such actions may be considered potential violations of the Hatch Act, which restricts federal employees from taking an active part in partisan political management and forbids them from campaigning for or against candidates.
Robinson says Guzman acts “as a spokesperson for Biden” as “…we try to visit with a member of Congress if they’re a Democrat…Just because then we can help them get re-elected as well.” @US_OSC @JudicialWatch
BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Uncovers who is really running the White House. Undercover cameras catch Special Advisor @SBAgov call former @facebook Board Member @WHCOS @ZientsJeff27574 “the second most powerful person in Washington” where “whatever this guy says, it’s what the… pic.twitter.com/vLeollXEFX
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 17, 2024
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In the last month, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and now this.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday that Joe Biden, the Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the RINOs are colluding on an aid package for Ukraine, which may upset plans by some Republican lawmakers to remove Johnson from the Speaker’s chair.
On Tuesday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Johnson was negotiating with the Biden regime to introduce a substantial funding package for foreign conflicts and whip up opposition from the Democrats to a Motion to Vacate against him.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Gaza and other conflict zones around the world. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
This legislation includes a loan structure, which comes after Mike Johnson spoke at a press conference with President Trump at the Mar a Lago on April 12. The President expressed his desire to make the funding “in the form of a loan” and stop “handing out gifts.”
According to a source with knowledge about the press conference, Mike Johnson went to the Mar a Lago to speak with President Trump about a variety of issues critical to the GOP and to show unity within the party. Johnson originally hoped to cover support for his Ukraine aid package in the press conference, though after what appeared to be a lack of enthusiasm, the topic shifted to election integrity efforts. During the conference, a reporter asked Trump whether he would support a Ukrainian aid bill if the Speaker moved forward with it.
Trump responded to the reporter’s question:
Trump: We’re looking at it right now, and they’re talking about it, and we’re thinking about making it in the form of a loan instead of just a gift. We keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars, and we’ll take a look at it. But much more importantly to me is the fact that Europe has to step up, and they have to give money. They have to equalize it. They don’t equalize. I’m very upset about it because they’re affected much more than we are. The Ukraine situation would have never happened if I was president. It would have never, ever happened, and everybody says that, including Democrats. That it happened is such an outrage. Millions of people are dead right now—both sides, millions of people are dead. Cities are blown to ashes; you’ll never rebuild those cities and certainly not like they were, so beautiful. And this is something that should have never happened. October 7 should have never happened in Israel. It should have never happened. What happened there was outrageous. Iran was broke when I was president. People weren’t buying oil from Iran. They weren’t allowed to. If they were going to buy oil from Iran, then they weren’t going to do any business in the US. And I said it to China, I said it to everybody. They weren’t doing business. They were broke. They didn’t have money for Hamas. They didn’t have money for Hezbollah. It would have never happened. October 7 would have never happened; It did happen, and now it’s a disaster, and it’s only getting worse. So, it’s very sad.
Via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
However, the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term is over in January. If Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later.
From the text of H.R. 8035 – Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024:
More below:
(d) CANCELLATION OF INDEBTEDNESS.—
(1) The President may not before November 15, 2024 take any action related to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine that cancels any indebtedness incurred by Ukraine pursuant to this section.
(2) At any time after November 15, 2024, the President may, subject to congressional review provided by section 508, cancel up to 50 percent of the total indebtedness incurred by Ukraine or antici- pated to be incurred by Ukraine with respect to economic assistance and related expenses made available under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia’’ in title IV of this Act. Upon completion of the congressional review process set forth in section 508, such cancellation shall be final and irrevocable.
(3) The President may, subject to congressional review provided by section 508, cancel any remaining indebtedness to the government of Ukraine under this section at any time after January 1, 2026. Upon completion of the congressional review process set forth in section 508, such cancellation shall be final and irrevocable.
In section 508 of the bill, which gives Congress the authority to review Ukraine loan forgiveness and pass a joint resolution in disapproval, Biden is also given the power to veto any resolution disapproving the action–if House RINOs even pass one. Congress can only delay loan forgiveness by the President for “5 calendar days after the veto message is received by the appropriate House of Congress.”
More below:
SEC. 508. (a) REPORT REQUIRED.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, before taking any action described in paragraph (2), the President shall submit to Congress a written report that describes that action and the reason for that action.
(2) ACTION DESCRIBED.—An action described in this paragraph is an action related to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine authorized by section 507(d)(1).
(b) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PERIOD.—
(1) 2024.—During calendar year 2024, if the President submits to Congress a report under subsection (a)(1), the President may not take any action with respect to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine until the later of—
(A) the date that is 10 calendar days after the date of such submission; or
(B) the date on which Congress has considered and failed to pass a joint resolution of disapproval, as provided in this section.
(2) SUCCEEDING YEARS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—During calendar year 2025 or any calendar year thereafter, if the President submits to Congress a report under subsection (a)(1), the President may not take any action with respect to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine until the later of—
(i) the date that is 30 calendar days after the date of such submission, except as provided in subparagraph (B); or
(ii) the date on which Congress has failed to pass a joint resolution of disapproval, as provided in this section.
(B) EXCEPTION.—The period for congressional review of a report submitted under subsection (a)(1) shall be 60 calendar days if the report is submitted to Congress on or after July 10 and on or before September 7 in any calendar year.
(3) VETO MESSAGE.—If the President vetoes a joint resolution of disapproval, he may not take any action with respect to the indebtedness of Ukraine for 5 calendar days after the veto message is received by the appropriate House of Congress.
Via Greg Price on X:
But wait it gets even funnier.
If the president cancels Ukraine’s debt, Congress can pass… wait for it… a resolution disproving of it!
… which the president can also veto. pic.twitter.com/o8Ijou7J3s
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 17, 2024
In response, Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) noted how Biden also wants to forgive “100% of student loans” and will likely exercise the power that weak Republicans handed over.
This for the President who wants to “forgive” 100% of student loans. https://t.co/o4Rt5F3ncV
— Bob Good for Congress (@GoodForCongress) April 17, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. also chimed in:
Trump: The Swamp thinks you’re stupid. They think every conservative in America is an idiot who will fall for their bullsh*t!!!
The Swamp thinks you’re stupid. They think every conservative in America is an idiot who will fall for their bullshit!!! https://t.co/UzvkgrPSdh
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 17, 2024
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has introduced multiple amendments to Biden and Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package, which funds Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other conflict zones around the world as our US Southern Border remains wide open and Biden’s Border Bloodbath rages on.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Gaza and other conflict zones around the world. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
One amendment proposed by Marjorie Taylor Greene to a funding bill that would provide $26.38 billion to Israel would divert some but not all funding toward the development of space laser technology to finally secure the US southern border.
The amendment reads, “By the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.”
“Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world. I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense. America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses,” said Greene in a post on X:
Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world.
I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense.
America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses. pic.twitter.com/oDeDqTXvQQ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 18, 2024
Another amendment would require members who vote for the Ukraine aid bill to enlist in the Ukrainian military and go fight the war themselves. The amendment reads, “Any Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military.”
Greene said on X, “I mean if you want to fund the war, why don’t you go fight in it. Show your support for Ukraine.”
I mean if you want to fund the war, why don’t you go fight in it.
Show your support for Ukraine. https://t.co/J7JIvJgji5
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 18, 2024
Greene further introduced two amendments that would slash foreign aid, presumably to Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, by 100% and dedicate those resources to helping Americans impacted by the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and Hawaii wildfire disasters.
The Amendments read:
Each amount made available by this Act is hereby reduced by 100 percent, and such amounts shall be made available to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist the communities in and around East Palestine, Ohio.
Each amount made available by this Act is hereby reduced by 100 percent and such amounts shall be made available to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the purposes of aiding the communities in and around Lahaina, Hawaii.
Via Nick Sortor:
JUST IN: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced MULTIPLE amendments to the Ukraine aid bill
Two of which divert 100% of the funds to support the victims of East Palestine, Ohio AND Maui, Hawaii.
Now THAT’S how you put AMERICA FIRST!
JUST IN: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced MULTIPLE amendments to the Ukraine aid bill
Two of which divert 100% of the funds to support the victims of East Palestine, Ohio AND Maui, Hawaii.
Now THAT’S how you put AMERICA FIRST! pic.twitter.com/N2gdprqtAo
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 18, 2024
It can be recalled that Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of The House late last month after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans. The vote – 286 to 134 – had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ The bill was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The bill, which passed last month before Congress went on recess, left our border wide open for Joe Biden and his dangerous illegal immigrants and continues the practice of flying millions of illegals into and across the United States. It further allocates millions of dollars for abortions up until birth and for youth transgender or LGBTQ programs.
In the last month alone, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up the $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and the disastrous foreign aid package introduced yesterday.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced in an X post on Monday, “I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by Rep. MTG. He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.”
The post AMERICA FIRST: Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Multiple Amendments to Speaker Johnson and Biden’s Ukraine Bill – Diverts Aid to Our Southern Border and 100% of Ukraine Funds to Support Americans Impacted by Disasters appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Speaker of The House Mike Johnson on Tuesday told reporters, “I regard myself as a wartime speaker… in a literal sense,” as the embattled speaker faces pushback from his Republican colleagues for his leadership since taking over the House.
Who are we at war with?
As David Sacks, co-host of the All In podcast, said on X, “Mike Johnson proclaims that he is a ‘wartime speaker’ but what war is America in? America does not need to be in any wars unless fools in Washington make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Johnson: Look, we are in unprecedented times, we are in dangerous times. This has been articulated here, around the world, and here at home. We need steady leadership, we need steady hands at the wheel. I regard myself as a wartime speaker, I mean, in a literal sense we are. I knew that when I took the gavel. I didn’t anticipate that this would be an easy path. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich posted a couple of days ago on his social media that this is the hardest challenge that has faced a speaker, probably in the history of the country, and the moment that we’re in right now, he said, arguably may be comparable to the Civil War but maybe worse.
This comes after a post by Newt Gingrich that seemingly got to Johnson’s head.
As a former Speaker of the House I want To say how much I admire the steady, composed and persistent way Speaker Mike Johnson is working through the hardest job any Speaker has had to contend with, with the possible exception of the Civil War. We should all keep him in our…
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) April 10, 2024
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who recently announced that we will cosponsor a motion to vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker, chimed in on X, “Get a grip; we are not at war. You can’t use that as an excuse to justify passage of warrantless spying, a bloated omnibus, or $100 billion in foreign aid.”
“I regard myself as a wartime Speaker.”
Get a grip; we are not at war. You can’t use that as an excuse to justify passage of warrantless spying, a bloated omnibus, or $100 billion in foreign aid. https://t.co/hOb0IRNxVr
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 17, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday that Mike Johnson is trying to make good with Democrats and save himself from an ousting. This means negotiating with the Biden regime to introduce a substantial funding package for foreign conflicts to whip up opposition from the Democrats to a Motion to Vacate against him.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Gaza and other conflict zones around the world. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
In the last month, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and now this.
Roger Stone came in hot, telling his followers on X, “Speaker Mike Johnson sold us the f*ck out on FISA,” and declaring that he will not be speaker next year:
Speaker @MikeJohnson sold us the fuck out on FISA. While I don’t think we can afford to vacate the chair now with just a two seat margin ,when we extend our lead in the House in the next general election, Mike Johnson will not be the next speaker.
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 18, 2024
Johnson is not capable of fighting back against the Uniparty cabal, let alone being a “wartime Speaker.”
The post SUCH BS: Self Proclaimed “Wartime Speaker” Mike Johnson Says His Situation is “Comparable to The Civil War but Maybe Worse” (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
An unpublished op-ed by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer discovered through a public records request reveals that he believes the First Amendment is “the biggest threat to elections and Democracy,” Americans ‘ opinions are “disturbing,” and that “it may be time to revisit our First Amendment jurisprudence.”
The election official in Arizona’s largest county also refers to his constituents and Trump supporters who know that Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win 81 million votes as “gullible,” “crazies,” and “idiots.” He even suggests that suing citizens for defamation would be a remedy to his problems if it weren’t for the First Amendment.
Jack Butler, editor of The National Review, rejected the drafted op-ed, citing Richer’s attack on freedom of speech.
However, days earlier, Richer apparently gave a similarly written speech, ironically in commemoration of Constitution Day, to students of the Maricopa County Community College District, which was approved by the district beforehand.
In his drafted speech, Richer warns, “Despite what I’m going to say, I’m a huge fan of the Constitution” before remarking that “the Constitution today is in some ways a thorn in the side of my office. Specifically the First Amendment.” He also states, “It’s possible that our First Amendment jurisprudence needs to change,” even calling it a “religious problem.” In closing, Richer tells the college students, “If you have some time to spare to think about the problem of disinformation, I’d greatly appreciate it, and so too would all elections workers in the country.”
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on a similar op-ed published on CNN before The National Review rejected his more edgy and anti-American opinion piece. In his prior article, titled “What Happened to Trusting Experts?” Richer complained about the so-called conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election and the ongoing Arizona 2020 election audit while criticizing COVID-19 and vaccine skeptics as “Average Joes” who “somehow know better.”
This is the same Maricopa County official who sued Kari Lake with the backing of a Soros-funded nonprofit for speaking out and criticizing the stolen 2022 election, where she led by double digits in the polls until the intentional voter suppression that targeted Republicans on election day. But Richer, who helped oversee a sham election and is now trying to silence critics, claims that “the gravest threat to voting rights and our elected form of government is no longer the systemic disenfranchisement of a particular class of people, but instead the undermining of the entire election system through lies and disinformation.”
It should be remembered that Richer oversaw early voting in Lake’s stolen 2022 election for governor and founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans dark money PAC aimed at eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda. He is anything but an objective election official, and when catastrophes such as 60% of machines failing on election day and an estimated hundreds of thousands of early ballots being counted with no signature verification occurred in a race that Lake reportedly lost by less than 1%, it would seem reasonable for Lake to criticize and question the integrity of the officials who oversaw the election.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Kari Lake recently pled no contest in the lawfare defamation case, which is backed by a Soros-linked Protect Democracy, so that she could focus on her campaign against Soros-funded Democrat Ruben Gallego. This is the same leftist organization that is currently engaged in lawfare to silence The Gateway Pundit for questioning elections. Though they haven’t admitted it publicly, they seemingly share the same views that the First Amendment is “a thorn in the side” and needs to be diluted.
It was further revealed after the 2022 election that Stephen Richer’s office colluded with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to censor information they disagree with surrounding elections in Maricopa County, explicitly mentioning The Gateway Pundit’s reporting. Clearly, he hates the First Amendment.
As our readers recall, The Gateway Pundit successfully sued Maricopa County for unconstitutionally barring our correspondent, Jordan Conradson, from their press room, citing “a real or perceived conflict of interest” and claiming he is “not a bona fide correspondent of repute.”
Still, they allowed the far-left fake news media into their press room. They didn’t want us in their press room before, during, and after the rigged 2022 election because we would have asked about the actual conflicts of interest:
Grassroots activist and EZAZ.org founder Merissa Hamilton published a bombshell thread exposing Stephen Richer’s anti-First Amendment emails on X:
MARICOPA COUNTY FEATURING ELECTION OFFICIAL STEPHEN RICHER:
“THE FIRST AMENDMENT is the Biggest Threat to Democracy and Elections”Many have seen the article by @azfreenews on Stephen using government resources to have staff compile news on his “personal”… pic.twitter.com/vnXvDHGREJ
— Merissa Hamilton
Via Thread Reader:
MARICOPA COUNTY FEATURING ELECTION OFFICIAL STEPHEN RICHER:
“THE FIRST AMENDMENT is the Biggest Threat to Democracy and Elections”Many have seen the article by @azfreenews on Stephen using government resources to have staff compile news on his “personal” defamation lawsuit, but not everyone saw in the article that he tried to get published by @nro, but it was TOO EXTREME for even them
WHY WAS IT TOO EXTREME?
Let’s break it down, shall we!
Article: azfreenews.com/2024/03/marico…
Maricopa County Recorder Had Staff Compile News On His Personal Defamation Lawsuit Against Kari Lake – AZ FREE NEWSBy Staff Reporter | Public records revealed that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer tasked staff with compiling articles and online content pertaining to his personal defamation lawsuit against K…https://azfreenews.com/2024/03/maricopa-county-recorder-had-staff-compile-news-on-his-personal-defamation-lawsuit-against-kari-lake/
In August of 2021, Jack Butler, the Submissions Editor at National Review, reached out to Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, asking if he would like to place another op-ed in @NRO
Stephen offered to write a piece making the case that the “Stop the Steal” movement is “anti-conservative”
But on Sept. 23rd, 2021, Recorder Stephen Richer presented a very different op-ed & copied one of his staff on the email
Stephen said, “Not the article I promised, but what do you think about this one”
Jack Butler from @NRO gave a reply that it was essentially too extreme for them
What made it so controversial?
Jack said Recorder Stephen Richer needed to “shed the bits about reconsidering First Amendment jurisprudence”
But he could keep the parts about the D *mini*n lawsuits “having their desired effect”
Oh my gosh! What desired effect is that? Oh boy, buckle up!
Recorder Stephen Richer opens up lamenting that his job has caused him to be disturbed by humanity
And that’s led to him having a new perspective on the First Amendment…. He references European laws as an alternative
You know, the ones where the Police arrest you for posting almost any opinion on social media that the government doesn’t approve of at any given moment
It should be noted that as I write this, there have been several posts of the FBI visiting people to “check in on their social media posts”
He then moves into fabricating a ridiculous fake example of an obviously fake statement saying that “gullible people” might believe this “fake” set of factsHe goes on to lament that the First Amendment is particularly “protective of political speech” and that seems to be a BIG problem for him when it comes to people talking about elections
In Recorder Stephen’s world of receiving a paycheck from your hard-earned tax dollars, YOUR OPINIONS AREN’T WELCOME!
Recorder Stephen continues by saying that “local crazies” — YES YOU — believe the “lies” about election operations
We should apparently just TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT as the MINISTRY OF TRUTH — how very Orwellian
He claims prominent politicians tell him in private that they believe elections are fine
He says the First Amendment means he “can’t touch these idiots” — especially for him as a public official
He suggests suing for DEFAMATION as a remedy — sound familiar
Recorder Stephen Richer goes on to complain about America First news @OANN and Telegram, calling his voters “IDIOTS”
What an election tagline — “YOU ARE AN IDIOT IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SAY AND VOTE FOR ME BECAUSE I AM THE GOVERNMENT”
Recorder Stephen Richer says that the First Amendment is “the biggest threat to elections and democracy”
He claims the First Amendment is the cause of people “dropping out of elections” — Of course, people losing trust in elections has absolutely nothing to do with citizens just wanting the most secure and competent elections possible that FOLLOW THE LAW {note my sarcasm}
This is a theme we’ve seen recently at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, where Supervisor Clint Hickman blamed peaceful citizens participating in public comment as the reason they face violent threats
I am a survivor of violence, and I find Hickman’s statements extremely offensive and, quite frankly anti-American
While violence should always be condemned, it’s massively irresponsible for a public official to falsely blame peaceful people for the actions of others that have absolutely nothing to do with them
We’ve heard such rhetoric from despots in the last century in Europe, and it didn’t end well
While I condemn such rhetoric too, Clint Hickman has a right to say such haphazard speech, seemingly looking to whip people up into a frenzy since it was getting close to the 11:30 MAG Region closing time
REMINDER: Elections are the First Amendment antidote to politicians we don’t like!!!!
PS. As a former government employee, I also experienced threats. There are a lot of unstable people out there, and everyone is their verbal punching bag, unfortunately. If only there was a large county that had a tremendous budget for mental health to help people resolve their demons
NOPE! Too busy distributing health services by race instead of need.
Recorder Stephen Richer closes his op-ed with the hope that the D* mini *n defamation lawsuit “resets” some of this First Amendment jurisprudence “landscape”
He goes on to suggest that whether or not the election tabulation systems provider wins their defamation lawsuits, it’s within the government’s best interest to limit First Amendment rights in America
This is TERRIFYING STUFF!!!!
The man (Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer) who oversees one of the most essential functions of the First Amendment, OUR RIGHT TO VOTE, believes it’s the government’s role — in a way his job — to limit that fundamental human right of speech
The Founders must be rolling over in their graves!!!
Without free speech, the consent to govern does not exist! We quickly slip into tyranny!!
But IT GETS WORSE!!!!
A few days earlier in 2021, Recorder Stephen Richer sent his staff a version of the op-ed to use as a speech on CONSTITUTION DAY — a sacred day in the history of human rights
NOTE: He says he oversees the administration of elections, which is precisely the type of description he’s suing @karilake for defamation over
Maricopa County Recorder Steven Richer’s speech seems designed to trample on the Constitution, but he tries to give it a smiley diet-coke cover
He reminds us he’s broken the main promise he made to us — “Make the Recorder’s Office Boring Again”
Where do we get a refund for that one?
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer goes into the Constitutional history of voting rights before laying down the hammer and fully trampling on one of the most sacred documents in human rights history
THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS A THORN IN HIS SIDE
He says: “I posit that the gravest threat to voting rights and our elected form of government is no longer the systematic disenfranchisement of a particular class of people, but instead the undermining of the entire
election system through lies and disinformation.And it is in this respect, that the Constitution today is in some ways a thorn in the side of my office. Specifically the First Amendment.”
(WHAT ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH)
Well, yeah, dude…. LITERALLY, THE POINT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS SO IT WOULD BE A THORN IN THE SIDE OF TYRANTS AND DESPOTS
He also complains of “C*VID” misinformation on the vaccine — This is where I get especially perturbed
My side note: I am still heartbroken that I lost the co-founder of and one of my closest friends earlier this year in part to a common lethal symptom of taking vaccines, who was forced to take the vaccine by Trudeau to see her newborn grandbaby
My dear friend was disabled, so in 2020, she took a scooter she adjusted for her needs and went door to door in triple-digit weather to get that “Make the Recorder’s Office Boring Again” man elected in support of the FIRST AMENDMENT and free, fair, and competent elections!
The 501c3 arm of our organization is currently suing Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and the County. My co-founder planned on being the main plaintiff because she saw it as the best recourse to get that man and his office to follow the law, giving us our best chance to fairly re-elect President Trump and save freedom! She wanted Stephen to know how she felt about his job performance.
Unfortunately, she died suddenly right before the lawsuit was supposed to be filed.
On the morning of her death, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting to review the Presidential Preference Election Plan. We couldn’t make it because I was attending to her family in ensuring her body was well looked after according to her wishes.
Reportedly, Clint Hickman complained we weren’t at the meeting. I would have spoken about this at the PPE certification meeting last week, but Chairman @jacksellers banned public commentEZAZ.org
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer closes his speech by saying, “he doesn’t have a solution” to the problem of the pesky First Amendment —
He calls it a RELIGIOUS PROBLEM too — HAPPY EASTER FELLOW CHRISTIANS!
He says he’s “hesitant to disrupt something that has served this country well for so long”
Wow! A lot can change in two (& three) years!!!! Doesn’t seem so hesitant now.
BUT IT STILL GETS WORSE!!!
The response from his staff (presumably) wasn’t anything like Jack Butler’s — kindly saying it’s too extreme
NOPE!!!
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s staff is ALL-IN saying, “I love it”
This man, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, NOW has the hubris to ask the voters to re-hire him to finish what he’s started
This begs the question
If he’s using his government staff to assist in this effort of First Amendment jurisprudence, what exactly is happening in his office with your hard-earned money?
That’s a great question and I hope we get some answers on this!!!!
In the meantime, you can download the full speech and op-ed public record requests from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer at
BY THE WAY
It’s definitely just a coincidence that my entire account was suspended yesterday while I have been working on government accountability in Maricopa County with a whole department run by a man who seeks First Amendment Jurisprudence while the Supreme Court is reviewing a case as to whether or not the government can coordinate with social media companies to suppress our speech and even access to the platforms
TOTAL COINCIDENCE!!!!!
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Arizona Congressional Candidate Abe Hamadeh (AZ-08) laid out a comprehensive election integrity plan, exclusively to The Gateway Pundit, to ensure elections are free and fair and election fraudsters are punished when he is elected to U.S. Congress.
Hamadeh plans to introduce legislation to crack down on cheaters, illegal immigrants voting in local and federal elections, ranked-choice voting and private funds, such as Zuckerbucks, influencing elections.
Maricopa County, Arizona, which holds 60% of the state’s electorate and the fourth largest county in the Country, received $3 million in ‘Zuckerbucks’ from a Democrat non-profit before the stolen 2020 election. Still, roughly four years later, Nobody knows who accepted it or where it went.
Hamadeh told The Gateway Pundit in a statement, “I fully support election integrity efforts to ensure every vote counts and every voice is heard. A secure election is fundamental to our democracy and the very fabric our country was founded upon, and I am committed to upholding the integrity of our electoral process.”
“I firmly believe we must implement a unified standard of voting in order to achieve this. My comprehensive election integrity plan will achieve just that, and I look forward to proposing these policies on day one in Congress,” He continued.
As The Gateway Pundit readers recall, Abe Hamadeh’s race for Arizona Attorney General in 2022 was stolen by just 280 votes after 60% of voting machines in Maricopa County due to intentional voter suppression that targeted Republicans on election day. Additionally, thousands of ballots were not counted due to wrongfully canceled voter registrations and ballot misreads across the state of Arizona.
No serious person believes the 2022 election in Arizona was run fairly for statewide candidates.
President Trump has endorsed Abraham Hamadeh for Congress in Arizona’s 8th District, noting that Abe is “Strong on the Border, the Military/Vets, Crime, Cutting Taxes, Election Integrity, and Protecting our Great Second Amendment.”
Like Trump, Hamadeh refused to surrender to the radical left and their stolen elections and fought his election lawsuit all the way through the corrupt Kangaroo Courts.
Abe’s five-point plan to secure elections nationwide is as follows:
Voter ID Requirement for Federal Elections: I will introduce legislation that requires states to adopt voter identification for federal races. If a citizen does not have a valid identification, they will not be allowed to vote.
Federal Ban on Ranked Choice Voting: On day one in Congress, I will introduce legislation that imposes a federal ban on ranked choice voting for federal races. At its core, ranked choice voting is unconstitutional and should be banned at the federal level. Ranked choice voting takes away our country’s long history of a vigorous primary system, confuses voters, and makes it nearly impossible to conduct audits to ensure election integrity.
Withhold Federal Funding From Cities that Allow Non-Citizens to Vote: In Congress, I will advocate for withholding federal funding to cities that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Voting is a right that extends to all lawful citizens of the United States. Any individual who is in the United States illegally should not be allowed to vote in any local election.
Strict Penalties for Election Fraud: In Congress, I will introduce legislation that imposes severe penalties for election fraud to deter individuals from engaging in fraudulent activities including making voter fraud a federal crime. Election fraud is a severe crime and any individual found guilty of violating election laws or undermining the integrity of the electoral process will be prosecuted accordingly.
Ban Corporate and Non-Profit Funding: I will introduce legislation to prevent all private donations to help run elections. Americans should never have another “Zuckerbucks” interference in an election. Free and fair elections are the centerpiece of our country and there is no room for corporate meddling to tilt outcomes and further encourage widespread fraud.
In addition, Congress should allocate funds for states to upgrade and secure their voting machines, including regular cybersecurity assessments and prohibit the use of internet-based voting systems due to security vulnerabilities.
This includes enhancing cybersecurity measures to protect voter databases, election systems, and infrastructure from foreign interference or hacking attempts. We must establish protocols for responding to cybersecurity threats and ensure transparency in reporting any breaches or attempts to undermine election integrity.
“It is time to restore confidence in our democracy and protect the fundamental right to vote as Americans. I will tirelessly fight for the integrity of our elections for generations to come when elected to Congress. This is my promise to not only Arizona but to all Americans,” Hamadeh concluded.
Learn more and support Abe Hamadeh’s campaign for U.S. Congress here.
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RINO Rep. Mike Gallagher’s betrayal of Republican voters will continue, as the soon-to-resign Congressman from Wisconsin announced he will stay in the Swamp until Saturday to support the Biden-endorsed foreign aid package.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, “Gaza and other conflict zones around the world.” “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced multiple amendments to the Swamp’s foreign aid package to cut 100% of funding to Ukraine to provide aid to Americans impacted by the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and Hawaii wildfire disasters, but only some of the Israel aid to secure our southern border. Another amendment would require members who vote for the Ukraine aid bill to enlist in the Ukrainian military and go fight the war themselves. Still, it’s clearly not likely the RINO-Democrat Swamp will pass any of these.
Gallagher, who is currently chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, announced last month that he will not seek reelection.
Instead of serving out the rest of his term, Gallagher will retire early, leaving the GOP with a one-vote majority!
But it’s worse than that.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, if Gallagher had left before April 9th, he would have triggered a special election in his district. Because he is leaving after April 9th but still in April, there will be no special election, so the seat will remain empty until January when the new Congress convenes.
This ensures that Republicans will lose another seat of their majority in Congress.
Emerald Robinson believes Gallagher’s decision to leave shortly after RINO Ken Buck of Colorado is an organized tactic to put Republicans into the minority before the November elections. That way, Democrats can nullify a Trump victory by using the 14th Amendment to keep him from office.
The early retirements of Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher are part of a scheme by the uniparty cabal to stop Trump from winning the 2024 election.
How? They want to flip the House blue in time to nullify the electoral vote via the 14th Amendment.
— Emerald Robinson
This is how the Uniparty works.
They do everything they can to screw with their voters.
It can be recalled that Gallagher voted with the RINOs against the Mayorkas impeachment and for the $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, as well as reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702. Now, he is staying through the weekend to vote for the Uniparty’s foreign aid bill.
By next week, Republicans in the House will have bent over and let the Democrats ram the massive spending bill, FISA 702 reauthorization, and the disastrous foreign aid bill through.
Per Politico:
Speaker Mike Johnson may get a much-needed boost for his foreign aid plans as departing Rep. Mike Gallagher has flexibility to remain in town into Saturday to support the package, according to his office.
“The congressman has the flexibility to stay and support the aid package on Saturday,” a spokesperson told POLITICO. The Wisconsin Republican previously announced his intent to resign his seat Friday, which would further slash Johnson’s majority to a one-seat margin.
Even more despicable, shortly after making this announcement, Gallagher was awarded the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, “the highest honor for which civilians not employed by the Department of the Navy can receive,” according to the United States Navy.
Today, the Secretary of the Navy presented Rep. Gallagher with the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honorary award that the U.S. Navy can bestow upon a civilian not employed by the Navy. pic.twitter.com/uG1ArZBAQK
— Rep. Gallagher Press Office (@RepGallagher) April 17, 2024
Unlike America First Republicans, Uniparty RINOs receive all of the praise and awards when they sell out their country and their constituents.
The post RINO Mike Gallagher Announces He is Flexible to Pass Deep State’s Ukraine Aid Package and Will Stay Until Saturday – Biden Admin Awards Him With Highest Honor Civilian Can Receive From U.S. Navy appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Trump released a statement this afternoon on the massive amount of aid that the United States is providing to Ukraine as Europe does next to nothing, and Congress announces a new $95 billion foreign aid package.
“Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation!” said Trump in a scathing Truth Social post.
Speaker Mike Johnson, the self-proclaimed “wartime speaker,” announced on Wednesday that he is proceeding with his intention to introduce a series of foreign aid bills for discussion, including provisions for funding Ukraine.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, “Gaza and other conflict zones around the world.” “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
It’s been reported, yet to be confirmed, that details of Speaker Johnson’s foreign aid strategy have been leaked. The alleged specifics are as follows:
$95.34 billion, roughly 60% of which goes directly into the DIB:
Ukraine – $48.43 billion
- $19.85 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- $14.8 billion for DOD ops in EUCOME AOR
- $13.8 billion in USAl for Ukraine to purchase US weapons
- $8 million for IG
- ($7.85 billion direct support to Ukraine government)
Israel – $14.1 billion
- $4 billion for missile defense (Iron Dome and David’s Sling)
- $1.2 billion for Iron Beam
- $4 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- $3.5 billion in FMS for Israel to purchase US weapons
- $800 million for ammunition plant improvements
Red Sea Operations – $2.4 billion
- use for operations, force protection, and the replacement of combat
expendituresINDOPACOM – $2.58 billion
- 1.9 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- 542 million to INODPACOM UPL
- 133 million to enhance cruise missile components
Submarine Industrial Base – $3.3 billion
- Investment in dry dock construction, etc, in support of SIB and AUKIS
BREAKING: Speaker Johnson’s foreign aid plan has reportedly “leaked.” The terms are purportedly as follows:
$95.34 billion, roughly 60% of which goes directly into the DIB:
Ukraine – $48.43 billion
• $19.85 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD• $14.8 billion for DOD ops… pic.twitter.com/OMheF8zEVo
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) April 16, 2024
President Trump released a statement admonishing Europe for footing the bill and telling them to “GET MOVING.”
Trump: Why isn’t Europe giving more money to help Ukraine? Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation! Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America in order to help a Country in desperate need?
As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE! In addition, I am the only one who speaks for “ME” and, while it is a total mess caused by Crooked Joe Biden and the Incompetent Democrats, if I were President, this War would have never started!
President Trump aired similar sentiments in a press conference with Speaker Johnson last week, noting that “we keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars” and calling on Europe to give money to equalize America’s aid contributions. Trump also stated that he wanted to see Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress attach loan terms to the aid we’re providing.
Via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the “loan” structure in the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes FULL LOAN FORGIVENESS!
And still no southern border security… These people care more about protecting Ukrainians than they do Americans.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Thursday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) issued a stern warning to former President Donald Trump regarding his continued support for Speaker Mike Johnson, saying, “If Trump supports this monstrous, unpaid-for foreign aid debt buster, he will lose the very supporters who comprise his vanguard. Mark my words.”
In a pivotal turn, Senator Rand Paul has openly supported Congressman Thomas Massie’s call for Speaker Johnson’s resignation. “Thomas Massie’s doing the right thing. I think the Republicans need real leadership… I think we need someone who has some courage and some intestinal fortitude,” Sen. Paul said.
Rep. Matt Gaetz(R-FL) also said, “There is no other way to describe it, it is surrender, it is disappointing. I won’t support it.”
Boebert also joined in on X, commenting, “President Trump is right. We need his strength to regain peace! I oppose this insulting, America Last bill as well!”
President Trump is right.
We need his strength to regain peace!
I oppose this insulting, America Last bill as well! https://t.co/xvN99BLWvT
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 18, 2024
The post JUST IN: GET MOVING EUROPE! – President Trump Releases Statement in Opposition to Johnson/Biden Ukraine Funding Bill, Calls on Europe to “Match The Money Put in By The United States of America” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The House of Representatives will vote on three bills to hand out money to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world.
Votes on these bills are expected at approximately 1 pm ET.
The $95 billion package, endorsed by Joe Biden, provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Gaza and other conflict zones around the world. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
It’s been reported, yet to be confirmed, that details of Speaker Johnson’s foreign aid strategy have been leaked. The alleged specifics are as follows:
$95.34 billion, roughly 60% of which goes directly into the DIB:
Ukraine – $48.43 billion
- $19.85 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- $14.8 billion for DOD ops in EUCOME AOR
- $13.8 billion in USAl for Ukraine to purchase US weapons
- $8 million for IG
- ($7.85 billion direct support to Ukraine government)
Israel – $14.1 billion
- $4 billion for missile defense (Iron Dome and David’s Sling)
- $1.2 billion for Iron Beam
- $4 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- $3.5 billion in FMS for Israel to purchase US weapons
- $800 million for ammunition plant improvements
Red Sea Operations – $2.4 billion
- use for operations, force protection, and the replacement of combat
expendituresINDOPACOM – $2.58 billion
- 1.9 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- 542 million to INODPACOM UPL
- 133 million to enhance cruise missile components
Submarine Industrial Base – $3.3 billion
Investment in dry dock construction, etc, in support of SIB and AUKIS
President Trump on Thursday came out in opposition to the foreign aid package demanding that Europe equalize America’s contributions to Ukraine’s war–in Europe. “Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation!” said Trump in a scathing Truth Social post.
This comes after President Trump aired similar sentiments in a press conference with Speaker Johnson last week. He noted that “we keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars” and called on Europe to give money to equalize America’s aid contributions. Trump also stated that he wanted to see Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress attach loan terms to the aid we’re providing.
Via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the “loan” structure in the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes FULL LOAN FORGIVENESS!
the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
Watch live below:
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The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out money to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world.
The Democrats waved Ukranian flags on the floor of the United States House of Representatives as they voted to send $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
In the last month, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and now this.
As a result, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) recently announced that they will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker.
President Trump on Thursday came out in opposition to the foreign aid package demanding that Europe equalize America’s contributions to Ukraine’s war–in Europe. “Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation!” said Trump in a scathing Truth Social post.
This comes after President Trump aired similar sentiments in a press conference with Speaker Johnson last week. He noted that “we keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars” and called on Europe to give money to equalize America’s aid contributions. Trump also stated that he wanted to see Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress attach loan terms to the aid we’re providing.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the “loan” structure in the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes FULL LOAN FORGIVENESS!
the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
“I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion--40%--of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid." So what was the other $66 to $69 billion dollars for?," Roy asked on Bannon's War Room.
This could be one of the greatest financial frauds in US history – Next to the Biden COVID assistance fraud.
Meanwhile, our southern border remains wide open and our national security at extreme risk.
Rep Andy Biggs shared on X,
Democrats chanted “Ukraine” while waving Ukrainian flags on the Floor of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives.
The Uniparty approved $60.8 billion more for Ukraine while the US quickly approaches $35 trillion in debt.
The DC Cartel cares more about Ukraine than you.
Democrats chanted “Ukraine” while waving Ukrainian flags on the Floor of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives.
The Uniparty approved $60.8 billion more for Ukraine while the US quickly approaches $35 trillion in debt.
The DC Cartel cares more about Ukraine than you. pic.twitter.com/QldqOq3jtR
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) April 20, 2024
See the Republicans who voted in favor of sending nearly $100 billion overseas below:
On H.R. 8036 - Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, - 178 Republicans voted "YEA" with 207 Democrats:
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On H.R. 8035 - Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 - 101 Republicans voted "AYE" with 210 Democrats:
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On H.R. 8034 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 - 193 Republicans voted "AYE" with 173 Democrats:
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The post BREAKING: House RINOS Pass Mike Johnson’s Biden Backed $95 BILLION in Foreign Aid Bills Including ADDITIONAL $60.84 BILLION to Ukraine – Here Are The RINOs Who Voted to Fund Conflicts Oceans Away appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told the Democrats who were kissing up to Ukraine and waving foreign flags on our soil after unanimously voting to send Ukraine another $60 billion to “put those damn flags away” on Saturday.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday, The House of Representatives passed three bills to hand out money to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world — with nothing for Americans.
See the full list of RINOs who voted to secure Ukraine’s and other foreign borders before our own:
All of the 112 "Nay" votes came from Republicans. Every single Democrat voted to send an additional $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The Democrats then began to pledge their allegiance to Ukraine upon passage, waving a foreign flag in the United States House of Representatives and chanting for "UKRAINE!"
This prompted Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to seek recognition and exclaim "put those damn flags away!"
Per Jake Sherman:
ANNA PAULINA LUNA just took to the microphone and said "Put those damn flags away."
Marc Molinaro in the chair, says she is not recognized.
Eli Crane retweeted Sherman with a fist bump emoji.
— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) April 20, 2024
Luna said in an X post, "Put those damn flags away. It is a disgrace to display any other flag than the American flag in the House Chamber!"
Watch below:
Put those damn flags away. It is a disgrace to display any other flag than the American flag in the House Chamber! pic.twitter.com/WDjU7lQYi2
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) April 20, 2024
The post WATCH: “PUT THOSE DAMN FLAGS AWAY!” – Rep Anna Paulina Luna Scolds Democrats Chanting “UKRAINE, UKRAINE!” and Waving Ukraine Flags as They Vote to Secure Ukraine’s Border Instead of Our Own appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
UPDATE: The rally has been cancelled due to severe weather:
President Trump called into the rally to give the following announcement:
Trump: You see, there’s some very bad weather heading in, and we’re flying in in a few minutes, but they really would prefer that we not come in because there’s a certain danger to all of this. And we want to make sure that everybody is safe above all. And so they’ve asked us to ask people to leave the site and seek shelter. And what we’ll do is we’ll make up for this very quickly at another time. We’ll do it as quickly as possible. I’m devastated that this could happen, but we want to keep everybody safe. It’s the most important thing, and we want everybody there to be 100% safe. There seems to be some thunder and lightning, and it’s a pretty big storm. So, if you don’t mind, I think we’re gonna have to just do a rain check. I’m so sad. I’m in North Carolina right now and waiting to go in. But they’re saying the weather is really getting bad, really, really getting bad. So, we have to rely on the Weather Service and some of the officials, and I just want to thank you. I’m so sorry, but we’ll do it again, and we’ll do it bigger and better. You have my promise—same location. And thank you all very much. Thank you, everybody. God be with you. Thank you.
JUST IN: Trump rally CANCELLED in North Carolina due to severe weather event pic.twitter.com/4Yq9xdb3Bo
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 20, 2024
Original story:
President Trump is rallying tonight at the Aero Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, for the first time since winning the state’s Primary and is expected to take home a General Election victory for the third time this November.
Trump is expected to take the stage at 7 pm ET. Watch live below.
Right Side Broadcasting Network reports,
North Carolina is shaping up to be Trump territory in the upcoming November 2024 general election, based on the latest polling data in the Tar Heel State.
According to the newest DDHQ polling average, Trump is leading Biden by just over five points in a hypothetical general election, based on an average of 25 polls.
More polling averages from data aggregators like Real Clear Politics have given Trump a 48-electoral vote lead nationwide over Biden in a general election, while Race to the White House has given Trump a 49-vote lead with the EC.
Polymarket’s forecast has also projected that Trump is currently holding advantages in the key battleground states of North Carolina (40 points), Georgia (18 points), and Arizona (10 points).
Via Decision Desk HQ:
DDHQ Polling Average Update: 2024 Presidential (North Carolina)
Donald Trump (R): 48.5%
Joe Biden (D): 44.6%This average is based on 28 polls.
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) April 20, 2024
The doors to the event opened at 3 pm. ET, and thousands were already lined up hours early to see the 45th and 47th Presidents speak.
Via OANN correspondent Daniel Baldwin on X:
On our way, North Carolina!!!
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) April 20, 2024
MORE:
This rally comes after President Trump’s first week in court for his New York “hush money” trial brought by Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg. While Trump has been hit with an extremely broad and unconstitutional gag order, preventing him from criticizing far-left Judge Juan Merchan and his family of lobbyists and Democrat donors, he is expected to exercise his First Amendment rights and comment on the lawfare case and radical left thugs behind it.
He also may comment on the leftist psychopath from Florida, Max Azzarello, who died after pouring an accelerant on himself and liting himself on fire in full view of national media outlets that were reporting from outside the trial.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Azzarello described himself as “an investigative researcher” in a Substack post titled, “I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial.” Azzarello’s online manifesto contained a complex conspiracy theory involving Peter Thiel, cryptocurrency, and “an apocalyptic fascist world coup.”
The Daily Mail reports, “the activist had recently completed 180 days probation for a string of incidents in The Sunshine state, involving either disorderly conduct and destruction of property – and overall erratic, ‘rambling’ behavior.”
One might say the man suffered from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Additionally, The U.S. House of Representatives earlier today passed three bills to hand out $95 BILLION to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world — with nothing for Americans.
All of the 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 BILLION to Ukraine came from Republicans. Every single Democrat voted to send additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border. The Democrats then began to pledge their allegiance to Ukraine upon passage, waving a foreign flag in the United States House of Representatives and chanting, “UKRAINE, UKRAINE!”
President Trump on Thursday came out in opposition to the foreign aid package, demanding that Europe equalize America’s contributions to Ukraine’s war–in Europe. “Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation!” said Trump in a scathing Truth Social post.
President Trump aired similar sentiments in a press conference with Speaker Johnson last week, noting that “we keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars” and calling on Europe to give money to equalize America’s aid contributions. Trump also stated that he wanted to see Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress attach loan terms to the aid we’re providing. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the “loan” structure in the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes FULL LOAN FORGIVENESS!
Trump will likely share his disgust with the RINOs and Democrats who voted to secure Ukraine's southern border with $60 billion while leaving our border wide open, and with Europe for footing the bill to U.S. taxpayers.
Watch Trump deliver remarks live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a Rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. ET.
RSBN will be LIVE with all-day coverage at 3:00 p.m. ET.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday spoke to the media after rolling over to Joe Biden and giving Senate Democrats a gift of $95 Billion to give to countries oceans away from our own, telling them he believes history will judge the decision well.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $60 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
This comes after Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
Johnson told the press that the spending bill and FISA reauthorization were “important measures that had to be done.”
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
“Biden backs Johnson’s plan because Johnson’s plan is Biden’s plan,” said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Wednesday following the announcement of the bills. Massie previously announced that we will cosponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker.
The loan forgiveness terms mean that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
See the full list of RINOs who voted in favor of the bills here:
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting "AYE" with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted to send additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The Democrats then began to pledge their allegiance to Ukraine upon passage, waving a foreign flag in the United States House of Representatives and chanting, “UKRAINE, UKRAINE!”
Still, Mike Johnson, the self-proclaimed "Wartime Speaker," believes he did the right thing by following through with Joe Biden and the Democrats' agenda.
Via Citizen Free Press on Truth Social:
Johnson: I don't walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. I have to do my job. We did. I've done here what I believe to be the right thing, and that is to allow the house to work its will. And, as I said, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may.
Reporter: Why did you decide to do it right now?
Johnson: Listen, the house had a lot of important work to do here. We had to get the government funded in our appropriations process, we had to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, we had a lot of important measures that had to be done, and we got to this as quickly as we could. This is an important matter. I think it's timely. I think you've heard from leaders around the world, including in Ukraine, that this is being done on a timely basis, and the house had to have the time to deliberate and do this in the right manner. I think we did our work here and I think history will judge it well.
The post WATCH: ‘I’ve Done Here What I Believe to be The Right Thing’ — Mike Johnson Speaks to Press After Leading House Vote to Send $95 BILLION to Fund Conflicts Oceans Away appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) spoke to The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson on Thursday after announcing he added his name in support of the Motion to Vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Thursday that Gosar became the third Republican, joining Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), to support a Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker. “Nearly 11 million illegal aliens have crossed our southern border in the past three years. My congressional district in Arizona, ground zero for the invasion, is getting pummeled by the surge of lawbreakers. These illegal aliens have brought violent crime, deadly drugs, human trafficking and are depleting resources and services meant for U.S. citizens. In fact, every state has become a border state. Communities across the country are being ravaged, families are being destroyed and Americans in need are being ignored,” Gosar said in response to Mike Johnson’s latest anti-American foreign aid package, announced Wednesday.
Speaker Johnson arrogantly declared himself a “wartime speaker” before announcing the massive foreign aid package to fund multiple countries oceans away — but not the United States. The United States is not even at war with anyone!
Next, Congress will presumably declare war somewhere to make Johnson’s self-fulfilling prophecy come true.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $60 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
Two bills, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, both passed the House with more support from Democrats than Republicans.
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting “AYE” with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted in favor of sending additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border, more than doubling the number of Republican votes in favor.
Ukraine funding, which received more support from Republicans than Democrats, comes after Republicans under Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
Asked why Mike Johnson would bring this fake Ukraine "loan" bill to the floor, Gosar told us that Democrat Chuck Schumer put all of this in there and speculated that "Johnson was forced to bring this to the floor." Gosar added, "This is all done from the defense perspective. This is coming from the military complex Eisenhower warned us about."
In addition to Mike Johnson, Gosar was also asked about his so-called Republican colleague from Arizona, Rep. Juan Ciscomani.
Ciscomani was the only Representative in the Arizona Republican delegation who voted in favor of the $1.2 trillion spending package and the renewal of FISA warrantless spying. He also joined Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona in voting for a $60 billion handout to Ukraine on Saturday.
Gosar said, "It's very, very important for people in his district to talk to him and tell him their opinion" and hold him accountable, which can also be done through voting in the primary elections.
The Gateway Pundit previously spoke with Ciscomani Primary challenger Kathleen Winn to discuss Ciscomani's voting record on anti-American policies. Winn chimed in again on Ciscomani's votes to send $95 billion to foreign countries and leave our border wide open, telling The Gateway Pundit, "It's one thing to say you want to secure the border and another to do something. Ciscomani's vote did neither to make Arizona or America safer." She continued, "Once again, he is not honoring the request of his constituents, and voters should respond in kind."
Watch the full interview with Rep. Paul Gosar below:
Conradson: What finally brought you to this decision?
Gosar: Well, we get this package and the more we find out about this package, the worse it gets. The key here is we have an invasion going of illegal aliens on our southern border, and the speaker promised that this would be a hill to die on, that we would have that support for our border security and for America, its homeland. And we didn't get that at all. And there's something wrong when you can't protect your own homeland, but yet, you're dealing with a war out in Ukraine, you know, that they're losing badly. Then you got another war going on in the Middle East with Israel and Hamas, and now Iran. So, I could not live with myself if I didn't say, ‘Listen, he's not doing the will of the people. We need to listen to people.’ This is the number one issue in our country is this illegal immigration charter.
Conradson: And every single Arizona Republican, except for one, kind of sees how this issue is affecting the country and the state of Arizona. Every single Arizona Republican except for Juan Ciscomani seems to be not in favor with passing this bill and in favor of securing our border. And just to remind everybody, this is the third major loss for Republicans in the last month. First, we have the $1.2 trillion spending package, which did nothing to secure the border. Next, we have FISA renewal, which harms Americans, and now we have this. Why is it that your colleague Ciscomani will not vote for pro-American policies?
Gosar: I don't know you got to talk to him. And I think it's very, very important for people in his district to talk to him and tell him their opinion. You know, we're a vast nation, so there's a lot of different opinions out there, but that's why the debate is there. That's why we elect people but you also have to not stop there but hold them accountable. I’ve been held accountable a lot of times, Jordan, you know, from my animé to, you know, taking other things down. So, from that standpoint, there's always going to be consequences. If there are no consequences and they’re not followed through with, you just go around and pass things. But you know, somebody's really worse about this. They started this a little bit earlier. This bill, you know, in FISA, we at least got rid of 70% of the bill. What I mean by that is they wanted to renew it for seven years. We renewed it for two years. That's key because they put it into the Trump administration, the future Trump administration, where he can actually help us kill it — get through total reforms. Yeah, it was disheartening that we didn't get the warrant. But even Warren Davidson's bill, [H.R. 4639 – Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act], passed the House, and it's got a chance to go through the Senate and get signed into law. So, we'll see, we'll see. But once again, the money issue on this on our border; the money's there. You know, we were responsible for killing the COVID national emergency. Were the only non-president to ever kill a national emergency. There's tons of money in there; they keep flaunting this money in front of us, whether it be the $10,000 credit card up in New York to the $1,000 per illegal alien, the housing, the feeding of them. All this is coming from there. It's flushed with money. The government is flushed with money, and the federal government's trying to use it against us. Why don't we use that accordingly? Why can't we leverage Ukraine to get our own border secure?
Conradson: With this foreign aid bill, they claim it's a loan, but really it's a giveaway. I mean, it gives the President power to forgive 50% of the loan here in November before President Trump takes office. If President Trump doesn't take office, if they're able to steal the election, they can forgive 100% of the loan. What is this? Why did Johnson bring a bill like this to the floor?
Gosar: Well, I think Johnson was forced to bring this to the floor. You know, Thomas Massie will tell you this started out as a veterans bill, H.R. 815, and it was advancement of health care for veterans in rural settings. So Schumer guts it, and he puts his crappy bill in here. This is all done from the defense perspective. This is coming from the military complex Eisenhower warned us about. That's where this is coming from. So, yeah, you're exactly right. The money is going to Hamas even though they say it's not. How do you give that other aid to Israel, but it's coming contingency with it? There's really no contingencies on Ukraine. You know, and I offered amendments, Jordan, you know, to start the peace talks, because what we're hearing is is that from real people, from real situations, from real time, is that Ukraine's badly getting destroyed and that the young people in Ukraine aren't wanting to antie up because they're just going to be fodder for death. Something's wrong here. And we're just funneling money to all sides of the war. So, is this really about making money for the industrial war complex? Or is it about true liberty and freedom?
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The United States Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by former Arizona Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and former Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem to ban the use of hackable electronic voting machines.
Kari Lake is the Trump-Endorsed US Senate Candidate in Arizona and is on course to face Democrat Ruben Gallego in November.
The appeal by Lake and Finchem comes after the stolen 2022 election, where 60% of the voting machines were reportedly programmed to fail on election day, causing mass voter disenfranchisement and up to four-hour-long lines for Republican in-person voters. Kari Lake ran for governor and allegedly lost the race by less than one percent after this debacle, despite leading by double digits in polls leading up to election day.
The filing includes “new allegations,” some of which were previously mentioned in Kari Lake’s lawsuit to overturn the stolen election, including:
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on these claims and video evidence that Maricopa County conducted secret reprogramming of the machines on October 14 through 18 after the Secretary of State’s October 11 Logic and Accuracy testing without notifying the Secretary of State for required additional testing.
Later, on April 2nd, Lake/Finchem attorney Kurt Olsen filed another brief to the Supreme Court after respondent Adrian Fontes failed to file a necessary brief in opposition. Fontes decided to waive any response to the brief as well as the Motion to Expedite.
As Brian Lupo of The Gateway Pundit reported, the new allegations included failure by Maricopa County officials to conduct the mandated Logic and Accuracy testing, failure to only use certified software on Arizona’s voting machines, and critical encryption keys stored in plain-text that were found in accessible databases during the Arizona audit
Coincidentally, similar critical encryption keys were found in plain-text in open records requests in Georgia and New Mexico and identified in the Antrim County forensic image report in 2021 as part of Bailey v. Antrim Co.
In October 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case, claiming that Lake and Finchem did not have standing and “failed to establish that a future injury was either imminent or substantially likely to occur.”
The Supreme Court dismissed the case without comment. According to the SCOTUS webpage, "The vast majority of cases filed in the Supreme Court are disposed of summarily by unsigned orders. Such an order will, for example, deny a petition for certiorari without comment."
Lake and Finchem's attorney Kurt Olsen gave the following statement to The Gateway Pundit:
We are obviously disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review the decisions of the Arizona district court and the Ninth Circuit, and order that our challenge to the 2022 election procedures be heard on the merits. Although the Supreme Court grants review in less than 1 percent of cases presented on petition, we believe we presented a case that called out to be reviewed, if the American People are to regain confidence in elections.
What made our case unusual was that it was after the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal that we learned that the Arizona defendants falsely represented to the lower courts that Maricopa County complied with state law in several respects. Contrary to their representations to the lower courts, Maricopa County did not use software certified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”), and that Maricopa County failed to conduct pre-election “logic and accuracy” testing on all its 400-plus vote center tabulators in accordance with Arizona law. In fact, Maricopa County has been using and continues to use software that has been secretly altered with respect to how ballots are read and tabulated. Since Maricopa County contains 62 percent of Arizona voters, what happens there dominates state-wide elections.
In addition, evidence has come to light showing that, in the 2020 election, Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., left the master cryptographic encryption keys unprotected on the election databases and in plain text on its systems used in at least five states -- including Arizona. Doing so violated basic cyber security practices, Federal Information Processing Standards (“FIPS”), and EAC certification. With these cryptographic keys, anyone with access to these systems can manipulate election results without detection once they bypass the basic Windows log-in (easily done in less than five minutes with instructions available on the internet). Arizona election officials have yet to respond in court to these recent discoveries, continually trying to avoid any review of their actions.
The American people deserve facts, transparency, and truth in how elections are conducted in this Country. The Kari Lake and Mark Finchem case was dismissed based on a purported lack of standing to assert an injury. Therefore, the courts, even now, have not ruled on the merits of our case. We will continue to raise these issues especially in light of the upcoming 2024 election.
Per Kyle Becker on X:
BREAKING. The Supreme Court has DISMISSED the Arizona Election Integrity Case without comment.
The plaintiffs @KariLakeand Mark Finchem has brought forth expert testimony to indicate that there were serious voting machine vulnerabilities, including the "placing of the master cryptographic keys on the election database in plain text and unprotected allows any actor with access to the voting system complete control over the election results."
There was a "god key" detected in the voting machine code.
"Dominion placed the master cryptographic keys in plain text and unprotected on the election database except for Windows-login, which are easily bypassed. Leaving these highly sensitive cryptographic keys in this state violates all cyber security protocols and allows a malicious actor to take control of the machine and change results without detection," remarked Patrick Byrne.
In addition, due to the process of "reconciliation" of the Arizona votes, it was "not possible to know the true outcome of voting at 43 voting centers" because the voting center results were not recorded locally on memory cards.
In April 2022, prior to the midterm elections, the two plaintiffs initiated legal proceedings against Arizona state and county election officials in federal court alleging that the voting machines lacked reliability and thus should not be authorized for use.
“Plaintiffs have a constitutional and statutory right to have their ballots, and all ballots cast together with theirs, counted accurately and transparently, so that only legal votes determine the winners of each office contested in the Midterm Election,” the complaint said.
“Electronic voting machines cannot be deemed reliably secure and do not meet the constitutional and statutory mandates to guarantee a free and fair election."
The Supreme Court of the United States did not believe that the issue of election integrity was worth the court's time during another crucial presidential race.
BREAKING.
The Supreme Court has DISMISSED the Arizona Election Integrity Case without comment.
The plaintiffs @KariLake and Mark Finchem has brought forth expert testimony to indicate that there were serious voting machine vulnerabilities, including the "placing of the master… pic.twitter.com/Dv3bXcdZhp
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 22, 2024
This is a developing story...
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New findings from a Breitbart News investigation may shed light on why House Speaker Mike Johnson turned his back on the Republican party and brought a $95 billion foreign aid package, including $61 billion for Ukraine, to the House Floor last week.
In the past month, the House of Representatives, under Johnson’s leadership and his comrades, passed three pieces of “America last” legislation.
Firstly, late last month, Johnson came under fire for leading the House to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans.
Next, the House approved an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a measure initially enacted following the September 11, 2001, attacks, in a 273 to 147 vote. This provision allows for the warrantless surveillance of American citizens, a move that has raised concerns about privacy and civil liberties.
An amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs, which sought to impose a requirement for the FBI to obtain a warrant before conducting surveillance on Americans under FISA, ended in a 212-212 tie vote, leading to Speaker Mike Johnson casting the tie-breaking vote against the amendment.
This decision drew sharp criticism, including conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who accused Johnson of betraying the American people and undermining the Constitution.
In an attempt to halt the momentum of the FISA Section 702 extension, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna employed a procedural strategy to delay the Senate’s consideration of the bill. Despite her efforts, the bill passed again. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
Then another major legislative action under Speaker Johnson just last week involved the passing of three bills aimed at providing financial aid to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other regions engaged in conflicts outside U.S. borders.
The Democrats waved Ukrainian flags on the floor of the United States House of Representatives as they voted to send $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other 66 to $69 billion for?” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room.
Still, Johnson, in a recent press conference, told the media that he did “the right thing,” the Gateway Pundit reported:
This departure from the conservative agenda has left many, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), wondering if the Speaker has been blackmailed or bought off by special interests and lobbyists.
According to Breitbart, Speaker Johnson has been "flip-flopped" on Ukraine matters by his top aides, Policy Director Dan Ziegler, a former lobbyist with clients who may have a financial interest in Ukraine aid, and National Security Adviser Josh Hodges.
Per Breitbart:
The inside story of how House Speaker Mike Johnson was flip-flopped on Ukraine aid starts with his top policy adviser, a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war.
Johnson’s policy director, Dan Ziegler, was–until he joined the Speaker’s office as his top policy aide when Johnson won the Speakership last year–a lobbyist with the firm Williams & Jensen. He had previously worked for Johnson in other capacities, but left Johnson to become a lobbyist and accumulated a client list that included several top companies–some of which seem to have a financial interest in seeing Congress pass Ukraine aid. The lobbying firm for which he worked represents a number of top companies. Lobbying disclosures reveal Ziegler represented many of these companies, including several that have made corporate statements about the war in Ukraine or issued press statements or other public guidance saying it could affect their business operations.
What’s more, Ziegler also represented the highly controversial News Media Alliance, which was lobbying Congress when he worked for Williams & Jensen to push a dangerous proposal that would have severely hurt conservative media. That proposal, called the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA), has died several times in Congress but has kept coming back to life thanks to lobbyist pressure.
Ziegler is not the only one in Johnson’s inner circle who has issues. Several other staffers working for Johnson have a series of troubling developments in their backgrounds, and as of now it is unclear if the Speaker himself is aware of all of this or not. Either way, this raises serious questions about his management of the conference and his handling of major legislative proposals like the foreign aid plan before Congress this week–and it undercuts the explanation several Johnson apologists have offered up that he is just having a tough time managing a one-seat majority and things would not be different if he resigned and Republicans picked a new Speaker.
The report goes on to note Johnson's past opposition to a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package and $47 billion for Ukraine in December 2022 and his support for a 2023 amendment to the September 2023 Pentagon Appropriations package that would have stripped $300 million in Ukraine aid.
Previously, Johnson slammed the 2022 spending package, saying, “The process for passing this bill is almost as ugly as the substance: written behind closed doors, released Monday overnight, and brought for a vote before anyone could possibly read it—much less debate or amend it."
However, just last month, Johnson released a 1,012-page $1.2 trillion spending bill at 2:32 am on a Thursday and brought it to the floor Friday before anybody could read it, debate it, or amend it.
Johnson's tune apparently changed when he was elected Speaker and hired Ziegler and Hodges, who, according to sources, "are at the table making bad calls, both strategically and substantively.”
Read more here.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who filed a motion to vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker thanks to his actions over the House Omnibus bill, which will fund the government until September 30, shared the article from Breitbart, commenting,
Personnel is policy and Speaker Johnson’s top policy advisor is “a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war.”
They’re all in for money for Ukraine.
Personnel is policy and Speaker Johnson’s top policy advisor is “a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war.”
They’re all in for money for Ukraine.https://t.co/mjcnhGFh4V
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) April 17, 2024
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs continued her streak of vetoing a record number of bills on Tuesday by shooting down SB 1129, sponsored by Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers, which would have allowed Arizona homeowners to remove an unlawful occupant or a “squatter” from their property.
The bill would have also deemed that “a person who fails or refuses to surrender possession of the property as directed by a law enforcement officer is committing trespass.”
Hobbs vetoed the legislation, stating in a letter, “This bill fails to leverage existing legal mechanisms, respect the due process rights of lawful tenants, and minimize unintended consequences such as for victims of domestic violence.”
It can be recalled that during Katie Hobbs’ first legislative session last year, after she stole the midterm election from conservative firebrand Kari Lake, Hobbs broke the record for the number of bills vetoed in a single legislative session, and she did it during her first 100 days in office. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hobbs was also ranked as the third most unpopular Governor in America, with an approval rating of just 47%.
Last session, Hobbs vetoes included the elimination of the food tax, increasing penalties for fentanyl distributors who harm children, requiring medical care for infants who survive abortion, protecting school children from convicted sex offenders, and a mail-in ballot signature verification law adding the minimum standards that she wrote herself as Secretary of State.
Per Axios, Hobbs vetoed a total of 143 bills last year and, in total, has vetoed over 185 bills since taking office last January. This shatters Democrat Janet Napolitano’s record of 181 vetoes during an entire four-year term.
One of the bills Hobbs vetoed this year would have allowed police to arrest illegal border crossers.
Squatting is a symptom of the lawlessness that has gripped the country in recent years. To make matters worse, squatters’ rights and adverse possession laws can sometimes grant legal ownership of the occupied property to squatters in some states.
As The Gateway Pundit reported in February, squatters had taken over 1,200 homes in Atlanta, Georgia.
More recently, in March, Adele Andaloro, the owner of a million-dollar home in Flushing, Queens, found herself handcuffed and arrested following a standoff with individuals who illegally occupied her family residence.
It seems that Katie Hobbs wants the same fate for homeowners in Arizona who are also bearing the burden of Biden’s open border crisis and the threat of millions of illegal immigrants looking for a place to live.
Hobbs VETOED my Squatter Bill. INTENTIONAL.
Easy for her w/ security. Hard on us peasants.
— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) April 24, 2024
Arizona Senate Republicans issued the following statement on Tuesday:
Katie Hobbs Irresponsibly Vetoes Bipartisan Bill to
Strengthen Homeowner Property Rights and Combat Squatting
PHOENIX, ARIZONA— The issue of squatters taking over people’s homes is growing exponentially across the nation, including here in Arizona, yet Governor Katie Hobbs is refusing to address the problem. Senator Wendy Rogers worked to combat these crimes with a bipartisan measure Hobbs vetoed today that would have expedited the removal of these criminals and strengthened homeowner property rights.
If a stranger invades a home and unlawfully claims a right to live there, SB 1129 would have allowed the homeowner to request law enforcement immediately remove that person from the property. Refusal to leave would have been treated as trespassing, under Arizona laws.
“Criminals are scheming to take over homes that aren’t theirs, posing a threat to the safety of homeowners and infringing on their private property rights,” said Senator Rogers. “Although we have trespassing laws, it’s often difficult to prove a person is unlawfully occupying a home and can result in a lengthy legal battle. Homeowners testified in committee hearings about their property being severely damaged, the subsequent astronomical costs from these criminals, and consequently, they felt incredibly violated. We should not further victimize homeowners with a time-consuming, cumbersome, and costly removal process. In her veto letter, Katie Hobbs claims this bill fails to protect the rights of lawful tenants and minimize unintended consequences for victims of domestic violence. Did she read the bill? It addresses illegal occupants, not lawful tenants. That’s precisely the point. This bill has absolutely NOTHING to do with landlord-tenant law and has exemptions for family members and anyone with an agreement to cohabitate.”
“As a Realtor, I’ve personally encountered a squatter occupying a home I was showing to a client,” said Senator Justine Wadsack. “It was a terrifying threat to my safety, the safety of my clients, as well as to the homeowners. When I called the police, I was told there’s not much they could do. Nobody should ever be allowed to live in and occupy another person’s home without their permission, yet I continue to have constituents reach out to me with these types of stories. I’m proud of the swift and unified response Republican lawmakers made to fight this issue, it’s a shame Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed yet another piece of commonsense bipartisan legislation.”
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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan praised current Speaker Mike Johnson this week for turning his back on the Republican party and bringing a $95 billion foreign aid package, including $61 billion for Ukraine, to the House Floor last week.
The package led to the passing of three bills aimed at providing financial aid to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other regions engaged in conflicts outside U.S. borders. Following passage, Democrats waved Ukrainian flags on the floor of the United States House of Representatives as they voted to send $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms allowing the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other 66 to $69 billion for?” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room.
Still, Johnson told the media in a recent press conference that he did “the right thing.”
The Gateway Pundit reported that Johnson’s betrayal of the conservative agenda could be explained by the fact that one of his top handlers aides, Policy Director Dan Ziegler, is a former lobbyist with clients who have a financial interest in Ukraine aid.
This latest move by Paul Ryan could be tied to Johnson’s deputy chief of staff for communications, Raj Shah, who previously worked at Fox Corporation with Ryan. According to Breitbart, “Shah’s communications were among those revealed in the legal matter between Fox News and Dominion, in which he was regularly listed as a top official there alongside Ryan.”
Shah has also been seen recently elevating Never Trumpers on social media and attacking America First Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
Paul Ryan and Fox never liked Donald Trump, so it makes sense that they and their affiliates would sabotage the America First agenda.
Per Breitbart:
Paul Ryan, a member of the Fox Corporation Board of Directors, praised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for permitting Democrats to seize control of the House last week.
Democrats steamrolled Johnson by successfully pushing Biden administration’s agenda through the House. Johnson gave Biden “pretty much everything” Biden asked for “without having to concede much in return,” Punchbowl reported.
The Democrat victory was a reminder of how some Republicans often decline to use their capacity to push conservative policies popular with the base. Democrats often appear to use their power without qualms.
Johnson “found his footing, and his voice. … [H]e did it as a statesman, risking his own personal political fortune for the greater good that he believes in,” Ryan told Axios Tuesday.
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Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, RNC attorney Christina Bobb, conservative attorney John Eastman, and Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn are among the eighteen individuals indicted by an Arizona grand jury in the latest election interference witch hunt against President Trump and his allies.
President Trump was named “Unindicted Coconspirator-1” in the indictment because he made a phone call about the ballot counting to former governor Doug Ducey.
The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” The indictment alleges.
The indictment further states, “Defendants deceived the citizens of Arizona by falsely claiming that those votes were contingent only on a legal challenge that would change the outcome of the election. In reality, Defendants intended that their false votes for Trump-Pence would encourage Pence to reject the Biden-Harris votes on January 6, 2021, regardless of the outcome of the legal challenge. When combined with the six other States where Republican electors sent in uncertified votes for Trump-Pence, Defendants wanted Pence to either declare Unindicted Coconspirator 1 the winner of the election, delay the proceeding and have individual state legislatures determine their electors, or have Congress resolve any claimed uncertainty about the validity of election results in Arizona and six other states in Unindicted Coconspirator 1’s favor.”
However, this is perfectly legal conduct and there is a legal precedent for this so-called deception:
Per Politico:
By December 1960, it was clear Kennedy had won. Only Hawaii’s result remained in doubt. Nixon had prevailed by just 140 votes, according to the initial results, which were certified by the governor. A recount was underway on Dec. 19, 1960, when presidential electors across the nation were required by law to meet and cast their ballots.
Nixon’s Hawaii electors met and cast their three votes in an official ceremony. But nearby, Kennedy’s three elector nominees gathered and signed their own certificates, delivering them to Washington as though Kennedy had won the state.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the indictment yesterday.
Arizona’s radical left Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes, who stole her election from Abe Hamadeh by 280 votes, announced the charges on Wednesday afternoon. She defended her witch hunt and the curious timing of the indictment – just months before the 2024 general election. Make no mistake, the charges are a warning shot to anyone who may want to challenge the 2024 election.
Democrat prosecutors in other states are also targeting Trump’s alternate electors.
In July, Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel criminally charged 16 dueling ‘Trump electors’ in the state’s 2020 election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis recently indicted three of Trump’s alternate electors in Georgia as part of her RICO and conspiracy case against Trump.
Five of the individuals indicted in Georgia were also indicted in Arizona.
The 18 Defendants facing felony charges in Arizona include:
Per the Washington Post, attorneys and spokespersons for Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Kelli Ward responded to a request for comment:
Meadows lawyer George Terwilliger said Wednesday he had not yet seen the indictment when a Post reporter called him. After reviewing the indictment, he said: “If Mr. Meadows is named in this indictment, it is a blatantly political and politicized accusation and will be contested and defeated.”
“The continued weaponization of our justice system should concern every American, as it does permanent, irrevocable harm to the country,” Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Giuliani, said in response to the indictment.
“The phenomenon of partisan lawfare grows more troubling by the day,” Charles Burnham, an attorney for Eastman, said in an email responding to the Arizona charges. “Professor Eastman is innocent of criminal conduct in Arizona or any other place and will fight these charges as he has all the other unjust accusations leveled against him.”
A lawyer representing Ward and most of the other Trump electors said: “We are certainly disappointed in today’s developments and are confident that these charges are unwarranted."
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on the Arizona election interference indictment.
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would define residency in Arizona and require proof of residency, such as a home rental agreement or ownership, to vote in the state’s elections.
Hobbs stole the 2022 election for Governor from Kari Lake, and she is getting ready to rig the 2024 election for Joe Biden.
SB 2581 stipulates that “a resident is an individual who has actual physical presence in the state for at least one hundred eighty-one days with the intent to remain” but provides exceptions for individuals to vote if they provide evidence of employment, residential property, child school enrollment, and active duty military service.
Hobbs’ veto comes as flyers instructing illegal immigrants to vote for Joe Biden in the forthcoming U.S. election have been reportedly distributed at a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Mexico, according to an investigation by The Oversight Project, a watchdog initiative linked to the Heritage Foundation.
Additionally, voters are not required to show proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections on a “federal only” ballot.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hobbs also vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed Arizona homeowners to remove an unlawful occupant or a “squatter” from their property.
Hobbs has vetoed over 185 bills since taking office last January. This shatters Democrat Janet Napolitano’s record of 181 vetoes during an entire four-year term.
Hobbs vetoed SB 2581, claiming that it "creates additional, unnecessary barriers for individuals registering to vote."
Critics of the bill claim that it would bar out-of-state college students from voting in Arizona's elections as the bill defines "resident" as an individual physical presence in the state for 181 days with the intent to remain.
However, the bill outlines six exceptions, which would allow students and temporary residents to vote.
From the bill text:
THE COUNTY ASSESSOR, THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE COUNTY RECORDER MAY ESTABLISH A PHYSICAL PRESENCE REQUIREMENT OF LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE DAYS IF THE INDIVIDUAL DEMONSTRATES AN INTENT TO REMAIN BY PROVIDING EVIDENCE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
1. EMPLOYMENT.
2. PURCHASE OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
3. RENTAL OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
4. PURCHASE OF REAL PROPERTY FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES.
5. THE ENROLLMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR THE INDIVIDUAL'S CHILDREN IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR CHARTER SCHOOL.
6. ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY SERVICE MEMBER IDENTIFICATION FOR SERVICE MEMBERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS.
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President Trump is narrowing Joe Biden’s lead in Democratic New York with the Democrats’ lawfare against him proving to be a witch hunt.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, President Trump arrived at a construction site in New York on Thursday morning to greet union workers, and he was met with thunderous chants of “USA!” “USA!”
Trump told Fox News earlier, "I think these maybe were Democrats, but for me, they're Republican."
"There's not a Democrat in there," he added:
The union workers love Trump, and according to new polling data, Biden's lead in New York, a state where Democrats have won by double digits in every presidential election since 1988, continues to shrink.
As Right Side Broadcasting Network reports,
In the latest show of proof that left-wing prosecutors’ efforts to interfere in the 2024 presidential election are backfiring, a newly released survey reveals that President Donald J. Trump may be within striking distance of Joe Biden in one of America’s strongest Democrat states (and the backdrop for Alvin Bragg’s ongoing “hush money” sham trial): New York.
New polling from the Siena College Research Institute, conducted over a three-day period from April 15-17, shows President Trump within ten points of Joe Biden in the state, 37 percent to 47 percent. In February, the same poll, which was taken prior to the start of the New York City trial (which will wrap up week two on Friday), showed Biden leading by 12 (48 percent-36 percent).
Among Independent voters, Trump leads Biden by 14 points, 46 percent-32 percent.
If this margin were to hold (or tighten further) going into November, it could indicate a seismic shift in the voting habits of traditionally deep-blue New York: Joe Biden carried the state’s 29 electoral votes by a margin of 23 points four years ago, and the last time a Republican declared victory there was in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan defeated ex-Vice President Walter Mondale by a more modest 8 points.
New York union leader Bobby Bartels also shared results from a poll he put out in his union, telling Fox, "President Trump is leading Joe Biden three to one on my presidential poll out of my 9,000 members right now."
Bartles added, "We are very tired of the situation with groceries, inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration, crime. We're living it every day in New York City."
Bartels: It was great to see the president coming and engaging with the blue collar worker of New York City. We basically built New York. The union movement has made the middle class, and we are a very patriotic union, and we are pro America. So, my members, right now, I put out a poll in my union. President Trump is leading Joe Biden three to one on my presidential poll out of my 9,000 members right now. We are very tired of the situation with groceries, inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration, crime. We're living it every day in New York City.
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said the quiet part out loud late last month before announcing that 18 individuals were indicted by an Arizona grand jury in the latest election interference witch hunt against President Trump and his allies.
While speaking about abortion with MSNBC three weeks ago and claiming that Republicans will enact a federal abortion ban, Kris Mayes declared, “We absolutely have to get President Biden reelected.”
It can be recalled that lawless Attorney General Kris Mayes previously vowed not to enforce any current Arizona abortion laws if she is elected. She later doubled down on this promise, saying, “We will never prosecute a doctor, a nurse, a pharmacist, a midwife, a woman, or a friend helping a woman for abortion care,” regardless of what law is on the books.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Kris Mayes, who stole her election from Republican Abe Hamadeh by 280 votes, announced the charges on Wednesday afternoon for the non-crime of questioning an election. She defended her witch hunt and the curious timing of the indictment – just months before the 2024 general election.
The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the indictment alleges.
Make no mistake, the charges are a warning shot to anyone who may want to challenge the 2024 election.
See the full list of 18 defendants facing felony charges in Arizona here:
On March 30, Mayes told MSNBC, "We absolutely have to get President Biden reelected," and yesterday, she showed how far she is willing to go.
Watch below:
Mayes: As my colleague from Massachusetts just mentioned, we absolutely have to get President Biden reelected because one of my fears is, despite the fact that Republicans said they wanted to send this back to the States, for states to decide, I think there's a real movement in the sort of extreme elements
Kris Mayes, the Attorney General of Arizona, went on MSNBC on March 30 to say this:
“We absolutely have to get President Biden reelected.”
Three weeks later she weaponized her office by indicting seven Trump attorneys and 11 Republican electors.
pic.twitter.com/q3uklqspA4— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 25, 2024
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Attorneys for Kari Lake were back in court on Wednesday, fighting to obtain a hearing on damages before a jury in First Amendment-hating RINO Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation lawsuit against Lake.
Attorneys for Richer reportedly seek damages amounting to millions of dollars.
Recall The Gateway Pundit’s recent reporting on a 2021 op-ed that Richer submitted to the National Review Magazine, where he reveals that he believes the First Amendment is “the biggest threat to elections and Democracy,” that his constituents are “idiots” and that “it may be time to revisit our First Amendment jurisprudence.” Jack Butler, editor of The National Review, rejected the draft op-ed, citing Richer’s attack on freedom of speech; however, Richer apparently gave a similarly written speech, ironically in commemoration of Constitution Day, to students of the Maricopa County Community College District, which was approved by the district beforehand.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Kari Lake recently pled no contest in the lawfare defamation case brought against her by fake “Republican” Stephen Richer and Protect Democracy – a far-left group of Soros and Obama-linked henchmen who are trying to silence all election critics on the right. Instead of allowing the Soros-linked far-left Protect Democracy to subpoena and dig through her personal communications and campaign secrets and wasting more time or money on the bogus lawsuit, Lake decided it was time to focus on her campaign. Lake is expected to face Soros-backed far-left Marxist Ruben Gallego in the 2024 general election for the U.S. Senate.
Despite Richer and the fake news media’s claims to the contrary, Lake never admitted to defamation. She only conceded that she did say things that hurt Richer’s feelings while still maintaining that nothing she said was defamatory. As stated in Lake’s Motion for Default Judgement, “It is often said that defaulting admits the allegations in the operative complaint. This is a misnomer.” The filing then cites case law, which states, “An entry of default serves as a judicial admission of all well-pleaded facts in the complaint. A party against whom default is entered, however, is not held to admit facts that are not well-pleaded or to admit conclusions of law. If a complaint does not include well-pleaded facts for a required showing, entry of default does not mean that required showing has been made.“
Lake's no-contest plea came after the Arizona Supreme Court, led in part by Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, rejected Lake's appeal in Richer's anti-American defamation lawsuit.
It can be recalled that Ann Timmer's sister Laurie Roberts, is a rabidly anti-Lake propagandist for the leftist Arizona Republic. And prior to Lake's appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court, Laurie Roberts authored an article titled, "Kari Lake is in deep defamation doo doo after Court of Appeals ruling," where she boasted about Lake's loss and criticized her for using a First Amendment defense.
Roberts, who told The Gateway Pundit she speaks to her sister, Justice Timmer, “all the time,” could potentially be perceived as an influencer in Timmer and the Arizona Supreme Court's opinions on Lake, though she contends that they “never” discuss politics. It looks like a conflict of interest for Roberts' dishonest journalism and for Ann Timmer's position on the state's highest court.
Before Wednesday's hearing, Lake's attorneys sent the following letter to Richer's attorneys on April 15, rejecting a proposed scheduling order and highlighting how Richer's campaign and political image have actually benefitted from Kari Lake's alleged defamation. The letter also showcases statements from Richer, which Lake attorneys say underscore "his exuberance at subjecting Kari Lake and the other Defendants to burdensome discovery."
"We’re ready, and have been ready for some months, to start discovery. Lotta documents, recordings, etc we’d like to look at. And depositions… we’re gonna need a bigger boat…" Richer bragged in an X post last month.
We’re ready, and have been ready for some months, to start discovery.
Lotta documents, recordings, etc we’d like to look at.
And depositions… we’re gonna need a bigger boat… https://t.co/8e4yk0V9Za
— Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct) (@stephen_richer) March 20, 2024
Per 12 News AZ:
Lake's lawyers asked the Maricopa County judge handling the case to proceed to a speedy hearing before a jury on monetary damages for Richer.
Neither Lake nor Richer were in court Wednesday for a status conference but their attorneys told the judge they cannot agree on what to do next.
Richer’s side has claimed damages could be in the millions, which Lake’s team has denied in court filings.
Lake’s attorneys want the case to go to a damages hearing, saying Richer's team needs to outline compensatory damages.
Attorneys for Far-left Soros-tied Protect Democracy representing Stephen Richer are still seeking a discovery phase to dig through Kari Lake's records and communications and seemingly interfere with her election for U.S. Senate. This clearly is a hit job on Kari Lake by her political opponents and Soros-backed entities, and Lake's Soros-backed opponent, Ruben Gallego, will surely benefit.
Lake attorney Tim LaSota told the court, "We’ve admitted the facts and this is just a way to try and continue what we think this case has been about from the start… sideline Ms. Lake from the Senate campaign."
Additionally, Richer's attorney claims that this is not only about Richer's feelings being hurt or monetary damages for the elected official but damages to his reputation as well.
However, as stated in an April 20 court filing by Kari Lake's legal team, which is similar to their April 15 letter and again highlights Richer's benefits from her alleged defamation, including a massive surge in fundraising numbers, "Richer’s own social media postings belie any damages to his reputation."
On February 25, 2024, Richer posted on X that he had already fundraised $250k for this election cycle, nearly as much as the roughly $309k raised during the entire 2020 cycle. Additionally, last week, Richer showed his X followers that his campaign currently has more than $261k in cash on hand.
The filing also combats claims that Richer is entitled to punitive damages, that he can prove physical injury, and that he will be able to show proximate cause to prove that Lake is responsible for criticism and alleged threats through discovery.
"Richer also cannot deny that he has publicly made, and continues to make, statements highly critical of Donald J. Trump," the Response from Lake contends to show how Richer is responsible for his own lack of popularity among Arizona Republicans. It should also be remembered that Richer oversaw early voting in Lake’s stolen 2022 election for governor and founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans dark money PAC aimed at eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda, and he admits to voting for Democrats last election cycle.
Read the full April 20 Response Brief from Lake's attorneys below:
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on Tuesday vetoed another bill that would have defined sex as “a person’s immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy, physiology, genetics and hormones existing at the time of the person’s birth” and protected girls’ showers in public K-12 schools.
SB 1182, the Arizona Accommodations for All Children Act, would have required public schools in Arizona to provide a single-occupancy or employee shower room to students who are unwilling or unable to use the shared shower that corresponds to their sex.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Liberty High School in Peoria, Arizona came under fire for allowing a male student to use the girls’ locker rooms and showers alongside the girls. The biological male “had been reprimanded several times for loitering in the [girls’] bathrooms in August of 22,” one concerned parent told The Gateway Pundit.
The legislation would also grant a private cause of action against the public school to a person who encounters a person of the opposite sex in a public school shower room if the school or a school official permitted the individual of the opposite sex to use the shower room.
It also accommodates individuals who are unwilling or unable to use the shower room that corresponds to their sex by granting a private cause of action against the public school if their reasonable accommodation request is denied. Reasonable accommodations include access to a single-occupancy shower room or use of an employee shower room.
Still, Hobbs vetoed the bill, saying in a letter to Senate President Warren Petersen, “As I have said time and time again, I will not sign legislation that attacks Arizonans.”
Similarly, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Hobbs vetoed 2023 Senate Bill 1040, which would have required Arizona public schools to “provide a reasonable accommodation to a person who is unwilling or unable to use specified facilities designated for their sex in a public school building or multi-occupancy sleeping quarters while attending a public school-sponsored activity.”
These reasonable accommodations would include access to single-occupancy restrooms or changing facilities and use of employee restrooms or changing facilities to prevent undue hardship for students who are uncomfortable with members of the opposite sex using gendered facilities like bathrooms and locker rooms.
The proposal last session came after the female students at Liberty High School were forced to share bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers with male students who “insisted on using the girls’ bathrooms.”
However, Hobbs called the 2023 legislation “yet another discriminatory act against LGBTQ+ youth.” She added, “As I stated in my veto letter for SB1001, I will veto every bill that aims to attack and harm children.” SB1001, vetoed by Katie Hobbs last session. would have precluded schools from requiring employees to use a pronoun that differs from a minor student’s biological sex without parental permission.
What happened to women’s rights?
Per Axios, Hobbs vetoed a total of 143 bills last year. In total, she has vetoed 195 bills since taking office last January, shattering Democrat Janet Napolitano’s previous record of 181 vetoes during an entire four-year term.
It can be recalled that during Katie Hobbs’ first legislative session last year, after she stole the midterm election from conservative firebrand Kari Lake, Hobbs broke the record for the number of bills vetoed in a single legislative session, and she did it during her first 100 days in office. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hobbs was also ranked as the third most unpopular Governor in America, with an approval rating of just 47%.
Hobbs vetoed several common-sense bills on Tuesday, including SB 2581, which would require proof of residency to vote in Arizona elections, and SB 1129, which would protect homeowners by allowing them to remove an unlawful occupant or a “squatter” from their property.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hobbs vetoed the voter residency bill, claiming that it “creates additional, unnecessary barriers for individuals registering to vote,” and the squatter bill, claiming it “fails to leverage existing legal mechanisms, respect the due process rights of lawful tenants, and minimize unintended consequences such as for victims of domestic violence.”
Lawless Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoes Bill to Require Proof of Residency for Voting
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Former Trump-Endorsed Arizona Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh spoke to The Gateway Pundit on Thursday to discuss the lawfare by Attorney General Kris Mayes, who stole her election from Republican Abe Hamadeh by just 280 votes, against President Trump and his allies.
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh’s fight against the stolen midterm election in Arizona. The election day anomalies and discrepancies included likely intentional machine failures at 60% of Maricopa County polling locations, misread votes statewide, and illegal mail-in ballots with no chain of custody or signature verification that tainted the results.
Additionally, thousands of ballots were cast provisionally and not counted due to wrongfully canceled voter registrations. After a “significant miscount” of hundreds of votes and uncounted ballots were discovered in rural Pinal County’s recount results, Kris Mayes’ lead shrunk from 511 votes to 280 votes. If the nearly 10,000 uncounted ballots statewide were counted, Abe Hamadeh would be in the Attorney General’s office.
However, then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs intentionally withheld evidence of uncounted ballots, miscounted ballots, and voter disenfranchisement in Pinal County and across the state during Hamadeh’s first trial. Maricopa County also “did not provide provisional ballot information until after trial, information that had it been timely provided, we would have been able to address those problems we found at trial,” said Hamadeh attorney Jen Wright.
Hamadeh is now the Trump-Endorsed candidate for U.S. Congress in Arizona’s Congressional District 8. Still, he continues his fight for justice in the rigged midterm election and plans to take his election contest lawsuit to the Arizona Supreme Court following a 2-1 ruling in the Arizona Court of Appeals on April 9 rejecting his appeal. Judge James B. Morse Jr., dissenting against the majority, noted that Maricopa County and the Superior Court’s refusal to grant discovery and inspection of ballots and the Cast Vote Record was unfair to Hamadeh.
Hamadeh told The Gateway Pundit on Thursday, “This is the first time we had a judge, an honest judge, dissent with his colleagues, and it was a seven-page dissent, but they did reject our appeal asking for a new trial. But that’s not going to stop us because we still have one level to go up to the Supreme Court… There’s 9000 uncounted ballots here in Arizona, so we’re taking it to the next level, Supreme Court. We should be submitting it within a week.”
“By rejecting Hamadeh’s request for the CVR as untimely, the superior court abused its discretion and denied Hamadeh a fair opportunity to inspect the ballots and prepare for the evidentiary hearing. See Johnson, 245 Ariz. at 242, ¶ 11. I would remand this matter to the superior court to determine whether Hamadeh can prove his claim, as alleged pursuant to A.R.S. § 16-672, and establish that a sufficient number of ballots were not properly counted such that the outcome of the election would plausibly have been different,” writes Judge Morse.
The Gateway Pundit reported that the still questionably elected Kris Mayes announced felony charges against 18 Trump allies and alternative electors on Wednesday afternoon for the non-crime of questioning the 2020 election. She defended her witch hunt and the curious timing of the indictment – just months before the 2024 general election.
The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the indictment alleges.
Make no mistake, the charges are a warning shot to anyone who may want to challenge the 2024 election. See the full list of 18 defendants facing felony charges in Arizona here.
Mayes recently said the quiet part out loud late last month, declaring, “We absolutely have to get President Biden reelected,” before announcing the indictment by an Arizona grand jury in the latest election interference lawfare.
There were still ongoing investigations into voter fraud in 2020 when alternative electors cast their slate for Donald J. Trump, and there is a legal precedent for this so-called crime. Recall that the Arizona Attorney General at the time, Mark Brnovich, released a report on his investigation in April 2022, stating that “between 100,000 and 200,000 ballots were transported without a proper chain of custody,” and individuals would be prosecuted for election fraud. However, the weak, lethargic AG never followed through.
Even the election officials in Maricopa County, which accounts for roughly 60% of Arizona's voters, knew the election was rigged with dead voters, ballot harvesting, and shady machine software and admitted that the County’s in-house audit of the 2020 election was “bulsh*t.” Former Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri previously stated that his colleagues lied because they were too scared to do a real audit.
Hamadeh released the following statement on Wednesday, slamming Mayes for "shamelessly engaging in selective prosecution and manipulating the law to suit their agenda while disregarding justice and fairness." He further vowed to protect elections from the "unconstitutional tactics of power-hungry Democrats" when elected to U.S. Congress.
STATEMENT
Sham Indictment by Arizona’s Illegitimate Attorney General pic.twitter.com/RDXmFJf3Nx
— Abe Hamadeh (@AbrahamHamadeh) April 25, 2024
The Gateway Pundit exclusively reported on Hamadeh's comprehensive five-point election integrity plan to introduce federal legislation and secure elections.
Hamadeh added in our interview, "When I'm in Congress, there's going to be investigations" into shady election officials and fraud in Arizona and nationwide.
"I can't wait for Kari Lake to help push through the Senate a strong U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona so they can start going after the corruption here in Arizona."
Watch the full interview below:
Conradson: Mayes said the quiet part out loud: We have to get Joe Biden reelected. Give me your thoughts.
Hamadeh: It's actually what these other prosecutors who have gone after President Trump were also doing. They've all had these meetings at the White House over the past few years. You saw Fannie Willis meeting at the White House, you saw Alvin Bragg's -- the guy who's actually coming after President Trump in his criminal trial -- came from the Biden Department of Justice, was the third highest lawyer over there. So this is obvious what's happening. This is a political witch hunt going after President Donald Trump. And look, you know, they always talk about we got to move on from 2020. Isn't it interesting now that we're about four years away from 2020, and they hand down these 18 indictments against these defendants, and it's a nine-count indictment? I'm a former prosecutor, Jordan, and if you look at the charges, it's conspiracy, it's fraud, it's forgery. These are such broad statutes that they're going after, very serious crimes, felonies. And of the 18 of them, seven of them are part of President Trump's team, and look at what's going on. They're going after Rudy Giuliani. This poor guy can't even catch a break. They already bankrupted him once before. They're going after Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, but if you look down on who the 11 people who were indicted for the alternate elector, here in Arizona, many of them are people you and I both know Jordan. These are grandmothers. These are people who are active in the Republican Party that, during this time period, remember, there were still ongoing election challenges with 2020; that's what was happening. That's why they sent up the alternate slate up to Washington, DC. So, we know what's going on, the illegitimate Attorney General Chris Mayes, which you rightly noted, stole the race and stole that position which we're still fighting in the courts. Look how brazen she is. She knows she's illegitimate, and she's going after President Trump and all of his associates and people who support President Trump. That's what's so frightening about all of this.
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on Wednesday sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) requesting an investigation into Congressional Democrats’ history of “pressuring private companies to shut down the speech of those with different ideologies than theirs.”
According to Burchett, “In 2021, Congressional Democrats sent official letters to numerous private television companies urging them to take retaliatory action against certain ‘right wing’ media outlets like Newsmax, Fox News, and OAN.”
This led several cable companies to cancel contracts with One America News Network (OANN).
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported in January 2022, Joe Biden and the Democrats ordered the far left Tech Giants and media outlets to banish voices that deviated from the regime’s official narrative. DirecTV then notified OANN that “following a routine internal review,” they would not renew the contract to carry the channel.
President Trump later suggested during a rally in Florence, Arizona, that supporters should boycott woke DirecTV and AT&T, which owns 70% of the cable TV service, for bowing down to their Leftist overlords.
DirecTV later announced they were deplatforming NewsMax in January 2023 but reached an agreement with the company and returned the channel to their platform on March 23, 2023.
Leftist Verizon also dropped OANN later in 2022, claiming the negotiations with OANN were typical and usual and that OAN did not agree to “fair terms.” However, OAN disagreed. The pro-Trump MAGA channel hosts told a different story, insisting NOTHING was typical about the negotiations, and Verizon did not even attempt to negotiate a contract.
"The idea of large, publicly traded companies taking retaliatory action against conservative outlets is concerning. Even more troubling, however, is the continued effort by Congressional Democrats to violate Americans' constitutionally protected rights. That is why I respectfully request an investigation and hearing on the continued censorship of conservative news media outlets," Burchett states in his letter before urging the House Republican Majority to stop letting Democrats "deny our constituents access to information."
Congress must also investigate attempts by the federal government, including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the Biden Regime's army of government agencies, for their continued censorship of conservative media outlets like The Gateway Pundit and One America News Network on social media.
Rep. Tim Burchett announced his letter to the House Oversight Committee on X earlier this week:
Members of Congress are supposed to protect Americans' constitutional rights, not repress them. If Democrats are contacting private companies to shut down the folks at
@OANN because of their political views, that needs to be investigated and weeded out immediately.
Members of Congress are supposed to protect Americans' constitutional rights, not repress them.
If Democrats are contacting private companies to shut down the folks at @OANN because of their political views, that needs to be investigated and weeded out immediately. pic.twitter.com/AlVYAOox2m
— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) April 24, 2024
Read the full letter from Rep. Tim Burchett below:
Dear Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Raskin:
Thank you for your commitment to improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and its agencies. I write to inform the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of my concerns over the apparent censorship and cancellation of One America News Network (OAN).
It has come to my attention that in 2021, Congressional Democrats sent official letters to numerous private television companies urging them to take retaliatory action against certain "right wing" media outlets like Newsmax, Fox News, and OAN. Then, in 2022, DirectTV, Verizon Fios, and Frontier all declined to renew their contracts with OAN. The timing of these events is cause for concern, as members of Congress have no business pressuring private companies to shut down the speech of those with different ideologies than theirs.
The idea of large, publicly traded companies taking retaliatory action against conservative outlets is concerning. Even more troubling, however, is the continued effort by Congressional Democrats to violate Americans' constitutionally protected rights. That is why I respectfully request an investigation and hearing on the continued censorship of conservative news media outlets.
The Republican House majority cannot and should not stand idly by as Democrats deny our constituents access to information. Thank you for your time and consideration of this important matter.
Sincerely
Tim Burchett,
Member of Congress
This is a developing story.
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The United States Supreme Court reportedly signaled that they are considering granting Russell Alford, one of the few J6 defendants to refuse a plea deal, his petition for writ of certiorari, a move that only happens for roughly 1% of cases brought to SCOTUS.
Alford is one of the 75 January 6 defendants who joined The Gateway Pundit in our official request to RINO Speaker McCarthy last year for the government’s January 6 footage.
Despite walking into the Capitol for just 13 minutes on January 6, where "he mostly stood to the side and observed" and "filmed protestors chanting," then leaving, according to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Alford was given the maximum sentence for four crimes, including Remaining in a restricted building, Disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building, Disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Capitol Building and parading, and Demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building. The Court also ruled that "trespassers in the Capitol during the riot did not need to be acting 'disorderly' or 'disruptive' to be found guilty of disorderly conduct, because such definitions 'are nebulous but time has given them concrete contours in two ways important here,'” per Frontline News.
Alford is appealing the ruling from the trial court and Appeals Court that "passive, quiet and nonviolent conduct can be disorderly.” Though the Supreme Court may not be able to help Alford in his other charges of for “remaining” and “demonstrating” in the Capitol, this could undermine the convictions of thousands of peaceful protesters who were charged with disorderly conduct.
According to Frontline News, "1,156 peaceful January 6 protesters have been charged with engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct. 1,021 have been charged with disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building. About 1,000 of them have been hit with both misdemeanor charges. These are the most common charges that the 1,300+ total January 6 peaceful protesters have been hit with."
The Department of Justice reportedly waived their right to file a response to Alford's petition, likely because they know the charges are bullsh*t and they will lose!
More from Frontline News:
The Supreme Court has requested a response from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to a petition from a peaceful J6 protestor who is appealing his conviction for disorderly conduct.
99% rejected
The High Court only agrees to grant certiorari, i.e., review a request for appeal, in about eighty out of seven to eight thousand petitions for “a writ of certiorari” each year. Normally, the justices do not give an indication of whether they are inclined to include a particular case in the one percent that get to the next stage, which includes additional briefs and oral arguments, until after receiving a response to the petition and the petitioner's reply to the response.
Confident feds
In the case of J6 protestor Russell Alford, however, the justices may have already signaled that they are inclined to grant certiorari, a decision which would require the agreement of four of the nine justices. Alford filed his petition to cancel his conviction with SCOTUS in early April and the government had 30 days to respond. Instead of responding, however, the DOJ penned a single sentence to the High Court:
The Government hereby waives its right to file a response to the petition in this case, unless requested to do so by the Court.
The justices then announced that they do indeed want the DOJ to respond, giving it a May 23, 2024 deadline, indicating their interest in the matter.
As Josh Gerstein just reported at Politico, SCOTUS requested a response from DOJ in petition for writ of cert filed by Russell Alford, convicted by a DC jury of 4 misdemeanors for J6.
This doesn't mean SCOTUS will take up the case but it does mean they want some answers.
The… pic.twitter.com/esI7QgEbam
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 23, 2024
1 act, 13 minutes, 4 convictions
Most J6 defendants, facing multiple charges for the one act of trespassing, waived their right to argue that their entrance into the Capital was an unknowing trespass, fearing the potential for multiple prison sentences. Alford, like America's Frontline Doctors' (AFLDS) Creative Director John Strand, was one of the few J6 defendants to refuse a plea deal.
Alford's trespass was described by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Alford remained inside the Capitol for approximately thirteen minutes…
While inside, he mostly stood to the side and observed. He filmed protestors chanting “stop the steal” and pounding on a door that led to the floor of the House, behind which sheltered dozens of Congress members. [Emphasis added.]
The court added that Alford left within three minutes of police telling the crowd to leave:
Police arrived within about ten minutes of Alford’s entry and began physically and verbally directing the crowd back out through the Upper House Door. Alford initially moved further down the hallway before turning and making for the exit … He left once someone managed to open the second double door.
For this, the trial court convicted Alford on four separate counts, all stemming from that 13-minute walk during which he did not so much as yell. He was given the maximum sentence for each charge, to be served concurrently, resulting in a 12-month sentence for:
- Remaining in a restricted building
- Disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building
- Disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Capitol Building and parading
- Demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building [Emphasis added.]
Overcharging banned; not banned
The DOJ is actually prohibited from engaging in so-called overcharging, particularly in the the District of Columbia Circuit, in which Alford's trial court sits, where the circuit's appellate court has, for more than 50 years, explicitly banned the practice of overcharging defendants where the intent is to coerce a guilty plea on a lesser charge:
. . . the prosecutor clearly cannot have carte blanche to apply whatever tactics he wishes to induce a guilty plea. A policy of deliberately overcharging defendants with no intention of prosecuting on all counts simply in order to have chips at the bargaining table would, for example, constitute improper harassment of the defendant. [Emphasis added.]
Nonetheless, J6 protestors have been uniformly subjected to multiple charges in the absence of separate actions. Technically, though, Alford's case does not fit this classic definition of overcharging, since the DOJ, perhaps sensing a jury pool antagonistic to J6 protestors, did in fact prosecute Alford on multiple charges. But it is not, in any case, overcharging that is at issue in the petition to the Supreme Court.
Not disorderly; disorderly
Alford appealed his convictions on the two charges requiring the government to prove “disorderly or disruptive conduct.” The trial court refused Alford's motion to acquit on those charges, despite the lack of any evidence of such conduct, arguing that he should be held guilty on account of the actions of (a small minority) the other protestors:
Mr. Alford’s mere presence inside the Capitol disturbed the public peace or undermined public safety” and that “his presence was an aspect of the disorder and disruption of the Capitol.” [Emphasis added].
“Even passive, quiet and nonviolent conduct can be disorderly”
The appellate court agreed with prosecutors and the lower court:
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that trespassers in the Capitol during the riot did not need to be acting "disorderly" or "disruptive" to be found guilty of disorderly conduct, because such definitions “are nebulous but time has given them concrete contours in two ways important here.”
"First, it is well-established that whether conduct qualifies as disorderly depends on the surrounding circumstances," the court wrote …
"Second, it is equally clear from caselaw that even passive, quiet and nonviolent conduct can be disorderly," the ruling continued. [Emphases added].
JUST IN: #SCOTUS signals it may undermine more common #Jan6 charges as justices ask DOJ to respond to petition challenging 'disorderly or disruptive' charges v. Russell Alford. DC Cir ruled charges valid even for nonviolent protesters. Earlier: https://t.co/QMDbF9UM7z
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) April 23, 2024
It is this ruling, that "passive, quiet and nonviolent conduct can be disorderly,” that is at issue in Alford's appeal to the Supreme Court.
High Court may help … others
Should the nation's highest court rule that such peaceful behavior as Alford's cannot be the basis for a disorderly conduct conviction, it may not actually benefit Alford, as his two convictions for “remaining” and “demonstrating” in the Capital would still stand and for each he was sentenced to the maximum prison time, as mentioned above, to run concurrently.
Since the maximum sentence for the charge of merely remaining in a restricted building is one year, even vacating the two disorderly charges would still leave Alford facing a year in prison, though he could argue that, without the disorderly charges, one year is excessive for trespassing.
Alford is far from the only peaceful J6 protestor to be charged with disorderly conduct, however. According to Conservative Zone, 1,156 of those protestors were charged with disorderly conduct despite their peaceful conduct.
1,156 peaceful January 6 protesters have been charged with engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct. 1,021 have been charged with disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building. About 1,000 of them have been hit with both misdemeanor charges. These are the most common charges that the 1,300+ total January 6 peaceful protesters have been hit with.
None of the people facing these charges did anything violent or caused any property damage. They were welcomed into the building by police officers who were high-fiving them and holding doors open for them, they wandered around for a while, and they peacefully left when asked to do so.
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According to a recent poll, President Trump currently holds a lead in six of the seven key swing states that are expected to determine the 2024 Presidential Election.
The results of the Bloomberg/Morning Consult swing state poll are as follows:
Biden only leads Trump in Michigan by just two points with 47%-45%.
Joe Biden won with massive voter fraud in all of these states in 2020 except for North Carolina.
Trump’s lead from a December 2023 Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll has increased by three points in Arizona, five points in Nevada, and one point in North Carolina.
POLL: Donald Trump Leads Biden in Seven Swing States Heading Into 2024
70% of voters in these states said the United States economy is on the "wrong track," and 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden.
This comes as the GDP dropped faster than expected in the first quarter of 2024 and at half the rate of Q4 2023. Real GDP increased 1.6% after rising 3.7% in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Meanwhile, inflation rose to 3.7% in the first quarter – squeezing consumers who are already strapped in the Biden economy.
Per New York Post,
Swing-state voters said the economy was the top issue with almost six months to go before Election Day, with 82% saying it will be “very important” in deciding whom they vote for and 34% saying it would be their single most important issue.
Immigration ranked second, with 15% saying it was their top issue, while abortion and democracy were tied for third at 9% each.
Seven in 10 respondents said they viewed the US economy as going in the “wrong direction,” while 57% said the same about the economy in their own state.
The bad poll numbers for Biden come despite his campaign spending $30 million in the month after his March 7 State of the Union address on ad buys and campaign stops in critical swing states — a push that Democrats dubbed the “Month of Action.”
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told The New York, “Americans realize if they want to make gas cheap again and keep more money in their pockets, they must vote Trump.” Leavitt added, “Joe Biden’s economic policies are robbing people of thousands every month, and Biden is doubling down, promising to sign the largest tax hike in American history if given another four years in the White House.”
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The Associated Press admitted the obvious in a report on Friday: “Charges against Trump’s 2020 ‘fake electors’ are expected to deter a repeat this year.”
Author Nicholas Riccardi goes even further, suggesting the latest indictment of 18 people in Arizona “could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election.”
81 Million vote-getter Joe Biden must be proud of his comrades in Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and New York.
The Gateway Pundit reported that the still questionably elected Kris Mayes announced felony charges against 18 Trump allies and alternative electors on Wednesday afternoon for the non-crime of questioning the 2020 election. She defended her witch hunt and the curious timing of the indictment – just months before the 2024 general election.
The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the indictment alleges.
Elen leftist operatives and leftwing media admit the charges are a warning shot to anyone who may want to challenge the 2024 election. See the full list of 18 defendants facing felony charges in Arizona here.
Mayes recently said the quiet part out loud late last month, declaring, “We absolutely have to get President Biden reelected,” before announcing the indictment by an Arizona grand jury in the latest election interference lawfare.
However, the alleged crime is perfectly legal and has legal precedent.
Per Politico:
By December 1960, it was clear Kennedy had won. Only Hawaii’s result remained in doubt. Nixon had prevailed by just 140 votes, according to the initial results, which were certified by the governor. A recount was underway on Dec. 19, 1960, when presidential electors across the nation were required by law to meet and cast their ballots.
Nixon’s Hawaii electors met and cast their three votes in an official ceremony. But nearby, Kennedy’s three elector nominees gathered and signed their own certificates, delivering them to Washington as though Kennedy had won the state.
As was done in Hawaii, Arizona's Trump electors met and cast their votes in case of a successful legal challenge while lawsuits challenging the stolen 2020 election were still ongoing.
Recall that the Arizona Attorney General at the time, Mark Brnovich, released a report on his investigation in April 2022, stating that “between 100,000 and 200,000 ballots were transported without a proper chain of custody,” and individuals would be prosecuted for election fraud. However, the weak, lethargic AG never followed through.
Even the election officials in Maricopa County, which accounts for roughly 60% of Arizona's voters, knew the election was rigged with dead voters, ballot harvesting, and shady machine software and admitted that the County’s in-house audit of the 2020 election was “bulsh*t.” Former Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri previously stated that his colleagues lied because they were too scared to do a real audit in conversations while the Arizona 2020 election audit was ongoing.
The AP article also cites David Becker, the far-left operative who founded the Soros-funded ERIC system, and Justin Levitt of the Brennan Center, one of the organizations that petitioned the Biden Department of Justice to shut down the 2020 election audit in Arizona, to drive home the point that the reason behind the indictments is deterrence.
The same people who have been trying to deter election investigations since November 2020 are finally getting their wish thanks to the Marxist Attorneys General and District Attorneys the Biden Regime sent in to go after Republicans.
The Federalist reports,
The outlet cited Center for Election Innovation & Research founder David Becker — whose organization helped dump hundreds of millions of dollars in “Zuckbucks” into local election offices to influence election administration — to emphasize the “deterrent effect.”
“People are going to have to think twice about doing things to undermine the election,” Becker told the AP. “The deterrent effect is real.”
Riccardi also quoted Justin Levitt, a veteran of the left-wing Brennan Center who was tapped as a senior adviser for “democracy and voting rights” by the Biden White House in 2021, to cheer the “severity” of the lawfare being waged against Republicans.
“One of the things that fosters deterrence most is swiftness and severity,” Levitt reportedly said. “Though the wheels of justice are turning slow, they are turning, and we are seeing consequences for the lieutenants in this conspiracy.”
It’s not just the AP drawing the connection. A well-known election integrity advocate told The Federalist she was contacted by a New York Times reporter on Thursday and was asked whether the Arizona indictments and other “state elections cases impact your strategy/approach to the 2024 election?”
Additionally, as the Federalist notes, Peter Beinart wrote an article in The Atlantic on November 21, 2016, titled "The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump From Being President," as many Democrats urged electors to vote for Hillary Clinton following her 2016 defeat. Larry Lessig also wrote for The Washington Post on November 24, 2016, an article titled "The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton."
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Leftist media outlets are finally getting a taste of what it’s like to be a conservative outlet attempting to cover Democratic politicians as feeble Joe Biden and his administration have been avoiding interviews and news conferences.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN, and other leftwing mainstream media outlets are unable to get Biden to sit down with them, according to a statement blasting Biden for “systematically avoiding” them.
The New York Times released the following statement on Thursday:
A Statement From The New York Times on Presidential News Coverage
A spokesperson for The New York Times responds to recent reporting about a free press and reporting on the president.
For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term. The president occupies the most important office in our nation, and the press plays a vital role in providing insights into his thinking and worldview, allowing the public to assess his record and hold him to account.
Mr. Biden has granted far fewer press conferences and sit-down interviews with independent journalists than virtually all of his predecessors. It is true that The Times has sought an on-the-record interview with Mr. Biden, as it has done with all presidents going back more than a century. If the president chooses not to sit down with The Times because he dislikes our independent coverage, that is his right, and we will continue to cover him fully and fairly either way.
However, in meetings with Vice President Harris and other administration officials, the publisher of The Times focused instead on a higher principle: That systematically avoiding interviews and questions from major news organizations doesn’t just undermine an important norm, it also establishes a dangerous precedent that future presidents can use to avoid scrutiny and accountability. That is why Mr. Sulzberger has repeatedly urged the White House to have the president sit down with The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN and other major independent news organizations that millions of Americans rely on to understand their government.
This comes after a Politico report, which states the White House and The New York Times are currently engaged in a “petty feud.”
“Biden’s people think they’re ‘entitled.’ The Times says ‘they’re not being realistic,'” Politico reports.
The report continues, “Biden’s closest aides had come to see the Times as arrogant, intent on setting its own rules and unwilling to give Biden his due.”
The Gateway Pundit reported on the Biden Regime’s anger with the New York Times on Thursday.
Per Fox:
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger reportedly confronted Vice President Kamala Harris over Biden’s decision to avoid interviews with major newspapers.
After Sulzberger questioned Harris on why Biden had not done sit-down interviews with major newspapers, including his own, Harris told him to get in touch with the White House press office. She later “grumbled” to her aides, Politico reported, about the exchange being a waste of time.
Some on Biden’s team believe the Times has not adequately covered the importance of the 2024 election, which they view as “a matter of democracy’s survival,” according to the Politico report on the tumultuous relationship between The White House and the paper.
Biden has done fewer interviews with news outlets than any of his predecessors. He has so far refused interviews with major outlets such as the Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He made a recent appearance on Seth Meyers’ show and joined Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes on their “SmartLess” podcast in late March.
More below from OANN White House correspondent Monica Paige:
Paige: The Biden administration’s silent war on a free and fair press appears to be coming to light. It seems other outlets and reporters are finally getting a taste of what it’s like to be ignored, silenced, and neglected just for trying to do their jobs. Here at One America News, we are no stranger to this type of treatment. One America News not only doesn’t get a seat in the briefing room but doesn’t get called on to ask questions. And emails and letters, oftentimes, go on answered or passed on and likely discarded. But now this kind of treatment is reportedly becoming contagious, bleeding into an unlikely outlet, The New York Times. In a statement this week, the New York Times expressed its growing frustration regarding President Biden’s refusal to sit down for an interview with the outlet and that the President has taken far fewer questions from the press than any one of his predecessors. “It should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term.” The statement continues, “The President occupies the most important office in our nation, and the press plays a vital role in providing insights into his thinking and worldview, allowing the public to assess his record and hold him to account.”
This very statement summarizes exactly what the true role of a free press is: to allow the public to make informed decisions, hold leaders accountable, and hear a diversity of opinions, all free of government influence. According to the American Presidency Project, Biden, on average, holds 11 news conferences per year. By comparison, President Trump held 22, Obama held more than 20, George W. Bush held more than 25, and Bill Clinton held 24. To date, in 2024, Biden has held zero news conferences. For an administration that originally prided itself on being the most transparent for the American people, the truth for many media outlets, like ourselves, is that we have never been left with more questions than answers and left in the dark about our country.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS?:
The New York Times called out the Biden administration for actively and effectively avoiding media questions.Biden has held ZERO press conferences to date in 2024, leaving us all with more questions than answers.
So much for restoring ‘transparency.’ pic.twitter.com/v5MZjsaQe9
— MONICA PAIGE✰OANN (@MonicaPaigeTV) April 26, 2024
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Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) discussed the foreign aid package recently passed in Congress on Newsmax, telling host David Harris Jr. that Congress could have solved the southern border crisis with “just a fraction of the money” sent to Ukraine, Israel, and other conflict zones around the world.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $60 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other 66 to $69 billion for?” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room.
Two bills from the handout package, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, both passed the House with more support from Democrats than Republicans. This comes after Republicans under Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill, also with more support from Democrats than Republicans, and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting “AYE” with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted in favor of sending additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border, more than doubling the number of Republican votes in favor.
Speaker Johnson arrogantly declared himself a “wartime speaker” before announcing the massive foreign aid package to fund multiple countries oceans away — but not the United States. The United States is not even at war with anyone!
Johnson later told the media in a press conference following the passage of the foreign aid bills that he did “the right thing.”
Meanwhile, our border remains wide open, with dangerous criminals flooding into our country. What a shame Johnson turned out to be.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Johnson’s betrayal of the conservative agenda could be explained by the fact that one of his top handlers aides, Policy Director Dan Ziegler, is a former lobbyist with clients who have a financial interest in Ukraine aid.
Biggs said in an X post on Friday, "The DC Cartel’s foreign aid spending bills were only passed because of the Speaker’s coalition government. If we used a fraction of the money we sent overseas for border security, we could end the invasion. But the Biden regime doesn’t want to close the border."
Watch more below:
Biggs: The Speaker tried to structure this in four separate bills. More Republicans voted against Ukraine funding than voted for it. So, the Speaker actually actually put together a coalition with Democrats to get the Ukraine funding that was $65 billion or so. The Israel funding, we had a significant number of people vote no, because as you look at it, you'll see that there's $9 billion going to Gaza, and they're going to use that to supercharge some mass migration. They're going to use it for Hamas. Even the Palestinian Authority says that Hamas steals that humanitarian aid. Taiwan got thrown into the mix. They all buy into this because they're told that if any disaster happens, blood will be on your hands as a member of Congress for failing to fund this.
And, you know, I was just down at the border yesterday, the last couple of days, and I will tell you that we can't solve our own border crisis, but we sure could solve it with just a fraction of the money that they spent on this bill if the Biden administration wanted to but they don't want to.
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Three white women will receive a total of $2.1 million in a lawsuit against New York City after they were demoted from their positions as Department of Education executives — for being White!
The demotions happened under ex-Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. Carranza was appointed by former New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who, according to internal emails reported by the New York Post, was “fixated on diversity.”
The lawsuit filed five years ago takes on the racist policies of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), which companies and government entities use to discriminate against Whites because they’re supposedly more advantaged than people of color.
Equality in today’s world has been replaced with equity because the theory behind the policy assumes that people of color need an extra push or training wheels to reach the same level of success as their White counterparts, and therefore, Whites should be disadvantaged in the workplace.
What a privilege!
As Tucker Carlson noted in a discussion on racism against White people in a recent podcast episode, “There is systemic racism in the United States against Whites.”
Tucker Carlson: There Is Systemic Racism in the U.S. – Against Whites! (Video)
However, this racism against Whites also translates into prejudice against other races, as the basis for anti-White discrimination is the automatic assumption that people are not as intelligent and capable or need participation awards like a month dedicated in their honor if they're not White. But there is one aspect of equality in that we're all just sheep in the world of progressive leftists.
The "landmark case," as attorney Davida Perry called it, may help our country return to sanity and deter woke DEI policies in the future.
New York Post reports,
Lois Herrera, Jaye Murray and Laura Feijoo – who will receive $700,000 each – reached a settlement three months after a judge ruled they “offer evidence of race-based discrimination in Carranza’s DOE,” paving the way for a June trial.
“This landmark case is a resounding affirmation that discrimination of any form should not be tolerated in educational institutions, regardless of the race of those negatively impacted,” their lawyer Davida Perry told The Post.
Filed five years ago, the suit alleged Carranza waged a crusade against “toxic whiteness” in the city Department of Education.
Herrera, who had a Harvard master’s degree, was working successfully as CEO of the Office of Safety and Youth Development when one of Carranza’s deputy chancellors abruptly stripped her title and replaced her with a “less-qualified” Black man, Mark Rampersant, who held a GED, the suit alleged.
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Tucker Carlson recently spoke with Justin Haskins, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, to discuss the findings from a recent poll showing that one in five voters admitted to breaking the law regarding voting practices in the 2020 election.
As the famous Kari Lake song goes, “81 million votes, my ass!”
As The Gateway Pundit’s Brian Lupo previously reported, the poll conducted by The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports “found one in five voters who cast mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election admit to participating in at least one kind of voter fraud.”
Keep in mind that 43% of 2020 voters cast ballots by mail. There were approximately 155M ballots cast in the 2020 Presidential Election. 43% of that would mean over 66M voted by mail.
The poll consisted of 1,085 likely voters. Republicans made up 33% of those polled, while 36% and 31% were Democrats and “other,” respectively. When broken down by age, 32% were 18-39, 46% were 40-64, and 22% were 65 or older:
“One in five” of 66M would amount to potentially over 13.33M ballots that were illegally cast. But 2020 was “the safest and most secure election in history.”
Additionally, The Gateway Pundit reported on the phony mail-in ballot signatures on 2022 ballots after receiving access to likely fraudulent 2022 ballot envelopes and historical signatures through a legal public records request. See the obviously fake signatures here.
According to the results of the poll:
"About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent, handing Biden the presidency. We know this because the people who committed the fraud have admitted it in a new poll," said Tucker in the caption of his latest episode.
Watch below:
Tucker: It's now apparently a criminal offense, a felony in this country, to suggest the 2020 presidential campaign was not on the level. That crime appears to form the basis of one of Donald Trump's pending indictments. But actually, it's worth denying the legitimacy of that election because it was not fair. Critical information was withheld from voters through censorship and yes by the government. That is a fact. It's also a fact that Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million to control voting in various places around the country and affect the outcome. That's not legitimate. It was also conducted in many places through electronic voting machines, and no country should ever use electronic voting machines because, fundamentally, they cannot be trusted. Why would you trust them? But then there's the question of outright cheating, voter fraud. Was there voter fraud? Well, we know there was some, but was it widespread? That is a hard allegation to prove, though, of course, many people believe there was widespread fraud. Well, now it turns out we know for a fact that there was, and in fact, it can be proven with a poll. Just ask people, did you personally commit voter fraud? Well, that has just been done. And the answer is a huge percentage of people asked in the poll admitted, “yes. I committed voter fraud.” It's remarkable. Justin Haskins is a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute. He joins us now with details. Justin, thanks so much for coming on. If you could just start by giving us the results, the shocking results of this poll, and we'll go from there.
Haskins: It was pretty straightforward. We asked people a series of questions. The first of which is or one of the first questions was, did you vote in the 2020 election? And did you vote with an absentee ballot? And if they answered yes to both of those questions, then we asked a bunch of questions related to voter fraud. We didn't tell them that we were asking did you commit voter fraud. We just asked them about various behaviors. So, for example, we asked people, did you vote in a state where you're no longer a legal resident? That's a pretty straightforward question. If you're not a permanent resident of a state, you can't vote there. 17% of people, nearly one in five, said yes, they did do that. We asked people, did you fill out a ballot for someone else on their behalf? That's also illegal. You're not allowed to fill out someone else's ballot. 21% of people said yes to that question. We asked if people forged the signature of a friend or family member on their behalf with or without their permission. We actually put that in the poll question. And 17% of people said yes to that. So, all told, it's at least, and I say at least, one in five mail-in ballots involve some kind of fraudulent activity, but we didn't just stop there. We also asked everyone whether they voted via mail-in ballot or not, so in-person voting as well, do you know anyone who personally, in your personal life, a friend, a family member, an acquaintance, or someone from work, has anyone ever admitted to you that they did one of these kinds of forms of voter fraud and 10% and 11% -- e asked two different questions on that — said yes, people admitted to me that they committed voter fraud.
About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent, handing Biden the presidency. We know this because the people who committed the fraud have admitted it in a new poll. pic.twitter.com/fxHL9hT4sw
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 26, 2024
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The House Judiciary Committee released a report on Thursday on Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s “unprecedented” multi-year investigation into former President Donald J. Trump after Bragg campaigned as the best candidate to go after the president.
Fox reports,
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office “allowed political motivations and animus to infect its prosecutorial discretion,” the House Judiciary Committee argued in a report Thursday, saying charges were brought against former President Trump employed a “dangerously low threshold” to prosecute “political opponents.”
The GOP-led committee released a 300-page report Thursday, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, titled “An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump.”
“The DANY has been investigating President Trump since at least 2018, searching for any legal theory on which to bring charges,” the report states. “These charges are normally misdemeanors subject to a two-year statute of limitations, but Bragg used a novel and untested legal theory—previously declined by federal prosecutors—to bootstrap the misdemeanor allegations as a felony, which extended the statute of limitations to five years, by alleging that records were falsified to conceal a second crime.”
Prosecutors revealed during the criminal trial this week that the alleged “second crime” was a violation of a New York law called “conspiracy to promote or prevent election.” Prosecutors will try to prove that the alleged conspiracy was to conceal a conspiracy to unlawfully promote his candidacy.
The report on Bragg’s investigation further references Mark Pomerantz’s influence on the case, including his “politicized reliance on convicted perjurer Michael Cohen” and his “personal animus towards and obsession with President Trump.”
Promerantz is a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump, who in 2022 resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation and went on to write a book on the topic. In the book, he claims the investigation “developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.” Pomerantz resigned after Bragg, just weeks into his first term in office, decided not to seek an indictment of Trump at that time.
However, per the report, “Shortly after President Trump announced his White House run, the DANY pivoted back to what Pomerantz frequently referred to as the ‘zombie’ case that originated nearly five years ago.” The committee says the decision likely came after Bragg noticed “the acclaim that New York Attorney General Letitia James received from Democrats for bringing a civil action against President Trump, his children, and the Trump Organization.” This also came as Bragg was nearing the end of his first year in office after he made the campaign promise to get Trump. The report continues, “Bragg noted that he hoped ‘driving down gun violence and the population at Rikers while pushing ahead on the Trump investigation . . . [would] ‘neutralize’ the noise around him.’”
As The Gateway Pundit reported Bragg has raised nearly $1 Million since making good on his campaign promises to indict Trump.
The Judiciary Committee says that the attention and political benefits acquired by Bragg indicting President Trump has "led to copycat indictments by other politically motivated, popularly elected local prosecutors," in reference to Fulton County DA Fani Willis' RICO indictment against Trump and 18 co-defendants. "If state or local prosecutors like Bragg and Willis are allowed to engage in politically motivated prosecutions of former or current U.S. Presidents for personal acts, this could have a profound impact on how Presidents choose to exercise their official duties while in office."
The Committee concludes its report suggesting legislation to address politically motivated prosecutors, including Rep. Russell Fry's H.R. 2553, the No More Political Prosecutions Act, and Rep. Andy Biggs' H.R. 2582, the No Federal Funds for Political Prosecutions Act.
House Judiciary Committee released a summary of their 300-page report on X:
#ICYMI: Judiciary Republicans Release 300 Page Report on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's Political Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump
Summary ⤵ pic.twitter.com/oUp2SD2scr
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 26, 2024
Press release from House Judiciary Committee:
Judiciary Republicans Release Report on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's Political Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report titled, "An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney's Office's Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump." The report reveals how the New York County District Attorney's Office's (DANY) investigation and prosecution of President Trump is the product of prosecutorial focus on one individual in search of a crime.
As revealed in former Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz's self-serving book, People vs. Trump: An Insider's Account, since at least 2018, the DANY has weaponized the criminal justice system, scouring every aspect of President Trump's personal life and business affairs in the hopes of finding some legal basis—however far-fetched, novel, or convoluted—to bring charges against him. When one legal theory would not pan out, instead of discontinuing its politically motivated investigation, the DANY simply pivoted to a new theory, constantly searching for a crime prosecute President Trump. Pomerantz's book was part of a public pressure campaign to force District Attorney Alvin Bragg into action.
In April 2023, District Attorney Bragg succumbed to Pomerantz's pressure campaign, charging President Trump with 34 felony counts using a novel and untested legal theory that bootstrapped misdemeanor allegations as a felony. The timing and basis for the DANY's prosecution of President Trump provide a clear inference that Bragg is motivated by political calculations. The facts at the center of Bragg's political prosecution had not changed since 2018 and no new witnesses had emerged. Federal prosecutors already declined to pursue the case, and Bragg's predecessor Cyrus Vance also waved off the case. Bragg, too, was initially reluctant to bring the case. The only intervening factor, it appears, was President Trump's announcement that he would be a candidate for President in 2024.
In addition to the novel and untested legal theory, Bragg's case relies heavily on the testimony of his star witness, Michael Cohen—a convicted perjurer with a demonstrable prejudice against President Trump. Cohen has been convicted of lying to Congress and DANY prosecutors were rightly concerned about his serious credibility problems.
Against the backdrop of District Attorney Bragg's decision to find any reason to prosecute President Trump are Bragg's actions to institute pro-crime, anti-victim policies that allowed violent crime to surge by 23 percent during his first year as DA and created a dangerous community for New York City residents.
The fundamental mission of any prosecutor's office is to uphold the rule of law. And one of the hallmarks of this mission is to ensure that justice is blind—applied fairly and equally. Bragg's politically motivated prosecution of President Trump threatens to destroy this notion of blind justice by using the criminal justice system to attack an individual he disagrees with politically, and, in turn, erodes the confidence of the American people.
Read the full interim staff report here.
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The Trump campaign is apparently now using the viral video of a New York construction worker telling Joe Biden “F*ck you” in a news interview to respond to media inquiries about Biden’s support from union leaders.
They should make it a commercial.
CBS published a story on Friday highlighting that “nearly all the major labor unions have endorsed Mr. Biden,” but “labor leaders still anticipate a significant portion of organized labor could support Trump.” Many union members are expressing their frustration over the rising cost of living and inflation across the country, and liberal members say they’re “worried” about Biden’s chances in November.
Per the report, “Asked for comment, the campaign shared two videos of union members voicing support for Trump after he visited a construction site in New York City ahead of his ongoing hush money trial, with one worker saying he’d tell Mr. Biden ‘f**k you.'”
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, President Trump visited construction workers at the site of the 1,388-foot-tall JP Morgan office building going up at 270 Park Avenue in New York City Thursday morning before heading to court. Trump was well received by a large crowd of workers and others who heard about the early morning (6:30 a.m.) campaign stop.
Among those was a construction worker who told a reporter he is “not at all surprised” by the high level of support for President Trump in Manhattan, and “It’s turning. It’s Trump’s turn again.” When asked, “What’s your message to Joe Biden,” without hesitating, the construction worker gave the perfect response: “F*ck you!”
Joe Biden recently complained about seeing Trump signs with “F*** Biden” and routinely getting flipped off by children when he travels the country:
The Gateway Pundit reported that President Trump is narrowing in on Joe Biden even in the most liberal areas of the country due to his strong record on jobs and the economy. Meanwhile, with Bidenomics inflation rose to 3.7% in the first quarter while GDP dropped faster than expected in the first quarter of 2024 – squeezing consumers who are already strapped in the Biden economy.
In New York, Trump is expected to be the first President since 1988 to end the Democrats’ streak of winning by double digits in every presidential election, and maybe even the winner, according to new polling data.
New York union leader Bobby Bartels shared results from a poll he put out in his union, telling Fox, “President Trump is leading Joe Biden three to one on my presidential poll out of my 9,000 members right now.”
Maybe New York will tell Joe Biden, "F*ck you" this November.
Trump also leads Joe Biden in six of the seven key swing states that are expected to determine the 2024 Presidential Election, with 70% of poll respondents saying the United States economy is on the "wrong track." Additionally, 51% say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden.
CBS reports,
Despite the president's many union endorsements, labor leaders still anticipate a significant portion of organized labor could support Trump.
Labor members on Wednesday said they think the rematch between Mr. Biden and Trump will be "extremely" close, and that they've heard fellow union members in their communities express irritation about lingering inflation and the rising cost of living.
But the Trump campaign says voters' frustration with the economy means that Mr. Biden's labor union endorsements won't translate into unified support for Mr. Biden.
Asked for comment, the campaign shared two videos of union members voicing support for Trump after he visited a construction site in New York City ahead of his ongoing hush money trial, with one worker saying he'd tell Mr. Biden "f**k you."
Trump national campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt further told the outlet, "While Joe Biden receives endorsements from the union bosses who automatically support Democrats every election cycle, President Trump is proud to be whole-heartedly supported by the hardworking laborers who serve as the backbone of these unions."
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Katie Hobbs on Tuesday vetoed Senate Bill 1414 which would have increased penalties for repeat offenders of Arizona’s organized retail theft law.
The legislation would deem that “a person who is convicted of a third or subsequent violation of organized retail theft with the intent to resell or trade the stolen merchandise to be sentenced as a category two repetitive offender,” as opposed to current law, which classifies repeat offenders as a category one repetitive offender “for the second and subsequent offenses.” Category two offenders receive harsher sentences.
Hobbs wrote in a veto letter, “Today, I vetoed Senate Bill 1414. I have signed Sen. Gowan’s bill SB1411 establishing an Organized Retail Theft Task Force in the Attorney General’s office that will be critical to adequately and appropriately combat this issue. Their first report is due July 1, 2025 and I look forward to reviewing their policy recommendations and working together to find balanced policies for this matter.”
However, the bill she signed into law only establishes a task force in the Attorney General’s office. It does nothing to punish repeat offenders like SB1414.
The bill summary states:
Purpose
Requires a person who is convicted of a third or subsequent violation of organized retail theft with the intent to resell or trade the stolen merchandise to be sentenced as a category two repetitive offender.
Background
Current statute classifies a person who is convicted of multiple felony offenses that were not committed on the same occasion, but that are either consolidated for trial purposes or are not historical prior felony convictions, as a first time felony offender for the first offense and a category one repetitive offender for the second and subsequent offenses. A person who is at least 18 years of age or who has been tried as an adult must be sentenced as: 1) a category two repetitive offender if the person stands convicted of a felony and has one historical prior felony conviction; or 2) a category three repetitive offender if the person stands convicted of a felony and has two or more historical prior felony convictions (A.R.S. § 13-703).
A person commits organized retail theft if the person acting alone or in conjunction with another person: 1) removes merchandise from a retail establishment without paying the purchase price with the intent to resell or trade the merchandise for money or other value; or 2) uses an artifice, instrument, container, device or other article to facilitate the removal of merchandise from a retail establishment without paying the purchase price. Organized retail theft is a class 4 felony (A.R.S. § 13-1819).
A category two repetitive offender who is convicted of organized retail theft carries a presumptive imprisonment sentence of 4.5 years and an aggravated imprisonment sentence of 7.5 years. The fine for a felony may be up to $150,000 (A.R.S. §§ 13-703 and 13-801).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
- Requires a person who is convicted of a third or subsequent violation of organized retail theft with the intent to resell or trade the stolen merchandise to be sentenced as a category two repetitive offender.
- Becomes effective on the general effective date.
This is one of the ten measures Katie Hobbs rejected on Tuesday alone. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hobbs vetoed several common-sense bills on Tuesday, including SB2581, which would require proof of residency to vote in Arizona elections; SB1129, which would protect homeowners by allowing them to remove an unlawful occupant or a “squatter” from their property; and SB1182, which would have protected girls’ showers from biological males in public K-12 schools.
Per Axios, Hobbs vetoed a total of 143 bills last year. As of Tuesday, she has vetoed 195 bills since taking office last January, shattering Democrat Janet Napolitano’s previous record of 181 vetoes during an entire four-year term.
Per Arizona Daily Star:
Other bills the governor rejected Tuesday include:— SB 1340 prohibiting the investment of public funds in any state-owned or company domiciled within a “foreign adversary’’ as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under federal law. That includes China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuelan politician Nicolas Maduro. It also would bar putting money into a bank that has a principal place of business in a foreign adversary.— SB 1060 which would have given candidates for federal office the ability to send an observer to watch the ballot-counting process. That is now limited to those designated by political parties.— HB 2328 would have allowed mobile food vendors to set up on private property in residential areas, something now prohibited. Rep. Kevin Payne, R-Peoria, said it included safeguards, including requiring the permission of the property owner who would have to remain at the site.
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Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon recently vetoed an amendment to the Secretary of State’s election procedures manual that would require proof of state residency to vote.
According to Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray, “The law would also “provide uniformity and clarity concerning providing evidence of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote.”
The Secretary of State said the Governor’s veto will make it “easier for illegal aliens and non-residents to illegally vote” and called the move “deeply disturbing” in a statement.
Gray slammed the Governor in an X post, saying, “With his veto of our proposed rules, Gov. Gordon is now enabling Biden and the most radical leftists in America who are trying to help illegal immigrants vote in our elections.”
This comes as Biden’s historic open border crisis rages on and flyers instructing illegal immigrants to vote for Joe Biden in the forthcoming U.S. election have been reportedly distributed at a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Mexico, according to an investigation by The Oversight Project, a watchdog initiative linked to the Heritage Foundation.
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Arizona’s lawless Governor, Katie Hobbs, who was installed by a rigged election, vetoed a similar law earlier this week in a state that’s at the forefront of Biden’s open border. Hobbs vetoed the legislation, claiming it “creates additional, unnecessary barriers for individuals registering to vote.”
Lawless Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoes Bill to Require Proof of Residency for Voting
Likewise, Governor Gordon claimed this law would create "voter confusion and inadvertent disenfranchisement."
In a letter to Gray, Gordon said, “I do not believe it is within the scope of authority delegated to the Secretary of State by law.” Gray, however, says this is untrue as “Wyoming statute not only allows for the rule, but actually calls for it.
"W.S. 22-1- 102(a)(xxvii) expressly defines the registration process as requiring ‘verification of the name and voter information of a qualified elector.’"
RNC election attorney Christina Bobb responded to Gray's statement on X, "What the heck is the Wyoming Governor doing?!"
What the heck is the Wyoming Governor doing?! https://t.co/7y8Rd4PMhN
— Christina Bobb (@christina_bobb) April 14, 2024
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray released the following statement on the Governor's veto on April 12:
Secretary Gray Expresses Disagreement with Governor’s Veto of Rules to Require Proof of Wyoming Residency to Vote
CHEYENNE, WY – On April 12, 2024, Governor Mark Gordon vetoed amendments to Chapter 2 of the Secretary of State’s Election Procedures that would have required acceptable identification for proof of identity, including proof of Wyoming residency, when registering to vote in Wyoming, as well as to provide uniformity and clarity concerning providing evidence of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote.
“Wyoming elections should be decided by Wyomingites, NOT illegal immigrants,” Secretary of State Chuck Gray said. “Governor Gordon’s veto makes it easier for illegal aliens and non-residents to illegally vote, which is deeply disturbing.”
“Wyoming statute not only allows for the rule, but actually calls for it. W.S. 22-1- 102(a)(xxvii) expressly defines the registration process as requiring ‘verification of the name and voter information of a qualified elector.’ The rule provided for a process to verify an individual’s attestation that they are a resident of Wyoming. And it also fulfilled the statutory requirement that no person would be allowed to register to vote if their identification contains any indication that they are not a U.S. citizen.”
“I am especially troubled by the Governor’s adoption of the radical left’s argument that Wyoming has no real cases of voter fraud to address. As I indicated during our meeting with the Governor, our office has worked with county clerks on this very issue just last year, cancelling a registration of an illegal alien in Campbell County who illegally voted in the 2020 election. Every vote by an illegal alien disenfranchises the vote of Wyoming residents. These rules were a commonsense solution to stopping voter fraud in Wyoming.”
“These rules undertook a thorough vetting process, and received overwhelming support from the people of Wyoming during the public comment period. They should have been signed. I will continue to fight for election integrity measures to protect and improve our elections.”
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Trump Endorsed Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake released a new campaign ad this weekend, where she exposes how Democrat Congressman Ruben Gallego abandoned his family for a DC lobbyist.
Lake is expected to face Gallego in the November General Election.
Her new ad takes a shot at Gallego’s personal life, exposing his rotten divorce from Mayor Kate Gallego in 2016. “Just imagine you’re nine months pregnant. Your baby’s name is picked out. The nursery is ready. And then your husband leaves you, and files for divorce,” the video says.
It continues, “He divorced his wife when she was nine months pregnant. And then he shacked up with a DC lobbyist and left his son fatherless” and slams the move as “disgraceful.”
Sources further told The Gateway Pundit, “He left [Kate Gallego] days before she gave birth. It was so bad that her parents had to relocate overnight to help her give birth and take care of the baby. They moved hundreds of miles to Phoenix to help her.”
Per the Daily Caller, “Gallego’s wife, Sydney Barron, is a lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors. Gallego has reportedly supported bills pushed by her, according to the Washington Free Beacon.”
This you, @RubenGallego? pic.twitter.com/g5PVi505v9
— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) October 14, 2023
“Ruben Gallego is already a deadbeat dad. Arizona doesn’t need a deadbeat senator,” the video concludes.
This is almost like Gallego’s stance on abortion, which would allow a woman to abandon a baby all the way up until birth, just as he did with his nine-month-pregnant wife.
The new ad, exposing Gallego’s messy divorce and poor family values, comes as Kari Lake is under fire from Gallego and the Democrats’ leftist media goons for her views on abortion, which Gallego claims are extreme and align with a nationwide total ban on abortion.
However, similar to President Trump’s policy on abortion, Lake said she believes the individual states should be allowed to make abortion policy, but she will “do everything she can to help women choose life.” Lake, the only mother in the race, says she believes “life is priceless, and that having children is the greatest blessing any woman can ever experience.”
In the Senate, “Kari’s focus will be on ensuring that young women facing the challenges of motherhood have all the support they need to choose life, including quality pre-natal care, parenting classes, and financial support where necessary,” reads her official policy.
.@KariLake releases abortion policy. Like President Trump and SCOTUS, she believes it is a state issue but will “do everything she can to help women choose life” pic.twitter.com/xkli4vA1ZE
— Jordan Conradson (@ConradsonJordan) April 9, 2024
Lake released the following video message on her stance regarding abortion:
Watch Lake’s new ad below:
Just imagine you’re nine months pregnant. Your baby’s name is picked out. The nursery is ready. And then your husband leaves you, and files for divorce. Who could do o that? Ruben Gallego did. He divorced his wife when she was nine months pregnant. And then he shacked up with a DC lobbyist and left his son fatherless. It’s disgraceful. Ruben Gallego is already a deadbeat dad. Arizona doesn’t need a deadbeat senator. I’m Kari Lake and I approve this message.
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President Trump joined Greg Kelly on Newsmax last Thursday to discuss the Democrats’ ongoing lawfare against him and past statements that if he were President, Hillary Clinton would be in jail.
It can be recalled that during an October 2016 debate in St. Louis, Hillary tried to zing Trump, saying, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in this country,” and he brought the house down with an epic one-liner: “Because you’d be in jail.”
Trump did not follow through with putting Hillary in jail or weaponizing the justice system against his opponents. “I thought it would be a terrible thing for our country,” Trump said in his interview with Kelly.
“They don’t care, these people are radical lunatics, they don’t care,” Trump continued in reference to Joe Biden and the Democrats who have persecuted President Trump and thousands of innocent, peaceful January 6 prisoners.
Trump added, “They have to be very careful with what they’re doing because it comes back to bite.”
The Democrats and Joe Biden, of course, lied about what Trump said and shared a selectively edited clip, claiming, “Trump says Americans who oppose him should ‘be careful’ because his Project 2025 agenda will send the Justice Department after them if he wins.”
Sound familiar?
From an official Biden-Harris campaign account:
Trump says Americans who oppose him should “be careful” because his Project 2025 agenda will send the Justice Department after them if he wins pic.twitter.com/vUEGN0Xuvb
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 26, 2024
Watch a longer portion of the interview below.
Trump is currently facing 88 criminal counts brought on by four of Biden’s thugs in different jurisdictions ahead of the 2024 election.
Similarly, Kamala Harris gaslit the American people in a video message earlier this year, claiming that “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and our most fundamental freedoms” and he “took rights and liberties from the American people.” This is all coming from the same regime that stole an election, took away our nation’s borders, pushed vaccine mandates on the American people, destroyed the economy, persecuted Trump supporters, and is trying to imprison the leading Presidential candidate in 2024.
Watch:
Kelly: I think you locked up the election with that moment, but you didn't follow through on that. Yet they are trying to put you in jail. Now my question is you were asked about that. You said, Look, these are good people. I don't want to hurt them. And I kind of thought that was a very honorable thing to say. What happens if you become president again regarding them and the rest?
Trump: Well, let me tell you, I didn't want to. I thought it would be a terrible thing. And there were opportunities, obviously, and good, strong control. Everything was good, but I did not want to, and I thought it would be a terrible thing for our country. They don't care, these people are radical lunatics, they don't care. And they have to be very careful with what they're doing because it comes back to bite, and you're right about it. I had plenty — that would have been a horrible thing to do, I thought, but they don't mind doing it. And talking president, not you know, the wife of Bill Clinton would not have been, would not have been a nice thing to do. But I felt that way. I really did. I felt that way, and she was a quite nasty. And by the way, to this day she talks about the election, the election, nobody goes after her. They go after conservative Republicans, they go after Christians. I mean, it's gonna be a lot different out there. And I tell the Republicans, I think I'm having an impact, a big impact. I tell them you better start fighting because, you know, you're not gonna have anything left if you don’t, and we have some great people. You know that. They're on your show a lot. We have some great Republicans but they're realizing they're gonna have to get tougher, and they will.
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“He was gonna get his laptop fixed, but Hunter Got High…”
Rapper Afroman released a new record on Friday making fun of Hunter Biden for his drug usage, scandalous laptop, d*ck pics, prostitutes, and foreign business dealings with China and Ukraine.
The song spoofs his 2000 hit “Because I Got High.”
Baste Records, which bills itself as “the counter culture to cancel culture,” produced the new song. The group has previously produced conservative-leaning music with Chad Prather, Five Times August, Hi-Rez, and Rachel Holt.
Matt Azrieli, founder of Baste Records, told The Gateway Pundit, “Great fun to work with Afroman and his excellent team! Liberal hypocrisy has been ripping apart American society since LBJ’s “Great Society” initiatives. America is the greatest country on earth BECAUSE we endeavor to treat all as equals under the law. No exceptions!”
Fox reports,
Afroman reprised his 2000 hit song, “Because I Got High,” with a new version making fun of Hunter Biden.
Baste Records posted on X on Friday about Afroman’s new song, “Hunter Got High,”sharing a link to the full video on YouTube.
Beyond the Hunter Biden laptop, Afroman’s new song also takes jabs at alleged influence peddling by the Biden family, as well the Secret Service confirming that cocaine was found at the White House last summer and subsequently closing that probe without naming a culprit.
Afroman also mocks Hunter Biden’s art career, which has come under fire by House Republicans raising conflict of interest concerns between wealthy buyers and the White House.
The song also references Biden’s scandal at the White House, where cocaine was found in the West Wing. This left many speculating that it was Hunter’s bag of blow. However, the Secret Service apparently could not identify a suspect.
“The White House got shut down, we all know why… Hunter got High, Hunter got High, Hunter got High,” sings Afroman.
Afroman also caught some negative attention in a hit piece from Consequence of Sound, who opined that Hunter Biden’s hilarious scandals are “not only unfunny, but somehow manage to make a catchy tune no longer catchy.” They further attack the song saying it’s “hollow, and reeks of the same stiffness that makes nearly all conservative humor unbearable.”
Released via Baste Records (a “conservative music company” making its “first venture into political satire” with the single), “Hunter Got High” is, to be frank, lame. Selling itself as letting “everyone know that even Afroman is fed up with the way the Democrats are running the country,” it sees Afroman switch out the lyrics to his 2001 stoner masterpiece with tired references to the younger Biden’s many scandals and conspiracies, which are not only unfunny, but somehow manage to make a catchy tune no longer catchy.
“He was gonna get his laptop fixed, but Hunter got high/ He wasn’t gonna show all those dick pics, but then he got high,” the song starts, before packing more lazy, overdone jabs into a very long-feeling four minutes. The only fun part of the whole track, honestly, are the final lines, where Afroman briefly references his own recent drama with law enforcement.
“Hunter Got High,” though, is just hollow, and reeks of the same stiffness that makes nearly all conservative humor unbearable. Even if Afroman has complaints about the Biden administration — and surely there are few Americans with none — trying to superimpose a Hunter Biden-themed right-wing anthem onto a 20-year-old, already-waning-in-relevancy song feels out of touch at best and like a spineless attempt to grift some cash off anti-human political forces at worst. (And if you thought the track is bad, just wait until you get a look at its companion music video.)
But hey, if you think Afroman is on to something, he’s running for president this fall and you can go vote for him (at least while his new buddies in the Republican party let us, that is).
Watch the music video below:
Afroman: Shout out to Baste Records …
Hey Hunter! Roll another one of those congressional blunts brotha
He was gonna get his laptop fixed, but Hunter got high
He wasn’t gonna show all those dick pics, but then he got high
He shoulda let Hillary bleach the whole hard drive
But Hunter got high, Hunter got high, Hunter got high
He wasn’t gonna mess with the hoes, but Hunter got high
Wasn’t gonna, take em all out on a boat, but Hunter got high
He’s the smartest man that Joe’s ever known in his life
Till Hunter got high, Hunter got high, Hunter got high
He was gonna go visit his dad, but Hunter got high
He thought he had a secret stash, but Hunter got high
The White House got shut down, we all know why
Hunter got High, Hunter got High, Hunter got High
He never could paint worth a fuck, Hunter got high
Now he gets, a half a mill and up, “damn that’s high”
Biden never use to start with B-U-Y
Till Hunter got high, Hunter got high, Hunter got high
Ukraine wasn’t part of the plan, till Hunter got high
China wasn’t that big a fan, till Hunter got high
He wasn’t gonna split it all, with the old big guy
‘But Hunter got high, Hunter got high, Hunter got high
He wasn’t gonna go to court until he got high
He’d never been indicted before, but Hunter got high
His attorney’s out smokin a bowl, and we all know why
Cause Hunter got high, Hunter got high, Hunter got high
He was making 80 G’s a month, but Hunter got high
On a job brotha ain’t never done, Hunter got high
He got more LLC’s than John Gotti’s ex-wife
Cause Hunter got high, Hunter got high, Hunter got high
His cousin never was a pimp, ‘Till Hunter got high
He had the best friends money could rent, but Hunter got high
Just imagine if he wasn’t rich, and so damn white
The cops would raid his house, eat his lemon pound cake, disconnect his cameras and steal his money
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On Sunday, news broke that Joe Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, used his ties to the former Vice President to do business with terrorist-supporting regime Qatar and foreign investors to finance Americore Health LLC.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s corruption uncovered a $200,000 direct payment to Joe Biden that they claimed was a “loan repayment.” However, there were no IRS records or loan documents to prove it.
In 2018, Jim Biden received $600,000 in ‘loans’ from Americore Health LLC, a failing/bankrupt rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy documents, Jim Biden received the loans “based upon representations that his last name Biden could open doors and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”
On March 1, 2018, Americore Health LLC wired a $200,000 payment to Jim and Sara Biden’s personal bank account. On that very same day, Jim Biden then wrote a $200,000 check to Joe Biden, AKA, “The Big Guy.”
Jim Biden wrote the check to Joe Biden as a so-called “loan repayment.” Does Joe Biden have documents proving he lent his brother such a large sum of money? “What were the terms?” Comer asked.
Prior to this, Biden was reportedly embarking on raising money for Americore while seeking "investment funding" from sources in the Middle East.
Around the time, Qatar was reportedly cut off and financially blockaded by neighboring countries, led by Saudi Arabia, citing the country's support for terrorism. Per Politico, "In response, the country’s rulers began showering well-connected Westerners with gifts and financial benefits, sometimes in the form of investment funding" to strengthen ties in the United States and Europe.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Democrat Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife were indicted on charges of bribery and corruption after developments that he was also a beneficiary of Qatar's efforts to expand their influence in the US.
Similarly, it was discovered that Matthew Graves, the lawless Biden-appointed US Attorney for the District of Columbia, represented terrorist-supporting regime Qatar and foreign banks financing terrorists.
Biden's family, the Democrats, and Biden's thugs are all in bed with foreign adversaries.
Presentations to potential investors for Americore described Jim Biden as the “Brother and Campaign Finance Chair of former Vice President Joe Biden.” Dubai is another reported source of money handled by Biden and his partners.
Politico reports:
New details about Jim Biden’s foreign fundraising efforts are spilling out in a Kentucky bankruptcy court, where recent testimony indicates that President Joe Biden’s brother partnered with Qatari government officials in his quest to find money for U.S. health care ventures.
The sworn testimony by fund manager Michael Lewitt, a former business partner of Jim Biden’s, attests that two companies that facilitated the efforts were part-owned by “members of the Qatari government.”
Public records and emails obtained by POLITICO offer a window on fundraising efforts in which Jim Biden invoked his ties to older brother and sought workarounds to restrictions on international money movements. Transactions related to the efforts are also at the heart of a recently-settled fraud case brought by the SEC and are being scrutinized as part of a federal criminal investigation in South Florida.
Jim Biden suggested to congressional investigators in February that his fundraising efforts stalled for lack of viable projects to back. But the previously unreported testimony by fund manager Michael Lewitt about the ownership of the two companies — the Platinum Group USA and Obermeyer Engineering Consulting — indicates that Jim Biden forged closer ties to Qatar’s government than previously understood.
Read more here.
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Former Democratic State Senator Tony Navarrete was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison after being charged with seven felony counts involving sexual misconduct with his two young nephews.
35-year-old Navarette, a “rising star” in the Arizona Democrat party, was arrested and charged with a felony described as “knowingly engaging in intercourse or oral sex with a minor.”
Navarette also has ties to State Rep. Athena Salman and Sen. Juan Mendez, Democrat colleagues who helped him draft a bill requiring all Arizona schools to teach sexual education instruction starting in Kindergarten. The failed attempt by Democrats would require schools to begin sexual education instruction with students as young as four years old. Navarrete’s friend and Illegitimate Governor, Katie Hobbs, also sponsored similar legislationwhile serving in the Arizona Senate.
More recently, in 2023, Hobbs vetoed a bill that would make it illegal to film or facilitate sexually explicit acts in government buildings and classrooms months after a teacher in Arizona was fired for shooting a porno in her classroom and posting it to OnlyFans.
Navarrete reportedly, in a recorded phone call monitored by police, “acknowledged touching the victim’s penis and performing oral sex on the youth multiple times over several years,” according to Maricopa County Superior Court documents. However, Mitchell’s office failed to convict Navarrete after a mistrial despite the recorded admission of guilt. A retrial has been ordered for February 12, and Navarrete faces seven counts involving pedophilia.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, RINO Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell’s office failed to convict Navarrete after a mistrial despite a recorded admission of guilt. A retrial was ordered for February 12, 2024.
However, his attorneys announced in court on Friday that they intend to appeal the conviction.
AZ Family reports:
During sentencing, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ordered one year in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for his single count of child sex crime. He is also now required to register as a sex offender.
Earlier this year, a jury deemed Navarrete not guilty on one count of molestation of a child and sexual conduct with a minor but declared Navarrete guilty on a separate charge of sexual conduct with a minor.
A mistrial was declared in Oct. 2023, when jurors at the time were split on a decision about the allegations against Navarrete. The former Democratic politician was arrested in 2019 and indicted in 2021 on seven child sex crime charges.
Court documents at the time stated Navarrete sexually touched the victim multiple times over a few years. Navarrete reportedly apologized to the victim and regretted his actions in a phone call recorded by police.
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Kamala Harris, in an interview about her experience in the White House over the last three years with actor Drew Barrymore, where she opened up on her infamous cackle and noted that “apparently, some people love to talk about the way I laugh.”
“Oh, yes. I love your laugh!” cried Barrymore in a weird tone.
Harris continued, “I think it’s really important for us to remind each other and our younger ones, don’t be confined to other people’s perception about what this looks like and how you should act in order to be, right?” Because it doesn’t matter how a Vice President of the United States acts, right?
The Gateway Pundit has reported on Kamala Harris’ outrageous cackle and all the inappropriate times she’s lost it, including when she was asked whether she’d visit the southern border and when she joked about killing President Trump.
Video compilation:
Harris also reportedly “acknowledged that people often like to make fun of public figures when they trip or fall.” Was she talking about Joe Biden?
The full interview is set to air on Monday.
The Hill reports,
Vice President Harris opened up about criticism over her laugh in an upcoming interview.
Harris, in an interview with “The Drew Barrymore Show” that will air Monday, acknowledged that people often like to make fun of public figures when they trip or fall, and then mentioned the talk about how she laughs.
“You were asking me earlier about what it means to be, like, the first woman. And, you know, it’s funny, because people still got to get used to this, right?” Harris said in the clip, obtained by Mediaite.
“Let me tell you something,” Harris told host Drew Barrymore. “I have my mother’s laugh. And I grew up around a bunch of women in particular who laugh from the belly.”
It is unclear if they discussed Joe Biden’s memory lapses and how it is comparable to Barrymore’s ’50 First Dates’ film.
Watch below:
Harris: You were asking me earlier about what it means to be like the first woman. And, you know, it’s funny because people still gotta get used to this, right?. My staff, for example, sometimes they’ll show me some things that just amuse me. Like Apparently, some people love to talk about the way I laugh
Barrymore: Oh, yes. I love your laugh!
Harris: Well, let me just tell you something I have my mother’s laugh, and I grew up around a bunch of women in particular who laugh from the belly. They laughed [emphasis]. They would sit around the kitchen, drinking their coffee, telling big stories with big laughs. You know im never gonna be, hehehe, That’s just I’m not that person! And I think it’s really important for us to remind each other and our younger ones, don’t be confined to other people’s perception about what this looks like and how you should act in order to be, right? It’s really important. It’s important
Barrymore: I love your laugh, and I love that message!
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As the White House Correspondents’ dinner featured another unfunny comedy act, a disastrous speech by the so-called leader of the free world, and that so-called leader enjoying his dinner like an Alzheimer’s patient at the nursing home, take a moment to remember last year’s annual event, Joe Biden laughed hysterically at Americans struggling to afford everyday goods.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost was the designated “comedian” for the White House Correspondent’s Association dinner on Saturday. After “roasting” Trump and Biden with a series of tame and not-particularly-funny quips, Jost launched into an emotional tirade about his late grandfather, he began slobbering over Biden’s supposed “decency.”
Biden later slurred as he openly joked about spearheading prosecutions against his main political opponent Donald Trump. Such decency!
In 2022, former Daily Show host Trevor Noah hosted a similarly pathetic comedy performance, and Biden, during his speech that year, called President Trump “a horrible plague.”
The most viral moment from the show went like this:
Noah: I think ever since you’ve come into office, things are really looking up. Gas is up, rent is up, food is up, everything.
The DC elites, journalists, and Joe Biden roared at the not-particularly-funny joke while Americans suffered Bidenflation under Bidenomics.
It was true that everything was — and still is — going up under Joe Biden, but one thing continues going downhill fast: Biden’s mental health.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Joe Biden Saturday evening stayed up past his bedtime to deliver remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with Hollywood elitists.
Biden struggled to eat his food. He isn’t used to eating solid food and feeding himself. Saturday night’s dinner was different than his usual pureed food spoon-fed to him.
He appeared confused as he pushed the salad around on his plate and got distracted by a dinner roll. Biden struggled to break the bread roll and barely got his fork to his mouth.
He also smeared Trump and repeated the debunked “bloodbath” hoax.
President Trump later savaged Joe Biden in a Truth Social post over the disastrous speech:
Trump Savages Biden Over Disastrous White House Correspondents’ Dinner Speech
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after speaking with Democrat House Leader Hakeem Jeffries, announced on Sunday the U.S. and Ukraine are “working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and for the next ten years.”
This will likely supersede President Trump’s authority on the matter if passed.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Congress recently passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S.-involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $60 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other 66 to $69 billion for?” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room.
Two bills from the latest handout package, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, both passed the House with more support from Democrats than Republicans. This comes after Republicans under Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill, also with more support from Democrats than Republicans, and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting “AYE” with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted in favor of sending additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border, more than doubling the number of Republican votes in favor.
Speaker Johnson arrogantly declared himself a “wartime speaker” before announcing the massive foreign aid package to fund multiple countries oceans away — but not the United States. The United States is not even at war with anyone!
Johnson’s surrender and betrayal of the conservative agenda could be explained by the fact that one of his top handlers aides, Policy Director Dan Ziegler, is a former lobbyist with clients who have a financial interest in Ukraine aid.
In a more recent development, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday that the US secretly sent long-range Army Tactical Missile System to Ukraine as part of the $61 billion dollar package passed by Democrats, RINOs, Speaker Johnson and signed by Joe Biden.
Obviously, Americans did not know about these long-range missiles being part of the $61 billion deal. Did Mike Johnson know about this? Did the RINOs? Why did they hide this from American taxpayers? Why would they send these offensive weapons to war-torn Ukraine?
In an X post this past Thursday, Zelenskyy said, “I spoke with @SpeakerJohnson to express my sincere gratitude for his leadership that ensured true bipartisan support for aid to Ukraine. I specifically highlighted the inclusion of long-range ATACMS systems in the bill, which are greatly needed on the battlefield.”
Steve Bannon on Saturday told Ben Harnwell he is “very disturbed about Johnson,” calling the latest move a “criminal conspiracy.”
Zelenskyy followed up on the money this morning, announcing that "Ukraine and the United States, are currently working on a bilateral security agreement," and they are "working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and for the next ten years."
This comes after Zelenskyy announced that he invited Johnson and Jeffries to visit Ukraine:
I spoke with @SpeakerJohnson to express my sincere gratitude for his leadership that ensured true bipartisan support for aid to Ukraine. I specifically highlighted the inclusion of long-range ATACMS systems in the bill, which are greatly needed on the battlefield. I also extended…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 25, 2024
I spoke with House Minority Leader @RepJeffries and thanked him for his role in getting the Ukraine aid bill passed in Congress.
I appreciate the bipartisan support for Ukraine in Congress, as well as President Biden's leadership. I invited Congressman Jeffries to visit… pic.twitter.com/p3IrtuVUBA
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 28, 2024
Per David Sacks, co-host of the All In podcast, "Zelensky announces that Ukraine is working on a security agreement with the U.S. that will fix levels of support for the next 10 years. The $61 billion was just the beginning. The next two U.S. presidents won’t be able to switch it off."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday responded to the news on X, saying,
Permanent funding for Ukraine is exactly what they want and Mike Johnson will give it to them. Peace is not an option for them because it doesn’t fit the government appropriations war business and economic model, which is vile and disgusting. They’re plan is keep funding the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine and when that doesn’t work, after all the Ukrainian men have been slaughtered, next they will put American troops on the ground. Johnson will do whatever Biden/Schumer want in order to keep the Speaker’s gavel in his hand, but he has completely sold out the Republican voters who gave us the majority. His days as Speaker are numbered.
Permanent funding for Ukraine is exactly what they want and Mike Johnson will give it to them.
Peace is not an option for them because it doesn’t fit the government appropriations war business and economic model, which is vile and disgusting.
They’re plan is keep funding the… https://t.co/7K9mCDhDhe
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 28, 2024
Zelenskyy gave the following speech in a video posted Sunday to YouTube by the Office of the President of Ukraine with the title "In June the Path to a Just Peace Can Begin."
Watch below:
Zelensky: I wish you health, fellow Ukrainians!
We are not losing a single day for Ukraine – I have just spoken with Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. I thanked him and all the congressmen for their support of our country and personal leadership in advancing a new package of assistance to Ukraine. We are interacting with our partners at all levels to achieve the level of efficiency in assistance that is needed not only to hold our positions, but also to disrupt Russia's war plans. We are still waiting for the supplies promised to Ukraine – we expect exactly the volume and content of supplies that can change the situation on the battlefield in the interests of Ukraine. And it is important that every agreement we have reached is implemented – everything that will yield practical results on the battlefield and boost the morale of everyone on the frontline. In a conversation with Mr. Jeffries, I emphasized the need for Patriot systems, they are needed as soon as possible.
Also, our teams, Ukraine and the United States, are currently working on a bilateral security agreement, and we are already working on a specific text. Our goal is to make this agreement the strongest of all. We are discussing the specific foundations of our security and cooperation. We are also working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and for the next ten years, including armed support, financial, political, and joint arms production. The agreement should be truly exemplary and reflect the strength of American leadership. I am grateful to both our team and the team of the American side for the progress in drafting the agreement.
Next week there will be quite a lot of international communication, both public and non-public. We remember what this year should bring us in the political sense, in particular the result with the European Union. Ukraine has fulfilled all the necessary conditions for the actual start of accession negotiations, and now it is up to the EU side to fulfill its obligations.
We continue preparations for the first inaugural Peace Summit in June, and our team, along with the teams of our key partners, is working to make the Summit truly global. We can say for sure that all continents will be represented – different parts of the world, different views on global development. But all of them share the same recognition that the UN Charter and basic international conventions are binding documents for every country in the world, including a country like Russia, where madness prevails. The world majority must force Russia into peace – and it can do this. It is in June that the path to a just peace can begin.
We are also preparing for the NATO Summit to be held this summer. A strong political signal is needed – the Alliance should not be afraid of its own strength or shy away from its own foundations – every country that shares common values and is willing to actually defend them deserves an invitation to join the Alliance.
And our unwavering gratitude to the warriors – to all the Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine, to each and every one of them at the front, at combat posts, on combat missions. Kharkiv region, Donetsk direction, all the southern directions. I am grateful to every soldier and commander who is doing everything to destroy the occupiers – this is needed the most.
According to the results of the week, the warriors of the 57th and 58th separate motorized infantry brigades, as well as the warriors of the 35th separate marine brigade deserve special gratitude. I would also like to mention our border guards, both those who are fighting on the frontline alongside everyone else, and those who are protecting our border communities and destroying Russian subversive groups. Special gratitude goes to all the servicemen of the Dozor special forces unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Also, to the warriors of the Revenge brigade – and I would like to thank Staff Sergeant Oleksandr Meteyko, Senior Sergeants Serhiy Nesterenko and Sviatoslav Ihnatiuk for their special results. The Steel Frontier brigade – Staff Sergeant Ivan Koval, Sergeant Vitaliy Mykytenko, and Senior Soldier Yevhen Kolesnik. Well done! Chernihiv and Volyn border guard detachments – Senior Soldiers Mykhailo Danyliuk and Mykhailo Myndiuk, Sergeants Yuriy Romashyn and Mykhailo Sereda, and Senior Sergeant Roman Novyk. Sumy border guard detachment – Soldier Andriy Krut and Staff Sergeant Yuriy Popkov particularly distinguished themselves... I also thank all the soldiers of our Kharkiv detachment, especially Senior Soldiers Denys Shevchenko and Volodymyr Shevtsov, and Major Andriy Kuchynskyi. I am proud of you all, warriors!
I am grateful to everyone who is with Ukraine, who is in Ukraine and for whom Ukraine is the only home on Earth.
Glory to Ukraine!
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Mike Johnson’s betrayal of Republican voters may have saved him the Speakership as his Democrat colleagues plan to come to his rescue amidst a threat of Motion to Vacate by America First Republicans in the House.
Now that the GOP only has a one-vote majority in the House thanks to the selfish early resignations by Kevin McCarthy (RINO-CA), Ken Buck (RINO-CO), and Mike Gallagher (RINO-WI) along with the stupid ousting of George Santos (R-NY), Johnson needs only to appeal to the Democrats and overwhelming majority of RINOs within the Republican conference.
The news that Democrats are backing Johnson comes as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently announced he will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House over his ongoing support for Ukraine as our southern border remains wide open.
Greene filed and announced her motion after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans. The vote – 286 to 134 – had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ It was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Johnson recently cut a deal with Democrats in passing three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S.-involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, $61 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
Rep. Andy Biggs said last week, “The Speaker actually put together a coalition with Democrats to get the Ukraine funding that was $65 billion or so.” Prior to this and the passage of $95 billion in aid, The Gateway Pundit reported that Johnson was negotiating with the Biden regime to introduce a substantial funding package for foreign conflicts and whip up opposition from the Democrats to a Motion to Vacate against him.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. No wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout. It was a total surrender on the part of Mike Johnson.
Johnson’s surrender and betrayal of the conservative agenda could be explained by the fact that one of his top handlers aides, Policy Director Dan Ziegler, is a former lobbyist with clients who have a financial interest in Ukraine aid.
Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other 66 to $69 billion for?” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room.
Two bills from the latest handout package, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, both passed the House with more support from Democrats than Republicans. This comes after Republicans under Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill, also with more support from Democrats than Republicans, and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting “AYE” with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted in favor of sending additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border, more than doubling the number of Republican votes in favor.
Speaker Johnson arrogantly declared himself a “wartime speaker” before announcing the massive foreign aid package to fund multiple countries oceans away — but not the United States. The United States is not even at war with anyone!
In a more recent development, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. secretly sent long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems to Ukraine as part of the $61 billion dollar package passed by Democrats, RINOs, and Speaker Johnson and signed by Joe Biden.
Steve Bannon on Saturday told Ben Harnwell he is “very disturbed about Johnson,” calling the latest move a “criminal conspiracy.”
Then, on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the U.S. and Ukraine are “working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and for the next ten years,” seemingly taking away President Trump’s power to do anything once passed.
Per Axios, "many Democrats have gone on the record to say they would not support ousting Johnson, especially after he passed aid to Ukraine."
Axios reports,
A centrist House Democrat said Sunday there is "no way" his colleagues will allow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
Why it matters: Greene has not ruled out forcing a vote on her motion to vacate against Johnson when the House returns to session on Monday.
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has also suggested Democrats would likely save the speaker.
What he's saying: Asked on MSNBC's "The Weekend" how Democrats feel about Greene's motion to vacate, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said "obviously we'll wait for Leader Jeffries to figure out that solution."
The post “Obviously We’ll Wait for Leader Jeffries to Figure Out That Solution” – Reps Jared Moskowitz, Hakeem Jeffries Suggest Democrats Will Likely Save The Speaker After $61 Billion Ukraine Aid Deal appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk responded to the news on Sunday that the United States is considering a decade-long security agreement to deliver support to Ukraine, calling it “insane” and labeling Ukraine’s war with Russia “The forever war.”
Per David Sacks, co-host of the All In podcast, “Zelensky announces that Ukraine is working on a security agreement with the U.S. that will fix levels of support for the next 10 years. The $61 billion was just the beginning.The next two U.S. presidents won’t be able to switch it off.”
This is insane. The forever war.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s video announcement on Sunday, where he explained that Ukraine and the United States are currently in discussions about a new security agreement and “working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and for the next ten years.”
“Glory to Ukraine!” Zelensky declared to conclude his message.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) also reacted, predicting, "after all the Ukrainian men have been slaughtered, next they will put American troops on the ground" and declaring that Johnson's "days as Speaker are numbered."
Recall that Greene filed and announced a Motion to Vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans. The vote – 286 to 134 – had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ It was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate. The Gateway Pundit reported that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently announced he will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House over his ongoing support for Ukraine as our southern border remains wide open. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) later added his name to the list of Republican co-sponsors following the passage of another $61 billion to Ukraine earlier this month.
However, The Gateway Pundit reported on Monday that Johnson's Democrat friends plan to come to his rescue after he sold out and rammed their agenda through the House.
Zelenskyy's announcement comes just after Johnson and Schumer passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S.-involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $61 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
Likewise, a ten-year agreement with Ukraine could abdicate any authority Trump has to end the funding.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other 66 to $69 billion for?” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room. Ten more years of this...
Two bills from the latest handout package, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, both passed the House with more support from Democrats than Republicans. All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting “AYE” with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted in favor of sending additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border, more than doubling the number of Republican votes in favor.
Speaker Johnson arrogantly declared himself a “wartime speaker” before announcing the massive foreign aid package to fund multiple countries oceans away — but not the United States. The United States is not even at war with anyone!
Additionally, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Pentagon confirmed last Wednesday that the US secretly sent long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems to Ukraine as part of the $61 billion dollar package passed by Democrats, RINOs, Speaker Johnson and signed by Joe Biden.
Obviously, Americans did not know about these long-range missiles being part of the $61 billion deal. Did Mike Johnson know about this? Did the RINOs? Why did they hide this from American taxpayers? Why would they send these offensive weapons to war-torn Ukraine? Steve Bannon on Saturday told Ben Harnwell he is “very disturbed about Johnson,” calling the latest move a “criminal conspiracy.”
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Conservative attorney and Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon joined Tucson radio host Garret Lewis’ Afternoon Addiction last week to discuss the latest election interference lawfare against Republicans in Arizona.
Dhillon represents GOP Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman in fighting the bogus charges brought against 18 individuals by radical left Attorney General Kris Mayes, who stole the 2022 election by 280 votes from Trump Endorsed Abe Hamadeh.
Hamadeh also discussed the sham charges against Trump electors and his ongoing lawsuit contesting the fraudulent election in an exclusive interview with The Gateway Pundit last week.
The Gateway Pundit reported that the still questionably elected Kris Mayes announced felony charges against 18 Trump allies and alternative electors last Wednesday afternoon for the non-crime of questioning the 2020 election and casting electoral votes for Trump. She defended her witch hunt and the curious timing of the indictment – just months before the 2024 general election.
However, the alleged crime is perfectly legal and has legal precedent.
Per Politico:
By December 1960, it was clear Kennedy had won. Only Hawaii’s result remained in doubt. Nixon had prevailed by just 140 votes, according to the initial results, which were certified by the governor. A recount was underway on Dec. 19, 1960, when presidential electors across the nation were required by law to meet and cast their ballots.
Nixon’s Hawaii electors met and cast their three votes in an official ceremony. But nearby, Kennedy’s three elector nominees gathered and signed their own certificates, delivering them to Washington as though Kennedy had won the state.
As was done in Hawaii, Arizona's Trump electors met and cast their votes in case of a successful legal challenge while lawsuits challenging the stolen 2020 election were still ongoing. "That's a protected First Amendment activity by these citizens," said Dhillon.
Recall that the Arizona Attorney General at the time, Mark Brnovich, released a report on his investigation in April 2022, stating that “between 100,000 and 200,000 ballots were transported without a proper chain of custody,” and individuals would be prosecuted for election fraud. However, the weak, lethargic AG never followed through.
Even the election officials in Maricopa County, which accounts for roughly 60% of Arizona's voters, knew the election was rigged with dead voters, ballot harvesting, and shady machine software and admitted that the County’s in-house audit of the 2020 election was “bulsh*t.” Former Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri previously stated that his colleagues lied because they were too scared to do a real audit in conversations while the Arizona 2020 election audit was ongoing.
President Trump was also named in the indictment “Unindicted Coconspirator-1” because he made a phone call about the ballot counting to former governor Doug Ducey.
The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the indictment falsely alleges.
Make no mistake; the charges are a warning shot to anyone who may want to challenge the 2024 election and meant to stain the reputations of Trump and Arizona Republicans running in 2024. See the full list of alternative electors and Trump associates facing felony charges in Arizona here.
"It sure sounds like the timing of this prosecution was specifically for purposes of trying to affect, in a positive way, Democrats' chances, certainly with respect to the primary in Arizona that's coming up in weeks and with the general election," Dhillon told Garret Lewis.
She continued, "All the information that they needed to bring this frivolous and politically based indictment has been in the hands of these prosecutors in different states, thanks to the January 6 committee investigation in the House and thanks to the likely coordination of all of this between special counsel and the Biden administration literally for years."
Mayes said the quiet part out loud before announcing the grand jury indictment in the latest election interference lawfare, declaring, “We absolutely have to get President Biden reelected.” This means shutting down the so-called election deniers when they shut down the voting centers, remove Republican observers from the counting rooms, and thousands of Joe Biden ballots magically appear.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, even the Associated Press admits, “Charges against Trump’s 2020 ‘fake electors’ are expected to deter a repeat this year.”
Full interview below:
Lewis: Joining me now because there were 11 people indicted yesterday, one of them is Senator Jake Hoffman. His attorney, Harmeet Dhillon joins me now. What's your reaction to the fact that Kris Mayes admitted on national TV that she'll do, I guess, whatever it takes to get Joe Biden reelected and look at what happened to Jake?
Dhillon: Yeah, well, my reaction is, who's doing the election rigging here? Is it President Trump, or is it President Biden? Because it sure sounds like the timing of this prosecution was specifically for purposes of trying to affect, in a positive way, Democrats' chances, certainly with respect to the primary in Arizona that's coming up in weeks and with the general election because, frankly, all the information that they needed to bring this frivolous and politically based indictment has been in the hands of these prosecutors in different states, thanks to the January 6 committee investigation in the House and thanks to the likely coordination of all of this between special counsel and the Biden administration literally for years. So, the fact that they're bringing this almost four years after the fact is clearly an example of election rigging by the Democrats.
Lewis: To me, it just shows how scared they are because they know what is about to happen, and they can't stop it. Is there anything here at all? All I know is these 11 people signed a piece of paper, that's what they did. They signed a piece of paper, and I don't believe it's illegal. There have been alternate electors that have been used in the 1800s to settle an election, so is there anything here that is actually illegal?
Dhillon: There have been alternative electors used in the 1960s by the Democratic Party. It was suggested in the 2020 election by Democrat activists, including Van Jones and Larry Lessig, to do it in Pennsylvania in the very election for which these citizens got indicted for their work in Arizona. So, you know, briefly, the facts are that they signed as alternate electors to preserve the opportunity in the event that ongoing litigation in Arizona, like there was ongoing litigation in other states where people have been indicted: Nevada, Michigan, and Georgia. In the event to preserve the opportunity, in the event of a successful outcome in court. That's all. That's a protected First Amendment activity by these citizens, and to indict them for that is really outrageous. It will not stand, but the point of the Democrats here is simply to throw sand in the gears of this election.
Lewis: Yeah, it's just to scare people, I think, from ever, you know, wanting to actually say, ‘Hey, maybe something's not right here’ or ‘We're gonna do something about this.’ This is pure tyranny. So, where do you go from here? What is the next step? Is this going to be just challenged, do you have to go to a trial, what happens?
Dhillon: The next step typically in a criminal proceeding is, first of all, they have to serve everybody. And, you know, they just dumped these on the media yesterday, and eventually, they'll serve people. And then, there's typically a threshold process of motions to dismiss the indictment on various grounds, and boy, are there plenty of grounds in this case? So, I don't want to tip our hand, but we'll be doing motion practice like every other defense counsel, I'm sure. And then if there's still a case left after we hopefully, you know, destroy it, if there's still any case left after that, then there'll be a discovery process where the government's obligation is to turn over to the defense all the evidence they have in support of these ridiculous charges. But just to give you a couple of examples, they're being prosecuted for conspiracy, fraud, and forgery. Fraud, throughout the United States and in the western speaking world, requires that somebody had acted in reliance and detriment on the actions that are complained of. Nothing happened here. These people signed a piece of paper. Nobody acted in reliance on the actions in order to change the outcome of an election. The United States Congress did not vote differently. Nobody voted differently as a result of this alternative electors blink. Forgery requires a guilty conscience and intention to fool somebody with your forged document. Again, the Trump campaign and everybody involved here was very out in the open and transparent that these were alternate electors, a contingent plan in the event of a positive outcome in court. Period, full stop. No forgery, no fall, no fraud. And then conspiracy is simply a mush that lazy prosecutors use to try to tie things and people together. This is absolutely laughable and frankly shocked me as a lawyer that a so-called Attorney General, who, by the way, I think is not the legitimate Attorney General of Arizona, concocted. So, we feel very strongly about this. Jake is a great client, he is a public servant in your state, and we are looking forward to going to court to clear him of the fake charges.
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New Gen 47 PAC launch video
STAY-TUNED – more updates coming that will blow your mind!
New Gen 47 PAC, a new political action committee, seeks to use popular culture and is in talks with A-list celebrities to focus on turning out low-propensity voters in swing states and purple suburban counties for President Trump and conservative candidates this November.
The group was founded by LJ Fino, President of First Class Records, and PR consultant Alex Fahmy. It can be recalled that LJ Fino had a hand in producing hit #1 songs, such as “Justice for All” featuring Donald Trump and the J6 Choir and Kari Lake’s “81 Million Votes my Ass,” as Mailman Media’s Head of Recorded Music Operations. Fino’s First Class Records label has also produced music by Lara Trump.
Under New Gen 47, Fino and Fahmy plan to hold concerts and music events with famous musicians to rally voters for Donald Trump and other conservatives in November.
Their first event will be held sometime in June, and the group will hold more concert-style events with A-list entertainers, soon to be announced. The Gateway Pundit has knowledge of some of the entertainers New Gen 47 is currently in talks with, and it’s something to look forward to!
Fino told The Gateway Pundit, “NEW GEN 47 is a Hybrid PAC that combines popular culture with politics. We will be focusing on reminding the electorate which Presidential candidate benefits all Americans from all walks of life, and that candidate is President Donald J. Trump.”
He continued, “President Trump signed the Bi-Partisan Music Modernization Act into law, which helped songwriters, musicians, performers, and creatives receive fair compensation for their work in the arts and changed copyright law to better reflect the digital era of music. It is incredibly hard for me to fathom why people continue to vote for a candidate who has repeatedly lied and made racist remarks throughout his long career in politics and signed the 1994 Crime Bill, which unfairly treated minority individuals and resulted in the mass incarceration of a group of Americans whom President Biden and his party claim to support.”
“President Trump also signed legislation in 2018 that provided more than 360 million dollars in funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities as part of his efforts to expand opportunities for minorities in higher education,” Fino added.
“You can ask yourself the age-old question, ‘Are you better off today than you were four years ago?’ and no one can genuinely say ‘Yes,’ with the exception of Hunter Biden.”
co-founder Alex Fahmy had similar comments, telling The Gateway Pundit, “Over 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck thanks to Joe Biden’s ‘Bidenomics.’ This election is between putting America First with President Trump or continuing to put America Last with Joe Biden.”
“Joe Biden is rolling out the red carpet for illegal immigrants, and people are waking up to it. Our tax dollars are paying for visa gift cards, plane tickets, free healthcare, and housing for illegal immigrants.”
According to New Gen 47’s webpage,
Welcome to NEW GEN 47, where the pulse of the future beats with the rhythm of change.
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Our goal is crystal clear: to secure another term for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, pitting his vision against the status quo. But we’re not just about politics as usual. We’re about rewriting the script, infusing pop culture into the MAGA Movement, and embracing the diverse voices that make up our nation.
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We are currently seeing a shift in pop culture, with former and current Hollywood stars waking up to the reality of the Democrat party. While Biden tries to bribe porn creators on Only Fans to push his propaganda, more and more well-known actors, comedians, and musicians are realizing Trump is the answer to this country’s problems.
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, comic legend Jerry Seinfeld calls out the joy-killers in the far-left for ruining comedy with political correctness.
Cherie Currie, former lead vocalist of the iconic 1970s rock band The Runaways, recently delivered a vehement condemnation of the Democratic Party and former President Barack Obama.
Drea de Matteo, a star of the legendary HBO series ‘The Sopranos,’ recently slammed Biden’s Far-Left policies and Illegal Immigration after it was revealed the actress was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing the COVID jab.
This is also seen in the music industry with rap stars like Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Meek Mill, Chief Keef, Waka Flocka Flame, Lil Pump, and others expressing frustration with the Biden Regime and signaling that they will support President Trump in 2024.
Kodak Black, one of the top rap stars in the world today, endorsed Donald Trump for President in 2024, saying, “We need Donald Trump in office, forever!”
It can be recalled that Lil Wayne also endorsed Trump for President in 2020, and with the way things are going in Biden’s America, he’s likely not changed his mind!
This could be why President Trump’s popularity within the black community continues to grow, and racist Joe Biden is losing popularity among black voters.
Last week, rapper Afroman came out with a parody of his 2000 hit song “Because I Got High.” His incredible new song, “Hunter Got High,” produced by Baste Records, makes fun of Hunter Biden for his drug usage, scandalous laptop, d*ck pics, prostitutes, and foreign business dealings with China and Ukraine. Listen here:
“Hollywood is melting right now,” said Fahmy, pointing to Biden's recent New York fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Lizzo, and other Hollywood stars, which raised a record $25 million, which President Trump shattered at his fundraiser about a week later, setting a new $50 million record.
Watch New Gen 47's official launch video below:
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on New Gen 47 PAC's upcoming events!
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) will hold a press conference this morning to discuss Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) “endorsement” of Mike Johnson and how Johnson’s support from the Democrat party will affect a Motion to Vacate the chair and remove Johnson as Speaker.
Mike Johnson’s betrayal of Republican voters saved him the Speakership as his Democrat friends decided to come to his rescue.
Recall that Greene filed and announced a Motion to Vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans. The vote – 286 to 134 – had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ It was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate. The Gateway Pundit reported that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently announced he will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House over his ongoing support for Ukraine as our southern border remains wide open. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) later added his name to the list of Republican co-sponsors following the passage of another $61 billion to Ukraine earlier this month.
Now that the GOP only has a one-vote majority in the House thanks to the selfish early resignations by Kevin McCarthy (RINO-CA), Ken Buck (RINO-CO), and Mike Gallagher (RINO-WI) along with the stupid ousting of George Santos (R-NY), Johnson needs only to appeal to the Democrats and overwhelming majority of RINOs within the Republican conference.
Marjorie Taylor Greene announced the press conference yesterday, slamming Johnson as “the Democrat speaker of the House.”
9 AM PRESS CONFERENCE
Mike Johnson is officially the Democrat Speaker of the House.
Tomorrow morning, @RepThomasMassie and I will hold a press conference on Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ endorsement of Mike Johnson for Speaker. pic.twitter.com/IBM3thYeBi
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) May 1, 2024
Thomas Massie also slammed Johnson as “the uniparty Speaker” and signaled they will further discuss their Motion to Vacate.
.@RepMTG and I will hold a press conference tomorrow at the Capitol triangle. Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Mike Johnson to remain as Speaker today. We will discuss how this affects the Motion to Vacate the #uniparty Speaker. pic.twitter.com/2e1Fxapi3K
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 30, 2024
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA), following a House Democratic Caucus Meeting, formally announced their collective decision to save their comrade and oppose Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate the chair, currently held by RINO Speaker Mike Johnson.
This comes after Johnson sold out to the Democrats' agenda and cut a deal with them in passing three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S.-involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, $61 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. No wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
Then, on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the U.S. and Ukraine are “working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and for the next TEN YEARS.” If passed, this would also seemingly supersede President Trump's authority.
Watch Greene and Massie's press conference live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
LIVE: Emergency Press Conference: MTG and Rep. Massie Hold Press Conference on the Future of Speaker Johnson - May 1, 2024
Watch this event LIVE on RSBN starting at 9:00 a.m. ET.
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President Trump will host two campaign rallies in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and in Freeland, Michigan, today.
Trump will speak at his first stop at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Wisconsin at 3 pm ET.
He will later speak at Avflight Saginaw in Freeland, Michigan, at 6 pm ET. Doors to the event open at 2 pm. Register for tickets here!
These rallies come as a recent poll shows President Trump leading Joe Biden in 6 of the seven key swing states expected to determine the November General Election.
Trump leads Biden by four points in Wisconsin and is down two points to Biden in Michigan, and 70% of voters in the states polled say the United States economy is on the “wrong track.” 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden.
POLL: Biden Trails Trump in Six Swing States – 70% Say Economy is on the “Wrong Track”
Supporters of the President turned out six hours early to see Trump speak at his second rally in Wisconsin this year after a rally in Green Bay last month.
Nearly six hours ahead of when Former President Donald Trump is expected to speak in Waukesha, a line has already formed. pic.twitter.com/lB5Nao421r
— Vanessa Kjeldsen (@VanessaKjeldsen) May 1, 2024
Per News Nation's Emily Finn , there was "high energy" this earlier morning, and President Trump will deliver remarks in Waukesha on the soaring crime in Biden's America, the opioid crisis, and border security:
Watch President Trump's rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump will travel to Waukesha, Wisconsin, on May 1st to contrast the peace, prosperity, and security of his first term with Joe Biden’s failed presidency.
Watch LIVE on RSBN on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, starting at 1:00 p.m. ET. President Trump will give remarks at 3 p.m. ET.
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President Trump will deliver remarks tonight at Avflight Saginaw in Freeland, Michigan, at 6 PM ET.
This is Trump’s second stop of the day.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, President Trump spoke to a crowd in Waukesha, Wisconsin and slammed the soaring crime in Biden’s America, the opioid crisis, and border security.
WATCH LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks in Waukesha, Wisconsin at 3 PM ET
Trump packed the venue in Wisconsin with a massive overflow crowd outdoors.
Via Dan Scavino:
5/1/2024 #TrumpRally
Waukesha, Wisconsin… https://t.co/CnchlfunAM pic.twitter.com/DRWk1kjIf6— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) May 1, 2024
In Freeland, Michigan, Trump had another massive crowd lined up early, awaiting entry hours before he took the stage:
81 million vote-getter Joe Biden can't pull crowds like this.
Per OANN correspondent Daniel Baldwin, " President Trump will hammer Joe Biden’s economic record in Wisconsin today."
SNEAK PEAK: President Trump will hammer Joe Biden’s economic record in Wisconsin today:
“Biden has just declared that if he gets 4 more years, he will drench the Middle Class in a tidal wave of massive tax hikes—vowing repeatedly that he will ensure the Trump Tax Cuts expire.”
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) May 1, 2024
According to recent polling data, President Trump currently leads Joe Biden in six of the seven key swing states expected to determine the November General Election. Michigan is the only state where Trump trails Biden in the swing state poll.
Trump leads Biden by four points in Wisconsin and is down two points to Biden in Michigan. Seventy-one percent of voters in the states polled say the United States economy is on the “wrong track,” and 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden.
Watch live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a Rally in Freeland, Michigan on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET.
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Jerone Davison is a former NFL Running Back who played college ball at Arizona State University before hitting the pros with the Oakland Raiders and spending three decades as a pastor.
As a MAGA political outsider, Davison is running for a House seat in Congressional District 4, the same district his Alma Mater, ASU, is located, and his campaign has continued to pick up steam. He’s won multiple straw polls in the district, and he’s hoping for a shot to square off against Democrat Rep. Greg Stanton, an incumbent who’s been a rubber stamp for the Biden administration’s widely unpopular agenda.
It can be recalled that Davison released an ad for his 2022 congressional campaign, defending gun rights and exposing Democrats as the party of white supremacy and the KKK. “When this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds,” says Davison.
Davison previously told The Gateway Pundit, “When I grew up in the south, the KKK would be coming through, and everybody in our community would be scared and afraid, but I wasn’t afraid because my father had guns in the house and guns made me feel safe.” He continued, “The past is still relevant today because the Democrats are still terrorists.”
Davison: Democrats like to say that no one needs an AR15 for self-defense, that no one could possibly need all 30 rounds. But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds.
Make Rifles Great Again
https://t.co/J7lHnodhku#JeroneForCongress#2A #SelfDefense pic.twitter.com/Gs6iAHVVAP
— Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4 (@Jerone4Congress) July 6, 2022
This time, he's back with a new strategy and RC Maxwell, a stalwart conservative, young father, and pro-Trump consultant, advising his campaign
"In 2022, Davison was a virtual unknown and still garnered a good chunk of votes," Maxwell told The Gateway Pundit. "Since then, he's remained active in the district and has become one of many grassroots leaders here at the local level. If Davison wins this primary, Stanton is toast!"
In order to face Stanton in November, he’ll have to beat Marine Corps veteran Kelly Cooper, a moderate Republican who lost to Stanton in 2022, and Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a family doctor who refused to attend the Republican National Convention as an Arizona State Delegate in 2016 over the nomination of Donald Trump. Jasser previously said, "I could not stomach casting a ballot for Mr. Trump.”
Recent debates have provided a lot of clarity about the candidates' stances on hot-button policy issues.
A clip of each candidate answering a question on Ukraine funding has been viewed thousands of times on Twitter. Davison is the only candidate to oppose the controversial bill recently passed in the House, where Ukraine was given another $61 billion handout by Republican leadership without a single capitulation from Democrats.
Watch how each candidate handles Ukraine @DrZuhdiJasser says foreign aid is good for our economy (@charliekirk11 consider rescinding your endorsement!)@KellyCooperAZ says “we can’t abandon our allies “ @Jerone4Congress nailed it , please consider supporting his… pic.twitter.com/oYqiTYMzwS
— R.C. Maxwell (@BlackHannity) April 20, 2024
"I'm for ending funding to Ukraine," Davison said in the debate on PBS. "We haven't seen the President and European nations come together and try a thing called diplomacy. I think the bank of America should be closed for this war. I want to focus on the American people first. We have a border crisis that's never been seen before," he added after saying the U.S. was funding the "wasting of lives."
Cooper said funding shouldn't be cut immediately while likening Ukraine to an ally. Jasser took it a step further, saying cutting aid now "doesn't make any sense" before adding that "the best thing for the American economy is what's happening in South Korea, that little investment that we have whether its foreign aid or into our military budget has a significant impact on securing our own country."
Davison has also pledged not to accept money from big Pharma, saying that "dirty money is the root of evil in politics."
Clearly, he is the only candidate who embodies the concept of America First.
Davison’s populist approach is one of the reasons he’s gotten the attention of Trump confidant and seasoned political veteran Roger Stone, who called Davison an "outsider, a straight shooter, and an excellent candidate."
Something else creating buzz around Davison is his "Pledge to PCs," a multi-plank pledge in which he has promised to consult Republican leaders in his district before making major votes, offer his tax returns, and help conservative Republicans fundraise in their precincts instead of simply raising funds for House Republicans.
The only pro-Trump candidate for CD-4 just qualified for the ballot.
I’m not just a January 6th attendee, I’m a Pastor, a father, and the only candidate making this kind of pledge to the PEOPLE. Are you with me?#jeronedavisonforcongress #AzCD4
DONATE $5 -… pic.twitter.com/fdI8xMFWaW
— Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4 (@Jerone4Congress) April 2, 2024
Congressional District 4 was redistricted in 2020 and is a toss-up with a voting index of D+2. This means whoever the Republican nominee is will have more than a fighting chance to unseat Stanton, who has yet to push back on Biden's radical agenda. Stanton is locked in step with Democrats on every vote and recently said Biden gave a "good, passionate, energetic speech" at this year's State of the Union.
Davison followed up his debate performance by also shining at a candidate forum where he stated his support for an immigration moratorium while imploring voters to send someone to Congress “with a backbone willing to say to say ‘no,'" referring to bills where Republicans make concessions without anything to show.
The Arizona primary election is on July 30th. You can learn more and support Jerone Davison here!
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Organizers have launched a second recall effort against RINO Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, citing his ties to the Chinese Communist Party and opposition to measures that will secure elections in Wisconsin.
Robin Vos did nothing about the massive 2020 election fraud as Speaker of The Assembly, and he has fought vigorously to keep corrupt Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Administrator Meagan Wolfe in office. “We want to get Megan Wolfe out now” before she can fudge with the 2024 General Election, an organizer of the recall previously told The Gateway Pundit.
Recall that On November 4th, 2021, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling recommended charges against five members of the WEC for committing voter fraud in Wisconsin nursing homes by casting votes for incapacitated or mentally incompetent patients, who otherwise wouldn’t have voted lawfully while Special Voting Deputies, tasked with helping nursing home patients vote, were deemed nonessential under the COVID guidelines and barred from nursing homes to do the job of securing voting rights and preventing elder abuse. Meanwhile, other “essential workers” like food delivery and different first-world service providers were allowed into the buildings.
According to Schmaling, WEC officials knew that they “needed the flexibility to violate the law” and that they “instruct[ed] county clerks to break the law” over a recorded Zoom call.
Vos previously “violated Assembly rules” by delaying a Senate-approved resolution to impeach Megan Wolfe, then sent the resolution to a committee where he knew it would never see a vote on the floor, according to one Wisconsin State Legislator who asked to remain anonymous. Before this, Vos refused to pursue Wolfe’s impeachment and then folded while giving the appearance that he was moving forward with impeachment to appease local media and constituents.
President Trump, in a recent interview, said Meagan Wolfe “should be gone” and slammed Robin Vos for “allowing her to be there.”
The efforts to oust Vos come after it was recently discovered that he sits on the Chinese Communist Party-tied State Legislative Leaders Foundation Board of Directors, which participates in “subnational legislative exchanges” to influence American State Legislators and further the CCP’s interests. Likely because of this, Vos has also “not moved on legislation to hold China accountable when he’s had multiple opportunities to do so,” the Legislator told The Gateway Pundit.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the Recall Vos Campaign’s effort to recall the embattled Speaker, which collected more than 10,000 signatures, far surpassing the necessary 7,000 signatures. However, “‘Robin ‘CCP’ Vos narrowly escaped” this recall effort after “[the] Wisconsin Election Commission threw out over 2,000 signatures without reason and also stated that more than 4,000 were out of the district,” said one of the organizers.
"The Recall Vos organization lacked the full infrastructure to combat the challenges, so we acquiesced and launched recall 2.0 with the Racine Recall Committee. This time around, Colonel Conrad Reynolds (USA ret) has been in charge from the beginning and has implemented procedures and processes to help ensure the recall 2.0 process goes smoothly from beginning to end," the organizers told The Gateway Pundit. "
The Racine Recall Committee is looking to submit the new signatures around the week of May 14th. The Racine Recall Committee would still utilize help from the community. Door knockers are still needed to finish out this phase of the recall. To volunteer, email racinerecall@gmail.com or visit racinerecall.org"
In a new development, State Representative Janel Brandtjen recently issued a press release highlighting Vos' affiliation with CCP-linked organizations and a 2020 warning from then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of China's infiltration of U.S. politicians on Monday.
"Despite such warnings, Speaker Vos participated in at least two trips under the sponsorship of CCP associates: a 2016 trip to Wuhan funded to the tune of almost $14,000 by the State Legislators Leadership Foundation (SLLF) and a 2023 trip to Copenhagen sponsored by the Energy Foundation China. While based in San Francisco, this nonprofit organization is recognized for its links to CCP initiatives, focusing on climate change discussions between the United States and China," said Brantjen.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also recently raised alarms over evidence suggesting that China is actively attempting to influence and potentially interfere with the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.
Recall that Vos previously kicked Brantjen out of the GOP caucus and the Assembly Elections Committee she chaired because of her efforts to get to the bottom of the stolen 2020 Election. Brantjen also slammed Vos late last year for his Assembly rule violations and likely "intent to delay" Meagan Wolfe's impeachment.
Full press release below:
Rep. Brandtjen Raises Concerns Over Speaker Robin Vos' Apparent Compromise with CCP Interests
For more information, contact: April 29, 2024 Rep. Brandtjen (414) 915-8425
Madison – State Representative Janel Brandtjen has issued the following statement in response to Speaker Vos’ compromise with CCP interests:
“Today, I wish to draw attention to the concerning ties between Speaker Robin Vos and organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This relationship not only raises serious questions about potential compromises but also poses a significant threat to our state’s legislative integrity and sovereignty.
In a crucial address in Madison in September 2020, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo highlighted the CCP's ambitions to sway American opinions towards Beijing's authoritarianism. Pompeo warned, ‘Know that when you are approached by a Chinese diplomat, it is likely not in the spirit of cooperation or friendship. If you’re offered a trip to China when the pandemic travel restrictions are lifted, you should ask who is paying for the trip and if that person is directly or indirectly linked to the Chinese Communist Party. These approaches may happen from Chinese nationals or Americans working with CCP-linked interests.’ He emphasized, ‘We watch the CCP campaigns targeting state-level officials and local interests. We’ve seen them at PTA meetings; they have been in full swing for years, and they’re increasing in intensity.’
Despite such warnings, Speaker Vos participated in at least two trips under the sponsorship of CCP associates: a 2016 trip to Wuhan funded to the tune of almost $14,000 by the State Legislators Leadership Foundation (SLLF) and a 2023 trip to Copenhagen sponsored by the Energy Foundation China. While based in San Francisco, this nonprofit organization is recognized for its links to CCP initiatives, focusing on climate change discussions between the United States and China.
Pompeo’s observation that the CCP's influence campaigns are ‘increasing in intensity’ and targeting state-level officials was further exemplified in October 2019. As President of the National Convention of State Legislators, Vos openly praised Li Xiaolin of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, stating, ‘Madame Li has traveled to more than 100 countries on the face of the planet advocating for her special relationship to make sure that people understand all of the things that China is doing to improve people around the world.’
The most alarming demonstration of potential compromise occurred in 2024 when Speaker Vos influenced the legislative process to obstruct AB269, a bill intended to restrict Chinese ownership of Wisconsin farmland. This decision poses a direct question about whose interests Speaker Vos truly represents.
It is imperative that we scrutinize these relationships and ensure our leaders are not unduly influenced by foreign interests contrary to American values.”
The organizers also released a public petition for supporters of the recall to sign.
Current signatories include,
Wisconsin voices:
• Mike Gableman - Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
• Joe Giganti - Host of Regular Joe Show
• Ken Sikora - Oconto County GOP Chairman
• Joel Bartel - Waupaca County GOP Chairman
• Chris Martinson - Executive committee of the Waupaca County Republican Party
• Octonto County GOP Committee
• Duane Wilson - Republican Candidate for Wisconsin 57th Assembly District
• United Constitutionalists of Oconto County
• Darwin Behnke - Vice-chair Oconto County GOP & Candidate for Wisconsin Assembly
District 4
National voices:
• General Michael Flynn ( USA Ret.)
• Mike Lindell - MyPillow CEO and election security advocate • Colonel Conrad Reynolds (USA Ret.)
• Colonel Wendy Rogers - AZ Senator (USAF Ret.)
• Mark Finchem - Election security advocate
If others want to add their name, they can reach out to racinerecall@gmail.com:
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In a unanimous ruling, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Maricopa County Superior Court and Arizona Court of Appeals wrongfully sanctioned the Arizona Republican party in awarding attorney fees against them over a lawsuit challenging Maricopa County’s post-election hand-count audit procedures.
“We hold that the attorney fees award was improper because Petitioners’ claim was not groundless, thus obviating any need to determine whether the claim was made in the absence of good faith,” Justice John Lopez writes in the court’s opinion.
“During times of social and political contention and strife, we must be mindful that our courts provide a means of resolving such conflicts when issues are legitimately presented. By sanctioning parties and their lawyers for bringing debatable, long-shot complaints, courts risk chilling legal advocacy and citizens raising ‘questions’ under the guise of defending the rule of law. Even if done inadvertently and with the best of intentions, such sanctions present a real and present danger to the rule of law,” the ruling also states.
The Arizona Mirror reports,
The lawsuit was filed more than a week after the 2020 election and argued that the state law requiring limited post-election hand-count audits conflicted with the state’s Elections Procedures Manual, making it illegal to select ballots for the audit from voting centers instead of by precinct.
State law requires each county to hand count 1% of all early ballots, as well as the ballots from 2% of precincts after each election. The Election Procedures Manual issued by the secretary of state permits counties that use voting centers instead of precincts, a list that includes Maricopa County, to hand count the ballots from 2% of voting centers instead.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah dismantled the legal arguments that the AZGOP and its attorneys made. In addition to ignoring the law and the legislature’s intent when allowing for voting centers, Hannah said the Republican Party sought a remedy that the law doesn’t allow and waited far too long to file its suit.
The judge also said the party demonstrated it was not motivated by sincerely challenging a public policy, but instead by making a political case and sowing distrust about Arizona’s elections.
However, the Supreme Court opines, “We cannot countenance the trial court’s rigid delineation between the motives underlying election litigation— ‘political’ reasons, which invite sanction under § 12-349, and ‘legal or factual’ justifications, which are permissible.” It continues, “The desire to vindicate a legal right—even if in the election context and animated exclusively by political motives—is not relevant, much less per se sanctionable. Courts should focus on the legal and factual merits of a claim and the party’s and attorney’s conduct in the course of the litigation.”
“The trial court emphasized in its ruling that Petitioners’ gravest transgression and ‘direct evidence of bad faith’ was ‘[u]ndercutting the election’s legitimacy by raising “questions,”‘ which it characterized as ‘a threat to the rule of law posing as an expression of concern.’ But ‘raising questions’ by petitioning our courts to clarify the meaning and application of our laws and noting the potential consequences of the failure to do so—particularly in the context of our elections—is never a threat to the rule of law, even if the claims are charitably characterized as ‘long shots.’”
They further slam the trial court, writing, “the trial court dismissively described Petitioners’ interpretation of § 16-602(B) as ‘barely colorable’ despite its avowed disinterest in the merits and lack of substantive analysis.”
John Hannah is the same partisan Judge who, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, ordered the Cyber Ninjas firm to pay a $50K per day fine until it turns over records from their review of the Maricopa County forensic audit to the far-left Arizona Republic propaganda rag.
The Arizona GOP released a statement earlier celebrating the ruling:
We are pleased with the Supreme Court of Arizona's decision to reverse and vacate the attorney fees awards previously levied against us. This ruling reaffirms the fundamental legal principle that raising questions about the interpretation and application of election laws is a legitimate use of the judicial system, not a groundless or bad faith action. We remain committed to ensuring that election laws are followed precisely, upholding the integrity of our electoral process.
VICTORY IN COURT!
The Arizona Supreme Court defends our right to question and ensure the integrity of election laws. ️ pic.twitter.com/5aRSMFcKXj
— Republican Party of Arizona (@AZGOP) May 2, 2024
Per George Behizy:
BREAKING: The Arizona Supreme Court just issued a major defeat to lower court judges that threatened the state Republican Party with sanctions for bringing election challenges against Maricopa County
"But 'raising questions' by petitioning our courts to clarify the meaning and application of our laws and noting the potential consequences of failure to do so - particularly in the context of our elections - is never a threat to the rule of law, even if the claims are charitably characterized as 'long shots'."
AZ Sup Court: "Any suggestion that a party or attorney faces enhanced risk of sanction merely because they couple political motives with a long-short effort to vindicate a legal right in the election law context intolerably chills citizens and their attorneys precisely in an area where we can least afford to silence them."
BREAKING: The Arizona Supreme Court just issued a major defeat to lower court judges that threatened the state Republican Party with sanctions for bringing election challenges against Maricopa County
"But 'raising questions' by petitioning our courts to clarify the meaning and… pic.twitter.com/wpnQm4FapC
— George (@BehizyTweets) May 2, 2024
Read the full opinion below:
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“It’s a party, it’s a party, it’s a party” – Waka Flocka Flame, Grove St. Party
The pro-Trump New Gen 47 PAC has announced exclusively to The Gateway Pundit that rapper Waka Flocka Flame will hold a performance at their launch event in Miami, Florida on June 14, which also coincides with President Trump’s birthday and Flag Day in the United States.
The June 14 concert will be held at the NoMi Village in North Miami.
Waka Flocka Flame is an Atlanta-based rapper who, according to Genius, “became a mainstream artist with the release of his hit club-bangers “O Let’s Do It”, “Hard in da Paint”, and “No Hands” featuring Wale and Roscoe Dash, with the latter peaking at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. All were singles included on his debut studio album Flockaveli, released on October 5th, 2010. His second studio album Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family was released in 2012 and was preceded by the lead single “Round of Applause” featuring now renowned rapper Drake. His ruthless style of rap governed the genre to how it is today, along with T.I., Jeezy and Gucci Mane.”
Per XXL:
Coming up in the ATL under the musical wing of Gucci Mane and 1017 Brick Squad, Flocka made a name for himself for helping to popularize Southern crunk with consistent party anthems like 2009’s “O Let’s Do It.” Waka thought of the name for his debut as a spin on 2pac’s final album, Makaveli – The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. The young ad-libber took the party worldwide with hits off Flockaveli like “Hard in Da Paint,” “Grove St. Party” and his highest charting single to date, “No Hands,” which peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went on to be certified three times platinum.
Waka Flocka, in a 2020 Instagram comment, has signaled that he believes President Trump is a better President than Obama.
The “Hard in Da Paint” rapper’s team told The Gateway Pundit, “Let’s be Frank, the president upon arrival shook things up, said things and made comments that were out of the box, out of the ordinary, and quite frankly surprising to most.” They continued, “However, this is exactly what made him unique and worthy of leading this country. Waka is one of many who may have questioned the approach, but that line of questioning is what led him to such stern support today.”
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, New Gen 47 PAC, founded by LJ Fino, President of First Class Records, and PR consultant Alex Fahmy, has big plans to hold concerts and music events with famous musicians to rally low-propensity, young, and minority voters for Donald Trump and other conservatives in November. It can be recalled that LJ Fino had a hand in producing hit #1 songs, such as “Justice for All” featuring Donald Trump and the J6 Choir and Kari Lake’s “81 Million Votes my Ass,” as Mailman Media’s Head of Recorded Music Operations. Fino’s First Class Records label has also produced music by Lara Trump.
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Watch the PAC's announcement video below:
Founder LJ Fino told The Gateway Pundit, "We're honored." He continued, "We've extended an invitation to the President, and we hope that he can attend."
When asked what effect the first concert in support of Trump by an A-list entertainer will have, Fino responded, "I think it's going to open the floodgates to other artists doing the same. We've seen a lot of artists come out and support President Trump verbally. But when they see the party and the fun that we have at New Gen 47 events, I think everyone's going to want to be a part of making history."
Fino added, "We're in talks with a lot of other recording artists," including other rappers and performers of various genres.
Previously, Fino cited President Trump's Music Modernization Act, "which helped songwriters, musicians, performers, and creators receive fair compensation for their work in the arts and changed copyright law to better reflect the digital era of music."
"Waka had mentioned to me that the Music Modernization Act really helped them out, and that was one of the things that opened his eyes up to Trump, specifically."
President Trump’s popularity within the black community continues to grow as racist Joe Biden is losing popularity among black voters. "we're going to ensure that his high polling numbers with minority groups turn into actual votes," said Fino.
Though the rapper was not always a fan of President Trump, Waka Flocka Flame last October came out with the message "TRUMP2024" on X and changed his profile picture to a photo of him standing with the President:
TRUMP2024
— Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlocka) October 16, 2023
#NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/eRf4HeBI6A
— Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlocka) October 17, 2023
That same month, he also led a "Trump 2024" chant at one of his concerts:
Waka's team further relayed to The Gateway Pundit, "I believe he’s [Trump] changed the minds of many, and Waka is an example of one. Once disliked and questioned, but now admired, revered, and respected by those who once thought differently. As time persists, a lot of stories will come out about 'he said, she said.' The reality is what’s being said now."
Waka isn't the only hip-hop star to come out in support of Trump. Rappers like Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Meek Mill, Chief Keef, Waka Flocka Flame, Lil Pump, and others have expressed frustration with the Biden Regime, signaling that they will support President Trump in 2024.
Kodak Black, one of the top rap stars in the world today, endorsed Donald Trump for President in 2024, saying, “We need Donald Trump in office, forever!”
It can be recalled that Lil Wayne also endorsed Trump for President in 2020, and with the way things are going in Biden’s America, he’s likely not changed his mind!
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates and more details, which will be announced soon!
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