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All jurors, including the replacements and an alternate have been revealed in President Trump’s “Hush Money” trial.
As Jim Hoft reported, Fox News host Jesse Watters previously revealed seven of the jurors selected to serve in Trump’s “hush money” trial involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Two were dismissed after radical-left Judge Juan Merchan agreed they could not be fair to Trump.
But the jury pool is still tilted far to the left and even includes a woman who has called Trump “very selfish” and “self-serving.”
As Hoft notes, Merchan’s daughter is a top activist for Democrats and Joe Biden campaign. Judge Merchan is pushing charges against Trump that are not a crime. He needs jurors who believe like he does that Trump is guilty of a crime because he is still alive.
Here’s the FULL list of people deciding Trump’s fate. The following information is gathered from both Watters and The Daily Mail, which filled in the final details on the jurors:
The Foreman, juror number one, is an Irish immigrant who works as a salesman from West Harlem. He used to be a waiter, didn’t finish college, and loves the outdoors. He’s married with no kids.
He claims that he receives his news from the liberal New York Times, the Daily Mail, Fox News, and far-left MSNBC. Watters previously noted this was suspicious since he knew no one who watches both MSNBC and Fox News.
Juror Number Two. This is a replacement for one of the dismissed jurors, who admitted yesterday she could not be fair and impartial after being exposed by Watters.
This juror is a man who works as an investment banker, has an MBA in finance, and is similar to a liberal activist to an extent. He also has family members who are lawyers.
While he follows Trump on X/Twitter, he also follows Trump’s disgraced former lawyer Michael Cohen and his podcast and the leftist account Mueller She Wrote, which lionizes corrupt former FBI director Robert Mueller. He also closely follows news on Israel and Ukraine and receives his news from the New York Times.
The man enjoys hiking, music concerts, and exploring New York City in his spare time.
Juror Number Three is an Asian lawyer in his late 20s or 30s and is originally from Oregon. His corporate law firm features DEI on its homepage. He’s single, lives in Chelsea, and claims he’s not very familiar with Trump’s other charges.
He likes to hike and run and receives his news from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Google.
Juror Number Four. This is the second replacement. The previous one was dismissed after it was learned he was previously arrested in the 1990s for tearing down Republican campaign signs.
The new juror is a security engineer originally from California who now lives on the Upper West Side. He claims he listens to comedy podcasts and several news organizations, though he declined to go into detail.
His hobbies include “various things,” such as wood and metalworking, but he spends the most time caring for his three children.
Juror Number Five is a black woman in her 20s originally from Harlem who has a Master’s degree and works a teacher. She’s unmarried, has no kids, and lives with her brother. She gets her news from Google and TikTok and listens to the leftist podcast The Breakfast Club.
She was evasive when asked whether she had a strong opinion of Trump. She only said, “There was a divide in the country, and I can’t ignore that.”
Juror Number Six is a recent college graduate in her 20s who works for Woke Disney. She previously made the courtroom laugh because she wanted to know if the trial would be over before September because she’s a bridesmaid at her sister’s wedding. She’s unmarried, has no kids, and likes to dance.
She lives with three roommates and gets her news from leftist outlets like the New York Times, Google, Facebook, and TikTok. But she claims she doesn’t have strong feelings about Trump one way or the other.
Juror Number Seven is a middle-aged, balding white guy with a tan and glasses. He lives on the Upper East Side and is another lawyer whose firm is big into DEI and ESG.
He’s originally from North Carolina, married with two kids, and his wife works at a bank. He gets his news from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Post, and NPR.
Regarding Trump, he said there were policies he agreed with and ones he disagreed with, but he didn’t have any particular opinions of the man personally. He says he is aware of the other lawsuits against Trump.
Juror Number Eight is a retired wealth manager who lives on the Upper East Side. He’s married with children.
His activities include using a flight machine, skiing, yoga, and meditation. His news sources are the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and the BBC.
When asked if he has strong opinions or firmly held beliefs about Trump, he was hesitant. He paused before answering yes but claimed he would be impartial during the trial.
Juror Number Nine is a young white woman who lives on the Upper East Side. She has undergraduate and master’s degrees and works as a speech therapist.
Her hobbies include hanging out with friends, watching TV, eating at restaurants, and going on walks.
She says she doesn’t watch the news too closely but follows liberal news sources such as CNN Five Things, NYTimes Morning, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
The woman says she does not like most of Trump’s politics but asserts she can leave this “at the door” and be “fair and impartial.”
Juror Number 10 is a man who works in e-commerce for an eyewear company. He spends his time outdoors when not working.
The man says he doesn’t follow the news closely but reads the New York Times. He also listens to podcasts on behavioral psychology.
Juror Number 11 is a product development manager who lives in upper Manhattan and has blasted Trump as “very selfish” and “self-serving” but claims she can be impartial.
She pays attention to fashion publications for her job and also “watches” Google. Her hobbies include traveling and eating.
Juror Number 12 is a woman who has worked as a physical therapist for the past fifteen years. She runs, plays tennis, hikes, paddle boards, and listens to live music in her free time.
She receives her news from the New York Times, USAToday, and CNN.
The alternate juror is a woman who works as an investment analyst for an asset manager. In her spare time, she likes to run, hang out with friends and eat food.
She gets her news from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
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In October 2022, Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested in Michigan in connection with “theft of personal data.”
The alleged stolen data belonged to poll workers and was the subject of TrueTheVote’s “PIT” in Arizona in August 2022, in which Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips singled out the Michigan-based company.
During the PIT conference, Phillips and Engelbrecht alleged they were cooperating with the FBI in Michigan about data being sent overseas by this company. The investigation quickly turned on them after the FBI distanced itself from it for some strange reason.
Journalist “incognito” Kanekoa covered this company and researched Konnech.
Here is the link to the LA County website after the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on October 4, 2022, announced the arrest of Konnech CEO Eugene Yu on suspicion of theft of personal identifying information by investigators at the LA District Attorney’s office.
The theft of data only impacted the election workers, alleged Soros-funded Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon at the time. The LADA seized hard drives and other digital evidence from the Michigan software firm with the assistance of Meridian Township Police in MI. The LADA was seeking Yu’s extradition to Los Angeles.
Following the CEO’s arrest Fairfax County in Virginia announced they stopped using Konnech’s PollChief election officer management software.
True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and investigator Gregg Phillips were then hauled into court by lawyers representing Konnech who sued Catherine and Gregg for defamation for reporting on the company and its actions.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt demanded the conservative nonprofit group disclose their sources of the information central to the case, about sensitive poll worker data managed by Konnech Inc.
After Konnech sued True the Vote for defamation, Hoyt ordered True the Vote to turn over any Konnech data the organization still had and disclose the name of the individual who’d helped them obtain it.
Gregg and Catherine refused to “burn” their source in the Konnech reporting and spent 10 days in prison for not turning over their source to Konnech and their corrupt attorneys.
The Soros-funded LA District Attorney dropped the charges against Konnech the day after the 2022 midterm election. The reason for the dismissal was never explained – until recently.
In April 2023, Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht released all of their information on the China-linked Konnech Company at Open.Ink. The next day Konnech dropped ALL CHARGES against Gregg and Catherine!
Kanekoa later revealed that the FBI shielded and protected Konnech from investigation despite its ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Konnech provided election administration and logistics software to numerous prominent counties in the United States,
This Konnech database “stored the personally identifying information of over a million Americans,” he emphasized. Engelbrecht and Phillips decided that “this was a major national security risk” and immediately took the information to the FBI.
When Engelbrecht and Phillips took this information to the FBI, the FBI “said the information was forwarded to their counterintelligence operation, and a counterintelligence operation was opened up in January or February of 2021,” Phillips said.
Phillips described how he and Engelbrecht played an active role in the FBI’s operation, “They engaged us in the operation, they were communicating with us on a regular basis. They were communicating with Catherine regarding communications with the target and this went on for approximately 15 months.”
In April 2022, Engelbrecht received a call from one of the FBI agents, who informed her that the FBI’s “Washington D.C. headquarters” was now involved in the investigation.
Engelbrecht described how everything changed after this call, “There was no more goodwill, there was no more let’s work together, the script had been flipped, and now we were the target,” she said. “That was a very disturbing call.”
The agent informed Engelbrecht that “two women” at the FBI’s headquarters believed that Phillips and Engelbrecht were “in the wrong for doing this” and that the D.C. office was now trying “to figure out how you guys broke the law to find all of this.”
Engelbrecht added, “Which of course we didn’t, but that was kind of their Modus Operandi, they were going to try to pin something on us, and today you can pick your headlines about how the FBI has done this time and again.”
Phillips remarked, “The problem is they know about this, and they chose to do nothing. They chose to investigate it, and in the end, they chose to blame us, but this is China. These are Chinese operatives in the United States; these are Chinese citizens who are programming this.”
On October 28, 2022, @TrueTheVote and @OnwardSocial submitted an affidavit containing approximately 10% of their text messages exchanged with FBI Agents in Detroit and San Antonio, supporting their claim of working with the FBI on a 15-month “counter-intelligence operation” against Eugene Yu, prior to the involvement of FBI headquarters in Washington D.C.
The text messages included conversations with the following individuals:
-Special Agent Bruce Fowler, Detroit
-SA Huy Nguyen, San Antonio
-SA Kevin McKenna, San Antonio
-SA Kristina, San Antonio
In one text message exchange, Fowler provided his FBI email address and mentioned receiving three thumb drives from the San Antonio office. He asked Engelbrecht to guide him on where to find information on those drives.
In another text message exchange, Engelbrecht asked for the name of an agent in Georgia. Nguyen responded that he would provide the name later, but “in the meantime, you can tell them that you filed the complaint with SA Huy Nguyen and SA Kevin McKenna with San Antonio Division.”
In another exchange, Engelbrecht texted Nguyen, stating:
“I wanted to let you know that we took the nuclear option and went public (in a very limited way, but nonetheless we did it). Konnech quickly filed a civil suit against us in Houston federal court and got an ex parte [temporary restraining order].
Part of the TRO required that we name who we’d gotten the election worker data from, same person who’d provided it to you. We gave the court the name under seal. Our attorney also notified the Houston FBI office, where the case was filed.
Nguyen did not respond to Engelbrecht’s text. According to further texts provided by Engelbrecht, she reached out to “KayKay,” saying she hoped to talk, in person, if possible.
Engelbrecht added that she, Phillips, and “the researcher who originally provided us the data” are being “doxed” and that it’s “a very serious situation and we’ve been left to hang.”
Engelbrecht then noted, “Yu has already been indicted by a Grand Jury and arrested,” but they “continue to hear chatter that the FBI is working with Konnech, against us, and still trying to accuse us of crimes we did not commit.”
On April 14, 2023, cybersecurity expert Nate Cain (@cain_nate), who forensically imaged Konnech’s devices for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, stated that Konnech stored the personal data of U.S. election workers and judges on servers in China.
DC FBI elites DROPPED the investigation into Konnech for some reason. It is not clear when this occurred. This is just the latest example of the lawlessness of America’s top investigative agency.
In this instance, it appears they were working for the Chinese Communists and against the American people.
Fast forward to Wednesday — Investigative journalist Margot Cleveland at The Federalist reported that Soros-funded District Attorney George Gascon dropped the bombshell investigation against Konnech because it could help Donald Trump.
L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon improperly — and for political reasons — dismissed the criminal charges against the CEO of election software services company Konnech, a governmental tort complaint filed Wednesday by the lead prosecutor on the case claims. That eight-page complaint against Gascon with the county Board of Supervisors further alleges the DA retaliated against his lead prosecutor for opposing the dismissal of the charges — and reveals many more previously unknown and troubling details about the entire case…
…Yu was later arrested and extradited to California, where the far-left Gascon eventually dismissed the criminal charges against Yu. L.A. County later also approved a $5 million payout to Yu to settle a civil lawsuit the Konnech CEO had filed against the government.
From a legal perspective, the dismissal of the criminal charges was baffling, as the criminal complaint filed against Yu stated that during the execution of a search warrant at Konnech, the government recovered evidence that employees had “sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with the creating and fixing [of] Konnech’s internal ‘PollChief’ software.” The criminal complaint further stated that a project manager for Konnech’s contract with L.A. County “confirmed via the messaging app DingTalk that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had ‘superadministrative’ privileges for all PollChief clients.”
The evidence shows that California DA George Gascon dropped the charges against the Konnech founder for political reasons.
But why would the FBI drop the investigation? That is much more difficult to explain.
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The weaponization of the rule of law has reached a point beyond repair in New York State, with the ongoing trial being waged by District Attorney Alvin Bragg against President Donald Trump. Even at this late hour, the State has failed to prove 1) how President Trump falsified business records; 2) how the alleged falsification of the business records scheme was criminal; and 3) why that alleged crime should be prosecuted as a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, which is the typical charge for falsification schemes under New York State Law.
Given that President Trump’s alleged wrongdoing is being treated as criminal misconduct, the burden of proof is for the State to prove that Donald Trump is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for every single element of the asserted crime. The legal burden of proof of “beyond a reasonable doubt” means that the prosecution must convince the jury that “there is no other reasonable explanation that can come from the evidence presented at trial.” That incredibly high evidentiary threshold must be established for every single element of the crime alleged. What is more, criminal trials require unanimity on part of the jury; a hung jury will result in a mistrial, ultimately pushing the case back until after the November election, which is not what Bragg wants.
Obviously, the goal of Alvin Bragg and Letitia James is to prosecute – and put President Trump behind bars – as soon as possible (before election day ideally) to sabotage his chances of winning re-election. President Trump’s re-election appears increasingly like a foregone conclusion with the latest polls consistently putting him in a significant lead over Joe Biden.
President Trump is currently being tried under New York Penal Law 175.05. The law ordinarily makes it a misdemeanor, not a felony, to falsify business records with “intent to defraud.” The law permits, however, the District Attorney to upgrade what ordinarily would be considered a misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the intent to defraud is combined with an intent to commit another crime.
Of course, the State has a heavy burden of proof to show that President Trump intended to defraud in the first place, let alone defraud with an intent to commit some other yet undefinable crime. Paying off an adult film actress, if that even occurred, is not a crime under New York law. The idea, then, that a fraud was intended, let alone committed, by what is widely recognized to be, at worst, a mere “clerical error” in how the President’s accountant reported the alleged payment to the tax collector, is absurd.
Nobody seems to be asking who was lied to in this case – was it the public? The IRS? The FEC? Moreover, even if a reporting error constitutes a lie, the lie must have been done with the requisite intent to be considered a fraud under law. Errors in and of themselves hardly make a lie, let alone impute criminal fraud upon the one making the error.
If the State is attempting to argue, for instance, that President Trump’s accountant, lawyer, or (so the State’s theory goes) whoever intentionally misrepresented the hush money payment to defraud the public, the onus is still on Bragg and his team (which conveniently includes the Biden-DOJ political appointee, Matthew Colangelo) to show on what basis the injured party — here, “the people,” or public — would have relied on such fraud, resulting in a specified damage to them.
Under New York law, in order to prove fraud, the State must show, by clear and convincing evidence, each and every one of the following elements:
(1) a material misrepresentation or omission of fact;
(2) made by defendant with knowledge of its falsity;
(3) and intent to defraud;
(4) reasonable reliance on the part of the plaintiff; and
(5) resulting damage to the plaintiff.
The underlying assumption that appears to be working in the background and driving Bragg’s bogus fraud theory is that the public somehow would be damaged by the allegations of an extramarital affair implicating Donald Trump. But it is difficult to see just exactly what those damages are. Sure, one could, I suppose, entertain the view that a portion of President Trump’s voter base might have been alienated from voting for him if revelations of an affair came to light, but that is a rather incredulous sell. Moreover, a scandalized portion of President Trump’s voter base would only be indirectly related to this case, which, again, is not based on a hush money payment, but an alleged falsified business records scheme implicating a hush money payment that, on its own terms, has no legal significance, much less something that could impute criminality (let alone a felony) upon the perpetrator.
This is especially so, given how much we already know about President Trump’s personal life, his marriages, divorces, etc., etc., etc., which are thoroughly documented, and have long been part of the national conversation – and in the public record – decades before President Trump ever thought of descending that escalator and stepping foot into the political arena.
There is no such thing, really, in criminal law as “moral” damages – or damages afflicting one’s conscience because of moral scandal resulting from an illicit affair. But to the extent any damages at all stemming from the fraud perpetrated here exist, that would be it (what else could there possibly be?). The State cannot prosecute President Trump on economic damages resulting from the State being denied taxable money because of how the law was structured before the 2018 change in the law. At the time of President Trump’s tax filing, it was perfectly legal to write-off hush money payments for an affair – trying him now, on a theory of damages, based on the changed law encounters serious ex post facto and double jeopardy problems, both of which are obviously unconstitutional.
Should the State try to contend that moral damages resulted from the cover up, that argument would be even more ridiculous than believing that portions of President Trump’s voting base would not have supported him but for revelations of the fraud. The law already permits hush money payments for the type of conduct alleged in this case. Thus, the law patently does not track moral improprieties arising from extramarital affairs.
But let us assume, to play devil’s advocate, that the law did indict such misconduct. That would necessarily trigger at least two thorny, and as yet unresolved, legal questions – on what grounds do those alleged improprieties rise to the level of criminality? (A derivative of that first question is: does our society want to impute criminality – and potentially felonious criminality – upon extramarital sexual acts?)
The second question raised: what moral system is animating the asserted improprieties on which the criminality imputed in the law is based? If the moral system is deemed antiquated or no longer relevant in the eyes of public opinion, should not the law be considered illegitimate, and hence no longer operative?
In layman’s terms, it would be quite a riot to see Alvin Bragg condemn as criminal, and indeed a felony, extramarital conduct under the law. If so, Bragg would be acting with all the moral fervor of a pope during the Middle Ages!
Such self-righteous behavior is made even more laughable when placed against what is now happening to Bragg’s good buddies in Georgia, with Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, who were sleeping with one another, raising a massive and disqualifying conflict of interest, all the while their own prosecution against President Trump was taking place!
If what President Trump did regarding an alleged hush money payment is criminal conduct, under Bragg’s revanchist and morally hard-charged legal theory, then both Willis and her special counsel, Nathan Wade – and indeed, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, by extension – should all be similarly prosecuted under Bragg’s construction for their own, far graver, moral transgressions and many sexual improprieties committed!
Another salient legal issue that Bragg appears to have just blithely swept under the rug with this case is why, exactly, should President Trump be held vicariously criminally liable for an alleged clerical error committed by his accountant or his attorney, Michael Cohen, or whoever might have been overseeing his tax filings at the time the write-off was made? If, as President Trump has said, that it was Michael Cohen, not him, who decided pay off Stormy Daniels, Bragg should be investigating Cohen and forcing him into court, not President Trump.
Bragg has also failed to establish how the alleged fraud rises to a felony. The District Attorney claims that President Trump somehow committed a felony – again, despite not having committed a fraud in the first place, for one, and not being the one to file his tax returns, for two – even though the black letter law (again, §175.05) incontrovertibly treats the alleged misconduct here as a misdemeanor, not a felony!
Under the relevant law, crimes brought under Penal Law 175.05 may arise to a felony if and only if the District Attorney can prove that the alleged misdemeanor occurred to perpetuate or cover up another crime. Bragg plainly states that another crime was committed concomitantly with the clerical error that he is calling a misdemeanor here. But what crime, pray tell, he interestingly, incredulously, does not say!
The reason he does not state the crime is that he is relying, ultimately, on the sensationalized aspect of a hush money payment to engender the public perception that adulterous activity, though immoral, constitutes a felony under the law, even though that is patently not the case! The idea is to exploit and manipulate public opinion, naturally recalcitrant (though perhaps less so nowadays than in years past) to the concept of extramarital affairs — and then conflate those received public biases and strong emotions with tangled legal theories of criminality, distorting the law and sowing both legal and moral confusion in the process.
If it were truly the case that extramarital conduct should be imputed with legal significance, then hush money payments, which necessarily run downstream from such misconduct, would likewise be treated as unlawful. But hush money payments are permissible under law, and have been permissible for ages. Because hush money payments are lawful, Bragg’s legal theory is dead in the water.
But, for Bragg, et al., it does not matter what the law actually says. For Bragg, all he has to rely upon is how the public feels about certain allegations – which he is hoping will be enough of a foundation to prosecute the President’s alleged misdemeanor as a felony, and therefore put him behind bars, even though there is absolutely no basis for any of his hogwash theory whatsoever in either fact or law!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news to Mr. Bragg, but public sentiment — good, bad, or indifferent — is rarely ever a barometer for whether the law should treat a particular act as criminal. Here, public sentiment has no bearing on the legality of any of the facts alleged. The problem for New York’s embattled District Attorney is that he is both logically inconsistent, to an egregious degree, and morally hypocritical in his selective use (ah! one might call, ‘weaponization’) of the law, as a sword, against President Trump.
This ultimately is reason why a critical percentage of the public, including many Independents and Democrats, see Bragg’s prosecution for what it is: an out-and-out persecution against his greatest political adversary.
There is no rhyme or reason to Bragg’s theory of the case, he is merely operating as a political apparatchik for the Biden Regime where he must get off on roleplaying as a tin-pot dictator to bring down Orange Hitler.
The whole thing is a sham, a farce, a scam, and a political scandal of an order of magnitude never seen before in American history. The case should be tossed out, and the public should treat Bragg, James, Judge Merchan, and the entire charade backing President Trump’s latest political persecution for the clown show it is – a flagrant abuse of the rule of law. A case that one never, ever should take seriously, because those bad-faith actors currently executing the Regime’s marching orders are every bit as bad and makeshift as the phony legal theories they espouse, certain in no time to be relegated to at most a forgotten footnote in this dark, dreary, dismal chapter of American history.
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As reported earlier – A massive explosion was reported near Isfahan, Iran today. Isfahan is considered to be the primary location of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
The Iranian media reported three major explosions in Isfahan on Friday morning.
This was not the first time the Isfahan nuclear facility was targeted.
IRANIAN MEDIA: 3 HUGE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD IN ISFAHAN, SOUTH OF TEHRAN
JERUSALEM POST: SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN IRAN, SYRIA, AND IRAQ ACCORDING TO INITIAL REPORTS
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 19, 2024
UPDATE: Via ABC News – Iranian state television says nuclear facilities near Isfahan ‘fully safe’ after air defense batteries fired in area.
By Friday morning the Iranian regime was pushing their own narrative that the attack was a failure and everything was back to normal.
BREAKING: IRAN BROADCASTER SHOW ISFAHAN IS NOT IMPACTED
"The city is in complete calm and security, people are going on with their normal lives."
"1-2 hours ago, sounds were heard in the sky. We understand several miniature UAVs were overhead, which were shot down." pic.twitter.com/HDsZGf1Jif
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 19, 2024
Then this happened– A Biden administration official blamed Israel for the attack. Why would the Biden regime do that?
CNN reported:
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, a US official tells CNN, in a move that threatens to push the region deeper into conflict.
The target is not nuclear, the official said.
Prior to the Israeli strike Friday (local time), the US expectation was that they would not target civilian or nuclear facilities, another senior US official told CNN.
CNN has previously reported that Israel told the US its response would be limited in scope. US intelligence had suggested Israel was weighing a narrow and limited strike inside Iran because they feel like they have to respond with a kinetic action of some kind given the unprecedented scale of the Iranian attack
On Friday The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli officials were “unclear” why the Biden administration and Pentagon would reveal that Israel was involved in the explosions.
The Pentagon could have remained silent and preserved Iran’s dignity.
But instead, the Biden regime embarrassed the Iranians and therefore escalated the conflict.
Fascinating @Jerusalem_Post report on what happened in Isfahan this a.m.
"Israeli official security and governmental sources told The Jerusalem Post Friday: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Israel retaliated where they were attacked.”https://t.co/EG8RgOMGoK pic.twitter.com/z4g1vEujUA
— Nader Itayim | نادر ایتیّم (@ncitayim) April 19, 2024
Never underestimate the ability of the Biden regime to create chaos and devastation at home and in the world today.
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Dallas attorney Sidney Powell, known for her vigorous legal efforts to challenge the fraudulent 2020 election on behalf of President Donald Trump, has been fully vindicated by an appellate court decision.
The Fifth District of Texas Court of Appeals in Dallas, led by a three-judge panel, all Democrats, concluded that the State Bar of Texas’ arguments were without merit.
“The Dallas Court of Appeals has affirmed the Texas state court’s dismissal of the Texas Bar’s case against Powell. After three years of litigation, the Court of Appeals held the Bar had no evidence Powell violated any disciplinary rule in filing four federal lawsuits in the aftermath of the 2020 election,” Sidney Powell’s Defending the Republic said in a statement.
The State Bar of Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline had filed a complaint against Powell, accusing her of violating several Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct.
These allegations stemmed from lawsuits Powell filed in late November 2020.
Powell became the center of media attention in November 2020 for filing multiple lawsuits challenging the certification of election results in critical battleground states, famously vowing to “release the Kraken” in her crusade to expose the election fraud.
The State Bar of Texas later contended that Powell’s lawsuits were ‘frivolous,’ based on ‘unfounded claims’ of widespread election fraud. Moreover, they alleged that Powell knowingly attached “altered” evidence to her legal filings.
However, Powell refuted these allegations, arguing that the documents were provided by other counsel involved in the case and that any discrepancies were not a result of her direct actions.
Powell argued that any discrepancies were inadvertent, attributing the errors to oversight under pressure. Her defense argued that these were honest mistakes made in the rush of massive legal filings.
The appellate court meticulously reviewed the claims, evidence, and procedural history of the case. In particular, it scrutinized the Commission for Lawyer Discipline’s handling and presentation of evidence in its summary judgment response.
The court noted discrepancies and deficiencies in the Commission’s submissions, including mislabeled exhibits and a lack of specific citations to evidence purported to support their claims.
Upon evaluation, the appellate court found no merit in the Commission’s argument that Powell knowingly filed frivolous lawsuits or made false statements related to the election litigation.
It pointed out the absence of evidence proving that Powell had actual knowledge of the falsity of any statements made in her filings. Moreover, the court determined that the Commission failed to meet its burden of proof regarding the alleged disciplinary rule violations involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.
Justice Dennise Garcia, writing for the court, emphasized the importance of presenting clear and specific evidence to support claims in disciplinary proceedings.
“The Bar employed a ‘scattershot’ approach to the case, which left this court and the trial court ‘with the task of sorting through the argument to determine what issue ha[d] actually been raised,’” Justice Garcia wrote for the unanimous panel. “Having done so, the absence of competent summary judgment compels our conclusion that the Bar failed to meet its summary judgment burden.”
While Wednesday’s ruling represents a vindication for Powell in this matter, the battle is not over.
Pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty in the Georgia RICO case against Trump in exchange for reduced charges. Dominion Voting has filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Sidney Powell, who has been fighting tooth and nail against election fraud.
You can help and donate to Sidney Powell HERE.
You can read the decision below:
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Guest post by Paul Drabik
Terry Newsome and Paul Drabik of Behind Enemy Lines have been fighting back in Illinois. The Gateway Pundit has been following their stories including reporting on illegal immigrants, Joe Biden, and Mike Lindell.
Throughout their fight against radical leftists Newsome and Drabik have encountered a glaring opposition. Surprisingly, it has not come from the left but the right.
As discussed in Part 1 and Part 2, the RINO betrayal in Illinois runs deep and starts at the top with figures like the Chairman of the Illinois GOP, Don Tracy. Tracy once ran for Illinois State Senate as a Democrat.
Tracy’s family business, Dot Foods, also donated to both Joe Biden and the DNC. There’s also State Senate Minority Leader John Curran. Curran famously advocated and voted for Amendment 1.
This amendment cemented Illinois State Constitutional powers for public unions effectively making them a fourth branch of government and Illinois a Communist state.
These leaders are an immense danger to the party and the public who they purport to represent. However, more dangerous are the local level leaders. In a Republic such as ours it is the direct conduits to the public such as County Sheriffs or local Republican leaders who can have the greatest impact on policy.
In part 2 we saw that the exposure of RINOs donating to Democrats – in a clear pay for play scheme – will get you censored and canceled.
Newsome and Drabik certainly did call out the RINOs in Illinois when they found out that some donated to radical Soros funded prosecutor Kim Foxx. On their podcast, Newsome & Drabik displayed a Nazi meme of the Republican who censored them for criticism of the party.
Soon enough Newsome and Drabik would find that there were no depths to which the RINOs would not sink. Local Republican leadership had supported Sheriff James Mendrick of DuPage County in a previous race.
When Newsome and Drabik became a nuisance for the party the Sheriff was brought in to provide a level of intimidation. The Sheriff engaged both Drabik and Newsome via email and phone conversation.
The Sheriff threatened Newsome through proxy about the rhetoric he’d been using on his podcast. Newsome sent out an email to colleagues as a warning that he was fearful that he would be targeted by law enforcement on Sunday, November 5th.
Coincidently or not, the Illinois State Police showed up on Newsome’s doorstep on Tuesday, November 7th. Their inquiry revolved around comments made by Newsome’s criticism of State Senate Minority Leader John Curran.
This was not enough to deter Newsome and Drabik however. They went on to discuss these events on their podcast showing these details and expressing concern that the Sheriff was potentially engaging in weaponization of his office for political purposes.
The attacks from the RINO establishment did not stop there. As Behind Enemy Lines and the grassroots movement grew their following, the establishment took measures to discredit Newsome because of a criminal background of 35 years ago.
Prior to a Republican organization meeting they disseminated a packet exposing Newsome’s record but also listing his family’s names and addresses.
The finishing touch was to add sex offenders registered in Newsome’s neighborhood so as to imply that he had some sort of connection with them. It should be noted that Newsome’s criminal background was related to drug and weapons possession.
Subsequently, Newsome approached the private business owner of the venue where this doxxing attack had occurred. That business provided security camera images showing certain Republican leadership had to have been aware of the doxxing attack.
Shockingly, you will see in the video below that the Sheriff admits to being tasked by a political operative to approach a business owner about sharing information with a private citizen.
The Sheriff then seemingly brags about intimidating a private business owner into not sharing information with another private citizen ever again, and training their staff in this manner.
This was not enough to deter Newsome and Drabik however. They went on to discuss these events on their podcast showing these details and expressing concern that the Sheriff was potentially engaging in weaponization of his office for political purposes.
The attacks from the RINO establishment did not stop there. As Behind Enemy Lines and the grassroots movement grew their following, the establishment took measures to discredit Newsome because of a criminal background of 35 years ago.
Prior to a Republican organization meeting they disseminated a packet exposing Newsome’s record but also listing his family’s names and addresses.
The finishing touch was to add sex offenders registered in Newsome’s neighborhood so as to imply that he had some sort of connection with them. It should be noted that Newsome’s criminal background was related to drug and weapons possession.
Subsequently, Newsome approached the private business owner of the venue where this doxxing attack had occurred. That business provided security camera images showing certain Republican leadership had to have been aware of the doxxing attack.
Shockingly, you will see in the video below that the Sheriff admits to being tasked by a political operative to approach a business owner about sharing information with a private citizen.
The Sheriff then seemingly brags about intimidating a private business owner into not sharing information with another private citizen ever again, and training their staff in this manner.
Mendrick has been touted in years past for being responsible for a low recidivism rate amongst inmates of DuPage County. He has been a proponent for second chances. That is, unless you become a political rival to the Sheriff. Below you can see how he speaks to a concerned citizen labeling Terry Newsome as a “drug dealer,” and to “…leave me alone.”
Denigrating someone for their past seems petty if you are in support of second chances. The real hypocrisy is that Sheriff Mendrick had accepted upwards of $100k from a convicted sex offender. ABC news covered the story in 2018.
Apparently, the Sheriff’s sympathy for offenders is only available to those who donate to his political campaign.
We reached out to the Sheriff for comment on the matter and it appears he is suggesting we are violating an Illinois criminal code – 720 ILCS 5 Article 26.5: Harassing and Obscene Communications – by seeking his comment in a news story.
After a final attempt to let the Sheriff know we were seeking comment for a media story, he repeated the screenshot of the Illinois Criminal code. It’s not entirely clear what was meant by this. The implication of course is that we are harassing him in accordance with this particular Illinois criminal code. Certainly, a journalist reaching out to a public official for comment is covered under the first amendment.
The pressure on the local Republican Party by Behind Enemy Lines and the grassroots movement has pushed the party and Sheriff Mendrick to go full authoritarian.
Mendrick has since become the vice chair of his local organization who lost 40% of their participation since instituting censorship. The Sheriff has intimidated multiple committeemen in the organization, including Drabik, suggesting there are police reports filed for things they’ve said in public.
The danger of people like Sheriff James Mendrick cannot be overstated. Intimidating private businesses and people for exercising their first amendment rights can be expected from the left.
While the Democrats in America have essentially become Communists, it is the people on the right like Sheriff Mendrick who pose the greater threat. They are helping the Democrats by silencing the true opposition to Communism in America: THE PEOPLE.
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The 2024 election feels very different than the 2020 election and we see examples of changing attitudes every day.
Addison Smith of Newsmax recently spoke to a black voter in Philadelphia, a famously blue city, who explained why the country needs to reelect Trump in 2024.
Trump is making huge gains with minority voters in this election cycle and this voter does a great job of explaining why this is happening. No one has confidence in Joe Biden’s ability to lead the country.
RedState has details:
Smith also spoke with a guy who broke it down in terms that would resonate with everyone on Thursday in Philadelphia. He pointed out how they were having the event there for Biden and that there were a lot of Americans “struggling,” but Biden was helping illegal aliens, “When are you going to help American people?” he asked.
The voter then went into something that isn’t said enough now in media: that Biden made us “look weak” with his failed withdrawal from Afghanistan. “Now people don’t take us serious,” he said. “They look at us like a joke.”
“On top of that, you’re not mentally capable of running the country, bro,” he said to Biden.
He was asked by the Newsmax reporter, “Who is?”
“Trump,” the voter declared. “He’s quick to push buttons, but that’s what we need. We need a hard fist for this country…Biden, he’s going through Alzheimer’s; he’s a joke. Trump? He don’t play around, man; he gets things done. You see action, man. We don’t need that POS in the office.” He then apologized for cursing.
“We need Trump back because he got things done, and we see results,” the man exclaimed.
Watch the video below:
Black Philly voter says Biden’s made America “look like a joke.”
“We need Trump back.” pic.twitter.com/F2OaaHsieV
— Addison Smith (@AddisonSmithTV) April 18, 2024
That should scare the hell out of the Democrats. Their fear mongering and slander against Trump just isn’t working this time.
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Actor and American patriot Jon Voight has released a new video in which he makes a strong case for reelecting Donald Trump in 2024.
Voight is one of those rare Hollywood celebrities who lives openly as a conservative and Trump supporter. He has publicly supported Trump for years now.
In the video, Voight addresses many of the issues that are top concerns for voters this year.
Breitbart News has a partial transcript:
“Bring back what was lost,” Voight said in a two-minute video posted to his X social media account. “We must bring back the safety of this great country. We must bring back our greatest achievements that once were blooming.
“My friends of all colors, all religions, all nations, we must remember [this] truth: one love, under God. This life is full of injustice, this land of Israel is in danger, the land of the free, the USA, is in danger.
“Let us all come together and make these countries safe again. We must stop this war. We must stop this darkness. This negative plague that is lingering. How? Vote, for the only president that can save these countries once and for all.
“Let all nations bloom, let them shine. My friends, the only way, President Donald J. Trump. He and only he can take this hardship and turn it into a magnificent triumph. He can wipe out this swamp and bring glory, bring justice. And he will help save Israel and warn these enemies that they will pay the price of their injustice, for their disgraceful actions.”
Voight added, “Justice will prevail, and peace for all nations will come to be” should Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, get elected in November.
Watch the video:
Save America pic.twitter.com/iGVaqZnWbi
— Jon Voight (@jonvoight) April 18, 2024
Thank you, Mr. Voight.
Save America. Doesn’t that pretty much say it all?
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Cities around the country are dealing with a homelessness problem that has exploded in recent years. In Los Angeles, California, the problem is severe, with thousands upon thousands of people living in tents on sidewalks.
Democrat Mayor Karen Bass has an idea for solving the city’s problem. She wants wealthy residents to buy housing for the homeless. Good luck with that.
Does she really think that Hollywood liberals like Rob Reiner are going to put their money where there mouths are? Unlikely.
Townhall reported:
Here’s How One Democrat Mayor Wants to ‘Solve’ Homelessness
On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) urged wealthy constituents to buy housing for homeless people in the city.
Bass made the remarks as she announced the LA4LA Campaign, which is aimed at creating housing for the city’s growing homeless population. According to the Los Angeles Times, over 45,000 homeless people live in the city…
So far, Bass’ Inside Safe program has moved over 21,000 homeless people into temporary housing, according to her website. In her remarks, Bass announced the new initiative and asked “the most fortunate” to help fund housing for the homeless.
“We are asking the most fortunate Angelenos to participate in this effort, with personal, private sector and philanthropic funds – to help us acquire more properties, lower the cost of capital and speed up housing,” Bass explained. “This is the mission of our new capital campaign, LA4LA.”…
“LA4LA can be a sea change for Los Angeles – an unprecedented partnership to confront this emergency,” Bass continued. “An example of disrupting the status quo to build a new system to save lives.”
FOX News covered the absurdity of this last night.
You can count on the CSD to keep our elected officials accountable for their actions. Tonight we’re filling you in on the campaign promise Mayor Karen Bass isn’t keeping… pic.twitter.com/ncidPRA7dq
— Trace Gallagher (@tracegallagher) April 18, 2024
Los Angeles is pretty much doomed at this point.
A year ago Karen Bass was convinced 95% of the homeless in Los Angeles would accept housing.
After $67,000,000 and 2,000 dead, it turns out that number was only 0.5%
Bass is now looking for a new revenue stream to fund the gigantic failure that is “Inside Safe”. pic.twitter.com/AgiBlyuCdY
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 17, 2024
Lyin' Karen Bass @MayorOfLA told *national news* that she could get 95 percent of the homeless to accept taxpayer-provided housing
1.5 years later, we now see that a mere fraction actually accept housing; many want the lawlessness and drug access that LA provides https://t.co/Nx0aLe144R
— KarenBassProgressReport (@KBassProgReport) April 18, 2024
Despite all of this, the residents of LA will keep voting for leftists. It makes no sense.
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The search for impartial jurors continued on Thursday in the New York City lawfare case of President Donald Trump in the courtroom of conflicted far-left Judge Juan Merchan. A fresh pool of 96 Manhattan residents entered the courtroom earlier today. A significant number of these potential jurors, 48 in total, were immediately excused after admitting to biases against the former president. An additional nine were dismissed for undisclosed reasons.
FOX News reported today that Trump-hating Judge Juan Merchan seated a juror who was arrested in the 90’s for destroying/vandalizing conservative political posters.
FOX News reporter: This has to do with something that very well could have been the fact that this juror may have been arrested back in the 1990s conducting some sort of political vandalism in some sort of posters on the right and it was not revealed. He did not remember it and did not include it.
This is a RIGGED trial – with no crimes.
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After Globalist poster boy, French President Emmanuel Macron spent years on end trying to solve all the problems of this world but the ones facing his Republic, he now has a steep price to pay, as the Olympic Games arrive in less than 100 days – and most Parisians are dreading it.
You may think that’s an exaggeration, and feel like there’s little to fear from Olympics Games held in ‘romantic’ Paris – but that lovely city basically only exists in our hearts and memories. Look at how is life now in the metropolis:
How the holidays go: Emmanuel Macron and France Celebrate ‘Only’ 745 Vehicles Torched on New Year’s Eve
Health Issues: Bloodsuckers: Paris Is Infested With Bedbugs – Authorities Seek to Control Situation Ahead of Next Year’s Summer Olympics
Social unrest: WATCH: Angry French Farmers Invade Paris Agricultural Fair, Clash With Police, Chant for Macron To Resign
So as the 100 day mark fly us by, the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics make many locals grumble that ‘it will mostly be an inconvenience’.
Maybe if Macron was not so worried to lecturing Brazil about how to protect its forest ort Russia how to protect its National Security, he could have taken care of business at home – which he did not.
Sur enough, there is a well-earned stereotype of ‘the grumpy French’. And also, there is the fact that months of building and road renovations for the Games have clogged traffic. But it’s not just that.
Reuters reported:
“A poll last month showed only over a third of French felt enthusiastic about the global sporting event that will start on July 26.
And with the countdown switching to 100 days, many in Paris said they would leave the city, if they could, or work from home, staying away from the sporting events.
‘Am I excited about the Games? No, sorry, I know it’s not the right response but I’m not. I’m not excited at all’, said 57-year-old consulting director Carole Gabriel-Jullien, who lives in the suburbs and plans to work from home during the Olympics.
‘I’m very worried’, she said. ‘When we see how messy daily life already is in Paris, with all these additional people coming for the Olympics, it will be hell’.”
The Olympics’ organizers say to the four winds that they are confident the mood in Paris and beyond will improve as the Games near.
But the security risks are not ‘worrying in vain’, since the threat of terrorist attacks have led the French government to raise its security alert to its highest level.
“Francois Urbain, a 29-year-old office manager, said he will also leave the French capital. ‘I don’t think the city of Paris will be ready’ to handle the Olympics, he said.”
Even the more optimistic say that it will all go well – as long as the unions don’t go on strike.
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A massive explosion was reported near Isfahan, Iran today. Isfahan is considered to be the primary location of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Explosions were also reported in Syria and Iraq on Friday morning.
The Iranian media is reporting three major explosions in Isfahan.
IRANIAN MEDIA: 3 HUGE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD IN ISFAHAN, SOUTH OF TEHRAN
JERUSALEM POST: SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN IRAN, SYRIA, AND IRAQ ACCORDING TO INITIAL REPORTS
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 19, 2024
This is not the first time the Isfahan nuclear facility has been targeted.
IRANIAN MEDIA: 3 HUGE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD IN ISFAHAN, SOUTH OF TEHRAN
JERUSALEM POST: SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN IRAN, SYRIA, AND IRAQ ACCORDING TO INITIAL REPORTS
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 19, 2024
UPDATE: Via ABC News – Iranian state television says nuclear facilities near Isfahan ‘fully safe’ after air defense batteries fired in area.
Now this — A Biden administration official blamed Israel for the attack. Why would the Biden regime do that?
CNN reported:
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, a US official tells CNN, in a move that threatens to push the region deeper into conflict.
The target is not nuclear, the official said.
Prior to the Israeli strike Friday (local time), the US expectation was that they would not target civilian or nuclear facilities, another senior US official told CNN.
CNN has previously reported that Israel told the US its response would be limited in scope. US intelligence had suggested Israel was weighing a narrow and limited strike inside Iran because they feel like they have to respond with a kinetic action of some kind given the unprecedented scale of the Iranian attack
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Peekskill Common Council member and Housing Authority Board member Rob Scott, 44, has been charged with forging signatures on his election petition in a desperate bid to secure a spot on the ballot for the Westchester County Board of Legislators, Peekskill Herald reported.
Scott’s attempt to challenge incumbent County Legislator Colin Smith for the Democratic nomination in last year’s primary came to an abrupt halt when the County Board of Elections invalidated a significant portion of his petition signatures.
Of the 531 signatures Scott submitted, 217 were deemed fraudulent, leaving him well below the required threshold to qualify for the ballot.
“This morning, the City of Peekskill learned Councilman Rob Scott was charged by the Westchester County District Attorney with filing false documents. The City understands that this is a serious charge, and that information is currently developing. The City will address and comment once more information becomes available,” according to the press release.
According to allegations, Scott knowingly submitted petitions with forged signatures, including those of individuals who later confirmed they had never signed any document for Scott. This discovery emerged from an investigation initiated by the DA’s office after receiving complaints from citizens about the forged signatures.
The matter has escalated from a political embarrassment to a criminal case, with Scott facing felony charges for filing false documents.
According to Iohud, County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced that Scott had been arrested and charged with offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, Penalties for this Class E felony carry a potential jail term of four years.
Scott’s arraignment is scheduled for April 30.
Scott said at the time he was stunned to learn that people had emerged to state they had not signed the petitions that he had witnessed.
“This is like stuff you see on TV, you know?” Scott said. “It’s like stuff you see in the movies.”
Scott’s four-year term on the Peekskill Common Council runs through 2025. Smith called on Scott to resign.
“Although I am disheartened at the news of Councilman Scott’s arrest, I applaud the district attorney’s office for taking a strong stance on public integrity,” said Smith. “Our elected officials must be held to a higher standard. Let this arrest serve as a warning to those who would attempt to subvert the rule of law for their own selfish gain that such self-serving behavior will not be tolerated. Councilman Scott should immediately resign.”
Peekskill Mayor Vivian McKenzie said it’s too early to take that stand, just a day after Scott’s arrest and before the councilman deals with the criminal charges.
“I believe that the judicial process should play out as intended and I will withhold any judgement until I have more information,” she said.
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Conservative political commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson and his crew were the victims of theft in the very place they were spotlighting for a documentary on California’s rising crime rates.
The incident occurred on Wednesday as the team was working on a piece about the closure of an In-N-Out Burger location due to rampant robberies.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Oakland, California, is losing their only In-N-Out Burger restaurant due to the city’s ongoing crime problem. The restaurant is profitable, but they can’t deal with the constant armed robberies, car break-ins, and more.
Crime in Oakland has been on the rise for months on end. The city has a Soros-backed DA, Pamela Price, who is currently facing a recall effort.
Johnson’s project aimed to shed light on the alarming trend of rising crime rates in California and their toll on local businesses, including the famed In-N-Out Burger.
Ironically, as Johnson and his team were documenting these very issues, they themselves fell prey to the crime they sought to expose.
“I Just Got ROBBED At In-N-Out Burger,” Johnson lamented on X.
I Just Got ROBBED At In-N-Out Burger pic.twitter.com/gylc7z5O5T
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 18, 2024
The robbery unfolded in broad daylight, around 2 p.m., catching the crew off-guard. According to Johnson’s producer, ALX, who was in the vehicle at the time, an assailant smashed the car window in an attempt to snatch a bag.
“I was in the car when it happened, the rest of the team was probably about 20 feet away. A car pulled up, someone jumped out, smashed the window and tried to take a bag, I had to rip it from his hands and told him to “f*ck off.” Oakland is a third world country,” Alx wrote.
I was in the car when it happened, the rest of the team was probably about 20 feet away.
A car pulled up, someone jumped out, smashed the window and tried to take a bag, I had to rip it from his hands and told him to “f*ck off”
Oakland is a third world country. pic.twitter.com/mhNmE93qKj
— ALX (@alx) April 18, 2024
Royce Chamberlin, who worked as Director of Photograph, revealed it was his belongings that were nearly stolen.
“It was my bag that was nearly stolen! Luckily Alx was there to pry it from the hands of the thief. Almost this exact thing happened last time I was in the area! This is a fallen place…” Chamberlin wrote.
It was my bag that was nearly stolen!
Luckily @alx was there to pry it from the hands of the thief.
Almost this exact thing happened last time I was in the area!
This is a fallen place… pic.twitter.com/gim7AEzIVY
— Royce Chamberlin (@RoyceChamberlin) April 18, 2024
Chamberlin added that it was not the first they got robbed in crime-ridden California.
“I work as the Director of Photography for Benny Johnson. This is NOT the first time we have been Robbed in the Bay Area. Last year, while filming in front of Pelosi’s house with secret service across the street, we were robbed! This place has been ignored and forgotten by the ruling class who “claim” to care about you…” Chamberlin wrote.
I work as the Director of Photography for @Bennyjohnson
This is NOT the first time we have been Robbed in the Bay Area
Last year, while filming in front of Pelosi’s house with secret service across the street, we were robbed!!
This place has been ignored and forgotten by the… pic.twitter.com/yMG5eZCKNu
— Royce Chamberlin (@RoyceChamberlin) April 18, 2024
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Activists with the leftist group Climate Defiance were thrown off the stage in a tumbled heap while disrupting an event honoring Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. There are no reports of arrests or injuries.
Murkowski was being honored by the Bryce Harlow Foundation at an event held at the Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown D.C. near the convention center. Bryce Harlow was a Republican presidential advisor, Congressional staffer and lobbyist.
Video posted by Climate Defiance shows several activists holding a banner being bull-rushed in a tumble off the stage by security and what appears to be organizers. A woman in a black dress who seems to be Murkowski moves away from the mob to a far corner of the small stage.
The video was posted with this commentary, “BREAKING: We just shut down a gala honoring U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is a murderer. She incinerates us to enrich her cronies. As Chevron’s top lobbyist gave her an award, we stepped in and stopped the ceremony. Respect us or expect us.”
https://twitter.com/ClimateDefiance/status/1780981172442415450
The group posted childish, hysterical statements explaining why it protested Murkowski:
Murkowski played a lead role in persuading Biden to approve the Willow Project. This monstrosity will transport 200,000 barrels of oil every single day. This is hideous. This is cruel and barbaric beyond description. (3/5)
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) April 18, 2024
Murkowski claims to support climate legislation, but refused to step in and pass Build Back Better as Joe Manchin held the bill hostage for months. How does this woman sleep at night? How does she live with herself? Is there no limit to her depravity? Is there no limit?
(5/5)— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) April 18, 2024
Climate Defiance is very aggressive in their protests as video the group posted of a protest last month of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) shows:
BREAKING: we just called Joe Manchin a sick fuck. We humiliated him in front of a herd of Harvard elites. He squared up. We held firm. Barbaric murderer, hideous fiend, he torches humanity and laughs. pic.twitter.com/1ajrQsKnbJ
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) March 1, 2024
Rolling Stone praised the group:
Can confirm pic.twitter.com/NBtjUzJXUF
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) April 16, 2024
The awards ceremony was announced months ago, giving protesters plenty of time to organize.
Mark your calendars for the 43rd Bryce Harlow Foundation Annual Awards dinner on April 17, 2024 at the Marriott Marquis! We’re honoring Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski and Dan Tate, the Co-Founder of Forbes Tate Partners @forbestate. Learn more at https://t.co/x5rEj2x2eg
— Bryce Harlow Fdtn. (@BryceHarlow) December 21, 2023
The announcement for the award:
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was selected to receive the prestigious Bryce Harlow Award, which honors an elected official whose career is built on championing the principles of integrity, dedication and professionalism — echoing the work and life of the late Bryce Harlow. Murkowski is Alaska’s senior U.S. Senator, is a third generation Alaskan proudly serving as the first Alaskan born senator. She was appointed in 2002, elected to a full six-year term in 2004, re-elected in 2010 in a historic write-in campaign, re-elected in 2016 and re-elected for another six-year term in 2022. Murkowski is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is Ranking Member of the Interior-Environment Subcommittee, member of Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Known for her ability to work collaboratively and across the aisle to reach common sense solutions, Murkowski is a leader on energy and public lands issues, recognizing that sound national policy will promote job creation and economic growth, and higher standards of living and greater global stability. She holds both an Economics Degree from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor from Willamette College of Law. Prior to serving in Congress, Murkowski was a commercial law attorney in Alaska Murkowski was born in Ketchikan and raised in towns across the state, including Wrangell, Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage. She is married to Verne Martell and they have two grown sons.
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Once again another transgender teenager was arrested after her plot to shoot up a school was discovered.
The Gateway Pundit reports,
A transgender high school student (biological female) was arrested Wednesday for plotting a mass shooting at a high school in Maryland.
As WJLA reported, 18-year-old Andrea Ye, who identifies as “Alex,” was stopped by Montgomery County Police (MCPD) and federal officials after they discovered she was planning to shoot up Wootton High School in Rockville.
Police revealed that they discovered that Ye had authored a 129-page manifesto outlining how she would carry out this horrendous act of violence. Ye called the manifesto her memoir.
The manifesto was reportedly shared with Baltimore police on March 3 by a person who became acquainted with Ye at a psychiatric facility in Maryland. WJLA reports Ye began receiving mental health treatment in December of 2022 after multiple alleged threats.
In addition to the manifesto, police say they also discovered several internet searches that led them to arrest Ye. Moreover, she previously considered targeting an elementary school.
Ye has been charged with threat of mass violence and is being held in the Montgomery County Detention Center without bond.
Lately there has been a plethora of examples of violence or attempted violence from radicalized members of the transgender community. There are clearly compounding mental illnesses at play here but until we recognize them as such this is not going to simply go away on its own.
I had predicted and feared that following the Covenant School shooting we would see more instances of this, but I had hoped I was wrong. It seems that something has changed and we are seeing more and more violence.
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A Harris County grand jury has dismissed the murder charge against 17-year-old Mario Young in the case involving the death of 42-year-old store clerk Asif Maknojia.
The grand jury’s “no-bill” ruling indicates that they found insufficient evidence to prosecute Young for the murder of 42-year-old Asif Maknojia, effectively disposing of the case.
The incident took place on January 19 when Young and another teenager were confronted by Maknojia after they stole a bag of chips from a Sunoco station in Humble.
The second teen was never even charged.
Court records reveal that Maknojia pursued the teens outside of the store and into his vehicle, at which point the fatal shooting occurred.
Lott Brooks, the attorney representing Young, argued that his client acted in self-defense.
“I wanted him to be there with the grand jury, be honest and tell them exactly what happened,” Brooks said.
He claimed that on the day of the shooting, Maknojia brandished a firearm and threatened the teenagers. However, official documents have yet to clarify whether Maknojia was indeed armed during the encounter.
According to Click2Houston, an eyewitness denied seeing the cashier brandish a firearm.
More from FOX 26:
“When they left there was no danger anymore, when he came around the corner and confronted them again, I think they were afraid for their lives,” Brooks said.
He says his condolences go to Maknojia’s family.
“It is just absolutely devastating, and I know my client is very upset about what happened.”
He says he doesn’t know where Young got the gun, but thinks there are too many guns on the streets, and they lead to tragedies like this one.
It is possible for the DA to present the case to another grand jury and re-file charges, but there hasn’t been any indication that that will happen in this case.
BREAKING: A grand jury declines to indict Mario Young (17) for shoplifting and then shooting and kiIIing the store clerk.
Activists claim that Mr. Young acted in self defense since the clerk chased after them, asking for the stolen items back.
The 2nd teen was never even… pic.twitter.com/tpLOxNekwC
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 18, 2024
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Carlos De Oliveira (L), Trump, Walt Nauta (R)
Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday denied motions filed by Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira to dismiss the indictments against them.
Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta were indicted in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case along with President Trump.
Walt Nauta is a former White House employee and Navy veteran who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago.
According to the federal indictment reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, Nauta was charged along with Trump in counts 32, 33, 43, 35, and 36.
The charges include conspiracy, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation and scheme to conceal.
Walt Nauta was also charged alone in count 38: False statements and misrepresentations.
Jack Smith charged Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker who helped Trump aide Walt Nauta move boxes of documents around at Mar-a-Lago. He was added to the obstruction conspiracy charges filed in the original charges.
Judge Cannon on Thursday rejected Carlos De Oliveira’s argument that he was unaware of the subpoenas issued for the classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago. De Oliveira argued that he didn’t know that there were classified documents in the boxes.
“The arguments in Defendant De Oliveira’s Motion do not warrant dismissal of the obstruction offenses charged against him. As grounds for dismissal of those counts (Counts 33, 40, and 41), De Oliveira identifies various topics and/or allegations that are not contained in the Superseding Indictment – namely, specific allegations about his knowledge of classified documents or the contents of “the boxes” more generally, or about his knowledge of an “official proceeding” under 18 U.S.C. § 1512. De Oliveira also argues, again in support of dismissal, that the allegations in the Indictment do not show that he was capable of acting with the required “corrupt” criminal intent to support the alleged obstruction offenses. These characterizations are not grounds to dismiss the obstruction counts against De Oliveira,” Cannon wrote in the 8-page ruling reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
The Judge also rejected Walt Nauta’s motion to dismiss the charges against him on the argument that they are unconstitutionally vague.
“Defendant Nauta also moves to dismiss the charged obstruction counts—Counts 33, 34, 35, 40, and 41 — as unconstitutionally vague as applied to him and for failure to state a claim. Nauta’s principal submission is that the term “corruptly” as used in the charged § 1512 counts, see 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(2)(A), (b)(2)(B), (c)(1), is subject to multiple, still-developing, and contested judicial constructions of the term such that it fails to give ordinary people fair notice of the conduct it punishes and invites arbitrary enforcement,” Cannon wrote.
Cannon continued, “This “multiple-meanings vagueness” contention is worthy of serious consideration, but it does not lead this Court to conclude that dismissal of the obstruction counts is warranted.”
President Trump also filed several motions to dismiss the charges against him. Judge Cannon has not ruled on all of Trump’s motions.
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Chinese hackers are preparing to launch a major attack on critical U.S. infrastructure and have already infiltrated multiple companies according to the FBI.
FBI Director Chris Wray revealed today China is developing the capability to cause significant damage to our critical infrastructure at a time of their choosing. The only question is the time to launch a catastrophic blow.
“China is developing the ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing,” Wray said at the 2024 Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. “Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic.”
According to Wray, an ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has successfully infiltrated several American companies in telecommunications, energy, water, and other critical sectors. 23 pipeline operators are being targeted.
According to Reuters, Wray went on to note that China’s hackers operated a series of botnets, which are constellations of compromised personal computers and servers around the globe to hide their nefarious cyber actions. Private sector American technology and cybersecurity companies previously attributed Volt Typhoon to China, including reports by security researchers with Microsoft and Google.
Reuters reports that a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson claimed the Volt Typhoon was unrelated to China’s government but is a criminal ransomware group.
China’s Embassy in Washington released the following statement in response to the MFA spokesperson’s comment.
Some in the US have been using origin-tracing of cyberattacks as a tool to hit and frame China, claiming the US to be the victim while it’s the other way around, and politicizing cybersecurity issues.
Some would argue that the operation may already be underway. Early this morning, there was a widespread outage involving 911 emergency numbers in four states: Nebraska, South Dakota, Nevada, and Texas.
Moreover, investigative journalist Lara Logan revealed that reliable intelligence sources have told her the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland last month was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure.
From Logan:
Multiple intel sources: The Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason-Dixon line, exactly like the Civil War.
The second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material is now down for 4-5 years – which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material – fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals, and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels – that supply chain now crippled.
Make no mistake: this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing & execution.
While the FBI may have identified a major national crisis afoot, they may also be a day late and a dollar short. Moreover, one should have little confidence the agency will be able to thwart such a significant attack from a hostile foreign adversary.
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The world is getting more dangerous by the day, there is no doubt about it. But what is also skyrocketing is the alarmism against Russian infiltration, sabotage, and even assassination plots.
While there is no denying that Russians do infiltrate every country they can, friend or foe, and I would not put it past them (or anyone else) to engage in sabotage or assassinations, the uptick happening now makes no sense.
The Russian Federation’s forces are about to win the war, so why would they suddenly engage in asymmetric tactics at this point?
At this point, simultaneous accusations are being made in Poland, Germany, and other nations.
In Poland, for example, a citizen was arrested for allegedly spying for the Russian government. So far, so normal.
But the top prosecutors in Poland and Ukraine are saying the man was part of a potential assassination attempt against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
That sounds like a bit of a stretch: after all, we remember how Putin has promised not to kill Zelensky at a meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett – a meeting which took place in the early days of the war.
“After receiving the promise, Bennet called Zelensky on his way to the airport from the Kremlin and said that he was not in danger of death.
‘Are you sure?’ Zelensky asked. ‘One hundred percent’, Bennett replied.”
There are any number of ways to engage in decapitation strikes to take out the Ukrainian leadership – so this unlikely plot ‘uncovered’ may well be manufactured.
Read more:
The Polish citizen, identified as Pawel K., was charged with ‘readiness to act for foreign intelligence against the Republic of Poland’.
ABC News reported:
“The suspect allegedly ‘proactively established contact’ with Russian military command representatives and ‘informed them of his readiness to cooperate’ with the Russian Federation’s foreign military intelligence agency, according to Andriy Kostin, the Ukrainian prosecutor general.
The suspect’s alleged tasks for the Russian government included collecting and providing the agency with information on the security of the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport, an international airport in Jasionka in southeastern Poland, Polish and Ukrainian officials said.
‘This was to help Russian special services plan a possible assassination attempt on the Ukrainian President during his presence in Poland’, Kostin said in a statement on X.”
The Ukraine prosecutors tipped their Polish counterpart about the suspect, and also obtained the ‘key evidence’ of the investigation.
The suspect is facing up to eight years in prison if convicted.
“‘This case underscores the persistent threat Russia poses not only to Ukraine and Ukrainians but to the entire free world’, Kostin said. ‘The Kremlin’s criminal regime is constantly trying to undermine European and global security. It organizes and carries out sabotage operations on the territory of other sovereign states’.”
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The White House on Thursday said Joe Biden lying about his “uncle Bosey” being eaten by cannibals in New Guinea was a “proud moment” for Biden.
Biden on Wednesday repeatedly told the same dubious story about his uncle Ambrose Finnegan, AKA, “Uncle Bosey” being eaten by cannibals after his WWII plane was shot down over New Guinea.
“My uncle Bosey he was Army Air Corps before the Air Force came along. He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones and he got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said to steelworkers in Pittsburgh.
WATCH:
Biden, for the third time in less than 24 hours, tells the dubious story about his "Uncle Bosey" and "a lot of cannibals" in New Guinea before repeating the debunked "suckers and losers" hoax.
He also claims D-Day was on a Sunday (it was on a Tuesday).
HE IS NOT WELL. pic.twitter.com/iqeOjjFY0v
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
Of course, this never happened.
Joe Biden’s uncle Ambrose Finnegan Jr. died after a plane he was in went down due to engine failure.
Biden made up most of the war story.
Unsurprisingly, Biden has made up most of this war story.
Lt. Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer, not a reconnaissance pilot.
In 1944, Finnegan was the passenger of an A-20 (a twin-engine, not single-engine plane) that ditched, it wasn't shot down.… https://t.co/xxIb5dreOB pic.twitter.com/xrn1WuAbTh
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) April 17, 2024
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden lying about cannibals eating his uncle was a “proud moment” for him.
“You saw him respond to all of you when asked about the moment yesterday and his uncle who lost his life when the military aircraft he was on crashed in the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea,” Karine Jean-Pierre said aboard a gaggle on Air Force One.
“It was a really proud moment for him,” KJP said.
AUDIO:
Karine Jean-Pierre defends Biden’s dubious story about his “Uncle Bosie” being eaten by “cannibals” in New Guinea: “It was a really proud moment for him” pic.twitter.com/mS5lc5dxX7
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2024
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Former MI Senator Patrick Colbeck is one of the smartest and kindest individuals I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. When speaking with Patrick, it’s easy to see why so many people in Michigan and across the nation respect and trust him. Having been involved in politics for over 15 years, I’ve met a lot of people who puff out their chests and talk about what needs to be done to save our elections from being corrupted by people with bad intentions—Patrick Colbeck isn’t one of those people. He doesn’t boast about his tireless efforts to protect our elections; instead, Patrick humbly puts his head down and goes to work, assessing potential vulnerabilities in our elections and identifying ways to correct them. Unfortunately, because Patrick Colbeck dared to question the integrity of the voting machines in 2020, which most Americans have trusted since they were first used in Michigan elections, he has become the target of Democrats and their allies in the leftist media. Patrick is also the author of “The 2020 Coup—What Happened and What We Can Do.”
Yesterday, Senator Patrick Colbeck held a press conference outside of the MI State Capitol flanked by six of the bravest lawmakers in the state, where he announced the filing of criminal complaints against Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos.
The complaint, filed by Patrick Colbeck, alleges Mr. Poulos committed 15 counts of perjury during his testimony before the MI Senate Oversight Committee on December 15, 2020.
The video below shows Mr. Poulos being sworn in before his testimony before the MI Senate Oversight Committee.
Dominion President John Poulos is sworn in at the MI Senate Oversight Committee hearing in Dec. 2020. @PattyLovesTruth @jimhoft_ pic.twitter.com/Y0HyDqfczk
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) February 14, 2024
The complaints were filed with Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel, MI Secretary of the Senate Jocelyn Benson, and the MI State Police. Michigan State Representatives Jim DeSana, Steve Carra, Neil Friske, Josh Schriver, Matt Maddock, and Joe Fox, all members of the MI House Freedom Caucus, supported Patrick as he made the announcement.
Watch:
You can read the full complaint HERE.
In his press release, Patrick Colbeck announces 15 COUNTS OF PERJURY that were FILED IN CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS CEO.
Colbeck continues, “Michigan legislators and concerned citizens have brought forth allegations against John Poulos, CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, relating to his testimony under oath on December 15, 2020, before the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee. Mr. Poulos faces 15 counts of perjury based on these allegations. The testimony in question was referenced extensively in the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee’s June 2021 Report on The November 2020 Election in Michigan. The forthcoming evidence challenges the accuracy of Mr. Poulos’s statements and, by extension, questions the findings of the Senate report, which stated there was no evidence of widespread or systemic fraud in the 2020 election in Michigan.”
“The implications of the alleged misinformation are significant, potentially affecting the perceived integrity of Michigan’s electoral process and the legal repercussions faced by individuals as a result of the contested testimony. A formal complaint, accompanied by supporting evidence, is scheduled to be filed with the Michigan Secretary of the Senate, the Michigan Attorney General, and the Michigan State Police. The complaint aims to address the alleged deliberate nature of the false testimony and seeks to uphold the principles of justice,” Patrick Colbeck claims.
On his Let’s Fix Stuff website, readers can donate to help Patrick continue his work or subscribe to his website to stay current on the latest election integrity news.
On February 14, The Gateway Pundit wrote about a BOMBSHELL RECORDING that captured MI Prosecutor Peter Lucido accusing Dominion Voting Machines President John Poulos of perjuring himself under oath when asked about Dominion Machine’s access to the internet.
On December 15, 2020, the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, John Poulos, testified before the MI Senate Oversight Committee in a hearing where he was asked about the Dominion Voting machines used in Michigan in the November 2020 election.
The Chair of the Senate Oversight Committee, MI Senator Ed McBroom, was first to speak with Mr. Poulos and immediately asked if the Dominion Voting Machines were connected to the internet. In his response, Mr. Poulos explained that the voting machine is “designed” to be connected to the tabulator. Senator McBroom asked if, for some reason, “the locals were to have that computer connected to the world wide web and also networked to the tabulator, is there something in the software that would it shut things down at that point—would it continue to operate? What is the security protocol at that point?” Mr. Poulos appeared to point to the “locals” as the responsible parties for determining if the machines were indeed connected to the internet. “First and foremost,” he began, “the complete security that is under the control of the local authorities is paramount.” If this is indeed true, it would appear that he’s saying it’s up to the election officials in each polling place to ensure the security of the voting machines. The response by the Dominion Voting Machines president begs the question—What if, hypothetically, of course, there were “locals” like the hostile workers at the TCF Center in 2020 who, based on their actions on the day after the 2020 election, had a strong interest in Joe Biden coming from behind to win the election in 2020? And what if there were individuals overseeing the elections who were not interested in protecting the security of the machines?
Watch:
Then-MI Senator Pete Lucido (R) asked Mr. Poulos, “How do I know, as a voter, Mr. Poulos, that I didn’t have any irregularity of the software being manipulated? How can I be sure of that?” The Dominion CEO responded by saying a “hand count audit and recount” would resolve any questions about the integrity of the machines.
MI Senator Pete Lucido (R) began his questioning of Mr. Poulos by asking if Dominion has any way to access any of the equipment on their machines remotely. The Dominion president responded by saying, “No.” Senator Lucido pressed the Dominion president, asking about the purpose of the USB port on the machines. Mr. Poulos asked for clarification about the type of machine Senator Lucido was referring to. When Senator Lucido clarified that he was speaking about the touchscreen voting machines, the Dominion president responded by saying, “Yes, there is,” adding that the touchscreen voting machines “are just an expensive fancy pen.” Mr. Poulos clarified that the “electronic pen” does not tabulate votes.
Only two weeks ago, during an elections security trial in a federal courthouse in Georgia, computer scientist and University of Michigan professor Alex Halderman revealed shocking election machine security vulnerabilities when he demonstrated how easily a voting machine could be tampered with. Using everyday items, which included a Bic pen and a $10 smart card.
All he needed was a pen to reach a button inside the touchscreen, a fake $10 voter card he had programmed, or a $100 USB device that he plugged into a cord connected to a printer, rewriting the touchscreen’s code.
Professor Halderman’s stunning real-time example of how easily voting machines can be manipulated raised questions about the reliability of Dominion’s voting equipment that has been used in Georgia’s elections.
In another exchange on December 15, 2020, during the MI Senate Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. MacDonald asked Dominion President Poulos, “Is it possible for a record value either locally or remotely? Mr. Poulos responded, “No, to my knowledge, it’s not.” He explained, “Even if it were, they certainly wouldn’t be able to do it undetected.” He added that “It would leave a trail” and that “several checks and balances within the machine could detect whether or not such a thing happened. Mr. Poulos concluded his response with, “Which, of course, I don’t think it can.” You don’t think it can? How is this an acceptable answer?
When asked by Senator MacDonald if it’s possible that votes could be manipulated by inserting a USB drive into the Dominion tabulators? Mr. Poulos responded, “No, I don’t think so,” adding, “Even if it was, it would be detected.” Detected by whom, and what, exactly did Mr. Poulos mean when he said he didn’t think so? Unfortunately, Mr. Poulos wasn’t pressed on his vague response and asked to guarantee it couldn’t happen.
In early December 2023, Attorney Michael J Smith called Macomb Prosecutor Peter Lucido’s office to request a meeting with his office because his client, Michael Lewis Butz, was making a perjury criminal complaint to Macomb County Sheriff Wickersham.
On December 9, 2023, Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido contacted Michael J. Smith via phone. When Smith didn’t answer, Mr. Lucido left the following message:
Mike—Pete Lucido. I got your message.
When I was in the Senate, on the Oversight Committee, we did Dominion. It was published and recorded, and it should be online.
The president of Dominion testified, and so did his engineer or software maker, and the questions were centered around whether or not there was access to the internet on these machines that Dominion made. He said no, and it was a lie!”
THE DAM HAS BROKEN: PROSECUTOR ACCUSES DOMINION CEO OF LYING
Listen to this leaked audio of 46 seconds. Explanation below.
— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) February 10, 2024
The January 5, 2024, complaint to Sheriff Wickersham can be seen below.
In his complaint to the Macomb County Sheriff, Michael Butz explained how, in his opinion, MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s office and the Bureau of Elections under the direction of Jonathan Brater (who is also the chair of ERIC that is under contract with the state of MI to “clean up” Michigan’s dirty voter rolls), “obstruct and prevent the township and city clerks from performing their lawful duty to transparently conduct elections through the use of complicated electronic voting systems and unlawful election policies and directives.”
In addition to demanding full transparency in Michigan’s elections, Smith wrote:
Truthful testimony from election software and equipment vendors is critical for Michigan township and city clerks, county clerks, senators and other public officials to identify potential election system problems and implement appropriate solutions to mitigate risks to election integrity.
Mr. Butz demanded an investigation into the crime of perjury related to Mr. Poulos’s testimony while he was under oath.
“I have reviewed the Senate testimony of Mr. Poulos and have concluded that he failed to provide accurate and transparent information to Senators- Poulos committed perjury! No one, not even the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems Inc., should be above the law, and I am asking that your office take immediate action to enforce the law, investigate the perjury statements, and charge Mr. Poulos with perjury,” Mr. Butz wrote.
On page 2 of Mr. Butz’s letter to Sheriff Wickersham, he shared an example of how important it is for law enforcement to understand the significance of Mr. Poulos’s testimony.
He wrote, “Dominion was forced to disclose in Williamson, TN, that its source code was defective and the Dominion voting systems did not accurately tally the votes.”
Mr. Poulos testified under oath in front of the Senate Oversight Committee in Lansing, MI, which is located in Ingham County, and former Senator Pete Lucido is now the prosecutor in Macomb County, making it impossible for Mr. Lucido since the alleged perjury took place outside of his district. Additionally, Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido could be considered a witness. The request for an investigation into alleged perjury by Dominion President John Poulos was, therefore, sent to Lansing Chief of Police Ellery Sosebee for investigation.
In his letter to the City of Lansing Police Chief Ellery Sosebee, Mr. Butz stated that he was asking for the Lansing Police Department to assign a criminal complaint number to his request for an investigation. He explained that he initially filed the complaint in Macomb County but was told he needed to file the criminal complaint in the proper jurisdiction. Mr. Butz also explained that because he was involved in litigation against SOS Jocelyn Benson and AG Dana Nessel in another matter, he believes it would be a conflict of interest for the Lansing Police Department to turn the case over to MI AG Nessel’s office.
Does Mr. Butz have a case against Mr. Poulos? Was the Dominion Voting Machines president telling the truth in his testimony to the MI State Senate Oversight Committee?
So, was the testimony of Mr. Poulos on December 15, 2020, accurate? According to the message Macomb Prosecutor Pete Lucido left for Mr. Butz, he certainly doesn’t believe Mr Poulos was telling the truth while testifying under oath. Is Mr. Butz correct? Should there be an investigation into the vulnerability of all voting machines before the critical 2024 election in Michigan and in every state where they will be used?
Attorney Stefanie Lambert has sent a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan asking for the House Judiciary Committee to “immediately subpoena John Poulos, Eric Coomer (formerly employed by Dominion), and former Senator Pete Lucido to testify in front of his committee. In her letter, Lambert cites the criminal complaint filed by her client, Michael Butz, that has not yet been acknowledged by the Lansing Police Chief. In her letter, Lambert states that Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido is willing to testify that Dominion CEO John Poulos lied under oath on December 15, 2020.
Less than one month after the Dominion president’s December 15, 2020, testimony, a scathing report based on expert testimony and reported by NBC News revealed how vulnerable our elections are as long as modems installed in voting machines are allowed to connect to the internet, even briefly – According to a team of 10 independent cybersecurity experts who specialize in voting systems and elections. While the voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in many states end up there, putting the voting process at risk.
That team of election security experts says that last summer, they discovered some systems are, in fact, online.
“We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online, and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior technical advisor at the election security advocacy group National Election Defense Coalition, told NBC News.
The three largest voting manufacturing companies — Election Systems &Software, Dominion Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic — have acknowledged they all put modems in some of their tabulators and scanners. The reason? So that unofficial election results can more quickly be relayed to the public. Those modems connect to cell phone networks, which, in turn, are connected to the internet.
The largest manufacturer of voting machines, ES&S, told NBC News their systems are protected by firewalls and are not on the “public internet.” But both Skoglund and Andrew Appel, a Princeton computer science professor and expert on elections, said such firewalls can and have been breached.
Kevin Skoglund, senior technical advisor at the National Election Defense Coalition, showed NBC three election systems were still online even after officials had been told they were vulnerable.
For election systems to be online, even momentarily, presents a serious problem, according to Appel.
“Once a hacker starts talking to the voting machine through the modem, the hacker cannot just change these unofficial election results; they can hack the software in the voting machine and make it cheat in future elections,” he said.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which provides cybersecurity frameworks for state and local governments and other organizations, recommends that voting systems should not have wireless network connections.
Patrick Colbeck has over 20 years of engineering and management experience in the private sector working on cutting-edge programs such as the International Space Station and virtual reality training systems for the Department of Defense.
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Joe Biden on Thursday continued campaigning in Pennsylvania and made a stop in Philadelphia.
This is Biden’s last day in Pennsylvania this week before he returns to the White House.
After a gaffe-filled speech to a paltry crowd in deep blue Philly, Biden made a trip to Wawa.
Every moment of Biden’s visit to Wawa was highly choreographed and scripted.
WATCH:
WATCH: Every single moment of Biden's "visit" to this Philadelphia Wawa was carefully choreographed and scripted — down to the cashier's tip pic.twitter.com/lIlVvzN7Pm
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2024
Biden struggled with a takeout box. He gave up and told his handler he was going to go order a milkshake.
“You take that box. I’m gonna go order a milkshake,” Biden said.
WATCH:
Biden struggles to close the takeout box at Wawa, then eventually gives up and tells his handler: "You take that box. I'm gonna go order a milkshake."
Then he shuffles away (before getting confused once again). pic.twitter.com/6I5V0wW5zZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2024
In contrast, Trump doesn’t need to choreograph his visits to small businesses.
Trump walked into a Bodega in deep blue Harlem, New York on Wednesday to thunderous applause.
PRESIDENT TRUMP – NYC BODEGA – FULL VIDEO pic.twitter.com/4nZ5fCE2Cj
— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) April 17, 2024
Trump got a warm welcome when he visited a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta last week.
WATCH:
Trump at an Atlanta Chik-fil-A
“How you doing Trump?”
“I’m doing good”
“I love you mayne”
*Man asks for a Maga hat* pic.twitter.com/YcXDNs4tZQ
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) April 10, 2024
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A disturbing classroom incident has led to a lawsuit after a video surfaced showing an elementary school teacher in Indianapolis encouraging his students to engage in physical violence akin to a “fight club,” FOX 59 reported.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Marion Superior Court by Corrie Horan, the mother of the seven-year-old victim.
Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) is among the defendants named in the lawsuit, which also includes the school’s principal, vice principal, superintendent, school board, and teacher Julious Johnican, who is accused of facilitating this violent discipline method.
The shocking video, central to the lawsuit, captures a student being pummeled by another while the teacher, Julious Johnican, eggs on the violence.
The footage shows a boy on the floor being hit in the head and face, his head slammed against the ground, as he cries, and the teacher encourages the aggressor, who can be heard saying, “That’s right… you get him.”
The incident took place at George Washington Carver School in Indianapolis, where Horan’s son, a special needs student “with disabilities, including sensory sensitivities, an executive function disorder, and probable learning disabilities,” was repeatedly bullied and assaulted under the guise of discipline orchestrated by Johnican.
Horan discovered the abuse after Johnican accidentally showed her footage of her son’s beating during a parent-teacher conference.
Horan’s suit accuses Johnican of running a “fight club” where he incited and facilitated students to engage in violence against her son, identified as “O.D.” in the lawsuit, over three months.
The suit details at least three incidents where O.D. was beaten and subjected to various forms of physical harm and bullying within the classroom.
FOX 59 reported:
The mother said the school didn’t follow up about an investigation or provide additional information. The parent tried to schedule a meeting about the incident, but she was “repeatedly informed that it was her child who was disruptive, lying and that this was a sign of a disordered personality in the child and related to his ADHD,” according to the lawsuit.
The boy also told his mother that he heard a substitute teacher say that “special needs students were demonically possessed.” The same substitute teacher, according to the DCS investigation, appeared to support the fight, telling an administrator, “[They’re] bad kids, that’s what you do!” when asked about the September incident.
The boy said staff told him he “was bad and ‘needed to be baptized’ and that ‘holy water needed to be poured on him’ to cure him of his evil,” according to the lawsuit.
The boy’s grades dropped precipitously. He pleaded with his mother not to send him to school. And as the days and weeks passed, and he told his mother he was being attacked and that his teacher had apparently supported it, the school met his accounts with skepticism.
Then the video surfaced during the Nov. 1 parent-teacher conference, spurring an investigation from the Indiana Department of Child Services.
The DCS investigation validated the boy’s claims, saying they were substantiated “due to the preponderance of evidence” surrounding the case. Johnican had “knowingly and willingly engaged in behaviors toward the victims that jeopardized their overall well-being while in his care as a teacher at IPS 87,” according to the DCS report.
The incident has been reported to the Indiana Department of Child Services, and IPS has stated that Johnican was removed from the classroom, suspended, and no longer has contact with students or employment with IPS.
The lawsuit alleges discrimination, negligent care, negligent hiring, retention, and supervision, and inadequate policies and protection, demanding a jury trial and unspecified damages for the psychological and emotional trauma inflicted on O.D.
Indianapolis Public Schools released the following statement via FOX 59:
IPS does not tolerate the type of behavior alleged in the complaint and takes reports of potential abuse and neglect seriously. When IPS learned of the teacher’s conduct, the Department of Child Services (DCS) was immediately notified, and the teacher was removed from the classroom and suspended. The teacher had no further contact with students and is no longer employed by IPS.
- IPS was not aware of any fights encouraged or sanctioned by this or any other teacher from the student’s parents or otherwise, until the parent emailed the principal at 6:58 p.m. Oct. 30.
- The principal first viewed this email early morning the next day (Oct 31), and immediately contacted DCS and IPS Human Resources.
- The teacher was immediately removed from the building and never returned to the classroom.
- The teacher was interviewed by Human Resources on November 2 as part of its investigation into the matter. The employee resigned during that meeting before IPS could initiate termination proceedings, which the district was prepared to do based on the information received from the internal investigation.
Because this matter is the subject of pending litigation, it is inappropriate to comment further on our investigation of this matter.
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Denver Democrat Mayor Mike Johnston, will stop at nothing to let you know he’s a good liberal. In this instance, even going as far as DEFUNDING the Police.. to give the money to illegal aliens. Recently, sudden influxes of immigrants have caused unrest, a spike in crime, and degraded living conditions in the areas they migrate to. So, what’s in store for the future of the city of Denver given the unholy marriage of an unprecedented migrant invasion AND the defunding of Police?
Elijah Schaffer discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reported an 18-year-old Honduran man who was arrested in connection with a vehicle crash that killed a staffer to Democrat U.S. Senator Catherine Masto entered the U.S. illegally.
Elmer Rueda-Linares,18, was involved in a two-way vehicle crash on April 6th that killed Kurt Englehart, a senior adviser to Sen. Cortez Masto.
After the deadly crash occurred, Rueda-Linares fled the scene of the accident and was later charged with felony hit and run.
Rueda-Linares’s felony hit-and-run has since been dropped, and he has now been charged with “failing to stop at the scene of an accident.”
ICE told Fox News that Rueda-Linares entered the U.S. in March of 2021, near Rio Grande City, Texas, without receiving any inspection from immigration authorities.
Another illegal immigrant kills another American. How many Americans do you think will be killed in the next year by illegal immigrants?https://t.co/3gKIozUgMd
— Robbie Mouton (@mcgmouton57) April 17, 2024
Per Reno Gazette-Journal:
The 18-year-old arrested in connection with the death of an adviser to U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto was in the country illegally.
Elmer Rueda-Linares was in a two-vehicle crash about 4:30 a.m. April 6 at Kietzke and Peckham lanes that killed Kurt Englehart, state senior adviser to Cortez Masto, a Democrat.
On April 8, federal officers placed an immigration detainer — or “ICE hold”— on Rueda-Linares, who is being held at Washoe County Jail, the Department of Homeland Security told the RGJ in a statement Tuesday.
The initial charge against Rueda-Linares of felony hit-and-run has been changed to failing to stop at the scene of an accident, according to the sheriff’s office. He is being held on $100,000 bail.
A staffer for Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto was tragically killed this weekend by a “suspected impaired driver” — who fled the scene and was later arrested.
Officials say the suspect is an illegal alien who crossed the border in March 2021. pic.twitter.com/dOxQPoxIdT
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
Trump released a response to the deadly accident by stating Biden’s open border policies are the “kiss of death.”
Trump calls Biden’s open border policy the “kiss of death.” Highlights story about a previously arrested and released illegal immigrant killing a staffer to @SenCortezMasto.
Cortez Masto’s adviser tragically died in a car crash that happened earlier this month in Reno.… pic.twitter.com/qSMuqKTk4Q
— Victor Joecks (@VictorJoecks) April 17, 2024
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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
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A transgender high school student (biological female) was arrested Wednesday for plotting a mass shooting at a high school in Maryland.
As WJLA reported, 18-year-old Andrea Ye, who identifies as “Alex,” was stopped by Montgomery County Police (MCPD) and federal officials after they discovered she was planning to shoot up Wootton High School in Rockville.
Police revealed that they discovered that Ye had authored a 129-page manifesto outlining how she would carry out this horrendous act of violence. Ye called the manifesto her memoir.
Below are sections of the manifesto from the charging document, which was obtained by Brad Bell of 7 News DC. It contains several sick statements, including Ye bragging about pacing around her room “like an evil mastermind” and revealing why she thinks high schools are the easiest targets for mass shootings.
She also boasts about wanting to set the world record for most kills in a mass shooting.
LOOK:
The manifesto was reportedly shared with Baltimore police on March 3 by a person who became acquainted with Ye at a psychiatric facility in Maryland. WJLA reports Ye began receiving mental health treatment in December of 2022 after multiple alleged threats.
In addition to the manifesto, police say they also discovered several internet searches that led them to arrest Ye. Moreover, she previously considered targeting an elementary school.
Montgomery County Public Schools released the following statement noting the “close collaboration” with the MCPD. They also revealed Ye had not physically attended an MCPS school since the fall of 2022.
The charges are extremely serious, involving alleged threats to harm others. We value and appreciate the close collaboration between Montgomery County Public Schools and MCPD in this matter, which is an example of our shared commitment to identify and address potential threats with due process before they materialize.
The student, who has not physically attended an MCPS school since the fall of 2022, has been actively participating in lessons through a virtual program called Online Pathways to Graduation.
Ye has been charged with threat of mass violence and is being held in the Montgomery County Detention Center without bond.
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Joe Biden not only told the fake news story of cannibals consuming his uncle during WWII, but he lied to the Steel Workers Union and we have proof. In fact the number of lies and gaffes from the man who occupies the oval office were so prolific, we thought we should lay them all out for you.
Plus Democrats show their true colors when asked about “death to America” chants. One remains silent, the other flies off the handle. We have the Katy Porter and Rashida Talib video you have to see to believe.
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The Daily Mail has reported Democrat Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. (D-NJ) has been in a coma for 11 days following a heart attack on April 6.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Rep. Payne, who has been a firm advocate for COVID-19 vaccines, suffered a heart attack after having complications with diabetes.
On April 9th, Payne’s office released a statement stating, ‘Currently, Payne is recovering in the hospital as doctors conduct routine exams to monitor and observe his improvement.”
In the latest press release from Payne’s office, a statement read, “Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. suffered a cardiac episode based on complications from his diabetes last week. Today, he is in stable condition at a local hospital and continues to be under doctor’s care. While we hope for a full recovery, we ask everyone to keep him in your prayers.”
Payne’s office’s latest statement is severely understated compared to the Daily Mail’s latest report, which claims Payne has “yet to awake after suffering the heart attack.”
Breaking: Democrat Rep. Payne remains unconscious after April 6 heart attack: Report https://t.co/CUPPLhozam
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) April 18, 2024
Per The Daily Mail:
A New Jersey Democrat has been in a coma for 11 days after suffering a heart attack and he has yet to regain consciousness.
Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., suffered a heart attack on April 6 and since then he has been in a coma intubated at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, according to the New Jersey Globe.
Payne, 65, has struggled with health issues in the past such as diabetes and liver problems that have resulted in his needing regular dialysis treatment.
Democrat Donald Payne has been in a coma for 11 DAYS: Dire health update for New Jersey Rep. who is unconscious on a ventilator after suffering a heart attack https://t.co/43kSyPg07T
— ConservativeLibrarian (@ConserLibrarian) April 17, 2024
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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
(@EmeraldRobinson) March 23, 2024
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.
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Another one!
GOP Rep. Jake LaTurner (KS) won’t seek reelection in November. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2020.
“After much prayer and consideration, I have decided not to run for reelection to the House this fall,” the 36-year-old said on Thursday.
“With gratitude in my heart for the people of Kansas, my staff, friends, and family, and most importantly, a loving God, who has blessed me beyond measure, I look forward to serving the remainder of my term and look to the future with confidence,” he said.
“It has become fashionable for some to fear for the future of this country and act as though the problems we face and the divisions that exist are insurmountable, but that is just not true. Undoubtedly, the current dysfunction on Capitol Hill is distressing, but it almost always has been; we just didn’t see most of it. I remain optimistic about the future of this country, not only because we have overcome more significant obstacles in the past, but that the vast majority of people I have served with are good and trying to do the right thing,” Jake LaTurner said.
After much prayer and consideration, I have decided not to run for reelection to the House this fall.
With gratitude in my heart for the people of Kansas, my staff, friends, and family, and most importantly, a loving God, who has blessed me beyond measure, I look forward to… pic.twitter.com/CxhwWo48Rf
— Rep. Jake LaTurner (@RepLaTurner) April 18, 2024
According to Axios, more Republican lawmakers are expected to announce retirements in the next few weeks.
More than 22 House Republicans have announced they will not seek reelection in 2024.
Last month RINO Representative Mike Gallagher (WI) announced he would exit the House in mid-April.
Following the resignation of Mike Gallagher, Kevin McCarthy, Bill Johnson, Ken Buck and the ousting of George Santos, the Republicans are left with a one-seat majority!
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As we all know, Trump has not been getting a fair shake in any of his trials, much less the one going on surrounding “hush money” in liberal Judge Juan Merchan’s court. Recently, the first 7 jurors were named. Normally, the jury should be unbiased and, at the very least, have no history of making disparaging comments regarding the defendant – but not in this case. How biased is this jury, exactly?
Elijah Schaffer discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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A mother from Indianapolis was found not guilty of neglectfully smothering her child to death, with the judge stating he would have found her guilty of a lesser charge had it been presented, WTHR reported.
Dacia Lacey, 32, was acquitted after Judge Mark Stoner determined that the charges brought against her did not fit the crime she confessed to.
The mother admitted to smothering her two-month-old daughter, Alona, with couch cushions in August 2022 while under the influence of methamphetamines. The tragic incident, she claimed, was an attempt to silence the infant’s persistent cries so she could sleep.
Initially, Lacey claimed to authorities that her daughter’s death was an accidental result of her children playing on the couch. However, five months later, she confessed to deliberately smothering her daughter with couch cushions due to her incessant crying.
A 911 recording played in court captured the distressing moment Lacey discovered her child’s death, crying out in despair to the dispatcher. When emergency responders arrived, they could only confirm the tragic outcome. Although meth was found in Lacey’s system, an autopsy could not conclusively determine the cause of death as homicide or trauma.
The trial featured a demonstration by Lacey with a baby doll, explaining her initial version of events that the baby was placed in a rocking swing. Contradicting this account was testimony from Lacey’s five-year-old daughter, who claimed to have seen her mother smother the infant in anger. Despite the child’s vivid account, Judge Stoner questioned its reliability in court due to the child’s age and comprehension.
“That doesn’t mean that (Dacia’s other daughter) is unreliable — it means that (Dacia’s other daughter) is innocent,” Stoner said according to WTHR. “(Dacia’s other daughter) is a 3-year-old. (Dacia’s other daughter) is only capable of hearing emotions, repeating some things without understanding things.”
He further critiqued the prosecutorial decision-making process, suggesting that the choice of charges to be brought against Lacey was flawed.
“Not everything that’s a mistake or everything that is wrong is criminal. Something has to be done with criminal intent, criminal responsibility, and that’s what the defendant is charged with. When the state chooses to charge an individual, they must prove they did something with criminal intent. Poor parenting, by definition, is not criminal,” Stoner said.
“It’s important to understand that the prosecutor chooses the charges. It’s the prosecutor that’s elected. The prosecutor has a screening division to make decisions as to what should be charged,” Stoner added.
The case underwent a bench trial, which means the decision was made solely by a judge, without the involvement of a jury.
In his ruling, Judge Mark Stoner stated, “You’re not innocent, but you’re not guilty of what the state has charged you with. This is a case that happens when you’re a bad parent. There are some things you can never do. You can never have sole possession of your children and go out and use drugs.”
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Joe Biden on Thursday continued campaigning in Pennsylvania and made a stop in Philadelphia.
This is Biden’s last day in Pennsylvania this week before he returns to the White House.
So far, Biden’s stops in Scranton and Pittsburgh have been total disasters.
A protestor was removed from Biden’s Philly event. Notice how small the room is. Biden can’t even fill a small venue in deep blue Philadelphia.
VIDEO:
A protester just got escorted out of Biden’s campaign event here in Philadelphia. “I have rights to be here,” the person screamed as he was pulled away. pic.twitter.com/Y69ySBeI3e
— Iris Tao (@IrisTaoTV) April 18, 2024
As usual, Biden’s speech was full of gaffes and lies.
“I see a future with a planet! We save the planet as this guy busting his neck doing. From climate change. Literally!” Biden said.
Then he dropped this gem…
“Are you ready to choose freedom over democracy? Because that’s America!” Biden shouted.
WATCH:
BIDEN: "Are you ready to choose freedom over democracy? Because that's America!" pic.twitter.com/VaiHZhcwLe
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2024
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“Out of an abundance of caution, we are adding Tamiflu to the Contagion Kit. Tamiflu is a safe medication approved treat Influenza type A, viruses like avian flu. We will continue to closely monitor this situation and make further recommendations as warranted.”
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Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum (WEF) believe we should reduce our reliance on animal food products as part of their globalist views.. Thus, a food scare in westernized countries with market recalls and destruction of poultry and meat would further dystopian goals for the Davos club]. H5N1 has a historical fatality rate of 52.16% in humans and fear alone could drive considerable anxiety in large populations not only about exposure through food, but pets, and other humans.
It’s difficult to determine if H5N1 is the next ‘Disease X’ at the moment. It’s possible due to the abundance of GOF research and biotech interests, ready-made vaccines, and powerful drivers of mass panic in the wings. If more cases occur in clusters or bona fide outbreaks with human-to-human transmission, we could be well on our way to a 2024 avian influenza pandemic crisis.
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Isra Hirsi, the 21-year-old self-styled communist daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) announced on X Twitter Thursday that she has been suspended by Columbia University in New York City for organizing a pro-Hamas occupation on campus grounds. Hirsi attends Barnard College, which is connected to Columbia.
Hirsi describes herself as an “angry black girl” with a communist hammer and sickle symbol on her X Twitter profile.
Hirsi posted, “i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings. i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide…those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated. we will stand resolute until our demands are met. our demands include divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for all students facing repression”
those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated. we will stand resolute until our demands are met.
our demands include divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for all students facing repression
— isra hirsi (@israhirsi) April 18, 2024
Columbia University Apartheid Divest announced the suspension of Hirsi and two other Barnard students in a defiant statement issued Thursday morning:
https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1780995492832334317
Mother and daughter, image via Instagram:
Omar posted her support of the protest on Wednesday, complete with revolutionary raised fist emoji, “Columbia has always had an incredible history of students fighting for a more just world and it’s good to see that tradition continue. As NYPD surrounds young activists, I hope their concerns are heard by school administrators and they not be criminalized. In solidarity 
”
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1780663997361983668
The image Omar posted connected the occupation protest to a similar attempted campus takeover by radical leftist students in 1968. Hirsi stated in an interview Wednesday that was the case that was posted by the People’s Dispatch, “Isra Hirsi (@israhirsi), Barnard College junior and organizer with @ColumbiaBDS, is participating in an indefinite occupation of Columbia’s campus in solidarity with Gaza. Organizers have remained defiant under repression and pledge to stay until Columbia divests from Israel.” (Hirsi was wearing a COVID mask even though she was outside.)
Isra Hirsi (@israhirsi), Barnard College junior and organizer with @ColumbiaBDS, is participating in an indefinite occupation of Columbia’s campus in solidarity with Gaza. Organizers have remained defiant under repression and pledge to stay until Columbia divests from Israel. pic.twitter.com/jgQUV00CrE
— Peoples Dispatch (@peoplesdispatch) April 17, 2024
While her daughter was occupying the Columbia campus, Omar was grilling Columbia’s President Dr. Minouche Shafik at a House hearing on anti-Semitism at Columbia.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): “Have you seen anti-Muslim protests on campus? … Against Arabs? … Palestinians?”
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik: “No.”
Omar: “Have you seen a protest saying we are against Jewish people?”
Shafik: “No.” pic.twitter.com/U0qbvrCPZk
— The Recount (@therecount) April 17, 2024
Columbia student Eden Yadegar spoke earlier on Capitol Hill about pervasive anti-Semitism on campus:
"The same Jew hate that drove my family to the US has become normalized here."
WATCH Eden Yadegar recount the experience of Jewish students on campus at @Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/GG4XEL7TSu
— Rep. Burgess Owens (@RepBurgessOwens) April 16, 2024
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) confronted Shafik on a anti-Semitic campus handout, “Columbia’s school of social work orientation glossary defines “Ashkenormativity” as a “system of oppression that favors white Jewish folx.” The radical Left has turned our universities into hotbeds for antisemitism.”
Columbia’s school of social work orientation glossary defines “Ashkenormativity” as a “system of oppression that favors white Jewish folx.”
The radical Left has turned our universities into hotbeds for antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/OeYQIIve5q
— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) April 17, 2024
Hirsi’s youthful leftist activism has garnered her awards and a Wikipedia page (excerpt):
Isra Hirsi (born February 22, 2003) is an American environmental activist. She co-founded and served as the co-executive director of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike.[1] In 2020, she was named in the Fortune’s 40 Under 40 Government and Politics list.[2] She is the daughter of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar.
Early life and education
Hirsi protesting against gun violence in 2018
Hirsi was born on 22 February 2003 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the daughter of Somali American U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar[3][4][5] and Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi. At the age of 12, she was one of the participants protesting for justice for Jamar Clark at the Mall of America.[5] Hirsi attended Minneapolis South High School,[6] from which she graduated in 2021. She became involved in climate activism after joining her high school’s environmental club in her freshman year.[5][7]Hirsi attends Barnard College of Columbia University as of fall 2021.[8]
Activism
Hirsi coordinated the organization of hundreds of student-led strikes across the United States on March 15 and May 3, 2019.[4] She co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike,[5] the American arm of a global youth climate change movement, in January 2019.[9][10][11] She acts as the co-executive director of this group.[5][12] In 2019, she won a Brower Youth Award.[13] That same year, Hirsi received the Voice of the Future Award.[7] In 2020, Hirsi was placed on BET’s “Future 40” list.[14]Hirsi endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[15]
New York City police were breaking up the occupation of Columbia Thursday afternoon:
#HAPPENINGNOW: At the request of @Columbia officials, we are on scene to disperse protestors who have erected an unlawful encampment on campus.
School officials had previously determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the… pic.twitter.com/ZZ8VEAfAMd
— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) April 18, 2024
Happening now at Columbia University: President Minouche Shafik in an email said she has “authorized the New York Police Department to begin clearing the encampment” where pro-Palestine students are demanding the university divest from Israel pic.twitter.com/1DScJ8ys67
— Tyler Clifford (@_TylerTheTyler_) April 18, 2024
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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors on Thursday claimed Trump violated the court’s gag order ‘seven more times.’
Bragg’s office on Monday asked the court to impose a $1,000 sanction for each of the 3 prior Truth Social posts, order Trump to take them down, and warn him that further violations would result in jail time.
The DA’s office was referring to was related to a New York Post article bashing Michael Cohen as a “serial perjurer.”
On Thursday, prosecutors claimed Trump violated the gag order seven more times since Monday when he quoted Fox News host Jesse Watters.
Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday: “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury,” Jesse Watters
Prosecutors this week filed a motion to hold President Trump in contempt for ‘violating’ Judge Merchan’s gag order.
Judge Merchan scheduled a hearing on Bragg’s request to hold Trump in contempt for April 23.
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 and barred the former president from criticizing his family members.
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For the past few years, a lot of people have been labeled “conspiracy theorists” for what is now being confirmed — the vaccine not only SUPPRESSES the immune system but STIMULATES cancer cells. What is the extent of the danger for those who took this experimental vaccine?
Elijah Schaffer discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Idea ‘is not provided for by law’
A state official in Ohio has rejected Democrats’ illegal plan to sneak Joe Biden’s name onto the 2024 presidential ballot.
A lawyer for the leftist party had wanted the state of accept a “provisional” certification of Biden, and Kamala Harris, as candidates, but Attorney General Dave Yost’s office found the move “simply is not provided for by law.”
“Instead, the law mandates the Democratic Party to actually certify its president and vice-president candidates on or before August 7, 2024. No alternative process is permitted,” the statement said.
The problem is that Democrats, focused for the last few years on trying to exclude President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, overlooked state requirements for certification. Their convention, to officially name Biden as the candidate, doesn’t happen until the end of August.
After the deadlines in Ohio and Alabama will have passed by the time their decision is made.
The Ohio state decision said, “Thus, the secretary of state lacks authority to accept ‘provisional certifications’ from the Democratic Party pursuant to [the law]. The Democratic Party must actually certify its presidential candidates on or before August 7, 2024 to be placed on the 2024 general election ballot.”
The state earlier had offered two solutions to the Democrats. One is that the state legislature could change the law, the other is that the Democrats could reschedule their convention for earlier.
A report from Fox News described the Democrat plan as trying to “skirt” the law.
The report said documents show correspondence between Yost and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose as well as lawyer Donald McTigue, representing Democrats.
McTigue claimed that the state had the authority to take a “provisional certification” to accommodate the Democrats.
The AG shot down the idea.
“The Democratic Party’s notion of providing a ‘provisional certification’ by the statutory deadline simply is not provided for by law,” Yost’s office said. “Instead, the law mandates the Democratic Party to actually certify its president and vice-president candidates on or before August 7, 2024. No alternative process is permitted.”
Biden’s campaign continued to confirm he will be on the ballot in “all 50 states.”
Officials in Alabama also have warned Biden of similar circumstances there.
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said the law requires the nominations by Aug. 15.
“It has recently come to my attention that the Democratic National Convention is currently scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which is after the State of Alabama’s statutory deadline for political parties to provide a certificate of nomination for President and Vice President on August 15, 2024,” officials there told Democrats. “The certificate of nomination must be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the convention and by the chair of the state executive committee of the political party making the nomination.”
The American Center for Law and Justice, which has fought on behalf of election integrity and ballot fairness, pointedly noted, “Remember when the far Left tried to disqualify President Donald Trump from state primary ballots? The ACLJ won at the U.S. Supreme Court to protect your right to vote for the candidate of your choice.”
In fact, Democrats across America have spent months and likely uncounted dollars trying to get President Donald Trump banned from the 2024 presidential ballot.
They’ve pushed the “insurrectionist” talking point over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, ever since those events happened.
They’ve worked at the state level, in Colorado, to obtain a ruling from an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that his name shouldn’t appear. Two other states followed Colorado’s agenda, but that agenda was stopped in its tracks by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Democrats even have assembled a long list of questionable claims against Trump – in court – to try to make sure Americans are not allowed to check his name on the ballot in November.
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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By Wayne Allyn Root
I swear we are living in some kind of bizarro “Twilight Zone” episode. Or a zombie apocalypse nightmare. Things are that bizarre in America nowadays.
48 hours ago, I was watching a TV show on CBS when a promotion came on my TV screen for the CBS morning show. Host Gayle King (Oprah’s BFF) said, “Join us tomorrow for our show dedicated to how to keep your children safe- with HHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas.”
Did I really hear that? I reversed my TV to watch it again. Gayle King really said that. This one :30 second promotion proves without any doubt that leftists and the liberal media are a combination of insane, delusional and suicide bombers.
They’re a danger to us all. A danger to our survival. A danger to our children’s lives.
It also proves without a doubt that we are being brainwashed, gaslighted and defrauded with a level of media propaganda not seen since the Nazi Germany Gestapo, Soviet Union KGB and East Germany Stasi.
Our nation is under foreign invasion by millions of barbarians- including murderers; rapists; terrorists; welfare addicts who will bankrupt our country; illegal alien invaders carrying third word diseases that will kill us; and let’s not forget millions of military-age men from our enemies like China, Hamas, Hezbollah and MS-13.
This is literally an ARMY of 20 million or more brand new illegal alien criminals that can and will turn America into “Mad Max” at a moment’s notice if…
A) They get their marching orders from their leaders to destroy America…
or B) their goal is to create crisis, chaos, anarchy, unrest, rioting, looting, torching, killing, fear and intimidation before the November election to prevent Trump from taking back the White House …
or C) their goal is to create crisis, chaos, anarchy, unrest, rioting, looting, torching, killing, fear and intimidation after the election in order to topple the Trump administration…
or most likely, D) all of the above.
In the middle of it all sits HHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
In my opinion Alejandro Majorkas is the worst traitor in the history of America. He is evil personified. He is the devil. Or he is certainly taking his marching orders from Satan himself.
Majorkas makes Benedict Arnold (who gave the secret location of General George Washington to the British Army and was banned from America for the rest of his life) look like a petty pickpocket.
Majorkas makes Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (who passed secrets about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in 1945 and were executed) look like pikers.
Majorkas is doing more damage to America and America’s children than anyone in the history of America.
He is not only enabling and empowering the full-scale invasion of America…and letting barbarians into our country who will murder and rape your children…and infect your children with third world diseases…and bring pedophiles and perverts into our country…and the cost of this illegal invasion will force higher taxes that will destroy quality of life for your children…but perhaps worst of all, Majorkas is allowing all the fentanyl into America that will hook your children on drugs, ruin their lives, and literally kill over 100,000 Americans annually.
One of them could be your child.
Wait, it gets worse. We just let 20 million brand new illegals into America- at least that many. Because this administration of suicide bombers admits 10 million have been welcomed in in the past 3 ½ years. But that number does not include “got aways.” That at least doubles the number to 20 million. Maybe substantially more. And that’s 20 million as of today. But by Trump’s swearing in on January 20, 2025, it may well be 30 million, or more.
Think about this. We’ve added 20 to 30 million new poverty-stricken patients, but no new doctors. This is the bankruptcy and collapse of our healthcare system.
And we’ve added millions of new criminals and terrorists, but no new cops. This will lead to mass chaos, anarchy and the worst crime wave ever seen in America’s history.
It’s already started.
Think what all these millions of illegal alien children added to public schools will do to retard your children’s education and their future earning potential.
And how about the national debt. This foreign invasion is costing America about half a trillion dollars a year. That’s what they admit- it’s probably much higher. That’s trillions added to the national debt in the next decade. Our economy will be overwhelmed. Our country will collapse.
Alejandro Majorkas is the point man for the intentional destruction of America.
He has done more damage to our country and our children than anyone in history. He is more deadly to America than all the Islamic terrorists in the world combined.
And yet the CBS morning show portrays him as a “hero” who can show us how to keep our children safe. And the U.S. Senate voted for the first time in history to kill his impeachment trial before it even started.
This is the definition of gaslighting and propaganda. This man is the enemy of every American citizen. He is the enemy of your children. He is evil personified. He is the devil.
I know where he belongs. Burning in hell.
But until then, how about we elect President Trump on November 5th. And then immediately indict Alejandro Majorkas for treason. And after conviction, sentence him to life in prison, breaking rocks at Guantanamo.
And then America will be great again. And your children will be safe again. God bless America.
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A second seated juror was dismissed on Thursday after they were sworn in by the judge presiding over the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial.
One juror on Thursday was already excused from service after she admitted to concerns about her impartiality upon being officially sworn in by Judge Juan Merchan.
“Yesterday alone, I had friends and family push things to me,” the first dismissed juror stated. “I don’t think at this point that I can be fair and unbiased.”
A second juror was dismissed over his past arrest. Details of juror number 4’s criminal past were not disclosed.
NBC News reported:
After they had a conference with the juror, Merchan announced he’s excusing juror No. 4, who had previously been seated and sworn him. His prior arrest was questioned by the DA.
A seated juror was called for questioning, with prosecutors inquiring about whether or not he was truthful in answering questions about his past criminal history.
Following a conference between the juror and Merchan, the judge said, the juror “expressed annoyance about how much information was out there about him in the public.”
And Merchan sealed the portion of the transcript where he says the juror discussed “highly personal” information.
Jury selection was underway on Thursday 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.
Judge Merchan admonished the mainstream media for excessive exposure of juror information. He announced that potential jurors’ places of employment would be removed from the public record and instructed members of the media to refrain from describing jurors’ appearances.
DEVELOPING…
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Joe Biden on Wednesday got testy with a local reporter in Pittsburgh who pointed out that there are tons of Trump signs all over Pennsylvania but virtually no Biden signs.
Biden’s two-day trip to Pennsylvania was a total disaster.
On Tuesday, Biden went to his hometown of Scranton where virtually no one showed up to see him – IN HIS OWN HOMETOWN!
On Wednesday Biden visited the steelworkers union headquarters in Pittsburgh where he claimed cannibals ate his “uncle Bosey.”
Biden copied Trump and visited a Sheetz gas station. He walked into the gas station to total silence.
There was no fanfare. No one was excited to see 81 million vote recipient Joe Biden in deep blue Pittsburgh.
In contrast, Trump got a rock star welcome at a Bodega in Harlem, New York!
WATCH:
Biden’s sad and pathetic attempt at copying President Trump’s bodega visit was a hilarious failure. pic.twitter.com/HPe8sLf2nl
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) April 18, 2024
One local reporter pointed out that there are virtually no Biden signs anywhere in Pennsylvania – but there are lots of Trump signs!
“When you drive around the area, you see a lot of Trump signs, not very many Biden signs do you feel like you’re in trouble here?” a reporter said to Joe Biden.
Biden got testy with the reporter.
“Well you haven’t been driving in the right places, pal,” Biden said.
WATCH:
Biden gets confused when a reporter tells him in Pennsylvania: "When you drive around the area, you see a lot of Trump signs, not very many Biden signs…" pic.twitter.com/8KUkorKM1k
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2024
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The man who transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous countries in the world to one of the safest, President Nayib Bukele, is despised by liberals.
When he won reelection in a landslide, liberal media outlets ran headlines stating that democracy had ended in El Salvador and that the country had become a one-party state. However, El Salvador is not Cuba.
Bukele did not eradicate opposition parties, nor did he imprison them or seize control of the press. Instead, he delivered on his promises. He made the country safe by locking up criminals.
President Bukele claimed that his country went 365 days without a murder. And while the exact number has been called into question, it is an indisputable fact that the country now has the lowest murder rate it has seen in 30 years, plummeting by 70%, and now stands at only 2.4 per 100,000 in 2023, making it the second lowest in the Americas, just behind Canada.
In 2022, after a gang war resulted in the deaths of 87 people over a period of just three days, Bukele took action against crime. He constructed the country’s largest prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo or CECOT), with a capacity for 40,000 gang members. And he began filling it.
Out of gratitude for restoring peace in the country, voters reelected him with 85% of the vote. Human rights groups, who live in safe, wealthy Western nations, have criticized Bukele for violations of the rights of suspects.
But the logic is flawless. Only gang members have gang tattoos. If anyone else gets a gang tattoo, they will be killed by the gang. The same is true for tattoo artists.
They would be killed for giving gang tattoos to non-gang members. Additionally, part of the initiation to joining a gang is to commit a serious crime, often murder. Once they become a member, their full-time job is to commit crimes. So, logically, anyone with a gang tattoo is a gang member and has committed crimes.
In the U.S., it is not a crime to be affiliated with an organization, even a criminal one. To secure a conviction, there would need to be proof that the person committed a specific crime.
However, that system, while acceptable for a high-trust society, was being exploited in El Salvador, where repeat offenders and murderers were being set free by crooked judges and jailers.
So, Bukele decided to let logic prevail, arrest the gang members, and put them in prison. He was more concerned about the rights of street vendors, business owners, school children, working people, and ordinary citizens than he was about the rights of violent criminals.
The state of emergency he declared in 2022, and has renewed several times since, suspends the constitutional rights of the gang members and bypasses the corrupt courts and justice system, which had allowed the criminals to reign for decades. Since then, 75,000 gang members have been arrested, and 7,000 have been released.
According to reported data from human rights groups, since 2022, there have been 78,000 arbitrary detentions. This is likely because they consider nearly all of the arrests to be arbitrary detentions.
The rights groups are also upset that “approximately 102,000 people are now deprived of their freedom in the country,” disregarding the fact that these people are criminals.
Additionally, they are upset that the prisons are overcrowded by 148%, which is absolutely true. The prisons are not pleasant, and a sane person would avoid going there by not committing crimes.
They also lost sleep over 235 deaths in state custody. There is no mention of how many of these deaths represented prisoners being killed by other prisoners, nor have they stopped to consider that five times that number of innocent people would have died during the same time period if these gang members were not in prison.
Rights groups have claimed that Bukele’s New Ideas party winning 58 of 60 seats in the country’s legislature has turned the country into a one-party state, with a “dangerous” concentration of power.
They are missing the point that the country had a fair election and the people were free to vote for the horrible system they had before, or law and order, which is now making their lives livable again. And they chose the latter.
According to Gabriela Santos, director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Central America (IDHUCA), “Bukele’s popularity underlines how some Central American countries have struggled to launch sustainable democratic models.”
Again, there appears to be no flaw in El Salvador’s democracy. The critics just do not like the way the vote turned out. Santos went on to say that countries never recovered their democratic principles “in the aftermath of civil conflicts between left-wing guerrillas and U.S.-backed right-wing authoritarian regimes.”
There is no indication that the people voting for Bukele had any connection to the US or to right-wing regimes.
Liberals are claiming that there is a frightening move toward fascism in Latin America because 2 of 32 countries now have a president who is not a socialist. The other bright spot is President Javier Milei in Argentina, whom the liberals also hate.
He is cutting the government down to size, waging a war on debt and waste. He told school children that abortion is murder. He is pro-gun and is considering deploying the military to take on the gangs.
The shocking lesson we can all learn from El Salvador is that if you arrest all of the bad guys and keep them in jail, and if those who remain free are made to believe that crime has consequences and jails are horrible places, the streets become safer, and people can live their lives.
The other takeaway here is that if a president is tough on crime and wants to cut government spending and improve the lives of citizens, the liberals attack him.
It is also incredibly condescending that liberals in Europe or the US or elsewhere believe that 85% of Salvadorians do not know what is best for their country and voted for the wrong person.
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What began as a seemingly local skirmish between a social media platform and a third world socialist country has escalated into a planetary affair that has finally dragged the censorship-happy Joe Biden administration into the fray.
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is probing whether Biden and his team are involved in the draconian censorship initiatives that are being uncovered now.
The story is very simple: not only was Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre Moraes demanding that X suspend the accounts of prominent conservatives, against Brazilian law, and under the penalty of heavy daily fines, but he also ‘forbid’ the company from even mentioning the reason for their suspension – X would have to pretend they were struck because they broke the platform terms of use – which they have not.
Musk: “We kept getting these demands from Judge Alexandre to suspend accounts of sitting members of the parliament and major journalists. We could not tell them that this was at the behest of Alexandre, we had to pretend that it was due to our rules. And that was the last straw, and we said no.”
So, now it seems as if Musk is the iceberg into which the Titanic ship of Brazil’s unbridled censorship will crash and sink.
Musk even went there and spoke the truth about Brazilian rigged election.
But since Alexandre pulled Lula out of prison and put his thumb on the scale to get Lula elected, Lula will obviously not take action against him.
The next election will be key.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
And you know who else helped Lula win it? The Biden administration.
Foreign Policy: “Not only was Brazil’s democracy closer to the brink than initially understood, but targeted U.S. pressure on key Brazilian officials was likely decisive in guaranteeing the eventual outcome.”
I wrote on my Substack: “The fact is that Lula, when it comes to his Foreign Policy, tries to serve multiple masters: the Latin-American socialist network ‘Foro de São Paulo’, Russia and China, who are historically masterminds of our left, Globalists of all stripes and statures, from George Soros to Leo Di Caprio, and – that’s the novelty of this last election cycle – the Biden State Department from hell and the CIA.”
This is the background. But so many things have happened lately, that this article merits a list of topics to begin with:
Brazilian news outlet Metropoles reported:
“In conversation with Brazilian allies, businessman Elon Musk said he believes that the United States (USA) will be able to impose political and economic sanctions on Brazil in the near future.”
[…] Discussions about sanctions on Brazil should gain strength if Donald Trump returns to the White House in the election scheduled to take place in November. The former North American president is close to the Bolsonaro family and, even more so, to Elon Musk.”
I’m not sure how verified is this information. We can’t help but notice how they say Musk spoke with his ‘allies’, as if it’s all some shady political conspiracy.
To cap it all, the report goes on to say that Trump and Biden are ‘tied in the polls’ – which tells you all you need to know about their veracity and understanding of geopolitics. Trump is leading by a significant margin in the current presidential polls.
But while sanctions may be a bridge too far, it is indeed a fact that the issue is under investigation in Congress.
BOMBSHELL: Brazilian Government Forced Censorship on X, @elonmusk
Read about it here: https://t.co/YAnQesOiXV
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 17, 2024
The House Committee on Judiciary of the United States has just released a 541-page report on ‘attacks on freedom of speech’ in Brazil.
The document was made after the Committee subpoenaed X for the documents regarding requests by the Brazilian court.
Tupy Report on Telegram:
“The document includes 90 decisions on account and content removal ordered by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Many of the documents released by the U.S. House are classified as confidential.
Several of them also bear a watermark identifying them as copies received by Twitter. The report does not provide an analysis of the decisions, aside from a brief summary at the beginning.
Apparently, this was a way to disclose Moraes’ decisions without violating court orders. Twitter provided them to American congressmen, and they took responsibility for the disclosure.”
We’ve got questions for the Biden administration: https://t.co/9PHhxIWiJz pic.twitter.com/nGG0g0shZb
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 17, 2024
After releasing this treasure trove of information, the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the Biden administration with questions and subpoenaing more documents on this case.
It was sent to Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights of the U.S. Department of State Washington, and Eileen Donahoe, Special Envoy and Coordinator for Digital Freedom.
“The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government are conducting oversight of how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor lawful speech. In furtherance of our oversight, the Select Subcommittee has examined how other countries’ governments, including Brazil’s, have sought to censor speech online. According to recent reports, the Brazilian government is attempting to coerce X Corp. (X) to block certain accounts on its social media platform that the Brazilian government deems to be spreading disinformation. After X stood in support of free speech online, a Brazilian judge opened an inquiry into X and its owner, Elon Musk, for refusing to give in to Brazil’s censorship demands. X has indicated that X is being “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil” or else face serious consequences, including large fines, the arrest of X employees, and causing X to shut down in Brazil.”
The Electoral Court and the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil ordered X to suspend or remove over 100 accounts, targeting critics of the Brazilian government, including ‘former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, conservative members of the federal legislature, journalists, members of the judiciary, and even a gospel singer and a pop radio station’.
“The court often only allowed the social media companies two hours to comply with the censorship demands.
[…] To understand what the State Department is doing to promote online free speech in Brazil and to protect against tyrannical censorship abroad, we ask that you produce the following information:
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Several states lost access to 911 emergency call services late last night causing many residents not to have any access to emergency services.
Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, and Nevada residents experienced emergency service outages from around 10 p.m. to midnight.
Authorities in Texas reported the outages were due to “an outage with a major cellular carrier” but did not elaborate on which carrier was responsible.
The outages were first reported in Las Vegas, which caused the Las Vegas Police Department to urge those needing emergency services to dial 911, and dispatchers would call them back.
Outages in Texas, Nevada, and Nebraska were only reported in several cities and towns, but South Dakota experienced a state-wide outage.
Potentially thousands of people who tried to dial 911 Wednesday night were left helpless as an outage across parts of four different states — including the entire state of South Dakota — impacted callers. https://t.co/4Z4zyT8pJl pic.twitter.com/ltrZDfmIjp
— ABC News (@ABC) April 18, 2024
Per CBS:
Multiple states lost access to emergency dispatchers late last night, meaning that residents could not call 911.
The issue affected parts of Nebraska, Texas and Nevada, and all of South Dakota. The outage was first reported around 10 p.m. local time. Service was restored around midnight, officials said.
In Texas, the City of Del Rio Police Department said the outage was because of “an outage with a major cellular carrier.” The department did not specify which cellular carrier was responsible.
Affected areas recommended that residents call non-emergency numbers amid the outage.
In Las Vegas, Nevada, officials said that 911 calls from landlines were not working, but that dispatchers could still see incoming calls. Dispatchers worked to call back numbers that dialed in, officials said on social media. According to Henderson County, Nevada officials, texts to the 911 number were coming through even when the phone line wasn’t working.
Hours before the 911 services were disrupted, ABC News released an article stating the Department of Homeland Security is concerned that emergency services are likely targets for cyberattacks.
LOOK:
https://t.co/wfLtlQaEo1 pic.twitter.com/9NHVcKjzVV
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) April 18, 2024
ABC News’s report stemmed from a bulletin the outlet obtained from the DHS that read, “Cybercriminal exploitation of data stolen during ransomware attacks against the Emergency Service Sector (ESS) likely poses a persistent criminal threat due to the exposure and availability of victims’ personal information.”
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Elon Musk on Tuesday blasted radical NPR CEO Katherine Maher after video emerged of Maher trashing the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
After having secured 99% of the US legacy media, Democrats in America today are outraged that their lies and half-truths are challenged by the American public and independent voices. Today’s Democrat believes they should be the arbiters of truth despite their insane ideas and completely fraudulent statements on news and current issues.
Katherine Maher is no different.
Maher described her disgust for the First Amendment to the Atlantic Council in a recent interview.
Katherine Maher: “The “the number one challenge” here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States which is a fairly robust protection of rights and a protection of rights for platforms that I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to actually regulate what content they want on their sites. But it also means that it’s a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does that information come from and some of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.
The video was posted by journalist Chris Rufo.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information" and "the influence peddlers" who spread it.
NPR's censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024
This follows reports of her other nasty statements about President Trump and crazy defense of violent protests.
The woman is a nut.
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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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As it stands, liberal Arizona voting laws have paved the way for non-citizens, whether they are legal or not, to register for and cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant Nick Kupper, who is one of several state legislature candidates vying for a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives’ District 25. While the voting laws do not affect his run for office, he is gravely concerned about the upcoming presidential race.
“In Arizona,” Kupper said, “even if the state can’t verify whether you’re a citizen, people can still assert that they are citizens.” While these individuals are not allowed to vote in Arizona elections, they can still vote in the federal election. “They can still vote for the president,” he explained.
In an April 16 post on X, Kupper pointed out that “In 2020 Biden got 73% of the federal only votes & Trump lost AZ by 10K votes. There are now over 32K federal only voters in AZ which would give Biden 15K more votes than Trump in 2024.”
In AZ you don’t have to be a citizen to vote for president. In 2020 Biden got 73% of the federal only votes & Trump lost AZ by 10K votes.
There are now over 32K federal only voters in AZ which would give Biden 15K more votes than Trump in 2024.
We need to follow… https://t.co/UBVkbgnlFu
— Nick Kupper (@kupper4arizona) April 16, 2024
“I think it’s pretty telling that the current president is allowing, enabling, and encouraging people to come across the border, as I’m sure he and his administration know that these kinds of rules are on the books in Arizona,” he said. “This has to change, because Arizona is a huge player in the federal election.”
In addition, Kupper said, “When censuses are being done, they’re not only counting the citizens of Arizona but also counting noncitizens and illegals.” He explained that anyone who lives in a home is included in the census. “This not only shapes voting districts in Arizona, but it can also count towards how many electoral votes can get apportioned to the state,” he pointed out. “And Democrat strongholds are the ones that tend to benefit the most from this.”
With that, Kupper said he considers any talk about illegal border crossings to be “multifaceted.” On the one hand, he recognizes a growing humanitarian concern for migrants who are risking their lives to “reach the land of opportunity.” Many are being exposed to dangerous cartels, smugglers, and traffickers in their quest to reach America.
And on the other hand, Kupper also recognizes there are thousands of bad actors and many deceived immigrants trying to do the same. These include drug smugglers, sex traffickers, terrorists, and more.
Whether they are legitimately seeking a new home or they are here for nefarious reasons, Kupper said, “Arizona has had enough illegal immigrants come across the border to equal eight percent of the state’s population.”
For Kupper, “this is an invasion.” He also pointed out that the Biden administration has done nothing to curb the massive flow of illegal immigration into the country. What’s more, many may be receiving flyers from a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Mexico, instructing them to vote for Joe Biden in the upcoming U.S. election. Meanwhile, other NGOs are providing the path to get here.
Here’s the translation of the last two sentences:
“Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States.
We need another four years of his mandate to stay.” https://t.co/rHNECRO5Un
— Nick Kupper (@kupper4arizona) April 16, 2024
“Encouraging them to come across the border to vote for Joe Biden isn’t all sunshine and roses,” he said. “It’s illegal in most circumstances, and many can’t find legitimate employment once they’re here, because they’re illegal,” he explained. “They’re being sold a bad bill of goods.”
And according to him, “Conservatives are getting the short end of the stick, [because] “Democrat policies are overtly hurting Republicans more than they are Democrats.” He explained, “statistically, people paying the most into the tax system for all the programs that enable illegal immigrants are Republicans.”
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A juror in former President Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial was excused from service after she admitted to concerns about her impartiality upon being officially sworn in by Judge Juan Merchan.
In a recent development inside the New York courtroom, a young nurse, one of the seven jurors who had been preliminarily selected to serve on the jury as of Tuesday, expressed her inability to remain unbiased, Time Magazine reported.
Her concerns were brought to light following inquiries from her friends and family who suspected her role as a juror based on media reports.
“Yesterday alone, I had friends and family push things to me,” she revealed to the court. Expressing a stark acknowledgment of her compromised position, she stated, “I don’t think at this point that I can be fair and unbiased.”
In response to this incident, Judge Merchan lambasted the mainstream media for excessive exposure of juror information. He announced that potential jurors’ places of employment would be removed from the public record and instructed members of the media to refrain from describing jurors’ appearances.
BREAKING: Trump juror sworn in by Judge Merchon comes clean and admits she will **NOT** be fair and impartial. pic.twitter.com/PCiIpkWNoT
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 18, 2024
The day’s proceedings also saw the prosecutors express concerns about another juror, identified through a separate investigation potentially related to a 1990s corruption case. This revelation led to a delay in decision-making regarding the juror’s future participation until they could be questioned directly, CBS News reported.
According to the news outlet, the search for impartial jurors continued on Thursday with a fresh pool of 96 Manhattan residents entering the courtroom. A significant number of these potential jurors, 48 in total, were immediately excused after admitting to biases against the former president. An additional nine were dismissed for undisclosed reasons.
Each side in the case is allowed 10 peremptory challenges, enabling them to excuse a potential juror without explanation, and there are an unlimited number of “for cause” challenges, which call for a person to be excused if there’s a clear conflict. The judge must sign off on the latter.
With a new batch of 96 Manhattanites being considered Thursday, each side has four peremptory challenges remaining. They will also have five more peremptory challenges when choosing the six alternates.
It can be recalled on Monday, one potential juror was brought in for questioning after Trump’s lawyers discovered she posted a pro-Biden celebratory video in 2020.
“You had to get in the car to spread the honking cheer. It’s a full-on dance party on 96th street,” the potential juror’s caption read, according to Trump attorney Todd Blanche.
President Trump was allegedly gesturing and ‘audibly speaking in the direction of the potential juror’ while she was being questioned about her pro-Biden social media post.
Judge Merchan accused Trump of intimidating the juror.
“I won’t tolerate that. I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom. I want to make that crystal clear,” Judge Merchan said.
The left-wing, pro-Biden juror claimed she is capable of being impartial.
“I very, very strongly believe that regardless of my thoughts about anyone or anything political, feelings or convictions, that the job of a juror is to understand the facts of a trial and to be the judge of those facts,” the juror said, according to CNN.
Judge Merchan said the left-wing juror gave “reasonable explanations” for the pro-Biden Facebook videos and rejected a request from Trump’s attorneys to dismiss her from the jury pool.
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The Joe Biden administration from Hell has a horrible track record with a number of mistakes that are simply unprecedented in number, scope, and gravity.
And its foreign policy is no exception. Everywhere we look, the US is engaging the wrong players for all the wrong reasons.
Take Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, for instance.
A socialist dictator, charged by the U.S. Justice Department with ‘narco-terrorism,’ drug trafficking, money laundering, and corruption.
He conspired with a faction of the Colombian Farc rebel group to flood the United States with cocaine and use drugs as a weapon against American communities. As a result the U.S. government has offered a $15 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.
Lovely fellow, right? Oh, and before I forget – the guy who is vowing to invade its neighbor Guyana and occupy TWO-THIRDS of their oil-rich territory.
So, of course, this is a political player that old Joe Biden chooses to engage for all the wrong reasons and lift some of the Donald Trump-imposed sanctions on the ‘fugitive’.
To no one’s surprise, Maduro did not fulfill his end of the agreed bargain, and now the moronic Biden administration says it will not renew a license – set to expire early on tomorrow (18) – that had considerably eased Venezuela’s oil sanctions.
The move to reimpose punitive measures is a response to Maduro’s failure in the election commitments that he never really meant to meet.
US Treasury Department has issued a replacement license allowing companies 45 days to ‘wind down’ their business and transactions in Venezuela’s oil and gas sector.
Reuters reported:
“Washington had repeatedly threatened in recent months to reinstate energy sanctions unless Maduro made good on his promises that led to partial U.S. sanctions relief from October, following an election deal reached between the government and the Venezuelan opposition.”
The sweeping sanctions imposed by the Trump administration in 2019 were a reaction to Maduro’s sham re-election.
“While Maduro has met some commitments under last year’s deal, he has failed to meet others, including allowing the opposition to run the candidate of its choice against him in the July 28 presidential election, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.”
Read: Communist Maduro Tricks Joe Biden – Once Again Rigs Elections in Venezuela
The current six-month general license will expire without renewal just after midnight, according to State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
“‘We are concerned that Maduro and his representatives prevented the democratic opposition from registering the candidate of their choice, harassed and intimidated political opponents, and unjustly detained numerous political actors and members of civil society’, Miller said in a statement.”
Top U.S. concern about Venezuela’s electoral conditions is the crackdown on Maduro’s political opponents, especially the election ban on popular opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado.
Read more:
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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
(@merissahamilton) March 30, 2024
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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Members of the Biden administration have a nickname for Donald Trump and it is as pathetic and unoriginal as it gets.
According to Politico’s West Wing playbook, some Biden aides are referring to Trump as “Hitler Pig,” although this is generally confined to younger members of the regime:
That moniker, four people in Biden’s orbit told West Wing Playbook, is one that aides to and allies of the president — generally younger, more digitally native individuals, not senior staffers, one person clarified — frequently use to describe Trump.
A Google search of the term brings up various images (search at your own risk) depicting the former president as, well, a pig. With a swastika armband. That suggests the characterization started online and was adopted later by people in the president’s orbit.
The report continues:
According to the four people who were granted anonymity to speak to West Wing Playbook about the term’s usage in Biden world, it started in late 2022 after Trump invited NICK FUENTES, an avowed white nationalist and Holocaust denier, to dinner at Mar-a-Lago along with the rapper KANYE WEST.
Calling Trump “Hitler Pig” is not so much an attempt to inject some levity into private conversations as it is a way to characterize what Biden aides see as one of Trump’s most outrageous behavior patterns, the four people all said.
Biden, meanwhile, is said to be “far saltier behind closed doors” when discussing his precedessor, although tries (and often fails) to keep his grievances out of the public eye.
The Trump campaign responded to the report by pointing out Biden’s emphasis on so-called “decency.”
“Joe Biden talks a lot about decency, but he and his staff don’t have a decent bone in their bodies,” said Brian Hughes, a senior campaign adviser. “These ridiculous and gross comments reflect the failure and dishonesty of the entire Biden operation.”
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Remember X’s Musk versus Brazilian Justice Moraes? What began as a online skirmish has developed into a big international legal war with real geopolitical repercussions.
A flurry of activity is ongoing not only online, but ‘in real life’ too, both in the Brazilian executive and Judiciary.
So many things have happened, that this article merits a list of topics to begin with:
Brazilian press reveal that Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ‘authorized’ (that’s how they put it) the Federal Police to question social network X’s Brazilian legal team.
Moraes ‘granted a request’ made by the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR) to ridiculously include Elon Musk in the inquiry into ‘digital militias’.
It’s a measure of Justice Moraes unbridled power that he does the things he wants to do as if ‘provoked’ by other instances of government of the Republic.
And if you are wondering what the hell ‘digital militias’ even are, that’s just the ridiculous local Brazilian catch-phrase to criminalize free speech.
The leftist state apparatus didn’t like how well Conservative Brazilians connect and organize themselves online, so they are trying to find a way to better curtail that.
In the middle of this process, Musk has fallen down like a meteor fundamentally changing the equation.
Form Justice Moraes’ order:
“In order for the PGR to better evaluate the situation under investigation in [the inquiry into ‘digital militias’], the requested measures [questioning of X’s local team] must be granted, since they are in accordance with the investigation determined for the purpose of opening the Inquiry, which aims to investigate the conduct of Elon Musk, owner and CEO of the the social network provider X.”
While Moraes flexes his unelected tyrannical powers, the actual guy who was supposed to be President, Lula da Silva, is floundering in the polls with an unpopular and ineffective government.
So Lula decided to attend a dinner at the home of Supreme Court ministers to ‘define strategies against the growing narrative of censorship on the Brazilian internet’.
Translation: he needs help to mask the rapidly worsening political environment.
Lula da Silva went to the home of Justice Gilmar Mendes in Brasília for a closed dinner with fellow justices Cristiano Zanin (Lula’s former personal criminal lawyer), Flávio Dino (Lula’s former Justice Minister), and – of course – his royal highness Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
More than a simple political gesture towards the Justices, Lula engaged in a discussion on ‘the new wave of attacks’ on the Court.
They all agreed that the ‘institutional attacks on the Judiciary’ (a.k.a. free speech) haven’t cooled down since January 8, 2022, but – on the contrary – are currently gaining ever-increasing traction thanks to the international audience informed by billionaire Elon Musk.
So they are going all out in their objective to ‘regulate social media’ – a.k.a. censorship.
Next thing you know, Alexandre de Moraes made a rare visit to the Brazilian Senate to advocate online regulation.
While it’s a worrying development, it bears mentioning that Lula’s government usually doesn’t have the votes to approve any major bills.
Elon Musk, on X, commented on this visit: “Power to the people!”
Read more:
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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.”
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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.
Dr. Phil McGraw has urged people to plan their resistance against the next time the government attempts to lock down the civilian population.
Addressing the audience on his eponymous show, McGraw explained how he had been demonized for his stance against the tyrannical COVID lockdowns but has since been proven right.
Now, McGraw is urging people to prepare for the next time governments attempt to shut the schools and place an entire population under house arrest:
When I stepped up in the beginning and said this lockdown is going to create more problems with quality of life than COVID is going to do with taking lives — people looked at me like I was insane. I got criticized, called a heretic, they said ‘what is he talking about.’ I’ll tell you what I was talking about, I was talking about exactly what happened and is happening.
When you shut down the schools, the day you shut them down, you better have a plan for reopening them. I didn’t see a plan for them to be reopened. And we have an entire generation that is suffering from developmental gaps, educational gaps, mental and emotional challenges and still there’s not a good plan to close those gaps.
And my concern is when the next pandemic turns the corner, who’s got the plan then…we need to think about whether we’re going to rely on science and how we’re going to react when the government comes in and starts telling us what we can and can’t do. I think we need less government, I think if they would step back, we tend to have a way to work these things out.”
We can’t just move on and forget about the disaster of school closures. Otherwise it will happen again and innocent children will suffer even more. We need more people like Dr. Phil who push for accountability and put the needs of children first:
“When I stepped up in the… pic.twitter.com/sKbsW2ojIu
— Nicki Neily (@nickineily) April 17, 2024
While he has not yet come out as a conservative or a Republican, McGraw has recently been talking sense on a variety of issues.
Among his criticisms have been the racist Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda, transgender surgeries on vulnerable children, Joe Biden’s open border and the widespread support for Hamas across America’s universities.
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Senator Catherine Cortez Masto declined the opportunity to impeach the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, for his failure to secure the southern border while an illegal alien languishes in custody over the killing of one of her senior advisers.
Posting on the X platform, Cortez Masto described efforts to impeach Mayorkas as a “waste of time”:
There is no evidence that [Secretary Mayorkas] committed high crimes and misdemeanors, so I voted to end this waste of time. Republicans could have made real policy changes, but they decided to play games and killed the bipartisan border package in favor of this frivolous impeachment.
Impeachment is not a tool to iron out policy disagreements. If Republicans were serious about actual solutions, they’d vote for the bipartisan border package — but they’re not.
Her comments came just days after an illegal alien was arrested in connection with the death of Kurt Englehart, who was working as a senior advisor to Cortez Masto.
Impeachment is not a tool to iron out policy disagreements. If Republicans were serious about actual solutions, they’d vote for the bipartisan border package — but they’re not.
— Senator Cortez Masto (@SenCortezMasto) April 17, 2024
Reno Gazette-Journal (RGJ) reports:
Elmer Rueda-Linares was in a two-vehicle crash about 4:30 a.m. April 6 at Kietzke and Peckham lanes that killed Kurt Englehart, state senior adviser to Cortez Masto, a Democrat.
On April 8, federal officers placed an immigration detainer — or “ICE hold”— on Rueda-Linares, who is being held at Washoe County Jail, the Department of Homeland Security told the RGJ in a statement Tuesday.
The initial charge against Rueda-Linares of felony hit-and-run has been changed to failing to stop at the scene of an accident, according to the sheriff’s office. He is being held on $100,000 bail.
As well as refusing to even consider the impeachment Mayorkas, Cortez Masto has repeatedly insisted that there is no open border policy between the U.S. and Mexico, despite the invasion of more than 10 million illegals since Joe Biden seized office in January 2021.
BREAKING
On April 6th, Kurt Englehart, an advisor to Sen. Cortez Masto (D), was tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident caused by illegal immigrant, Elmer Rueda-Linares.*TWO DAYS* before Rueda-Linares illegally entered the U.S. on March 12, 2021, Cortez Masto claimed… pic.twitter.com/LzknjbRJRB
— Courtney Holland (@hollandcourtney) April 17, 2024
Unfortunately, Cortez-Masto has another four and a half years to run on her current Senate term, having narrowly defeated Republican Adam Laxalt in November following a series of late ballot dumps days after the election had taken place.
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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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Former AG Bill Barr told the FOX News audience on Wednesday that he is going to vote for President Trump in the 2024 election.
Bill Barr said there were two bad choices and he will vote Republican – That the continuation of the Biden agenda is “national suicide.”
Bill Barr: ‘The real threat to liberty, the real threat to our system of liberty are the excesses of the progressive left. They’re perverting the system of justice and that’s where the danger lies. The corruption and subversion of our institutions by the left… I said all along, given two bad choices I think it’s my duty to pick the person who I think will do the least harm to the country. In my mind I will vote the Republican ticket. I think the real danger to the country and real danger to democracy is I say the progressive agenda… Continuation of the Biden agenda is national suicide.”
Via Dinesh DSouza.
Bill Barr on why the New York hush money case is a bunch of nonsense, and why he’s voting for Trump in November. Now this is a surprise! pic.twitter.com/3TK5ddHSkf
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 17, 2024
Bill Barr wants you to forget what he did to ensure Joe Biden was declared the winner in 2020.
In 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray worked together to seal the deal for Joe Biden. They were in on it.
Bill Barr and Chris Wray were active participants in the massive criminal fraud of the 2020 election.
The massive ballot registration fraud by GBI Strategies – a Democrat-funded operation – in Michigan and every battleground state.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, in August 2023, CONFIRMED that 8,000 to 10,000 suspected fraudulent ballot registrations were delivered to the Muskegon, Michigan, City Clerk prior to the 2020 election.
The Gateway Pundit and our contacts in Michigan released the original report earlier in the week. This report and investigation was buried for three years.
Our reporting was based on a redacted police report describing how hero Muskegon City Clerk Meisch encountered a woman dropping off 8,000 – 10,000 completed voter registration applications. Meisch found this unusual since the voting population in Muskegon at the time was around 30,000 individuals so she immediately reported this to authorities. The Gateway Pundit reported that the “registrations included the same handwriting, non-existent addresses, and incorrect phone numbers.”
An investigation found that the woman who turned in the fraudulent ballot registrations worked for GBI Strategies, a Democrat-funded group with operations across the state.
GBI Strategies was funded by dark money super PAC ‘BlackPAC,’ who paid them $11,254,919 to register voters for Joe Biden.
The Gateway Pundit reported that during the investigation, the police found guns, burner phones, pre-paid cash cards, and incomplete registrations at a defunct eyeglass store where GBI Strategies had set up operations in the state. GBI was operating in several locations around the state.
Here is the EXPLOSIVE report by The Gateway Pundit published last fall.
We now know that the investigation was sent to the FBI, where it died a slow death. When The Gateway Pundit released our report in August 2023, Attorney General Nessel announced days later, after her original silence, that she would send it to the FBI – again.
It should be noted that NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON was arrested for this massive multi-state ballot registration fraud involving THOUSANDS of fake registrations!
The #DetroitLeaks Tapes: Democrats in Michigan were caught on audio training poll workers in Detroit to commit voter fraud in a variety of ways.
The #DetroitLeaks reports revealed that Detroit poll workers who were trained in how to lie, trained on how to handle ballot challenges from Trump supporters, told to call 911 on any challengers, and to use COVID as an excuse to deny poll challengers access to view the ballots as they were being counted and tabulated.
Here’s the #DetroitLeaks video that was captured by an undercover conservative reporter during a training session prior to the 2020 election.
The series of leaks also revealed that even challenged ballots would be processed as regular ballots. Incoming State Representative Steve Carra and Michigan activist Bob Cushman filed a successful lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over the explosive allegations that poll workers were being trained in how to commit voter fraud.
This report was banned from YouTube, Twitter, and other social media platforms. It was too explosive. Democrats were caught redhanded training poll workers how to cheat in the 2020 election for Joe Biden.
Multiple independent witnesses have approached the Gateway Pundit and confirmed that the predictions from #DetroitLeaks were accurate and that the counting of ballots for Wayne County/Detroit at the TCF Center (aka Cobo Hall) was by poll workers who refused challenges from GOP poll challengers, used COVID as an excuse to deny access to review the process, tabulated challenged illegal ballots, and fulfilled this voter fraud prophecy.
Bill Barr and Chris Wray did nothing to investigate these planned and coordinated voter fraud training sessions. The Gateway Pundit believes similar actions may have been used in other states.
On Election night in November 2020, President Trump was soundly defeating Joe Biden. Trump was crushing Joe Biden in the battleground states.
Then, something took place that Americans had never experienced in over 200 years of its existence. News broke that the battleground states were going to quit counting votes for the night. This had NEVER taken place in US history.
AMUSE reposted this video compilation.
On election night, President Trump went out to speak to supporters. He had won the election. But then suddenly, the battleground states announced they had stopped counting. President Trump told his supporters, “This is a fraud. This is an embarrassment to our country.”
Overnight, Democrats dumped hundreds of thousands of mysterious votes for Joe Biden into the battleground states. There was collusion. Four days later, even Pennsylvania, where they locked the doors on the counting rooms and prevented Republican observers from entering, had gone to Joe Biden. Trump was ahead in the state by nearly 800,000 votes on Election night!
This was classic election fraud. The entire country knew it then and knows it now. The pretenders in the fake news immediately started pushing the notion that Joe Biden, who never held an honest rally the entire election season, had captured 81 million votes. It was the greatest crime in US history.
So what happened? And who made the call to the swing states to quit counting?
We will never know because Chris Wray from the FBI and AG Bill Barr never investigated this criminal act.
Today, we are starting to understand Attorney General Bill Barr‘s role in this historic criminal act.
The FBI knew Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell was authentic in 2019 but lied to social media companies so the story would be censored during the 2020 election to help Joe Biden.
The House Ways and Means Committee reported in 2023:
In October 2019, the FBI became aware that a repair shop had a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden and that the laptop might contain evidence of a crime. The FBI verified its authenticity in November of 2019 by matching the device number against Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud ID.
According to testimony from Laura Dehmlow, the Section Chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), the FBI deliberately lied to social media companies about the authenticity of Hunter’s laptop to protect Joe Biden.
In the nine months leading up to the 2020 election, the FBI met over 30 times with social media platforms — all while in possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
In one of the meetings, somebody from Twitter essentially asked whether the laptop was real.
“One of the FBI folks who was on the call did confirm that, “yes, it was,” before another participant jumped in and said, “no further comment,” Dehmlow said.
There it is.
BIG BREAKING NEWS
Testimony reveals the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic, but when asked by a social media company about the laptop’s authenticity the FBI said “no further comment.”
The rest is history. pic.twitter.com/LzjS5cSBS6
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) July 20, 2023
Fifty-one top intel officials also lied about the laptop from hell.
Chris Wray and Bill Barr hid this from the American public, knowing it could sway the election and put a quick end to President Trump’s bogus first impeachment. No one has faced any disciplinary action for this major fraud perpetrated on the American public.
In June 2022, former AG Bill Barr laughed hysterically when he was asked about the evidence of voter fraud presented by “2000 Mules” during his pre-recorded testimony at the Jan 6 show trial.
“Uh, the election was not stolen by fraud. And I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the ‘2000 Mules’ movie,” Barr said as he laughed hysterically.
Barr cited the lack of photographic evidence. And then mocked the geo-tracking cell phone data.
Clearly, Bill Barr has no idea how geo-tracking works or about the precision of the data obtained by the True the Vote investigators.
The Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up, with the help of the investigative team at Mc4EI, released several videos showing individuals jamming multiple ballots into drop Detroit, Michigan boxes as well as two close-up videos of individuals who appear to be signing the envelopes of other people’s ballots during the 2020 election. This footage was obtained by The Gateway Pundit.
Here is one of the videos we released of ballot box stuffing in Detroit.
In the video below, a man dressed in street clothes exits the front passenger seat of a postal worker’s truck and stuffs a stack of ballots into the absentee ballot drop box in Detroit. In a second video taken on the same day, the same man exits the passenger side of the USPS truck and delivers an even larger stack of ballots into the slot of the drop box. In this video, you can clearly see he is recording the drop on his cell phone in his left hand.
This one’s for you, Bill Barr…
Watch:
On October 29, a US Postal worker can be seen making four trips to the Liberty Center satellite voting center in Detroit. The final trip was made in a private vehicle. Although the people making the deliveries are not the same, the number on the front of the US Post Office vehicle is the same!
On April 20, Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit and Patty McMurray of 100 Percent Fed Up interviewed Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips to ask about the incredible work they did to uncover a massive coordinated criminal ring that was spread across several critical swing states Trump won in 2016, but curiously, lost in 2020.
Thanks to the hard work and commitment of the Michigan Citizens For Election Integrity (MC4EI) and their team, who poured over hours of dropbox footage, the Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up were able to provide footage from the drop boxes in Detroit to True the Vote to be used in the “2000 Mules” movie.
Bill Barr scoffed at this likely criminal act. Chris Wray ignored it.
Election fraud whistleblowers came forward in December 2020 following the controversial election, including one who witnessed the shipping of an estimated 144,000-288,000 completed ballots across three state lines on October 21, 2020.
The information was made public at a press conference by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a national constitutional litigation organization.
The Amistad Project said at the time that they had sworn declarations that over 300,000 ballots were issued in Arizona, 548,000 in Michigan, 204,000 in Georgia, and over 121,000 in Pennsylvania.
They said that their evidence reveals multi-state illegal efforts by USPS workers to influence the election in at least three of six swing states.
The whistleblower statements included potentially hundreds of thousands of completed absentee ballots being transported across three state lines and a trailer filled with ballots disappearing in Pennsylvania.
Attorney Phil Kline said, “130,000 to 280,000 completed ballots for the 2020 general election were shipped from Bethpage, NY, to Lancaster, PA, where those ballots and the trailer in which they were shipped disappeared.”
Truck driver Jesse Morgan was present at the press conference and spoke for 9 minutes about his unbelievable ordeal. Morgan was tasked with delivering completed ballots to Pennsylvania from New York State.
The Gateway Pundit later discovered that rather than investigate this massive alleged crime, US Attorney General Bill Barr called up investigator Tony Shaffer and KILLED the investigation! He never lifted a finger to investigate this enormous act of election fraud!
In June 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that the United States Postal Service investigated the allegations by the truck drivers – but they would NOT release their report.
The American Thinker reported in 2023 that the USPS finally released their report on the accusations of truck drivers hauling completed ballots across state lines into Pennsylvania before election day!
The Post Office Inspector General (OIG) acknowledged that a contractor in Rochester, New York, printed 650,000 general election ballots that went to Pennsylvania. Of the total, 450,000 went to Philadelphia County, and 200,000 went to Chester County.
Jesse Morgan was exonerated. No wonder they hid this for over a year!
The USPS was running ballots!
Rather than investigate this massive criminal act, Bill Barr screamed at investigator Tony Shaffer for looking into the USPS ballot trafficking scandal and FBI agents working for Chris Wray harassed the whistleblowers!
As reported in December 2023 – Chris Wray’s FBI, along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, released a report in June 2023 where they announced that they “did not uncover any violations” during their investigation of the late-night ballot counting at The State Farm Center in Atlanta, Georgia on Election Day November 3, 2020.
According to the report, “Teams of investigators from the FBI, GBI, and Georgia SOS conducted independent and simultaneous interviews of Fulton County elections workers who were involved in the processing and scanning of absentee ballots at State Farm Arena on Election Night on November 3, 2020.
Investigators from the three law enforcement agencies also reviewed the entire unedited security video footage of the events in question at State Farm Arena. SOS investigators independently interviewed party observers who were present at State Farm Arena that evening.”
They say they did not uncover any violations or evidence of wrongdoing. That’s because they hid it from their report.
The interviews for this investigation took place back in December 2020, following the November 2020 election.
According to the FBI-GBI report, the “bulk of the investigation appears to have been conducted in December 2020 and January 2021, but both the State Election Board and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office was backed up reviewing claims.”
Again, the report was just released in June 2023 by Chris Wray’s FBI and the GBI in Georgia – along with Georgia SOS Brad Raffensperger. It appears that there was no new information in the report other than what was known in December 2020, so it begs the question – Why did it take three years for Chris Wray’s FBI to release the report?
Several election officials went back to the State Farm Arena, and they began counting ballots late at night without observers present. According to the Georgia Republican Party at the time, this was unlawful activity.
Joe Hoft, who is a contributor at The Gateway Pundit, first released video at the time exposing election workers at the State Farm Center on Election night shoving stacks of ballots through the machines multiple times late at night without any election observers in the room.
In one instance, the stack of ballots was fed through one machine three times by operator Ruby Freeman, and that same stack of ballots was then fed through another machine by-election worker Ralph Jones. The same stack of ballots went through the machines at least four times!
Here again, is a video of the election workers pulling hidden ballots out from under a draped table, jamming the ballots through the machines multiple times.
It should be noted that this was not just happening at one table but at multiple tables.
Watch:
Following the 2020 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani and The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and Joe Hoft were sued by two election workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Shae Moss, her daughter. The two women claim that they were threatened after Rudy Giuliani, Jim, and Joe reported on their illicit activities late at night on November 3, 2020.
The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft discussed the case with a very prominent attorney in December 2023. We were advised to review the report released in June by Chris Wray’s FBI, GBI, and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
And what we found was clear-cut dishonesty by Chris Wray’s FBI and Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger.
Chris Wray’s FBI, the GBI, and GA SOS interviewed the individual who created the fake Ruby Freeman social media page and published totally fabricated posts that allegedly were put up by Ruby Freeman.
(For the record, The Gateway Pundit did not post these social media reports at the time because they were completely over the top. We knew they were likely fake.)
Here is what is interesting: The FBI interviewed the “man” who created the fake Ruby Freeman account, but they NEVER named him in the report. His name was redacted for some reason?
From the report:
“He created the @rubyfreeman Georgia account but did not write the specific post regarding tampering with the 2020 election,” according to the FBI report.
“On December 4, 2020, he came across Instagram user “@[redacted] who posted the supposed confession by Freeman. Shortly thereafter, @[redacted] changed their account name to @rubyfreeman_georgia. That account holder subsequently changed the account name to “rubyfreeman_georgia. The account was later made private, and then deleted. [redacted] created a new @rubyfreeman_georgia account and described his account as being a fake or parody account.”
FBI report page 9
The FBI did not arrest the man, as far as we know. Why not?
Who is this man? Why was his name redacted?
Why was the second man’s name redacted? Why was the second man not arrested?
The “Investigative Findings” or conclusion of the FBI, GBI, and GA SOS report omits the most important accusations!
The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that the election workers, Ruby Freeman, Shae Moss, Ralph Jones, and others, were shoving stacks of ballots through the machines numerous times. There is a video of Ruby taking a stack of ballots and shoving the ballots through the machines three times! There is a video of Ralph shoving that same stack of ballots through his machine after they were fed through Ruby’s machine.
There is also proof that Ruby was operating the machine despite not being qualified to operate it! How is that legal?.
After a three-year investigation — Chris Wray and the FBI DO NOT EVEN MENTION THIS in their Investigative findings.
The FBI DID NOT include one word in their conclusion on the numerous election workers double and triple feeding ballots through the voting machines late at night after the election observers were sent home!
The FBI omitted any mention of the most important evidence of a crime in their report!
It is clear from their actions that the FBI was in on the cover-up.
And now they got caught.
They don’t even mention that the ballots were fed through the machines numerous times!
They are lying by omission.
Throughout the 2020 election and its aftermath, it was obvious that Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray were not going to lift a finger to protect the integrity of US elections.
We saw it when Bill Barr shut down the USPS ballot scandal.
We saw it when the DOJ-FBi allowed GOP observers to be locked out of the counting rooms in the battleground states.
We saw it when Bill Barr mocked the presence of ballot mules dropping dozens of ballots in unguarded ballot drop boxes.
We saw it when there was no investigation of the mysterious late-night ballot drops.
We saw it when they ignored the curious drop-and-roll method used in the swing states.
We saw it when the battleground states all announced they were shutting down their counting for the night on election night for the first time in history.
And now we see it in this completely disingenuous report by the FBI on the State Farm Center ballot stuffing operation.
Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray covered-up the most glaring evidence of election fraud in 2020 – the State Farm Center late-night ballot stuffing scandal. Wray and Barr published a dishonest report and lied to the American public.
This is just a partial list of Bill Barr and Chris Wray’s actions before, during and after the 2020 election.
Bill Barr played a major role in the scheme to remove President Trump by any means necessary.
Now he warns that another Biden term will destroy America.
Thanks to you, Bill Barr. Thanks to you!
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The egregious overcharging and sentencing of January 6th Political Hostages continues to happen daily, over three years later.
53-year-old Jeffery Sabol has spent 3+ years locked up for that day. He was sentenced at the end of March to 63 months (about 5 and 1/4 years), 3 years probation, and over $32,000 in fines and restitution. Sabol, a Geophysicist, is from Colorado. He is a devoted father, son, and partner to his beautiful fiancé.
Sabol has been a friend to many, and probably the most liked and respected guy in the DC Gulag. He has always provided hope, great “Dad” jokes, and advice to those detained in the Gulag as well as to the thousands that tune into the Freedom Corner Vigil. For over 620 nights, www.4Ashli.com has held a vigil outside the DC Gulag. The Hostages get to call in and talk to the world via livestream. Every night over the last year, Jeff would be the last phone call of the night and conduct the “J6 choir” in the National Anthem and then wrap up the call with news of the day.
Sabol has asked that the readers of the Gateway Pundit see the allocution he provided to his judge, U.S. District Judge, Rudolph Contreras. He has also provided two video exhibits that he’d like you to see as well. While you read and watch all of this, Jeff is enduring a dose of “Diesel Therapy” provided by the Bureau of Prisons and the US Marshals. He has recently been removed from the DC Gulag after 3+ years, and he, along with his family and friends, will know where he’s going when he gets there. For now, he remains strong and has faith that all of this will turn around in the not-too-distant future.
This written allocution is from Jeffrey Sabol and contains the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, so help me, God.
Your Honor, Thank You for accepting my written allocution. This allocution contains 8
points.Point 1: I take Full Responsibility for my actions.
Point 2: Please allow me to set the record straight in regard to two items that were
discussed by my previous lawyer during my initial bond hearing that was approximately
three years ago. *A) I do not recall telling my previous lawyer that I thought that the 2020 election was not
stolen.B) It is true that my vocation was to use geophysics to locate buried unexploded ordnance (UXO). It is also true that (at times) I have excavated UXO; however, my previous lawyer misspoke when he said that I disarm/diffuse them. This I do not do.
Point 3: Please forgive my indulgence in defining two terms before moving forward. *
Allocution is defined as, “In a criminal procedure, allocution usually refers to the statement of a defendant, made following conviction, and is made prior to sentence. It is the defendant’s opportunity to offer mitigating argument.” * Mitigation is defined as “to make less severe”.
Please help Jeff here.
Point 4: Below is an excerpt from Mr. Tucker Carlson’s interview of Congressman Clay
Higgins that was conducted on January 6, 2024.Mr. Higgins: “I’m following the evidence and to my end it implicates our FBI, the highest level, and a conspiracy within our government at the highest level to create, to set the stage, for a compromised election cycle in 2020 and then the actions that took place on January 4, 5, 6; and then the criminal investigation, arrest, and prosecution, of Americans that they were able to entrap and document with the thousands of cameras that were operating that day. They used that evidence that they knew they were setting up to investigate, arrest, and prosecute the Americans that they had entrapped.”
* Please note that the text above is from a United States Congressman. I humbly offer this quote as a mitigating argument to support the claim that nefarious elements of a potential Federal nature may have been involved that then had an impact on my actions on January 6. On January 6 I initially followed those that instigated, agitated, and motivated the crowd and as such I became engaged in the situation. I was wrong to follow and to get engaged. For that I apologize.
Point 5: The 1512 charge is titled: Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.
Section c2 of this charge is defined as relating to whoever corruptly obstructs,
influences, or impedes any official proceeding or attempts to do so. * per U.S. v Throckmorton (98 U.S. 61 25 L. Ed. 93 – 1878), “There is no question of the general doctrine that fraud vitiates the most solemn contracts, documents, and even judgements.”Additionally, Gorman v Johnson (46 Ind App. 672, 91 N.E. 971 (Ind App. 1910)), “It is elemental that fraud vitiates all that it touches…” [Vitiates is defined as: legally ineffective; to invalidate] Exhibits 1 and 2 contain evidence that supports that the 2020 election was rife with fraud. I readily admit that this evidence is currently unsubstantiated in a court of law. My mitigating argument for the 1512 c2 charge is that although I am guilty of disrupting an official proceeding; per Exhibits 1 and 2 (and the case law provided above), there is mounting evidence that this was not a valid official proceeding. *
Note that Exhibit F is 281 pages in length and is titled: “The Fingerprints of Fraud”. This document can be found at http://fingerprintsoffraud.com. *
Note that Exhibit G is 32 pages in length and is Titled “Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020
Presidential Election in the Swing States.”** Please help Jeff Sabol here.
Point 6: In regards to the 2111 charge of robbery in which I was guilty of robbing Officer AW of his baton, Exhibit H (long video) shows that there were multiple bodies on the ground in front of officer AW. My mitigating argument for this charge is that upon seeing bodies on the ground my reflex was to remove the object that I believed was the cause.
Please note that I show no intent to engage with officer AW after the baton is removed. *
Point 7: In regards to the 111B charge in which I was found guilty of assault with a dangerous or deadly weapon on Officer BM, my mitigating arguments are (per Exhibit H):
A) My intent was to help someone pull a body away from the chaos that existed at the tunnel entrance.
B) From my initial angle there is no way that I could know that this was an officer until he was already moving down the stairs.
C) The video shows that I exhibit no malice towards officer BM once he is at the bottom of the stairs.
Please note that I immediately then go to my left to help someone who is unconscious. In the span
of approximately 20 seconds, my mindset was: remove baton, assist with moving person from tunnel entrance, help unconscious person.Point 8: Please note that the intent of this allocution is not to negate my guilt, nor to
negate any acceptance of responsibility. Per the definition of an allocution, the intent of
this written allocution (and Exhibits) is to solely offer mitigating arguments.Thank You Your Honor.
Very Respectfully,
Jeffrey SabolWhat you just read was my written allocution that my lawyer submitted to my judge (along with 2 videos) just prior to my sentencing. On March 21, I was sentenced to 63 months for robbing an officer of a baton, assaulting an officer with a dangerous and deadly weapon; and disruption of an official proceeding.
Please watch the 2 videos and you decide if my actions warrant a 5 ¼ year sentence.
On a different but related topic, I need your help.
Prior to my incarceration, I prided myself on never missing an alimony or child support payment. My alimony payment ended 7 years ago, but my child support payments continued (even though I had 50% custody).
During the past 38 months that I have already been incarcerated (While I awaited sentencing), I have paid a total of $19,000 in child support, all of which came from my GiveSendGo account.
To be blunt, I will not be able to continue to pay child support unless I have your help. I am not asking for a handout; I am asking for your help in supporting my daughter when I can’t.
Please help Jeff here.
Thank you.
God Bless You –and- God Bless America
Jeffrey Sabol
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Two major banks have closed the accounts of conservative attorney John Eastman in retaliation for his advocacy against Democratic election fraud.
The Daily Caller reports that Eastman, who was recently disbarred by a left-wing judge in California over his efforts to expose massive fraud that marred the 2020 presidential election, had bank accounts with Bank of America and USAA closed without warning.
Eastman confirmed that he had already moved most of his money from Bank of America to USAA over concerns that the former was involved in leftist advocacy. Both of these accounts are federally insured and received massive taxpayer bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis.
Yet despite their links to the federal government, Eastman revealed that both of his accounts were closed within the space of two months.
The Daily Caller explained:
Bank of America alerted Eastman in September of 2023 that it would be closing his accounts, a letter obtained by the Daily Caller shows. Shortly thereafter, USAA notified Eastman in November that his two bank accounts with the company would be closed, a separate letter shows.
“And then two months later, we get a similar letter from USAA saying that they’ve decided that they’re going to close your account and they did like three weeks later,” Eastman told the Daily Caller. “And so that was where all of our automatic payments were coming out of, all our automatic deposits. So it was a real pain to shift everything. We had to get a new bank account opened and shift everything over.”
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Eastman told the Daily Caller he was using the accounts he had set up with Bank of America and USAA for personal finances. He and his wife qualified for USAA bank accounts because his father-in-law served in the Navy in WWII and in the Marines in the Korean War, the attorney told the Daily Caller.
“We had Bank of America accounts for about 40 years. But just because of their wokeness we kind of quit a couple of years ago, using them much. They’ve got physical locations and therefore easy ATM, so we kept our accounts there, but we didn’t use much. And about four or five years ago, we opened USAA bank accounts and we were using those as our primaries,” Eastman said.
As extensively reported by The Gateway Pundit, debanking has become one of the left’s favorite methods of going after their opponents. In 2021, this very publication was unceremoniously banned from PayPal, despite never violating its terms of service.
Over in the U.K., Brexit leader Nigel Farage also found that he was being denied accounts by major banks. After campaigning on the issue, he received an apology from Natwest (of which the British government is a major shareholder) and eventually forced the resignation resignation of its CEO Dame Alison Rose.
When individuals or organizations lose access to bank accounts, many of them lose large amounts of revenue and must find alternative methods of banking within a short space of time.
Just this week, over dozen Republican Attorney Generals sent a letter to raising concerns about how they were actively targeting the accounts of conservative or anti-establishment entities.
“Your discriminatory behavior is a serious threat to free speech and religious freedom, is potentially illegal, and is causing political and regulatory backlash,” the letter states. “Your bank needs to be transparent with and assure us, its shareholders, and others that it will not continue to de-bank customers for their speech or religious exercise.”
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Megyn Kelly did not mince her words when dealing with CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin.
As well as being a part of the left-wing commentariat, Toobin is notorious for an incident back in 2020 when he was caught masturbating during a Zoom call with colleagues, claiming he did not know the camera was on.
Toobin took time off following the incident, before returning following the year. He officially exited the network in 2022, although has appeared regularly on the network since then. He remains determined rehabilitate his image and opine on the events of the day, even writing a book about right-wing extremism.
On Wednesday, Toobin attacked the integrity of Justice Clarence Thomas after he allegedly played down the significance of the January 6th protests against the 2020 election fraud.
“In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that’s because his wife was part of the conspiracy,” Toobin wrote on the X platform. “What a disgrace that he’s sitting on this case.”
Megyn Kelly was having none of it.
“Hi Toobin – fyi you waived your right to use the term “disgraced” about other lawyers when you took your dick out of your pants and jerked off in front of your collleagues,” she responded.
Hi Toobin – fyi you waived your right to use the term “disgraced” about other lawyers when you took your dick out of your pants and jerked off in front of your collleagues https://t.co/MZwP2r1QOT
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) April 16, 2024
As of time of writing, Kelly’s post had nearly three million views. Toobin, meanwhile, has locked his replies.
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On August 26, 2021, Islamic terrorist Abdul Rehman killed 173 Afghans and 13 Americans at the Kabul Airport.
The Gateway Pundit reported in September 2021 that the terrorist was released from prison at Bagram Air Base after Joe Biden abandoned the airfield in the middle of the night.
Abdul Rehman al-logri
Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years in July by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ secret departure more than two hours after they left.
The Taliban quickly took control of Bagram Air Base, which is only 30 miles north of Kabul, on August 15th and released thousands of terrorists held at its prison. The Americans and Afghans left the Taliban military equipment, uniforms, rations and even sports drinks.
The ISIS suicide bomber who murdered 13 US servicemen and women and 169 Afghans was released by the Taliban from the Bagram Base prison in July.
ISIS suicide bomber Abdul Rehman was incarcerated at the Bagram prison for the past four years until he was set free by the Taliban terrorists.
Story claims Kabul airport bomber was an Afghan IS-K member who planned an attack in New Delhi. CIA detected threat in 2017, notified RAW. RAW nabbed him, gave him to US which sent him to Bagram. Taliban released him and he kills 169 Afghans/13 US soldiers https://t.co/X1VZqzmVrr
— Jeff M. Smith (@Cold_Peace_) September 19, 2021
Firstpost reported:
The Islamic State suicide bomber who killed at least 169 Afghan civilians and 13 United States soldiers outside Kabul airport last month was incarcerated in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison for the past four years, thanks to Indian efforts, Firstpost has learnt through credible intelligence sources.
Senior Indian intelligence sources familiar with the case have told Firstpost that he was handed over to the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency by the Research and Analysis Wing in September 2017. However, the jihadist walked free on 15 August along with thousands of other dangerous terrorists held in the high-security prison, taking advantage of the chaos that ensued in the aftermath of the United State’s hurried exit and the Taliban’s swift takeover of the entire country.
Identified as Abdul Rehman, the jihadist was a former student of an engineering college in India and hailed from Afghanistan’s Logar province. He was the son of an Afghan merchant who frequently visited India for business.
His arrest had led to the termination of a plot by the Islamic State of Khurasan Province (IS-K) — the Islamic State’s regional wing in Afghanistan — to stage suicide bombings in New Delhi and other cities across the region, probably on the behest of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
Sawt al-Hind mentions that Abdur Rehman al-Logari was arrested 5 years ago in India before he could carry out a suicide attack in Delhi (to avenge Kashmir) and deported to Afghanistan. He did not go home and struck Kabul airport. https://t.co/PGUxDkyvjf
— Vineet (@UNIT54777) September 18, 2021
It has now been confirmed that the suicide bomber who killed 13 U.S. service members in 2021 during Biden’s disastrous withdrawal had been released from an Afghan prison as the confusion unfolded.
The Afghan withdrawal happened early in Biden’s presidency and his poll numbers have never fully recovered. The incident may have also had something to do with the military’s ongoing struggle to find new recruits.
Following the withdrawal, Biden famously turned his back to the press and the American people at one point, a gesture he has repeated many times since.
The Washington Free Beacon released this confirmation on Wednesday – more than two years after Gateway Pundit’s original reporting.
Biden Admin Confirms Afghan Suicide Bomber Was Freed From Prison Abandoned During US Withdrawal
The Biden administration on Monday confirmed that the Afghan suicide bomber who killed more than a dozen U.S. service members at the Kabul airport in 2021 had been freed from a prison abandoned during the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) in a Monday statement said a Defense Department report revealed that the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive belt at the airport’s Abbey Gate and killed 13 U.S. service members and injured 45 more in August 2021 was “Abdul Rahman al-Logari, an ISIS-K terrorist who was freed from the Bagram prison by the Taliban.”
American troops had left the Bagram Airfield just weeks before the Abbey Gate bombing, as part of the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal. Afghan officials said the American troops abandoned Bagram, Afghanistan’s largest airfield, after nearly 20 years without even notifying the base’s new Afghan commander.
McCaul in his Monday statement denounced congressional Democrats, arguing that the American public would have known what happened at the Kabul airport much sooner had the Democrats “fulfilled their constitutional obligations and conducted oversight.”
After the suicide bombing, Biden somehow managed to make things look even worse.
Remember when Joe Biden looked at his watch during a memorial service for the 13 US service members he got kįlled in Kabul in 2021 during his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan?
America certainly does.
Biden has lost his right to ever speak about our military. pic.twitter.com/5AIysaAHco
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) April 17, 2024
Biden is such a disgrace.
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Horror author Stephen King is a noted sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome. His affliction has been well documented in recent years.
Like many famous liberals, his TDS also extends to all things conservative and Republican. He seems to rise and sleep thinking about how much he hates anyone to the right of Elizabeth Warren.
He recently posted something on Twitter/X talking about what ‘right wingers’ do and do not want to ban and he got flamed for it, big time.
Take a look below:
Notice the right-wingers want to ban abortions and books but not semi-autos.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 17, 2024
Isn’t it funny when people on the left claim to speak for conservatives? King got an earful of blowback for this…
Notice the left-wingers want to legalize child killing and sex grooming but not the right to self defense.
— Mike Kilo (@Mike___Kilo) April 17, 2024
Notice radical leftwingers want live birth abortions and pornography for kindergarten children, while banning the Second Amendment.
— JWF (@JammieWF) April 17, 2024
Notice the left wants to kill babies and the ones they don't kill to have porn in school, and the right sees this and arms themselves to protect their families.
— The Lectern Guy (@lecternleader) April 17, 2024
It's pretty difficult to defend your land and property with a single-shot rifle, but ok.
Please remember that most people can not afford security or live in high-end gated communities with security.
— Gideon 6ix
(@Gideon_6ix) April 17, 2024
Notice Stephen King wants to kill the unborn and put smut in children’s libraries. https://t.co/UOgiNRwwWA
— TheFOO (@PolitiBunny) April 17, 2024
When your political philosophy is nothing but a hoax (book ban) plus a bad analogy (guns and abortions), I can guess your news sources. https://t.co/Bb7jVPE2Nr
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 17, 2024
Yes, I want to ban abortions because I don’t think one should kill babies, and I want pornography out of schools. As a guy who wrote a scene where kids have group sex in one of his crappy books, you probably disagree. And I think semi automatic weapons are to be mandatory for… https://t.co/GBaMSCaNxt
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 17, 2024
One of those things are a constitutional right, dumbass. https://t.co/suxOvXxNcR
— MetalMushin Reborn (@MetalRisesAgain) April 17, 2024
Stephen King is insanely rich. You would think he would just go and enjoy his life on a beach somewhere, but no. Like all lefties, he is not happy unless he has something political to complain about. It seems like he does this more than writing books these days.
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Joe Biden delivered a stern warning to Israeli leaders on Wednesday, “Don’t move on Haifa!”
Haifa is the third largest city in ISRAEL!
Potato brain has no idea what he’s talking about. The man is lost.
JOE BIDEN: “I made it clear to the Israelis — don’t move on Haifa!”
BIDEN: "I made it clear to the Israelis — don't move on Haifa!"
Haifa is a major city *IN* Israel. pic.twitter.com/BdNgoDlGkM
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2024
Haifa is a beautiful Israeli city. I traveled there in 2007 with Andrew Breitbart and others.
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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith recently went off on the Democrats in a rant about all of the lawfare that they’re waging against Trump.
This is not the first time that Smith has gone off like this. Just last month, he tore into Democrats over similar issues.
Smith suggested that all this does is prove that Democrats don’t believe they can beat Trump on the issues. He also suggests that it proves Trump’s claims about election interference.
FOX News reports:
Stephen A. Smith calls liberals cowards for lawfare against Trump: ‘Scared you can’t beat him’
ESPN host Stephen A. Smith called out liberals directly for pursuing criminal trials against former President Trump, saying that they’re “scared” they “can’t beat him on the issues.”…
“It’s much ado about nothing,” Smith said on the podcast. “To my liberal friends out there, all you’re doing is showing that you’re scared you can’t beat him on the issues and the merits.”…
“That’s why he keeps saying they can’t beat me at the election, at the polls. This is the only way they can do it,” he said.
Smith also gave a warning about where this strategy will lead, especially if Trump is never put in jail, predicting there will “never be peace in this country” as a result.
“And if you don’t put him in jail, and he still goes from being the presumptive GOP nominee to the official GOP nominee, and he goes to the polls, even though he was going to whine about winning and being rigged again, you have given more fodder to that argument, which means we’ll never have peace in this country.”
Watch the video:
Even ESPN's Stephen Smith knows that the Trump trial is bullsh*t!
Stephen says, "Beat him in the ballot box not in the court room." He knows that they are worried that Trump will win! pic.twitter.com/K23lXZZCF8— JamieLynn Looney (@jami72939) April 17, 2024
What Smith has suggested here is clear to millions of Americans. Even Democrats know it, though they won’t admit it.
The post Stephen A. Smith Says Democrat Lawfare Against Trump Proves They’re Scared They Can’t Beat Him on the Issues (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
When the wonderful 861 year-old Notre Dame of Paris Cathedral caught fire about five years ago, it shook to the core both Christians and lovers of Architecture marvels alike.
The iconic spire and timber roof were destroyed in the hellish blaze and collapsed in a nightmarish vision.
Many of us saw in that suspicious fire a horrendous metaphor of the decadence of the western world – I know I did. And also, how many of us secretly hoped there was something we can do to rebuild it again.
This is a story of an American who got this opportunity, and embraced it wholeheartedly.
As Paris prepares itself for the Summer Olympics in 100 days, the work to restore the beloved Church to its former glory is ongoing.
And among the skilled workers involved in the literally monumental project is an American carpenter, Hank Silver, who was given a rare chance to take part in this historic restoration project.
He was running a small carpentry business in Massachusetts, when a carpentry contact in France asked him if he wanted to join a team in Normandy to prepare timber to rebuild the nave of Notre Dame.
CBS News reported:
“‘I could not say no to that opportunity’, Silver told CBS News. ‘It’s an opportunity that happens — once in a lifetime wouldn’t even be the right term, it’s once in a millennium, really’.”
Silver shut up his shop and joined the French Atelier Desmonts’ carpentry team, all of them skilled in traditional building methods.
“‘In our shop in Normandy, we received about 600 oak logs, and it was all freshly cut oak, which is as it was done traditionally. You work with green wood, unseasoned wood, which is what I’m accustomed to doing in the U.S. as well’, Silver said. ‘We first hewed all the logs using axes in order to recreate that rippled finish that you were able to see in the original cathedral in the 13th century framing’.”
The work to remake the centuries-old presented unique challenges for Silver and his colleagues.
“The architects asked us to reproduce all of the deformations that had accrued over 800 years. So, the ridge is not a straight line, and so we had to follow this curvature, and the walls, even though they were rebuilt by the masons, they’re not level and straight. And that led to a lot of complexities that the original carpenters in the 13th century never would have dealt with.”
Artisans from several countries applied to be part of the historic project. The man in charge of the restoration, Philippe Jost:
“‘Many carpenters came from the United States, from England, from Denmark, from Spain, because they were fond of these techniques, fond of oak’, Jost said, noting a ‘spirit of unity’ among the artisans. ‘There is pride and humility’, he said, adding that all the workers on the site ‘have been marked for life’.”
The nave was entirely assembled under a tent in Normandy, before it was shipped to Paris last August.
Silver was lucky enough – and skillful enough – to be part of a smaller team that reassembled each of the trusses and then installed them in the nave of the cathedral.
It is perhaps not surprising that Silver would like to stay in France. He even took advantage of a site visit by the French president to hand him a letter asking for citizenship.
Emmanuel Macron has promised that Notre Dame will re-open to the public on December 8 this year. But there’s still a lot to do. Knock on wood.
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Senator Rand Paul has issued a stern warning to former President Donald Trump regarding his continued support for Speaker Mike Johnson.
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 Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Joe Biden, Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the RINOs are colluding on an aid package for 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, 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.”
Increased turmoil among House Republicans due to Speaker Mike Johnson’s swift approval of another aid bill for Ukraine.
“Chuck Schumer bragged on the Senate floor about Speaker Johnson giving Democrats everything they want in the foreign war bill and for Ukraine. Joe Biden just announced he supports the House bill Johnson is forcing forward. Johnson is not our Speaker, he is theirs. The question is how much longer will our conference tolerate this?” Rep. MTG wrote.
“There is no other way to describe it, it is surrender, it is disappointing. I won’t support it,” Rep. Matt Gaetz said.
NEW: More House Republican upheaval over Speaker Mike Johnson’s rubber-stamping of another Ukraine aid bill.
Congressman @mattgaetz: “There is no other way to describe it, it is surrender, it is disappointing. I won’t support it.”pic.twitter.com/X00FRBCg6C
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 17, 2024
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
Still no southern border security… These people care more about protecting Ukrainians than they do Americans.
In a pivotal turn, Senator Rand Paul has openly supported Congressman 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.
Sen. Rand Paul has directed a stern warning at former President Trump, cautioning that his continued backing of Speaker Johnson could alienate a significant portion of his base.
“If Trump supports this monstrous, unpaid for foreign aid debt buster, he will lose the very supporters who comprise his vanguard. Mark my words,” Sen. Rand Paul warned.
If Trump supports this monstrous, unpaid for foreign aid debt buster, he will lose the very supporters who comprise his vanguard.
Mark my words. https://t.co/X972oGsSog— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 17, 2024
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Leftist actor John Leguizamo had an epic meltdown concluding with him destroying a piñata on Tuesday night after discovering President Trump is making gains with Hispanic voters.
As Fox News reported, Leguizamo, who was serving as a guest host on The Daily Show, mocked a classic Trump 2020 campaign Spanish language ad before complaining about polls showing the 45th president’s growing popularity with Hispanics.
I mean, clearly, Trump isn’t making any effort to get Latino voters or make them a priority,” Leguizamo whined. “But the thing that hurts the most is that his lazy a** strategy is actually working.”
The show’s producers then played a CNN news clip showing Trump leading Biden by six points among Hispanics in one poll. This was the moment Leguizamo completely lost it.
“Excuse me for a second, please,” said Leguizamo as he grabbed a small piñata underneath his desk and dropped a flurry of Spanish curse words.
“Coño! Coño! P*ta! P*ta madre!” he yelled as he pounded and tore apart the inanimate object.
WATCH:
After finally calming down somewhat, Leguizamo warned the Democrats were in trouble for one big reason: Bidenflation.
“It looks like the Democrats are in trouble. And you might be thinking, how is this possible? Donald Trump is winning Latinos? ‘Build the wall’ Donald Trump? ‘Mass deportations’ Donald Trump?” he said.
The guy who thinks Daddy Yankee is a baseball player, Donald Trump? But the truth is, in 2024, Latino voters have something else on their minds,” Leguizamo continued.
“That’s right. For Latinos, this election is all about inflation! And that makes sense! Inflation is bad right now.”
Leguizamo is correct on this. Imagine the meltdowns on Univision and Telemundo if Trump wins in 2024 with heavy Hispanic support.
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Middle school students at Mt. Nebo School in Payson Utah held a walk out protest today against unhinged school officials that allow “furries’ to terrorize them at school.
The students report in the video below that the “furries” bite, scratch, and bark at them. The furries also chew on sticks in class and a kitty litter box was set up in the girls restroom for them to use.
in the video by LifeIsDriving the children also note that they are required to keep a distance from “furries,” whereas the same rule does not apply for the “furries.”
The protesting youth believe that the school’s tolerance stems from the principal, whose child happens to be a “furry.”
This is insane. The children are the adults here.
Adam Bartholomew reported:
Speaking with the organizer of this mornings student walkout to protest #furries at Mt Nebo Middle School in Payson Utah. @NeboDistrict pic.twitter.com/Mv2pisFdC8
— Adam Bartholomew ️ (@lifeisdriving) April 17, 2024
Here is the full video, via LifeIsDriving.
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Why wasn’t this prosecutor sanctioned and jailed?
A top prosecutor from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office screamed at the judge overseeing the RICO trial of rapper Young Thug.
Assistant District Attorney Adriane Love shouted at Judge Ural Glanville on Wednesday after she was told she wasn’t properly handling the RICO case against Young Thug, AKA, Jeffrey Williams, and other defendants.
“Well, then you all should have gotten yourself together beforehand,” the judge said to Love.
The judge continued, “Have a seat, madam! Have a seat! You better exclude that and next time, make sure you’re prepared!”
“You continue to engage in this pattern of behavior, you don’t want to accept my ruling, and I know you’re trying to be an advocate, but at some point just stop,” the judge said to Adriane Love. “Just stop. I made my ruling.”
Adriane Love shouted over the judge and argued her office was handling evidence properly.
“Judge, we talked to them [the defense] this morning about that and attempted… I talked to them earlier this week!” Love screamed. “Your honor, so the court punishes the state because the defense—”
The judge interrupted Love: “I’m not punishing anybody, but prior preparation prevents poor performance.”
Love shouted back: “We prepared, judge! That’s why I sent them what I sent them last week! A whole week and a half ago! Two weeks, your honor!”
What a dumpster fire!
WATCH:
The #YSLTrial is next level absurd#FaniWillis may have to bail her prosecutor out of jail before this is over
You can’t just scream at a judge and not expect to go to jail
I’m unsure how she’s not there now
— Phil Holloway
(@PhilHollowayEsq) April 17, 2024
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As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the Senate, at Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s urging, voted to dismiss both articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, who has presided over the worst border crisis in American history. In doing so, they upset 227 years of congressional precedent.
Both articles were rejected on a party-line vote, though Senator Lisa Murkowski (RINO-AK) voted present on the first one. The final vote to adjourn proceedings was also on a party-line vote.
Schumer absurdly argued before the votes that the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas violated the U.S. Constitution. He claimed they did not “allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor” as required under Article 2 of the Constitution.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), however, was not having any of Schumer’s nonsense. Drawing on his extensive legal expertise, he destroyed the loudmouth New Yorker’s asinine argument against impeaching Mayorkas.
WATCH:
If this is not a high crime and misdemeanor, what is?
If this is not impeachable, what is? pic.twitter.com/d0mqJ0VEWg
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) April 17, 2024
Transcript:
Madam President, as wrong as the Majority Leader was moments ago in making this particular point of order as to Article I of the impeachment articles, Article I, remember, refers to the willful defiance by Sec. Mayorkas of the law.
As wrong as he was in making that as to Article I, and he was very wrong for the reasons articulated moments ago by the Senator from Texas, he is even more wrong – far more so – with respect to Article II, because Article II accuses him of knowingly making false statements.
This is a violation of 18 USC Section 1001, a felony offense. If this is not a high crime and misdemeanor, what is? If this is not impeachable, what is? What precedent will we be setting? We need to address this; we need to discuss it in a closed session.
For that reason, Madam President, I move that the Senate proceed with a closed session to allow for deliberation on this very consequential point of order that he’s just made that violates hundreds of years of Anglo-American legal precedent and understanding on the question required by impeachment rule 24.
Following the Senate’s dismissal of the charges, Lee warned the Democrats by insinuating that turnabout would be fair play.
Today, Senate Democrats refused to do their constitutional duty. They let Mayorkas off for destroying our border, with no trial, throwing out over two centuries of precedent—and creating a new one.
We will remember this, next time Democrats want to remove someone from office.
Today, Senate Democrats refused to do their constitutional duty.
They let Mayorkas off for destroying our border, with no trial, throwing out over two centuries of precedent—and creating a new one.
We will remember this, next time Democrats want to remove someone from office.
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) April 17, 2024
Mike Lee is one of the good ones in the Senate, and one can count on him keeping his promise. The question is, will his GOP colleagues heed his words?
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A woman brought a 68-year-old man who was dead, in a wheelchair, to a bank branch to try to take out a loan in his name. The bizarre incident occurred on Tuesday, April 16, at a bank branch in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
She conducted the conversation on behalf of the deceased man and raised suspicions among those present. Identified as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, she was taken to the police station, where she claimed to be the niece and caregiver of the elderly man.
Vieira Nunes’s behavior caught the attention of bank employees, who began filming the dialogue she had with her uncle, who did not respond to her commands. She asked the elderly man to sign a paper authorizing the bank to lend him approximately $3,200.
In the “conversation” she asked the supposed relative:
“Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign, sir. If you don’t sign, there’s no way. I can’t sign for you, what I can do, I’ll do”.
Watch the moment (subtitled in English):
When the customer did not react, the bank employees called the emergency services. Paramedics arrived at the financial institution and found that the man, identified as Paulo Roberto Braga, 68, had been dead for several hours.
The police were called to the scene, where they arrested Erika de Souza for the crimes of fraud and desecration of a corpse and she could be sentenced to up to 7 years in prison.
The post BIZARRE: Woman Takes Uncle’s Corpse to Try to Get a Loan in His Name at a Bank in Brazil – HE’D BEEN DEAD FOR MANY HOURS (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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
The post MUST SEE: O’Keefe Media Group Uncovers who is Really Running the White House – Special Advisor Reveals That Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Are Still Involved Behind The Scenes! (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
African illegals at a New York City Council meeting complained about the free (taxpayer-funded) food and housing provided to them.
More than 1,300 illegal aliens from Africa swarmed New York City Hall on Tuesday after they were falsely promised work visas and green cards.
The illegals were lined up outside of New York City Hall as far as the eye could see.
Africans in Islamic garb swarmed the sidewalk.
Many of them are from Guinea and entered the US through the Mexican border.
WATCH:
NEW: Hundreds, if not thousands of illegal immigrants line up outside of New York City Hall for a meeting on migrants and their experience in NYC.
The City Council is creating a team of advisors to improve migrants’ experience in the city.
The goal is to make the experience for… pic.twitter.com/5R703eyjhO
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 16, 2024
According to the New York Post, only 250 of the illegals were allowed at the Tuesday morning hearing.
All they did was complain about the freebies given to them.
“The food is no good at all. You give us two months to stay at the shelter and then you have to go out again with your luggage and your kids and find another place. It’s very difficult,” one of the illegals said.
WATCH:
UNREAL: African migrants at NYC city council whine about free food and housing
“The food is no good at all. You give us two months to stay at the shelter and then you have to go out again with your luggage and your kids and find another place. It’s very difficult.” pic.twitter.com/OoWooXNRw6
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 17, 2024
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There’s really no surprise in learning that Belgium’s government has gone full authoritarian by repeatedly targeting a Conservative conference taking place in Brussels, going as far as shutting down a day of events with a ridiculous excuse in the middle of UK’s Nigel Farage’s speech.
But as the old Arabic saying goes: ‘the dogs bark, the Caravan goes on’. In the run-up to a most relevant European Election cycle in recent times, the National Conservative Conference moved to its THIRD venue, and hosted as keynote speaker none other than conservative champion Viktor Orbán, long-serving Prime Minister of Hungary.
Orbán urged voters to reject mainstream political parties in the upcoming EU elections for their failure of leadership.
He also said Ukraine must never be allowed to join the either EU bloc or NATO.
Read: Hungary’s Orbán Calls the European Union a ‘Bad Contemporary Parody’ of the Soviet Union
Orbán strongly criticized EU climate alarmist policy and agriculture rules, that left farmers in great difficulty and drove them a an unprecedented season of protests.
He also stated the obvious: Europe’s migration crisis is now worse than ever.
Associated Press reported:
“’The sense of this European election is: change the leadership’, Orbán told an audience […] as campaigning heats up for Europe-wide polls on June 6-9. ‘If the leadership proves to be bad, it must be replaced. That’s so simple’, the right-wing populist leader said, to applause.”
Illiberal democrat Orbán torched the European Commission for using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to target his country.
“’The bureaucrats in Brussels tried to suffocate Hungary financially’, he said.”
The commission has denied Hungary access to billions of Euros over ‘concerns about democratic backsliding in the country’ – a.k.a., unwillingness to obey Brussels Globalist mandatory agenda.
“The Hungarian leader, who has been in office since 2010, also underlined the failure of EU sanctions to stop the war in Ukraine. Addressing the fact that he’s often described in the media as a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Orbán said: ‘My mother is not happy’.”
About Ukraine: ‘Guys, you have to understand that you are [Ukraine] a buffer zone country. You can’t change your house number’, he said.
“Orbán said ‘Ukraine is now just a protectorate’ relying on Western money and weapons and is ‘not a sovereign state anymore’.”
The ‘threat’ indeed existed, but it was not the Conservatives present: it was a group of ANTIFA thugs trying to disrupt the meeting.
“Nigel Farage, the man credited with taking Britain out of the European Union, addressed the crowd, saying that ‘a new form of evil ideology’ had tried to silence the conference.”
Even ultra-liberal Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called the shutdown unacceptable.
“Municipal autonomy is a cornerstone of our democracy but can never overrule the Belgian constitution guaranteeing the freedom of speech and peaceful assembly since 1830. Banning political meetings is unconstitutional. Full stop.”
Read more:
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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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President Trump is swarmed by supporters at fast food restaurants and bodegas where he spends a long time talking to them and reporters, as happened Tuesday evening in Harlem. In contrast, 81 million vote getter Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh Wednesday afternoon and was greeted by total silence, save for one supporter who met him at the door with a hug. Video of Biden’s entrance shows two children and their mother seated, silently watching Biden, with the sound of the in-store music heard quite clearly over the small talk by Biden and the supporter. There were no cheers, no chants of “Four more years!” Just muzak. With few supporters to talk to, Biden was in and out in just two minutes according to the pool report.
Video of Biden, accompanied by Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Ed Gainey (D) and Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato (D) was posted by WTAE-TV reporter Bob Mayo, who noted the store was given ten minutes’ notice on the visit and that Biden picked up an order of mostly turkey subs for construction workers at his next visit.
President Biden makes a stop at Sheetz with Mayor Gainey and County Executive Innamorato. #WTAE pic.twitter.com/pzYxplyPKQ
— Bob Mayo (@BMayo_WTAE) April 17, 2024
Complete video of the two-minute visit by Biden posted by C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman:
Biden visit a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/x0ba0UQHFJ
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 17, 2024
The pool report says Biden posed for photos with customers and staff. Biden also repeated his lame ‘don’t jump’ joke to a reporter standing on a chair:
“Motorcade pulled into a Sheetz gas station mart for an OTR at 3:32 pm. POTUS, wearing aviators, entered the shop at 3:36, and was Immediately talking to customers and posing for a selfie. Then he went to the food counter, handed over some bills, picked up takeout bags. Went behind counter to pose for pics w employees. A reporter shouted: “Are you concerned the new steel tariffs will hurt your relationship with Xi Jinping?” “No!” He said. “Why not?” The reporter asked, standing on a chair. “Don’t jump!” He said. POTUS exited the store at 3:38. An aide walked behind him carrying a box of snacks. We are rolling again at 3:42.”
Photos of the Biden visit were posted by reporters:
President Joe Biden makes an unannounced visit to a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/sEtBdRZZjX
— Al Drago (@Al_Drago) April 17, 2024
President Biden took a stance Wednesday on an issue top of mind for the residents of battleground Pennsylvania, placing his marker in the Great Wawa-Sheetz Debate with a stop at a Pittsburgh Sheetz. pic.twitter.com/HVbISETQlh
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) April 17, 2024
— Pennsylvania Capital-Star (@PennCapitalStar) April 17, 2024
The presidential limousine, known as “The Beast,” parked outside of a Sheetz gas station during an unannounced visit with President Joe Biden, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/XiTB2N8LnR
— Al Drago (@Al_Drago) April 17, 2024
There was no mention any Biden supporters outside the Sheetz.
The construction site Biden later visited with the turkey subs (no campaign law violations here):
Biden in Pittsburgh … pic.twitter.com/mBYJlC7hsc
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 17, 2024
In contrast, Biden was greeted by two groups of protesters–conservatives and pro-Hamas activists forced into the same area–who loudly denounced Biden with respective chants outside the US Steel building in Pittsburgh where Biden gave a speech earlier Wednesday.
Protests outside Biden visit to US Steel building in Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/jBf07UbLXH
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 17, 2024
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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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House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing beginning at 10:15 A.M. this morning titled “Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University’s Response to Antisemitism.” As the name suggests, the hearing focused on Columbia’s lackluster response to the threats Jewish students face on campus.
Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, served as the star witness. She was originally asked to testify at the House Education and Workforce Committee’s hearing in December but had to back out allegedly due to “scheduling conflicts.”
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) stole the show when he showcased a guidebook the school used that deliberately spelled the word “folks” f-o-l-x. This misspelled word is a so-called “gender inclusive” term used by the woke left to “appeal” to the transgender community.
He also pointed out that the term “folx” was used in the school of social work, making this a university term.
When he asked Shafik about this, she was left completely stunned and befuddled. The only thing she could think of was that perhaps the authors did not know how to spell and nervously laughed.
She then laughably tried to deny this was an official document, but Banks would not let her off the hook. She eventually agreed with him that the term was inappropriate but continued to deny the school officially uses the term.
WATCH:
Wow! Rep. Jim Banks questions the President of Columbia, Minouche Shafik, on a woke guidebook sent out to all Columbia students:
REP. BANKS: “Can you explain why the word ‘folks’ is spelled f-o-l-x throughout this guidebook?”
SHAFIK: “They don’t know how to spell? I’m not… pic.twitter.com/087IrOVs0j
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 17, 2024
Transcript:
Banks: Can you help me understand something else? I didn’t go to any Ivy League school. Can you explain why the word “folks” is spelled f-o-l-x throughout this guidebook and in other places in the school of social work? Serious question.
Shafik (stunned): They don’t know how to spell? I,I, uh, am not familiar with that (chuckles).
Banks: I don’t find it a laughing matter.
Shafik (confused): I’m not laughing either. I think it’s uh, uh…
Banks: You’re denying this is an official product, yet you are aware it’s being handed out to all of your students, and you’re not doing anything to stop it.
Shafik: It’s not an official product of Columbia University.
Banks: Is this how Columbia University spells the word, “folks?”
Shafik: No.
Banks: Is this an acceptable term?
Shafik (shaken): Congressman, I am, I’am with you (chuckles nervously) I,I, agree with you. I,I, don’t’ find this a meaningful way, uh…
Banks: This was handed out on your watch.
Shafik: This is not an official product of the University.
These screenshots below show that Columbia University also uses “folx” across its website. This means Shafik was completely clueless or lying during her testimony.
LOOK:
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This man is a pig.
Why do parents let this creep get away with this?
Joe Biden was creeping on a little girl at a Pittsburgh steel mill. Old Joe was filmed rubbing her little cheeks.
What decent parent allows this to happen?
Pedo Peter just couldn’t help himself AGAIN.
What man touches strangers’ children like that?
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) April 17, 2024
Joe Biden was meeting with United Steel Workers Union on Wednesday.
Here’s the full video clip.
And this shot was from yesterday.
WHY IS THE LITTLE GIRL'S HAND SO CLOSE TO BIDEN'S CROTCH? pic.twitter.com/fWJ0wLEC8l
— Michael Savage (@ASavageNation) April 17, 2024
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As our country loses it’s identity, it’s faith, and it’s moral foundation.. more and more depraved things will happen. The most recent example of this happened in Waukesha – the same place where a crazed BLM activist ran over a crowd of people at a Christmas parade – when a “transgender vampire” sexually assaulted and contributed to the death of a mentally handicapped 16-Year-Old. When will this nightmare end?
Elijah Schaffer discusses this in more detail on today’s Beyond the Headlines.
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Aaron Rodgers, celebrated quarterback for the New York Jets, has sparked a storm of controversy following remarks made on the “Look Into It” podcast, where he suggested that the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1980s was a government-engineered crisis, with Dr. Anthony Fauci playing a corrupt role.
In the viral video clip, Rodgers questioned the management and motivations behind the government’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis that claimed over 100,000 lives in the United States within a decade.
He hinted at a possible ulterior motive, suggesting that the pandemic was engineered as part of a larger scheme.
“The blueprint, the game plan was made in the ’80s. Create a pandemic with a virus that’s going wild,” Rodgers claimed.
He went on to criticize the funding allocated to Dr. Fauci, accusing him of benefiting from the research grants without significant advancements in treatment, except for AZT – the first drug approved to treat HIV/AIDS that according
“Fauci was given over $350 million to researchers to come up with drugs, new or repurposed, to handle the AIDS pandemic. All they came up with was AZT,” he added.
Rodgers emphasized his right to question authority and conduct his own research. He drew parallels between the handling of the HIV/AIDS crisis and the recent COVID-19 pandemic, insinuating a pattern of corruption linked to pharmaceutical companies and vaccines.
WOW… #Jets QB Aaron Rodgers says that HIV was created by the US government.
‘The gameplan was made in the 80’s’
(Via NBC)
pic.twitter.com/otSVumvvHM— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) April 16, 2024
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a prominent figure in American medicine and public health, played a significant role in the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that in the 1980s, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Dr. Fauci told Americans that children could catch AIDS from casual contact.
Of course, this caused a huge reaction from Americans towards gays and those suffering from the disease.
WATCH:
Fauci also withheld successful treatments from AIDS patients for over a year as THOUSANDS died. He wanted a vaccine… that never came.
The Gateway Pundit posted these fun facts about Dr. Fauci in April 2020:
Dr. Fauci’s NIH was also caught funding experiments on AIDS orphans at a New York City hospital in 2004.
The Fauci NIH approved experiments on hundreds of New York City orphans. Government agencies and pharmaceutical companies used the orphans in deadly AIDS drug trials.
In 2005, the city of New York hired the VERA Institute to form a final report on the drug trials. VERA was given no access to medical records for any of the children used in trials. Their report was published in 2008.
They reported that twenty-five children died during the drug studies, that an additional fifty-five children died following the studies (in foster care), and, according to Tim Ross, Director of the Child Welfare program at VERA (as of 2009), 29% of the remaining 417 children who were used in drug studies had died (out of a total 532 children that are admitted to have been used). [LINK]
The WIKIPEDIA writers cover up all details, as is expected.
No payment or compensation has been paid to any of the children used in the trials, or to their families.
A hospital nurse later spoke out to reporters about the testing. She reported that children would immediately get sick, break out or throw up during the testing.
They were orphans at the Incarnation Children’s Center in New York City.
The ICC Investigation website offers several documents and interviews with children and childcare workers at the hospital who participated in the research.
Download the collected PDFs: The ICC Investigation | Related-HIV-Testing-and-AIDS-Drug-Investigation | Media-Coverage-and-Cover-up | Media Part 2
Note: The investigator credited with exposing this horrific study on AIDS orphans is (or was) an AIDS ‘skeptic’ but his research and interviews were explosive and disturbing.
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On Tuesday night in Downers Grove, a quaint Chicago suburb, the Village Council 4-3 voted to remove the only Republican, logistics executive Bill Nienburg, from its six-member, appointed village library board.
Nienburg publicly opposed repeated initiatives intended to make the library more “progressive.”
As reported by Dupage Policy Journal, in 2022, Nienburg was the only board member who did not support a “drag queen bingo” event for children at the library featuring a male cross-dressing stripper.
The board’s plan to spend approximately $160,000 on an “anti-racism” and also to replace the Pledge of Allegiance with a “land statement,” which would declare that the town was formed on land “stolen by white Christian men from the Indians,” were also criticized by Nienburg.
In another blow to the radicals, Nienburg refused to put his “pronouns” on the library board’s “about” page.
Democrat Leslie Sadowski voted in favor of a resolution to remove Nienburg.
Leslie Sadowski-Fugitt, the ringleader in ousting Downers Grove Library Trustee Bill Nienburg for opposing “Drag Queen Bingo.”
She’s taught him. And she’ll teach you too. She is the quintessential small-minded, venomous, identitarian shrew who controls wealthy, honky suburbs. pic.twitter.com/leckp7420U
— Dan Proft (@DanProft) April 17, 2024
Dupage Policy Journal reports:
Sadowski told a crowd of more than 100, mostly attending in support of Nienburg, that she felt he should be removed because his ideas are “unsafe.”
“This has nothing to do with political affiliaton, and everything to do with dangerous extremism,” Sadowski said.
She said that she offered Nienburg “coaching” on how to get along with his liberal Democrat library board members, but that he refused.
Although Mr. Nienburg did not attended the meeting which ousted him, he sent a letter to Dupage Policy Journal:
The politically active Downers Grove Public Library administration and library board moved on February 28, 2024 to censure nonconforming library board member Bill Nienburg for sharing nonconfidential information with a Downers Grove taxpayer regarding a window painting policy at the library.
In a 5-0 vote the board moved to censure Mr. Nienburg and entered a request to the Downers Grove Village Council for his removal from the board. These actions all occurred when Mr. Nienburg was out of town and unable to attend this meeting and thereby denying him an opportunity to defend himself.
Bill Nienburg began his tenure with the Downers Grove Public Library Board in November 2022.
In this role as a library board member Mr. Nienburg exercised his fiduciary duty to the Downers Grove taxpayer by asking tough questions to and holding the library administration to account.
Last year he asked why a Native Land Statement is read before each meeting, but no Pledge of Allegiance. Suddenly the Pledge is now recited before each meeting.
During budget review Mr. Nienburg asked specific questions regarding increases to certain budget items, as well as how the budget can be proposed with no exact numbers.
And he questioned why the library staff, on its own accord, modified the native land statement with an anti-Christian update associating Christian Churches with native genocide.
In the broader context, this is the same activist library administration and board majority who (1) spent $86,000.00 on the divisive RGW Consultant equity report which cast Downers Grove as a racist community, (2) pushed a Drag Queen Bingo event targeted at children, and (3) developed and recites a native land statement that serves as a virtue signal with no real substance regarding native injustice.
Mr. Nienburg’s censure was not enough to satisfy the board majority.
During the February 28, 2024 Library Board Meeting, board members made disrespectful and mean-spirited remarks that likely violated board policy and by laws regarding respect and civil tone at board meetings. One board member, Carissa Dougherty openly violated Mr. Nienburg’s privacy by discussing his library card during the meeting and was a likely violation of the Illinois Library Records Confidentiality Act 75 ILCS 70/1.
On March 5, 2024, the Downers Grove Village Council voted 4-3 to investigate the removal of Mr. Nienburg from the Downers Grove Public Library Board. Again, no substantive policy violation was identified beyond alleged good governance. However, speakers during public comment made direct points regarding policy and law violations by the library administration and board members regarding the open discussion of Mr. Nienburg’s library card.
At the March 20, 2024, Downers Grove Public Library Board meeting speaker Noel Manley asserted that board member Carissa Dougherty may have violated the Illinois Library Records Confidentiality Act during her attack on board member Nienburg. Ms. Dougherty, during board comments, asserted she checked this matter with an attorney and that this was not protected information.
Note that in a FOIA dated April 1, 2024 an email dated March 13, 2024 was produced from the firm Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins arguing that “card holder status isn’t exempt information under the Library Confidentiality Act…” To test this assertion, in the same FOIA a request for a list of all active library card holders over the age of 18 was made. And the FOIA officer released a 510-page list of 28,031 names Downers Grove Public Library card holders.
Similar requests for active library card holder lists were made to the Westmont Public Library, the Oak Brook Public Library, the Hinsdale Public Library, and the Indian Prairie Public Library District. All denied this requested citing the same language in the Illinois Library Records Confidentiality Act (see attachments).
To compound the inconsistent application of library policy, at the April 9, 2024 Downers Grove Village Council meeting a former library employee spoke at public comment regarding her employment at the library. Specifically, she presented the council with her experience of sexual and criminal harassment from library patrons and the lack of response from the library administration. In fact, when she addressed this matter with the Downers Grove Police, she was placed on an employee improvement plan for failing to follow library protocol. Note that she cited the library employee handbook’s regarding harassment and sexual harassment. A policy that was not enforced. So feeling humiliated and abandoned in by the library administration, this violated woman resigned.
The consistent element of the Downers Grove Public Library’s administration and board majority is to deny due process to any board member or employee who fails to conform to their will.
In the case of Bill Nienburg and the former library employee, if you step outside your lane, you will be punished with selective and unspecific policy enforcement. However, if you violate the law, you get a pass.
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The United States Senate was supposed to hold the impeachment trial of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas beginning at 1 PM Eastern Wednesday. It actually proved to be a historically rapid dismissal by the Democrats.
As The Washington Post reported, the Senate at Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) urging voted to dismiss both articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, who has presided over the worst border crisis in America history.
Democrats voted along party lines on the first article of impeachment which charges Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law,” finding the charge unconstitutional. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (RINO-Alaska) voted present.
51-48-1, Senate votes to kill the first impeachment article. Murkowski lone defector. She voted “present.” Schumer now wants to move to kill second impeachment article.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 17, 2024
Democrats then found the second article charging Mayorkas with “breach of public trust” to be unconstitutional. Murkowski voted with her GOP colleagues this time.
Senate kills second article of impeachment against Mayorkas, it goes down on a 51-49 party-line vote. Murkowski sides with Rs after voting “present” on the first article
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 17, 2024
They then voted to end the impeachment “trial” completely, again on a party-line vote.
BREAKING: The Senate has voted 51-49 to adjourn the impeachment trial of Sec. Mayorkas, ending the impeachment. pic.twitter.com/Sel3BLFZD0
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 17, 2024
As Townhall.com’s Spencer Brown notes, this move by the Senate upset 227 years of congressional history. Only once was an actual trial not held when an individual was impeached, and that was because an impeached judge resigned before the trial began.
From Townhall.com:
Last week, 43 Republican members of the United States signed a letter to Schumer highlighting the upper chamber’s “constitutional duty” that “requires the Senate to hold a trial.”
“In every previous congressional impeachment of the past 227 years, Congress has been faithful to the process set out by the framers,” the letter emphasized. “Never before has the Senate abandoned this duty, even when certain members believed the basis for impeachment was tenuous at best.”
“Since 1797, twenty-one individuals have been impeached by the House of Representatives,” the Senate Republicans’ letter further recounted. “Trials were held in every single instance, except once when an impeached judge resigned from office before the trial commenced. Absent Secretary Mayorkas’ immediate resignation, this impeachment should remain faithful to Senatorial precedent,” senators wrote.
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The NBA has banned Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter for life after violating NBA gambling rules.
According to ESPN, Porter provided inside information to bettors and limited his participation in games due to gambling purposes.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver released a statement saying, “There is nothing more important than protecting the integrity of NBA competition for our fans, our teams, and everyone associated with our sport, which is why Jontay Porter’s blatant violations of our gaming rules are being met with the most severe punishment.”
In an internal investigation, the NBA discovered before a game on March 20th that Porter gave information to a bettor regarding his health status.
After obtaining the inside information, the bettor bet on an online sportsbook that Porter would not reach the stat line set for him in the parlay.
Just a few minutes into the game, Porter checked himself out, claiming he was sick and did not reach the numbers set for him in the parlay.
Porter’s move would have won the bettor $1.1 million, but the bettor’s account was frozen due to the suspicious actions, and an investigation ensued.
NBA has banned Jontay Porter for life for gambling
Porter reportedly had associates gamble on his own performance pic.twitter.com/8B85UwKQDN
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 17, 2024
Per ESPN:
Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter has been banned from the NBA, the league announced Wednesday.
The NBA said that Porter provided confidential information to bettors, limited his own participation in games for gambling purposes and bet on NBA games.
“There is nothing more important than protecting the integrity of NBA competition for our fans, our teams and everyone associated with our sport, which is why Jontay Porter’s blatant violations of our gaming rules are being met with the most severe punishment,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.
“While legal sports betting creates transparency that helps identify suspicious or abnormal activity, this matter also raises important issues about the sufficiency of the regulatory framework currently in place, including the types of bets offered on our games and players. Working closely with all relevant stakeholders across the industry, we will continue to work diligently to safeguard our league and game,” Silver said.
Raptors’ Johntay Porter banned from NBA for violating league’s gaming rules. pic.twitter.com/YCEeETEUiU
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) April 17, 2024
The NBA’s investigation also discovered that Porter used an associate’s online betting account to place 13 bets on various league games.
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Joe Biden on Wednesday traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to deliver remarks at United Steelworkers union headquarters.
Protesters lined the street to greet 81 million vote recipient Joe Biden in deep blue Pittsburgh.
WATCH:
Protests outside Biden visit to US Steel building in Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/jBf07UbLXH
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 17, 2024
Biden mumbled through his remarks at the United Steelworkers union headquarters.
It looked like the union steelworkers were being held hostage as Biden recounted a dubious story about his “uncle Bosey” and “cannibals.”
This is at least the third time Joe Biden has told this war story in the last day.
“My uncle Bosey he was Army Air Corps before the Air Force came along. He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones and he got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said.
Of course, this story is completely made up.
Biden’s maternal grandfather Ambrose Finnegan died in 1957. His uncle Ambrose Finnegan Jr. died after a plane he was in went down due to engine failure.
Biden also smeared Trump again with the debunked “suckers and losers” hoax.
The union workers looked like they would rather be anywhere else.
WATCH:
Biden, for the third time in less than 24 hours, tells the dubious story about his “Uncle Bosey” and “a lot of cannibals” in New Guinea before repeating the debunked “suckers and losers” hoax.
He also claims D-Day was on a Sunday (it was on a Tuesday).
HE IS NOT WELL. pic.twitter.com/iqeOjjFY0v
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
Biden made up most of the war story.
Unsurprisingly, Biden has made up most of this war story.
Lt. Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer, not a reconnaissance pilot.
In 1944, Finnegan was the passenger of an A-20 (a twin-engine, not single-engine plane) that ditched, it wasn’t shot down.… https://t.co/xxIb5dreOB pic.twitter.com/xrn1WuAbTh
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) April 17, 2024
Biden got lost after he wrapped up his remarks.
WATCH:
Biden wraps up his lie-filled, incoherent remarks in Pittsburgh and immediately gets confused trying to leave the stage pic.twitter.com/Au12wg5qm0
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
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Every day, more and more of our speech gets taken from us. Whether it be by subtle societal pressure or explicit coercion, a 16-year-old North Carolina student experienced the latter recently in class. But was there anything REALLY wrong with what he said?
Elijah Schaffer goes over all this and MORE on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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Joe Biden on Tuesday evening made his second campaign stop in his *hometown* of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Biden couldn’t draw decent-sized crowd in his own hometown in a state he supposedly won in 2020.
Literally no one cared that he was in Scranton.
Biden visited his childhood home in Scranton before his second campaign event.
It was a creepy photo op. A few people (staffers?) cheered for Biden as he emerged from his childhood home holding hands with children.
During his second campaign stop, Biden recounted a bizarre story about answering his motel room door while he was standing in a towel and shaving cream.
Biden put the room to sleep with his monotone mumbling.
And we’re expected to believe this guy got 81 million votes.
WATCH:
Biden tells a bizarre, incoherent story from decades ago about answering his motel room door while he was "standing in a towel and shaving cream" pic.twitter.com/W95JjbUCSH
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 16, 2024
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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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Kyle Marisa Roth, 36, a famous TikTok personality famed for her explosive celebrity gossip and Hollywood exposés, has been confirmed dead by her family.
Roth, who carved a niche for herself by sharing insider information, blind items, and uncovering scandals within the entertainment industry, was known for her fearless approach and had amassed a considerable following.
Her family announced her untimely demise on Monday with heartrending posts across various social media platforms.
“My daughter Kyle has passed away. She touched some of your lives personally and some of your lives via her immense life on another platform. Kyle loved and lived fiercely,” Jacquie Cohen Roth, Kyle’s mother, wrote on LinkedIn, hinting that more information regarding her death would be revealed in the coming days.
In an interview with NBC News, Roth said, “My message as her mother is TikTok, the toxicity, the mean spiritedness of what Kyle has faced, what so many people have faced and try to deal with because of that toxic space. I just want people to live their lives with the brightness of Kyle and her beautiful soul and spirit.”
Lindsay Roth, Kyle’s sister, echoed the sentiments of loss and confusion on Instagram, revealing that the family is currently in the dark about the circumstances leading to Kyle’s death.
“My sister Kyle Marisa passed away last week. As a family we are still processing and deciding how to properly celebrate and honor her life. we don’t know what happened yet,” Lindsay wrote on Instagram.
“I know she touched so many people with her humor, intelligence, beauty, gossip activism, athleticism and more – she had so many gifts. if anyone wants to connect about Kyle, im here to talk and share memories. i will also keep you in the loop on any memorials as they are planned. i am so sorry to those learning about this loss right now. Any prayers thoughts blessings or intentions for this souls smooth transition are welcomed,” she added.
Kyle Roth rose to online fame with her signature line, “You want more? I’ll give you more,” which resonated with her avid followers. At the time of her death, she had garnered a substantial following of 221,000 on TikTok and over 19,000 on Instagram.
The content that brought Kyle notoriety on the platform ranged from lighthearted takes on pop culture to serious allegations against high-profile figures. Among her recent uploads were videos that put media moguls Oprah Winfrey, The Rock, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and others in the crosshairs.
WATCH:
Tik Tok Kyle Marisa Roth passed away yesterday
pic.twitter.com/MO55RDOD4H
— Truthseeker (@Xx17965797N) April 16, 2024
Here’s another video:
BREAKING!
Kyle Marisa Roth has been found dead and no cause of death given.
She recently uploaded a video exposing Oprah and David Geffen’s involvement of trying to cancel and smear Michael Jackson with Leaving Neverland and more recently her videos covering the Diddy… pic.twitter.com/gPTUtFX0uq
— JR (@jamster83) April 16, 2024
TikTok Influencer Kyle Marisa Roth Has Died 1604024
Kyle Marisa Roth, who shared Hollywood gossip, has died. She was 36. Her mom wrote on LinkedIn, “Kyle loved and lived fiercely. Nothing makes sense now and we’ll understand more in the next few days.” pic.twitter.com/IXPI0v7zRY— john l (@Maeestro) April 17, 2024
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Joe Biden on Wednesday stopped to chat with reporters on the tarmac as he was departing Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Biden told a dubious story about how his grandfather (or uncle?) Ambrose Finnegan (Jr.?) was shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals.
“Ambrose Finnegan, we called him Uncle Bosey – he was shot down, he was Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force. He flew a single-engine plane, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea and he volunteered when someone couldn’t make it and he got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals…” Biden said.
Biden’s maternal grandfather Ambrose Finnegan died in 1957. His uncle Ambrose Finnegan Jr. died after a plane he was in went down due to engine failure.
Old Joe added that he went to New Guinea.
Joe Biden: They called him Uncle Bozey, he was shot down. He was an army Air Corps before there was an Air Force. He flew a single-engine plane, reconnaissance flight over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the life.
Imagine the headlines if Trump told a story like this.
Joe Biden also smeared Trump with the debunked “suckers and losers” hoax for the second time in less than a day.
WATCH:
Biden tells a story about his grandfather being “shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals” before recounting the debunked “suckers and losers” hoax for the second time in less than a day pic.twitter.com/KufaTlmCz1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
Biden made up most of the war story.
Unsurprisingly, Biden has made up most of this war story.
Lt. Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer, not a reconnaissance pilot.
In 1944, Finnegan was the passenger of an A-20 (a twin-engine, not single-engine plane) that ditched, it wasn’t shot down.… https://t.co/xxIb5dreOB pic.twitter.com/xrn1WuAbTh
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) April 17, 2024
On Tuesday Biden shouted as he recounted the debunked “suckers and losers” hoax.
President Trump never called veterans “suckers and losers,” however, Joe Biden often repeats the lie and the media carries the water for him.
He is not well.
WATCH:
A delusional Biden randomly starts SCREAMING as he recounts the debunked “suckers and losers” hoax (again).
Biden is NOT well. pic.twitter.com/fiRgiNhix2
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 16, 2024
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Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, recently was granted the opportunity of a lifetime — to throw a life raft to some of the J6 protestors who, to this day, are still in the DC Gulag under the Biden regime. You’ll never believe how Justice Gorsuch pulled this one off..
Elijah Schaffer goes over all this and MORE on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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In an explosive interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov, Russian-born Emirati–French entrepreneur and the founder of the popular instant messaging app Telegram, made shocking revelations about the U.S. government’s attempts to infiltrate the application widely known for its strong stance on user privacy.
Durov claimed that the FBI expressed interest in creating a ‘backdoor’ into the Telegram app, ostensibly to spy on users.
This, according to Durov, was a significant factor in his decision to reconsider establishing the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, opting for a global, decentralized approach to avoid U.S. government pressure.
“We received too much attention from the FBI, the security agencies, wherever we came to the US,” Durov recounted, noting how Biden’s FBI intensified their focus whenever his team was in the U.S.
“Last time I was in the U.S., I brought an engineer working for Telegram, and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cybersecurity officers,” he said.
Carlson pressed on, asking whether the U.S. government aimed to employ Durov’s engineer to crack Telegram or write code for them.
“They were trying to persuade him to use certain open-source tools that would be integrated into Telegram’s code, which, in my understanding, would serve as backdoors,” Durov said.
This revelation brings to light the U.S. government’s purported efforts to undermine the privacy and security that Telegram promises its users.
According to Durov, such a backdoor would not only enable the U.S. to spy on Telegram users but potentially other governments as well.
“FBI wanted to establish a relationship to control Telegram better. But for us, running a privacy-focused social media platform, that probably wasn’t the best environment to be in,” he said.
After the FBI’s interference, Durov abandoned the idea of establishing his company in San Francisco.
Telegram founder @durov explains to @TuckerCarlson how the US government tried to secretly hire his engineer to create “back doors” for officials to spy on users.
“For us running a privacy focused social media platform that probably wasn’t the best environment to be in.” pic.twitter.com/d8sFvmDuk4
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) April 16, 2024
Durov also told Tucker Carlson that he was contacted by the Democrats after January 6th because “they wanted the data of people who were demonstrating in Washington or wherever they were doing.”
“After the events of January 6th, we received a letter from, I believe, congressmen of the Democratic side. They requested we would share all the data we had in relation to what they called this “uprising.” We checked it with our lawyers, and they said, “You better ignore it.” But the letter seemed very serious, and the letter said, “If you fail to comply with this request, you will be in violation with the US Constitution,” or something like that,” Durov said.
He continued, “Two weeks after that letter, we got another letter, a new letter from the Republican side of the Congress. And there we read that if we give out any data according to the previous request, we would be in violation of the US Constitution. Constitution. We got two letters that said, Whatever we do, we’ll be violating the US Constitution in a way. That was my understanding of these letters.”
“The same way we respond to most such requests, we decided to ignore them because it’s such a complicated matter related to internal politics in the U.S.,” he said.
Telegram founder @durov tells @TuckerCarlson he was contacted after January 6th: “They wanted the data of people who were demonstrating.” pic.twitter.com/96pFYdAUyF
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) April 16, 2024
Durov emphasized his intention for Telegram to remain politically neutral. “We want the platform to remain neutral and not take any sides,” he said.
This stance, however, has not shielded the app from controversy. Telegram recently made headlines following the deadly Moscow terror attack, with investigations revealing that the attackers were recruited via the messaging platform.
Durov’s commitment to privacy has been a cornerstone of Telegram’s philosophy since its inception in 2013. Founded by Pavel and his brother Nikolai Durov, Telegram has soared in popularity, particularly in regions like Asia, Africa, and Europe, due to its strong encryption protocols and user-friendly design.
Telegram has gained significant traction as a privacy-centric platform, especially in regions where freedom of speech is under threat. The app’s rise in popularity was notably accelerated by the increased censorship and account bans on other social media platforms, like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, for content that contradicted their narratives.
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Ep. 94 The social media app Telegram has over 900 million users around the world. Its founder Pavel Durov sat down with us at his offices in Dubai for his first on-camera interview in almost a decade. pic.twitter.com/NEb3KzWOg8
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 16, 2024
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On Wednesday morning the House Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing with National Guard whistleblowers who stepped forward to correct the media lies and dishonest narrative on the January 6 protests and riots.
Four members of the National Guard testified on Wednesday that ey were ready to be deployed on January 6 but THE PENTAGON held them back!
This directly brings General Milley’s actions into question!
Kash Patel tipped us off last month that there were more reports like this coming.
National Guard whistleblowers: Command Sgt. Major Michael E. Brooks, Colonel Earl G. Matthews, Aaron Dean Retired, and Captain Timothy Nick stepped forward today to correct the record on January 6.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were both warned about the security situation prior to January 6th and both of them turned down National Guard troops at the US Capitol that day.
Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser turned down thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6 for political reasons.
Chris Wray’s FBI also refused to notify the Trump administration and his cabinet secretaries that they believed there could be violence like the mass protests at the Capitol that took place that day.
Nancy Pelosi also refused the National Guard at the US Capitol due to politics.
Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund said he asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup. But they both turned him down.
John Solomon from Just The News released an explosive report in 2022 that revealed Capitol Police were first warned about possible violence at the January 6th protests TWO WEEKS before the planned rallies.
Pelosi, Mayor Bowser, and other government officials turned down the National Guard anyway. They hoped for an “insurrection.”
Solomon says the DHS and District of Columbia were made aware of online threats of violence two weeks before the protests and rally.
During the testimony on Wednesday Command Sgt. Major Michael E. Brooks got choked up as he testified that the Pentagon refused to send the DC Capitol Police to the US Capitol on January 6.
The National Guard members waited for hours — until 5:09 PM hours after the first violence was reported — before the Pentagon gave them the order to deploy to the US Capitol.
The National Guard whistleblowers testified that the deployment of the National Guard members was delayed.
VERY interesting interview with regard to the National Guard not being deployed during J6 by the Select Committee.
Loudermilk: “Do you believe the deployment of the National Guard was delayed?’
Col E. G. Matthews: “They believed there was going to be a coup.”
“This is out there… pic.twitter.com/xEHKh8jSNF— SweetPeaBelle (@SweetPeaBell326) April 17, 2024
The whistleblowers also testified that Liz Cheney and Nancy Pelosi’s shame J6 subcommittee DID NOT want their testimony during their politicized investigation!
Of course they didn’t! They wanted to hide the truth from the American public.
Here is the full video from today’s hearing.
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The price tag of President Joe Biden’s student loan amnesty just keeps growing — and it’s not the neediest who are getting the money, either.
According to the New York Post, a new study by the University of Pennsylvania estimates that a new round of student loan cancellation programs raises the amount that taxpayers are stuck holding to $559 billion total, including $84 billion under new provisions announced last week.
The kicker? The newest provisions under the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan will benefit those in higher tax brackets the most.
The income-driven plan was introduced last summer, but new loan cancellations for 277,000 borrowers were announced last week.
“Today’s announcement shows — once again — that the Biden-Harris Administration is not letting up its efforts to give hardworking Americans some breathing room,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement, the Post reported.
“As long as there are people with overwhelming student loan debt competing with basic needs such as food and healthcare, we will remain relentless in our pursuit to bring relief to millions across the country.”
Cardona was doing the usual media rounds promoting how the plan was going to help the most vulnerable student loan recipients:
.@SecCardona breaks down who qualifies for President Biden’s new student debt relief plan.#GMA3 pic.twitter.com/BB3PVT76K4
— GMA3: What You Need To Know (@ABCGMA3) April 9, 2024
However, the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model found that the new round of cancellations wasn’t exactly going to help those who were struggling to put food on the table — unless their diet consisted of three square meals of foie gras and Wagyu steak.
“President Biden recently announced five main provisions to provide student loan debt relief. Some of provisions are already mostly covered by President Biden’s SAVE plan introduced in 2023. Some provisions, however, are more incremental to the SAVE plan, including one provision — the forgiveness of longer-term debt — that expands eligibility to higher-income households,” read a Thursday media release of the study’s key takeaways.
“We estimate that the New Plans will cost $84 billion in addition to the $475 billion that we estimated for President Biden’s SAVE plan, for a total cost of about $559 billion across both plans.
“While the New Plans, like the SAVE plan, contain provisions to relieve debt based on individual or household income, the New Plans will also relieve some longer-term student debt for about 750,000 households making over $312,000 in average household income,” it continued.
“The main reason for this high average household income is that the SAVE plan already provides long-term debt relief to households with lower incomes.”
Of the five major components of the new plans announced on April 8, two in particular stick out as driving the relief up the income ladder.
First is the threshold for waiving accrued and capitalized interest on the loans: “Up to $20,000 in accrued and capitalized interest will be waived for borrowers with current balances above the initial balance upon entering repayment, regardless of borrower’s income,” the Wharton media release read.
“Single borrowers making less than $120,000 or couples making less than $240,000 a year will qualify for a total waiver of all current balances above the initial balance if they are enrolled in any IDR plan. Automatic relief will be applied, and so no application is needed.”
Second is the elimination of undergraduate student debt for those who have been paying it for over 20 years or gradate debt for 25 years.
“If student loan repayments started on or before July 1, 2005, all debt will be eliminated for borrowers with undergraduate loans only. (For borrowers with any graduate debt, this date is pushed back to July 1, 2000). No enrollment in IDR plans will be needed to receive the relief, but currently it’s unclear if any other application will be required from the borrowers,” the news release said.
The total cost of all the five measures is a touch over $84 billion, added to the estimated $475 billion Biden’s unilateral student loan relief has already put taxpayers on the hook for.
However, in this case, Biden is providing relief to households who are less than $100,000 away from that magical $400,000 number that he says makes you one of the wealthy that he plans to tax to pay for his spending sprees — you know, those who need to start paying their “fair share.”
To say this is ridiculous is an understatement — until, of course, you realize that 2024 is an election year and Biden’s poll numbers haven’t looked hot since the beginning of the race, despite the fact that Democrat DAs and the Department of Justice have been on a quest to tie up the presumptive Republican nominee in court until November.
As House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Jodey Arrington, a Texas Republican, noted, this wasn’t just unconstitutional, it was a “quest to buy votes.”
“In reality, his plan will shift the responsibility of paying for loans owed by high-income earners who freely incurred them onto the backs of all taxpayers, many of whom do not even have a college degree,” Arrington said via a statement.
“[Biden’s] administration is dead set on circumventing the Supreme Court, defying Congress, and saddling our country with more debt.”
And unlike he says, it’s not taking from the rich to give to the poor. It’s taking from those who didn’t take college loans or paid them off and giving relief to wealthy people who did and haven’t.
Is this what student debt relief should look like? It is when one is down badly in the polls and is grasping at straws to get suburban voters in swing states. That’s hardly good policy — but as cynical strategizing, it’s not half bad.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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NPR’s senior editor Uri Berliner resigned from his position on Wednesday after he was suspended for attacking the network’s biased coverage.
National Public Radio (NPR) is a liberal organization that pushes propaganda and doesn’t allow any dissenting opinions.
Berliner, in an explosive interview with journalist Bari Weiss on her podcast ‘Honestly,’ criticized the organization’s editorial standards, saying that they were skewed against President Trump.
In the interview, Berliner expressed his concerns about the network’s journalistic integrity, highlighting the disparate treatment of news stories depending on their political implications:
“Here was a president who, you know, I believed was belligerent and Ill-informed and not a good person by any standard measure of decency. But I think we developed a different standard of coverage for Trump than any other politician. And I think that that led us to serious problems in our coverage. I mean one of them was not so much about Trump but connected to Trump was the Hunter Biden laptop where you know, one of our top news manager when the post published this explosive story said, we’re not gonna cover this.
Berliner also penned an essay for the online news outlet The Free Press, titled “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.”
Berliner resigned but he praised NPR in his resignation letter.
“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to defund NPR,” Berliner said in his resignation letter.
My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK
— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024
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California police arrested several Google employees after staging an anti-Israel sit-in protest inside Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale, California.
Employees participating in the sit-in were protesting against Google’s $1.2B contract with Israel’s government, known as Project Nimbus.
According to National Review, the pro-Palestinian protestors who are connected to the group “No Tech For Apartheid” were streaming the protest for over 10 hours before police got involved.
Similar protests erupted outside of Google’s offices in New York and Seattle.
WATCH:
BREAKING: Google employees were arrested after occupying their boss’s office for more than 8 hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel.
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/W4WQO8NNgH
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) April 17, 2024
More scenes from the protests:
@NoTechApartheid activists have taken over Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office at the Google headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA to call on the company to drop Project Nimbus, a cloud computing project of the IDF.
Simultaneously in NYC, Googlers have taken over the lobby: pic.twitter.com/m7YnBM0NyB
— Talia Jane
(@taliaotg) April 16, 2024
Per The New York Post:
Several Google employees were arrested and placed on administrative leave late Tuesday after staging 10-hour sit-ins at offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California to protest the company’s $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel.
The pro-Palestinian employees, who are affiliated with a group called “No Tech For Apartheid,” posted several videos and live-streams of the protests — including the moment they were issued final warnings and arrested by local police for trespassing.
A third protest took place in Seattle.
The shocking protests included a complete takeover of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale by workers wearing traditional Arab headscarves.
Google staffers storm NYC, California, Seattle offices to protest Israel contract https://t.co/QeznUp5e1j pic.twitter.com/Ehw8yjUU1S
— New York Post (@nypost) April 16, 2024
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Guest by post by Bob Unruh
‘If you don’t believe in God, something’s wrong with you, seriously’
A coalition whose goal includes censoring select Christians who make reference to their personal faith has demanded that the University of South Carolina censor its women’s basketball coach.
But officials with the Rutherford Institute have volunteered to help defend the school from the attack by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
The fight is over comments by Dawn Staley, the coach of the Gamecocks, which came after the team defeated Oregon State last month to advance to the NCAA’s Final Four. The team later won the title.
Staley was interviewed, and was asked, “Since the last two games have been close and tough,…what’s impressed you about this [team]?”
She praised the players’ resilience and added, “I’m giving all the glory to God, though. …The devastating loss that we had last year, to put us back here with a totally different team—if you don’t believe in God, something’s wrong with you, seriously. I’m a believer. I’m a believer because He makes things come true. When you’re at your worst, He’s at His best.”
Within hours, the FFRF had ordered the school to “take action to protect its student athletes and to ensure that Staley understands that she has been hired as a basketball coach and not a pastor.”
It also issued a demand that Staley “be educated as to her constitutional duties under the Establishment Clause.”
The protest group also complained that Staley had posted Bible verses on her own social media accounts and was involved in devotionals.
Rutherford now has advised the school that, “To prohibit Coach Staley from making any reference to biblical passages as a source of motivation and team building, while allowing her to make references to secular writers and stories, would be discriminatory and ‘may evidence hostility to religion…,'” the letter said.
“Coach Staley is tasked with motivating her players as a team to win. After winning the NCAA championship this year, freshman Tessa Johnson credited the team’s success with the environment Staley helped create: ‘We’re unselfish people and that’s how we win it,'” the letter said.
“Indeed, the Bible contains many passages that call for people to be unselfish and work as a team: ‘Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interest of others;’ ‘the body is one and has many members,…[i]f one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together;’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.'”
The letter to South Carolina chief Michael Amiridis explained that while the Constitution says the government “may not establish or compel a particular religion, it also may not silence and suppress religious speech merely because others take offense.”
It continued, “People are free to ignore, disagree with, or counter the religious speech of others, but they cannot compel the government to censor such speech.”
So, the letter said, the FFRF “has the right to complain about the actions of the university’s women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley, but it does not have the right to compel the University of South Carolina to suppress the religious speech and expression made by Coach Staley as a private citizen.”
It notes the Supreme Court previously has ruled: “Learning how to tolerate speech or prayer of all kinds is part of learning how to live in a pluralistic society.” The court further has affirmed that while public officials and employees “can act on behalf of the state, they are also private citizens with their own constitutional rights.”
“While the government may not establish or compel a particular religion, it also may not silence and suppress religious speech merely because others take offense,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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Update: The ground stop was lifted Wednesday afternoon.
Alaska Airlines on Wednesday asked the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to pause the airline’s departures nationwide.
The FAA issued a ground stop advisory for Alaska Airlines at 7:50 am on Wednesday.
According to KIRO 7, the ground stop is related to a problem with the airline’s weight and balance system.
“This morning we experienced an issue while performing an upgrade to the system that calculates our weight and balance. A ground stop for all Alaska and Horizon flights was instituted at approximately 7:50am PT. We’re working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and encourage guests to check the status of their flights on alaskaair.com or the Alaska App prior to heading to the airport.”
Alaska Airlines responded to angry stranded customers on Wednesday morning.
I understand and I apologize again! -Jordan
— Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) April 17, 2024
I apologize but we have no info on other carriers -Jordan
— Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) April 17, 2024
Thank you so much for your patience as we work to get you back on your way.
– Bobbi— Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) April 17, 2024
I'm sorry for the wait. We are working to get you on your way as quickly as possible. -Jordan
— Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) April 17, 2024
DEVELOPING…
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Like communities around the country, Chicago is hemorrhaging cash to deal with the devastating consequences of Joe Biden’s border disaster.
On Monday, the Budget and Government Operations Committee of the Chicago City Council voted 20-8 to send Mayor Brandon Johnson’s request for $70 million in additional City funding to care for illegals to the full Council.
CBS News reports that the request is part of a spending plan announced by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in February. The State of Illinois and Cook County pledged a combined $250 million to help fund the crisis, which is anticipated to reach at least $321 million for shelter and services this calendar year.
During the heated debate, Ald. Chris Taliaferro of the 29th Ward said, “We are not taking care of our own. We have all but forgotten the residents on the West Side and South Side.”
Last Fall, Taliafarro spoke out against another example of the City putting illegals ahead of citizens when plans were announced to convert a youth football field into a shelter for illegals in his district.
9th Ward Ald. Anthony Beale added, “We don’t have money for after-school programs. We don’t have money to help our kids get off the street. Yet, we would just blow money left and right. That’s a fundamental problem.”
“And when we talk about this money, and as important as our children are to us, a place like Ogden Park, the field house is to the Inglewood community, where shootings take place, where every economic indicator, health indicator, everything, everybody should be jumping to that to protect our children and give us the things we need,” said 17th Ward Ald. David Moore.
The money is needed as the Democratic National Convention approaches in August, according to sources familiar with the plan.
Most of the money would come from a reserve fund set up for migrants, and the rest from rainy day funds.
The city has spent nearly $300 million to help feed, shelter and care for migrants since August 2022, according to the mayor’s office.
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Through the lens of tens of thousands of service members and veterans affected by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s 2021 COVID-19 military shot mandate, an important question arises: Did the Department of Defense, specifically the Secretary of Defense, mandate a “toxic exposure risk activity” (TERA)?
It’s a question being asked increasingly more often by people like whistleblower Trey Fleming and Dr. Crisanna Shackelford. Previously speaking under a pseudonym, the whistleblower’s name is Sonny Fleeman III, a combat veteran and Rating Veteran Services Representative for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Fleeman revealed himself on a video podcast with Feds for Freedom.
Like Fleeman, Dr. Crisanna “Shack” Shackelford is a veteran. She is also founder and CEO of realreactions.org. They are working to expose that the COVID-19 shots contain toxins that can be claimed as a toxic exposure risk under the 2022 Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act.
Fleeman told The Gateway Pundit that exposure to burn pits, toxins in improvised explosive devices (IED), chlorine bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, burning oil wells, and Agent Orange used during the Vietnam war topped the list of widely recognized cases of toxic substances within the PACT Act.
But what does the PACT Act say about those who have clearly been injured by the so-called COVID-19 vaccine, he and Dr. Shackleford questioned, also pointing out what has recorded by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concerning the Moderna injection. “Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA,” the report states. And according to Dr. Robert Malone, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein used within COVID-19 “vaccines” is a toxin.
SARS-CoV-2 direct cardiac damage through spike-mediated cardiomyocyte fusion
More evidence of Spike as a toxin.https://t.co/ytUpbNRX3k
— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) September 1, 2021
Interestingly, within the toxic Exposure Risk Activity (TERA) provisions for veterans to obtain a screening for their toxic exposures, the policy states, “Vaccines and medications in general are not considered participation in a TERA [under the PACT Act] because there is no scientific or medical evidence that supports the conclusion that vaccines and medications administered to Service Members have resulted in long-term adverse health effects.”
Dr. Shackelford said, “this is shocking given how much is known about the toxicity of the ‘gene therapy’ injection and known adverse health effects.” For her, “the fact that the VA would disenfranchise our service members who were mandated to take this injection raises critical questions.”
The policy being enforced by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is easily debunked, according to Dr. Shackelford. Her straightforward, but oft-ignored, explanation should “raise the alarm bell” for those who continue to deny countless stories of the gene therapy’s toxic adverse side effects. According to her, it’s undeniable: “The spike protein that the body is forced to make from the injection—in and of itself—is toxic.”
Consider the plight of Army Corporal Karolina Stancik who has suffered more than one heart attack, a mini-stroke, and several neurological maladies after being forced roll up her sleeve and get the shot. Yet, in a case like hers, the VA would maintain that “…vaccines and medications, in general, are not considered participation in toxic exposure risk activity because there are no long-term adverse health effects supported by science.”
“This very issue of toxic exposure and the known mechanisms of injury such as Karolina’s must be acknowledged, and those responsible must ensure that disability compensation for this toxic exposure occurs,” she said.
In December 2023, Fleeman explained that “veterans with vaccine injuries are excluded from receiving a VA examination and medical nexus opinion under the PACT Act—and more specifically under the TERA provisions.” And according to Dr. Shackelford, the exclusion is “fraudulent” and the “willful ignorance” needs to be exposed.
From the start, it was illegal for the Pentagon’s policy to say that the Comirnaty and EUA Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were interchangeable. “This cannot be refuted, “Dr. Shackelford said, adding that “it was undeniably an illegal mandate for this reason and more.” With that, the question remains: did the Department of Defense, specifically the Secretary of Defense, mandate a TERA?
According to Dr. Shackelford, “If the VA was forced to concede that the so-called vaccine, or gene therapy per the Moderna SEC filing, is toxic, all bets would be off for the Department of Defense.” This must be addressed by Congress at some point, she argued, adding that “the mandate for COVID-19 injections represented a forced toxic exposure with catastrophic implications for our national security and defense readiness.”
Because of concern about reprisals, Fleeman emphasized that his views don’t reflect those of the VA.
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While there’s continued activity all over the Ukraine theater of war, the battle for Chasov Yar remains one of the most relevant focus points of the war, both because of its strategic relevance and also because of what it tells about the state of the confrontation.
Located in the Donetsk region, Chasov Yar lies 3-6 miles from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), captured by Russian Federation forces in May last year after a bloody months-long siege.
Watch: heavy bombardment of Ukrainian defense positions.
CHASOV YAR: heavy bombardment of Ukrainian defense positions. pic.twitter.com/Cw291i5fJ6
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, has stated that Moscow aims to capture the town by the patriotic ‘Victory Day’ of May 9.
Reuters reported:
“The fall of the town west of the shattered city of Bakhmut by the date Moscow marks the Soviet victory in World War Two would indicate growing Russian battlefield momentum as Kyiv faces a slowdown in Western military aid.
Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who warned this weekend that the situation in the east had deteriorated, said Russia was focusing its efforts west of occupied Bakhmut to try to capture Chasiv Yar before moving towards the city of Kramatorsk.
[…] ‘The threat remains relevant, taking into account the fact that the higher Russian military leadership has set its troops the task of capturing Chasov Yar by May 9’, he said, without elaborating.”
Russia traditionally celebrates ‘Victory Day’ with a big military parade on Red Square.
While the progressive Russian advance all over the 600-mile-long frontline has forced the MSM into being more factual and less hopeful, it’s still far from adequate to form a comprehensive picture of the developments.
Watch: Russian artillery barrage is unleashed.
CHASOV YAR: Russian artillery barrage is unleashed. pic.twitter.com/R1XBSltaX6
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
Let’s find out what we can gather from a variety of Telegram channels, mostly Sputnik International, Intel Slava Z, Slavyangrad, and Bellum Acta.
To begin with, Russian Federation forces have captured additional positions on the flanks along the administrative borders of the city, in its never-ending encircling the enemy in ‘boilers’, pincers and all kinds of tactical maneuvers.
While Avdeevka Moscow’s forces made comparatively fast advances, when it comes to urban warfare, the fight becomes street by street, block by block, building by building.
Combat now takes place in the Canal microdistrict of the city along Oleg Koshevoy Street from the T-shaped intersection with Gorbatova street. The fighting is taking place near the food market.
Military correspondent Yevgeny Lisitsyn:
“There are active battles in the Chasov Yar area. The Russian Armed Forces take positions in the Canal microdistrict on the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar and in the Stupki-Golubovskie-2 area, where one of the enemy strongholds was captured. Russian troops are actively using aviation to attack the positions and rear of the Army, which significantly complicates the defense of the city for Ukrainian forces.”
But while the fierce Ukrainian defenders have been reinforced with artillery and drones, and electronic warfare devices, as per a Reuters report, the striking feature of this battle is the fact that Nazi Azov brigades seem to be ‘sitting this one out.’
Watch: Drone attacks target Ukrainian troops and equipment.
CHASOV YAR: Drone attacks target Ukrainian troops and equipment. pic.twitter.com/dUvlRYBKHy
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
The experience from previous sieges apparently has made the most ideological Ukrainian forces weary of defending ‘to the end’ localities that they deem un-defendable.
Aleksander Khodakovskiy writes:
“Information has emerged that Azov, the menace of all the ‘Moskals’, has again refused to sacrifice itself for European values. […] in Ukraine, those who made the mess are now pushing forward the gray masses, who were driven against their will, while they themselves prefer to save themselves for future political feats.”
The telegram channel from the Z 105th regiment:
“However, not everyone faces threats like ‘pincers’, ‘cauldrons’, and other blockades. The 3rd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (formerly known as “Azov”) is one such example. These nimble soldiers have already departed from Chasov Yar in advance, drawing from their experiences in Mariupol and honing their skills in Avdeevka.”
Besides the 3rd Assault Brigade AZOV refusing to go to Chasov Yar, the 67th Mechanized Brigade (‘right sector unit’) refused orders and left Chasov Yar and reportedly will be dissolved.
In the last couple of days, the fighting shifted westward to the area of the Seversky Donets Canal.
A lot is written these days about how Ukrainians are outgunned by the Russians, with all the blame assigned to its allies. Not enough is written about how it faces a manpower shortage due to a real demographic catastrophe caused by the hundreds of thousands of dead.
And certainly, almost nothing gets published about how Ukrainians are outmaneuvered by the Russian strategy of ‘death by a thousand cuts,’ attacking at multiple axis at once, making the defenders scramble to move reinforcements around.
Now we learn that there’s a downsizing of the Ukrainian group in the northern Kupyansk direction. A significant amount of troops and equipment is being relocated to Chasov Yar.
And so, maybe we’ll see rapid advances – in Kupyansk.
Watch: Mi-28N and Ka-52 launch unguided missiles at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Chasov Yar.
Russian Helicopters launch unguided missiles at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Chasov Yar. pic.twitter.com/2XwiMY0woj
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
It is also reported that drone operators of the 98th Airborne Division have begun ‘free-hunting’ Ukrainian forces in the urban area of Chasov Yar.
Drones with night vision are also used. The use of quadcopters and FPV drones directly in the residential areas of Chasov Yar has increased drastically.
Despite all this activity, the assault on Chasov Yar from both flanks reportedly remains a distant prospect. This process requires not only taking control of key enemy strongholds but also force-crossing the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal.
Powerful airstrikes were carried out on the suburb of Chasov Yar, where temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are located.
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A well-attended press conference took place at the National Press Club in Washington on April 8. Experts shared the essential learning points on how Taiwan conducted a successful presidential election in the face of a concerted, malign influence campaign waged by communist China through online methods enabled by collaborators inside Taiwan.
Russell Hsiao, executive director of the Global Taiwan Institute, led a panel of experts that included Yang Shun-Ching of Doublethink Labs, Yu Chihhao of Taiwan Information Environment Research Center, Eve Chiu of Taiwan Fact Check Center, Billion Lee of Cofacts, and Liu Wen-Ping of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau.
Social media, laced with artificial intelligence-enabled manipulations of media, were the tip of the spear of the Chinese efforts. TikTok was the most malign of the Chinese social media campaigns, but often, there was strong synchronization of messaging across YouTube, Douyin (China’s domestic version of TikTok), and TikTok itself.
Ms. Chiu showed examples of this messaging. U.S. political figures such as presumptive GOP nominee and former President Donald Trump and Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) had their English language and Mandarin-translated voice tracks altered.
One of the AI-altered TikTok videos with Mr. Wittman showed him voicing support for Democratic Progressive Party candidate William Lai, while the original video clip showed the congressman talking about Ukraine—meaning that the altered video had been manipulated from a totally different topic.
Influencers also played a key role on TikTok and repeated the same talking points between the different influencer personalities. Mr. Yang presented an example of a TikTok influencer who had previously focused on fashion and started sharing messages questioning the integrity of the Taiwanese election process and alleging electoral fraud.
The psychological operation and cognitive warfare campaign objective of the Chinese flow of messages was primarily intended to favor the Kuomintang party through a focus on fear, doubt, and divisiveness.
One of the ugliest and most pernicious themes pushed were smears of the growing Indian population doing high-tech work in the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. chip factories and other labor categories such as construction. The messages were intentionally designed to create fear that Taiwanese women would be targeted in sexual assaults by this imported labor that has become necessary because of labor shortages and low birth rates in Taiwan.
One curious theme was the planted messages that U.S. pork was contaminated, low quality, or had other negative attributes. This theme was perhaps a double-edged sword or not fully thought out. The Chinese population depends heavily on U.S.-imported pork. Should the Chinese not trust U.S. pork or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
One semi-comical attempted smear was aimed at Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and looked like a typical American political attack ad, in which her picture in color would be reshown in black and white with vague intimations that some sinister secret double life was being led, yet with scant detail behind the allegation.
What was common among the presenters was respect for the difference between political dissent and willful malign Chinese interference. One important observation from Mr. Liu was the key role that on-the-ground collaborators played. They helped focus, clarify, distribute, and adjust the messaging. The money trail seemed to be the primary evidence for identifying Chinese collaborators.
During the press conferences before the January Taiwanese election, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu cited multiple arrests for violating Taiwanese laws forbidding the acceptance of foreign money for political activities. The Taiwanese showed a remarkable ability to discriminate their activities and allow political discourse to occur while successfully identifying and interdicting malign CCP influence operations.
The Taiwan experience is rich with lessons learned that can be applied to the upcoming U.S. presidential election. In Taiwan, there appears to be a healthy respect for and appreciation of the vital necessity for an election process that is as clean as possible. The comments on how highly the Chinese valued on-the-ground collaborators to refine the effectiveness of their cognitive warfare campaign bring even more concern, focus, and action that should be applied to the relentless surge of Chinese nationals who appear to be military operators streaming across the southern border into the United States.
All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization.
This article first appeared in Epoch Times and was reprinted with permission.
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The first seven jurors in President Trump’s NYC lawfare case in liberal Judge Juan Merchan’s court.
Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday accused Trump of intimidating a juror who admitted she posted a pro-Biden video to her Facebook page.
Jury selection was still underway on Tuesday in the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial after more than 50 prospective jurors were dismissed from the jury pool on Monday.
One potential juror was brought in for questioning after Trump’s lawyers discovered she posted a pro-Biden celebratory video in 2020.
“You had to get in the car to spread the honking cheer. it’s a full on dance party at 96th street,” the potential juror’s caption read according to Trump attorney Todd Blanche.
President Trump was allegedly gesturing and ‘audibly speaking in the direction of the potential juror’ while she was being questioned about her pro-Biden social media post.
Judge Merchan accused Trump of intimidating the juror.
“I won’t tolerate that. I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom. I want to make that crystal clear,” Judge Merchan said.
Merchan’s daughter is a top activist for Democrats and Joe Biden campaign. Merchan is pushing charges against Trump that are not a crime. He needs jurors who believe like he does that President Trump is guilty of a crime because he is still breathing.
Jesse Watters reviewed the first seven jurors selected for Trump’s criminal trial in Merchan’s kangaroo court.
They all get their news from the far-left New York Times. No one who takes the reporting and nonsense published at the NYT seriously is even slightly conservative. The trial is rigged.
Jesse Watters: Over half of the jury has already been selected. We already know a lot about them, and it is hysterical. Before we tell you about them, remember that this is a Manhattan jury. It went 87% for Biden. The judge who’s overseeing the selection process is a Biden donor whose family was paid by the Biden campaign. Yesterday, 50 white women wearing masks fled the courtroom, claiming they couldn’t be fair to Trump. Anyone wearing a mask at this point is not an impartial juror…
…Show me a juror who says they can be unbiased towards Trump, and I’ll show you a liar. That’s why we don’t have political trials in America. Fairness is impossible. Trump’s legal team was given the names of potential jurors, and after googling them, discovered there were undercover activists trying to sneak onto the jury. One juror couldn’t recall any anti-Trump feeling, but when the defense showed him the receipts, he admitted he’d posted on social media, Donald Trump should be locked up. Another juror said he didn’t remember posting anything bad about Trump. Then when shown the evidence, conceded to He’s posting a picture that says, Trump invites Thai boys to the White House. Thai boys request to return to cage. Those two radical liberals got caught lying to the court and were almost seated on the jury. This is what Trump has to deal with. Yesterday, Clay Travis was criticized for suggesting Trump supporters get on the jury.
So far, seven jurors have been seated. Here’s what we know about them.
The Foreman, juror number one. He’s a salesman from Harlem who was born in Ireland. He used to be a waiter, didn’t finish college, and likes anything outdoorsy. He’s married with no kids. His wife’s in school. He gets his news from the New York Times, the Daily Mail, and some Fox News and MSNBC. Never met anybody who watches both Fox and MSNBC, but okay, that guy is your jury foreman.
Juror number 2, a nurse from the Upper East Side with a master’s degree. She’s not married, has no kids, and lives with her fiancé who works in finance. She gets her news from the New York Times, Google, and CNN. She said two things that really stuck out. One, I don’t really have an opinion of Trump, and, No one is above the law. I’m not so sure about Jury Number Two. Jury number two.
Juror number 3 is a young Asian lawyer from Oregon. His corporate law firm features DEI on its homepage. He’s single, lives in Chelsea, and was wearing a purple jacket. He claims he’s not super familiar with Trump’s other charges. He likes to hike and run and gets his news from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Google.
Jury number 4 is a Puerto Rican who finds Trump fascinating and mysterious. He walks into a room and he sets people off one way or the other. I find that really interesting that this one guy can do all this. Wow. The guy was actually born in Puerto Rico, lives on the Lower East Side now, and works in IT. He’s married and he has grandkids. Wife’s a writer. Previously served on a jury but says he doesn’t remember the verdict. He gets his news from the The New York Daily News, The New York Times, and Google. Anyway.
Jury number 5. A black woman in her 20s who doesn’t follow the news and didn’t know Trump was facing charges, any charges, anywhere. She lives in Harlem. She’s a teacher. She’s not married, has no kids, and lives with her brother, who’s a basketball coach. She gets her news from Google and TikTok. She also listens to Charlemagne the God.
Jury number 6 is a woman in her 20s who works for Disney. She made the courtroom laugh because she wanted to know if the trial would be over before September because she’s a bridesmaid in her sister’s wedding. She’s not married She has no kids, and likes to dance. She lives with three roommates and gets her news from the New York Times, Google, Facebook, and of course, TikTok, and says she doesn’t have strong feelings about Trump one way or the other. Okay.
Jury number 7 is a middle-aged, balding white guy with a tan. He lives on the Upper East Side, and you guessed it, another lawyer whose firm is big into DEI and ESG. He’s originally from North Carolina, married with two kids, and his wife works at a bank. He gets his news from the New York Times, the Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Post, and he listens to NPR.
That’s the jury of Trump’s peers so far. The fate of a billionaire real estate tycoon, TV celebrity turned 45th President of the United States is in the hands of New York City lawyers, teachers, and Disney workers who like to dance and get their news from the Times. But swear they can be impartial.
The trial is rigged. They have no crime but will find Trump guilty anyway. We already know the outcome.
This is America today – it’s open season on patriotic, conservative Americans.
Here is the video, via Catturd2.
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Welcome to The Gateway Pundit’s Week-in-Review with Elijah Schaffer, where he covers the top 5 stories throughout the week in around 10 minutes.
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A student earlier this week was caught on tape assaulting a North Carolina high school teacher during a vulgar diatribe. But the pupil is only being charged with misdemeanors despite the violent act.
The short video of the assault, which The North Carolina Beat first obtained, shows the youth confronting the teacher inside Parkland High School in Winston-Salem before viciously slapping her twice. He can be heard calling the teacher a “b*tch,” taunts her multiple times, and even drops the N-word.
The students behind the camera can be heard ooohing and laughing while the assault takes place.
Surprisingly, the teacher keeps her cool despite the pupil’s horrific behavior.
WATCH:
Winston-Salem, North Carolina high school teacher at Parkland High School was slapped twice by a student. Story: https://t.co/03PCOZTfuS pic.twitter.com/5O3kw5zDJg
— The North Carolina Beat (@TheNCBeat) April 15, 2024
Unidentified voice: One more time!
(Student slaps teacher)
Student: I don’t know what the f**k’s wrong with your b*tch a**. You think that affected me any? You want me to hit you again? You want me to hit you again?
Teacher: I don’t want it.
Student: You want me to hit you again?
Teacher: I don’t want it.
Student: You want me to hit you again?
(slaps teacher across the face one final time)
Student: Stop f**ing playing with me. I told you, I’m not your dumb** (inaudible)
Teacher: And do I look like I care?
Student: “What the f**k’s wrong with you? What you gonna do, sit still in that chair cause you a b*tch!…B*tch a** n*****!
(Singing) Ain’t nobody even coming, you got slapped. B*tch go back to teaching.
The North Carolina Beat identified the youth as Aquavious ‘Quavo’ Hickman.
The New York Post reports Hickman was charged with one count of Communicating Threats and two counts of Misdemeanor Assault, all misdemeanors.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Tricia McManus released a statement condemning Hickman’s actions.
This behavior will not be tolerated. At no time is it acceptable for students to put their hands on a teacher in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
My focus now is on making sure that our teacher is taken care of and has the support needed to navigate through the lasting effects of this incident.
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The investigation by the Select Committee on The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis reveals that the CCP subsidizes PRC companies producing fentanyl precursor chemicals for export, thus knowingly exacerbating the US drug crisis.
In his State of the Union Address on March 7, 2024, President Biden acknowledged Fentanyl as one of the most significant threats confronting the United States. The president’s assertion aligns with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Annual Threat Assessment for 2024, which identifies fentanyl as the second-largest threat, following terrorism. The report also states that DHS expects “illegal drugs produced in Mexico and sold in the United States will continue to kill more Americans than any other threat.”
According to a DHS Fact Sheet regarding the State of the Union Address, the fentanyl crisis “originates with China-based entities that manufacture and distribute the chemicals used to produce the fentanyl fueling American overdose deaths.” The CCP manufactures 98% of the global supply of precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl. The select committee not only uncovered CCP subsidies for fentanyl but also for numerous other synthetic and illicit drugs.
The DHS Fact Sheet provides additional details, stating that “DHS participated in the development of a new Counternarcotics Working Group with China to disrupt the manufacture and flow of illicit synthetic drugs.” Given the emerging evidence of CCP’s direct involvement in the fentanyl crisis, this initiative appears ironic and likely ineffective in halting its spread.
In 2023, the US House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act, which amends the Fentanyl Sanctions Act. The latter calls for sanctions against Chinese entities as “foreign opioid traffickers” if they produce, sell, finance, or transport synthetic opioids or precursors.” It is evident that numerous government agencies, along with Congress and the White House, recognize fentanyl as one of the most pressing issues facing the US, responsible for the most American fatalities. They all acknowledge China as the source. Despite this consensus, the president continues to pursue efforts to ‘work with’ Beijing rather than directly holding the CCP accountable.
US law enforcement entities have reported informing their Chinese government contacts about the companies manufacturing and exporting fentanyl, yet the CCP has not taken any action. The Bill specifies that Chinese entities could face sanctions if they “fail to take credible steps to prevent opioid trafficking, including through cooperation with U.S. counternarcotics efforts and know-your-customer procedures.” It appears that the CCP is now subject to sanctions, given its lack of cooperation with US law enforcement and failure to halt the fentanyl flow.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a warning in 2017-2018 through a report titled ‘TACKLING FENTANYL: THE CHINA CONNECTION,’ identifying China as the source of the fentanyl crisis. However, to date, the White House has not held the CCP accountable.
The CCP denies any knowledge of or culpability in the problem. Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the PRC embassy in Washington D.C., stated in an email, “It is very clear that there is no fentanyl problem in China, and the fentanyl crisis in the United States is not caused by the Chinese side, and blindly blaming China cannot solve the U.S. own problem.” These are not the words of a government willing to cooperate. It is astounding that this statement came from an official CCP source, just weeks after the President’s State of the Union Address where he claimed his administration was working closely with the CCP on this issue.
The PRC Embassy’s statement underscores the folly of the Biden administration’s continued belief that they can work with the CCP to stop fentanyl and to fix a number of other global issues caused by the CCP, everything from China trade cheating to threats against Taiwan and the Philippines, to Beijing’s support of Russia in Ukraine, and ongoing support for Iran and the legitimization of Hamas. Given the CCP’s active involvement in these activities, it’s evident that Xi Jinping is aware of and likely orchestrating them, suggesting they won’t simply stop.
The CCP: An Enemy, Not a Competitor or Partner
The US Intelligence Community (IC), in its Annual Threat Assessment, and the Department of Defense (DoD) in its China Military Power report, both identify China as the primary threat to the US. Both reports from the IC and DoD elaborate on how the CCP’s strategy involves a whole-of-government approach known as Military Civil Fusion (MCF), which utilizes for-profit private entities across various industries and fields to further the state’s policy objectives. Evidently, this strategy extends to the chemical industry, which is being exploited to harm Americans and undermine American society through the distribution of deadly and illicit drugs.
Given that US intelligence and defense authorities are unequivocal about the CCP’s intent to supplant the United States, it is illogical to believe that the two countries can cooperate or that the CCP will take steps to improve America’s position.
The manufacture and distribution of chemicals in China is regarded as a sensitive domain, tightly regulated by the CCP, requiring permits and government approval for manufacturing or exporting. This implies that the CCP was aware of the production and export of fentanyl precursor chemicals. Now that the Select Committee has uncovered not only the CCP’s awareness but also its subsidization of the manufacture and export of fentanyl precursors, it becomes evident that the CCP is endorsing this activity and actively contributing to the deaths of Americans. With two hundred Americans dying of fentanyl overdoses every day, the CCP is killing as many Americans as the 9/11 terrorists, every two weeks.
Up to this point, the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2023 has only cleared the House and has not been signed into law. Should it become law, it appears that the entire CCP would be deemed in violation. Regrettably, although the media, the public, and some congressional representatives express outrage over the recent revelations, it seems improbable that the Biden administration will undertake meaningful action against the CCP.
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A teenage boy was killed in a shooting that took place during a massive brawl involving nearly 50 teens.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) confirmed the fatal shooting occurred just before 4 p.m.
“Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide detectives are responding to the 10800 block of Western Avenue, in the unincorporated city of Los Angeles regarding a shooting death investigation. The incident occurred on Monday, April 15, 2024, at 3:49 p.m.,” LASPD said in a statement.
As deputies arrived in response to the chaos, they found the victim, a teenage male, lying on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds.
Immediate efforts were made to save his life, and he was swiftly transported to a nearby hospital. Despite these efforts, the LASD later confirmed that the young victim was pronounced dead upon arrival at the medical facility.
Prior to the shooting, multiple fights had reportedly broken out among the large group of juveniles.
A video capturing the violent scene has since gone viral on social media platforms, showing the moment the suspect opened fire after apparently being attacked by several individuals.
The LASD has revealed that two individuals were detained at the scene, although it remains unconfirmed if they are also teenagers.
In California, minors are generally prohibited from owning or possessing firearms.
WATCH:
BOY OPENED FIRE IN L.A. AFTER BEING JUMPED
Just another day in Lawlessville, California…https://t.co/ReJ9BykDdb
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 17, 2024
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This week, President Trump faces a political prosecution in New York State, forcing him into the courtroom and off the campaign trail. Every single day President Trump, who now leads in most state polls as the frontrunner for the 2024 general election, is hamstrung from campaigning is another day Biden and his regime apparatchiks get an unfair advantage. The strategy of what President Trump’s enemies are doing is readily on display: Biden has deliberately rigged the playing field to give his team, which languishes in countless self-inflicted crises, every opportunity it could get to make up lost ground.
The Biden Regime, of course, already has allies in the administrative (or deep) state, the mainstream media, Big Tech, the judicial system, and hundreds of lawmakers working on both sides of the aisle that carry out the marching orders of the Uniparty with abandon. Thus, to achieve yet another advantage, in abusing the levers of power to attack his foremost political opponent, would seem almost wantonly gratuitous.
And yet, Biden and his henchmen get away with such brazen abuses of power time and again. In large part, this is because they have internalized a timeless lesson of politics: when you have power, use it to benefit friends and punish enemies. This, Biden and the Uniparty that backs him does with impunity.
Many Republicans remain controlled opposition. Many more are simply kowtowed into staying silent to carry out the policies of the regnant political class in Washington DC – open borders, corrupted elections, millions of dollars of aid wasted on Ukraine, Israel, and China – all of which harm hundreds of millions of Americans.
Indeed, many Americans have died, literally, as a result of the Biden Regime’s suicidal policies. The border policy, being perhaps the most destructive, has unleashed upwards of 7.2 million illegals upon the homeland, a catastrophe that will permanently rupture the cultural and economic fabric of this country, save mass deportations of a historic scale, to rectify the crisis. Many Americans have been killed by illegal aliens – either the victims of homicide from dangerous gangs like MS-13, or casualties of a drunk driver – who may or may not have a license depending on how sadistic the Governor of the state in which the DUI-caused homicide occurred is. (The latter issue memorably achieved national prominence in President Trump’s first term when he personally highlighted the tragic stories of “Angel Moms” at rallies and other public events, an advocacy group composed of mothers and relatives of Americans dedicated to raising awareness of the now unmanageable illegal alien crisis.)
Countless other Americans have suffered from the devastating indirect effects of an open border. Upwards of a quarter million Americans have died from Fentanyl overdoses since 2018. Fentanyl is a highly lethal Schedule II controlled substance that is widely accessible on the black market. Fentanyl dealers obtain the lethal drug from countries like Mexico and China, two of the most prominent beneficiaries of our reckless, open border policies — and two of our greatest adversaries.
And yet, as the United States is being driven to the ground by open borders policies that shake every aspect of our society – culturally, economically, linguistically – Republican lawmakers largely remain indifferent to or downright afraid of challenging the status quo.
Perhaps no one better embodies this pitiful state of affairs than current House Speaker Mike Johnson, who was disgraced former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s replacement. McCarthy, who served as Speaker for just eight months, had arguably the most turbulent and ineffective Speakership in all of American history. His Speakership was contested from the moment he announced his candidacy for the office, having nearly gone down in defeat before it began — but for a highly contested, multi-day vote last January that culminated in an eleventh hour switch on the part of some holdouts, landing the Californian the vaunted position on the fifteenth ballot. That drawn out vote nevertheless set the tone for the next eight months, a period marred by unkept promises and myriad disappointments, as McCarthy repeatedly failed to make good on several key promises – such as the disclosure of exonerating J6 footage – that resulted in the motion to vacate his chair, initiated by Congressman Gaetz, putting the nail in the coffin to his political career.
Johnson, who stepped into McCarthy’s shoes as the next House Speaker, had a perfect model of what not to do in that office. One was to leave in play the omnibus spending bills that funded agencies like the FBI and IRS, which have now been weaponized against political dissidents of the Biden Regime — and stop giving more aid to faraway places like the Ukraine and Middle East, which, in peacetime, offer few if any geopolitical benefits at all to the United States.
In deranged, war-spiraling times like ours — defined by a weaponized DOJ, crumbling infrastructure, and wide-open borders – it gives every reason on earth to shift our priorities inward, refocusing attention on cleaning up our own house before searching abroad for monsters to destroy. Thus, continuation of those reckless policies can only be chalked up to a ruling class-wide suicide pact for the country. Short of that explanation, pursuing those same failed policies is simply inexplicable.
And yet, the current Speaker still fails to grasp the magnitude of these calamities. On his recent visit to Mar-a-Lago, he only begrudgingly spoke of systemic voter fraud – all byproducts of the Biden Regime – when directly confronted with the issue by none other than President Trump himself, who unsurprisingly minced no words in discussing the lingering problem.
Ditto also the FISA court issue – and the reauthorization and expansion of our spying laws in general. Of course, these illegitimate “courts” should not be given another penny, given the appalling rights violations they have committed, over decades, against the American public. The fact that FISA court-spending, rather than, say, securing the border or holding those rogue district attorneys presently waging lawfare against President Trump and his supporters accountable, was an important agenda item for Johnson, again, exemplifies a rank failure of leadership of the highest possible order.
Johnson has a major crisis on his hands – and the more strident members of his caucus, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, detect his weakness. That is why they recently proposed a second motion to vacate the Speaker’s Chair – in large part owing to Johnson’s own failures to display strength, rather than lead from behind, a plague that affected every single one of his recent Republican predecessors. One would think, given just how bad the examples of his predecessors were, that Johnson would have every incentive to take a dramatic course correction – for he has at his immediate disposal the playbook of exactly what not to do.
And yet, alas, Johnson appears afflicted by that same curse – incredulously reverting to the tired policies that made McCarthy, and before him, Paul Ryan and John Boehner, so woefully unpopular — including continuation of the omnibus bills to avoid a government shutdown, which many conservatives would more than welcome – particularly among the grassroots and MAGA base of the party.
Of all the challenges Johnson currently faces, however, perhaps none is more pressing — and sure to determine Johnson’s political fate — than his ability to retain his quickly dwindling House majority through the November presidential election. If Johnson somehow loses his majority, a problem that becomes more urgent by the day with the slew of Republicans who have recently announced early retirements, like Mike Gallagher, he will be toast.
The Gallagher example is particularly illustrative: Gallagher announced that he will be stepping down later this month, adding to a mounting list of House departures. This vacancy will now last through November’s election, because Gallagher decided to hold off retirement until after Wisconsin Election Law’s special election deadline. The deadline set under Wisconsin law “requires a special election to fill a vacancy if it occurs before the first Tuesday in April of an election year.” Johnson had the ability, as House Speaker, to exert political pressure on Gallagher to get him to step down early, before the deadline, allowing for a special election that could have potentially stopped the bloodletting – allowing a Republican to replace Gallagher, padding their razor thin majority from getting more slim. Instead, he fumbled and remained silent – or simply failed to come up with a counter-strategy to force Gallagher’s early leave, for reasons unbeknownst to the public. Johnson had a prime opportunity to expose Gallagher in his tracks — and yet he dropped the ball. Now the clock has run out, and Johnson will have to deal with an even slimmer House majority as a result of his inaction.
Even if, as conventional wisdom in DC would hold, that Johnson or those groups who exert pressure on him are being artificially handcuffed by deterrents, including potentially blackmail, that still is no excuse for inaction. If it is scandal Johnson fears, at this point most of the public has been desensitized to it. The country is on life support. The greatest scandal that Congressional Republicans could thus commit at this late hour is not doing enough to salvage their majority, back President Trump, and do everything they can to make his pathway back to the Oval Office all the more easy in November.
Despite the fecklessness he has thus far exhibited, Speaker Johnson, for better or worse, remains in a powerful office – third in line to the presidency. He is the most powerful elected Republican officeholder in the country. He has political capital – and a bully pulpit to boot – to exert strong pressures on his party to do more on behalf of the broader MAGA movement.
An issue that really should be front and center for him, which Johnson could easily advocate for, is subpoenaing Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith, Fani Willis, and other rogue prosecutors, district attorneys, and attorneys general throughout the country, who have weaponized the Department of Justice to try to sabotage the 2024 race and imperil the American people in the process. Even easier: encourage the Republicans that have still not endorsed President Trump to do so, or face sanctions.
The Constitution of this country hangs by a thread; our rights and liberties are being viciously attacked by a Regime and its various apparatchiks that seek to put asunder what remnants of the Founding Fathers’ original handiwork still exists, for all time.
The stakes are in fact that high. Yet, Johnson continues to waffle and waver. Disclosure of the remaining J6 tapes should not even be a point of discussion – it should have been done already without a second thought.
Nor should the gratuitous spending on Eastern European and Middle Eastern conflicts, all products of the Military Industrial Complex, operating at the behest of the Biden Regime, and paid for by the American taxpayer. Johnson and his colleagues in leadership positions in the House, particularly those on the House Judiciary Committee, must realize that governing involves both hard and soft powers – official powers are offset, more today than ever, by unofficial ones, including shaping narratives and mobilizing public opinions through various media.
That Johnson does not go on Fox News – or any media outlet – day in and day out, encouraging his colleagues to join him in filing ethics complaints, drafting legal motions in pursuit of a counter-lawfare strategy, and, indeed, waging all-out lawfare themselves on the Biden Regime’s weaponized Department of (in)Justice is an affront to every law-abiding American so despondent over the destruction of the rule of law happening in real time.
All it requires is some collective action on part of Congressional leadership. Johnson, being House Speaker, is in prime position to take the lead.
As I have said from the beginning, so much of the Left’s egregious, unprecedented, and shameless abuse of our justice system to persecute their political opponents is the result of Republican incompetence. No cosmic law exists in the universe that dictates Republicans not take action, or at the bare minimum, at least speak publicly about what needs to be done in order to mitigate the excesses of a rogue and tyrannical government that has persecuted, so far with impunity, everyone from the leading candidate to be the next president, all the way down to Bible-reading grandmas who just so happened to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time, on January 6th, 2021.
The corruption of the Biden Regime must be put to an end. There is no second option. Time is of the essence. President Trump has his hands tied with groundless lawsuit after lawsuit. Johnson, as the most powerful Republican officeholder in the United States, has a prerogative — constitutionally and morally — to take dramatic actions to keep his slim House majority, mitigate the weaponized justice system’s assaults, and pave the way for President Trump’s reelection come November.
That should be his chief priority, and he should work around the clock from now until at least November to do everything possible to make that happen.
So far, the man some pundits used to jokingly refer to as “MAGA Mike” has not displayed a capacity to do what is necessary. If that is truly the case, the second motion should indeed be exercised. And Johnson, like his three Republican predecessors, must be ousted for someone more worthy of the office, willing to do the critical job to offset the diabolical programs of Biden, before it really is too late.
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Harvard Law School Professor and Constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz joined Sean Hannity on Tuesday along with Gregg Jarrett to discuss the current Alvin Bragg lawfare case in New York City against President Donald Trump.
Jury selection continued on Tuesday morning for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawfare case against Trump related to ‘hush payments’ made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Last April Trump was hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy. The charges are unprecedented and illogical.
Alvin Bragg still hasn’t named the underlying felony after he twisted the law and somehow upgraded the misdemeanor charges that were past the statute of limitations – to felonies.
The fix is in. The judge overseeing the case is a far-left operative whose daughter has made a lucrative career helping Democrats ‘get Trump’ and is currently profiting from the case.
After refusing to recuse himself, Judge Juan Merchan on Monday threatened to put President Trump in jail if he doesn’t show up for trial.
On Monday, the Marxist tyrannical judge told President Trump that he could be thrown in prison if he did not show up each day in court. This is a clear constitutional violation.
Judge Merchan even warned President Trump about attending his son’s high school graduation. This is typical behavior from soulless Marxists as we are quickly learning in America today.
On Tuesday Alan Dershowtiz called on Trump’s attorneys to IMMEDIATELY file a motion and challenge Judge Merchan’s clearly unconstitutional court orders gagging President Trump and refusing to allow him to campaign or attend his son’s graduation.
How do these horrible, lawless leftists sleep at night?
Sean Hannity: Professor, eight years later, a misdemeanor somehow evolves into a felony, and there are allegations that a judge is quite compromised in this case. I’m sure you have a lot to say.
Professor Dershowitz: Well, look, I’m looking for a fair election. I’m an American voter who hasn’t decided at this point who to vote for and who to vote against. I just want a fair election. … And this case is depriving the American public. I’m speaking for the American public, not for the candidates. Depriving the American public of the right to have a fair election.
President Trump should be in Pennsylvania today. There is a statute that gives him the right to leave the court any day. But the statute says, In the absence of an objection by the people. In other words, the prosecution has a veto over the judge’s decision whether to allow him to leave the courtroom on any given day. That is unconstitutional, and this case ought to be challenged. There ought to be a motion made by Trump’s lawyers immediately under Section 340.50, in which the judge has the power to allow him to leave the courtroom and campaign, but only if the prosecution agrees to it, which is clearly unconstitutional.
The gag order is unconstitutional. You cannot prevent a defendant from attacking the witnesses, from attacking the judge’s daughter, if the judge’s daughter could be a basis for disqualification.
I agree with Greg. The American public is sick and tired of seeing the legal system weaponized. Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, whether you’re a Trump supporter or a Biden supporter, you should be equally appalled. We have the right to decide who to vote for without the thumb, or in this case, the elbow of the criminal justice system led by Democrats, in this case, the district attorney who campaigned on a promise to get Trump, essentially. We have a right not to have that election interference. Do you believe the judge- This case is paradigmatic election interference.
Via Midnight Rider.
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A comprehensive review by an international consortium of scientists has raised serious concerns about the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines’ safety profile.
Review articles are summaries of current research on a particular topic. They are also sometimes called literature reviews or secondary sources.
The review, “N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ): Friend or foe of cancer?” published on Science Direct, delves into the potential implications of a vaccine ingredient—N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ)—that may play a role in immune suppression and cancer proliferation.
m1Ψ was incorporated into Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to enhance its efficacy.
This component was introduced in the mRNA vaccine as a means to produce a significant amount of modified SARS-CoV-2 spike mRNA through in vitro transcription (IVT). This modification was crucial in the rapid development and deployment of the vaccine during the height of the pandemic.
However, the review article calls into question the long-term impacts of this modification, especially concerning the vaccine’s interaction with the body’s immune response and potential carcinogenic effects.
According to the review’s abstract, evidence suggests that while mRNA vaccines may have been “effective” in reducing severe disease outcomes, they might not provide sterilizing immunity, leaving individuals susceptible to recurring infections.
More critically, the review highlights that the inclusion of m1Ψ in mRNA vaccines appears to inhibit key immunological pathways, impairing the body’s early interferon signaling.
Interferon is a natural substance that helps the body’s immune system fight infection and other diseases, such as cancer.
This immunosuppression, intended to ensure efficient synthesis of the spike protein and minimize immune activation, may inadvertently foster an environment conducive to cancer development and metastasis.
In contrast, mRNA vaccines without this modification have shown the opposite effect.
“Based on this compelling evidence, we suggest that future clinical trials for cancers or infectious diseases should not use mRNA vaccines with a 100 % m1Ψ modification, but rather ones with the lower percentage of m1Ψ modification to avoid immune suppression,” the researchers said.
BREAKING: New published study by an international team of researchers confirms what some medical experts have been suspecting for 18 months:
The COVID mRNA shots containing N1-methyl-pseudouridine SUPPRESS the immune system and STIMULATE cancer growth! https://t.co/CwKD14ZQc9 pic.twitter.com/W530bWiVcK— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) April 16, 2024
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a recent report published by the American Cancer Society predicted that new cancer cases are expected to reach a new high in 2024. Over 2 million new cases of cancer are expected.
Cancer incidence has been rising for six of the most common cancers: breast, prostate, endometrial, pancreatic, kidney, and melanoma.
In 2022, Ohio attorney Thomas Renz presented DOD medical billing data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) that exposed the disturbing truth about what is happening to the health of our service members since the rollout of the jab.
According to Renz, there has been an astronomical increase in several serious illnesses and disorder diagnoses in the US military since the rushed rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine – most concerning of which – cancer, which has seen a 3x increase.
“We have substantial data showing that we saw, for example, miscarriages increasing by 300% over the five-year average, almost. We saw almost 300% increase in cancer over the five-year average,” he said during the panel discussion in Washington, DC that was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI).
The Wall Street Journal reports that doctors are baffled by the sudden rise in cancer among young people.
The Journal writes:
“Cancer is hitting more young people in the U.S. and around the globe, baffling doctors. Diagnosis rates in the U.S. rose in 2019 to 107.8 cases per 100,000 people under 50, up 12.8% from 95.6 in 2000, federal data show. A study in BMJ Oncology last year reported a sharp global rise in cancers in people under 50, with the highest rates in North America, Australia and Western Europe.”
The word “vaccine” appears nowhere in the article. It mindlessly goes on to say that doctors are “racing to figure out what is making them sick, and how to identify young people who are at high risk. They suspect that changes in the way we live—less physical activity, more ultra-processed foods, new toxins—have raised the risk for younger generations.”
Maybe doctors should start focusing on the obvious.
Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a renowned oncologist practicing in the UK, recently wrote an open letter to the editor-in-chief of the medical journal The BMJ, urging the journal to “make valid informed consent for COVID vaccination a priority topic” because cancers and other diseases are rapidly progressing among “boosted” people.
“The reports of innate immune suppression after mRNA for several weeks would fit, as all these patients to date have melanoma or B cell based cancers, which are very susceptible to immune control – and that is before the reports of suppressor gene suppression by mRNA in laboratory experiments,” Dr. Dalgleish wrote.
The Gateway Pundit also reported the case of Dr. Michael Goldman, a Belgian pro-COVID vaccine doctor and a professor at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, specializing in internal medicine and immunology, where he suggested that the mRNA vaccine might worsen lymphoma cancer.
On September 22, 2021, Goldman was eager to receive the mRNA vaccine booster dose. As he was about to undergo chemotherapy that would leave him immunocompromised, he was concerned about not being protected enough from Covid-19.
Within a few days of being boosted, Goldman’s cancer symptoms — including night sweats, tiredness, and enlarged lymph nodes — worsened.
“Such cancer progression within three weeks is uncanny given what we know about the natural course of lymphoma, and Goldman needed steroids as soon as possible. Goldman began to suspect that the booster shot had somehow worsened his lymphoma, making his chance of survival for more than five years at only 30%,” Newsbreak reported.
The news outlet added, “Before getting boosted, the lymphoma was only limited to Goldman’s left armpit and neck. Coincidentally, Goldman received his first and second mRNA vaccine dose on the left arm. But Goldman received the booster on the right arm, and the lymphoma began appearing therein.”
Newsbreak author Shin Jie Yong, an MSC Biology student reported what he learned from a professor who told him about seven patients with stage IV tumors that were well-controlled for almost five years but suddenly progressed after receiving the Covid-19 vaccination.
Pro-vaccine advocate Michael Goldman, then 66 years old, was challenged whether or not to report the life-threatening adverse event he had after receiving a vaccine, per Shin. In the end, Goldman and his colleagues decided to publish their findings.
The case report suggested that vaccination with the Pfizer mRNA vaccine might induce rapid progression of Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), a rare and highly aggressive cancer that affects the lymphatic system. It’s a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that occurs when T-cells, or white blood cells that fight infection, become cancerous and abnormal.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first observation suggesting that administration of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine might induce AITL progression. Several arguments support this possibility. First, the dramatic speed and magnitude of the progression manifested on two 18F-FDG PET-CT performed 22 days apart. Such a rapid evolution would be highly unexpected in the natural course in the disease. Since mRNA vaccination is known to induce enlargement and hypermetabolic activity of draining lymph nodes, it is reasonable to postulate that it was the trigger of the changes observed,” said the experts.
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GOP Rep. Guy Reschenthaler joined Rose Unplugged to discuss the House’s decision to reauthorize section 702 of FISA – which included a key measure that allows for warrantless surveillance of Americans.
Reschenthaler also weighed in on Iran, Israel and Biden’s open border crisis.
AUDIO:
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The quarterback considered by many to be the best player in the NFL is steering clear of partisan messaging in the wake of a shooting at a parade celebrating his team’s 2024 Super Bowl victory.
Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs has rebuffed calls to advocate for gun control, according to a Time magazine profile of the two-time NFL MVP published Tuesday.
“I continue to educate myself,” Mahomes told Time. “I don’t want to make a quick response to something that takes a lot of education to really learn and make a swaying comment based off that.”
“But I know we have to find a solution of some way to make this stuff stop,” he added.
The shooting at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade in February left one dead and 22 wounded.
On the day of the tragedy, Mahomes posted on X that he was “praying for Kansas City.”
Time reported that Mahomes and his wife Brittany also visited victims in the hospital and donated $50,000 to a fund to “aid the victims and first responders and support violence-prevention organizations.”
Mahomes took a similarly hands-off stance in the Time interview when it came to the 2024 presidential election.
“I don’t want to pressure anyone to vote for a certain president,” he said, instead urging Americans to make their own informed decision.
“I want people to use their voice, whoever they believe in. I want them to do the research.”
The three-time Super Bowl champion also addressed the longevity of his NFL career, expressing some doubt that he would play as long as all-time legend Tom Brady did.
Mahomes pointed to his desire to spend time with his family as a potential obstacle to a 20-year career.
“If I played until Tom [Brady]’s age, my daughter would be 19, 20 years old,” he said.
Patrick Mahomes talks retirement:
“I’ve looked, if I played until Tom Brady’s age, my daughter would be 19, 20 years old, I would love to play that long. At the same time, I want to be there for my daughter. if I can do that, I’ll continue to play. But if I feel like it’s taking… pic.twitter.com/Ni1kjVRIyG
— BBQ Chiefs (@BBQChiefs) April 16, 2024
“I would love to play that long. … At the same time, I want to be there for my daughter. If I can do that, I’ll continue to play. But if I feel like it’s taking away from my family time, that’s when I’ll know it’s time to go.”
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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