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While the residents of Wethersfield, Connecticut, grapple with the tragedy of losing Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier, who was killed in the line of duty, they are also facing obscene disrespect by town leaders.
Democrat Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont directed that state flags be flown at half-mast to honor Pelletier. Wethersfield’s Town Council then weighed whether to also fly the Thin Blue Line flag.
During the discussion, Democratic Councilmember Emily Zambrello said, “That flag was either created or at least became prevalent in direct response to the Black Lives Matter protests. It’s viewed as antagonistic even if you don’t see it that way and I don’t think that’s a good flag to fly, especially not without further discussion.”
Republican Councilmember Brianna Timbro hit back and reminded Zambrello that the Thin Blue Line flag existed long before BLM protests.
The measure failed 5-3 with one abstention.
The council, however, is not opposed to flying flags that not everyone agrees with. The group already voted to fly a Pride Flag in commemoration of Pride Month.
In making an announcement to those gathered for an event to raise the Pride flag, they were told, “We have great respect for our law enforcement community and I realize the dangerous job they do every day. Out of respect for the tragic death of State Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier, we won’t be raising the Pride flag today; it is already up on the pole flying at half-staff in honor of his passing.”
In Wethersfield, CT the @CTDems own Emily Zambrello declares that the Thin Blue Line flag will not fly today in honor of Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier who died in the line of duty last week. Not even for a day. That flag pole is the domain of the pride flag which flew at… pic.twitter.com/PL3AD54Ewr
— Tom Shattuck (@tomshattuck) June 5, 2024
She says that in honor of the fallen trooper they won’t be raising the pride flag today, “it’s already up at half staff in honor of his passing,”
What a wretched coward. They snuck the flag up BEFORE the flag raising in order to avoid criticism because they know they are scum.… pic.twitter.com/sgZiHOG6Cz— Tom Shattuck (@tomshattuck) June 6, 2024
The decision did not go over well and people shared their disgust on the town’s Facebook page.
“They approve a sex flag but deny a police flag honoring a murdered Trooper. Shameful and Disgusting.”
“All of those on the town council who voted no to raise the thin blue line flag to show support for the CSP Trooper that was killed should be ashamed. I’m definitely going to remember this when it comes time to vote. Shameful cowards you are. Weak politicians are exactly why the pos who killed him were free to do so in the first place. What an absolute disgrace of a town.”
‘What disgusting behavior! The people who voted to not fly the blue line flag are hopefully voted out of office. When it comes time to vote, remember this.”
Pelletier died last week while performing a traffic stop on a state highway when a vehicle collided with Pelletier, his squad car, and the vehicle he had pulled over. He sustained fatal injuries from the crash.
He is survived by his wife and two young children.
The driver, who initially fled from the scene, was arrested.
According to the Connecticut State Police, Alex Oyola-Sanchez, age 44, of Hartford, was charged with manslaughter/motor vehicle, among other charges, and is being held on a $5 million bond.
HEARTBREAKING: Watch fallen state trooper Aaron Pelletier’s wife honor her husband. Aaron leaves behind a loving wife and 2 young children who will now grow up without a father.
Democrats led my Emily Zambrello decided to fly the PRIDE FLAG at half staff to honor Aaron. They… https://t.co/xK3ZROnSZ7 pic.twitter.com/dEl93p48Le
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 6, 2024
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A new, highly contagious sexually transmitted infection that has been spreading throughout Europe and elsewhere has now arrived on U.S. soil.
As NBC News reported, a case report published Wednesday in JAMA Dermatology revealed that a man in his 30s from New York City contracted a nasty skin infection after weeks of travel. During his time away from home, he engaged in sexual intercourse with multiple men during trips to England, Greece, and California.
When he got back, he developed a rash on his genitals, buttocks, and limbs.
Genetic testing on skin lesions identified the culprit as a fungal infection known as Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMVII), a sexually transmitted form of ringworm. According to the CDC, TMVII VII is a difficult-to-treat fungus that causes skin disease in animals and humans and is acquired through sexual contact.
The report’s lead author, Dr. Jeff Caplan, wrote the rash may look more like an eczema flare than a ringworm infection, which usually forms in a circular pattern on the skin. This can potentially delay diagnosis in certain individuals.
Senior author Dr. John Zampella also noted that patients are often hesitant to discuss genital problems, raising the possibility of more TMVII infections than reported.
“Since patients are often reluctant to discuss genital problems, physicians need to directly ask about rashes around the groin and buttocks, especially for those who are sexually active, have recently traveled abroad, and report itchy areas elsewhere on the body,” he said.
Zampella said that infections caused by TMVII appear to respond to antifungal therapies such as terbinafine (also known as Lamisil), but can take months to clear up.
Caplan says the infection is not fatal but can lead to permanent scarring. Nonetheless, he warned that healthcare providers must be aware of the new infection.
“Healthcare providers should be aware that Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII is the latest in a group of severe skin infections to have now reached the United States,” Caplan said.
TMVII has been on the rise in Europe with 13 cases in France last year. In these cases, almost all involved men having sex with men.
Cases of TMVII have also been reported in other areas of the globe, including Southeast Asia. These infections have also predominately involved men engaging in same-sex intercourse.
The post New, Highly Contagious Sexually Transmitted Infection Spreading Overseas Has Arrived on U.S. Soil appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has come under fire once more over the “donations” to a dark money group for her inaugural events last year after it was reported that a state contractor’s six-figure donation led to millions in state funds.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Katie Hobbs’ ethics was called into question by GOP State Legislators after she charged donors as much As $250,000 using a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group for inaugural events.
The nonprofit she used was also headquartered at the same address as Coppersmith Brockelman PLC. This is the same Democrat law firm that represented Defendant Katie Hobbs in Kari Lake’s lawsuit to overturn the rigged 2022 midterm.
The donors to Katie Hobbs' inauguration included Sunshine Residential Homes and its affiliates, who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to later receive a previously denied rate increase for their youth group home services.
Even the far-left Arizona Republic is questioning Katie Hobbs and suggesting an investigation is in order.
Via Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman on X:
BREAKING: Pay-To-Play Scandal Involving AZ's Democrat Governor Unfolding
State contractor donated $400,000 to Gov. Katie Hobbs and AZ Democrats, and got millions more in state money
DCS over the course of the past year approved what amounts to a nearly 60% increase in the rate that Sunshine Residential Homes Inc. charges to care for a child for a day, meaning potentially millions of dollars more going to the company at taxpayers' expense.
No other standard group home provider — there are dozens — was approved for any rate increase during Hobbs’ tenure.
After initial rejection, Sunshine's rate increase comes after political donation. Sunshine Residential Homes in December 2022 sought a 20% rate increase, to $179 per day. DCS denied it on Feb. 6, 2023, according to records provided by the department.
Three days later, Sunshine donated $100,000 to a dark-money fund Hobbs’ campaign created...
Only recently did the company begin contributing to political campaigns in Arizona.
Two six-figure donations from Sunshine to the Arizona Democratic Party were reported when Hobbs was running for governor, totaling $200,000 in September and October 2022.
[Sunshine's CEO] and his wife personally donated nearly the maximum amount, $5,000 each, to Hobbs’ campaign.
That’s not all the company would kick in. Another $200,000 was donated after Hobbs’ election, with half of that going directly to Hobbs’ inauguration fund through her dark money group.
[Sunshine's Director of Programs] worked for DCS for a decade before joining Sunshine in 2022, according to his resume. Saifi donated $5,000 to Hobbs’ gubernatorial campaign the same day his boss did, state records show. -------
*The above are excerpts from an Arizona Republic article by Stacey Barchenger. Emphasis added.
BREAKING: Pay-To-Play Scandal Involving AZ's Democrat Governor Unfolding
State contractor donated $400,000 to Gov. Katie Hobbs and AZ Democrats, and got millions more in state money
DCS over the course of the past year approved what amounts to a nearly 60% increase in the… pic.twitter.com/wqX1vnAuvN
— Jake Hoffman (@JakeHoffmanAZ) June 5, 2024
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President Trump will deliver remarks in Arizona tonight, marking his first public rally since the sham verdict in the New York “hush money” Show Trial.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial last Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts! The sentencing was set for July 11.
“I’m a political prisoner!” Trump said after the verdict in his rigged trial with far-left jurors, a far-left conflicted Judge, and politically motivated prosecutors was announced.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan, whose daughter has received MILLIONS of dollars consulting the Democrats who want to take down Trump, instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed. Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree that something bad happened, but not on what that something is. This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
Trump delivered remarks at the Trump Tower Atrium to speak out on his political persecution by radical left Biden Thugs in the Manhattan Court House. on Friday last week:
This rally also comes as Joe Biden announced an executive order, introducing new asylum ‘restrictions' that will still allow at least 1.8 million illegals to enter the US every year.
Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to destroy the border.
More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age males – have already invaded the US on Biden’s watch. This invasion of millions per year will continue until Joe Biden finally leaves office next year.
Per OANN correspondent Daniel Baldwin, "President Trump will rip Biden's open border executive order to shreds in Arizona tonight."
SNEAK PEAK: President Trump will rip Biden's open border executive order to shreds in Arizona tonight:
"Biden’s order is not a border security plan—it is a concession to the fact that he has lost control of our border. He is conceding death and defeat at the border."
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) June 6, 2024
President Trump will also deliver remarks in Las Vegas on Sunday. Register for tickets here!
Turning Point Action hosts “Chase the Vote – A Town Hall with President Donald J. Trump” with Charlie Kirk at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona.
RSBN will have full coverage of this special event on Thursday, June 6, 2024, starting at approximately 3:00 p.m. ET. The event will begin at 5:00 p.m. ET.
Watch live below via Team Trump:
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Joe and Jill Biden arrived in Normandy on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Biden is spending 5 days in France, attending D-Day ceremonies in Normandy and visiting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
As usual, Joe Biden was a humiliation on the world stage.
He sat down in an invisible chair, boasted about killing Russians, fell asleep and was whisked away from the celebrations by Nurse Jill.
Biden sits in invisible chair
Biden takes a cat nap
Biden arrived at Omaha Beach looking completely lost.
WATCH:
Biden arrives at Omaha Beach in his perpetual state of confusion pic.twitter.com/FKgllybpyN
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024
Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic telling Macron his team’s plan to extract him from the D-Day celebrations early as they were walking near the beaches.
“My advance team said I gotta be the first one to leave because I hold people up,” Biden said sounding like a 5-year-old.
Embarrassing!
WATCH:
BIDEN: “My advance team said I gotta be the first one to leave” pic.twitter.com/x5za5Z70wK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024
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Crooked Hillary Clinton came out of hiding on Thursday to take a nasty shot at President Trump on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
As Gateway Pundit readers know, D-Day was one of the great turning points in World War II and the start of the liberation of Europe from the control of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany’s control On June 6, 1944, roughly 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces stormed five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the ferociously defended coast of France’s Normandy region.
The invasion was the largest amphibious assault in military history. At least 4,400 soldiers and Marines perished during the operation.
Instead of using this occasion to honor some of the bravest war heroes ever to live, Hillary decided to use this occasion to dunk Trump by comparing him to Hitler, arguably the most evil man to ever exist.
“Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy,” Crooked Hillary wrote. “This November, all we have to do is vote.”
Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy.
This November, all we have to do is vote.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 6, 2024
Hillary has barred users from commenting on her social media posts after getting constantly roasted on X.
The Trump campaign responded to the vile D-Day message with fire after being asked for comment from Fox News.
“Hillary Clinton is a stone-cold loser who presided over the horrific Benghazi debacle that led to the death of Americans,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said to Fox News. “Nobody takes Hillary seriously because it’s clear she is beclowning herself in order to stay relevant after President Trump crushed her in 2016.”
As Fox News notes, this is not the first time Hillary has compared Trump to Nazi Germany’s leader. Back in May, she referred to him as the “Grifter Hitler” while sharing a skewed Associated Press article. The article in question was regarding a video posted to Trump’s Truth Social account that mentioned a “unified Reich” among hypothetical headlines if he won in November.
Take a look at Grifter Hitler over here… https://t.co/8szuB2DH8t pic.twitter.com/kBaL9EIx7r
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 21, 2024
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This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Newest ruling addresses exclusion of Catholic preschools from program
For at least the third time, the state of Colorado’s anti-Christian agenda has been cited – and condemned – by the federal courts.
The latest ruling said the state broke the law by excluding Catholic preschools from a universal preschool program – solely because those schools consider religious affiliate in making enrollment decisions.
It is the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty that explained a federal court ruling cites the state’s illegal exclusion of those preschools from a program that funds 15 hours per week of free preschool to more than 40,000 families.
During its first year, it benefited families with children in private, public and faith-based preschools.
But leftist activists inside the state’s bureaucracy refused to authorize benefits to families who sent their children to St. Mary’s and St. Bernadette’s Catholic preschools because those institutions ask families to share their Catholic beliefs.
The court found, in its 101-page opinion, that the state’s discrimination “created an unworkable scheme that breaches the appropriate limits on state power.”
The court found the state had “no compelling interest” in its discriminatory policy.
“Last year, a different federal judge in Denver also issued a ruling against the state, in a case brought by a separate religious preschool raising similar claims,” Becket reported.
“Of course a Catholic school shouldn’t be punished for caring about its students’ religion,” explained Nick Reaves, a Becket lawyer. “Colorado richly deserves this injunction, as it did the earlier one.”
The schools explained the state’s discrimination violated the Free Exercise, Free Speech and Establishment clauses of the First Amendment.
Integral to the state’s agenda is that it demands schools incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity ideologies into their programs. The state has plunged headfirst into that ideology since the election of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis.
The judge said, “The department has allowed faith-based providers to deny children and families equal opportunity based on their religious affiliation, or lack thereof, and has cited no compelling interest for permitting that discrimination while denying plaintiffs’ request for a related exemption. On that narrow basis, I conclude defendants have violated plaintiffs’ free-exercise rights and that judgment in favor of plaintiffs is warranted. I consequently grant Plaintiffs relief in the form of a limited permanent injunction, declaratory judgment, and nominal damages.”
It ruled, “The court immediately and permanently enjoins defendants Lisa Roy and Dawn Odean, acting in their official capacities on behalf of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, from requiring, as a condition for participation in the Colorado Universal Preschool Program, that the preschools operated by plaintiffs St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton and St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Lakewood agreed to provide or provide eligible children an equal opportunity to enroll and receive preschool services regardless of religious affiliation for as long as defendants allow exceptions from the religious affiliation aspect of the equal-opportunity requirement set out in [state law] and in the Colkorado Universial Preschool Program Service Agreement.
The defendants were ordered to pay $1 nominal damages.
The total hasn’t been announced, but Colorado taxpayers likely won’t get off so easily in the attacks on Christianity earlier, under the administration of Polis.
It recently lost the 303 Creative case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
There, state officials demanded that a Christian web designer follow the state’s anti-Christian “non-discrimination” mandate and promote events that violated the web designer’s faith.
A judge recently ruled that the state – the taxpayers – must pay the costs and fees for the plaintiff in that caser.
Such cases, by the time they are all the way through the high court, can accumulate tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of dollars in lawyers’ time and costs.
The leftist state’s failed attack was on Lorie Smith and her 303 Creative company, through which she intended to create websites for couples being married.
However, the state demanded that should she begin that service, she also must provide the same services to same-sex duos, in violation of her Christian faith.
She sued for the First Amendment violation demanded by the state, and won.
The state earlier lost a similar battle with Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who challenged the state’s “non-discrimination” plan that also would require him to promote ideologies that violate his Christian faith.
In that case, the Supreme Court specifically cited Colorado’s “hostility” to Christianity under Polis.
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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They want Trump dead.
Joe Biden and the Democrat-media complex are terrified of Trump. They know Trump is ahead in the polls. They know Joe Biden is unpopular.
This is why Biden’s DOJ is trying to jail Trump. Biden can’t win unless he cheats – or jails his main political rival.
A former US Attorney appointed by Bill Clinton fantasized about Trump dying in prison on his podcast on Wednesday.
“If he doesn’t win, he has an appreciable chance of dying in prison,” Harry Litman said. “The whole timeline, the whole crisis point of November goes away. So, if he doesn’t win on [November] the fifth, those cases lie ready to bring.”
The Hill reported:
A former federal prosecutor says there is an “appreciable chance” former President Trump could be in prison until the end of his life if he loses the 2024 election, remarking on the number and scope of criminal prosecutions against him.
Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania during the Clinton administration, made the remarks to former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on his podcast Wednesday.
He said that if Trump wins the election, he is likely to use his authority over the Department of Justice to make its two criminal cases against him go away, and use the office of the presidency to avoid prosecution in Georgia’s state 2020 election case.
Trump has already been convicted of 34 felony business fraud counts in his New York hush money case. He has appealed the conviction, but is scheduled to be sentenced in July. He could get up to four years in prison for the charges.
Litman predicted Judge Juan Merchan will sentence Trump to a few months in prison for the business fraud charges, though he potentially wouldn’t have to serve it for years, pending appeal.
Last month former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki fantasized about Trump dying before the 2024 election on a Tuesday morning appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Psaki fantasized about all the ways Trump can be eliminated this election season.
“Maybe Donald Trump will go away. Maybe he’ll go to jail. Maybe he will die. Not to be too morbid. But maybe. He’s not a young man,” Psaki said.
Business Insider recently fantasized about Trump’s death and published a piece titled: “Here’s what happens if Donald Trump dies while running in the 2024 presidential election”
“If Trump dies while seeking reelection, a few different things could happen, depending on when he dies and how close it is to Election Day.” – Business Insider writer Sonam Sheth wrote in an article published on Saturday.
The left always fantasizes about a Trump assassination. This is nothing new.
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Another humiliation on the world stage.
Joe and Jill Biden arrived in Normandy on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Biden is spending 5 days in France, attending D-Day ceremonies in Normandy and visiting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
As usual, Joe Biden was a humiliation on the world stage.
At one point, Biden hunched over on stage after greeting Macron.
Biden arrived at Omaha Beach looking completely lost.
WATCH:
Biden arrives at Omaha Beach in his perpetual state of confusion pic.twitter.com/FKgllybpyN
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024
Old Joe appeared to grab a quick nap during the D-Day ceremony.
WATCH:
He’s just resting his eyes pic.twitter.com/DPKYN1Vq07
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024
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The Kansas City Chiefs abruptly canceled all team activities on Thursday following a severe medical incident involving defensive lineman BJ Thompson.
According to NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero, Thompson suffered a seizure during a special teams meeting and subsequently went into cardiac arrest.
According to Pelissero, who received information from sources close to the situation, the incident occurred suddenly, prompting immediate response from the Chiefs’ medical staff.
An ambulance was quickly called to the scene. According to the update, Thompson is currently in stable condition.
The #Chiefs canceled all team activities today after a backup defensive lineman had a seizure in a special teams meeting and went into cardiac arrest, per sources.
The team’s medical staff worked quickly, an ambulance was called and the player is currently in stable condition.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) June 6, 2024
In response to the incident, the Chiefs made an official announcement early Thursday, stating that the day’s Organized Team Activities (OTAs) were canceled due to the medical emergency.
The media availability session, which was to feature head coach Andy Reid and select players, has been rescheduled to Friday, June 7.
#Chiefs DL BJ Thompson is in stable condition after suffering a seizure and going into cardiac arrest during a meeting this morning, per source.
A fifth-round pick in 2023 out of Stephen F. Austin, Thompson appeared in one game as a rookie for the Super Bowl champs. https://t.co/aGTzMF7F7H
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) June 6, 2024
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In a new lawsuit filed in Virginia, American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine, both notorious for their anti-Semitic, Hamas-supporting rhetoric, are being accused of acting as the “propaganda division” for Hamas terrorists in the United States.
A report from CBN reveals the dark collaboration aimed at spreading terrorist propaganda on American soil.
Arsen Ostrovsky of the Jerusalem-based International Legal Forum told CBN that American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine are essentially serving as the “propaganda division” for Hamas terrorists in the U.S. and that the groups are more than just “advocacy organizations”
Ostrovsky is working alongside the U.S. legal team of Greenberg, Traurig, and the National Jewish Advocacy Group.
The Gateway Pundit has reported on the support these groups receive directly from Hamas leaders. Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashal officially thanked student protesters at American universities for their protests and anti-Israel encampments and for their participation in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” war.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei also released a letter thanking American college students who staged campus protests against Israel and the United States after the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and praised them for their role as part of an international “Resistance Front.”
Ostrovsky explained, “They are acting and serving in collaboration and coordination with Hamas, essentially as propagandists and collaborators on campus to try and promote the Hamas extremist ideology.”
According to Ostrovsky, the campus agitators began mobilizing the day after October 7th.
“Hamas issued a call to action. And the very next day, SJP and their affiliates throughout the United States – they answered that call. They answered that directive. They created a toolkit, a manifesto for chapters across the United States, echoing the language, the terminology, the instructions by the Hamas terror group, and propagated that across campuses,” Ostrovsky said.
The lawsuit charges these groups with becoming foot soldiers for Hamas and includes nine plaintiffs, both Americans and Israelis, seeking damages for the harm inflicted. The suit also alleges the groups have committed violations of the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act.
Among the plaintiffs are victims and survivors of the horrific Nova music festival massacre.
Ostrovsky asserted, “They are the ones fomenting the hatred, the antisemitism, the harassment of Jewish students. We need to shut them down. And we can do that legally by branding them as a terrorist organization, as a collaborator of the Hamas terror group, and making sure once and for all they cannot be active on campus.”
And the battle will not be fought only on the battlefield, but also in courtrooms.
“Today, Israel is being demonized, vilified, and delegitimized, with international law being weaponized against us simply for defending our citizens and trying to rescue our captives,” Ostrovsky continued.
He insisted that accountability is crucial not only for Hamas terrorists but also for those who enable and support their agenda. This fight is a critical step towards curbing the spread of extremist ideology and protecting Jewish students across America.
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A recently released significant study has confirmed the suspicions of so-called COVID “conspiracy theorists” by suggesting a link between the COVID-19 shot and millions of excess deaths worldwide.
As GB News reported on Tuesday, scientists from the Netherlands’ Vrije Universiteit discovered despite the rollout of 13.5 billion COVID vaccines across the globe, excess mortality remained shockingly high. These findings were published in BMJ Public Health.
The scientists wrote that this “new” information raised “serious concerns.” They then elaborated on adverse events that have been reported following the introduction of the Fauci ouchie, including severe injuries and deaths.
“Although COVID-19 vaccines were provided to guard civilians from suffering morbidity and mortality by the COVID-19 virus, suspected adverse events have been documented as well,” the authors wrote. “Both medical professionals and citizens have reported serious injuries and deaths following vaccination to various official databases in the Western World.”
“During the pandemic, it was emphasized by politicians and the media on a daily basis that every Covid-19 death mattered and every life deserved protection through containment measures and Covid-19 vaccines,” they continued. “In the aftermath of the pandemic, the same moral should apply.”
The scientists went on to cite numerous studies which revealed that COVID-19 vaccination may induce myocarditis, pericarditis, and autoimmune diseases.
“This commonality hinders clinical suspicion and consequently its detection as adverse vaccine reactions,” the authors wrote.
The study goes on to note there have been over 3 million excess deaths in 47 western countries between 2020 and 2022. These include the United States, Australia, and nations in Europe.
The study cites that 1,033,122 excess deaths occurred in 2020 when the pandemic started and individuals had no immunity. But the numbers ROSE to 1,256,942 in 2021 and fell to just 808,392 in 2022.
Such news should come as a surprise to Gateway Pundit readers, given the fact COVID-19 vaccines have already been directly linked to deaths by otherwise healthy individuals.
As TGP reported, “Dr.” Anthony Fauci also finally came clean admitted that COVID shots can cause myocarditis while discussing the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and the ongoing vaccine drive last year.
Moreover, back in March, the FDA also admitted the COVID shot leads to a significantly elevated risk of seizure in toddlers. Yet government agencies around America continue to urge COVID vaccination for children as young as SIX MONTHS OLD.
How many more suspicious deaths and injuries will occur before the federal government finally takes action and launches a full-scale investigation to provide answers to the American people?
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The latest voter registration numbers among noncitizens in Washington D.C. are a stark reminder of how the Democratic Party plans to use foreigners to cement their national majority.
Last year, an Obama-appointed federal judge upheld a Washington D.C. law that allows noncitizens, including illegal aliens, to vote in local elections.
The Washington Post reports:
The voters include 310 who registered as Democrat, 169 independent, 28 Republican and 16 Statehood Green, said Sarah Graham, a spokesperson for the D.C. Board of Elections.
In this city, which has no voting representative in Congress, leaders have expanded voting rights to noncitizen residents. Noncitizens are eligible to vote if they are at least 18 years old as of Election Day, have been a D.C. resident for at least 30 days before the election, have not been deemed by a court legally incompetent to vote and are not claiming the right to vote in any state, territory or country.
There has been opposition, with critics arguing that the right to vote should be reserved for American citizens. The U.S. House advanced a bill last month to block noncitizen voting in D.C., though it’s unlikely this bill would move forward in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Workers for the D.C. Board of Elections have also been fielding angry messages from callers opposed to noncitizen voting, said Monica Evans, the office’s executive director.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit, the city’s Democratic authorities are also handing out documents to illegal aliens and noncitizens explaining how they can register to vote and secure their left-wing supermajority.
.@JudicialWatch: New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting – https://t.co/MTlgdbpdWw pic.twitter.com/T5jklqKhuH
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 14, 2024
As well as voting, noncitizens in D.C. are also permitted to work as police officers. The change in policy was reportedly implemented after the city realized that it was struggling to recruit and retain police officers. Successful applicants are also eligible for a massive $25,000 signing bonus to help accelerate the recruitment drive.
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Steve Bannon opened The War Room on Thursday morning to his tens of thousands of listeners.
Today is the Anniversary of D-Day and Bannon chose to dedicate the morning show to the great Americans and US Allies who fought for our freedom.
Sadly, today Bannon is reporting to court where the Democrat Party and their media and supporters hope to see this great American patriot sent to prison.
Steve signed off on the War Room during the broadcast this morning.
Steve Bannon has signed off of the War Room to make the trip down Capitol Hill to the federal courthouse
“I have a previously scheduled event. I’ll be back” pic.twitter.com/MIoG6b7BvV
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) June 6, 2024
Steve’s hearing begins at 11 AM EASTERN STANDARD TIME… PRAY FOR STEVE AND OUR COUNTRY.
Steve looked positive as he entered court this morning.
Steve Bannon feeling good this morning as he enters the DOJ Matrix. pic.twitter.com/OtF5dfCiyG
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 6, 2024
Prayers for Steve Bannon today.
Pray for Steve Bannon https://t.co/Xh18g4GCD9
— Buddy Coleman (@buddycoleman568) June 6, 2024
Bannon has been ordered to surrender to prison by July 1. This ruling comes after Bannon’s appeal was denied by a Washington, D.C. judge.
United States District Court Judge Carl Nichols issued the decision on Thursday, rejecting Bannon’s request to stay his sentence while he seeks to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This ruling follows Bannon’s conviction on charges related to his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6th witch hunt.
Bannon refused to provide documents to the January 6 Committee because President Trump asserted executive privilege.
“Based on long-standing U.S. Department of Justice authority, you should not appear for a deposition or provide documents,” Bannon argued.
“We’ve had constitutional executive privilege for 250 years, going back to George Washington,” Former Gorsuch clerk and regular guest on Bannon’s “War Room” Mike Davis said last month.
“So Presidents can get candid advice from their presidential advisors (both inside and outside of government( without fear they will get hauled before Congress—and especially not get thrown in prison,” he added.
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During the 2024 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin has gathered foreign journalists – including from ‘unfriendly countries’ – for a long conversations about many topics, including, of course, the new ‘authorizations’ by western powers for Ukraine to strike Russian territory with their supplied long-range missiles.
Putin warned that Moscow could arm countries near those Western powers that could potentially attack targets in their territories.
Several countries, including France, UK, Germany, and the United States, have given Ukraine the green light to utilize these missiles to strike targets inside Russia.
BBC reported:
“‘If someone thinks it is possible to supply such weapons to a war zone to attack our territory and create problems for us, why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same class to regions of the world where there will be strikes on sensitive facilities of those countries?’ the Russian president said. ‘That is, the response can be asymmetric. We will think about it’.”
Putin did not specify which countries Moscow could supply weapons to, but one of the potential targets that he mentioned was Germany.
“‘When they say that there will be more missiles which will hit targets on Russian territory, this definitively destroys Russian-German relations’, Mr. Putin said.”
US President Joe Biden has allowed Ukraine to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia, but only near the Kharkov region.
Sources have confirmed that Ukraine has already used US weapons to strike inside Russia in recent days.
Putin also gave a worrying warning that ‘the West was wrong to assume that Moscow would never use nuclear weapons’.
“‘For some reason, the West believes that Russia will never use it’, Mr. Putin said when asked by Reuters about the risk of nuclear escalation over Ukraine.
‘We have a nuclear doctrine, look what it says. If someone’s actions threaten our sovereignty and territorial integrity, we consider it possible for us to use all means at our disposal. This should not be taken lightly, superficially’.”
Russia has no plans to attack NATO territory, he insisted. He said Western countries should not make Russia out to be the enemy, because ‘they are only hurting themselves with this’.
“They thought that Russia wanted to attack Nato. Have you gone completely crazy? That is as thick as this table. Who came up with this? It is just complete nonsense, you know? Total rubbish.”
Read more:
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A passenger on an American Airlines flight from JFK to Athens, Greece, was asked to remove his shirt displaying a mugshot of President Donald Trump. The reason? The flight attendant deemed it “offensive” and “political.”
The passenger was taken aback by the request. He questioned the flight attendant, asking whether wearing a shirt with Trump’s image truly constituted a political statement.
The flight attendant insisted it did, saying, “I mean, I guess it is. I don’t think it gets more political than that,” adding, “For some people, it’s offensive.”
Jesse Watters discussed the situation on his show with co-host Pete Hegseth. Watters read out American Airlines’ response to the controversy: “Clothing displaying political messaging is not against our policy. We’ll move quickly to investigate the matter. A member of our team is reaching out to the customer to learn more about their experience.”
Hegseth expressed surprise at American Airlines’ response but also saw it as an opportunity for supporters of Trump to test the airline’s policy. He said, “I think everybody out there should find their MAGA gear and book an American Airlines flight. Let’s test the policy.”
WATCH:
Are you kidding me! Passenger had to remove his Trump mug shot shirt pic.twitter.com/URp7J37aPL
— Karli Bonne’ (@KarluskaP) June 6, 2024
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The Bend Police Department has issued a statement addressing a recent incident that sparked widespread concern among the community and across social media platforms.
A video clip posted on TikTok and other platforms depicted a police officer claiming that public indecency in front of children is not a crime in Oregon, prompting outrage and confusion.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the father shared a video on TikTok explaining that an individual had trespassed onto his property completely naked and approached his young child.
Reacting immediately, he shielded his child’s eyes from the naked trespasser and immediately dialed 911, expecting swift action against the individual for indecent exposure.
However, the response he received from the attending officer was shocking. In the recorded conversation, the officer can be heard stating that while trespassing is a crime, there are no laws in Oregon against “the actual nudity portion of it.”
The father is heard asking incredulously, “So you can expose yourself to children in Oregon.”
The officer responded, saying, “Again, if you’re not doing it for sexual gratification or the gratification of somebody else, yes, you are allowed to walk around in public naked.”
He states: “So a naked person came up onto my property here, approached my two-year-old kid completely naked… At what point did this become a normal and acceptable thing to do? The cops will literally do nothing about it. They’re basically saying we have to wait for that person to do something more serious to your kid before we can intervene.”
In a statement to The Gateway Pundit, the Bend Police Department addressed the community’s concerns with a clear message: if you’re outraged by this situation, it’s the state law that needs changing.
Read their statement below:
We’ve received many messages of concern about a post that has appeared on TikTok and X, and we want to make sure that our community has accurate information about the incident. As is often the case when short clips are shared on the internet, context can sometimes be missing.
At approximately 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4, officers responded to a caller reporting suspicious circumstances in the 1200 block of NW Knoxville Boulevard. The caller reported that a nude woman had walked up to the front of his home, where he and his child were present. When adults at the residence confronted her, she walked away.
Two of our officers responded to the incident. Officers trespassed the 32-year-old woman from the family’s property. She appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis. If she returns to the property, she will be arrested.
In Oregon, being naked in public is not a crime. Both public indecency (ORS 163.465) and private indecency (ORS 163.467) have a required element of “intent to arouse.” That was not the case in this incident.
We understand the homeowner’s concern – it’s always off-putting when someone acting strangely is on your property, especially if your kids are present.
However, this is a state law, and so if you have concerns about Oregon’s public indecency laws, we would recommend you contact the Oregon Legislature to share your concerns.
Our Department has been accused of supporting pedophilia, and obviously that is not the case – we take crimes against children very seriously. In fact, our Department has an entire detective unit focused on investigating and holding accountable those who commit crimes against children.
Our officers accurately applied state law and properly trespassed the woman from the property, and we are proud of the work they do each day to keep our community safe.
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Fox News host Sean Hannity has sparked outrage among conservatives by attempting to get President Donald Trump to go easy on Biden’s Department of Justice. This comes despite Trump facing 94 politically motivated and baseless indictments.
In an exclusive interview on “Hannity,” President Donald Trump laid bare the unprecedented political persecution he faces and slammed the Biden regime’s catastrophic governance. As the nation teeters on the edge of crisis, Trump outlined his vision for restoring justice and reclaiming American greatness.
Trump did not mince words when addressing the litany of legal challenges hurled at him by the left. He detailed the baseless nature of the Georgia case, now on hold pending an appeal regarding DA Fani Willis’s disqualification.
Similarly, the DOJ’s shaky document case in Florida raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the special counsel’s appointment and the integrity of the evidence. Trump unequivocally asserts that these cases are nothing more than politically motivated witch hunts designed to sabotage his presidential campaign.
During the interview, Hannity asked Trump a direct question: “Will you pledge to restore equal justice, equal application of our laws, and this practice of weaponization? Is that a promise you’re going to make?”
Trump, who faces 94 fake indictments, which are politically motivated and without merit, responded with a strong sentiment about the current state of politics.
Hannity: Will you pledge to restore equal justice, equal application of our laws, and this practice of weaponization? Is that a promise you’re going to make?
Trump: You have to do it. But it’s awful. Look, I know you want me to say something-
Hannity: No, I don’t want you to say. I’m asking.
Trump: But I don’t want to look naive. What they’ve done to the Republican Party, they want to arrest on no crime. They want to arrest the person that won the nomination in a landslide. There was nobody even close in a landslide. The person that got millions of votes, more votes than any other sitting president in history in the last election, the person that won an election that he wasn’t expected to win against Hillary Clinton in 2016, they want to arrest that person on no crime. They want to arrest… There was no crime. There was no criminality. There was no crime. And you can go back to all of these legal scholars. They can’t believe what’s happening. Some of them don’t even like me, and they’re saying, “This is a very dangerous thing that’s happening.” No, we can’t let this happen. And I will do everything in my power not to let it. But there’s tremendous criminality here. What they’re doing to me, if it’s going to continue, we’re really not going to have much of a country.
Hannity’s line of questioning sparked outrage among many conservative viewers who felt Hannity was being too lenient on the Biden regime’s DOJ.
One user, Vince Lagman, voiced his frustration on social media, writing, “Listen to that snowflake Sean Hannity trying to get the guy facing 94 fake indictments to agree not to hold Biden Gestapo DOJ accountable when he gets back in office. Cowards like Hannity are exactly why Democrats have no fear of retribution!”
Another user expressed discontent: “What the hell is wrong with Hannity??? Every day he whines about the corruption of the Bidens and other Dems… And how there is a two-tiered justice system… And Now He Wants Trump To Go Easy On Them if Elected??????”
The sentiment was echoed by a third commenter, who wrote, “It’s driving me crazy. Why is he so hooked on Trump not getting so-called ‘retribution’? These people are committing crimes. Sean Hannity makes it sound like they are right and should not be punished for it!!!”
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Biden and his Democratic allies were in for a crude awakening in the aftermath of last week’s sham guilty verdict against President Trump, the byproduct of a kangaroo trial that denied the leading man to be America’s next president due process rights and his freedom of expression.
While Biden was expecting the American people to at long last turn on President Trump, in fact the opposite occurred: they rallied to his side, at a rate previously unseen in modern presidential history. President Trump’s fundraising haul since last week’s conviction has been historic: he has hauled in hundreds of millions of dollars of cash.
In May, President Trump’s campaign posted its highest figure ever – $141 million – far outpacing Joe Biden, who has been struggling mightily to prevent the bloodletting of voters across every demographic group to President Trump’s corner.
Indeed, on the same day the 45th President held his press conference at Trump Tower to denounce the Biden-Bragg show verdict as but the latest attempt in the Left’s never-ending saga to derail MAGA and rig another presidential election, new polling came out showing the 45th President with a 6-point nationwide advantage over Biden, and leading in all six key battleground states this cycle: Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Nevada.
While Biden’s problems are bad on the domestic front, they get arguably worse overseas. The international order has descended into chaos under Biden’s stewardship.
Western countries have been ravaged by strife and warfare in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to levels not seen since World War II. Meanwhile, autocratic regimes like China, Iran, and Russia have been empowered, relative to the United States and Europe, which have been brought to near financial and cultural ruin by the suicidal policies of the Biden government.
The world community is hurting – and they can see the show trial for what it is: a persecution of a political opponent, plain and simple. Many of the countries that rallied to the 45th President’s defense and called Biden’s bluff had firsthand experience with political prosecutions, those being dark parts of their histories, and how a weaponized justice system can bring down a democratic and free society.
For example, Nayib Bukele, the new president of El Salvador, said in a recent sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson that the Democrats are making a “huge mistake” by arresting President Trump. Over the course of the conversation, Bukele said the lawfare against President Trump has given him “the greatest campaign ever” and “will just give [President Trump] more votes.”
NEW: El Salvador’s President @nayibbukele tells @TuckerCarlson that Biden and the Democrats are making a huge mistake by arresting President Trump.
“all the things that they do to him will
just give him more votes.” pic.twitter.com/Zp9uXEqUSh— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) June 6, 2024
The sentiment Bukele expressed was shared by leaders from across the world. In the United Kingdom, Nigel Farage, current leader of the Reform Party, denounced the Biden show trial in the harshest of terms, contending that the Left “overplayed their hand.” He added that he is now “more certain [President Trump] will win.”
Farage’s remarks were echoed by former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who also was no-holds-barred in his takedown of the guilty verdict: “When we see this happening in Africa, or in Russia, we denounce it as authoritarian and corrupt. Well, the American people have looked at it, and decided that the methods and the motives are fundamentally the same. Whatever his detractors may say, I believe that Donald Trump – at his best – could offer the world the strong, confident leadership that it needs.”
Former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s, denunciation of the Biden show trial verdict, which was reposted on President Trump’s Truth Social page.
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister, joined his British companions in offering his own withering critique of the verdict. Salvini issued a statement, later reposted by President Trump, which said: “Solidarity and full support for @realDonaldTrump, victim of judicial harassment and a process of political nature. In Italy, we are sadly familiar with the weaponization of the justice system by the [L]eft, given that for years attempts have been made to eliminate political opponents through legal means. I hope Trump wins; it would be a guarantee of greater balance and hope for world peace.”
Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, also criticizing the verdict in the harshest of terms. Salvini’s remarks were posted on President Trump’s Truth Social page.
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, also offered supporting words on behalf of the 45th President, saying: “I’ve known President [Trump] to be a man of honour. As President, he always put America first, he commanded respect around the world and used this respect to build peace. Let the people make their verdict this November! Keep on fighting, Mr. President!”
Screen grab of Hungarian PM, Viktor Orban’s critique of the Biden show trial verdict, which was re-Truthed by President Trump.
Things have gotten so bad with the weaponized justice system in the United States that even autocratic countries, like Russia and China, sharply denounced the political prosecutions occurring here. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Kremlin, condemned the guilty verdict as the “elimination of political rivals by all possible legal or illegal means.”
Even China, perhaps America’s greatest foreign adversary (and not known for being a bastion of democracy and freedom), reported negatively about the verdict. Chinese state media framed the verdict as yet another way by the Biden government to “exacerbate political extremism” and “social unrest” domestically.
News of President Trump’s unprecedented conviction at the hand of a politicized and weaponized Justice Department has spread like wildfire the world over. Many countries that once viewed the United States as a beacon of freedom are developing a much different view, one that is deeply jaded about the current trajectory under Joe Biden, of which the verdict is but only the latest example of a laundry list of woes.
Biden is equal parts awful at home and abroad: he strikes the image of a bumbling idiot on the global stage, conveying extreme weakness and incompetence, while running roughshod over the rule of law and civil liberties at home – going so far as to risk plunging America into chaos by prosecuting his leading political opponent in order to cheat his way to a second term, because at this point cheating and lawfare is the only way he knows how to win elections.
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Pro-Hamas activists broke into the Stanford president’s office Wednesday morning at 5:30 AM.
The protesters then vandalized the office, locked the doors, and started to broadcast on Instagram.
Local police quickly broke into the room and arrested the protesters. The university then quickly expelled them from campus. The university then released a statement saying they will work with police to ensure the young hoodlums face the full consequencens
That’s how it’s done!
KTVU reported:
Pro-Palestinian protesters took over the Stanford president’s office early Wednesday morning, drawing a large police presence in reaction and ending in 13 arrests.
The university said all the students who were arrested will be immediately suspended, and if they are seniors, will not be allowed to graduate.
The university also said that a public safety officer was injured after being shoved by protesters who were interfering with a transport vehicle. Plus, according to the university, there was “extensive damage” to the interior of Building 10 and the exterior of the buildings in the quad.
“We are appalled that our students chose to take this action, and we will work with law enforcement to ensure that they face the full consequences allowed by law,” Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez said in a joint statement. “We have consistently emphasized the need for constructive engagement and peaceful protest when there is a disagreement in views. This was not a peaceful protest and actions such as what occurred this morning have no place at Stanford.”
The protesters, mostly students, surrounded Building 10 at about 5:30 a.m., where President Richard Saller works, as does the provost.
“WE HAVE TAKEN OVER PRESIDENT SALLERS (sic) OFFICE!!!” the protesters wrote on their account, liberatestanford, on Instagram. “WE WILL STAY UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET.”
The young activists wrote “no pigs” with spray paint on the door as they hid in the president’s office.
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Sgt Daniel Perry
Soros-backed Travis County District Attorney José Garza is seeking to overturn Governor Abbott’s pardon of Daniel Perry, who was convicted of fatally shooting a BLM/Antifa protestor in 2020 in self-defense.
“The Board of Pardon and Paroles, and the governor, put their politics over justice and make a mockery of our legal system,” Travis County District Attorney José Garza said in a press conference on Tuesday. “For that, they should be ashamed of themselves. Their actions were contrary to the law.”
The knives are out for Sgt. Perry.
Additionally, 14 Democrat state attorneys general called on the US Justice Department to investigate Sgt. Perry’s case.
Last month Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) pardoned Sgt. Daniel Perry following a unanimous recommendation by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Sg. Daniel Perry was sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting a BLM-Antifa protester in self-defense in 2020 after a Soros DA went after him.
Abbott and Texas AG Ken Paxton ripped the Soros DA in statements last month.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” Abbott said in a statement announcing Perry’s pardon.
My statement regarding the pardon of Sgt. Daniel Perry. pic.twitter.com/t7UMWdeOV2
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 16, 2024
Ken Paxton blasted the Travis County DA.
“Americans across the country have been watching this case in Texas and praying for justice after BLM riots terrorized the nation in 2020. Our right to self-defense is enshrined in the Constitution. Soros-backed prosecutors like Jose Garza do not get to pick and choose the rights we have as Americans, and I am relieved that justice has prevailed,” Ken Paxton said.
Governor Abbott has just pardoned Sergeant Daniel Perry after a unanimous recommendation by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. Americans across the country have been watching this case in Texas and praying for justice after BLM riots terrorized the nation in 2020. Our right…
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) May 16, 2024
Sgt. Daniel Perry was found guilty of murder last year after Soros-backed Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza sought murder charges for an act of self-defense during the 2020 George Floyd riots.
Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza
According to David Fugitt the lead detective on the case, District Attorney Joze Garza and his office had him remove 100 pages of exculpatory evidence. The DA’s office had him shorten his presentation from 158 slides to 56 slides.
Fugitt added that this was likely criminal behavior.
Daniel Perry, an army soldier who shot and killed an armed BLM-Antifa protester in Austin in July 2020 was indicted on a murder charge in 2021.
Perry’s lawyer, Clint Broden, argued his client, who was driving Uber when rioters mobbed his car, was acting in self-defense after the BLM activist, Garrett Foster pointed a gun at him.
“It is important to note that the standard of proof required for an indictment is significantly less than the standard of proof required for a conviction,” Perry’s lawyer said in a statement.
Shortly before he was shot dead, Garrett Foster was seen on video explaining he brought an AK-47 to deal with the “pussies” who oppose him.
WATCH:
Assault-weapon-wielding #GarrettFoster who was shot in Austin, last night, explaining why he had an AK-47 to deal with "p—ies" who oppose him. #austinprotests pic.twitter.com/3OaZqHoray
— Antifa Stats (@antifastats) July 26, 2020
A still frame from footage of the incident appears to show Garrett Foster in a posture that looks like he was pointing a weapon at the driver.
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A Cleveland, Ohio woman with a rap sheet stabbed a woman and her toddler in a grocery store parking lot on Tuesday.
The 38-year-old mother survived but her 3-year-old son died from his injuries.
Bionca Ellis, 32, grabbed a knife from a thrift store and followed Margot Wood and her toddler son Julian Wood around in the grocery store before stabbing them in a Giant Eagle parking lot in North Olmstead.
Authorities called the stabbing a “random” attack.
“The investigation into the motive in this attack is still ongoing, but everything learned thus far points that this was a random act of violence,” police said.
Updated Press Release and Mayor's Statement pic.twitter.com/afRO9NeFju
— City of North Olmsted (@NorthOlmsted_OH) June 4, 2024
Bionca Ellis was arrested on May 30 for a probation violation but she was released.
“According to Det. Sgt. Beck, Ellis was arrested May 30 after officers investigating an incident at Walmart discovered she was wanted for a probation violation.” – WOIO reported.
Ellis was charged last year with stealing from a Walmart.
According to WOIO, Ellis was charged with aggravated murder in connection with the fata stabbing and is being held on a $1 million bond. Additional charges are pending.
WOIO reported:
The 3-year-old boy who was stabbed at the Giant Eagle Monday afternoon has died from his injuries, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner. He was identified as Julian Wood.
The stabbing happened just after 3 p.m. in the grocery store parking lot on Lorain Road in North Olmsted.
The child’s mother, Margot Wood, 38, of North Olmsted, was also stabbed.
When North Olmsted police arrived on scene, several officers immediately gave first aid to both victims.
EMS transported Julian and his mother to St. John Medical Center, where Julian died from his injuries.
Margot was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and police said she is expected to physically recover.
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As we approach another election cycle, the World Health Organization (WHO) has once again issued a warning about a new strain of bird flu, H5N2, that has apparently jumped to humans.
The announcement comes following the death of a 59-year-old man in Mexico, who was reportedly infected with this strain. However, given the timing and the details surrounding this case, it’s hard not to question whether we’re dealing with another episode of fear-mongering or a genuine public health concern.
The WHO’s press release paints a grim picture: a man with multiple underlying health conditions, bedridden for weeks before developing acute symptoms, tragically succumbs to this new strain of bird flu. Yet, it also states that the risk to the general population is assessed as low. So why the dramatic announcement and the global alert?
“On 23 May 2024, the Mexico IHR NFP reported to PAHO/WHO a confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N2) virus detected in a 59-year-old resident of the State of Mexico who was hospitalized in Mexico City and had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals. The case had multiple underlying medical conditions. The case’s relatives reported that the case had already been bedridden for three weeks, for other reasons, prior to the onset of acute symptoms,” according to WHO.
The man’s death is undoubtedly tragic, but it’s important to remember that he was already severely ill before contracting this virus. Moreover, no other cases have been reported during the epidemiological investigation.
Out of 17 contacts identified and monitored at the hospital where the patient died, only one reported a minor symptom – a runny nose. Furthermore, twelve additional contacts near the patient’s residence were tested and all found negative for SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and influenza B.
It is also worth noting that this particular strain of bird flu was found in poultry farms in Mexico as early as March 2024. Yet, there has been no established link between these outbreaks and the human case reported by WHO.
Read the rest of the press release:
On 17 April, the case developed fever, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, nausea and general malaise. On 24 April, the case sought medical attention, was hospitalized at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases “Ismael Cosio Villegas” (INER per its acronym in Spanish) and died the same day due to complications of his condition.
Results from Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) of a respiratory sample collected and tested at INER on 24 April indicated a non-subtypeable influenza A virus. On 8 May, the sample was sent for sequencing to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Emerging Diseases Center for Research in Infectious Diseases (CIENI per its acronym in Spanish) of INER, which indicated that the sample was positive for influenza A(H5N2). On 20 May, the sample was received at the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE per its acronym in Spanish) of the Mexico National Influenza Centre, for analysis by RT-PCR, obtaining a positive result for influenza A. On 22 May, sequencing of the sample confirmed the influenza subtype was A(H5N2).
No further cases were reported during the epidemiological investigation. Of the 17 contacts identified and monitored at the hospital where the case died, one reported a runny nose between 28 and 29 April. Samples taken from these hospital contacts between 27 and 29 May tested negative for influenza and SARS-CoV 2. Twelve additional contacts (seven symptomatic and five asymptomatic) were identified near the case’s residence. Samples of pharyngeal exudate, nasopharyngeal swabs and serum were obtained from these individuals. On 28 May, the InDRE reported that all twelve samples from contacts near the patient’s residence tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and influenza B, as determined by RT-PCR. The results of the serological samples are pending.
In March 2024, a high pathogenicity avian influenza A(H5N2) outbreak was detected in a backyard poultry farm in the state of Michoacán, which borders the State of Mexico where the case was residing
Additionally, in March 2024, an outbreak of low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) A(H5N2) was identified in poultry in Texcoco, State of Mexico, and a second outbreak of LPAI A(H5N2) in April in the municipality of Temascalapa in the same state. Thus far, it has not been possible to establish if this human case is related to the recent poultry outbreaks (1).
A study describing the continuous circulation of low pathogenicity avian influenza H5N2 viruses in Mexico and spread to several other countries was published in 2022 (2).
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Birx suggested a new target for her fear-mongering tactics: the U.S. dairy industry.
Her proposal? Weekly testing of millions of cows and dairy workers for asymptomatic bird flu. She is once again lobbying for Big Pharma.
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A Bend, Oregon, police officer was caught on video telling a concerned father that it is not a crime for individuals to expose themselves to children, as long as it is not for sexual gratification.
The shocking exchange, captured on video by TikTok user @sidemoneytom, reveals a disturbing interpretation of Oregon’s public decency laws.
The father explained that an individual had trespassed onto his property completely naked and approached his young child. Reacting immediately, he shielded his child’s eyes from the naked trespasser and immediately dialed 911, expecting swift action against the individual for indecent exposure.
However, the response he received from the attending officer was shocking. In the recorded conversation, the officer can be heard stating that while trespassing is a crime, there are no laws in Oregon against “the actual nudity portion of it.”
The father expressed his disbelief at the officer’s response.
In the video, the father is heard asking incredulously, “So you can expose yourself to children in Oregon.”
The officer’s response is shocking, “Again, if you’re not doing it for sexual gratification or the gratification of somebody else, yes, you are allowed to walk around in public naked.”
The father’s outrage is palpable as he recounts the incident. He states: “So a naked person came up onto my property here, approached my two-year-old kid completely naked… At what point did this become a normal and acceptable thing to do? The cops will literally do nothing about it. They’re basically saying we have to wait for that person to do something more serious to your kid before we can intervene.”
The Bend Police Department issued a statement to The Gateway Pundit in response to concerns raised by a post circulating on social media platforms TikTok and X.
In their statement, the Bend Police Department is urging concerned citizens to channel their frustration into action by contacting the Oregon Legislature to advocate for changes to these public indecency laws.
“We’ve received many messages of concern about a post that has appeared on TikTok and X, and we want to make sure that our community has accurate information about the incident. As is often the case when short clips are shared on the internet, context can sometimes be missing.
At approximately 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4, officers responded to a caller reporting suspicious circumstances in the 1200 block of NW Knoxville Boulevard. The caller reported that a nude woman had walked up to the front of his home, where he and his child were present. When adults at the residence confronted her, she walked away.
Two of our officers responded to the incident. Officers trespassed the 32-year-old woman from the family’s property. She appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis. If she returns to the property, she will be arrested.
In Oregon, being naked in public is not a crime. Both public indecency (ORS 163.465) and private indecency (ORS 163.467) have a required element of “intent to arouse.” That was not the case in this incident.
We understand the homeowner’s concern – it’s always off-putting when someone acting strangely is on your property, especially if your kids are present.
However, this is a state law, and so if you have concerns about Oregon’s public indecency laws, we would recommend you contact the Oregon Legislature to share your concerns.
Our Department has been accused of supporting pedophilia, and obviously that is not the case – we take crimes against children very seriously. In fact, our Department has an entire detective unit focused on investigating and holding accountable those who commit crimes against children.
Our officers accurately applied state law and properly trespassed the woman from the property, and we are proud of the work they do each day to keep our community safe.”
This story has been updated with additional information.
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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is reportedly preparing to revoke former President Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun, a senior police told far-left CNN.
Trump’s New York concealed carry license was quietly suspended on April 1, 2023, following his indictment on sham charges in New York. Two of the three pistols he was licensed to carry were turned over to the NYPD on March 31, 2023. The third gun listed on Trump’s license was “lawfully moved to Florida,” according to the same source.
After Trump was convicted of 34 felonies on May 30, 2024, in made-up crimes, he could potentially be in violation of multiple state and federal laws if he still possesses that third gun in Florida.
Under federal law, specifically the Gun Control Act of 1968, it is illegal for anyone who has been convicted of a felony to own or possess a firearm or ammunition.
The NYPD’s Legal Bureau is set to complete an investigation “that will likely lead to revocation of his license,” the senior police official said. However, Trump retains the right to seek a hearing challenging the revocation, per CNN.
The leftist news outlet added:
Trump has had a license from the NYPD to carry a concealed firearm for more than a decade, according to multiple law enforcement sources, but because Trump’s application came with a request for confidentiality, they are exempt from public records requests, according to the NYPD’s guidelines and New York state law.
The suspension and pending revocation of his carry license suggests that he maintained his license the entire time of his presidency and after, until he was charged with multiple felonies for falsifying business records in March 2023.
As a former president, Trump has full-time US Secret Service protection.
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In 2023, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Biden Regime approved the nation’s first ‘congestion pricing’ tolling plan for New York to reduce traffic and help the environment.
“The public transit authority hasn’t determined how much to charge drivers, but has considered fares ranging from $9 to $23 for passenger vehicles and between $12 and $82 for trucks. The scenarios contemplate different combinations of potential discounts, credits, and exemptions,” Politico reported.
New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul’s spox John Lindsay cheered the approval saying at the time, “Governor Hochul is committed to implementing congestion pricing to reduce traffic, improve air quality, and support our public transit system. We’ve worked closely with partners across government and with community members over the last four years to develop a plan that will achieve these goals.”
But in an economy that has been gutted, destroyed, and ravaged by failed Democrat policies, Hochul was forced to admit she has asked top officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to “pause” the implementation of the plan indefinitely.
On Wednesday Hochul was forced to walk back the plan after concerns “over the impact of the tolls on working people.”
“Circumstances have changed and we must respond to the facts on the ground and not the rhetoric of five years ago,” she said.
The decision by Hochul leaves a host of unanswered questions, including how the MTA will make up the expected annual $1 billion in revenue. The money would have gone to a larger $15 billion capital plan for public transportation improvements.
Watch:
Kathy Hochul is the worst Governor in NY history. There were already a million reasons, but now she wants to delay her new congestion tax just to get through the election and then put the screws to voters immediately afterwards. NYers need to stop voting for this crap! https://t.co/nPUvLCMXRu
— Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) June 5, 2024
In an important election year, where President Donald Trump drew over 25,000 to his rally in the Bronx, it seems to be less about Americans suffering and more about pandering to voters.
Hochul is just now realizing that 75% of New Yorkers are vehemently against congestion pricing.
Thing is, if it wasn’t an election year, she wouldn’t care who was opposed. But because some congressional dems might be in trouble, she’s considering a delay to the program — until… https://t.co/nGLys88sBb
— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) June 5, 2024
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Susan Crabtree
Real Clear Wire
The political ground shifted in Texas last week, and the impact of the electoral shakeup could send aftershocks across the nation for months, if not years, to come.
A wave of Republican incumbents fell to conservative challengers in the Texas House in last week’s primary run-offs, turning an already red legislature crimson and threatening the state House GOP leader’s hold on power. Those who helped lead the intra-party Texas fight now have their sights set on defeating centrist Republicans in other red states, including Tennessee, Georgia, Idaho, and South Carolina.
A concerted joint effort by Gov. Greg Abbott, outside groups, and a deep-pocketed donor flipped the seats of 14 Republicans who had opposed Abbott’s school-choice measure – a state record.
Abbott’s effort to pass school choice died last fall when 21 House Republicans – mostly from rural districts – voted to strip a voucher program out of a larger education bill. Of those 21 voucher opponents, 15 now aren’t returning. The coalition defeated six GOP incumbents in March, then three more in last week’s run-offs. Additionally, the group filled four of the five retiring Republican seats with voucher supporters, and then a voucher backer won a special election run-off.
The leading factor in these Republicans’ historic defeats hasn’t been making the most national headlines or even the most local news. It’s unrelated to Abbott’s border fight with President Biden, state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s resentment over efforts to impeach him, or even widespread local protests over the state’s skyrocketing property taxes.
Those issues all played out in the election, but school choice was far and away the most lethal campaign issue across the Lone Star state. Its impact was especially potent considering the totality of political spending and blitz of advertisements focused on school vouchers and related issues dominating the Texas airwaves and inundating inboxes.
Abbott was determined to make good on his threats to boot anti-school voucher Republicans who have blocked his ambitious crusade to give parents taxpayer-funded options to educate their children outside public schools. After several challengers he backed won their run-offs last week, the governor declared victory and announced that the House “now has enough votes to pass school choice.”
“While we did not win every race we fought in, the overall message from this year’s primaries is clear: Texans want school choice,” said Abbott. “Opponents can no longer ignore the will of the people.”
House Speaker David Phelan, who supported the effort to scrap the school voucher language from the bill last fall, managed to eke out a run-off win by less than 400 votes. But that razor-thin victory likely dooms his chances of holding onto his leadership post next year.
On the national level, Abbott is best known for his immigration showdown with President Biden, which included the deployment of thousands of Texas Guard members to shut down the border and the decision to send busloads of illegal immigrants from the southern border to places like New York, Washington, D.C., and Texas.
Texans, however, are well aware that Abbott has made school vouchers his top priority, pouring more political capital into the vouchers than any other issue in his eight years in office. The sometimes-cautious governor campaigned for reelection on the issue in 2022 and made universal education saving accounts a central theme of his most recent State of the State addresses. The ESAs would use taxpayer funds to provide parents a voucher worth $10,500 a year per student to use at a private school.
The Texas legislature cannot vote on any bill until 60 days into its legislative session unless the governor declares the measure an “emergency item.” Abbott gave the voucher issue this expedited status. He held two special sessions devoted to passing the initiative, including the one last fall in which opponents, including Phelan, stripped it from a bill providing $6 billion in additional funds to Texas public schools. Those funds would have boosted teacher pay and other public school funding – key negotiating chips that still failed to attract enough supporters.
Heading into the fight, opponents were well aware that they could face consequences at the ballot box if they continued to oppose Abbott’s voucher language.
In response to a ballot question in 2022, 88% of GOP primary voters indicated that they support parents’ “right to select schools, whether public or private, for their children, and the funding should follow the student.” Another poll conducted by the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs in January found that 66% of Republican primary voters said they would be less likely to vote for an incumbent who rejected school choice last year.
“[Abbott] made it very clear during the special session that there’s an easy way and a hard way,” Dave Carney, the governor’s longtime political strategist, told RealClearPolitics. “The hard way was we’ll pass it in 2025 with a new legislature. They were informed, well-warned.”
Carney said Abbott has done nearly 100 events on school choice so far this year, cutting television, cable, and digital ads and directing millions of digital impressions to targeted audiences. Abbott’s political action committee also paid for advocates to knock on 400,000 across the state.
Still, Abbott had some powerful help, what Carney describes as a seamless, collaborative effort.
“We’re not taking a victory lap yet, because we still have to get through the general election,” he added. “But we’re anticipating to pick up seats.”
Last fall’s voucher defeat attracted national groups with deep pockets, including the American Federation for Children, a national pro-school choice group, and the Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group. Along with Abbott’s PAC, the groups spent a combined $27 million to back pro-voucher challengers against incumbents.
A big portion of those funds came from Jeff Yass, a Pennsylvania billionaire and national Republican megadonor who strongly supports school vouchers. Worth nearly $30 billion, Yass is a co-founder and managing director of Susquehanna International Group, a Philadelphia-based trading and investment firm. The firm was an early investor in TikTok, which nearly doubled Yass’ net worth in the years since the pandemic when the app’s popularity soared.
Working with Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, a longtime proponent of helping parents subsidize private school tuition, Yass has spent tens of millions boosting the issue, channeling $23 million to the DeVos-backed American Federation for Children’s political action committees since 2021.
In December, Yass cut Abbott’s PAC a $6 million check, the largest single donation in Texas history. He’s also a multi-million dollar donor to the Club for Growth, which has long supported Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy, who represents Austin and San Antonio.
The Club for Growth, through its School Freedom Fund, spent roughly $4 million in the Texas primary and $4 million more in the run-offs, including $1.5 million against Phelan. David McIntosh, the group’s president, credited Abbott with the leadership to take on his fellow Republicans, who blocked school-choice options for Texas’ 5.4 million public school students.
“I give Gov. Abbott a lot of kudos for his leadership,” McIntosh said in an interview. “Many Republican governors don’t want to take on sitting members of their own party and would not have done the same … that was a crucial factor in us being able to win.”
Early in the effort, McIntosh told his team that big victories in Texas would build momentum for similarly aggressive campaigns in other red states, including Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, and Indiana.
“Texas now shows that you can’t be a conservative Republican and oppose education freedom,” he said. “It’s now a marker for whether somebody is a genuine conservative or not. It’s going to be something the Club and our School Freedom Fund champion for years to come.”
McIntosh says the school choice initiatives align with the group’s conservative economic agenda because giving parents more alternatives to public school creates market pressure in the education system.
“That benefits the kids,” McIntosh said. “They get a better education, and it benefits the parents who have more control over the resources, and [it] takes the education bureaucracy out of the equation. Schools start operating like a business world, saying, ‘Who’s my customer?’ Right now, they don’t have that pressure.”
The American Federation for Children’s Victory Fund, another key group in the school-choice fight, spent $7 million on the Texas primary and run-offs alone – boosting Texas challengers’ campaigns and helping establish school choice as a GOP litmus test.
“The primary election results in Texas – the Lone Star earthquake – represent the single biggest movement in favor of school choice in modern history, a result that will prove life-changing for countless Texas families,” Tommy Schultz, the group’s CEO, told RCP. “Republicans lost the moment they chose loyalty to unions and corrupt establishment over students.”
Schultz said he and the coalition of school-choice proponents “anticipate that many other states will remember the Lone Star Earthquake ahead of their own primaries and legislative sessions.”
“If you’re a candidate or lawmaker who opposes school choice and freedom in education – you’re a target,” he added. “If you’re a champion for parents – we’ll be your shield.”
Some Texas insiders are already making comparisons to Colorado’s rapid transformation from a Republican-dominated state in the mid-2000s to a Democratic one over a four-year time frame. For years, progressives have touted their success in Colorado in turning a red state blue, an effort by Democratic politicians and outside groups taking advantage of new campaign finance laws and working with donors willing to commit unprecedented resources to promote progressive policies and win local races.
In a book titled, “The Blueprint: How Democrats Won Colorado,” the authors hailed the joint effort as a model for creating permanent Democratic majorities across the country.
Texas was already a solid red state before the school choice fight, but now its legislature has shifted even further to the right, undermining years-long Democratic efforts to cast it as trending purple based on its growing Latino population. Instead, t he school-choice coalition’s Texas successes have sparked a conversation over whether they’ve developed a “redprint” model that can help solidify permanent conservative majorities across the country.
Yet, Carney points out that Abbott isn’t the first governor to target GOP incumbents opposed to school vouchers. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds started the trend in 2022 when the Iowa legislature tried to pass school choice but failed by one vote. It was an election year, and Reynolds and school choice advocates challenged six school anti-school choice incumbent lawmakers. They unseated all nine and passed the measure during the next legislative session.
After the string of defeated GOP incumbents in Texas, other governors are already pledging a similar political litmus test. Late last week, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee vowed to vet future GOP primary candidates in the next election cycle to determine whether they support school choice, although he didn’t commit to working to defeat Republicans who oppose school choice.
“This year what I’m talking to candidates about is education freedom and choice for parents,” he told a local broadcast station late last week. “I want to know where new candidates stand on that issue because it’s so important to me, so you’ll see me talking to candidates.”
Earlier this year, Lee said he expected a school choice “revolution” to take place in Tennessee, but those hopes were dashed in March when a school-choice bill died in the state legislature. But given strong GOP voter support for the issue, the state Republican Party is poised to adopt a strongly worded pro-school-choice platform over the next few months, which will ratchet up the pressure on Republican legislators with a history of opposing voucher programs.
The Club for Growth and the American Federation for Children are monitoring Tennessee closely to see if Lee will follow in Reynolds’ and Abbott’s footsteps.
“It’s a hard decision for governors to make, and you hope you can persuade people to do the right thing, and you don’t have to take out incumbents, but I will have to see what they decide to do,” McIntosh said.
Yet, the most effective advocate for school choice wasn’t Abbott, Reynolds, or any other GOP governor or outside group, Carney argues. That honor, he says, goes to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who fought children’s return to public school during the COVID pandemic and used the global health crisis to extract union concessions for teachers, sparking a parent revolution in the process.
“Most families can’t afford to make that choice to give their kids a different option,” Carney remarked, decrying what he called the public education system’s “Praetorian Guard” who try to keep parents at bay while implementing “woke” programs and teaching methods while students’ test scores continue to plummet.
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The infamous ‘Scarf Lady,’ Dr. Deborah Birx, is back in the limelight with another outrageous proposal.
After leaving the White House for her disastrous COVID-19 policies, Dr. Deborah Birx was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Armata Pharmaceuticals on July 10, 2023. Before taking on her role at Armata, Dr. Birx served on the Board of Directors at Innoviva, another pharmaceutical company, from March 2021 to July 2023.
In a recent interview with CNN, Birx suggested a new target for her fear-mongering tactics: the U.S. dairy industry.
Her proposal? Weekly testing of millions of cows and dairy workers for asymptomatic bird flu. She is once again lobbying for Big Pharma.
“Say that we’re not testing to really see how many people have been exposed and got asymptomatically infected. We should be testing every cow weekly. You can do pooled PCR,” Birx said.
“We have the technology. The great thing about America is we’re incredibly innovative, and we have the ability to have these breakthroughs. We could be pool testing every dairy worker. I do believe that there’s undetected cases in humans because we’re once again only tracking people with symptoms,” she added.
FEAR MONGERING
After leaving the White House, Deborah Birx became CEO of a pharmaceutical company called Armata Pharmaceuticals.
HHS says it has two vaccines ready should the strain of bird flu transmit to humans.
HHS says it has, “hundreds of thousands of prefilled… pic.twitter.com/Tb9ei05mcr
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) June 5, 2024
This statement sparks a sense of déjà vu, reminding us all too well of the heavy-handed approach taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to widespread economic devastation and infringed on personal freedoms.
Why should we trust the same PCR testing methods that were fraught with issues during the COVID-19 pandemic? The reliability of PCR tests has been widely criticized by many experts.
They argue that these tests are prone to false positives due to their high sensitivity, potentially inflating case numbers and leading to unnecessary panic and restrictive measures.
The ‘innovative’ solutions proposed by health experts like Birx led to the unconstitutional vaccine mandatory that infringed on our personal freedoms.
Moreover, the notion of tracking asymptomatic cases seems more like a surveillance strategy than a public health measure. As we saw with COVID-19, focusing on symptomatic cases allowed us to identify those truly at risk and allocate resources accordingly. Shifting to tracking asymptomatic cases could lead to unnecessary panic and further economic damage.
“Birx says this strain of bird flu is so dangerous that nobody knows they have it unless they get a PCR test. Also, she proposes testing every cow in the United States, because we can’t tell they have it either. How about if the govt quits making viruses?,” Rep. Thomas Massie said.
As reported in early 2020 — in mid-April of 2020, Dr. Fauci admitted that he and Dr. Birx persuaded President Trump to lock down the US economy knowing the massive destruction this would cause in jobs, lives, economic and personal suffering and commerce.
President admitted that during a press conference in April of “two very smart people” came into his office and urged him to lock down the economy or 2.2 million Americans would die from the China virus.
But President Trump did not say who those “two very smart people” were.
And because of Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci from 300,000 to 900,000 children died from starvation due to their economic lockdowns.
In an interview with Neil Cavuto, Birx admitted that she “knew” that COVID-19 vaccines “were not going to protect against infection,” yet she pushed them anyway.
In an interview with Chris Cuomo, Birx revealed that thousands of Americans could be suffering from vaccine-related injuries due to the experimental COVID-19 shots.
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After grappling with the issues surrounding illegal immigration, the northeastern United States is now preparing for an entirely different kind of invasion.
This summer, states like New Jersey and New York are set to witness an influx of giant Jorō spiders, an invasive species originating from China and other parts of Asia.
The Jorō spiders, which sport a striking black and yellow color pattern, are about four inches long and have legs that span six to eight inches.
While their venom is weak and their fangs aren’t strong enough to penetrate human or pet skin, their sheer size and ability to ‘parachute’ through the air using their webs as makeshift parasails make them a cause for concern.
“Experts say the Jorō spider can fly 50 to 100 miles at a stretch, using their webbing as a parasail to glide in the wind, and it’s now also hitching rides up east coast highways,” according to Daily Mail.
The Joro spider, native to East Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China, is believed to have first docked on U.S. shores around 2013 via cargo ships in Georgia.
“The origins of the Joro spider invasion trace back to the theory that they were unintentionally transported to the United States via human activities. Cargo shipments, international trade, or personal travel could have facilitated their journey across the ocean. While the exact mechanism of their introduction remains unclear, the consequences of their arrival are becoming increasingly evident,” according to NJ Pest Control.
Since their unwelcome introduction, these sizeable arachnids have not only established a firm foothold in Georgia but have also traversed through Tennessee, the Carolinas, Maryland, and as far west as Oklahoma, according to recent studies conducted by Clemson University.
“That’s when we begin to see juveniles disperse,’’ he said. “Spring through the fall is when you start to think about that dispersal,” José R. Ramírez-Garofalo, an ecologist at Rutgers University’s Lockwood Lab told SiLive.
“That’s when they’ll hitch a ride north, spreading and reproducing in Delaware, New Jersey and eventually New York, it is predicted.”
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Hundreds of military-age men from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East illegally crossed into San Diego County, California very early Tuesday morning.
“At 1:30 AM this morning, we witnessed an enormous mass illegal crossing of hundreds of people from around the world into Jacumba, California, in San Diego County,” Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said.
Video via Fox News:
NEW: At 1:30AM this morning, we witnessed an enormous mass illegal crossing of hundreds of people from around the world into Jacumba, CA, in San Diego County. We encountered men from Mauritania (special interest aliens), Nepal, India, China, Vietnam, & many others. No Mexicans. pic.twitter.com/JHmEIgHLNC
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 4, 2024
The illegals crossed through a gap in the border wall in Southern California.
I spoke with many of the migrants as they crossed illegally into the US without any resistance, walking past the Mexican military and through a gap in the border wall. Some asked us if they were in America, and wanted to know where Border Patrol was. We only saw two BP agents. pic.twitter.com/F9ZUCJ9wd0
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 4, 2024
The illegals mocked Biden’s open border by posing in front of the border wall for selfies.
“I also witnessed many of the illegal immigrants posing in front of the border wall for photos and selfies after they successfully entered the U.S. – seeming to use the wall as a prop for photos or almost a tourist attraction. There continues to be a little fear of consequences,” Bill Melugin said.
WATCH:
I also witnessed many of the illegal immigrants posing in front of the border wall for photos and selfies after they successfully entered the U.S. – seeming to use the wall as a prop for photos or almost a tourist attraction. There continues to be a little fear of consequences. pic.twitter.com/65uXYNN9Xv
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 4, 2024
Joe Biden on Tuesday held a fake border security press conference on his new asylum ‘restrictions’ from the East Room.
More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age males – have invaded the US on Biden’s watch.
Joe Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to destroy the border.
Now he’s acting like the savior with his new ‘asylum restrictions’ – only asylum is STILL AVAILABLE to thousands of illegal aliens every single day released into the US.
According to The New York Post, Biden’s new border ‘crackdown’ will still allow at least 1.8 million illegals to enter the US every year.
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During a talk titled “Celebrating 50 Years of Immunization Progress,” the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made it clear that no debate is allowed when it comes to vaccines.
Ghebreyesus told the audience, “You know the serious challenge that’s posed by anti-vaxxers, and I think we need to strategize to really push back.”
He continued, “I think it’s time to be more aggressive in pushing back on anti-vaxxers. I think they used COVID as an opportunity, and you know all the havoc they are creating.”
Don’t forget that Dr. Tedros has a long history of openly lying to the global community.
The Gateway Pundit recorded several outrageous and dangerous lies spread by Dr. Tedros during the pandemic. How dare he accuse ANYONE else of “misinformation” when he is the king of misinformation!
Back in January 2020, the WHO and its General Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the coronavirus was nothing to worry about.
The WHO said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
This was a lie. They knew then it was a lie:
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 14, 2020
But soon after this, Dr. Tedros and the WHO went from the coronavirus being no big deal to projecting massive death from the coronavirus.
The Gateway Pundit first reported on March 17, 2020, on the controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros, and his irresponsible and criminal fear-mongering. Tedros claimed in a press conference in early March 2020 that the mortality rate for the coronavirus was 3.4% — many multiples that of the fatality rate of the common flu which is estimated to be around 0.1%.
This egregiously false premise led to the greatest global panic in world history.
The Gateway Pundit reported, that the coronavirus fatality rate reported by the liberal mainstream media was completely inaccurate and the actual rate was more like a typical seasonal flu and less than 1.0% – the media was lying again. In July 2020 our numbers were confirmed. The CDC stated that at minimum 20 million Americans have had the coronavirus that have not been tested resulting in the coronavirus mortality rates similar to the flu.
The WHO and Ghebreyesusto attack those who have legitimate concerns about vaccinations, and they have ignored data on the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Research by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggests toddlers and young children are at a “significantly elevated” risk of seizure after taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
A comprehensive review by an international consortium of scientists has raised serious concerns about the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines’ safety profile.
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.
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.
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.
Vaccine pusher Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House coronavirus response coordinator who destroyed the country along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, suggests that thousands of Americans could be suffering from vaccine-related injuries due to the experimental COVID-19 shots.
Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), came forward with serious allegations against health agencies, claiming they suppressed information about significant side effects of COVID-19 vaccines in younger populations.
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.
During a massive protest in Japan against the WHO, Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Japan’s former interior minister, apologized for the many deaths and injuries among the vaccinated population.
Haraguchi recently said publically to those gathered, “You were right, vaccines are killing millions of our loved ones. As a member of the Japanese legislature, I would like to apologize to all of you, to each and every one of you. So many people died. This shouldn’t have happened.”
JUST IN
World’s Biggest Protest against the WHO starts in Japan with Former Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and current House of Representative Kazuhiro Haraguchi kicking it off!
“As a member of the National Diet(national legislature of… pic.twitter.com/6o1sbxHjS9
— aussie17 (@_aussie17) May 31, 2024
And just this week The Telegraph reported the link between excess deaths and the COVID jab.
Instead of addressing concerns, however, Ghebreyesus and the WHO focus on smearing and silencing dissent.
Watch (comments on 'anti-vaxxers' begins at 9:15)
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Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria will be launching their own reality television show, despite the pending manslaughter charges against the Hollywood star.
In a statement on Wednesday, TLC confirmed that The Baldwins will air on the network in 2025 and follow the family as they “invite viewers into the home they share with their seven growing kids.”
Variety reports:
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin are inviting viewers into their chaotic home for a reality series airing on TLC in 2025.
The husband and wife duo announced the show (working title “The Baldwins“) in a video posted to Instagram, in which their seven children run around the house screaming.
“We’re inviting you into our home to experience the ups and downs; the good, the bad, the wild and the crazy,” Alec says in the video. “Home is the place we love to be most.”
As he attempts to wrangle a horde of kids, he adds, “We are the Baldwins, and we’re going to TLC! God help you all.”
“Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have been making headlines since they were married nearly 12 years ago,” TLC said in a statement. “In this TLC follow-doc series, Alec and Hilaria invite viewers into the home they share with their seven growing kids. For the first time, they’re opening up their family lives and bringing everyone in to join in the nonstop love, laughter and drama.”
The announcement coincides with Alec Baldwin’s upcoming criminal trial on manslaughter charges related to the tragic death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. If convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Baldwin could face up to 18 months in prison.
According to prosecutors, Baldwin recklessly pointed a firearm at Hutchins and pulled the trigger during a scene rehearsal. Additionally, as a producer of the film, Baldwin has been criticized for not adhering to required safety standards.
Meanwhile, his wife, Hilaria, was caught faking her heritage by pretending to have a Spanish identity and changing her name from Hillary.
This will certainly be one to miss.
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At least 145,000 Chinese nationals have entered the US illegally since Biden took office, with 86% being men of military age. The Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community identifies the People’s Republic of China as the greatest threat to national security. The Intelligence community also ranks Islamic extremist terrorism among the top five threats.
Last year, 169 known terrorists and 615,000 individuals categorized as “Other” on the Terrorist Screening Data Set (TSDS) illegally entered the US. Additionally, cartel members, gangsters, narcotraffickers, human traffickers, and other transnational organized crime (TOC) groups from Mexico and Latin America also entered.
China, Russia, and Iran pose significant national security threats to the US, but these threats are distant from the everyday lives of most Americans. They are complex and focused on preventing future conflicts or attacks.
The southern border, however, is an immediate concern, impacting daily lives and experiencing a constant influx of illegal entries. President Biden has the authority to secure the border and address this threat, but despite having nearly four years to work on it, his policies have increased illegal immigration and national security risks, while costing taxpayers money.
Every year since the beginning of the Biden administration has seen a record number of illegal immigrants entering the United States. 2021 set a record, which was broken in 2022, and again in 2023.
In total, 6.2 million illegals have entered the US since Biden took office. Biden established a policy of open borders and unbridled illegal immigration and questionable asylum claims.
Subsequent executive orders have broadened pathways to citizenship, enhanced access to public services, reduced the number of refusals, and expanded refugee resettlement programs at taxpayer expense.
On his first day in office, President Biden revoked an executive order that instructed the Department of Homeland Security to enforce immigration laws, which included rejecting individuals ineligible for admission due to criminal convictions, security grounds, or false statements on their applications. Biden’s new executive order also reversed a Trump-era policy that prevented Sanctuary Jurisdictions from receiving federal funds.
Among the Trump-era executive orders repealed by President Biden were those authorizing the construction of a southern border wall, detaining individuals suspected of violating federal or state law, removing people whose asylum claims were rejected, cooperating on immigration with state and local law enforcement, requiring jurisdictional consent for refugee resettlement, enforcing existing grounds of inadmissibility, prohibiting entry by foreigners who may commit violent, criminal, or terrorist acts, and ending the so-called “Catch and Release” programs.
Biden’s liberal policies regarding illegal immigration pose a massive threat to national security. Among those entering the country illegally are individuals on the Terrorist Screening Data Set (TSDS) and the terrorist watch list, including 169 known terrorists who entered last year.
Additionally, an increasing number of Chinese nationals are not vetted for connections to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Nearly all, 86%, of the Chinese nationals encountered at the border are unaccompanied men of military age, totaling 145,000. Under Chinese law, any legal or illegal immigrant from the PRC could be a potential agent.
Article 7 of the National Intelligence Law of the PRC states, “All organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law, and shall protect national intelligence work secrets they are aware of.”
This effectively requires all citizens to act as agents when called upon. The FBI has investigated and prosecuted numerous cases where PRC citizens were instructed by their government to steal US secrets or technology, or to spy on Americans, Taiwanese, Tibetans, or other PRC citizens in the US under threat of arrest or repercussions against their families in China.
The president’s proposal for border funding includes additional funds for housing illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in blue states, and it also provides work permits for asylum seekers.
Additionally, the bill contains incentives for illegal immigrants to bring their children with them when entering the United States illegally. This approach is seen as encouraging more illegal immigration rather than curbing it, by offering better accommodations and financial support. Moreover, the bill includes additional funding for Ukraine, which is unrelated to border security.
The open border is such an obvious threat to national security that writing this article might seem redundant. However, the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border makes addressing this issue necessary.
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This article originally appeared on Leo Hohmann’s Substack and was republished with permission.
The latest federal data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that the fertility rate among U.S. women plummeted to just 1.6 births per woman in 2023.
This is the lowest recorded birth rate since the U.S. government began keeping such statistics in the 1930s. But why? We’ll break it down.
The drop-off in fertility rates for white women fell some 3% from the previous year and stands even lower than the national average. The fertility rate is an estimate of the number of babies a woman would normally have in her lifetime. A rate of 2.1 births per woman is needed for a generation to replace itself. We are not even close to that. And all of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia are in similar free fall. India, the African nations and a few countries in the Middle East are pretty much the only ones experiencing growing populations.
While this catastrophic demographic trend has been in motion for decades in the U.S., the explanations for the fall in reproduction by the corporate media have mostly skirted the crucial factors driving the birth dearth.
In its coverage of the story, The Wall Street Journal’s Jennifer Calfas and Anthony DeBarros cited such factors as “women establishing fulfilling careers,” and that they have more access to contraception.
The most fertile child-bearing group – young women – are putting off motherhood because they are uncertain about the future and are “spending more of their income on homeownership, student debt and child care,” according to The Journal.
Even as Americans fail to replace themselves, the U.S. government has opened up its borders and invited illegal aliens from more than 100 nations to replace dead and dying Americans in the work force.
An article posted by The Burning Platform notes that the reasons The Journal and other commentators give to explain the decline in birth rates are the consequences of what took place in America and the Western world decades ago. Leftists had always wanted to break down and corrupt the traditional family.
According to the article: “A splintered and dysfunctional family structure would be less likely to act as bulwark against the leftist agenda of more government interventions into the private affairs of its citizens.”
One of the ways to accomplish this, the article states, was to get women out of the household and into the work force, as working and career women would have fewer opportunities to have children.
The feminist movement was more than just the attainment of “equal rights” for women. Its main objective was to lead women out of the home and away from their traditional roles as mothers and homemakers. The record drop in birth rates is evidence of how well this plan has worked.
And, as a result, look how much more empowered the government has become over the everyday lives of Americans.
I also would not dismiss the impact that toxic mRNA injections have had on fertility. There have been a few studies that suggest these jabs have had a negative effect on the reproductive organs of both men and women, but more work needs to be done in this area. One thing you can count for certain, you won’t find any government funding or Gates or Rockefeller funding of such studies. They are all on board the the eugenics program to wipe out billions of people and get the global population down to 1 or 2 billion, from the current 8 billion.
WHO expert James Roguski says that one of the major objectives of the proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty and amended International Health Regulations is to fund Big Pharma’s vaccine gravy train with the tax dollars of citizens of wealthy countries. This will pay for new vaccine factories in poor countries, which had a much lower uptake of the Covid shots than we saw in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. Now they need to even the score and inject more poor people living in Third World countries.
Henry Kissinger called for a depopulation of the Third World as far back as 1974 in The Kissinger Report.
Dennis Meadows, co-author of the Club of Rome-published book Limits to Growth, also let the cat out of the bag about the globalist elites’ plan for depopulation. Don’t forget the interview in which Meadows said, “I hope the depopulation will occur in a civil and peaceful way.”
This also explains the globalists’ anti-human climate agenda and the demonic thirst for World War III. It’s all part of the same overarching strategy to eliminate 70 percent or more of the world population.
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This article originally appeared on JoeHoft.com and was republished with permission by The Gateway Pundit.
In July 2023, Renz writes:
The enemies of freedom are continuing by continuing gain-of-function work and pushing “vaccines” into other products such as food, items applied to the skin, and even aerosolizing them. This is because we have succeeded in waking so many people up to the dangers of the injections that no one is taking them. This also means we MUST double down on our work.
In November 2023, Renz shared:
As the freedom fight continues a lot of our work has moved into lawfare. We are filing and/or supporting strategic litigation, pushing legislation, and working incredibly hard to wake up a sleeping public. It’s working. Uptakes for the new boosters are at around 1.3% and that is a big deal. We also just submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States regarding a J6 case and are working CBDC legislation, mRNA in food legislation, and election issues in multiple states.
Last week we were able to testify in Congress. The testimony was given in a hearing set by MTG and saw many heroic congresspeople attend – Matt Gaetz, Ron Johnson, Thomas Massie, Clay Higgins, and others. This hearing allowed us to ensure our elected officials heard, for the first time, new information about the DoD and CIA involvement in both the creation of COVID and the shots. We also shared additional information related to DMED, shedding, and explained that there are likely causes of action available to file suit directly against big pharma.
We desperately need resources at the moment. The fight for freedom is going well on all fronts but resources are very limited. We need as much help as possible to do everything possible before the 2024 election. We have learned that the same people that were behind COVID were behind the election fraud, CBDCs, and all the other issues we are facing. In a nation of 320+ million if we could find 100,000 to give $20 a month we could do a lot to free our country and change the world.
Next on May 24, about a week ago, Renz shared:
Attorney Tom Renz was sanctioned by Judge James Carr of the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, Toledo despite the fact that there was no evidence on record of wrongdoing and three day’s worth of evidence, including testimony from 6 other attorneys from around the country, that Renz’s work was good and proper. Judge Carr used his power in the court to request motions for sanctions and then moved forward despite the complete lack of evidence of any wrongdoing.
The stated basis of Carr’s actions was that the case was frivolous, and the proceedings were vexatiously multiplied. Not only did 6 licensed attorneys and Renz himself testify as to the validity of the case, the Sixth Circuit had previously accepted oral arguments on the case and, while the 6th ultimately ruled against Renz, they did agree in part with his position in the case. By rule the 6th Circuit will not grant oral arguments if they determine, “(1) the appeal is frivolous; (2) the dispositive issue or issues have been authoritatively decided; or (3) the facts and legal arguments are adequately presented in the briefs and record, and the decisional process would not be significantly aided by oral argument. Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8019(b).”
In terms of vexatiously multiplying the proceedings the only actions in the case were filing a complaint and responding to a motion to dismiss. The appeal to the 6th Circuit cannot be considered multiplication of proceedings by law.
In this case, the Judge seemed bent on reaching a conclusion and ordering sanctions regardless of the facts. It may be fair to ask whether it is because a finding was issued on a complaint filed by Renz’s co-counsel in the case against Judge Carr. In the finding the 6th Circuit recognized that the Judge accepted an ex parte statement that was important (substantive) nature to the case from one of Governor Mike DeWine’s lawyers in another COVID case. So, again, it seems reasonable to ask whether the ruling in this case– based on no evidence – was retaliatory.
Renz is hoping to appeal this abysmal miscarriage of justice and ensure actual law is followed here. Please help us fight against another shady court and push for reform of the justice system so we can bring these cases effectively when disease X is released.
You can help Attorney Renz by donating to his Give Send Go account.
Americans need to support America’s strong, smart and righteous attorneys before the left puts them all in prison on fascist charges. Help Tom today!
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In a recent House Select Subcommittee hearing, a January 6th participant stole the limelight from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Brandon Fellows, who was convicted for his role in the January 6 event, became an internet sensation after he completely blew up Fauci’s most important scripted moment during his congressional testimony.
Fauci, the embattled former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, faced tough questions over his handling of the COVID pandemic, including the enforcement of strict lockdowns and mask mandates that is merely based on assumptions, not on science.
Rep. Deborah Ann Dingell (D-MI) then asked Fauci about alleged death threats he had received. As Fauci began to respond, Brandon Fellows, convicted in August of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanors for his role in the January 6 event, stole the show.
Positioned behind Fauci and clearly visible to the camera, Fellows made faces that quickly became an internet sensation. The video rapidly went viral, with numerous internet users applauding 29-year-old Fellows for his audacious trolling of Fauci during the hearing.
Fauci gets asked about the ongoing death threats he receives. The real star is the guy sitting behind him. Someone give that man an award pic.twitter.com/ZBBvfM6QS4
— James Jinnette (@james_jinnette1) June 3, 2024
After mocking Fauci, Fellows told Fauci that he belonged in prison and was subsequently escorted out of the congressional hearing.
J6 Political Prisoner Brandon Fellows told Dr. Fauci that he belongs in Prison! X better NOT censor this!
@elonmusk
@annvandersteel pic.twitter.com/YPvvFsg5qe— Corinne Cliford (@corinnecliford) June 3, 2024
Brandon Fellows is a pro-MAGA protester who smoked weed in Senator Jeff Merkley’s office during the protest. Fellows, who has described his incarceration as ‘awesome and very fun,’ was sentenced to three years this year for his role in the events of January 6. He was released from prison on May 20.
Upon learning who was sitting behind him after the hearing, Fauci asked: ‘What’s somebody like that doing at a hearing about COVID?’
In a Twitter/X post, Fellows wrote, “For every democrat hilariously freaking out that I was sitting so close to mass murderer Fauchi… Yes I’m a felon, but only until the Supreme Court dismissed the felony later this month. Look up the opening statements of USA V Fisher… My supervised release is about to end.”
In another post, he wrote, “I have the coolest and most chill probation officer! We had scheduled a meet up a week ago, met for the first time today. Libs, your efforts didn’t work. They recognize I did nothing wrong and though he probably wouldn’t admit it, I caught him smiling at the Fauchi video”
However, Fellows’ actions have now led to death threats against him and his democrat mother.
Fellows’ antics at the hearing have led to a surge in threatening messages directed not only at him but alarmingly at his mother and her nursing home as well. The young conservative’s mother, a declared Democrat, and her residence are now facing severe threats.
Fellows remains unapologetic and defiant despite the threats, asserting his right to speak freely and stand by his political beliefs.
“Mother had death threats and had her nursing home threatened to be attacked/ the residents inside who have nothing to do with this… BTW, mom is a democrat… I’ve received messages of threats and death threats as she has. She wants me to be silent, I will not. Trump 2024”
Mother had death threats and had her nursing home threated to be attacked/ the residents inside who have nothing to do with this… BTW, mom is a democrat…
I’ve received messages of threats and death threats as she has.
She wants me to be silent,
I will not.
Trump 2024
— Brandon Fellows (@BrandonF65664) June 4, 2024
According to his fundraising campaign organized by his mother, “My son, Brandon Fellows is a 29 year old federal prisoner from Schenectady, NY. Among his many achievements, Brandon was a Christian camp counselor, student body senator, and kids wrestling team coach as a young man. Brandon suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome just like one of his heroes, Elon Musk. Despite this lifelong challenge, Brandon built a chimney business in the capital region of upstate New York.”
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Democrat voters in New Jersey elected deceased Representative Donald Payne Jr. in Tuesday’s primary.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Representative Donald M. Payne Jr. (D-NJ) died on April 24th at 65.
Before his death, Payne spent the last two weeks in a coma due to having a heart attack and complications with diabetes.
Despite being dead, Payne won New Jersey’s 10th District Democratic primary with 99.9% of the vote.
LOOK:
Payne was able to win the election because New Jersey’s deadline to run for Congress was in March, and Payne died in April.
Per The New York Post:
Democratic voters picked a much-beloved congressman from New Jersey in the primary on Tuesday — but there’s only one problem: He’s dead.
Rep. Donald Payne Jr. had held his seat in the Garden State’s 10th Congressional District for more than a decade, and is running unopposed in the Democratic primary.
The 65-year-old member of the Congressional Black Caucus died April 24 after a heart attack — after the filing deadline for the primary had already passed.
Because of this, New Jersey’s election rules state, no one can replace him on the ballot, according to the Washington Examiner.
US congressman Donald Payne Jr. wins New Jersey election despite dying weeks ago https://t.co/pX4V4If0sj pic.twitter.com/ZzhThyjoxx
— The US Sun (@TheSunUS) June 5, 2024
Here’s what the ballot looked like for Democrat voters in New Jersey:
It’s primary day in New Jersey! The only candidate on the ballot for the 10th congressional district, Donald Payne Jr., is currently deceased pic.twitter.com/q6PN2jzDO2
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 4, 2024
A special election will now be held for New Jersey’s 10th District on July 16th.
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A patriotic former FBI agent who helped expose the agency’s lies about the January 6th protests has scored a major victory against his former employer.
FBI agent Marcus Allen had his security clearance suspended in 2022 after he raised questions about Director Christopher Wray’s statements regarding law enforcement involvement during the January 6th protests.
Empower Oversight, a legal advocacy group, filed a lawsuit against the bureau and asserted that the FBI’s actions were retaliatory and falsely labeled Allen as disloyal to the United States.
It has now been confirmed that the FBI reinstated Allen’s security clearance on May 31st and agreed to pay him over two months of back pay as part of a settlement between the two parties. He has now resigned from the bureau.
“This letter is to inform you that I am reinstating your Top Secret (TS) security clearance effective upon receipt of this letter,” the FBI said in a letter to Allen. “My decision to reinstate your security clearance is based upon a determination that the original security concerns have been investigated and have been sufficiently mitigated.”
Allen’s lawyer, Tristan Leavitt, described the settlement as a “total vindication” for his client.
“The F.B.I. has completely backed down and provided everything that we had asked for on behalf of Marcus,” Leavitt said. “It’s clear from the evidence and the FBI’s capitulation there was absolutely no truth to their accusations.”
Allen upset his superiors at the bureau when he testified before the House Judiciary Committee last year and revealed how he was the victim of political retaliation for his views about January 6th.
“I was not in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, played no part in the events of Jan. 6, and I condemn all criminal activity that occurred,” he testified. “Instead, it appears that I was retaliated against because I forwarded information to my superiors and others that questioned the official narrative of the events of Jan. 6.”
Marcus Allen bravely served our country overseas in the armed services and has been suspended without pay for OVER a year by the FBI for “disloyalty.”
Listen to his powerful testimony
pic.twitter.com/5fR0VTk5zb
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 18, 2023
In a statement on Tuesday, Allen called for accountability against abuse of power by FBI authorities.
“It’s been a difficult couple of years, and I am truly grateful for my friends and family who helped us through this. While I feel vindicated now in getting back my security clearance, it is sad that in the country I fought for as a Marine, the FBI was allowed to lie about my loyalty to the U.S. for two years,” he said.
“Unless there is accountability, it will keep happening to others. Better oversight and changes to security clearance laws are key to stop abuses suffered by whistleblowers like me.”
The FBI, meanwhile, has denied any wrongdoing in the case. “While we can’t comment on the specifics of any settlement, both parties agreed to resolve this matter without either admitting wrongdoing,” the bureau said in a statement provided to The New York Times.
“The F.B.I. takes seriously its responsibility to F.B.I. employees who make protected disclosures under whistle-blower regulations, and we are committed to ensuring they are protected from retaliation.”
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Joe Biden’s cognitive decline in recent years has been completely obvious to the American people, but Democrats and the media have tried very hard to gaslight the public.
People like Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre tried to sell the idea that behind closed doors, Biden was as mentally sharp as ever.
That narrative is slipping away quickly, the closer we get to the election.
In a shocking new story from the Wall Street Journal, Republicans and Democrats alike claim that Biden is not the man he once was. The WSJ story is behind a paywall, but the New York Post has details:
Biden showing signs of decline as pols, aides detail 81-year-old’s slipping cognitive fitness: ‘Not the same person’
President Biden’s cognitive decline is readily apparent and a concern for dozens who have interacted with the 81-year-old commander-in-chief in recent months, according to a shocking report Tuesday.
Some of the more the 45 Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staffers interviewed by the Wall Street Journal described a president who spoke so softly during meetings that participants struggled to understand him.
Others noted that Biden’s demeanor and grasp of policy details varied by the day and he frequently relied on notes and deferred to aides during conferences.
“You couldn’t be there and not feel uncomfortable,” one person, who met with the president during critical negotiations over congressional funding for Ukraine aid in January, told the outlet…
Biden would “ramble,” mumble and his ability to command the room varied from day to day during tense negotiations over raising the debt ceiling last May, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) recalled.
Again, none of this is news to the public. People have watched Biden over the last few years, amazed that Democrats and the media have tried to claim that the man is just fine. He is not fine.
Biden's brain malfunctions in real time (again) pic.twitter.com/NqQIq5lCmg
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
It’s obvious to everyone that he is not all there.
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Grassroots activists and prominent figures are rallying to fortify election integrity in Michigan.
The “Protect Our Voters!” event, scheduled for Wednesday, June 5th, 2024, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Boji Tower, will showcase these efforts.
Organized by Senator Jim Runestad (R-White Lake), the gathering aims to bring to light the strategic measures needed to combat voter fraud and ensure that every vote is counted accurately and fairly.
Senator Runestad will discuss Senate Bills 603–604 during the rally. In his X account, Sen. Runestad wrote:
All voters in Michigan; Democrat, Independents, and Republicans should be motivated to join this rally on Wednesday to ensure free and fair elections and to build trust and certainty in our election processes.
Most of Michigan is now aware of Senate bill’s 603 and 604, which are coming up for a vote soon and are designed to eliminate all the current investigatory and subpoena powers invested in the Board of canvassers, and to make the recount process vastly more complicated and expensive in order to facilitate the potential of mischief in the recount process.
Fair and trusted elections are the very bedrock of our Republic and bill’s SB 603-4 actively work to strip away, and to undermine the authority of the peoples representatives on canvassing boards who are entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring accuracy in our election results- especially as it relates to recounts.
We will have a number of speakers addressing many of the issues going forward this election cycle that we need to be aware of in order to make sure everyone can have confidence in the election process.
All voters in Michigan; Democrat, Independents, and Republicans should be motivated to join this rally on Wednesday to ensure free and fair elections and to build trust and certainty in our election processes.
Most of Michigan is now aware of Senate bill’s 603 and 604, which are… pic.twitter.com/AVP34Mw6AZ
— Jim Runestad (@RunWithRunestad) June 4, 2024
Also on the roster is Senator Ruth Johnson (R-Holly), who will focus on cleaning up Michigan’s voter rolls.
Joining them will be Senator Jonathan Lindsey (R-Allen), who will discuss a lawsuit he and several other lawmakers are involved in regarding “the time, place, and manner of elections.”
Malinda Pego, Co-Chair of the Michigan Republican Party (MRP), will share her past election experiences. Patrice Johnson, founder of Pure Michigan Integrity Elections, will discuss an ongoing lawsuit she is involved with in Pennsylvania. Rep. Ann Bollin (R-Brighton), Rep. Rachelle Smit (R-Martin), and Rep. Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay) will also be speaking at the event.
One of the standout speakers, Patty McMurray, author and noted investigative journalist at The Gateway Pundit, is slated to address the crowd about the Muskegon election fraud allegations. McMurray, who has been at the epicenter of uncovering irregularities and advocating for rigorous checks and balances, is hailed as a hero among those fighting against electoral malpractices.
The event not only aims to educate and inform the public about the challenges facing electoral integrity but also to empower citizens to take an active role in monitoring and participating in the electoral process. By highlighting the work of Patty McMurray and others, Senator Runestad hopes to inspire more individuals to join this critical cause.
The event was originally planned to take place at East Lawn, Michigan Capitol, but due to the possibility of inclement weather, the location has been changed.
According to the press release:
Due to potential inclement weather, our Michigan Election Integrity Rally venue will move to the Boji Tower conference room on the 1st floor. This critical election integrity event will still begin at 3pm.
Join Sen. Runestad at Boji Tower, tomorrow June 5th, at 3pm
124 W. Allegan St. Lansing, MI
“Michigan voters, everyone is excited about the Protect Michigan Voters rally tomorrow, Wednesday, the fifth at 3 o’clock! However, due to advertised inclement weather, we are changing the venue from the capital steps to the Boji Tower, first floor conference room, right next to the lawn. Don’t miss out on this educational forum that will arm you with the critical issues and the Democrats planned schemes for our upcoming 2024 election cycle!” Sen. Runestad wrote on X.
Michigan voters, everyone is excited about the Protect, Michigan Voters rally tomorrow, Wednesday, the fifth at 3 o’clock!
However, due to advertised inclement weather, we are changing the venue from the capital steps to the Boji Tower, first floor conference room, right next… pic.twitter.com/53Hij0JFTe— Jim Runestad (@RunWithRunestad) June 4, 2024
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Why did Josh Kaul wait more than three years to bring the charges?
Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Tuesday indicted two Trump lawyers and one aide in connection with the 2020 alternate electors plan.
“Attorney General Josh Kaul today announced the filing of a criminal complaint charging Kenneth J. Chesebro, Michael A. Roman, and James R. Troupis with conspiring to commit the crime of uttering as genuine a forged writing or object, in violation of Wis. Stat. §§ 939.31 and 943.38(2). The crime charged is a Class H felony, punishable by a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed six years, or both, pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 939.50(3)(h).” The Wisconsin DOJ announced.
Chesebro, Roman, and Troupis are each facing up to 6 years in prison and fines of up to $10,000.
All three men are due in court on September 19.
“The criminal complaint in this case alleges that the defendants were part of a conspiracy to present a certificate of purported electoral votes from individuals who were not Wisconsin’s duly appointed electors,” said Attorney General Kaul. “The Wisconsin Department of Justice is committed to protecting the integrity of our electoral process.”
Today, Attorney General Kaul announces charge against Chesebro, Roman, and Troupis in connection with alleged unappointed electors conspiracy.
Tap for insights: https://t.co/KzazK2Gsbm pic.twitter.com/n5kKPTb22X
— Attorney General Josh Kaul (@WisDOJ) June 4, 2024
Democrat state attorneys general in Nevada, Arizona, and Michigan have also charged Trump 2020 alternate electors.
Last month Trump attorneys Christina Bobb, Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman were indicted by an Arizona grand jury after the state’s Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes pursued charges.
In July Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel criminally charged 16 dueling ‘Trump electors’ in the state’s 2020 election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis previously indicted three of Trump’s alternate electors in Georgia as part of her RICO and conspiracy case against Trump.
When the Democrats cast alternate electors it’s called ‘dueling electors.’ When the Republicans cast alternate electors it’s called ‘fake electors’ and indictments come down from crooked Democrat attorneys general.
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Joe Biden on Tuesday evening delivered opening remarks at the White House Congressional Picnic before departing for Paris, France.
Dr. Jill, clad in a sofa print dress, welcomed everyone to the picnic.
“It’s so wonderful to see so many friends here. My heart is filled with gratitude as I look out at this crowd,” Dr. Jill said.
“Over these past three and a half years, so many of you have welcomed me to your districts and your states, as we’ve worked together on issues that bring us all together: Lifting up educators, highlighting the great work of your local community colleges, fighting to end cancer as we know it, supporting military families,” she said.
“Now, I get to introduce my husband – Senator from Delaware for 36 years, and now President of the United States – and as you all know him: Joe,” Jill said.
Joe Biden predicted the Democrats will take the House back in November.
After Biden was finished slurring through remarks, Dr. Jill told Joe Biden where to go.
“You gonna walk down this way? You go that way, I’ll go this way?” Dr. Jill said.
Biden replied, “She going that way, I’m going this way.”
WATCH:
BIDEN: "You gonna walk down this way? You go that way, I'll go this way? She going that way, I'm going this way." pic.twitter.com/dIVG0XCp8E
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
Biden shuffled off the stage and made a beeline for the children. He went straight for the children with his mouth wide open!
He just can’t help himself.
What a creep.
WATCH:
Biden shuffles off the stage and makes a beeline for the kids pic.twitter.com/qVb47PNLkD
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
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Before discussing the foreign funding in the United States’ elections, we must first acknowledge the modus operandi and influence of non-governmental organizations on foreign countries. No better example exists than the contemporary situation in the transcontinental nation of Georgia.
Over the past several months, Georgia has been facing an impending Colour Revolution, similar to the 2014 Maidan Uprising in Ukraine at the behest of US diplomats, such as Victoria Nuland, with assistance from pro-West Ukrainian counterparts, such as Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was in the Ukraine Parliament during the uprising. He would go on immediately following to become Ukraine’s Prime Minister. Yatsenyuk is also mentioned in the infamous Joe Biden “son-of-a-bitch was fired” clip regarding the firing of Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin in lieu of a $1 billion loan guarantee.
Oliver Stone’s documentary “Ukraine on Fire“, free on YouTube and Rumble, is an in-depth breakdown of the US-influence leading up to the unconstitutional ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during the ‘Maidan Uprising.’
Georgia is currently facing similar pressure over a law that would require non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and non-profits to register as “foreign agents” if they receive 20% or more of their funding from groups outside of Georgia. The movement against this law’s passage is being supported by European and US-backed entities while the EU and NATO are attempting to admit Georgia into the respective organizations. Georgia shares a significant border with Russia, similar to Ukraine, and could potentially lead to military conflict similar to that underway in Ukraine.
The irony of it all is that the United States and most other modernized countries already have similar foreign influence laws in place. In fact, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is on trial right now for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). It’s also the basis for the allegations against the Biden crime family in their dealings with Burisma, the Chinese CEFC, and other foreign entities.
However, is that law in the United States adequate? And is it being adhered to?
Many have seen the ‘Get out the Vote,’ ‘Protect Democracy,’ and ‘Voter Mobilization’ NGOs that seem to spend millions of dollars lobbying politicians and filing lawsuits to strip away any shred of security from our elections. Meanwhile, election integrity groups that are conducting thorough investigations to ensure our elections are conducted lawfully and counted accurately always seem to struggle for a mere fraction of the funding the aforementioned groups receive. This is despite having brought to light numerous instances of transparency being obfuscated while uncovering flagrant violations of election code with minimal to no consequence.
Is it simply because the Americans are more interested in every single person voting, no matter how insecure that makes the process, and therefore donate to the formerly mentioned NGOs? No, it’s not organic according to research done by investigators Peter Bernegger of Election Watch, Chris Gleason, and numerous other researchers who wish to remain anonymous. In fact, a chunk of it can be traced back not just to the Soros-funded Tides Foundation, but also to the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) out of San Francisco.
In a post on X, Bernegger claims that the CPA gave “big money” to the Tides Foundation, who in turn gave to over 2,500 NGOs and non-profits that are “all focused on winning for liberals at the ballot box,” according to Bernegger.
Fractal Programming, I know it works because I use it. If you want to see how clueless and behind the times the RNC and all state Republican parties are, take a look at the two images here we created. The more colorful one on the right is showing 1 level out, named the Cluster… https://t.co/e65cTlESSr pic.twitter.com/5VWV2EM8Mt
— Peter Bernegger (@PeterBernegger) May 30, 2024
InfluenceWatch.org states that the CPA is a “left-wing community organizing group” that “grew out of radical-left and pro-People’s Republic of China cadres” and is “historically aligned with the revolutionary Communist groups I Wor Kuen and League of Revolutionary Struggle.” More recently, it has “promoted forming a national alliance of Asian-American advocacy groups.” And in 2018, the CPA formed the Black Futures Lab, which is a “voter mobilization” BLM organization.
On the Why We Vote podcast last Friday, Bernegger also described the smurfing operation involving ActBlue and democrat operatives by attributing small dollar donations across hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of transactions. These “smurf” donations are exclusively attributed to retired Americans that are typically in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. On his website ElectionWatch.info, Bernegger has an interactive map of the United States that outlines these smurfs. Click on any individual state and you can filter donations that he believes are “smurfs.” Note: the people listed are not accused of any wrongdoing. Bernegger’s data is indicative of identity theft, elder abuse, and money laundering.
For example, under the California tab, one of the “smurfs” is a woman from San Diego who donated 52,501 times in just under six years for a total amount of $884,152. Avg. Donation: $16.84.
Another woman from San Jose donated 32,411 times in just over six years for a total of $293,990. Avg. Donation: $9.07.
Bernegger went on to explain that much of this money is actually coming from the US Treasury and being laundered back into the United States from overseas (think: FTX).
But even more disturbing is that a lot of the money being laundered back to our politicians comes from these over-inflated spending bills that sends billions of dollars overseas for things like migratory bird studies in India and gender studies in Pakistan, or war funds that get… pic.twitter.com/4UJQFUJP8O
— CannCon (@CannConActual) June 3, 2024
When asked if there is an investigation opened up on this, or whether these transactions can be traced, Bernegger claimed that “the FEC is in on it”, calling it “Sovereign Fraud.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has sent letters to the FEC about this situation, as has Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI). The FEC agreed to a meeting with Sen. Johnson. According to Bernegger, the FEC then rescinded their agreement to a meeting after receiving the questions from Sen. Johnson. Bernegger called the questions “the right ones.”
It is remarkable that a bureaucratic institution is bold enough to refuse oversight from sitting US Senators. Sen. Rubio has previously introduced the Codification of Verified Values Act, which would require the use of credit verification value numbers (CVV) on the back of credit cards to be required for campaign donations. This would add additional security for transactions and ensure the donator is in fact the donator.
Unfortunately, that bill has been sitting in committee since February of 2023. It’s a simple bill. In fact, the entirety of the action is one sentence to ensure accountability for a regulated transaction:
“(m) CVV Requirement For Online Contributions.—An organization shall not be treated as an organization described in this section unless, in the case of any internet credit card contribution accepted by such organization, the individual or entity making such contribution is required, at the time such contribution is made, to disclose the credit verification value of such credit card.”.
When asked why no one is investigating this, Peter told us they got some strongly worded letters from Sen Rubio and an effort to bring the FEC to a hearing by Sen Ron Johnson, which the FEC backed out of…
Why are these Senators writing letters and not bills? Why are they… pic.twitter.com/TJi4PXpcBo
— CannCon (@CannConActual) June 3, 2024
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) came out with a report on the Navy’s new Constellation Class Frigate that was both impactful and yet had a distinct air of the obvious: The Navy caused a three-year delay in this program “by starting construction on the first frigate before finishing its design, among other missteps.” Starting construction before the design was complete? How many homebuyers agree to the price and delivery schedule on a house before the options, upgrades, and other features are agreed to? Maybe Jeff Bezos – most Americans negotiate the price and schedule first, then sign the contract.
Before the GAO report came out, but well after the problems with the Constellation Class were known, the Coast Guard Commandant, forewarned, decided to step on the same rake. “Coast Guard to Start Polar Cutter Construction Before Finalizing Design, Despite Recommendation”. Most mere mortals would define the product, then sign the contract. Our military leaders decided to inverse the process, sign the contract, give the green light, and then define the product. With the Constellation Frigate and the Polar Cutter programs, lessons learned and common sense were thrown out the window from the beginning.
Something is very wrong with our military – this is not just about shipbuilding; this is about strategic clarity of thought – and we need to know what caused this virus.
The halls of the Pentagon and the National Security Council used to be populated with giants of history – not anymore. The Gaza Pier debacle is a visual exemplar of the collapse of American military clarity of thought. What happened and why?
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro recently came in for a Senate Hearing and it didn’t go well. The nine major ship programs have a cumulative of 11 years of delays. The U.S. Navy will break the 300 ship ceiling in 10 years, while the Chinese have over 200 times the capacity of the United States for ship building. These numbers are so ridiculously divergent as to be comical.
Senate Republicans hammered Del Toro in the “unusually acrimonious” meeting about his focus on climate change, “I see a really big problem that’s not being addressed nearly as enthusiastically as climate change is with the Navy,” said North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer.
The military leaders are being distracted from their core missions by idols and abstract, feel good, unmeasurable, unobtainable ideals that are deadly for a constitutional republic. Climate Change, Transgenderism, Open Borders – all are corrosive and toxic concepts that corrupt the thought process. They all distract from the mission of the Department of Defense, which is stated as, “Our mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security”. Nothing in this mission statement says anything about Climate Change, Transgenderism, Open Borders, or any other pet progressive project. The cancer that causes the loss of strategic thought begins with a disregard for the purpose of the Department of Defense. No wonder contracts are signed when the product isn’t defined.
The military is facing a crisis in recruiting and retention. From an Association of the United States Army thought piece, the peril was clear, “The Army’s recruiting crisis, the most substantial since the creation of the all-volunteer force 50 years ago, is a threat to U.S. national security”. The paper goes on to say, “Among Americans ages 17 to 24, only 23% qualify to serve without a waiver due to obesity, drug use or inability to meet academic standards.”
Every one of those salient virtues, being in shape, not using drugs, and having high academic standards are symptoms of “privilege” – the psycho-babble for those who want to push the religion of wokeness.
If the education system is indoctrinating K-12 students with the Communist-inspired psychology of privilege, there’s going to be an increasing percentage of the candidate pool who cannot meet military standards. And of that 23% who are qualified, how many feel welcome if they are Caucasian, Asian, male, non-transgender, traditional family-minded, Jewish, Christian, Conservative, in shape, do not use drugs, born in America, or any other descriptor determined to be “privileged”? 95% of the population fit into one or more of these categories of privilege, which leaves 1.6 out of 100 meeting the basic qualifications and feeling welcome. Those who have been indoctrinated by this gibberish are now Generals, Admirals, and Senior Executives. Woke culture is trained to reward those who show the right intent, results and merit are irrelevant. One more causal factor explaining why contracts are signed before the deliverable is defined.
At first, military leaders ignored the term “Woke,” then they made fun of it, and now they are angry about it. Their operatives put out thought pieces that blame those who point out wokeness as the reason why recruiting and retention is so dismal.
In early 2023, the Army political leadership decided to use the talking point “safety” as the reason that recruiting and retention were so bad. They were hammered by Republicans who wanted to see the unfiltered source data. I’m not sure exactly what “safety” means – does that mean transgenders don’t feel safe? Is that the nuanced and coded message?
The signing of contracts before the product is defined is a symptom of “Woke-ism.” The United States Military needs to be “De-Woked,” and talking about it is the sunlight that starts the healing process. The DOD is the largest sub-bureaucracy of the largest bureaucracy in the world, the U.S. Government. Government is never efficient, but once the drag co-efficient of Wokeness is removed, strategic clarity of thought will return.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has charged 11 individuals with felony offenses linked to voter fraud, highlighting ongoing concerns over the sanctity of the electoral process.
This investigation, led by special agents at the request of 18th Judicial District Attorney General Ray Whitley, reveals a troubling pattern of convicted felons unlawfully participating in Sumner County elections between 2020 and 2022.
According to a press release from the TBI:
“In late January, at the request of 18th Judicial District Attorney General Ray Whitley, TBI agents began investigating reports of 15 convicted felons unlawfully voting in various Sumner County elections between 2020 and 2022.
Agents determined four of the felons were deceased prior to the investigation. Agents investigated the remaining 11 individuals, determining all had been convicted of at least one felony and registered to vote in Sumner County after their convictions, completing documents that included language regarding not having been convicted of a felony.”
On May 10th, the Sumner County Grand Jury returned indictments, charging the following individuals with one count each of Illegal Registration or Voting and one count of False Entries on Official Registration or Election Documents:
The TBI, assisted by the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office, arrested these individuals in recent days and booked each into the Sumner County Jail on a $5,000 bond.
JUST ANNOUNCED: 11 people face felony charges following an election registration case by special agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.https://t.co/yvgwzmNByM
— Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (@TBInvestigation) June 4, 2024
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Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, long dismissed by the liberal media as a product of Russian disinformation, has resurfaced as a key piece of evidence in a high-profile gun charges trial. The laptop, which contains a trove of incriminating emails and images, is now confirmed to be authentic by an FBI agent involved in the case.
The trial centers around Hunter Biden’s acquisition of a $5,000 firearm in October 2018, during which he allegedly falsified federal forms by denying any drug addiction.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that prosecutors told the court that Hunter Biden bought the firearm while he was smoking crack every 15 minutes.
Earlier, Melissa Cohen Biden, Hunter’s wife, fiercely confronted Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to President Trump, during a court recess. An NBC reporter quoted her explosive rebuke as she blocked his entry into the courtroom, calling him a "Nazi piece of shit." This altercation stems from a previous lawsuit Hunter filed against Ziegler, who is accused of disseminating private emails from Biden’s laptop.
Now, what many in the media and deep state once dismissed as "Russian disinformation" is at the forefront of American justice. Hunter Biden's infamous laptop has surfaced as a pivotal piece of evidence in his ongoing gun charges trial.
The laptop in question, a MacBook Pro 13, became notorious when its contents were disclosed shortly before the 2020 presidential election. According to reports, Hunter Biden left it at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, forgetting to retrieve it. This laptop became one of the first exhibits presented by the prosecution.
The FBI and intelligence community knew in November 2019 that Hunter Biden’s laptop was authentic and contained evidence of hundreds of international crimes that included his father, Joe Biden.
Then, during the second presidential debate in 2020, Joe Biden and hack reporter Kristen Welker teamed up against President Donald Trump.
At one point, Joe Biden interrupted Welker for his planned response to the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell scandal. Joe Biden told the audience that 50 intelligence leaders signed a letter saying the laptop was “Russian propaganda.”
FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen, who testified in court today, confirmed that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden and that its contents were genuine.
"When asked how she was able to confirm the laptop’s authenticity, Ms. Jensen said the serial number on the back of the laptop matches the serial number provided in Apple Inc.’s response to a subpoena for records," according to Washington Times.
More from Daily Beast:
FBI agent Erika Jensen testified that a series of messages recovered from the laptop, dated between April 2018 and July 2018, described Biden’s drug use around the time he bought the gun.
One message showed a photo of white power on a scale, Jensen said. “You want 10 grams?” another message to Hunter Biden allegedly read.
NBC reported that as the laptop was introduced as evidence, Cohen Biden shook her head and whispered to a lawyer next to her.
More from York Post's Miranda Devine:
COURTROOM REPORT: It’s official. Hunter Biden’s #LaptopFromHell is government exhibit 16 at the First Son’s gun trial in Delaware.
The silver MacBook Pro, covered in a plastic wrapper, was first publicly sighted today at 2:10 p.m. when it was carried across the court by prosecutor Derek Hines to his first witness, FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen.
She confirmed it was Hunter’s laptop from the serial number on the back that corresponds to his iCloud identity. She said the laptop was obtained by the FBI with a subpoena from The Mac Shop in Wilmington, where it had been “abandoned” by Hunter.
She said that investigators corroborated content on the laptop with content in Hunter’s iCloud that they obtained from Apple with a subpoena. Hines then proceeded to go through WhatsApp and text messages, images, and documents from the laptop and iCloud with Jensen to make his case that Hunter was using drugs before, during, and after the period that he bought and possessed the handgun after allegedly signing a background check form on October 12, 2018, saying he was not a drug user. His then-lover, Hallie Biden, later threw the gun in a trash can.
The jury kept an unsmiling focus throughout the evidence, which showed Hunter spending $50,000 a month in ATM withdrawals during that period and organizing alleged purchases of crack cocaine.
Hunter’s disembodied voice filled the courtroom periodically as prosecutors played audiobook extracts from his memoir, and he remained impassive behind a pair of salmon pink reading glasses.
Hallie Biden will be a witness by the end of this week or next week, after Hunter’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle and ex-lover Zoe Kestan. It is three years and eight months since @nypost broke the story of #LaptopFromHell that was censored by Big Tech.
A few days later in October 2020, the #Dirty51 ex-intelligence officials, mostly CIA, lied that it was Russian disinformation and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden lied that it was a “Russian plant.”
COURTROOM REPORT: It’s official. Hunter Biden’s #LaptopFromHell is government exhibit 16 at the First Son’s gun trial in Delaware. The silver MacBook Pro covered in a plastic wrapper was first publicly sighted today at 2.10pm when it was carried across the court by prosecutor…
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) June 4, 2024
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Meanwhile in the Democrat hellhole of California…
Beloved restaurant chain Rubio’s Coastal Grill is closing 48 locations in California due to the rising cost of doing business.
In September California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law raising the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 per hour.
“Eighty percent of the workforce, these fast food places – 80 percent of people of color, two thirds…are women, the majority are breadwinners and we have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice and stabilize an industry in turn. What a remarkable moment,” Newsom said in September during the bill signing.
And here are the results…
Rubio’s became the latest victim of California’s Democrat insanity. Rubio’s started out as a taco stand in 1983 and 40 years later they are being forced to close down dozens of locations because of failed Democrat policies.
The restaurant chain known for their ‘fresh Mex’ and fish tacos is closing 48 locations in California.
“The closings were brought about by the rising cost of doing business in California,” said a statement from a Rubio’s spokesperson. “While painful, the store closures are a necessary step in our strategic long-term plan to position Rubio’s for success for years to come.”
Excerpt from CBS News:
Rubio’s Coastal Grill, a beloved restaurant chain known for their fish tacos, has announced that they will be closing 48 locations in California due to the “rising cost of doing business.”
Of the 48 locations, which represent about a third of the Rubio’s found in California, Nevada and Arizona, 24 are in the Los Angeles area, 13 are in San Diego — where the company is headquartered — and 11 in Northern California.
The decision has caused disappointment amongst residents who enjoy the “Fresh Mex” style of food, but experts say it’s not surprising — especially after minimum wage jumped from $16 to $20 an hour.
On top of that, Rubio’s had filed for bankruptcy in 2020.
UCLA economist Brian Wheaton says this is the exact type of company that’s vulnerable to increased costs of any nature.
“Those business that are … not doing very well, near the shutdown margin, this increase in costs when they try to pass it on their consumers, … it may be the thing that pushes them over the edge into a situation where they go out of business,” Wheaton said. ” I think that’s the sort of thing we’re seeing in the case of Rubio’s.”
More than 10,000 fast food workers have lost their jobs in the last 9 months in California.
In December two major Pizza Hut operators in California announced they would be laying off all of their delivery drivers thanks to a new law that raises the minimum wage to $20 per hour for fast food employees.
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This is how Democrats win.
This is how Democrats cheat.
This is what must be addressed by Republican groups across the country!
Thank you Arizona Republican Party for showing the rest of America what must be done to bring back election integrity in America today.
The Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit against the corrupt Secretary of State Adrian Fontes after discovering from 500,000 to 1.3 million ILLEGAL VOTERS on the state’s voter rolls.
George Behizy reported:
BREAKING: The Arizona Republican party has filed a BOMBSHELL lawsuit against the Secretary of State for violations of the National Voter Registration Act after discovering between 500,000 to 1.3 Million ILLEGAL voters on the voter rolls, including dead people & nonresidents
“The lawsuit highlights outrageous voter registration rates, with some counties exceeding 100% of eligible voters. The lawsuit uncovered that Arizona has between 500,000 to 1,270,000 unaccounted-for voters on the rolls, including deceased individuals and those who have moved away.”
“Our findings reveal a staggering number of counties with more registered voters than eligible citizens, this is a clear indication of a system in disarray. We are holding Adrian Fontes accountable to ensure fair and credible elections in Arizona.”
This exactly how Democrats cheat, bloated voter rolls combined with universal mail in ballots. Republicans have to get ahead of this before November 5th.
Arizona is part of the ERIC System.
From the lawsuit, pages 2 and 3:
Arizona has at least 500,000 registered voters on the voter rolls who should have otherwise been removed. In other words, at least 500,000 registered voters currently listed on the Secretary’s voter rolls
for Arizona are deceased or no longer reside in Arizona.And a review of other reliable data sources shows that Arizona has between 1,060,000 and 1,270,000 unaccounted-for voters on the state voter rolls.
Arizona Free Enterprise Club reported:
Late last week, Scot Mussi, the President of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona over the State’s failure to comply with Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which requires states to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the officials lists of eligible voters by reason of … (A) the death of the registrant; or (B) a change in the residence of the registrant” to maintain accurate voter-registration records in a uniform manner across the state.
“Election integrity is a serious issue in our nation,” said Mussi. “Ensuring that Arizonans can have faith in the integrity of our election system and representative government starts with clean voter rolls that leave no doubts about who is able to cast a ballot. That’s why we sent a prelitigation notice to Secretary Fontes last August highlighting the artificially high voter registration rates. Unfortunately, most Arizona counties continue to have voter registration rates far exceeding the national average. We hope that the court compels Secretary Fontes to comply with his obligations under the NVRA to clean up Arizona’s voter rolls.”
Joining Mussi as Plaintiffs in this challenge are the Chair of the Republican Party of Arizona, Gina Swoboda, and Steven Gaynor.
In their lawsuit, the Plaintiffs argue that Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has failed to perform his mandatory list maintenance duty under the NVRA. For example, the most recent voter registration and census data show that up to four Arizona counties – Apache, La Paz, Navajo, and Santa Cruz – have more registered voters than eligible citizens. The remaining counties across the state have implausibly high voter registration rates that far exceed the average national and statewide voter-registration rates in recent years. Consistent with these artificially high registration rates, the complaint alleges that Arizona has at least 500,000 registered voters on the rolls who should have otherwise been removed because they are deceased or no longer reside in Arizona.
The Plaintiffs ask the federal court to find that Secretary Fontes is in violation of Section 8 of the NVRA, and to require the Secretary to fully comply with any existing procedures Arizona has in place to ensure ineligible voters are identified and removed from the rolls.
Here is a copy of the lawsuit.
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Joe Biden on Tuesday held a fake border security press conference on his new asylum ‘restrictions’ from the East Room.
More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age males – have invaded the US on Biden’s watch.
Joe Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to destroy the border.
Now he’s acting like the savior with his new ‘asylum restrictions’ – only asylum is STILL AVAILABLE to thousands of illegal aliens every single day released into the US.
DEAR MEDIA: Biden’s EO expands fast-pass entry for illegals via phone app and amnesties child trafficking. This is a war on our sovereignty and our citizenry. This is EVIL.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) June 4, 2024
According to The New York Post, Biden’s new border ‘crackdown’ will still allow at least 1.8 million illegals to enter the US every year.
“Facing mounting political pressure over the migrant influx at the U.S. southern border, President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that will temporarily shut down asylum requests once the average number of daily encounters tops 2,500 between official ports of entry, according to a senior administration official.” NBC News reported.
He kicked off his presser by blaming everyone else for the border crisis.
WATCH:
Biden kicks off his fake border security press conference by immediately blaming others.
REMINDER: Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to DISMANTLE border security — then sat and watched 15 million illegals flow in. pic.twitter.com/r3xSdHWKmo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
Joe Biden made it clear that asylum is still available to the thousands of illegals who cross the border everyday via Biden’s CBP One app.
WATCH:
Biden announces asylum is STILL AVAILABLE to the thousands of illegals every day that are released into the country via Biden's CBP One app pic.twitter.com/FdcaraLlCH
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
Joe Biden also made it clear that his end goal isn’t to stop illegal immigration.
Biden announces his end goal isn't to stop illegal immigration pic.twitter.com/6QLCtcrLY1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
Biden looked completely lost as he shuffled away.
He’s completely shot.
WATCH:
PAINFUL TO WATCH pic.twitter.com/4rIeKJUCM4
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024
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This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
‘This is the stuff that happens in mob movies’
A wrinkle suddenly has appeared in a federal case in Minnesota in which the federal government alleges seven defendants stole millions of dollars of COVID aid funds – intended for the federal Child Nutrition Program through the Feeding Our Future charity — and bought cars, homes and vacations.
Delivered to the home of one juror hearing evidence was a bag containing $120,000 in cash.
Along with instructions to vote for acquittal.
The result was that all seven of the defendants were re-arrested, the courthouse where the trial was taking place was locked down, and more.
A report in the Post-Millennial explains that the seven are “part of a larger case that has seen 70 charged with stealing a total of $250 million in COVID aid.”
“They allegedly delivered few, if any, meals,” the report said.
The wrinkle happened over the weekend when juror No. 52 arrived home “to find that someone had dropped off a gift bag containing $120,000 in cash with a promise of ‘more’ if she moved to find the defendants in the case not guilty.”
The 23-year-old opted to call law enforcement immediately, the report said.
“As a result, all seven defendants accused of using a charity to steal $41 million in federal aid meant to go towards feeding children in need were re-arrested at the request of United States Assistant Attorney Joe Thompson,” the report said.
The juror was released from the panel and the remaining members were sequestered to prevent further attempts to tamper with justice.
The report explained the juror got home, and was told by her father-in-law a woman “possibly Somali,” with an accent gave him the gift bag for delivery to the juror, “whose real name she knew.”
“An affidavit stated, ‘The woman told the relative to tell Juror #52 to say not guilty tomorrow and there would be more of that present tomorrow,'” the report said.
The cash was turned over to the FBI, which was joined by the Spring Lake Park police department in its investigation.
The report said the defendants were arrested, had their phones confiscated and were ordered not to leave the courthouse, and the rest of Monday’s proceedings continued.
The jurors then started deliberating.
“This is the stuff that happens in mob movies,” attorney Joe Thompson said.
Commentator Charlie Kirk explained, “The defense, meanwhile, is hiring college professors to lecture that scamming the government and sending suitcases full of cash abroad is a part of Somali culture, and trying to stop them is of course ‘racist.'”
During Covid, the federal government doled out money to provide free meals to children. It was Covid, so the government decided to abandon any pretense of preventing fraud — and plenty of people noticed immediately.
In Minnesota, members of the Somali community built one of the…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 4, 2024
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen entered the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday ahead of opening statements in his federal criminal gun trial.
A jury was seated on Monday in Hunter’s trial and opening statements began Tuesday morning.
Hunter held his wife’s hand as he entered the court on Tuesday. His lawyers trailed behind.
WATCH:
Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa enter the federal courthouse in Wilmington, DE ahead of opening statements in his gun trial.
Our @asholiver is there. https://t.co/uPidR6jA1c#hunterbiden #delaware #court #wilmington #news #joebiden #gun #election2024 #democrats #bidenfamily… pic.twitter.com/htjVxoAjXd
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 4, 2024
At one point Hunter’s wife Melissa flipped out on a former Trump aide who was at the courthouse observing the trial.
Melissa Cohen screamed at former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler in the hallway during a morning break at the courthouse.
Recall that Hunter Biden sued Garrett Ziegler last year for accessing his ‘laptop from hell.’
The lawsuit accuses Ziegler of violating California and federal computer privacy laws after he posted content from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop to the website of his nonprofit, Marco Polo.
Hunter Biden claimed in his lawsuit that the “data appears to have been manipulated both before and after Ziegler obtained it,” according to Politico.
Ziegler laughed at the allegations in a statement to far-left Politico.
“I nor the nonprofit, Marco Polo, have been served with any lawsuit — but the one I read this morning out of the Central District of California should embarrass Winston & Strawn LLP,” Ziegler wrote in an email to Politico. “It’s not worth the paper it’s written on. Apart from the numerous state and federal laws and regulations which protect authors like me and the publishing that Marco Polo does, it’s not lost on us that Joe’s son filed this SLAPP one day after an Impeachment inquiry into his father was announced.”
Melissa Cohen called Ziegler a ‘Nazi piece of sh*t!’ then walked away.
Ziegler did not respond.
NBC News reported:
There was a dramatic scene in the hallway during the brief morning break, when Hunter Biden’s wife, Melissa Cohen-Biden, approached former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler as he was about to walk to the courtroom. Hunter Biden sued Ziegler over an online database of emails attributed to the president’s son.
She got close to him and said in a loud emotional voice and gestured toward him, pointing her finger at him: “You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of s—” and then walked away.
Ziegler did not respond. He entered the courtroom and confirmed what was said, telling NBC News, “That’s what I heard.” When asked for comment, he said, “It’s sad I’ve been sitting here the whole time and haven’t approached anyone.”
When asked if he had any response to the incident, Ziegler told NBC News: “For the record, I’m not a Nazi, I’m a believer in the U.S. Constitution. I haven’t said one thing to them.”
When asked why he was attending the trial, Ziegler said, “It’s prudent for me to be here.” When asked for comment on the ongoing civil litigation he is involved in with Hunter Biden and Kevin Morris, Ziegler told NBC News that the suits are “completely frivolous and Hunter should focus on paying his attorneys.”
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Members of the Senate GOP led by Senator Joni Ernst held a press conference Tuesday morning blasting the Biden regime for waiting until months before the election to take action on the border. But what she said shortly afterward is going viral on social media.
As The Gateway Pundit readers know, Joe Biden has allowed millions of illegal aliens to pour into America to replace the native-born population and remake the electoral map. This has resulted in skyrocketing crime, including rampant fentanyl use, murders, theft, and more.
After the press conference concluded, Ernst turned to Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and was caught on a hot mic offering this incredibly astute advice:
“Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.”
Any guesses as to who she was referring to?
WATCH:
HOT MIC: @SenJoniErnst to @SenJohnKennedy following the Senate GOP border press conference — “Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.”
— Joe Karwacki (@JoeKarwacki) June 4, 2024
If you answered Joe Biden, you are correct. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden told a war story about how his uncle Lt. Ambrose Finnegan, a supposed reconnaissance pilot, was shot down in Papua New Guinea which Biden said has a lot of cannibals.
The only problem is that this incident never happened. A social media user indefatigably investigated how Finnegan actually met his demise.
It turns out that Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer rather than a reconnaissance pilot. The plane was also not shot down.
In 1944, Finnegan was the passenger of an A-20 (a twin-engine, not single-engine plane) that ditched and subsequently crashed in the Bismarck Sea. At last check, there are no human cannibals living in the sea.
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
Not surprisingly, Biden’s tall tale sparked a little international incident.
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Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen entered the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday ahead of opening statements in his federal criminal gun trial.
A jury was seated on Monday in Hunter’s trial and opening statements began Tuesday morning.
By late Monday afternoon, a jury comprising six men and six women had been chosen to oversee the case to decide the fate of Hunter Biden. Among the 12 panelists and four alternates, nine are African-American, and all four alternates are women.
Hunter held his wife’s hand as he entered the court on Tuesday. His lawyers trailed behind.
WATCH:
Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa enter the federal courthouse in Wilmington, DE ahead of opening statements in his gun trial.
Our @asholiver is there. https://t.co/uPidR6jA1c#hunterbiden #delaware #court #wilmington #news #joebiden #gun #election2024 #democrats #bidenfamily… pic.twitter.com/htjVxoAjXd
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 4, 2024
Prosecutors destroyed Hunter Biden in their opening statement on day one of the federal criminal gun trial.
“It doesn’t matter who you are, or what your name is,” prosecutor Derek Hines said on Tuesday. “No one is above the law.”
In September Hunter Biden was indicted on federal gun charges. He was indicted in a Delaware court on three counts related to his possession of a firearm while using drugs.
Hunter pleaded not guilty to all three felony gun charges in October.
According to text messages, Hunter Biden set up a drug deal with “Mookie” one day after he illegally purchased his gun on October 12, 2018.
One day after purchasing his gun on Oct. 12, 2018, Hunter Biden sets up a drug deal with "Mookie" at the 7/11 on Greenhill and Lancaster.
"He has my money mad I'm getting pissed," Hunter texts Hallie Biden. pic.twitter.com/U6r4pp2biv
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) June 3, 2024
A couple days later he went on a crack-smoking bender and passed out in his car.
Hunter proceeded to go on a bender and fell asleep in his car. pic.twitter.com/zN2kriGtFh
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) June 3, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported back in October 2020 that Hunter’s then-lover and deceased brother’s widow Hallie Biden tossed the gun in the trash. Hunter admitted this in an online conversation with his family when they accused him of inappropriate conduct in front of a child.
Prosecutors on Tuesday told the court that Hunter Biden bought the firearm while he was smoking crack every 15 minutes.
NBC News reported:
During opening statements, prosecutor Derek Hines told jurors that they would hear from a witness who had a romantic relationship with Hunter and observed him smoking crack “every 15 minutes.” Her name is Zoe Kestan, Hines said.
Here is how she was identified in pretrial filings:
“Witness 2 was previously in a romantic relationship with the defendant between approximately December 2017 and October 2018. During the course of their relationship, Witness 2 observed the defendant using crack cocaine frequently—every 20 minutes except when he slept. Witness 2 visited the defendant in Massachusetts when he was in rehab in the fall of 2018 (after his gun possession) and over the course of 3 days, she observed the defendant smoking crack cocaine every 20 minutes.”
Hunter is facing separate tax-related charges.
If convicted on the tax-related charges, Hunter Biden faces up to 17 years in prison.
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David Hilliard, one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party, went live on TikTok to support President Donald Trump.
TikTok user Carol Mitchell posted an interview with Hilliard in which he discussed Trump’s decades-long support of the Black community.
Carol Mitchell: Welcome to the Random Site. I want you to meet someone who knew Donald Trump, and he’s going to tell you about Donald Trump in his own words.
David Hilliard: My name is David Hilliard, founder member of the Black Panther Party. I knew Trump when Trump was a college student in New York, and he supported the Black Panther Party. That’s how I know Trump.
Carol Mitchell: What person do you think Donald Trump is?
David Hilliard: Trump is a person who’s a decent man, and he supported the Black Panther Party. That’s what I just mentioned to you. He was someone who gave us money, and Trump was a decent guy.
Trump’s a friend to African-Americans. I knew Trump from the 1960s in New York, where he comes from, and he’s a friend to African-Americans.
Carol Mitchell: Now, when you say a friend to African-American, what do you mean by friend to African-American?
David Hilliard: I mean, he’s not a racist. He’s not a racist, fascist White man. He supported Black people.
He owned every brownstone in a place called Harlem, New York.
Carol Mitchell: Oh, wow. Okay. Now, do you remember the time that Trump supported Jesse Jackson?
David Hilliard: No, but I remember when he supported the Black Panther Party.
Carol Mitchell: Wow. That’s incredible. And how did he support the Black Panther Party?
David Hilliard: With his money.
Carol Mitchell: Whoa, for real? My goodness.
David Hilliard: He gave us money.
Carol Mitchell: So in your opinion, Trump has always been now that he has these 34 counts as being a felon, Trump has always been part of the Black community or familiarized, at least, with the Black community.
David Hilliard: That’s exactly right. Trump was a friend to people of African-American descent, and he owned all of Harlem.
Carol Mitchell: Wow, that’s amazing. In your opinion, sir, your valued opinion, why do you think they put all these charges on Trump and they’re afraid of him to be President?
David Hilliard: Because Trump likes Africans in America. He likes Black folks. That’s one. I think that Trump is qualified in a very decent approach to having somebody representing America.
Carol Mitchell: Yeah, I agree with you. I think Trump would be able to get us off this government thing and get us to making our own money because he knows how to make money. He knows how to lose money. And so he would be the perfect person to help us get our own again, right?
David Hilliard: And Trump’s a friend of African-Americans. He’s always been a friend of Black people. That’s how I know Okay.
Carol Mitchell: Well, thank you so much. And what is your name, sir?
David Hilliard: My name is David Hilliard, founding member of the Black Panther Party.
Carol Mitchell: Oh, my God. Well, that’s amazing. You’re a well-known figure in the Bay Area. So we thank you for taking a moment out of your value time to give us an interview for the Random site. Thank you, sir.
David Hilliard: All power to the people.
Carol Mitchell: Okay. You’ve heard it straight from David Hilliard’s mouth, the founding member of the Black Panther Party, supporting Donald Trump. Thank you very much. This has been your host, Carol D. Mitchell on the Random Site.
Will Joe Biden tell Hilliard ‘You ain’t Black?’
Watch here on TikTok:
@carol.mitchell27 #davidhilliard #blackpanthers #donaldtrump #trump2024 #patriots #breakingnews #specialreport #fyp #votetrump ♬ original sound – Carol D. Mitchell
Or on X here:
David Hilliard, founding member of the Black Panther Party supports Donald Trump!
pic.twitter.com/pZvSqyDCAU
— Karen (@Karen6807) June 3, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported last week that Rasmussen Reports revealed initial results of a recent poll (yet to be published) showing President Trump leading Joe Biden among Black voters.
Pollster Frank Luntz recently warned CNN about the movement of minority voters to President Trump.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten seemed stunned by the news, “My goodness gracious,” he said as he reacted to the polling average, which showed Trump’s support among Black voters more than doubled to 22% compared to 2020.
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The old saying “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes” becomes more apt as days go by in a world devoid of intellectual honesty. Just take the recent news story involving world-famous woke British singer Adele and an alleged homophobic fan.
The 16-time Grammy winner was performing in Las Vegas on June 1 when someone in the audience shouted something that royally triggered her. She paused the show to give the unruly man a piece of her mind.
Footage shared on social media and promptly amplified by corporate outlets shows Adele, a longtime supporter of gay rights, erupting on the fan for supposedly yelling “Pride sucks!”
“Did you come to my f**king show and just say that Pride sucks?” the singer angrily says. “Are you f**king stupid?!”
“Don’t be so f**king ridiculous,” Adele continued. “If you have nothing nice to say, shut up, alright?”
The crowd then erupts in applause.
WATCH:
️ This is what an LGBTQ+ ally looks like.
Adele responds to an audience member who said Pride sucks.
“You come to my fucking show and say that Pride sucks. Are you fucking stupid? Don’t be so fucking ridiculous. If you’ve got nothing nice to say, shut up, alright” pic.twitter.com/PH5WZdJLyU
— Jason Reid (@JasonReidUK) June 2, 2024
Media headlines across America all hailed Adele for shutting down a supposed homophobic heckler and “bravely” standing up for the LGBTQ community.
But it turns out Adele and the corporate media were dragging this fan through the mud over nothing. One social media user who was at the singer’s concert revealed what the heckler actually said.
She attached a video where the man can clearly be heard yelling, “Work sucks!” which Adele somehow misinterprets.
You can hear it at the beginning pic.twitter.com/IPrDr6V6m2
— Jess (@someonelikejess) June 2, 2024
Another person who was at Adele’s concert also confirmed the man yelled, “Work sucks!” She said he shouted this because Adele previously commented on working.
Yeah I was in the section next to him. He said work sucks because she mentioned something about working. It was all very awkward
— Nikita Shah (@nikitajshah) June 2, 2024
Do not expect Adele and her media sycophants to apologize or issue any correction, though. Doing so would rain on her parade and ruin a “good” story.
The post “Are You F**king Stupid?!” Woke Singer Adele Erupts After Thinking She Hears a Fan Yell “Pride Sucks” – Audience Members then Reveal What He Actually Said (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Joe Biden and his team may want to consider quitting social media altogether because it’s hard to find a group that is more pathetic at communicating with it.
Biden’s official TikTok account, @bidenhq, decided to post a video Sunday night slandering President Trump with a libelous story about him supposedly using the N-Word during the filming of Season 1 of “The Apprentice.”
Former producer Bill Pruitt last week opened his mouth to media after two decades of silence to smear Trump. Pruitt outlandishly boasted that Trump, who is more popular with minority voters than any GOPer in America, called black contestant Kwame Jackson “a n*****” on the show.
Team Biden pounced by using an unidentified female influencer to rehash the story to trash Trump as a “lifelong racist” to win back black voters, who are moving away from the White House occupant in droves.
“Guys, you have to see this new report on Donald Trump,” she says. “A producer on “The Apprentice” just came out and said Donald Trump called a black contestant on his show this…”
The TikTok clip then cuts to a years-old video of former Apprentice contestant and Trump White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman saying the tape of Trump using the horrible slur is real, and she has heard it herself.
WATCH:
@bidenhq wow…
But this effort to pander to blacks went horribly wrong as TikTok users cared nothing about the BS story. Instead, they flooded the comments section with complaints about gas prices, groceries, not being able to afford a home, and more actual issues the average American cares about.
Below is the complete list of comments courtesy of @EndWokeness:
HAHAHA this is epic. Biden’s campaign is desperately trying to win black voters on TikTok… it’s backfiring spectacularly.
Read the replies to their latest post: pic.twitter.com/e85pKhSlGI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 3, 2024
As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, Joe Biden joined TikTok in February in a desperate attempt to win over young voters. So far, he has racked up about 354,000 followers, a pathetic number for the so-called leader of the free world.
Then Trump decided to join the social media network on Sunday and has already blown Biden’s numbers out of the water. As of this writing, he already has 4.8 MILLION followers.
While we all know social media does not necessarily reflect reality, the fact that Biden is getting roasted badly in the comments and destroyed by Trump in pure numbers on a far-left outlet where the majority of users are between 18-34 years old must be pretty sobering for his campaign.
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Billionaire venture capitalist Doug Leone, a partner at Sequoia Capital who helmed the firm until 2022, has announced his support for former President Donald Trump.
This comes as a stark reversal from Leone’s previous stance, as he joins the growing ranks of Silicon Valley power players throwing their weight behind Trump.
Leone’s shift in allegiance was revealed in a candid post on X, where he outlined his mounting concerns about the trajectory of our nation under the Biden regime.
“I have become increasingly worried about the general direction of our country, the state of our shattered immigration system, the ballooning deficit, and a series of foreign policy blunders,” Leone wrote.
“Therefore, I am supporting former President Trump in this coming election,” he added.
I have become increasingly concerned about the general direction of our country, the state of our broken immigration system, the ballooning deficit, and the foreign policy missteps, among other issues. Therefore, I am supporting former President Trump in this coming election.
— doug leone (@dougleone) June 3, 2024
The Sequoia partner had previously withdrawn his support for Trump following the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. He stated to Vox’s Recode that the former president’s conduct during the riots had caused him to lose “many of his supporters, including me,” per Business Insider.
However, in light of recent developments and growing disillusionment with Biden’s administration, Leone has chosen to re-endorse Trump. His decision underscores a broader trend within Silicon Valley’s elite circles, which are rallying behind Trump following his sham felony conviction.
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On March 16, 2020, Dr. Tony Fauci received an email reporting China’s success using hydroxychloroquine in treating the coronavirus.
Dr. Fauci and the bipartisan establishment deliberately obstructed President Trump’s advocacy for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an affordable treatment option during the COVID-19 pandemic. They favored the much more expensive drug, Remdesivir, priced at $1,000 per dose compared to HCQ’s modest $0.70.
Dr Fauci and Uniparty had to derail Trump’s monkey wrench, HCQ, the cure as it rivaled Fauci’s pet drug Remdesivir at 1,000. per dose vs HCQ at .70 per dose. Also, it would have derailed vaccines, as it would have ended the pandemic by Oct 2020.
Trump saved hundreds of thousands… pic.twitter.com/6qwXZIer6y
— Gracie Smith (@GraceSm16250397) June 3, 2024
This was not the only time Dr. Fauci was sent information toting hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID.
Hydroxychloroquine was specifically mentioned almost three dozen times in Fauci’s emails.
The number may be much larger since we now know that top doctors at the NIH were disguising their emails to prevent FOIA detection.
Five days later, on March 21, 2020, Dr. Fauci chided President Trump for suggesting HCQ was successful in treating COVID.
“The president is talking about hope for people. And it’s not an unreasonable thing: to hope for people. So when you have approved drugs that physicians have the option and a decision between the physician and the patient, are you going to use a drug that someone says, from an anecdotal standpoint, not completely proven, but might have some effect? There are those who lean to the point of giving hope and saying, ‘Give that person the option of having access to that drug.’
“And then you have the other group — which is my job, as a scientist — to say my job is to ultimately prove, without a doubt, that a drug is not only safe, but that it actually works. Those two things are really not incompatible, when you think about that, particularly when you’re in an arena where you don’t have anything that’s proven.”
Fauci said there were not enough tests to prove hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for the deadly virus.
Then later, Fauci cheered the COVID vaccines that were also untested on humans.
Fauci also said that natural immunity was not effective with COVID-19.
Fauci said facemasks were effective in preventing the spread of COVID and ordered people to keep a 6-foot distance from others – something he later admitted was not backed up by science.
Fauci also said the COVID vaccines were safe and effective – ANOTHER LIE.
And don’t forget that Fauci was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab prior to the pandemic. He lied about that, too.
If there is ever going to be justice in this world, Dr. Fauci should be charged and prosecuted. The man is responsible for millions of deaths. That is not an exaggeration.
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This past year, the entire country has witnessed lawfare suit after lawfare suit against President Donald Trump, his close associates and friends, his family, and his supporters like those of us at The Gateway Pundit.
The Marxist horde is restless and panicked about President Trump’s return to the White House, so they are punishing him and any American who questions their lawlessness and destruction.
New York City holds the greatest offenders.
Judge Engoron and Letitia James convicted Trump of paying off his real estate loans with interest to Deutsche Bank. Judge Engoron said Trump inflated his wealth. Engoron also said Mar-a-Lago was only worth $16 million! Engoron ruled that Trump must pay $450 million for this horrible crime with no victims. Letitia wants to confiscate Trump’s properties in the Big Apple! Just think of what they can do to you!
This past month, Judge Juan Merchan stepped in and convicted Trump of 34 felonies in a still undefined crime for paying his lawyer alleged hush money for a sexual affair with a sex worker. Judge Merchan did this while gagging Trump and refusing the testimony of his key witness.
Trump now faces over 300 years in prison for the made-up crimes.
It’s great to be a Marxist pr*ck in New York City! You get to rule the country! You get to alter elections and screw the American people. You get to destroy the entire justice system to get your political enemy.
That’s why, today, The Gateway Pundit is excited to announce our new line of “I Sh*t New York” T-shirts.
Now you can show your disgust for the Marxist a$$holes who think they get to run the country!
We have two styles, and more are coming!
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The Supreme Court has denied an appeal from InfoWars host Owen Shroyer against his conviction related to the January 6th protests.
Shroyer, a hugely popular commentator, and activist with Alex Jones’s InfoWars, was convicted of a misdemeanor and received a 60-day prison sentence after pleading guilty to engaging in “disruptive and riotous behavior” at the Capitol Building, despite the fact he never went inside.
His appeal was rejected as part of a routine list of orders released on Monday morning, with no Justice dissenting or commenting on the decision.
In his petition to the court, Shroyer’s lawyers argued that the District Court had failed to recognize his “unique role” as a journalist and had violated his First Amendment rights.
“The precedent has been set. You can be arrested & sentenced for legal & lawful speech,” Shroyer wrote on the X platform after his appeal was rejected. “My case was the precedent. The message is clear. Speak out against government & risk arrest.”
The precedent has been set. You can be arrested & sentenced for legal & lawful speech. My case was the precedent. The message is clear. Speak out against government & risk arrest.
Supreme Court won’t hear InfoWars host’s 1st Amendment challenge https://t.co/xo9q5DiURZ
— Owen Shroyer (@OwenShroyer1776) June 3, 2024
While Shroyer did not enter the Capitol, he had previously signed a deferred prosecution agreement after interrupting a House Judiciary Committee hearing during Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings back in 2019.
As part of the agreement, Shroyer had agreed not to “utter loud, threatening, or abusive language or engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct” anywhere on the U.S. Capitol Grounds with the “intent to disrupt the orderly conduct of any congressional session.”
After he attended the Stop the Steal rallies on January 6th, prosecutors targeted Shroyer and accused him of being responsible for the events that took place because of his “violent rhetoric” beforehand.
“The Democrats are posing as communists, but we know what they really are,” he said at the time. “They’re just tyrants, they’re tyrants. And so today, on January 6, we declare death to tyranny! Death to tyrants!”
“Shroyer helped create January 6,” the prosecutors wrote at the time. “Shroyer cannot light a fire near a can of gasoline and then express concern or disbelief when it explodes.”
Fortunately for Shroyer, the nightmare of his imprisonment and persecution by the Biden regime is over, at least for the time being. However, the fight for justice for the hundreds of other patriots who stood up against the fraudulent 2020 presidential election continues.
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A ticking time bomb.
In another stark example of the economic mismanagement under the Biden regime, a new report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reveals a staggering $517 billion in unrealized losses within the US banking system, The Daily Hodl first reported.
This alarming figure, largely due to exposure to the residential real estate market, is a clear indication of the damaging effects of Biden’s failed policies.
The FDIC’s Quarterly Banking Profile report paints a grim picture of the current state of our nation’s financial institutions. Banks are now burdened with more than half a trillion dollars in paper losses on their balance sheets.
Although banks can hold securities until they mature without marking them to market on their balance sheets, these unrealized losses can become an extreme liability when banks need liquidity, per the Daily Hodl.
According to Investopedia, an unrealized loss is a “paper” loss that results from holding an asset that has decreased in price, but not yet selling it and realizing the loss. These losses become “realized” only when the asset is sold at a price lower than its original purchase price.
FDIC states in its report, “Unrealized losses on available-for-sale and held-to-maturity securities increased by $39 billion to $517 billion in the first quarter. Higher unrealized losses on residential mortgage-backed securities, resulting from higher mortgage rates in the first quarter, drove the overall increase. This is the ninth straight quarter of unusually high unrealized losses since the Federal Reserve began to raise interest rates in first quarter 2022.”
Alarmingly, the number of banks identified on the FDIC’s Problem Bank List has surged from 52 in the last quarter of 2023 to 63 in the first quarter of 2024.
This classification indicates banks that are on the verge of collapse due to severe financial, operational, or managerial deficiencies. The total assets held by these problematic institutions have swelled by $15.8 billion to $82.1 billion.
The CAMELS rating system is used to evaluate the health and stability of financial institutions, such as credit unions and banks, based on six components: Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, and Sensitivity to market risk.
Each component is rated on a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the best and 5 being the worst, and these individual ratings are aggregated into a composite rating.
The Biden administration’s economic policy failures are becoming more evident every day. The growing unrealized losses in our banking system and the increasing number of lenders on the brink of insolvency are just two more examples of how this administration’s mismanagement is leading us down a dangerous path.
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MSNBC’s so-called ‘historian’ Michael Beschloss went on a rant this weekend about Trump being a dictator and how a second term for him would lead to anarchy.
If you watch the clip below, you’ll notice that Beschloss goes out of his way to use multiple Democrat party talking points.
This guy and people like him should not be on television. He is spreading hysteria and fear based on lies. He is transferring his own mental illness to the viewing audience.
FOX News reported:
Presidential historian warns second Trump term would lead to ‘dictatorship and anarchy’
An MSNBC presidential historian warned on Saturday if former President Trump were to win back the White House that the United States would devolve into “dictatorship and anarchy.”
“He is saying, I will dismantle our rule of law, which is the glory of America, keeps the peace, assures fairness when it works for all Americans. You’ve got dictatorship and anarchy at the same time,” historian Michael Beschloss said on MSNBC’s “The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capeheart.”
“The choice is actually pretty clear, we’ve got a convicted felon,” Beschloss added.
He then went on to reference Trump’s public statement after the trial, citing that the former president said “the system is rotten” and that he wants to “dismantle parts of the Constitution.”
Trump was found guilty by a jury in New York City on all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in his history-making case in which a former or current president for the first time was tried in court.
Watch the video below:
MSNBC’s @BeschlossDC: If Trump wins again, he’ll turn the United States into “dictatorship & anarchy at the same time” pic.twitter.com/edQBFDQD45
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 2, 2024
A dictatorship? You mean like:
– Forcing taxpayers to pay off other people's student loans?
– Forcing automakers to build electric cars few people want?
– Forcing people to take vaccines, wear masks, close businesses?
Oh my gosh, that would be awful! https://t.co/XRYKZKEcCk— Michael Dorstewitz (@MikeDorstewitz) June 2, 2024
Your periodic reminder that #MichaelBeschlossIsNuts
“Dictatorship and anarchy at the same time” makes about as much sense as “the wall is red and blue at the same time.” https://t.co/Y6rxIeqOUM
— Tom Kattman (@TomKattman) June 2, 2024
Beschloss is like the Bill Nye of historians. He is just a partisan hack that they bring on to affirm the views of the far left.
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Former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who is critical of Biden’s foreign policy, has reportedly been barred from attending the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia.
According to Russian news outlet TASS, Ritter was prevented from boarding a flight from New York to Istanbul, a layover on his way to Russia.
No further explanation was given. The only information provided was that this action was carried out on orders from the Department of State.
“I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said ‘orders of the State Department.’ They had no further information for me,” Ritter told RT. “They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.”
Ritter was not the only American scheduled to attend the forum who will now be absent. Andrew Napolitano, former judge and current host of the Judging Freedom podcast, has also cancelled his trip, though for unrelated reasons, according to Sputnik.
Correction:
According to Scott Ritter, Andrew Napolitano canceled his flight to Russia for different reasons unrelated to Ritter’s removal from the plane.
“He was unable to travel for completely different reasons that have nothing to do whatsoever… He had to cancel for… https://t.co/EgBKj1lUfs
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 3, 2024
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is slated for June 5-8. This year’s theme is “The Foundations of a Multipolar World – The Formation of New Areas of Growth.” The forum is organized by the Roscongress Foundation, with TASS as its information partner.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova questioned whether this action was in accordance with the First Amendment or the Fourth. The first amendment protects freedom of speech, press, and assembly, while the fourth bars the government from “unreasonable searches and seizures,” according to RT.
In his most recent post on X, Ritter boldly addressed the Clooney Foundation for Justice regarding their alleged campaign against “Russian propagandists.”
“[Anna Neistat and Clooney Foundation for Justice] I hear you’re trying to get arrest warrants issued for Russian “propagandists,”” Ritter wrote.
“Here I am. In your face. If telling the truth about Russia makes me a propagandist in your book, then I accept the title. Your buddies Ukraine think so—they’ve had me on a kill list years charged with the same “crime.””
“Bring it on. I’ll school you on the First Amendment. I’ll end up bankrupting your pathetic little operation. You guys suck as an organization. You have zero concept of what free speech is. Try and arrest me and you’ll find out. In spades. It’s war,” he concluded.
I hear you’re trying to get arrest warrants issued for Russian “propagandists.”
Here I am.
In your face.
If telling the truth about Russia makes me a propagandist in your book, then I accept the title.
Your buddies Ukraine think so—they’ve had me…
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) June 3, 2024
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Joe Biden spent most of Monday hiding out in his Wilmington, Delaware compound with nothing on his public schedule.
The 81-year-old didn’t leave his compound until Monday evening to travel to a private campaign reception and fundraiser in Greenwich, Connecticut.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held a press gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to White Plains, New York.
A reporter asked KJP what Joe Biden did all day.
“Can you share what [Biden] did today? We didn’t see him all day. There was no schedule of what he did…” a reporter asked KJP.
KJP stuttered as she struggled to say what feeble Biden did all day.
“The president as you know made some calls. He called um, he called uh, the newly elected Mexico president…and so uh, and so what I can say is that he continues to work on behalf of the American people,” KJP said.
Wow. Joe Biden *allegedly* made some phone calls. How impressive.
Imagine the headlines if President Trump hid all weekend and only made a few phone calls on a Monday.
AUDIO:
"Can you share what [Biden] did today? We didn't see him all day. There was no schedule of what he did…"
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "He made some calls" pic.twitter.com/ZNqeEI7bsp
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 3, 2024
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The German policeman who was stabbed by an Islamic terrorist in Mannheim Friday has died from his wounds. The intended victim, leading German Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger, shared a GoFundMe for the officer’s family.
Police officer Rouven L. (29) died in hospital Sunday after being stabbed in the neck by Afghan assassin Sulaiman (25). He had been put into an artificial coma and received emergency surgery but was reported to be only kept alive because he was an organ donor.
A German police officer who was stabbed repeatedly at a mass attack by a Muslim Afghan migrant suspect has died. In response, a conservative party organized a memorial event in Mannheim but Antifa tried to shut it down violently in support of migrants. https://t.co/IH4fLs5LKq
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 3, 2024
Six people were injured in the attack, including Civil Movement Pax Europa (BPE) activists Stürzenberger and Konrad, who has been located in a clinic after having his phone confiscated by police, Stürzenberger said. Konrad was stabbed in the chest and had to be operated on as well.
The 25-year-old Afghan who carried out a bloody knife attack on Michael Stürzenberger, his comrades and police officers, killing one, in Mannheim had been in Germany illegally for nine years.
His asylum application had already been rejected in 2014.
The whole system is f*cked,… https://t.co/zc6ACjRcTl pic.twitter.com/hzrk4b7iBS
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 3, 2024
Thirty officers of the Mannheim police have called in sick, possibly in protest against a German political leadership that refuses to address the dangers of radical Islam. Two dozen of the officer’s colleagues paid tribute to their fallen comrade, removing their hats during a gathering Sunday at the site of the attack, The Independent reported.
The video of the attack has been blocked by YouTube over “depiction of violence” but can be found on other platforms.
The video shows clearly that the police officers were not deployed in an effective way to protect Germany’s leading Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger, at his rally, who has received countless death threats and been the victim of several attacks. Local officials often see Stürzenberger as the problem and not his attackers. Officers are presumably discouraged from actively protecting the brave activist.
“We are all deeply saddened and shocked by the death of the brave police officer who lost his life on duty in Mannheim on Friday at the hands of the Afghan knife attacker,” Stürzenberger said. “Our thoughts are with his family, his relatives and his police colleagues. If you would like to donate to the family, please do not do so via the BPE, but via this donation site, which was confirmed to me by the police.”
“It is terrible that this likable person was suddenly taken from this life at the age of 29.”
MANNHEIM STABBING – The aftermath
While the right was mourning at a gathering in honour of the policeman who was stabbed to death by an Afghan “refugee”, the left held a protest against “hate and AfD-slogans”.
This exposes the dystopian reality that the left is a cult of… pic.twitter.com/l7TKUvJPco
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) June 3, 2024
The German government has persecuted Stürzenberger for years over bogus charges, as The Gateway Pundit reported. Critics charge the government is complicit in creating an atmosphere that encourages violence against the Islam expert.
The death of Rouven L. forced pro-Islam appeasers like Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Secretary Nancy Faeser to express their hypocritical condolences while avoiding mentioning the assassin’s target Stürzenberger by name.
It remains to be seen how the assassination attempt will affect the EU elections on June 9.
TOTAL FAILURE of the police
Michael #Stürzenberger is in hospital! We feared this for years. Now it has come true. The video of the attack shows a total police failure.
The migrant is left to kill for 15 agonizingly long seconds. More than 8 police officers stand idly… pic.twitter.com/u3Kkw1U2FI
— Martin Sellner (@Martin_Sellner) May 31, 2024
Look at their headline , absolute scum . “Police officer dies after illegal afghan migrant commits act of Islamic inspired jihad “ https://t.co/KxBH8j7Vpf
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 3, 2024
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The very powerful House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) will criminally refer Hunter Biden for lying to Congress.
Last month Chairman Smith accused Hunter Biden of lying under oath during his closed-door deposition before Congress in February.
New documents provided by a whistleblower contradict Hunter Biden’s testimony to Congress. Hunter Biden repeatedly lied to Congress about his family’s international influence-peddling scheme. according to Chairman Smith.
“Hunter Biden has shown once again he believes there are two systems of justice in this country – one for his family, and one for everyone else. Not only did Hunter Biden refuse to comply with his initial subpoena until threatened with criminal contempt, but he then came before Congress and lied,” House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith told Fox News. “The Ways and Means Committee’s investigation, and the documents released today, are not part of a personal vendetta against Hunter Biden, but are meant to ensure the equal application of the law.”
Chairman Smith said Hunter Biden lied about his shakedown message to his Chinese business associate Zhao. Hunter claimed he messaged the wrong Zhao because he was “high or drunk,” however records show the two had been messaging each other for months.
“First, Hunter Biden lied about the recipient of a WhatsApp message sent with the apparent intention to threaten a business associate and demand payment. In the message, Hunter Biden twice mentioned he was with his father. In the deposition, Hunter Biden sought to dismiss the message, claiming that he was either quote ‘high or drunk’ when he sent it, and in that state, had sent it to the wrong Zhao, and not actually the one affiliated with the Chinese energy company, CEFC. Hunter claimed under oath that the recipient, quote ‘had no understanding or even remotely knew what,…I was even‚…talking about’,” Chairman Smith said in his opening statement, according to Just The News.
In a statement to The Gateway Pundit last month Chairman Jason Smith said Hunter Biden lying in his sworn testimony to Congress is a “felony offense.”
“Hunter Biden has shown once again he believes there are two systems of justice in this country – one for his family, and one for everyone else. Not only did Hunter Biden refuse to comply with his initial subpoena until threatened with criminal contempt, but he then came before Congress and lied. The Ways and Means Committee’s investigation, and the documents released today, are not part of a personal vendetta against Hunter Biden, but are meant to ensure the equal application of the law,” House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith said in a statement to The Gateway Pundit.
“Lying during sworn testimony is a felony offense that the Department of Justice has prosecuted numerous individuals for in recent years, and the American people expect the same accountability for the son of the President of the United States. Hunter Biden’s lies under oath, and obstruction of a congressional investigation into his family’s potential corruption, calls into question other pieces of his testimony. The newly released evidence affirms, once again, the only witnesses who can be trusted to tell the truth in this investigation are the IRS whistleblowers,” Chairman Smith added.
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On Thursday, the watchdog group U.N. Watch accused the Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, of “gross violations of U.N. rules and professional ethics.”
Albanese is in charge of investigating “Israel’s violations of the bases and principles of international law”
According to the legal complaint filed to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türkwith, Albanese allegedly accepted honorariums and payments from activist and advocacy groups in violation of the U.N. code of conduct.
The role of special rapporteur is a volunteer position technically independent of the United Nations. Expenses are to be paid for out of a designated budget and acceptance of payments, including those for travel and honorariums, from “any governmental or non-governmental source” for “activities carried out in pursuit” of the special rapporteur’s mandate is strictly prohibited.
Albanese also has a history of antisemitic, anti-Israel comments.
She has claimed that Israel has no right of self-defense after the Hamas terrorists on October 7.
She claims “self-defense” has a “narrow meaning under Article 51 of the U.S. charter” and that it does not give the Jewish state the right to defend itself against Hamas terrorists who invaded their land and slaughtered 1,400 civilians, kidnapped others, including babies, and used rape as a tool of war.
A report at the Washington Free Beacon explains Albanese believes the definition requires the threat to come from “another state,” and since she claims Hamas comes from an “occupied territory,” Israel’s defense of its own citizens is a crime.
She also denied that the terrorist group’s hatred of Jews was behind the attack.
The U.N. Watch complaint alleges that Albanese violated the UN code of conduct by illegally requesting payments for work done in her official capacity and argues that she circumvented the prohibition on accepting remuneration by directing honorariums to be paid to her research assistant.
Correspondence cited by UN Watch in the complaint shows Albanese’s assistant, Sara Troian, requesting payment for a lecture on Albanese’s behalf.
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, said, “Francesca Albanese’s unethical financial practices are a gross violation of UN rules. The United Nations should take immediate action to investigate these allegations and hold her accountable.”
The complaint also includes communications from one of Albanese’s volunteer assistants requesting that an offered honorarium be directed to an unnamed research institute that supports the work of Albanese’s office.
Further, the complaint alleges that a Palestinian lobby group sponsored Albanese’s November 2023 trip to Australia, with a cost in excess of $20,000. Travel for special rapporteurs, according to U.N. Watch, is supposed to be paid for by the United Nations. Accepting sponsorship from lobby groups is prohibited.
Jewish News Syndicate reports:
The U.N. Watch complaint demands an investigation into the alleged violations, including responses and documentation from the United Nations regarding the sources of funding for Albanese’s travel as part of her mandate and a copy of any notes detailing any meetings Albanese and her office had during the visit to Australia and New Zealand.
The complaint notes that the trip does not appear in mandated U.N. disclosure forms, indicating that the United Nations did not pay for the travel costs.
“The disgraceful support for terrorism and promotion of antisemitism” by Albanese “casts a shadow upon the reputation of the United Nations as whole,” the complaint states. “This is now compounded by serious financial improprieties.”
The NGO urged the United Nations to “demonstrate its commitment to openness and transparency by responding forthwith to our requests concerning the grave matters outlined above.”
You can read the full complaint below.
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President Trump’s appeal hearing to disqualify Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis was tentatively set for October 4th which means the lawfare RICO trial will likely be pushed past the 2024 presidential election.
Last month the Georgia Court of Appeals agreed to review President Donald Trump’s appeal to disqualify disgraced Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the sham RICO case against him.
“Upon consideration of the Application for Interlocutory Appeal, it is ordered that it be hereby GRANTED. The Appellant may file a Notice of Appeal within 10 days of the date of this order. The Clerk of Superior Court is directed to include a copy of this order in the record transmitted to the Court of Appeals,” the Court said.
Excerpt from ABC News:
The Georgia Court of Appeals has tentatively scheduled oral arguments on former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the Fani Willis disqualification ruling for October, making it almost certain that Trump will not see trial in his Georgia election interference case before the 2024 election.
The date for oral arguments on the issue is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 4, according to a docket notice that was sent to defense counsel in the case.
“A calendar will be sent to counsel of record confirming the exact date of oral argument,” the notice says.
The judge in the case, Scott McAfee, has previously vowed to keep the case moving forward while the issue is on appeal.
ABC News contributor and former Georgia prosecutor Chris Timmons said the October hearing date means it is all but certain that Trump won’t go to trial before the 2024 election.
In March Georgia Judge Scott McAfee ruled that crooked and dishonest Fani Willis will be allowed to remain on the Trump case.
Judge McAfee however did force Fani’s lover Nathan Wade to be removed from the case. Wade and Willis committed the same crime of perjury during their testimony. The conflicted Judge McAfee did not have the guts to follow the law and do the right thing and disqualify both of the lovebirds.
In March Judge McAfee quashed 6 counts in Fani Willis’ indictment – including 3 counts against President Trump.
Two other lawfare cases against President Trump were also postponed and likely won’t take place until after the 2024 election.
Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump was indefinitely postponed by Judge Aileen Cannon.
Jack Smith’s January 6 case in DC is currently on hold as we await a decision from the US Supreme Court related to Trump’s presidential immunity claims.
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A jury was seated on Monday in the landmark trial of Hunter Biden on federal weapons charges.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Hunter Biden arrived at J. Caleb Boggs federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, for the first day of jury selection in his federal firearms case on Monday morning.
Dr. Jill, clad in a purple suit, joined Hunter Biden at the courthouse Monday morning while Joe Biden was across town in Wilmington.
This was just days after Joe Biden secretly met with the DOJ’s star witness, Hallie Biden.
“Jill and I love our son and we are so proud of the man he is today,” Joe Biden said in a statement.
“Hunter’s resilience in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery are inspiring to us,” Joe Biden added. “A lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction and know what we mean.”
This selection process took place in Delaware, a state long dominated by the Biden political machine.
The trial, presided over by US District Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, commenced the jury selection process.
From an initial pool of 250 Delaware residents summoned for jury selection, over 60 were questioned individually by Hunter’s lawyers, prosecutors, and Judge Noreika, according to the New York Post.
By late afternoon, a jury comprising six men and six women had been chosen to oversee the case to decide the fate of Hunter Biden, who faces serious allegations related to possessing firearms while allegedly addicted to crack cocaine. Among the 12 panelists and four alternates, nine are African-American, and all four alternates are women.
“The jurors were sworn in at 4:20 p.m. The final list of jurors: Jurors 3, 5, 16, 19, 20, 26, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39. Alternates are: 50, 52, 53, 65. There are six men and six women on the jury. All four alternates are women. Potential jurors not selected are dismissed for the day,” according to NBC News.
One prospective juror was dismissed after affirming that gun ownership is a “God-given right,” while another was excluded for believing the Justice Department is overly politicized.
A woman who expressed her belief that people shouldn’t be allowed to buy guns and “kill children in schools” was also dismissed. She added that she would ban guns altogether if given the opportunity.
Juror 25, a man who had declared that Trump had been targeted for political prosecution, made it into the initial pool of 36 after revealing that he was acquainted with First Lady Jill Biden and had met President Joe Biden at several events. He also disclosed that he had recently donated to the Republican National Committee and had previously served as a campaign manager for a city councilman. However, this juror was later dismissed.
A potential juror in the Hunter Biden federal gun crime trial who answered that he believes Donald Trump is treated differently than Democrats and is the victim of political persecution, was just struck from the jury pool
Ridiculous on so many levels pic.twitter.com/AihHQZHSs7
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 3, 2024
Hunter Biden, 54, has pleaded not guilty to three felony counts pertaining to his alleged illegal possession of a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine. The Delaware case is the first of two scheduled to take place this year.
Hunter Biden also faces tax charges out of Los Angeles, accused of evading $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019. US District Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee, tentatively set the trial for Hunter’s tax-related charges for June 20.
The Delaware case is expected to last one to two weeks. Noreika, a Trump appointee backed by the state’s Democratic senators, has been deeply involved in the Hunter Biden case for nearly a year.
According to NBC News, FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen will be the first witness called by the prosecution.
Below are the charges via The New York Post:
COUNT 1: False Statement in Purchase of a Firearm
Faces a maximum of 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, three years of supervised release, a special assessment of $100.COUNT 2: False Statement Related to Information Required to be Kept by Federal Firearms Licensed Dealer
Faces a maximum of five years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, three years of supervised release, a special assessment of $100.COURT 3: Possession of a Firearm by a Person who is an Unlawful User of or Addicted to a Controlled Substance
Faces a maximum of 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, three years of supervised release, a special assessment of $100.
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The massively popular Call of Duty game series is offering its users the chance to play with transgender bullets and rainbow themed assault weapons as part of its celebrations for Pride Month.
According to the gaming website Dexterto, the company has created a variety of “free skins,” a term that refers to the customization of a player’s outfit and weaponry.
The website notes:
These new skins, which will be available in Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, allow players to deck out their weapons in the different LGBTQ+ flags, rainbows, glitter, and more.
The full list of skins that are now available as part of CoD’s Pride Month celebrations includes the following:
- Traditional Pride flag
- Bisexual Pride flag
- Lesbian Pride flag
- Nonbinary Pride flag
- Pansexual Pride flag
- Transgender Pride flag
- Asexual Pride flag
To claim these new LGBTQ+-centric skins, simply head over to the game’s main menu, visit the CoD store, scroll down to the Free Gift Pack and click redeem.
Once doing so, these new skins should be ready to download and equip as you like. At the time of writing, it is unclear if CoD will release any other Pride Month merchandise or cosmetics, however, we’ll be sure to update this article if any more goodies are up for grabs.
Happy Pride Month.
A FREE bundle is now live in Call of Duty in MW3 x Warzone with 6 camos to use in game across all weapons. pic.twitter.com/YDU1tCNzCj
— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) June 1, 2024
While the idea of LGBT themed designs and weaponary may seem inappropriate enough for a game that involves slaughtering as many people as possible, some netizens picked up on the inclusion of “transgender bullets” and the dangerous associations involved.
If you’re still playing Call of Duty, stop. They introduced trans flag bullets to honor pride month. With the number of mass shootings involving trans/non binary people recently, it seems they have a motive. pic.twitter.com/hUQOIfwjts
— 9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) June 2, 2024
Activision’s Call of Duty just added transgender bullets to the game in honor of Pride Month, so you can literally roleplay a transgender mass shooter. pic.twitter.com/cYNIvrCHK4
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 3, 2024
Activision’s Call of Duty just added transgender bullets to the game in honor of Pride Month, so you can literally roleplay a transgender mass shooter. pic.twitter.com/fE84J3Nfad
—
Edwin
Call of Duty was first launched in 2003 by Activision as a World War II shooter. It quickly expanded into modern warfare settings and remains the most popular first person shooter in video game history.
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Families of those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting asked a judge to liquidate Alex Jones’ media company, including Infowars, immediately after the legendary talk show host announced the federal government is orchestrating a forceful takeover of his broadcasting studios.
Jones previously asked the judge to provide time to reorganize his business as the Sandy Hook families demanded the collection of $1.5 billion they were awarded in their outlandish verdicts against him.
On Sunday, lawyers for families filed an emergency motion in Bankruptcy Court in Houston, doubling down on the concerted effort to shut down Infowars.
Free Speech Systems, Alex Jones’ parent company, has “no prospect” of developing a reorganization plan that would be approved by the court and has “failed to demonstrate any hope of beginning to satisfy” their legal claims, attorneys for the Sandy Hook families wrote.
A hearing in Free Speech Systems’ bankruptcy case was slated for Monday to address the plaintiff’s dispute over the company’s finances.
Jones warned on a live emergency broadcast on Saturday that federal agents could put locks on the studio’s doors and liquidate all broadcasting assets amid the families’ bankruptcy court filings.
The Infowars host said he even spent the night in his studio and is prepared to involve local law enforcement to prevent what he described as an unlawful raid on his property.
In a video posted Friday with the caption, “BREAKING! INFOWARS May Be Shutdown in 48 Hours,” Jones said, “The deep state thinks they’re taking down Trump. And hours after they have their false conviction, they’re making their move to shut down InfoWars right now.”
Jones has been vocal about the attacks on his platform over the past six years, including de-platforming, deep state interference, and rigged trials. Despite these challenges, InfoWars has managed to survive due to overwhelming public support. However, Jones warns that this latest assault could be the final blow.
“I learned at 4:00 PM today, just a few hours ago, that Infowars was going to be shut and closed tonight. We have hired security here, a private contractor. They were told, ‘Get ready to close the doors, change the locks, and InfoWars is going to be shut down,'” Jones said Friday.
“I learned about this and said, ‘Well, I’m going to go expose this. I’m going to talk about this. This is all having the bankruptcy. It’s not the court doing it.’ I’ll reveal who’s behind it soon. And so I made some phone calls and did some things. They said, ‘Okay, we’ll back off for now if you do X, Y, and Z.’ I don’t believe anything I’m being told. So when I tell you that this could be the last show I ever do from Infowars, 50% chance. There’s a 50% chance this has what’s happening right now,” he added.
Liquidation would require Jones to surrender his company, its assets and most of what he owns to his creditors, including the Sandy Hook families.
His home and personal belongings would be exempt from bankruptcy liquidation.
The court has not yet ruled on liquidation stipulations in Jones' cases.
On Dec. 14, 2012 a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut resulted in the death of 20 children and six staffers. Adam Lanza killed the children at Sandy Hook school. The Lanza estate paid the Sandy Hook families $1.5 million total in its lawsuit.
Jones surmised at the time on-air that the US government may have falsified or concealed information about the shooting and speculated the massacre could have been staged to serve as a pretext or gun control.
Many of the families of the Sandy Hook victims sued Jones and won the two trials in Connecticut and Texas. The relatives contend they were traumatized by Jones’ remarks and that his fans harassed and threatened them with death threats for years.
Jones' defense was his right to free speech and that he was not responsible for the harassment. He lost.
Jones “in many instances never mentioned the names of many of the plaintiffs who sued him,” Infowars reports. “In the second highest payout amount to the plaintiffs, the jury awarded FBI agent William Aldenberg – who Jones never mentioned by name – $90 million in compensatory damages, despite the fact he had no connection to any children or staff who died in the mass shooting.”
Last year, Jones resigned to filing for bankruptcy for himself and Free Speech Systems after a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay $965 million in damages to 15 relatives of the victims and an additional $473 million to the judgment in attorney’s fees for spreading “misinformation.”
In October, Texas U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez ruled Jones could not use bankruptcy protections to avoid paying money to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
As Daily Mail reports:
If the cases are withdrawn, it would put Jones back in the same position he was in after the $1.5 billion was awarded in the lawsuits and it would send efforts to collect the damages back to the state courts where the verdicts were reached.
...
According to the most recent financial statements filed in the bankruptcy court, Jones personally has about $9 million in assets including his $2.6 million Austin-area home and other real estate. He also listed his living expenses at about $69,000 for April alone, including about $16,500 for expenses on his home including maintenance, housekeeping and insurance.
Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, which employs 44 people, had nearly $4 million in cash on hand at the end of April. The business made nearly $3.2 million in April, including from selling the dietary supplements, clothing and other items that Jones promotes on his show, while listing $1.9 million in expenses.
Jones and the Sandy Hook families have offered different proposals to settle the $1.5 billion he owes them. Last year, Free Speech Systems filed a plan that would leave $7 million to $10 million a year to pay off creditors.
The families later countered with their own proposal: either liquidate Jones’ estate and give the proceeds to creditors, or pay them at least $8.5 million a year for 10 years — plus 50 percent of any income over $9 million per year.
Fascists are in a war to make obsolete all dissenting voices. But, don't worry. The Republicans in Congress will write a nasty letter Monday morning.
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Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey fantasized about Trump being thrown in jail for non-crimes during an appearance on “Inside with Jen Psaki” on Sunday.
Joe Biden and the Democrat-media complex are terrified of Trump. They know Trump is ahead in the polls. They know Joe Biden is unpopular.
This is why Biden’s DOJ is trying to jail Trump. Biden can’t win unless he cheats – or jails his main political rival.
Biden’s former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asked Comey what it would look like to jail a former US president after a jury returned a guilty verdict against Trump.
The jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial last Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts!
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
After deliberating for several hours on Thursday, the jury returned a guilty verdict after the judge rigged the trial by allowing jurors to choose which crime they believed Trump committed.
Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree something bad happened. This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
Comey told Psaki that Trump would be thrown into a double-wide away from the general population.
“They would just put him in a double-wide somewhere out near the fence, out in the grass. He’d eat there, shower there, exercise there… away from the general population. It’s obviously do-able,” Comey told Jen Psaki.
WATCH:
Here's disgraced former FBI Director James Comey fantasizing about Donald Trump being thrown in jail.
"They would just put him in a double-wide somewhere out near the fence, out in the grass. He'd eat there, shower there, exercise there… away from the general population. It's… pic.twitter.com/m9qReyT7E1
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 3, 2024
Last month Jen Psaki fantasized about Trump dying before the 2024 election during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Psaki fantasized about all the ways Trump can be eliminated this election season.
“Maybe Donald Trump will go away. Maybe he’ll go to jail. Maybe he will die. Not to be too morbid. But maybe. He’s not a young man,” Psaki said.
WATCH:
Jen Psaki went on Morning Joe this morning to fantasize about all the ways Donald Trump can be taken off the chess board:
"Maybe Donald Trump will go away. Maybe he'll go to jail. Maybe he will die. Not to be too morbid. But maybe. He's not a young man."
They want Trump dead. pic.twitter.com/pXtOgTEC12
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 7, 2024
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The Biden DOJ convicted Paula Harlow last year of federal conspiracy against rights and FACE offenses for peacefully protesting an abortion clinic in DC back in 2020.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee, sentenced Harlow to 24 months in prison.
She was the tenth defendant to be sentenced by the Biden Regime related to the peaceful abortion protest.
Paulette Harlow, who is 75 years old, participated in a peaceful protest at an abortion clinic in 2020 and didn’t hurt anyone.
Here is video of Paulette Harlow praying and peacefully protesting in an abortion clinic:
Here is a video of the protest this poor woman is going to prison for. pic.twitter.com/xDcchPfQ7R
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) June 3, 2024
According to Catholic News Agency, Harlow has significant health issues. Her husband fears she may die in prison.
“Paula Paulette Harlow, 75, of Kingston, Massachusetts, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 24 months incarceration for her role in a conspiracy that created a blockade at a Washington, D.C. reproductive health care clinic to prevent the clinic from providing, and patients from receiving, reproductive health services.” the DOJ said in a press release on Friday.
A DC judge just sentenced 75-year-old Paulette Harlow, who is in poor health, to 2 years in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic. Her husband fears she might die there. pic.twitter.com/SHg0kHmdRz
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) June 3, 2024
Two other elderly defendants in their 70s were sentenced to more than 2 years in prison each.
Joan Bell, 76 was sentenced to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release and Jean Marshall, 74, was sentenced to 24 months and three years of supervised release.
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A January 6er stole the show during Dr. Anthony Fauci’s House Select Subcommittee hearing on Monday.
Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was testifying about the origins of COVID, lockdown measures, and misleading medical advice.
Fauci, who has been widely criticized for his role in advocating for draconian lockdowns, unnecessary masking, social distancing mandates, and for spreading false information about the ‘Wuhan lab leak’ theory, was met with hostility from audience members.
Shouts of “Nuremberg 2.0” and “You killed my grandmother” echoed through the room as Fauci took his seat, according to Dr. Andrew Huff, a former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, an Army veteran, and the author of “The Truth about Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History” from Simon & Schuster.
Fauci sits down, and people in the audience are saying:
“Nuremberg 2.0”
“You killed my grandmother” pic.twitter.com/RdSKBuqVpL
— Andrew G. Huff, PhD, MS (@AGHuff) June 3, 2024
Rep. Deborah Ann Dingell (D-MI) then asked Fauci about death threats he had allegedly received.
As serial liar Fauci began to answer, Brandon Fellows, who was convicted in August of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanors for his role in the January 6 event, stole the spotlight.
Positioned behind Fauci and within clear view of the camera, Fellows made faces that quickly became an internet sensation.
NEW: Dr. Fauci breaks down into tears discussing personal death threats.
He says, “Every time someone gets up and says, I’m responsible for the death of people throughout the world, the death threats go up.”
REP DINGELL: How do you feel?
FAUCI: “Terrible.”
REP DINGELL: “Do… pic.twitter.com/8fnC0cer44
— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) June 3, 2024
Fauci gets asked about the ongoing death threats he receives. The real star is the guy sitting behind him. Someone give that man an award pic.twitter.com/ZBBvfM6QS4
— James Jinnette (@james_jinnette1) June 3, 2024
The video quickly went viral, with many internet users applauding 29-year-old Fellows for his audacious trolling of Fauci during the hearing.
One user wrote, “I have no idea who this guy behind Fauci is, but he definitely deserves a beer!”
Another wrote, “He thought he was at the hunter biden crack hearing.”
A third added, “I owe this guy a beer and a handshake!”
Another speculated, “Let’s see how quickly one of the squad tries to present legislation on “face making.”
After mocking Fauci, J6 political prisoner, Brandon Fellows told Fauci that he belonged in prison and was subsequently escorted out of the congressional hearing.
J6 Political Prisoner Brandon Fellows told Dr. Fauci that he belongs in Prison! X better NOT censor this!
@elonmusk
@annvandersteel pic.twitter.com/YPvvFsg5qe— Corinne Cliford (@corinnecliford) June 3, 2024
This guy is a legend. Brandon Fellows is a pro-MAGA protester who smoked weed in Senator Jeff Merkley’s office during the protest. Fellows, who has described his incarceration as ‘awesome and very fun,’ was sentenced to three years this year for his role in the events of January 6. He was released from prison on May 20.
WUSA 9 reported:
‘It’s time for you to grow up!’ | Judge sentences NY chimney repairman to 3 years in prison for role in Capitol riot
A federal judge repeatedly admonished a New York chimney repairman for his contemptuous behavior and “utter lack of remorse” Thursday before sentencing him to just over three years in prison for obstructing the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
[…]
Fellows was initially granted pretrial release but had his bond revoked after multiple violations, including calling the mother of his probation officer. His defiant behavior continued following his rearrest. Fellows fired multiple attorneys and ultimately chose to represent himself – including during a disastrous bond review hearing in which he appeared to admit to illegally attempting to get judges removed from cases in D.C. and New York. In addition to his conviction at trial, Fellows was also found in criminal contempt of court for repeated outbursts, including calling the proceeding a “kangaroo court” and a “nazi court.”
[…]
At his sentencing hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden agreed. McFadden, a former deputy assistant attorney general who was nominated to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump in 2017, said in all his years in law he had never seen a defendant as contemptuous as Fellows.
“You have repeatedly made a mockery of these proceedings,” McFadden said.
In a Twitter/X post, Fellows wrote, “For every democrat hilariously freaking out that I was sitting so close to mass murderer Fauchi… Yes I’m a felon, but only until the Supreme Court dismissed the felony later this month. Look up the opening statements of USA V Fisher… My supervised release is about to end.”
For every democrat hilariously freaking out that I was sitting so close to mass murderer Fauchi… Yes I’m a felon, but only until the Supreme Court dismissed the felony later this month. Look up the opening statements of USA V Fisher… My supervised release is about to end.
— Brandon Fellows (@BrandonF65664) June 3, 2024
According to his fundraising campaign organized by his mother, “My son, Brandon Fellows is a 29 year old federal prisoner from Schenectady, NY. Among his many achievements, Brandon was a Christian camp counselor, student body senator, and kids wrestling team coach as a young man. Brandon suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome just like one of his heroes, Elon Musk. Despite this lifelong challenge, Brandon built a chimney business in the capital region of upstate New York.”
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A Minnesota mayor earning $130,000+ per year at his post thanked Joe Biden for canceling his student loan debt.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter publicly celebrated hardworking Americans being forced to pay off his student loans even though he earns way more money than the average American worker.
“The Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt. But they didn’t stop me. I’ve relieved student debt for over 5 million Americans. I’m going to keep going,” Biden said in a post on X last week.
Biden has used a series of workarounds to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his student loan bailout program.
Last year the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Joe Biden’s student loan relief program so the Department of Education rolled out a workaround forbearance program to cancel $39 billion in student loans by counting non-payments as payments for a period of time.
In January Biden unilaterally canceled another $5 billion in student loan debt for 74,000 borrowers in his latest vote-buying gimmick.
Joe Biden also announced he would cancel student loans for borrowers who took out less than $12,000 and have been in repayment for 10 years.
Melvin Carter posted a photo of his Mohela account with a zero balance.
“Thank you, Mr. President!” Melvin Carter wrote.
Thank you, Mr. President! https://t.co/SjaNekU3ra pic.twitter.com/mQeqm2nt9X
— Melvin Carter (@melvincarter3) May 30, 2024
Melvin Carter’s decision to brag about his student loan cancelation backfired.
You make $170,000 a year
Now your employees are paying off your debts pic.twitter.com/6IH1hLxzrF
— VK (@vjeannek) June 1, 2024
You make $170,000/year asshole.
— EducatëdHillbilly
(@RobProvince) June 1, 2024
Wait, we just paid off the college loan for the Mayor of St. Paul? And you told us?!?
— Chuck DeVore (@ChuckDeVore) June 2, 2024
So much for the rich paying their fair share.
— AdamInHTownTX (Not a Neurologist) (@AdamInHTownTX) June 2, 2024
Don’t thank Biden. Thank your sanitation worker who picks up your trash every week and the employees at your local McDonalds that paid it off for you.
— Grandpa Woody (@Woody_Grandpa) June 1, 2024
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on Monday testified before a House Select Subcommittee on the Covid origins, lockdowns and phony medical guidance.
Dr. Fauci was the face of the Covid lockdowns, unnecessary masking, social distancing, and lies about the ‘Wuhan lab leak’ theory.
During his testimony on Monday, citing faulty analysis by elitist media doctor and Covid vaccine promotor Dr. Peter Hotez, Fauci said the unvaccinated are responsible for an additional 200,000 – 300,000 COVID deaths.
There is zero evidence to back up Fauci’s claims whatsoever.
Fauci also trashed conservative media podcasters who cautioned against the experimental Covid vaccine and claimed they “harmed people.”
WATCH:
Fauci is still on with this garbage! He says the unvaccinated were responsible for 200,000 – 300,000 additional COVID deaths. This is patently insane on many levels but it’s pure DC swamp creature behavior. He’s continuing the coverup rather than telling Americans the truth. His… pic.twitter.com/0PO91VWd0r
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 3, 2024
Fauci flip-flopped and lied for over a year to the American public about the seriousness of the China Virus and his background funding the Chinese virology lab and the origins of the virus.
Dr. Fauci also lied to the American public about the success of the safe drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in treating the virus.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died when HCQ was available but banned by Fauci and the CDC from COVID patients.
Fauci also flip-flopped on mask-wearing several times throughout the pandemic.
On March, 8 2020 — Dr. Anthony Fauci advised healthy Americans against wearing face masks.
In April 2020 — The CDC said Americans should be wearing face masks for the COVID.
In May 2020 — Dr. Anthony Fauci and the New England Journal of Medicine have admitted that masks are little more than symbols. Virtue signaling.
On January 25, 2021 — Dr. Fauci told healthy Americans to wear two masks instead of one.
And then one week later…
On January 31, 2021 —Dr. Fauci backtracked on that insane idea of wearing multiple masks.
Fauci previously laughed as he admitted to flip-flopping: “Yeah, what I can say, it’s a good thing. I have flip-flopped and the reason is because science and the evolution of this outbreak changes.”
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New investigations by J6Truth have unearthed a devastating blow to the drummed-up ‘official’ narrative of the Democrat’s January 6 Select Committee.
This video shows irrefutable proof that Roseanne Boyland was NOT killed from a drug overdose (as the corrupt DC Coroner’s Office reported) but, in fact, died because of a stampede organized by Capitol Police.
This is what we now know: 34-year-old Roseanne Boyland was crushed to death in the West Terrace Tunnel at the U.S. Capitol at 4:26 pm EST on January 6 when Police mercilessly pushed dozens of protestors backwards down a flight of stairs.
Not only did they create a stampede that trampled Roseanne when they used chemical weapons like CS Gas in an enclosed area, they stood by and watched as human beings piled up 3 and 4 layers deep in a deadly dogpile, this video also shows they used batons to push protestors down who were running for their lives.
This revelation is disturbing and repugnant in nature – but it does bring new light to the criminal cases of dozens of J6ers who have been charged stemming from their reaction to this blatant violence.
January 6 Political Prisoner Jake Lang has been imprisoned for 1235 days without a trial and is seen in this video trying to save Roseanne from the bottom of the crushing crowd along with Roseanne’s personal friend Justin Winchell.
The duo tugged and pulled on Roseanne to no avail, the Capitol Police kept pummeling down more protestors on top of Roseanne’s lifeless body.
You can clearly see Jake raise his arms up, frantically motioning to police to stop their onslaught in between attempts to pull Roseanne out from under the crush of the fleeing crowd.
The groundbreaking video that went viral on Jake’s X account earlier this week also shows a completely new angle of Jake dragging an unconscious Philip Anderson out of the dogpile as well.
Philip has signed a sworn affidavit claiming Jake Lang saved his life on January 6th.
Weeks before Jake’s scheduled October 2023 trial, Philip was arrested and charged for January 6, for merely being a victim of a near-death police brutality incident.
Jake’s legal team believes this was a concerted effort by the Soros J6 prosecutors to intimidate and tamper with Jake’s number one trial witness, Philip Anderson, and his powerful testimony.
Jake’s trial has been rescheduled for the fourth time to September 9, 2024, and is anticipated to bring to the court the fight of a lifetime and will highlight the two-tiered justice system that is persecuting patriots.
Please throw your support behind Jake Lang and the January 6 Political Prisoners as they stand firm with the full armor of God against the tyranny of the Deep State DOJ.
You can follow Jake on Twitter / X for all of the latest updates and episodes of The Political Prisoner Podcast @JakeLangJ6.
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**Warning-This video shows graphic scenes of Capitol Police Brutality**
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The Chief Judge for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals officially shut down coordinated complaints against Judge Aileen Cannon.
MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner previously called on his X followers to file judicial misconduct complaints against Judge Cannon with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The 11th Circuit finally flagged the orchestrated campaign against Judge Cannon.
Dear @glennkirschner2:
How does your call for your Twitter followers to file judicial-misconduct complaints *not* violate the federal rules?https://t.co/eP0l9owwoX https://t.co/X8ICVY6isu pic.twitter.com/pftCHXkz7c
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) May 13, 2024
Judge Aileen Cannon is overseeing Jack Smith’s classified documents case against President Trump.
Leftists are losing their minds because they don’t have control over Cannon’s courtroom. Cannon is a Trump appointee and she isn’t allowing Jack Smith to railroad Trump and his attorneys.
Cannon has been accused of ‘stalling’ the sham classified documents case against Trump.
Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami last June for lawfully storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate which was protected by Secret Service agents.
Trump was charged with 31 counts under the Espionage Act of willful retention of national defense information and 6 other process crimes stemming from his conversations with his lawyer.
Espionage cases take years to prosecute, but Jack Smith is trying to get Trump convicted before the 2024 election.
Cannon last month indefinitely postponed the classified documents case after Jack Smith admitted to tampering with evidence.
Judge Cannon is not stalling the case and Chief Judge William Pryor shot down the coordinated complaints against Judge Cannon.
Fox News reported:
A federal judge derided an apparent effort to get the judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal classified documents case removed, arguing the Florida judge appeared to be the victim of an “orchestrated campaign.”
Judge Aileen Cannon was the target of more than 1,000 complaints in a single week last month, with critics accusing her of intentionally stalling the criminal case against Trump until after the election, according to a report from CNBC.
But 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge William Pryor shot down the effort, saying in a May 22 order that he “has considered and dismissed four of those orchestrated complaints as merits-related and as based on allegations lacking sufficient evidence to raise an inference that misconduct has occurred.”
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Former late-night TV host Jay Leno was spotted riding a new Tesla Cybertruck in downtown Los Angeles.
When spotted in the cybertruck, a man asked Leno, “Have you done the bullet test?”
Leno quickly responded, “Yeah, just drive around LA.”
Leno looked in good health, considering last year, the former Tonight Show host got into a motorcycle accident just two months after he received severe burns in a garage fire.
WATCH:
JAY LENO THANKFUL TO HAVE BULLET-PROOF CYBER TRUCK IN LOS ANGELES
“Have you done the bullet test?”
Jay Leno:
“Yea, just drive around LA”pic.twitter.com/gGHAWV2H6q
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 3, 2024
CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, has previously touted the Cybertruck’s bulletproof capabilities.
Before the Cybertruck was released to teh general public, Musk revealed that the Cybertruck can withstand a 22-caliber rifle and a 9mm handgun.
In October last year, Musk revealed he had tested a Tommy gun on a cybertruck.
LOOK:
Elon Musk: “We emptied the entire drum magazine of a Tommy gun into the Cybertruck driver door Al Capone style. No bullets penetrated into the passenger compartment.”pic.twitter.com/tT7f3hIiDC
— No Jumper (@nojumper) October 21, 2023
The Tesla cyber truck is also able to withstand shots from bows.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Joe Rogan tested his bow on a cyber truck during an interview with Elon Musk.
WATCH:
Joe Rogan shoots Elon’s Cybertruck with a Compound Bow pic.twitter.com/ZsM79n9jsu
— CINETRON (@CINETRONN) October 31, 2023
The post Jay Leno Gives Hilarious Response When Asked If He’s Done Bullet Test on Cybertruck, “Yeah, Just Drive Around L.A.” (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Running contrary to the worldwide trend towards conservatism in 2024, Mexico has elected a ‘dedicated leftist’ to continue the dubious legacy of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
While the fact that Claudia Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s first woman leader in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence does provide with some novelty factor, the truth is that she will mainly mean ‘same old, same old.’
The 61-year-old ‘climate scientist’ and former Mexico City mayor ran a campaign that capitalized on her predecessor’s popularity.
Associated Press reported:
“While she hewed close to López Obrador politically and shares many of his ideas about the government’s role in addressing inequality, she is viewed as less combative and more data driven.
Sheinbaum’s background is in science. She has a Ph.D. in energy engineering. Her brother is a physicist. In a 2023 interview with The Associated Press, Sheinbaum said, ‘I believe in science’.”
The new president presents a whole array of red-flags to the conservative observer, for not only is she into the ‘climate change’ cult, but also MSM says she ‘proved herself’ in her (misguided) actions as mayor during the COVID-19 pandemic psyop.
Mexico’s unrelenting high levels of violence will be one her most immediate challenge, but it’s unlikely that she will have any more success than her mentor.
“’Let it be clear, it doesn’t mean an iron fist, wars or authoritarianism’, Sheinbaum said of her approach to tackling criminal gangs, during her final campaign event. ‘We will promote a strategy of addressing the causes and continue moving toward zero impunity’.”
She is the typical leftist: blames ‘neoliberal economic policies’ (which in Latin America means Capitalism) for poverty; promises a ‘strong welfare state’ and means to ‘guarantee the minimum rights to all residents.’
All the bad old recipe of Latin American disaster.
“In contrast to López Obrador, who seemed to relish his highly public battles with other branches of the government and also the news media, Sheinbaum is expected by many observers to be less combative or at least more selective in picking her fights.”
Sheinbaum will also be the first Jewish person to lead the mostly Catholic country.
CBS News reported:
“‘I will become the first woman president of Mexico’, Sheinbaum said with a smile, speaking at a downtown hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced a statistical sample showed she held an irreversible lead. ‘I don’t make it alone. We’ve all made it, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters’.”
She appears to treat the citizens as stupid by saying that Mexico demonstrated that ‘it is a democratic country with peaceful elections.’
That’s an absurd comment since at least 38 candidates were killed in Mexico’s election cycle in the past year, making it THE MOST VIOLENT ELECTION SEASON IN MODERN MEXICAN HISTORY.
So, it is hardly surprising that the turnout was lower than in past elections.
“Sheinbaum, described by Agence France-Presse as a ‘dedicated leftist known for keeping a cool head in times of crisis’.”
She is going to need it.
Read more:
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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.
ARTICLE 1: FEDS ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN INFOWARS TONIGHT – Alex Jones Breaks Down in Tears on Live Show – Heartbreaking Video – Steve Bannon Urges Alex to Take Them to the Mattresses!
ARTICLE 2: Tim Pool Abruptly Ends Live Stream as Laura Loomer Calls for Treason Charges and Death Penalty for Democrats Accused of Coup Against Donald Trump
ARTICLE 3: “Wrong! You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About!” – Megyn Kelly Schools a Triggered Dan Abrams on His Own Show During Explosive Debate Over Trump Guilty Verdict (VIDEO)
ARTICLE 4: WATCH: NBC’s Attempt to Caricature Trump Supporters as Deranged Maniacs Backfires
ARTICLE 5: Mitch McConnell Responds to Trump Conviction by Kangaroo NYC Court – Then Gets Dunked on by Conservative Social Media Users
Please leave your opinions / comments on these stories below, as Elijah reads every single one and appreciates your perspective.
The post SHUT IT DOWN: FEDS Attempt To SEIZE InfoWars STUDIO in Texas, Alex Jones Breaks Down CRYING | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5 (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Hunter Biden arrived at J. Caleb Boggs federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware for the first day of jury selection in his federal firearms case on Monday morning.
Dr. Jill, clad in a purple suit, joined Hunter Biden at the courthouse Monday morning while Joe Biden was across town in Wilmington.
This was just days after Joe Biden secretly met with the DOJ’s star witness Hallie Biden.
“Jill and I love our son and we are so proud of the man he is today,” Joe Biden said in a statement.
“Hunter’s resilience in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery are inspiring to us,” Joe Biden added. “A lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction and know what we mean.”
WATCH:
BREAKING: First Lady Jill Biden just arrived at the federal courthouse where Hunter Biden will be tried on federal firearm offenses. It's now a family affair. pic.twitter.com/4jHuvoqDls
— Mia Cathell (@MiaCathell) June 3, 2024
A protestor trolled the Biden family outside the courthouse with an epic sign.
In September Hunter Biden was indicted on federal gun charges. He was indicted in a Delaware court on three counts related to his possession of a firearm while using drugs.
“Two of the counts carry a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, while the third has a maximum of five years,” NBC News reported.
Hunter pleaded not guilty to all three felony gun charges in October.
If convicted on the tax-related charges, Hunter Biden faces up to 17 years in prison.
The Gateway Pundit reported back in October 2020 that Hunter’s then-lover and deceased brother’s widow Hallie Biden tossed the gun in the trash. Hunter admitted this in an online conversation with his family when they accused him of inappropriate conduct in front of a child.
TGP published additional text messages from Hunter Biden that were devastating.
In a long text that Hunter sent to a family friend, Hunter exposed all that was going on with him and his family.
Hunter shared that his dead brother’s wife, Hallie Biden, threw his gun away and the police, FBI and Secret Service got involved. Hallie claimed she did this because she was afraid Hunter would harm himself or the kids!
Hallie Biden has not been charged.
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The post Dr. Jill Joins Hunter Biden at Gun Trial Days After Joe Biden Secretly Meets with DOJ Star Witness Hallie Biden – Protestor Trolls with Epic Sign! (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
On Thursday, Chicago’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report warning that the city and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) are unprepared for the protestors who will descend on the city for the Democratic National Convention in August.
Chicago is hoping to avoid the bad optics of the 1968 DNC convention that saw then-Mayor Richard J. Daley ring the convention site with barbed wire and ultimately call in the National Guard to quell the violence.
Who had 1968 on their DNC bingo card this year?
The DNC Is Preparing for the Worst in Chicago — Without the Help of the City’s Mayor – POLITICO https://t.co/Kc1XDqvB1q
— CalRadioHost (@cal_host) May 10, 2024
Chicago is already facing a crisis with a major shortage of police officers.
At a public forum with the Commission for Public Safety and Accountability last week, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said, “What we’re doing right now is making the best with the number of officers that we have.”
Snelling added, “We are down. We’re down close to 2,000 officers.”
The OIG’s latest was a response to the recent “Chicago Police Department’s Preparedness for Mass Gatherings,” which was a critical review of the department’s botched response to the George Floyd protests and riots in 2020.
The new report warns that while there have been some improvements since 2020, major concerns remain.
Concerns following the 2020 violent riots suggest the CPD was “under-equipped and unprepared to respond to the scale of the protests and unrest in the downtown area.”
Further, OIG identified “failures within intelligence assessment, major event planning, field communication and operation, administrative systems, and, most significantly, from CPD’s senior leadership.”
OIG’s February 2021 report presented the following findings on specific CPD operational failures and shortcomings in response to the protests and unrest:
Further, “The Department identified the lack of planning documents, a shortage of necessary equipment, and inadequate notice of the cancellation of days off as areas for improvement. The Department committed to creating: plans that classify responses at different severity levels and protect retail corridors, revised Emergency Mobilization Plans, and associated practice exercises to ensure their smooth execution.”
The new report warns that new police crowd control tactics, however, could cause “escalating tensions” and constitutional violations against lawful demonstrators.
The report says some of the city’s training materials related to crowd responses rely on old theories from the 1960s and 1990s that assume crowds have a tendency to affect individuals negatively and can lead to conflictual or criminal behavior. That belief — along with an assumption that bad actors are present — can risk “inducing or escalating” CPD’s response, the report said. More updated theories caution that police response can trigger people in the crowd to act more resistant and disorderly.
CPD’s guidance also “continues to permit the use of OC spray on passive resistors in a mass gathering setting,” she said, while other departments, like Philadelphia, “have very explicit guidance” that pepper spray “shall not be used” in a First Amendment gathering against “passive resistors.”
Department policy also lacks specifics about when the department can use corralling tactics sometimes known as kettling, Witzburg said. “Neither do they say that they are prohibited, nor do they offer guidance on when they might be permitted,” she said.
Radical pro-Hamas protestors have already promised to disrupt the gathering.
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Terrorism has already marred two Olympic games. Will it affect a third?
Unfortunately, even with perspicacious law enforcement, that’s looking increasingly likely. At the very least, officials in France say that they’ve headed off one terror plot before it got to the critical stage: on Friday, The Associated Press reported, an 18-year-old was charged with planning to target spectators at the soccer tournament at this year’s Summer Olympics in Paris, which open on July 26.
The man, unnamed by authorities, was supposedly looking to carry out a “violent action” on behalf of the Islamic State group at Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne, the home of several matches during the tournament.
The man, police said, was motivated by the wish “to die and become a martyr.”
It’s unclear what tipped security off to the man, but Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a statement that the suspect, who is from Chechnya, was detained on May 22 on suspicion of plotting the terror attack.
The committee organizing the games said it was aware of the man’s arrest.
“Security is the highest priority of Paris 2024. We are working daily in close coordination with the Interior Ministry and all stakeholders — and will continue to be fully mobilized,” the organizing committee said in a statement, which praised France’s intelligence and security services for their response.
The coach of Canada’s women’s soccer team, which is scheduled to play at the stadium where the attacks were supposedly planned, said she trusted the organizers to keep her safe
“That’s a concern to hear, but I think a little bit like in Tokyo, the Olympic Committee, I would imagine that they’re going to step in and I think our faith and trust will be in making it a secure and safe environment for our players,” coach Bev Priestman said.
However, there are numerous worries before the games, particularly given the high profile of the event at a time of heightened global political tension.
“Security concerns are notably high for the the exceptional opening ceremony, which brings more than 100 world leaders to the French capital,” the AP noted. “It involves boats carrying athletes along the Seine River on a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) open-air parade and huge crowds watching from the embankments.
“In April, French President Emmanuel Macron said the July 26 opening ceremony could be moved instead to the country’s national stadium if the security threat is deemed too high.”
Two prior Olympic games have been affected by terrorist attacks.
In 1972, the Summer Games in Munich, Germany were overshadowed by the death of 11 Israeli athletes at the hands of Palestinian militant group Black September. In 1996, a white supremacist involved in the Christian identity movement planted a bomb at the Centennial Olympic Park during the Summer Games in Atlanta, Georgia, killing one.
Perhaps more worrying, however, is that Iran — arguably the world’s most dangerous state terrorist actor at the moment — is reportedly increasing support of its proxy groups throughout Europe in the run-up to the games.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Israel’s Mossad released a report on Thursday which “highlighted in particular the activities of two criminal groups — FOXTROT and RUMBA” in the lead-in to the games.
These two groups, which receive funds from Iran, are “directly responsible for a violent activity and the promotion of terrorism in Sweden and throughout Europe,” Mossad said in the statement.
Mossad’s report also alleged that Tehran was behind the actors responsible for violence outside of two Israeli embassies in Europe, one in Belgium and one in Sweden, in the past month alone.
“FOXTROT, known for its murders and large-scale drug trafficking, is the largest criminal organization in Sweden and operates in other European countries,” the Post reported.
“It alleged that FOXTROT head Rua Majid, a Swedish citizen of Kurdish origin nicknamed the “Kurdish Fox,” had been arrested in Iran for criminal activity and then recruited for terror activity and released to carry out terror for Iran.”
“FOXTROT’s rival gang RUMBA, headed by Ismail Abdo, was behind the May 17 gunshots near Israel’s embassy in Sweden, the Mossad said.”
Mossad’s report also alleged that Tehran was looking to expand its proxy groups via the heightened anti-Semitism since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent response of the Israeli government.
While the Islamic State group is hardly an ally of Iran’s, it’s worth noting, they also have fewer resources than the Iranian government does and a diminished reach compared to the terror group’s mid-’10s peak. Given the environment and the openness of Europe, then, it’s not a question of if but when and where the attacks are planned and whether authorities are quick enough to step in to stop them.
That fact — combined with the willingness of a state actor to get stuck in with these terror cells — is something that should give every athlete, spectator, and world leader pause.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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The French Republic seems to be on track to do away with the ‘cordon sanitaire’ (sanitary cordon) or firewall – a political practice by the establishment to keep the right winders out of power.
Of course, much of the expected conservative surge in the EU legislative election is due to President Emmanuel Macron’s train-wreck mandate with a floundering economy, unchecked mass migration and violence tearing up the society.
But there is also the Jordan Bardella phenomenon to be taken into consideration, as we will see.
The young and wildly popular politician is helping Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to further extending its lead against President Emmanuel Macron’s party.
Bloomberg reported:
“Asked which of the parties they intend to vote for, 33% of those surveyed backed the National Rally, which is led by Marine Le Pen in the country’s lower house of parliament, while 15.5% preferred a coalition of parties including Macron’s Renaissance, according to the poll published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper.
The Socialist Party led by Raphael Glucksmann garnered 13% of voter intentions, the left-wing France Unbowed 8% and the Greens 6%, the survey showed. The conservative Republicans were backed by 7% of respondents.”
The Elabe survey was polled before Standard & Poor’s downgraded France’s credit score to the lowest ever point – so it stands to reason the advantage may be poised to increase.
All that sends the leftist media into a frenzy. Leftist politico depicted Bardella as ‘Ken doll’ in elaborate graphics in a semi-hit-piece.
But they do acknowledge that, while just a quarter of French people have confidence in their government that does NOT apply to there’s Jordan Bardella.
In his ten years as a politician, the president of the far-right National Rally never lost his appeal with the voters.
Politico reported:
“Polished, composed to a fault, Bardella has become a TikTok sensation, deploying his boy-next-door good looks and a carefully practiced smile to turn out the youth vote. When the French weekly newspaper JDD compiled a list of the 50 most popular figures in France, Bardella was the only politician to make the list.”
The newspaper is worried that ‘the firewalls’ are crashing down.
“In past elections, French voters have closed ranks to keep the far right out of power, erecting a so-called cordon sanitaire (or firewall) to keep the far right out of power.”
Bardella shows a safe and palatable political face, an alternative to the establishment.
“Despite being dinged in the media and by political opponents for a light grasp of the issues, he has steadily widened the gap between him and Valérie Hayer, Macron’s candidate in the race. It helps that his political canvassing has been more boy band on tour, than grim campaigning, with endless TikTok posts and selfie poses with fans.”
A hit with the young he also has appeal with the elders. An April poll shows 23 percent of voters over 65 years old plan to vote for Bardella.
“Le Pen has described Bardella as a godsend in her effort to detoxify the party’s reputation and prepare it for power. He ‘is not affected by the taboo that surrounds the National Front vote’, she said, referring to the party’s former name, which was associated with her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust denier. ‘He’s part of a new generation’.”
Coming from a working-class family, he joined the National Rally as a teenager, dropping out of university to go into politics.
He positions himself as someone from a tough background in contrast to the Paris’ political elite.
“Bardella’s biggest vulnerability might be growing speculation that he’s on a collision course with Le Pen. […] A recent poll also showed voters appeared to be swinging behind Bardella: 52 percent of National Rally voters would vote for Bardella, compared to 43 percent for Le Pen.”
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Guest post by Paul Drabik
The fight for Border Security started long before the pivotal Presidential election of 2024. Tom Homan is the former Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump administration. Homan and his new non-profit, Border911, will be in Chicago on June 12th 2024.
Border911 is teaming up with Behind Enemy Lines podcast hosts Terry Newsome and Paul Drabik to bring awareness to the border security crisis. At 115 Bourbon Street in Chicago, Homan will be joined by Sarah Carter, Derek Maltz, Jaeson Jones, Rodney Scott, and Victor Avila. Doors will open at 6 pm. The group will discuss the impact of the wide open border and what will be done under a Trump administration to reverse the damage done by Joe Biden.
Bringing a wealth of experience to the subject, Homan has served the government across multiple administrations. Homan has repeatedly pointed out the failings of the Biden administration by noting that he directed ICE during the Trump Administration which presided over the most secure border of his service history. The implication is that a secure border is possible. It has been suggested that the current crisis is being deliberately manufactured.
Illegal immigration has become anathema to the citizens of a country where Joe Biden has put non-citizen priorities ahead of those who unwillingly fund such priorities via tax increases. For example, Illinois legislators have recently passed a new $53 billion budget which will help fund the care for illegal immigrants. According to Illinois Policy, the record setting spending bill will include $1.1 billion in new taxes. Of those new taxes the bulk will be allocated to the “human services” category. The majority – $182 million – will be applied to “emergency funding” to service migrants coming to Chicago.
In stride with New York and Biden administration policy, Chicago has become notorious for harboring illegals and prioritizing them ahead of its own citizens. In January, Behind Enemy Lines interviewed homeless people enduring freezing temperatures in Chicago. The irony of their plight was juxtaposed against the backdrop of illegal immigrants housed in hotels and facilities across the very same city.
Chicago has also been notorious for the steady increase in violent crime over the years. The introduction of the Safe-T Act in 2022 ushered in a cashless bail system resulting in a surge in crime. Chicago saw the rate of violent crime climb to its highest level in a decade in 2023. Concurrently, arrests were down year over year. Given that detail, it would not seem prudent to import violent crime from an unknown and unvetted population of non-citizens. Yet, that is precisely what Chicago and greater Illinois has done.
Gateway Pundit has previously reported on bombshell FOIA findings in Chicago migrant facilities. Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines requested details from both the Inn of Chicago and Pilsen facilities. The shocking responses revealed myriad violent crimes including: battery, assault, burglary, criminal sexual abuse, child abuse and multiple stabbings. In a May 5th article Gateway Pundit reported that human trafficking evidence was found on a migrant’s cell phone. In that instance the most concerning aspect was that the phone appeared to be a unique model made by the company named Vortex. Coincidentally, Vortex phones are part of a program funded by the government for assistance programs.
As the Democrat National Convention approaches, Chicago finds itself in a state of chaos. Certainly throwing money at the problem will help. However, Chicago is hosting, and August 19th is rapidly approaching. Mayor Brandon Johnson needs to make a good showing but the disapproval amongst citizens, particularly in minority communities, is resulting in mounting pressure. Recently, Johnson was rebuked by City Council after an attempt to oust ShotSpotter. The company offers technology around the city that detects gunshots. With the increase in violence and the preferential treatment of non-citizens the protests are sure to be lively during the convention.
Logic would suggest that an open border and a lack of vetting illegal immigrants would invite crime and national security concerns. It follows, with an increase of more than 10 million human beings flowing into cities, the flow of dollars out of the pocket of tax paying Americans will need to increase exponentially. With the Democrat Party and Joe Biden’s rapid decline in the polls, the political persecution of Donald Trump, the import of violent crime through the border, and the distrust of the National Security apparatus, Tom Homan and Border911 present a welcome message of reform. Tune into Behind Enemy Lines on June 12th to hear more about a promising future of border security and immigration in the United States.
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President Trump,recently sat down for an interview with Fox & Friends. During the interview, President Trump stated he has plans to declassify the files on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and the 9/11 terror attacks.
The topic was brought up when co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked Trump, “Would you declassify the 9/11 files?”
Trump responded, “Yeah.”
Campos continued, “Would you declassify the JFK files?”
Trump quickly answered, “Yeah, I did a lot of it.”
Campos asked again, “Would you declassify the Epstein files?”
“Yeah, I would,” responded Trump.
WATCH:
Donald Trump says he will declassify the files on 9/11, JFK, and Jeffrey Epstein if he is elected President. pic.twitter.com/Odokr7G7SI
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 2, 2024
Per Fox News:
In the key segments of the interview that aired on Sunday, the GOP frontrunner weighed in on several key topics, including what he seeks in an Attorney General if elected this November and whether he would declassify several key files that have been the subject of conspiracy and speculation.
“Yes,” he told co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, insisting he would declassify the 9/11, JFK and Epstein files to restore some trust lost in American institutions.
Trump also said he has two names in mind for potential attorney general picks, but said he made mistakes with the critical decision during his first term, obvious references to Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr.
During his presidency, Trump declassified over 19,045 documents related to the JFK assassination, which were released on the National Archives website.
Trump, however, did not release all of the documents.
In 2023, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Biden administration also released some of the JFK files but also failed to release them in their entirety.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a ‘great’ idea – or so he thought: a peace summit in which only one of the warring parties is invited.
Pure genius, is it not? Not only that, but a peace summit that is designed to allow the losing side to dictate the terms of the peace settlement ahead.
It’s no wonder, therefore, that Zelensky’s ‘great’ idea is not shaping out quite like he expected.
The news are coming hard and fast: China will not attend, Brazil and South Africa will send lower level delegations, Saudi Arabia will also reportedly not participate and even old Joe Biden will skip the event for a celebrity fundraiser in Los Angeles.
So the defender of democracy – with an expired mandate and ruling via Martial law – is going around the world seeking to carry his message to whomever will listen, with the usual help from the Globalist MSM.
Newsweek reported:
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused China of aiding Russia in putting pressure on countries not to attend an upcoming peace summit pushed by Kyiv.
‘Russia is trying to disrupt the peace summit’, Zelensky said following an address at the Shangri-La Dialogue defense conference in Singapore on Sunday, describing Beijing as an ‘instrument’ for Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
Some of the translations say he called China Russia’s ‘tool’, which is even less flattering.
This comes right after the Ukrainian leader said Joe Biden’s absence in this same summit was ‘a standing ovation’ to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Taking place in mid-June in Switzerland, the conference will gather more than 100 countries and global organizations would attend the event, according to him.
But he is dissatisfied.
“‘Russia, using Chinese influence in the region, using Chinese diplomats also, does everything to disrupt the peace summit’, Zelensky said during the appearance intended to bolster the attendance of Asian nations in Switzerland.”
Zelensky’s surprise appearance at the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore aimed at gathering support from Asian countries, including urging delegates to attend ‘his’ summit.
BBC reported:
“Zelensky claimed that Russia was attempting to disrupt the summit by pressuring countries not to attend, through threats of a blockade of agricultural goods, chemical goods, and energy.”
China has made de frankly uncontroversial point that any conference should have be recognized by both Russia and Ukraine’ and equal participation.
So it now has made them the latest target of Zelensky’s diatribes.
“Zelensky also said China’s leader Xi Jinping had earlier promised him they would ‘stand aside in this war and would not support Russia with weapons’. But, he added, there are now ‘elements that are part of Russia’s weaponry’ that come from China, according to various intelligence agencies. He called for China to maintain a ‘consistent’ position.”
This echoes the US criticism of China’s exports of ‘dual goods’, products of a civilian nature that can also be used for military purposes.
“Asked by the BBC if he requested the removal of limitations, he said he was grateful to the US for allowing Ukraine to use the HIMARS artillery rocket system by the border of the Kharkov region which has seen intense fighting.
‘Is that sufficient? No,’ he said, adding that there were airfields from which Russia was permanently firing ‘knowing that Ukraine will not fire back’.”
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The Indian Prime Minister who put a spacecraft on the moon and is leading a renaissance of Hindu nationalism has just won a major victory in a the world largest election decided by about a billion voters.
Narendra Modi, from BJP party, is predicted by all exit polls to win an unprecedented third term as leader of the world’s most populous country.
The Guardian reported:
“Counting begins at 8am on Tuesday, and results are expected the same day. Vote counting is done simultaneously at counting stations in each of the 543 constituencies around the country.
According to a flurry of exit polls released on Saturday night, Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) are looking at a decisive win and may even gain seats to win a two-thirds majority in parliament, which would allow the government to make far-reaching amendments to the constitution.”
A third term will be a historic achievement for Modi. Not since Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first post-independence premier, has a PM won three consecutive terms.
“Modi was widely seen as a frontrunner even before elections began. Over his ten years as prime minister, the cult of personality around him has grown while his power has become deeply entrenched. Several exit polls suggested that the BJP’s dominance would increase further this time, with gains in southern states such as Tamil Nadu and eastern states such as West Bengal, where the party had previously struggled to gain strong support due to regional opposition.”
It’s incredibly ironic to read the Guardian complain about how mainstream media in India is partial. Only in India?
“As campaigning came to a close, Modi – who had appeared at over 200 rallies over the course of campaigning – took himself on a 45-hour meditation retreat at a spiritual site in Tamil Nadu. […] ‘Sources’ told right wing media that the prime minister would be surviving on a liquid-only diet of coconut water and grape juice.”
In India citizens are required to show a voter ID.
Reuters reported:
“Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans a raft of business-friendly measures if he wins a third term this week, including pushing through regulations making it easier to hire and fire workers, according to two government officials familiar with the matter.
As part of an election pledge to transform India into a global manufacturing hub, Modi wants to offer subsidies for domestic production modelled on recent packages for semiconductor firms and electric vehicle makers, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to media.
The premier also plans to reduce import taxes on key inputs for locally-made goods, which have pushed up India’s manufacturing costs, the officials said.”
India is setting itself up as an alternative for global firms shifting their supply chains away from China.
The government plans to increase India’s share of global manufacturing from less than 3 to 5% by 2030 and 10% by 2047.
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Two New York Police Department officers were shot in Queens by an illegal alien from Venezuela.
Officers Richard Yarusso and Christopher Abreu, both 26, was shot while investigating a robbery pattern.
CBS reports:
Two NYPD officers were shot overnight in East Elmhurst, Queens while investigating a robbery pattern involving suspects on scooters, police say. Police said the officers returned fire and shot the suspect in the ankle. Both of the officers and the suspect were hospitalized in stable condition.
Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Edward Caban spoke with the injured officers and their families early Monday at Elmhurst Hospital. The mayor held up a police vest with a bullet hole, saying it saved one officer’s life. He called the shooting a “senseless act of violence” and a “total disregard for life.”
“They observe a male suspect drive a moped the wrong way on 82nd Street near 23rd Avenue and attempted to pull him over. The suspect then fled on foot, and our officers began a foot pursuit, which led for several blocks,” Caban explained. “During the pursuit, the suspect fired multiple rounds at our officers, who then returned fire.”
“We visited the officers and their families a few moments ago, they’re in good spirits, and the NYPD stands at the ready to assist them in the full recovery,” said Caban.
BREAKING: 19-year-old Venezuelan ILLEGAL who recently crossed into the U.S via Eagle Pass SHOOTS TWO NYC COPS
“Because of this vest, a young police officer is going home” NYC Mayor Eric Adams
19-year-old Venezuelan illegal Bernardo Raul Castro Mata shot two NYC cops early… pic.twitter.com/8TLPzH1b2H
— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) June 3, 2024
However, it has since emerged that the man responsible has been identified as Bernardo Castro Mata, a 19-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela.
According to The New York Post, Mata had been living at the migrant shelter in the former Courtyard Marriott Hotel, which typically costs members of the public around $250 a night.
2 NYPD Officers were gunned down last night during a traffic stop.
Castro Mata is a Venezuelan illegal alien who invaded the U.S. in 2023 and was allowed in.
He’s already tied to multiple robberies.
He was living in a tax-funded shelter. pic.twitter.com/H4nG5RM2eD
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 3, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have arrived in New York since Joe Biden seized office in 2021, many of whom have made their way to New York and other Democratic-run cities.
Mayor Adams has repeatedly complained about the situation and warned that the city is at “breaking point,” but has never gone so far as to suggest that the Biden regime secure the border.
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President Donald Trump has called upon the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene following his conviction on all counts in the politically motivated hush-money trial that concluded last week.
The timing of the sentencing hearing, conveniently scheduled just days before his renomination for the presidency at the Republican National Convention, adds another layer to the already thick fog of bias surrounding this case.
The sentencing was set for July 11—three days before the Republican convention!
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that sources within DA Bragg’s office disclosed to ‘The View’ co-host Sunny Hostin that Bragg may recommend Trump serve a year in the notorious Rikers Island.
“I spent this morning speaking to someone from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. They’re called street fighters. He believes that they will recommend a one-year term in prison. And that is because when you spend a year in prison in New York or under, you serve in Rikers Island,” Austin said.
Taking to his Truth Social platform, Trump lambasted the trial’s timing and the figures involved, characterizing his sentencing as orchestrated by “fascists” to undermine his influence before a major Republican gathering.
“The “Sentencing” for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention. A Radical Left Soros backed D.A., who ran on a platform of “I will get Trump,” reporting to an “Acting” Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED, will make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation?” Trump wrote on Sunday.
“The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!” he urged.
The jury found Trump guilty on all 34 charges he faced in the trial, agreeing he had falsified business records to cover up allegations of a sexual encounter with porn star Stormy Daniels. This verdict came despite glaring inconsistencies in testimonies by convicted perjured Michael Cohen and lack of hard evidence by the prosecution.
“Nobody even knew what the crime was until the Judge gave his Unconstitutional Instructions. A total Hoax! A case like this has NEVER been brought before. A Country in peril. Election Interference!!!” Trump wrote.
When political leanings seep into courtrooms and guide decisions that should be based solely on law and evidence, we risk compromising the very foundations of our republic.
As we wait for the Supreme Court’s intervention, it’s critical to remember that this is not just about one man, but the future of our nation and the sanctity of our legal system.
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On January 31, 2020, Danish-born and British-educated scientist Kristian Andersen emailed Dr. Tony Fauci, saying the virus looked lab-made.
According to the email (emphasis added):
“[O]ne has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered . . . . Eddie [Holmes], Bob [Garry], Mike [Ferguson] and myself all find the genome inconsistent with evolutionary theory.”
Then on February 4, 2020, after a call with Dr. Tony Fauci, British scientist Kristian Anderson wrote that the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory.
Kristian Anderson, “The main crackpot theories going around at the moment related to this virus being somehow engineered… and that is demonstrably false.”
So what happened between January 31, 2020 and February 4, 2020?
Dr. Tony Fauci called Dr. Kristian Anderson and ordered him to publicly say the COVID-19 virus was NOT lab-made. And, Tony Fauci offered Andersen a sweet deal if he did so. A huge grant from the NIH!
The New York Times reported on Anderson’s early email to Dr. Fauci in an article published in June 2021.
Over the past year, Dr. Andersen has been one of the most outspoken proponents of the theory that the coronavirus originated from a natural spillover from an animal to humans outside of a lab. But in the email to Dr. Fauci in January 2020, Dr. Andersen hadn’t yet come to that conclusion. He told Dr. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, that some features of the virus made him wonder whether it had been engineered, and noted that he and his colleagues were planning to investigate further by analyzing the virus’s genome.
The researchers published those results in a paper in the scientific journal Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, concluding that a laboratory origin was very unlikely. Dr. Andersen has reiterated this point of view in interviews and on Twitter over the past year, putting him at the center of the continuing controversy over whether the virus could have leaked from a Chinese lab.
When his early email to Dr. Fauci was released, the media storm around Dr. Andersen intensified, and he deactivated his Twitter account. He answered written questions from The New York Times about the email and the fracas. The exchange has been lightly edited for length.
As The Gateway Pundit reported in March 2023, Dr. Anderson switched his story four days after his call with Tony Fauci.
But, The New York Times conveniently omitted in their reporting that after his call with Dr. Fauci on February 1, 2020, Dr. Anderson was given a $1.88 million grant and $16.5 million in funding from NIAID, Dr. Fauci’s personal piggy bank.
Dr. Andrew Huff testified to this fact back in 2022. He released this information in a legal report he signed, created by the Renz Law Group.
Dr. Andrew Huff reported that Dr. Anderson’s funding at the Scripps Research Institute increased from $393,079 per month to $800,139 per month after he backed down on the COVID lab-leak theory.
(page 56)
This was tweeted by Mises Caucus.
The man on the left is Kristian Andersen, a British scientist who emailed Fauci 1/31/20, saying the virus looks lab-made. The man on the right is Kristian Andersen, the guy who Fauci called on 2/1/20 and ordered to publicly say it wasn’t lab-made, which he did. Fauci then gave… https://t.co/UDzIhNb37k pic.twitter.com/LY7ttS23kJ
— Mises Caucus (@LPMisesCaucus) March 1, 2023
Now, the very popular All-In Podcast reported on how Dr. Fauci and top doctors in the National Institute of Health plotted to avoid disclosing communications in FOIA requests.
This was an amazing segment in their two-hour-long weekly discussion.
Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg are the “besties” and co-hosts of the All-In podcast.
David Sacks, who is planning a fundraiser for President Trump in Silicon Valley, led this discussion on Fauci and his top associates. They discussed how they would hide their communications from pesky investigators. One method they used was to purposely disguise Dr. Andersen’s name by using dollar $ign$ instead of the letter “s.”
David Sacks: Please give me a couple of minutes to lay out what happened here, Okay? So Fauci knew very early, as early as February 1 of 2020, that COVID came from a lab leak. The scientists said so, all they had to do is look on our microscope and see the Furin Cleavage Site, which is not naturally occurring. It’s something that was added, basically bioengineered to the virus in order to make it more transmissible in humans.
So they knew right away that this somehow came from a lab leak. And Fauci and Collins said in emails that they were going to begin a brutal takedown in order to conceal this fundamental truth of the lab leak from the public. Now, why would Fauci need to conceal this? Because he had funded gain of function research programs via Peter Daszak and the Eco-Health Alliance to conduct, again, gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Moreover, Fauci was personally responsible for reversing an Obama-era decision to prohibit gain of function research because it was so risky. Fauci wrote op-eds justifying gain of function research. He wrote a paper in 2012, which was actually quite candid about the risk of gain of function. He describes the lab leak that could occur and the type of virus that could escape from a lab because of gain of function. But then he says that it’s a risk worth taking.
So this is somebody who funded the Wuhan lab. He funded gain of function research. He was personally responsible for lifting the ban on gain of function research. He had a lot of reasons to want to hide the fact that COVID was engineered in a lab and was lab leaked.
And so, we know that even before this conspiracy to basically defraud the FOIA request that Fauci had done things like organize that letter to the Lancet, which smeared and demonized scientists who were trying to tell the truth, saying that the so-called zoological theory was nonsense. This had to be from a lab. He was doing things like this.
Now we have this added piece, which is this longtime colleague of Fauci and Collins at NIH, Dr. David Morens, developed a strategy for evading FOIA requests that would expose the truth. He did this by deleting government emails, which is a crime, by using private email to conduct government business, which is also a crime, and then strategically misspelling names and titles to frustrate the FOIA searches.
And, then the craziest part is that Morens foolishly detailed his schemes in emails that Fauci would have seen, that Fauci was on the distribution list of. So he has no plausible deniability.
Jason Calacanis: It’s literally like, here’s how we can avoid getting caught, in an email!
David Sacks: You have to see the FOIA piece within the overall picture here, which is, Fauci from the get-go was lying about the origins of COVID in order to cover up his role in funding this type of research.
Jason Calacanis: Yes.
David Sacks: And there was a comprehensive effort by people at NIH, likely at Fauci’s direction, to, again, not just cover this up, but to smear scientists who are telling us the truth.
Jason Calacanis: They were on the offensive in addition to trying to cover their essence.
David Sacks: Yeah, people like Jay Bhattacharya, who then got censored and banned on social media.
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U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a long-serving Democrat from Texas, has publicly announced her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, sparking concerns over her ability to perform in Congress.
At 74, Jackson Lee has represented Texas’ 18th congressional district for three decades. She previously ran for mayor of Houston but was crushed in the runoff election.
In a statement released to the public, Jackson Lee wrote:
“My adult life has been defined by my faith in God, my love for humanity and my commitment to public service. As a member of Congress, I’ve been honored to be one of the leaders in the fight for justice and equality for all; especially the disadvantaged and the dispossessed. Today, my fight is more personal, but I will approach it with the same faith and the same courage.
“My doctors have confirmed my diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. I am currently undergoing treatment to battle this disease that impacts tens of thousands of Americans every year.
“I am confident that my doctors have developed the best possible plan to target my specific disease. The road ahead will not be easy, but I stand in faith that God will strengthen me.
“To the constituents of the 18th Congressional District: Serving as your representative in Congress for 30 years is one of my greatest honors. Your hopes and aspirations inspire my efforts on behalf of our community every day. As I pursue my treatments, it is likely that I will be occasionally absent from Congress, but rest assured my office will continue to deliver the vital constituent services that you deserve and expect.
“I am committed to working with our Congressional Leadership including Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Speaker of House to serve this nation and be present for votes on legislation that is critical for the prosperity and security of the American people. By God’s grace, I will be back at full strength soon.
“Please keep me and my family in your prayers as you have always done. Know that you will remain in mine. As always, God bless you and God bless the United States of America.”
Several Democratic members of the House of Representatives have recently disclosed their cancer diagnoses. Representative Dan Kildee of Michigan has been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma last year.
“A few weeks ago, in a routine medical examination, they found a swollen lymph node which turned out to have cancer. Kildee said at the time. “Cancer to a primary source in one of my tonsils.”
“I’m going to have that removed. I’m going to have surgery in a couple of weeks. We’re very fortunate that we caught this early. The doctors say that my prognosis is excellent,” he continued.
Raul Grijalva from Arizona has also announced that he is undergoing treatment for cancer last month.
“A few weeks ago, I sought medical treatment for a persistent cough which was initially diagnosed as pneumonia. After further testing and imaging, my physician discovered that I have cancer,” Grijalva said.
“This diagnosis has been difficult to process, but I am confident in the vigorous course of treatment that my medical team has developed, and I’ve begun my journey to fight this cancer.”
Additionally, Jamie Raskin, a representative from Maryland, has revealed his diagnosis of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma.
“After several days of tests, I have been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, which is a serious but curable form of cancer,” Raskin said in a statement last 2022.
The statement continued, “I am about to embark on a course of chemo-immunotherapy on an outpatient basis at Med Star Georgetown University Hospital and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prognosis for most people in my situation is excellent after four months of treatment.”
Raskin said that he expects to continue his work during treatment, but will be making an effort to reduce “unnecessary exposure to avoid COVID-19, the flu and other viruses.”
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White House spokesman John Kirby was on “This Week” on ABC with host George Stephanopoulos to discuss Biden’s “strength” on the world stage.
“Former President Trump said this morning on Fox News that the world is out of control and laid the blame on President Biden because he said world leaders don’t respect President Biden. Your response?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“Well I don’t get into election campaign rhetoric. I can’t do that,” Kirby said.
“They appreciate the way the President has revitalized our alliances and partnerships and our networks around the world and how we have stood up to aggression,” Kirby said of world leaders regarding Biden.
Watch:
White House spokesperson John Kirby says world leaders ⁰“appreciate the way the president has revitalized our alliances and partnerships and our networks around the world and how we have stood up to aggression.” https://t.co/KbdvCR1WRg pic.twitter.com/Blokk73lCv
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 2, 2024
Looking at Joe Biden’s record at home and abroad clearly shows that the world does not respect him. Instead, they see Biden as weak and incompetent.
Joe Biden has a difficult time even putting sentences together. Last month he gave a speech in New Hampshire regarding healthcare for veterans under the PACT act. He was left tongue tied.
“After I signed the Pack-Anderl-An-Pack-At-Lack-Ack into law,” Biden said.
Watch:
The guy can’t string a sentence together—he can’t be President of the United States.pic.twitter.com/Te2uF20cTt
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 21, 2024
In addition to his inability to form coherent sentences, last month Biden struggled to welcome the Kenyan leader as he struggled to walk and follow simple directions.
Watch:
Crooked Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/e3KvSBWuTh
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 23, 2024
It is hard to believe any world leader takes Biden seriously.
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In a landmark decision, Kansas has reaffirmed its commitment to securing the integrity of its elections. The recent ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court upholds critical measures that safeguard the voting process, ensuring that each citizen’s vote counts and is protected from potential fraud and manipulation.
The case revolved around three contentious Kansas election laws designed to bolster the transparency and security of the voting process.
The first law prohibits the false representation of an election official, a common tactic used to mislead voters and disrupt the electoral process. The second requires a stringent verification of signatures on advance ballots, ensuring that votes cast correspond to registered voters. The third and perhaps most contentious, limits the number of advance ballots a single individual can deliver, combating potential ballot harvesting schemes that could manipulate election outcomes.
In 2021, several voting rights groups and private citizens initiated a lawsuit against these laws, claiming that the legislative changes violated multiple provisions of the state’s constitution.
The Daily Item reported:
The majority opinion reversed a 2023 appeals court decision that recognized any restrictions on the fundamental right to vote would be subject to the highest legal bar for evaluation, or strict scrutiny.
Justice Caleb Stegall wrote for the majority, saying voting is instead a “political right” under the Kansas Constitution that has a lower bar for regulation than fundamental rights.
“But just because the right to vote is not protected in our Bill of Rights does not mean that constitutional voting guarantees are somehow weak or ineffective,” Stegall wrote. “Quite the contrary.”
Stegall wrote that for a voting law or regulation to be found unconstitutional, it must pass the “Butts test,” which means “the law must be shown to unreasonably burden the right to suffrage.” If voting were found to be a fundamental right, the burden would be on the government to show new voting laws or regulations are narrowly tailored and necessary to achieve a compelling state interest.
Critics of these election integrity laws claim that such measures disenfranchise voters, particularly those in minority communities or those with limited access to voting facilities. They contend that these laws are overly restrictive and serve as barriers to a fundamental democratic right.
However, the Kansas Supreme Court, in a detailed opinion, dismissed these claims. The court highlighted that the measures in question do not impose new qualifications on voters but are simply safeguards to verify that those participating in the election are eligible and legitimate voters. The court emphasized that maintaining accurate and reliable voter rolls is a critical aspect of electoral governance, which these laws robustly support.
WIBW reported:
Justices Biles, Eric Rosen, and Melissa Taylor Standridge concurred in part and dissented in part.
“The court unanimously held that plaintiffs met their burden to demonstrate a substantial likelihood of prevailing on the merits of their claim that the false representation statute is constitutionally infirm,” Biles’ statement read. “A majority of the court reversed and remanded this claim to the district court to consider the remaining temporary injunction factors.
“A majority of the court also held that the signature verification requirement is a valid effort by the Legislature to provide ‘proper proofs’ of the right to be a qualified elector.
“But the court remanded to the district court to consider whether the statute and its implementing regulations comply with the constitutional guarantees of equal protection and due process.
“Lastly, a majority of the court affirmed the district court’s grant of defendants’ motion to dismiss on the claim that the ballot collection restriction is constitutionally infirm, because the restriction is not a new qualification on the right to be an elector, and because the proscribed activity — ballot delivery — is not political speech or expressive conduct.”
Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, who is also a defendant, released a statement praising the recent judicial decision.
“The Justices got it right. This ruling allows us to preserve reasonable election security laws in Kansas. Signature verification has been the law for over a decade. This vital security measure is essential to our election system and the integrity of every vote,” Schwab said.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, another defendant, also issued a statement.
“The Kansas Supreme Court’s well-reasoned opinion confirmed that the legislature has the constitutional authority to establish proofs ensuring that voters are who they say they are. And that is exactly what Kansas’s signature verification requirement is. This important protection of election security remains in place. The Court was also correct in rejecting the argument that limiting the number of ballots a person can deliver somehow restricts free speech. Kansas’s law limiting the number of ballots a person delivers to ten is an important way of limiting ballot harvesting.”
You can read the opinion here.
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Newt Gingrich & Jim Frogue
Real Clear Wire
President Joe Biden’s full-frontal assault on Medicare is becoming visible to America’s seniors. It will result in fewer patient choices, reduced benefits, and ultimately worse health outcomes. Biden’s efforts, assisted by Congressional Democrats, are destroying Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage.
Medicare Advantage was originally created as Medicare Part C in 1997 when I was Speaker of the House. It was introduced to create more comprehensive health plan options for seniors that included, for the first time, prescription drug coverage. The idea was to leverage consumer choice and market competition by insurers. Seniors can change plans annually for any reason.
More than 30 million seniors are in Medicare Advantage, which is more than half of all Medicare-eligible seniors. Enrollment has been on a “steady climb for the for past two decades,” according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. All MA enrollees have voluntarily chosen to join because it is better for their health.
A 2021 poll by Better Medicare Alliance showed seniors in MA have a 98 percent satisfaction rate. Ninety-five percent said it is important to have options beyond traditional Medicare. Ninety-three percent said a candidate’s position on MA would affect their vote. A bipartisan poll by the Healthcare Leadership Council in November, 2023 found more than 9-in-10 said they were pleased with their MA coverage.
Last week, CVS Aetna Chief Financial Officer Tom Cowhey told investors that the company may shed up to 10 percent of their four million MA enrollees next year. Humana CFO Susan Diamond suggested 5 percent of their enrollees may be dropped. This translates into as many as 1.5 million seniors losing their coverage of choice. And this figure is dwarfed by the millions of MA beneficiaries who will see reduced coverage around prescription drugs, vision, dental, transportation, gym memberships, and many other popular benefits that are only offered in Medicare Advantage.
A new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation noted that most states offer Medicare Advantage plans to their state retirees. Twelve states, including key swing states Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Georgia, offer only Medicare Advantage plans. Senior voters in Philadelphia’s Main Line are unlikely to appreciate attacks on Medicare Advantage.
Biden’s war on Medicare doesn’t end with just Medicare Advantage. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act – passed in 2022 with exclusively Democratic votes and was signed into law by President Biden – is wrecking the popular Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage.
Medicare Part D was created by Congressional Republicans in 2003 and was signed into law by President George W. Bush. For nearly two decades, Part D prescription drug-only plans were stable, affordable, competitive, and did something truly amazing for a health care program – stayed within original budget projections. To the surprise of even the bill’s authors, more than 1,000 plans signed up to participate within a year.
The Democrats promised that their Inflation Reduction Act would increase drug coverage for seniors and limit their out-of-pocket costs to $2,000 per year in 2025. It also allows seniors to pay their drug costs in installments. Sounds great. But seniors will be shocked on Oct. 1 when their Part D premiums skyrocket. Premiums were up 21percent last year and are likely to jump 50 percent this year. Awkward timing for Biden and fellow Democrats who are hoping to campaign on “lowering prescription drug costs.”
The Inflation Reduction Act is negatively impacting patient cost-sharing for prescription drugs in Medicare Part B as well. According to a new analysis in the trade publication Drug Channels, the inflation adjuster for most drugs is increasing instead of decreasing. Even instances where a drug price may be declining, it could still trigger big jumps in patient out-of-pocket costs.
IRA proponents boasted of their Medicare reforms saving $266 billion from 2023 to 2031. Even if that projection ends up holding true (and it doesn’t look likely), that amount is only a partial down payment on $670 billion for the IRA’s various green energy tax credits and new environmental spending.
How well is the Biden administration’s green energy spending going? The $7.5 billion in federal spending has resulted in only eight new charging stations for electric vehicles. And this at the same time consumer interest in electric cars is plummeting.
It is well known that the political left in America wants to move us toward government-run single payer health care. Imagine just one insurer and if you don’t like it you can’t leave. So, it is no surprise that Democrats would want to destroy the private sector’s involvement in Medicare, no matter how popular with seniors. But it is somewhat surprising that Democrats would be so politically obtuse to have smoking wreckage appear just before the presidential election. It remains to be seen if Republicans will capitalize.
Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999 and a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He is chairman of Gingrich 360. James Frogue was a senior health policy advisor to Trump for President in 2016. He is cofounder of FrogueClark .
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Democrat Minority Leader Rep Hakeem Jeffries was on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with cohost Peter Alexander on Sunday to discuss a few topics, including President Trump and Hunter Biden.
“This crime was more than 8 years old. There are questions about the validity of the legal theory, untested, legal theory that was used to prosecute it. Would this case have been brought against anyone other than former President Trump?” Peter Alexander asked.
“Yes, of course. This verdict in the case of People v. Trump was a validation of the American judicial system,” Jeffries responded.
Watch:
NBC: “There are questions about the validity of the untested legal theory that was used to prosecute it. Would this case have been brought against anyone other than former President Trump?”
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: “Yes of course.” pic.twitter.com/JATNkBspbP
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 2, 2024
He hypocritically defended the bogus charges against Trump while defending crooked Joe Biden’s public comments regarding Hunter’s upcoming trial as those of “a loving father.”
“Why was it appropriate for President Biden to publicly comment on his son’s case?” Peter Alexander asked.
“President Biden commented as a loving father as I would hope any loving father would do,” Jeffries replied.
Watch:
Hakeem Jeffries claims it’s completely appropriate for Crooked Joe Biden to weigh in publicly on Hunter’s criminal trial — which begins tomorrow — because he’s commenting “as a loving father” pic.twitter.com/zS1OgR9ehs
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 2, 2024
President Trump was convicted on 34 counts on May 30th in a sham trial which was ran by the corrupt judge Juan Merchan.
Trump will win this on appeal.
This trial has been a complete and total mockery of the rule of law; due process; the constitution; and the criminal justice system.
Absolutely disgraceful!
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Democrat Rep Jeffries has also shown his lack of respect for the Judicial Branch of the Federal government. In late May, Jeffries threatened “Maga Extremists” on the Supreme Court and warned Congress to get them “under control.”
For someone who graduated law school and worked as a lawyer, Congressman Jeffries does not seem to understand the separation of powers in the Federal Government.
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Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Had been demanding details about ‘internal communications and records’
The top law enforcement agent in Washington state, the attorney general, has called a halt to his own extremist campaign against two faith-based, pro-life nonprofits after being told his “investigation” was illegal.
Officials with ADF explain that AG Bob Ferguson had been demanding privileged records and international documents from Obria Group and Obria Medical Clinics.
He had singled them out for targeting because he disagreed with their “life-affirming views,” the organization explained.
“No one should be investigated by the government simply because they hold views the government doesn’t like. We’re pleased Washington’s attorney general has ceased his unlawful investigation into our clients, and that Obria Group and Obria Medical Clinics PNW will be free to continue their life-saving work in the community,” explained Lincoln Wilson, a lawyer with ADF.
“We look forward to a ruling from the court confirming that the attorney general unlawfully targeted and harassed these clinics because of their pro-life stance. The Constitution protects Obria medical clinics, and all other pro-life organizations, to freely speak their beliefs, exercise their faith, and continue compassionately serving women and couples facing difficult pregnancy circumstances,” he said.
ADF had brought a lawsuit against Ferguson, prompting him to shut down his review.
Ferguson previously had claimed that he wasn’t harming the clinics.
However, the ADF report revealed, “one of the clinics showed that Ferguson’s investigation caused it to lose insurance coverage and to pay seven times more for replacement coverage.”
That prompted Ferguson to formally close his investigation.
His demands had included that the organizations provide documentation, “for a time period exceeding 13 years,” as well as answers to various questions for Ferguson’s investigation into “possible” consumer protection violations.
The broadside against the organizations was just part of what appears to be a nationwide move to bludgeon pro-life centers.
Attorneys general from New Jersey and California also have created controversy because of their lawsuits against pro-lifers.
They claim that the centers are “misleading” women about abortion.
Earlier, the ADF’s Gabriella McIntyre told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We’re seeing this as part of a larger trend of hostility towards pro-life organizations and particularly towards pro-life pregnancy centers across the nation.
“These attorneys general are targeting and harassing pregnancy centers, because of their religious and pro-life views. They are using their consumer protection authority to accomplish their purpose, which is clearly to divert and impede the mission of these organizations to serve women and families, and instead shift their focus to complying with these unfounded and unjustified demands.”
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The 93-year-old Media titan Rupert Murdoch has tied the knot for the fifth time.
Murdoch married 67-year-old Elena Zhukova after dating for just several months. His last marriage ended in 2022 when he divorced his fourth wife, 67-year-old actress and model Jerry Hall.
The Sun, which is owned by Murdoch’s News Corp, has all the details:
NEWS legend Rupert Murdoch was all smiles yesterday as he married his beautiful bride. Mr Murdoch, 93, tied the knot with retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, 67, after dating for several months.
The new Mrs Murdoch looked stunning in an elegant white dress clutching a small posy of Lily of the Valley flowers. Mr Murdoch wore a dark suit, white shirt and patterned yellow tie.
The happy couple beamed for the wedding photographer as they celebrated their big day with delighted relatives at a ceremony blessed with blue skies and warm sunshine at his vineyard in California.
Murdoch, who has six children from three different women and has an estimated net worth of around $20 billion, now serves as chairman emeritus of News Corporation, which hosts a range of media companies, including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal.
Rupert Murdoch, 93, marries fifth wife biologist Elena Zhukova, 67, at news tycoon’s Los Angeles vineyard wedding https://t.co/09m3X3zEy5 pic.twitter.com/ItAR6AM4dY
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) June 2, 2024
He stood down as chairman of the organization last November, handing over control of the conglomerate to his son Lachlan.
Rupert Murdoch, an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor marries for the fifth.
Murdoch marries 63 years old Elena Zhukova at the age 93.
Photo Credit REDIT: News Corp. pic.twitter.com/jL0s7hqbUe
— AremoOdua (@Aremottunde) June 2, 2024
While Murdoch may divide opinion across the political spectrum, he has at least one ringing endorsement to his name. Back in 2021, Joe Biden described him as the “most dangerous man in the world,” meaning perhaps he isn’t so bad after all.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has admitted that some of the most stringent COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing and child masking, were not rooted in concrete scientific evidence.
This admission came during a comprehensive interview with the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic earlier this year, details of which were released ahead of Dr. Fauci’s scheduled testimony on Monday.
Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/1yWDzc6r3X
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) June 2, 2024
According to a transcript released by Republicans, during the January interviews, Dr. Fauci disclosed that the widely enforced “6 feet apart” social distancing guideline “sort of just appeared” and was not based on any data.
This guideline had significant repercussions, leading to the closure of schools and small businesses nationwide. Ironically, however, Fauci permitted the George Floyd protests and riots to wreak havoc across the country.
Below is Dr. Fauci’s transcribed interview via the COVID Select Subcommittee:
SOCIAL DISTANCING: The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation forced on Americans by federal health officials was arbitrary and not based on science.
Majority Counsel: “Do you recall when discussions regarding, kind of, the at least a 6 foot threshold began?”
Dr. Fauci: “The 6 foot in the school?”
Majority Counsel: “Six foot overall. I mean, 6-foot was applied at businesses—”
Dr. Fauci: “Yeah.”
Majority Counsel: “—it was applied in schools, it was applied here. At least how the messaging was applied was that 6-foot distancing was the distance that needed to be—“
Dr. Fauci: “You know, I don’t recall. It sort of just appeared. I don’t recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be 5 or 6 or whatever. It was just that 6 foot is—”
Majority Counsel: “Did you see any studies that supported 6 feet?”
Dr. Fauci: “I was not aware of studies that in fact, that would be a very difficult study to do.”
Francis Collins, the former director of the National Insitute of Health, admitted in a closed-door interview earlier this year that he did not see any scientific evidence that social distancing was a proven method of containing the virus.
The controversy extends beyond social distancing. During the pandemic, Americans were subjected to strict mask mandates, with penalties imposed on those who did not comply. These mandates covered everyone – from adults entering businesses to children in schools. Now, it appears these directives were also issued without a solid foundation in science.
When questioned about the evidence supporting the masking of children, Dr. Fauci’s memory was unclear.
Below is Dr. Fauci’s transcribed interview via the COVID Select Subcommittee:
MASKING: Dr. Fauci testified that he did not recall any supporting evidence for masking children. Concerningly, mask-wearing has been associated with learning loss and severe speech development issues in America’s children.
Majority Counsel: “Do you recall reviewing any studies or data supporting masking for children?”
Dr. Fauci: “You know, I might have, Mitch, but I don’t recall specifically that I did. I might have.”
Majority Counsel: “Since the — there’s been a lot of studies that have come out since the pandemic started, but specifically on this there have been significant on kind of like the learning loss and speech and development issues that have been associated with particularly young children wearing masks while they’re growing up. They can’t see their teacher talk and can’t learn how to form words. Have you followed any of those studies?”
Dr. Fauci: “No. But I believe that there are a lot of conflicting studies too, that there are those that say, yes, there is an impact, and there are those that say there’s not. I still think that’s up in the air.”
You can read the key takeaways in the new memo here.
So there you have it. Time and time again, those of us, including The Gateway Pundit, who questioned every aspect of the COVID pandemic, from the lockdown regimes and mask mandates all the way through to vaccines and potential treatments, have been proven correct.
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined Maria Bartiromo to discuss Fauci’s upcoming hearing on Monday.
Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finally admitted to funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the site of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This admission directly contradicts previous statements made under oath by Dr. Anthony Fauci,
“Fauci lied. He committed a felony. It’s clear there was a massive cover-up from the beginning,” Sen. Paul wrote.
I joined @MariaBartiromo on @SundayFutures to discuss Fauci’s upcoming hearing. Fauci lied. He committed a felony. It’s clear there was a massive cover-up from the beginning. pic.twitter.com/KTcWDesqF8
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June 2, 2024
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Republican Senator Rand Paul was on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday to discuss the Trump verdict and what it means for America.
“What is your reaction to the conviction?” Maria Bartiromo asked.
“You know, a sad day in America. And what I worry about is something even bigger than Donald Trump. I worry about strife. I worry about war in the streets. I worry about 50 percent of the public believing that the court system will be used against them,” Senator Rand Paul said.
“I worry when half the country thinks they won’t be treated fairly, what happens and how people react,” Senator Paul continued.
Senator Paul also pointed out the inconsistencies of how Hillary Clinton was treated in the past as compared to President Trump.
“If you look at records violations and you look at Hillary Clinton, $8 million expense, and they slapped her on the wrist cause she got an $8 thousand fine,” Senator Paul continued.
“I think Donald Trump is the only person ever prosecuted for this particular crime,” Senator Paul said.
Watch:
Today, exclusively on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, Senator @RandPaul spoke about the verdict delivered in former President Trump’s trial in New York.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/V3dj73oqhj
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) June 2, 2024
President Trump was found “guilty” on May 30th in only what can be described as a sham trial in a kangaroo court, with one of the most corrupt judges in the entire country presiding over it, Juan Merchan.
Trump will win this on appeal.
This trial has been a complete and total mockery of the rule of law; due process; the constitution; and the criminal justice system.
Absolutely disgraceful!
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
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In May of 2023, Judicial Watch and CatholicVote filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) regarding records of drag shows, drag story hours, and other pride events for military personnel and their dependent minors organized and paid for by the U.S. Air Force.
According to Judicial Watch, the DOD issued multiple “no records” responses to the FOIA before finally providing 25 pages of records.
Judicial Watch and Catholic Vote requested:
All emails and text messages sent to and from the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin, III, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks and the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding drag shows and drag story hours on U.S. military installations…
All Department of Defense documentation, including but not limited to PowerPoints, flyers, handouts, that were or are being used to promote any drag shows and drag story hours on U.S. military installations…
The documents include a June 10, 2021, social media post by the Ramstein & Vogelweh Air Force Libraries advertising a Drag Queen Story Time, a seven-week “Drag Queen Storytime” summer reading program, Drag Queen Karaoke events, various other Pride events promoted by the U.S. Air Force.
The Air Force also paid for bingo and party events attended by drag queen “Miss Lexi Andrews,” according to a $400 invoice that was included in the documents obtained in the FOIA.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton stated, “How on Earth is it appropriate to spend our limited defense dollars on promoting these sexually themed events for children and adults rather than on advancing the military’s mission. As we see in these troubling Air Force records, our nation’s military is being ruined by woke ideology.”
“The Department of Defense has once again proven that radical leftist ideology is more important than military preparedness and protecting Americans from tangible threats at home and abroad,” said Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., CatholicVote Senior Advisor. “After an entire year of stonewalling, the DOD finally returned materials from just one command in one branch, which confirmed what we feared – that taxpayer funds were being used to promote drag shows and radical gender ideology on military bases, with full approval from Air Force leadership.”
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This is Joe Biden’s America.
In fiscal year 2021, there were about 1,400 Turkish illegal aliens that were apprehended at the southern border. The next two fiscal years, 2022 and 2023, showed a dramatic increase to about 15,000 for each of those years.
Last year, the majority of them entered through the San Diego Sector, which is now the busiest entry for illegals. We can thank California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom for that.
The New York Post had obtained social media posts from the site Telegram that explain that the California border is wide open compared to Texas which has taken action to secure its own section of the southern border.
Another message showed concern that, come November, the border could be shut down following the Presidential election. The reality is that smugglers and illegals know that if Trump wins, their operations will be severely limited.
NEW: As Turkish nationals flood across the San Diego sector border illegally, @nypost has obtained Telegram messages w/ their smugglers, who say unlike TX, there is no resistance at the CA border, and they express concern about the November election.
“There is no problem at the…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 2, 2024
The number of Turkish migrants crossing the southern border illegally has skyrocketed under the Biden administration, invited by smugglers who sell and organize crossings on social media boasting about how easy it is, The Post can reveal.
There were roughly 1,400 Turkish migrants encountered by border agents along the US-Mexico border in fiscal year 2021, which exploded to more than 15,000 each in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, according to federal data.
Most of the Turkish border crossers who came last year crossed into the San Diego border region — which earlier this year became the busiest entry point in the nation for migrants entering the US illegally.
THREAD: Turkish migrants are flocking to San Diego’s border w/ the help of smugglers on social media
Translated Turkish language Telegram channels I’ve reviewed provide detailed accounts of the help they receive to make their journeys to the US.https://t.co/0WduUzbLpK
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) June 2, 2024
Not only has the Biden regime failed to secure the border, they have also contradicted themselves. In March, crooked Joe Biden said he did not have the authority to take executive action.
“We need more forces on the border! I don’t have the authority to do that!” Biden shouted.
WATCH:
“Why are you waiting to take executive action on the border?”
BIDEN: “We need more forces on the border! I don’t have the authority to do that!”
Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to dismantle border security — and could reverse them at any time. He refuses. pic.twitter.com/1tKIgu79QR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 2, 2024
Yet last week, the Biden regime announced that they were going to take executive action at the border. They even began reaching out to border town mayors as part of their “action.”
It’s too little, too late.
Approximately 10 to 12 million illegals have entered the US under the Biden regime.
That number equals about the population of 41 individual states.
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An interesting and arguably amusing scene unfolded Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia during their annual Gay Pride Parade.
As CBS Philadelphia notes, the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival is one of the largest and most storied pride festivals in America. Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the city’s first Gay Pride Parade.
The march began near Washington Square Park in Center City and is scheduled to end in Philly’s Midtown Village neighborhood, aka the Gayborhood.
But pro-Hamas agitators decided to temporarily depart from bullying Jewish people and harass liberal gay marchers instead. Thus, an unusual scene of left-on-left fighting was witnessed in the public square.
In the video, you can see the marchers stunned and angry when they realize they cannot get past the wall of pro-Hamas clowns. One person with long hair starts arguing angrily with what appears to be one of the anti-Israel protesters before leaving in a huff.
The footage then shifts to the shabbily dressed pro-Hamas agitators, some who are wearing keffiyehs. One individual holds a microphone while shouting pro-Hamas chants, which some agitators repeat.
“Palestine will live forever!” he yells. “From the sea to the river!”
He and the crowd then chant “Free Palestine!” multiple times before breaking out into applause.
WATCH:
BREAKING: Free Palestine protesters block Philly Pride Parade pic.twitter.com/bjDsAWQYW8
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) June 2, 2024
In the video, a handful of agitators are seen holding up a Progress Pride flag with the words “No Pride in Genocide.” A drum also bangs in the background.
One can assume the protesters are utterly clueless over how fundamentalist Muslim countries treat gay individuals.
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Sad footage has emerged showing how people without homes live in Kamala Harris’s hometown thanks in part to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s catastrophic policies.
As the Daily Mail reported Sunday, Michael Oxford, the host of CaliBased, posted a sobering video on Friday showing massive wooden temporary houses built by homeless individuals in Oakland.
The homes are built alongside service roads that open up into main roads in Hooverville, Oakland, forming a massive “shantytown.” Huge amounts of garbage can be seen around the homes in Oxford’s video.
Oxford opens the video by welcoming viewers to “Oakland’s Hooverville.” He notes how his mind is blown by the “shantytown” he sees.
“They (homeless people) built houses…Look at all of this, this is absolutely mindboggling,” Oxford says. “It’s insane they (city officials) allow this.”
“It’s Hooverville.”
WATCH:
Parts of Oakland are worse than a third world country.
They just allow people to live in absolute squalor, wherever they choose.
This looks like Hooverville during the great depression.
Welcome to Oakland’s very own Gavinville. pic.twitter.com/L58uK2E6Sh
— Michael Oxford – AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat (@SCMountainGoat) June 1, 2024
Oxford captioned his video by writing that parts of Oakland “are worse than a third-world country” and deeming the area Gavinville.
“Parts of Oakland are worse than a third-world country,” Oxford wrote. “They just allow people to live in absolute squalor wherever they choose.”
“This looks like Hooverville during the Great Depression,” he concluded. “Welcome to Oakland’s very own Gavinville.”
The Gateway Pundit has reported several negative incidents involving Oakland. Just two weeks ago, for example, Oakland city officials decided to take down a traffic light at a busy intersection after homeless people repeatedly stole copper wire from an electrical box that supplied power to the lights.
There has also been a massive surge of beatdowns caught on camera and even boat thefts.
But perhaps the most perfect example of Oakland’s lawlessness was when famous conservative activist Benny Johnson got robbed in broad daylight at an In-N-Out while shooting a video on the restaurant’s closure. This would have been a Babylon Bee headline just a few years ago.
Democrats, however, have managed to make satire a chilling reality.
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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, President Trump attended UFC 302 and was greeted with thunderous applause as he walked into the arena next to President of the UFC Dana White.
Trump was not only applauded by the fans but also received respect from several of the UFC stars on the fight card.
After winning his fight against Paulo Costa via decision, former UFC champion Sean Strickland said he plans to donate to Trump in his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan.
Strickland stated, “President Trump, you’re the man. It is a d*mn travesty what they are doing to you.”
“I’ll be donating to you, my man,” added Strickland.
WATCH:
BREAKING: Former UFC champion Sean Strickland shouts out Trump in his post-fight victory speech.
“President Trump, you’re the man… It is a d*mn travesty what they are doing to you. I’ll be donating to you, my man.” pic.twitter.com/M8YQ3jpyTX
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) June 2, 2024
Strickland also took a selfie with Trump following the fight.
LOOK:
The Sean Strickland Trump selfie goes CRAZY pic.twitter.com/muYvJ2cFFE
— Spinnin Backfist (@SpinninBackfist) June 2, 2024
Strickland wasn’t the only fighter to talk to Trump after the fight, Kevin Holland after defeating Michal Oleksiejczuk, jumped over the cage to shake hands with Trump.
WATCH:
UFC fighter Kevin Holland instantly runs to Trump after being declared the winner pic.twitter.com/AgtSTUSdfm
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 2, 2024
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Attorney General Merrick Garland has reportedly “classified at the highest level” the audio tapes of Joe Biden’s embarrassing interview with Special Counsel Hur. The tapes have been locked away in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), according to investigative journalist Paul Sperry.
Earlier this year, Washington Post reporter Matt Viser revealed that Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded that Joe Biden recklessly mishandled sensitive materials discovered at his home and former office.
Disturbingly, the investigation also uncovered that Biden shared government secrets with his ghostwriter, further underscoring his blatant disregard for national security.
Adding to this damning report, it was revealed that during interviews with the Special Counsel, Biden struggled to answer even basic questions, such as when he served as Vice President or the year his son Beau passed away from brain cancer.
However, the DOJ opted not to bring charges against Biden, citing concerns that a jury would deem him too mentally incompetent to stand trial.
The damning report reads, in part:
In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.
And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to Barack Obama.
We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
The White House confronted a critical decision about releasing the interview transcript. Biden’s legal team contended that Hur’s references to Biden’s memory issues during the interview were misleading and unfairly prejudicial.
Joe Biden attacked Robert Hur during an impromptu presser after the report was released.
“There is even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that?” Biden previously told reporters in an impromptu White House press conference. “Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
In March, Republicans planned to hold U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for the Justice Department’s refusal to release the audio recordings of Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
“The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees issued lawful subpoenas to Attorney General Garland for the audio recordings of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Hur, yet he continues to defy our subpoenas,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer said in a statement. “These audio recordings are important to our investigation of President Biden’s willful retention of classified documents and his fitness to be President of the United States.”
But White House counsel Ed Siskel lashed out at the House GOP in an angry letter, accusing them of only wanting the recordings “to chop them up” and use them for political reasons.
“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,” Ed Siskel wrote.
He added, “Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate.”
The Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday that a new revelation revealed that the White House admitted to altering the transcript of Joe Biden’s testimony to the Special Counsel to make him appear less incompetent.
This not-so-shocking admission comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the Heritage Foundation and Judicial Watch against the US Department of Justice, demanding the release of the original recording of Biden’s testimony.
Biden has personally invoked Executive Privilege against The Heritage Foundation and Judicial Watch in an attempt to keep his controversial interview with Special Counsel Hur under wraps.
“Biden Justice Dept cleaned up transcript of Biden’s interview w/ Special Counsel Hur to remove his stuttering, pauses & other indications he lost his train of thought. Judicial Watch chief Tom Fitton: “The transcript is not accurate & was changed in a way to help Biden,” Paul Sperry wrote.
BREAKING: Biden Justice Dept cleaned up transcript of Biden’s interview w/ Special Counsel Hur to remove his stuttering, pauses & other indications he lost his train of thought. Judicial Watch chief Tom Fitton: “The transcript is not accurate & was changed in a way to help Biden”
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) June 2, 2024
“The WH doctored the Biden transcript with Special Counsel Hur about his classified docs!!! They just convicted Trump for fake crimes. Does everyone see what is happening??!!! We control the HOUSE. We have to act. No more pathetic excuses,” Rep. Marjorie Greene wrote on X.
The WH doctored the Biden transcript with Special Counsel Hur about his classified docs!!!
They just convicted Trump for fake crimes.
Does everyone see what is happening??!!!
We control the HOUSE.
We have to act.
No more pathetic excuses. https://t.co/SR2yUmbIMY
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) June 1, 2024
Now, Attorney General Merrick Garland has reportedly classified audio recordings of Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Hur as top secret. The tapes, which allegedly capture a series of embarrassingly incoherent remarks by Joe Biden during a two-day interrogation, have been secured in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), typically reserved for the nation’s most closely guarded secrets, according to conservative investigative journalist Paul Sperry.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland has classified at the highest level the audio tapes of Biden’s embarrassingly incoherent interview with Special Counsel Hur over two days, and has locked the tapes away in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF,” Sperry wrote.
BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland has classified at the highest level the audio tapes of Biden’s embarrassingly incoherent interview with Special Counsel Hur over two days, and has locked the tapes away in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) June 2, 2024
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South African officials have threatened the US and other Western nations with prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for supporting Israel against the designated terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah. South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Naledi Pandor, made this declaration during a talk about the situation in Rafah, standing in front of a Palestinian flag. It is unusual for a government official to stand in front of the flag of another entity, which is not a recognized country while giving an address. This act alone dispels any pretense of neutrality.
The ICC threat from South Africa is nearly laughable, given that the ICC already has an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. However, South Africa not only continues to maintain close ties with Russia as a BRICS partner but has also sidestepped international sanctions by holding joint military exercises with the heavily sanctioned Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Signatories to the Rome Statute obligate themselves to enforce ICC arrest warrants. Evidence of South Africa’s lack of commitment to the ICC is that in 2017, South Africa was censured by the ICC for failing to enforce an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on multiple counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Recently, Pretoria asked the ICC to exempt it from arresting Putin to avoid a war. The country even tried to withdraw from the ICC last spring but is suddenly all-in on deploying the ICC against the United States.
The US is not a signatory to the ICC, and the warrant would hold no validity in the US. Additionally, the American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA) protects US and allied military personnel from the ICC’s jurisdiction. Since Israel is an ally, this protection can extend to diplomatic efforts on its behalf. Furthermore, any country that enforced such a warrant against the US would be guilty of illegal detention and could face severe diplomatic repercussions or potentially trigger a rescue operation, leading to significant casualties in the country detaining high-ranking US officials.
The ICC admitted “the state of Palestine” as a special signatory, which seems impossible because the State of Palestine does not exist. This makes the ICC one of the few international organizations that allows theoretical entities to join. This symbolic move is crucial because, for the ICC to have jurisdiction, either the country accused of a violation or the country where the violation took place must be signatories. Since Israel is not a signatory, the only way the ICC can claim jurisdiction is through the inclusion of the theoretical Palestinian State.
The Palestinian State’s membership status in the ICC is questionable at best and is referred to as a “non-state party observer,” which seems like a contradiction of terms. In January 2015, Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute and became a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This status allows Palestine to participate in ICC proceedings and have a say in the court’s operations, despite the contentious nature of its statehood. The ICC’s inclusion of Palestine is one of the many reasons why the US does not support the ICC.
Section 410 of the US Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995, “Prohibits U.S. contributions to any affiliated organization of the United Nations or to the United Nations if they grant full membership as a state to a group that does not have internationally recognized attributes of statehood.” This act should be extended to non-UN organizations. Although the ICC did not officially recognize the Palestinian State, the fact that they admitted this entity suggests recognition. As such, Washington should ensure that the ICC receives no funding.
Washington’s rejection of the ICC is so complete that, under Donald Trump, the United States sanctioned the ICC, designating two of its prosecutors. President Biden later revoked these sanctions, but has not signed the Rome Statute, and the US remains outside of the ICC’s jurisdiction.
South Africa’s calls for warrants against the US are completely meaningless, serving only as a symbolic gesture that signals South Africa’s alignment with the China-Russia-Iran camp. To issue such warrants, the UN Security Council would have to agree, which is highly unlikely. Putin and Xi supporting that investigation would be one of the most comedic foreign policy decisions in history, rivaled only by the UN’s decision to put Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Libya on the Human Rights Council.
Washington’s response to South Africa’s call for ICC warrants should be to impose sanctions on South Africa for holding joint military exercises with Russia. The US should also launch an investigation to determine if any financial transactions between South Africa and Russia qualify for secondary sanctions. Additionally, the US should cut the $6 billion in aid it gives to South Africa and divert the money to Israel or use it to secure the southern border.
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The Maldives government has decided to stand with murdering Hamas terrorists and announced the country will ban Israelis from the country.
The Maldives government will ban Israelis from the Indian Ocean archipelago, known for luxury resorts, as public anger in the predominantly Muslim nation rises over the war in Gaza.
The president’s office said Sunday that the Cabinet decided to change laws to prevent Israeli passport holders from entering the country and to establish a subcommittee to oversee the process.
It said President Mohamed Muizu will appoint a special envoy to assess the Palestinian needs and to launch a fundraising campaign.
“President Dr Mohamed Muizzu, following a recommendation from the Cabinet, has resolved to impose a ban on Israeli passports. The Minister of Homeland Security and Technology, Ali Ihsaan, announced the decision at a news conference held at the President’s Office this afternoon,” a statement by the Maldives President’s office read.
Many Jewish friends in the US enjoy vacations in the Maldives. I will contact tour operators and Jewish social media pages to let them know that the Maldives has just banned Israelis, and to cancel plans to visit. @presidencymv @MMuizzu https://t.co/DOCEST9uz6
— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) June 2, 2024
If the Maldives aren’t safe for Israelis then they aren’t safe for any of us.
The Congress of Christian Leaders is issuing a global travel warning: no Christian should feel safe in a country where Islamic extremists determine national policy. https://t.co/p5gfwRjSMY
— Rev. Johnnie Moore ن (@JohnnieM) June 2, 2024
The government of the Maldives decided to ban Israelis from entering the island because of the war in Gaza.
Do you understand they didn’t ban entry for Palestinians after the October 7th massacre? To them if you raped, kidnapped, and massacred Israelis you are welcome to vacation… pic.twitter.com/EYFxmZrMmM— יוסף חדאד – Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) June 2, 2024
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Please Note: The Gateway Pundit is one of five plaintiffs along with the states of Missouri and Louisiana in the Murthy vs. Missouri case noted below.
We expect the Supreme Court to decide on the case later this month.
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigations
May 31, 2024
This summer the Supreme Court will rule on a case involving what a district court called perhaps “the most massive attack against free speech” ever inflicted on the American people. In Murthy v. Missouri, plaintiffs ranging from the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana to epidemiologists from Harvard and Stanford allege that the federal government violated the First Amendment by working with outside groups and social media platforms to surveil, flag, and quash dissenting speech – characterizing it as mis-, dis- and mal-information – on issues ranging from COVID-19 to election integrity.
The case has helped shine a light on a sprawling network of government agencies and connected NGOs that critics describe as a censorship industrial complex. That the U.S. government might aggressively clamp down on protected speech, and, certainly at the scale of millions of social media posts, may constitute a recent development. Reporting by RCI and other outlets – including Racket News’ new “Censorship Files” series, and continuing installments of the “Twitter Files” series to which it, Public, and others have contributed – and congressional probes continue to reveal the substantial breadth and depth of contemporary efforts to quell speech that authorities deem dangerous. But the roots of what some have dubbed the censorship industrial complex stretch back decades, born of an alliance between government, business, and academia that Democrat Sen. William Fulbright termed the “military-industrial-academic-complex” – building on President Eisenhower’s formulation – in a 1967 speech.
RCI reviewed public records and court documents and interviewed experts to trace the origins and evolution of the government’s allegedly unconstitutional censorship efforts. It is a rich history that includes the battles to defeat America’s adversaries in World War II and the Cold War; the development of Silicon Valley; the post-9/11 War on Terror; the Obama administration’s transition to targeting domestic violent extremism broadly; and the rise of Donald Trump.
If there is one ever-present player in this saga, it is the storied institution of Stanford University. Its idyllic campus has served as the setting over the last 70-plus years for a pivotal public-private partnership linking academia, business, and the national security apparatus. Stanford’s central place, particularly in developing technologies to thwart the Soviet Union during the Cold War, would persist and evolve through the decades, leading to the creation of an entity called the Stanford Internet Observatory that would serve as the chief cutout – in critics’ eyes – for government-driven censorship in defense of “democracy” during the 2020 election and beyond.
Although it bears the name of the railroad magnate who founded the school in 1885, Leland Stanford, the powerhouse university we know of today, represents the vision of another man, Frederick Terman.
The son of a Stanford psychology professor, Terman began his tenure at the campus where he was reared teaching electrical engineering during the 1920s and 1930s. He also harbored ambitions to turn the university and its surrounding area into a major high-tech hub to rival that of MIT on the East Coast.
Like his MIT colleagues, Terman was also deeply connected to the government’s budding national security apparatus. During World War II he was tabbed to head Harvard’s Radio Research laboratory, established by the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development to develop countermeasures against enemy radars. Through its good work, the lab would save an estimated 800 Allied bomber aircrafts.
Returning to Stanford with the insights and contacts he had developed during the war, Terman took over as the dean of the engineering school in 1946 determined to implement an ambitious plan: to use government funding to erect “steeples of excellence” in critical disciplines that would continually attract new investments in a virtuous cycle that would raise Stanford to preeminence among research institutions.
Terman would win Pentagon contracts to help fund Stanford’s Electronics Research Laboratory and the Applied Electronics Laboratory, which included work on classified military programs, bringing Stanford firmly into the military-industrial-academic complex fold. Additional labs – some engaged in basic or theoretical research, and others applied research – followed, deepening the school’s ties to the national security state during the Cold War.
While reportedly advising every major branch of the military, Terman cultivated ties with private industry. He encouraged graduates to start firms in nearby communities that would come to be known as Silicon Valley, and urged professors to consult.
In 1951, Terman helped establish the Stanford Industrial Park, a high-tech cooperative on university land that would attract electronics firms and defense contractors – the first such university-owned industrial park in the world. Its tenants would include among others Hewlett-Packard, GE, Eastman Kodak, and a host of other notables, later including the likes of Facebook and Tesla. Lockheed Martinwould relocate its Missiles Systems Division to Silicon Valley in 1956 and go on to serve as the largest industrial employer in Silicon Valley during the Cold War.
Under Terman’s leadership, first as engineering school dean and then as provost, Stanford and the firms it helped incubate and attract generated advances in everything from microwave electronics and electronic warfare, to missiles and satellites, and semiconductors and computers – meeting the demands of military and civilian consumers alike.
Stuart Leslie, author of “The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial Complex at MIT and Stanford,” wrote that “[b]y nearly every measure” Terman achieved his goal of challenging “MIT for leadership” in the sciences. The relationship Terman fostered between the feds and Silicon Valley companies would be responsible for producing “all of the United States Navy’s intercontinental ballistic missiles, the bulk of its reconnaissance satellites and tracking systems, and a wide range of microelectronics that became integral components of high-tech weapons and weapons systems” during the Cold War, according to one study.
Leslie Berlin, formerly a historian of the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University, would writethat “All of modern high tech has the US Department of Defense to thank at its core, because this is where the money came from” underwriting research and development.
One Stanford institution to which the money flowed with an indirect link to current controversies regarding social media censorship was the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Incorporated on campus as a nonprofit in 1946, it would pursue lucrative contracts for often-classified military R&D projects. By 1969, SRI ranked third among think tanks in total value of defense contracts garnered.
Anti-war activists helped force Stanford to divest from the outfit in 1970 – though it would continue to work with government on an array of initiatives. Among them was one building on a Pentagon-backed project to network computers, known as ARPANET. In 1977, an Institute van would transmit data in what is regarded as the first internet connection.
Stanford would open an Office of Technology Licensing in 1970 to manage the university’s growing IP portfolio. The office would execute thousands of licenses covering many thousands more inventions – sometimes in tandem with the security state. For example, Google was built in part on National Science Foundation-supported research; its development has also been tied to work done under a joint NSA and CIA grant.
The 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 would reinvigorate and fundamentally transform a military-industrial-academic complex that had demobilized to an extent following the Cold War, during which it had been largely foreign-facing. It would come to see not only foreign clandestine communications but public conversations between Americans promoting disfavored viewpoints as national security concerns.
To combat jihadists, Washington demanded sophisticated new surveillance tools and weapons. When combined with the explosion in communications technology, and the creation of massive new reams of digital data that could be collected and analyzed, Big Tech would prove a natural supplier.
The advent of social media – including Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), and Twitter (2006) – would significantly impact these efforts.
To the public, social media platforms comprised a digital public square that empowered citizens as journalists and enabled the free flow of ideas and information.
But governments and non-state actors, including terrorist groups, realized they could harness the power of such platforms, and use them for intelligence gathering, waging information warfare, and targeting foes.
Initially U.S. authorities focused almost exclusively on foreign jihadist organizations’ exploitation of social media. That began to change when the Obama administration created a series of policies and associated entities – most of which worked closely with Big Tech and academia – targeting a broader array of adversaries.
In 2011, the Obama administration deployed its “Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States” strategy. While identifying Al-Qaeda as “our current priority,” the policy broadened the national security apparatus focus to “all types of extremism that leads to violence, regardless of who inspires it.”
That same year, the State Department stood up an entity aimed at “supporting agencies in Government-wide public communications activities targeted against violent extremism and terrorist organizations” that in 2016 would morph into the Global Engagement Center (GEC). It would serve as a broader “interagency entity” that would not only partner to build “a global network of positive messengers against violent extremism” including NGOs, but leverage data analytics “from both the public and private sectors to better understand radicalization dynamics online.”
Also that year, the Defense Department announced its Social Media in Strategic Communication program, launched to “track ideas and concepts to analyze patterns and cultural narratives” as part of an effort “to develop tools to help identify misinformation or deception campaigns and counter them with truthful information, reducing adversaries’ ability to manipulate events.” Millions of dollars flowed to both Big Tech and academic hubs in connection with the project.
In conjunction with these programs, the Obama administration also consulted with outside advisors to study how jihadist groups engaged in online disinformation campaigns. Included among the advisors was Renée DiResta, future technical research manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory – which would later play a key role in the government’s effort to identify and quell speech disfavored by the government.
With terrorist organizations increasingly exploiting social media platforms to proliferate propaganda and in pursuit of other malign ends, Silicon Valley came to play an increasingly key role in U.S. counterterrorism efforts. As Kara Frederick wrote in a 2019 report for the Center for a New American Security, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies:
… hired talent to fill gaps in their counterterrorism expertise, created positions to coordinate and oversee global counterterrorism policy, convened relevant players in internal forums, and instituted a combination of technical measures and good old-fashioned analysis to root out offending users and content. Major and minor tech companies coordinated with each other and with law enforcement to share threat information, drafted policies around preventing terrorist abuse of their platforms, updated their community guidelines, and even supported counter-speech initiatives to offer alternative messaging to terrorist propaganda.
Frederick, now at the Heritage Foundation, would know. A counter-terrorism analyst at the Department of Defense from 2010-16, she departed for Facebook where she helped create and lead its Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program.
Facebook’s chief security officer during Frederick’s tenure, Alex Stamos – future founder of the Stanford Internet Observatory – would boast that “there are several terrorist attacks that you’ve never heard of because they didn’t happen because we caught them … some local law enforcement agency … took credit for it, but it was actually our team that found it and turned it over to them with a bow on it.”
“Once clearly public sector responsibilities,” Stamos would add, “are now private sector responsibilities.”
With government broadening its focus to domestic violent extremism and its nexus to social media, and a revolving door opening between the national security apparatus and the platforms, Donald Trump’s election would prove a catalyzing event in the creation of what critics would describe as the censorship industrial complex.
His victory, which followed Brexit, another populist uprising that stunned Western elites, sent shockwaves from Washington, D.C., to Silicon Valley.
A narrative quickly arose that social media was to blame for Trump’s unexpected win. It held that dark forces, especially Russia, had manipulated voters through dishonest posts, and that the platforms enabled Trump’s victory through allowing supporters to advance corrosive conspiracy theories.
The national security apparatus sprang to action.
In January 2017, outgoing Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson made protecting election infrastructure part of his agency’s mandate. Subsequently:
These key components of what would come to be known as the censorship industrial complex – one that would ultimately target the speech of Trump’s own supporters and the president himself – emerged at the very time he was fending off the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory that gave rise to them.
Government concerns over foreign meddling in domestic politics would drive demand for putativelyprivate sector actors, often with extensive government ties and funding, to engage in what the NGOs cast as research and analysis of such malign operations on social media.
In 2018, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee would solicit research, including from DiResta, on Russia’s social media meddling – research that would bolster something of a pressure campaign against social media companies to get them to quit dithering on content moderation.
The committee also commissioned Graphika, a social media analytics firm founded in 2013, to co-author a report on Russian social media meddling. Graphika lists DARPA and the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative, which funds “basic social science research,” on a company website detailing its clients and research partners. It would serve as one of the four partners that would comprise the Stanford Internet Observatory-led Election Integrity Partnership – a key cog in government-driven speech policing during and after the 2020 election.
Another entity that would join the Stanford-led quartet is the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, established in 2016. Funded in part by the Departments of State – including through the Global Engagement Center – and Energy, the think-tank counts among its directors CIA chiefs and Defense secretaries. The lab’s senior director is Graham Bookie, a former top aide to President Obama on cybersecurity, counterterrorism, intelligence, and homeland security issues. In 2018, Facebook announced an election partnership with the lab wherein the two parties would work on “emerging threats and disinformation campaigns from around the world.”
The third of four entities later to join the Election Integrity Partnership was the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, formed in 2019. Stanford grad and visiting professor Kate Starbird co-founded the Center. The National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research have provided funding for Dr. Starbird’s social media work.
That same year, the Stanford Internet Observatory emerged. Founded by Alex Stamos, who had led substantial research on Russia’s social media operations while Chief Security Officer at Facebook and routinely interfaced with national security agencies throughout his cybersecurity career, the Observatory would serve as a “cross-disciplinary initiative comprised of research, teaching and policy engagement addressing the abuse of today’s information technologies, with a particular focus on social media … includ[ing] the spread of disinformation, cybersecurity breaches, and terrorist propaganda.”
The Observatory is a program of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, which counts former Obama National Security Council official and Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul, among other notables on the faculty list with backgrounds in or ties to the security state.
Stamos stood up the Observatory with a $5 million gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies – which also gave $1 million to Starbird’s work. The Craigslist founder’s charitable vehicle contributed some $170 million to “journalism, countering harassment against journalists, cybersecurity and election integrity,” between 2016 and 2020, areas he argued constituted the “battle spaces” of information warfare – information warfare waged implicitly against President Trump and his supporters.
The National Science Foundation also provided large infusions of money to the sprawling network of academic entities, for-profit firms, and think tanks that would emerge in the “counter-disinformation space.”
This network produced a mass of research and analysis redefining and expanding the perceived threat of free and open social media. It argued America was plagued by a pandemic of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” with a nexus to domestic violent extremism that could be created and disseminated by almost anyone – thereby making everyone a potential target for surveillance and censorship.
Ideas authorities found troubling would come to be treated as tantamount to national security threats to be neutralized – as the future Biden administration would codify in the first-of-its-kind National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
DiResta described this paradigm shift in a 2018 article for Just Security – a publication incidentally also funded by Newmark.
“Disinformation, misinformation, and social media hoaxes have evolved from a nuisance into high-stakes information war,” DiResta wrote.
She continued:
…Traditional analysis of propaganda and disinformation has focused fairly narrowly on understanding the perpetrators and trying to fact-check the narratives (fight narratives with counter-narratives, fight speech with more speech). Today’s information operations, however, are … computational. They’re driven by algorithms and are conducted with unprecedented scale and efficiency. … It’s time to change our way of thinking about propaganda and disinformation: it’s not a truth-in-narrative issue, it’s an adversarial attack in the information space. Info ops are a cybersecurity issue.
This re-definition of what arguably amounts to speech policing of social media as security policy could be seen a year later when NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urged that “NATO must remain prepared for both conventional and hybrid threats: From tanks to tweets.” (Emphasis RCI’s)
In the run-up to the 2020 election, DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which took as its mandate protecting election infrastructure, would expand its focus to include combatting misinformation and disinformation perceived as threatening the security of elections – regardless of its source. This would ultimately encompass the protected political speech of Americans, including speculation and even satire to the extent it called into question or undermined state-approved narratives about an unprecedented mass mail-in election.
Social media companies, chastened after having come under withering political and media attack for their content moderation policies during the 2016 election, would recruit dozens of ex-security state officials to fill their “Trust and Safety” teams dealing with policing speech to likewise combat this purported threat.
Frederick told RealClearInvestigations that Silicon Valley leaders believed the teams’ past focus on Islamic terror, which receded under Trump, reflected a bias, requiring platforms to “reorient toward domestic extremism” – the new target of the political establishment.
Combining the platforms’ political leanings with the tools they had developed to take on jihadists, in Frederick’s words, would create a “powder keg” threatening to obliterate Americans’ speech.
Still, the Constitution stood in the way to the extent the government wanted to police the platforms’ speech. In the run-up to the 2020 election, both federal authorities and like-minded NGOs recognized a “gap:” No federal agency had “a focus on, or authority regarding, [identifying and targeting for suppression] election misinformation originating from domestic sources,” as the Stanford Internet Observatory-led Election Integrity Partnership would put it. DiResta acknowledged any such project faced “very real First Amendment questions.”
In response, the government helped create a workaround via that very Election Integrity Partnership – a government driven, advised, and coordinated enterprise run by NGOs to surreptitiously surveil and seek to censor speech that did not comport with government-favored narratives on election administration and outcomes.
One hundred days from the 2020 election, the Stanford Internet Observatory, alongside Graphika, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public launched the EIP as a “model for whole-of-society collaboration,” aimed at “defending the 2020 election against voting-related mis- and disinformation.”
As RCI previously reported, the project had two main objectives:
First, EIP lobbied social media companies, with some success, to adopt more stringent moderation policies around “content intended to suppress voting, reduce participation, confuse voters as to election processes, or delegitimize election results without evidence. …
Second, EIP surveilled hundreds of millions of social media posts for content that might violate the platforms’ moderation policies. In addition to identifying this content internally, EIP also collected content forwarded to it by external “stakeholders,” including government offices and civil society groups. EIP then flagged this mass of content to the platforms for potential suppression.
As many as 120 analysts, records show, created tickets identifying social media content they deemed objectionable. They forwarded many tickets to officials at platforms including Google, Twitter, and Facebook which “labeled, removed, or soft blocked” thousands of unique URLs – content shared millions of times.
An RCI review of the nearly 400 of those tickets produced to the House Homeland Security Committee found that government agencies – including entities within the FBI, DHS (CISA), and State Department (GEC) – involved themselves in nearly a quarter of the censorship tickets. Those tickets almost uniformly covered domestic speech, and from the political right; in dozens of instances, the project made “recommendations” to social media companies to take action.
The tickets RCI reviewed illustrated the project’s efforts to push social media platforms to silence President Trump and other elected officials.
One EIP analyst would say of the effort that it “was probably the closest we’ve come to actually preempting misinformation before it goes viral.”
In response to RCI’s inquiries in connection with this story, CISA Executive Director Brandon Wales shared a statement reading in part: “CISA does not and has never censored speech or facilitated censorship. Such allegations are riddled with factual inaccuracies.”
Given “concerns from election officials of all parties regarding foreign influence operations and disinformation that may impact the security of election infrastructure,” Wales said, “CISA mitigates the risk of disinformation by sharing information on election security with the public and by amplifying the trusted voices of election officials across the nation” – work he indicated is conducted while protecting Americans’ liberties.
Dr. Starbird told RCI that:
Falsehoods about elections – whether accidental rumors about when and how to vote or intentional disinformation campaigns meant to sow distrust in election results – are issues that cut to the core of our democracy. Identifying and communicating about these issues isn’t partisan and, despite an ongoing campaign to label this work as such, isn’t ‘censorship.’
All had come full circle. Stanford had once again connected the security state to Silicon Valley for a project involving both basic and applied research aimed at perceived foes – studying how narratives emerged, and then seeking to get offending ones purged.
That project would again garner new funding from the security state in the form of a $3 million grantfrom the National Science Foundation split between the Stanford Internet Observatory and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public for “rapid-response research to mitigate online disinformation.” Their partners in the EIP would receive millions more from the federal government under the Biden administration.
The relationship between DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and EIP would only grow. As RCI reported:
In the days following Nov. 3, 2020, with President Trump challenging the integrity of the election results, CISA rebuked him in a statement, calling the election “the most secure in American history.” The president would go on to fire CISA’s director, Christopher Krebs, by tweet.
Almost immediately thereafter, Krebs and Stamos would form a consultancy, the Krebs Stamos Group. In March 2021, Krebs would participate in a “fireside chat” when EIP launched its 2020 report.
CISA’s top 2020 election official, Matt Masterson, joined SIO as a fellow after leaving CISA in January 2021. Krebs’ successor at CISA, Director Jen Easterly, would appoint Stamos to the sub-agency’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, established in 2021, for a term set to expire this month.
Director Easterly would appoint Kate Starbird … to the committee. Starbird chaired the advisory committee’s since-abolished MDM (Mis-, Dis-, and Mal-Information) Subcommittee, focusing on information threats to infrastructure beyond elections.
SIO’s DiResta served as a subject matter expert for the now-defunct subcommittee. DHS scrapped the entity in the wake of the public furor over DHS’ now-shelved “Disinformation Governance Board.”
Starbird, her University of Washington colleagues, and a former student member of the Stanford Internet Observatory who had matriculated to the Krebs Stamos Group would publish a report in June 2022 building on their EIP efforts, titled “Repeat Spreaders and Election Delegitimization: A Comprehensive Dataset of Misinformation Tweets from the 2020 U.S. Election.” Its publication coincided with, and seemed aimed at buttressing the partisan House January 6 Select Committee’s second public hearing.
Documents obtained via FOIA from the University of Washington and recently published by Matt Taibbi’s Racket News and Substacker UndeadFOIA, suggest the committee’s chief data scientist met with Starbird and DiResta in January of that year to discuss the report the EIP produced following the 2020 election and its underlying data – a report that linked mis-, dis-, and mal-information regarding the 2020 election to the capitol riot.
In the interim, EIP would morph into the Virality Project, which would be used to target dissent from public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic – dissent those authorities argued could lead people to die, as dissenting views on the 2020 election spurred the capitol riot.
Among those targeted by the government for silencing, and who social media companies would censor, in part for his opposition to broad pandemic lockdowns, was Stanford’s own Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – one plaintiff in Murthy v. Missouri (Dr. Bhattacharya and Taibbi were recipients of RealClear’s first annual Samizdat Prize honoring those committed to truth and free speech). As he sees it, the Virality Project helped “launder” a “government … hit list for censorship,” which he finds “absolutely shocking” and at odds with the Stanford’s past commitments to academic freedom and general “sort of countercultural opposition to government overreach.”
As chilling as these efforts were, a House Homeland Security Committee aide told RCI:
EIP and VP were largely comprised of college interns running basic Google searches. Imagine a similar effort leveraging artificial intelligence to sweep up and censor ever greater swaths of our online conversations. We are at the beginning of the problem, not the end, which is why it is so vital to get right today because without action, tomorrow could be far worse.
It is unclear whether such action is forthcoming. Oral arguments in Murthy, heard this past March, suggested the Supremes may diverge from the lower courts. A federal district court found, and an appellate court concurred in the view that in coordinating and colluding with third parties and social media companies to suppress disfavored speech, government agencies had likely violated the First Amendment. Those courts barred such contact between agencies and social media companies during the pendency of the case – an injunction the nation’s highest court stayed over the objections of Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch.
At least one companion case targeting the likes of the Stanford Internet Observatory, and its Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project as co-conspirators with the federal government in violating Americans’ speech, Hines v. Stamos, is pending.
GOP legislation to deter and/or defund the activities illustrated in these cases has languished in Congress, but oversight efforts have raised the cost for NGOs to continue partnering with the government.
When asked in June 2023 about the Stanford Internet Observatory’s future plans, Stamos told the House Judiciary Committee, which has been probing alleged public-private censorship efforts, that “Since this investigation has cost the university now approaching seven figures legal fees, it’s been pretty successful I think in discouraging us from making it worthwhile for us to do a study in 2024.”
Bhattacharya responded in an interview with RCI, “Why is Stanford putting so much of its institutional energy into [defending] this [the Observatory]?”
“It seems like they are putting their thumbs on the scale partly because they’re so closely connected with government entities.”
Months later, according to his LinkedIn profile, Stamos would depart from the Observatory, while remaining a part-time Stanford Adjunct and Lecturer in Computer Science.
On the eve of oral arguments in the Murthy case, Stanford University and its observatory castigated critics for promoting “false, inaccurate, misleading, and manufactured claims” regarding its “role in researching and analyzing social media content about U.S. elections and the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Stanford called on the Supreme Court to “affirm its right to share its research and views with the government and social media companies.”
It vowed the Internet Observatory would continue its work on “influence operations.”
Starbird has echoed Stanford. In response to a series of questions from Taibbi pertaining to the trove of FOIA’d documents Racket obtained, she said:
Our team has fielded dozens of public records requests, producing thousands of emails. Not one confirms the central claims of your thesis falsely alleging coordination with government and platforms to “censor” social media content. But, instead of acknowledging that fact, abuse continues of the Washington State public records law to smear and spread falsehoods based on willful misreadings of innocuous emails, ignorance about scientific research, and, in several instances, a lack of reading comprehension.
She too vowed that: “At the Center for an Informed Public, our research into online rumoring about election procedures and our work to rapidly identify and communicate about harmful election rumors will continue in 2024.”
Stanford’s Internet Observatory and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public will not be spearheading the Election Integrity Partnership for 2024 or future election cycles however, per a link to the EIP’s website to which a Stanford spokesperson referred RCI in sole response to our queries.
Some experts are doubtful alleged social media censorship is going away anytime soon. “I don’t know how to ‘put the genie back in the bottle,'” said Frederick.
“There’s a thing about intel analysts in general where you have a sense of superiority because you have access to things that the plebes don’t. But, you know, these people have taken their G-d complexes to the next level and turned it against their neighbor.”
Of the alleged speech police, she said “they’re drunk with power obviously and they think they know what’s best for us.”
Amb. Alberto Fernandez, vice president at MEMRI and a former leader of the precursor to the State Department’s GEC, an observatory stakeholder that had itself funded adjacent efforts, told RCI “there needs to be transparency and preferably, a ‘firewall‘ of some sort between the Feds and social media.”
In May, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) – who had himself submitted an amicus brief siding with the agencies in the case, contra Republican colleagues led by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan – revealed that in the wake of the oral arguments in Murthy, federal agencies had resumed communications with social media companies.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), who had originally brought the Murthy case as Missouri attorney general, replied: “It appears DHS, FBI and potentially other agencies are quietly ramping up their efforts to censor Constitutionally protected speech ahead of the 2024 election.”
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Biden’s Department of Defense (DoD) made an inexcusable error on Saturday when the agency “mistakenly” mixed up LGBTQ Pride Month and PTSD Awareness Month in a social media post.
The Pentagon posted on X Saturday explaining that June marks PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) Awareness Month. As Fox News notes, this was first recognized by the U.S. government in June 2014, one year before June also officially became Pride Month.
“June is PTSD Awareness Month and the DoD is committed to supporting service members and veterans affected by PTSD,” the DOD post read.
The post continued, “If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. You are not alone.”
However, there was one big problem with the tweet: the picture attached below the words in the post read “Celebrate Pride Month 2024” complete with a Progress Pride Flag photo.
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The Pentagon X account later deleted the post and replaced it with one that had a proper photo.
June is #PTSDAwarenessMonth and the DoD is committed to supporting service members and veterans affected by PTSD.
If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available.
Reach out and learn more at https://t.co/yDjUPnYI5u.
You are not alone. pic.twitter.com/TS8UB817vs
— Department of Defense (@DeptofDefense) June 1, 2024
X users made sure to remind Biden’s Pentagon that the Internet is forever, however.
But why did you change it? pic.twitter.com/TKo12FBak7
— WeGbored (@WeGboredX) June 1, 2024
Took you long enough to fix that… but it also wouldn’t surprise me AT ALL that this DoD is much more worried about multiple posts on Pride Month the second it’s June than they are about PTSD…
— Rebecca Downs (@RebeccaRoseGold) June 1, 2024
This error by the Pentagon brings to mind another disgraceful episode back on March 30. As the Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra MacDonald reported, Joe Biden issued a White House proclamation declaring EASTER SUNDAY to be “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
The Biden regime refused to apologize for this outrageous assault on Christianity. Instead, Joe Biden posted an in-your-face statement on Easter Sunday (March 31) supporting Transgender Day of Visibility.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attempted to smear Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito earlier this week with a nasty tweet, and it blew up in her face.
As The Gateway Pundit readers know, Justice Alito and his wife have been under brutal assault from the leftist media and Democrat Party because his wife flew the American flag upside-down at their properties back in January 2021. This was around the same time as the J6 protests.
A May article in the New York Times attempted to connect Alito to so-called “election deniers” without evidence. Democrats promptly seized on the story to demand Alito recuse himself from any cases involving the protesters and vowed to investigate him as well.
Americans have used the upside-down or inverted American flag to protest the government for decades. Since President Trump’s conviction by the kangaroo court in Manhattan, the inverted flag has been a calling card for many other Americans, including critics of the 45th President.
MTG decided to post a photo of the inverted flag in an X post on Thursday in response to Trump’s conviction. When AOC noticed she had a snarky reply on hand.
“Who did you learn that from, Samuel Alito?” she wrote.
Who did you learn that from, Samuel Alito? https://t.co/MeMQneci2i
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 30, 2024
Conservatives let her have it on social media with a series of colorful and brutal replies.
Your district is disgusting. Get off your phone and pick up some trash.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) May 31, 2024
The House Idiot is babbling again. Must be a slow day at the bar.
— JJ Pesavento (@rdrhwke) May 31, 2024
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 31, 2024
Who did you learn this from? pic.twitter.com/oeFSbJk573
— MAGA Elvis (@BenStanton77) May 31, 2024
Bitch, go make me a cocktail
— MAGA Michelle S (@MAGAMichelleS69) May 31, 2024
I’m surprised you recognized it without it being on fire
— Dr Strangetweet Or How I Learned To Love The RT (@lone_rides) May 31, 2024
The only two flags AOC won’t burn: pic.twitter.com/5O67BwiIeD
— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) May 31, 2024
As Fox News notes, AOC herself demanded an investigation into Alito over the upside-down flag during an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last month.
“Samuel Alito has identified himself with the same people who raided the Capitol on Jan. 6, and is now going to be presiding over court cases that have deep implications over the participants of that rally,” she whined. “And while this is the threat to our democracy, Democrats have a responsibility for defending our democracy. And in the Senate, we have gavels.”
“There should be subpoenas going out,” she continued. “There should be active investigations that are happening.”
WATCH:
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A Democratic congressman has stepped forward and publicly called on Gov. Hochul to pardon President Donald Trump after he was found guilty of bogus “crimes” by a NYC kangaroo court.
As the New York Post reported, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) issued this surprising plea in an X rant on Friday. He becomes the first known nationally elected Democrat to call for helping Trump.
But the pardon plea does not. Phillips explained in a tweet that a permanent conviction would fuel Trump because he “thrives on portraying himself as the victim.”
Thus, Hochul should pardon the 45th President for the good of America.
“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim,” Phillips wrote. “@GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country.”
Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim.@GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country.
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) June 1, 2024
Seemingly anticipating a backlash from his followers, Phillips doubled down by pointing out that the Democrat lawfare is only helping Trump.
“You think pardoning is stupid? Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid,” he argued. (Election charges are entirely different.) It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost.”
You think pardoning is stupid?
Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are entirely different.)
It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost.
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) June 1, 2024
As The Gateway Pundit readers may know (we would not blame you for not noticing), Phillips mounted an ill-fated Presidential primary challenge to Joe Biden because he felt the current White House occupant was a surefire loser in November. He then ended his campaign in March.
The New York Post reported that a pardon was “unlikely,” citing a source close to Hochul.
“I cannot imagine a world where she would consider doing this, this makes no sense,” said the source.
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1. Unconstitutional Gag Order that prevented President Trump from criticizing the trial, exposing the many conflicts that should have forced the judge to recuse himself, and the railroading of his fundamental due process rights.
2. Judge Merchan’s many, many conflicts of interests – all of which were disqualifying. His daughter, Loren Merchan, is President of Authentic Campaigns, a political consulting firm that hires the likes of the Biden-Harris Campaign, Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, and many other far left Democratic lawmakers. Loren’s firm has made tens of millions off these clients – Juan Merchan, through his daughter, had a direct financial stake in the outcome of this trial, a flagrant breach of the canons of legal ethics, both under the ABA and NY State, that under any other judge would have been grounds for a recusal.
3. Judge Merchan’s wife was previously employed by Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York State who campaigned on “getting” Donald Trump.
4. Bragg’s Lead Prosecutor was Matthew Colangelo, the former #3 official at the DOJ. We are told Colangelo graciously decided to step down from his prestigious office to work for a lowly state DA’s office – of course, a reasonable inference would be that he was directed to do so by the Biden Regime to persecute his leading political opponent in Donald John Trump.
5. Statute of Limitations (2 years, NY State) had long expired for the business records falsification scheme that served as the primary charge brought against Trump. For this reason, the case was passed over by the DOJ and even Alvin Bragg over seven years because it was so weak. Only once Bragg felt political pressure, externally via Clinton attorney Mark Pomerantz, who previously worked in Bragg’s office, and internally via Colangelo, a Biden lackey, did Bragg buckle under the political weight and press charges.
6. Venue in bright-blue Manhattan, a borough that voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump at almost a 9 to 1 clip, prevented the President from ever getting a fair trial, because the pool of jurors was naturally biased against the 45th President, and could not possibly rule fairly and impartially (8 of the 12 cited the NY Times as their main source of news). Any pro-Trump jurors who were considered chose to self-select out themselves because they claimed they “could not rule fairly.” Case in point: no way in hell is the burden of proof met on any of these charges, and yet the jury pool consisted of two lawyers, who evidently believed just that. No reasonable juror, and especially no reasonable lawyer-juror, would have found that the elements of every single crime brought against Trump met the burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt.
7. Election Interference: This was not a new case: it had been circulating in various court systems, federal and state, for years. These charges were only brought this year to interfere with the 2024 presidential race, period. President Trump is now the leading presidential candidate, by every reputable poll, and the frontrunner by significant margins, a gap that has only expanded over time. There is no reason why this case should be brought now, six months before Election Day, unless there was a conspiracy to prevent President Trump from being on the campaign trail in key swing states, like PA, MI, AZ, and GA, which is exactly what occurred.
8. Stormy Daniels’ Testimony was unnecessarily detailed and flagrantly prejudicial against President Trump. Bragg’s Prosecutors asked her about her impressions on the Access Hollywood Tape, which should have never been allowed and have absolutely no bearing on anything. They also probed her on intimate, irrelevant details about her alleged affair with the President, including such inappropriate, salacious, and prejudicial questions as whether he wore protection, and where she testified to a “power imbalance” – all part of a character assassination campaign to smear his image before the jury.
9. Greatest Liar of All Time Michael Cohen’s Testimony, on which the entirety of the Prosecutor’s case was based, was unreliable, prejudicial, and grounds for reversible error; he contradicted himself and committed perjury on the stand in this proceeding. He admitted to lying and committing perjury in the past, which resulted in his prosecution and imprisonment. He admitted to waging a political vendetta against Donald Trump because of his previous conviction; he admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization, lying before a Congressional Committee, and financially profiting off this ongoing trial – and verdict, among other serious crimes.
10. Bragg’s Theory of The Case was flawed from start to finish – and unconstitutional. He claimed, under NY state law, that ordinarily the business falsification charge is deemed a Class A misdemeanor under the State penal code, which had expired by the SOL. However, by combining that misdemeanor with another misdemeanor, under the same law, Bragg claimed you can elevate the underlying crime to a felony, which has a longer statute of limitations than a misdemeanor and thus, in his view, is still actionable. The problem is that nothing in the NY State penal code spells this out expressly, or even implicitly: there is nothing that says combining two misdemeanors is sufficient to contrive a felony. This is a bespoke crime intended to fit a one defendant and one defendant only: Donald John Trump.
11. Several other problems persist with the above: 1) whether combining two class A misdemeanors to create a class E felony is supported by any legal precedent at all, or logically makes sense (it doesn’t);
12. 2) whether combining two misdemeanors to contrive a felony is constitutionally lawful – i.e., does not violate due process or is constitutionally operative as an unlawful bill of attainder, etc.; and
13. 3) even if that combination establishes a theory of liability to raise a misdemeanor into a felony, whether doing so to circumvent a long-expired SOL does not also violate due process?
14. The Second alleged crime, that Bragg combined with the business falsification crime, to contrive a felony, is inapplicable to President Trump. Bragg maintained that President Trump violated state campaign law. But that is problematic for at least two reasons:
15. 1) President Trump ran for President, a federal office, and not state office – and thereby, state campaign law does not apply to him;
16. 2) to the extent state campaign law does apply or is controlling, it is preempted (i.e., barred) – based on President Trump’s office and acts – by federal campaign law. In short, this matter should have been brought under the FEC or DOJ, not state court. Merchan’s court had no jurisdiction whatsoever to prosecute the matter.
17. The State Election Law, to the extent it was lawfully controlling, established a predicate crime scheme that is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled in Ramos v. Louisiana that non-unanimous jury verdicts are a violation of fundamental due process rights. This is well-settled law. Federal precedent applies with equal force to state criminal court proceedings. Thus, the “mix and match” or “buffet” scheme that Merchan laid out, allowing the jury to select one of three predicate crimes under the relevant statute to reach a guilty verdict, is a flagrant violation of President Trump’s due process rights.
18. The three predicate crimes that Bragg’s theory of the case lays out: FECA violation, tax law violation, or record-keeping violation, each cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
19. The FECA violation should’ve been tossed out immediately, because a state court has no jurisdiction over the matter. The Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) has its own rules and procedures for administering election law violations, as well as a doctrine of sequencing that it is required to employ to administer disputes. This sequencing doctrine would require that Merchan refer any such FECA allegations to, for instance, the Federal Election Commission first, which might have primary jurisdiction over the matter, and then from there, the FEC might coordinate with the DOJ to prosecute any potential crimes. The point is: order matters; a rogue state court judge cannot unilaterally take up an issue belonging in federal court.
20. To the extent an alleged FECA violation controls here, there are a number of problems: 1) what statute are we talking about;
21. 2) how do we know that the alleged violation can be prosecuted as a crime, and isn’t just a civil matter;
22. 3) even if the alleged violation is a crime, how do we know
23. 1) such crime is a felony; and
24. 2) that crime can be adjudicated independently by an independent agency of the United States? In other words, does the FEC have the power to prosecute crimes unilaterally, and independently of the DOJ? That alone is sufficient grounds for a due process violation.
25. Again, we run into the issue of how 2 misdemeanor crimes mysteriously turn into an underlying felony. Is the law that any two misdemeanors creates a felony? Does it matter if the misdemeanor is a state crime versus an alleged federal crime? It cannot possibly be the case that all misdemeanors are created equal – nor can it be the case that if a jury found President Trump guilty of the predicate FECA misdemeanor, that the business falsification statute incorporates a federal misdemeanor to contrive a Class E felony. When has that ever been done before? Never!
26. Merchan has no knowledge of Federal Election Law. Typically, federal election law issues (FECA issues) are preempted by federal court. Putting all that to one side, however, considering that Merchan ignored all of that, and was hellbelt on prosecuting this nebulous crime in state court, he should have at least allowed an expert witness to opine on federal election law-related matters. That expert witness, former FEC Commissioner and government lawyer, Brad Smith, should have been allowed to testify on federal election law, a notoriously complex and highly specialized area of law. But Smith was not permitted to testify, because Merchan did not want the jury to hear expert testimony from someone competent in the relevant body of law. That prohibition of Smith’s testimony is prejudicial, and grounds for reversible error.
27. In addition to the FECA predicate crime issue, which is teeming with due process and other constitutional violations, both the alleged tax law violation, and general bookkeeping violation are also laden with due process problems.
28. Merchan has absolutely no authority to say that President Trump can be found guilty of violating “tax laws” or erroneously reporting a tax filing as a legal expense (when in fact, legally and definitionally, it was a “legal expense”); these two miscellaneous predicate crimes are constitutionally overbroad and cannot for those reasons alone satisfy the requisite burden of proof – due to concerns of being overbroad, Bragg’s theory of criminal liability violates due process as well.
29. Nondisclosure Agreements, Hush Money Payments, and “Catch and Kill” schemes are and have always been perfectly lawful; none of these things can serve as a basis for criminal liability, however controversial they might sound – nor too does consensual sexual activity, including out of wedlock sex, even with a pornstar, ever, ever impute criminal liability or the pretext of criminal liability upon the one doing the act. All of these acts are lawful, case closed.
30. Running for President of the United States, even if your name is Donald Trump, is lawful. It is not a “conspiracy” to run a presidential campaign, nor is it conspiratorial – let alone criminal – to take lawful measures to win a campaign. Under Bragg’s twisted theory, however, every single political campaign ever carried out in the history of the United States would be considered unlawful – including the presidential campaigns of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.
31. Stormy Daniels denied an affair with Donald Trump, in writing, multiple times over many years. That said, the Daniels-Trump story had long been in the public domain years before the 2016 presidential election. The NDA at issue was formalized in 2011, five years before the 2016 presidential election. How it is even possible that a 2011 NDA can be a component of a larger conspiracy to criminally manipulate the results of the 2016 race was never addressed. At trial, through the testimony of Hope Hicks and Madeleine Westerhout, what became crystal clear was that any such nondisclosure agreements were to protect President Trump’s family and had no bearing on the 2016 election.
32. Indeed, it is unclear just how the dissemination of the Daniels story, which was already widely distributed in the public domain by the time President Trump launched his 2016 campaign, would have impacted the race. By conflating the Daniels story with the Access Hollywood Tape, which was frequently referenced in the examinations of several key witnesses, Merchan allowed undue prejudice into his courtroom – providing a basis for reversible error. Stormy Daniels and Access Hollywood have absolutely nothing to do with one another; Access Hollywood had no bearing on any NDA agreements signed between President Trump’s counsel, and Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, or anyone else. Asking Daniels, during her testimony, about her impressions of the Access Hollywood Tape was completely inappropriate for a courtroom and prejudicial. Conflating these facts, many of which were wholly inappropriate to bring into the courtroom, unfairly prejudices the jurors – because they serve no other purpose than to smear President Trump’s character.
33. The alleged bookkeeping error that was the basis for this entire criminal trial – marked as “legal expenses” – of which the President had no knowledge, as revealed in the testimony of Robert Costello and others, occurred after the President won the 2016 presidential election! How could the President unlawfully conspire to promote or prevent his election after he had already been elected to federal office? This entire trial operated like a bill of attainder, unlawful to the core.
34. The judge conducted this trial unfairly from start to finish, and treated the defendant, his attorneys, and his witnesses horrendously. He prevented President Trump and his lawyers from bringing in key expert witnesses. He admonished President Trump’s lead attorney, Todd Blanche, on the stand, and cast multiple, unnecessary wanton barbs at him. He excoriated the only pro-Trump witness he allowed to testify, Robert Costello, an experienced lawyer of the SDNY; at one dramatic point, in a complete and unprecedented breach of the code of judicial ethics, Merchan lost his composure and vacated the entire courtroom, press included, because he did not like Costello’s “tone” and “mannerisms” from the witness stand. Merchan allowed Bragg Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass to go on for hours in his summations – allowing Steinglass to explain fundamental aspects of the law, including the burden of proof, for the jury, even though he previously admonished President Trump’s lawyers from making even the slightest reference to the law. He also allowed Steinglass to go on wild tangents unrelated to anything having to do with the alleged crime, allowing discussions of “Bill Clinton” and “Monica Lewinsky” to enter the courtroom. Merchan had previously declared, like a tyrant, that only he can interpret the law in his courtroom. But then he allowed Steinglass to explain the law at great length, over and above the objections of President Trump’s attorneys. Merchan also buttered up the jurors to win over their sympathy, complimenting random things like their “note-taking” skills, attention, and timeliness. All these factors, in addition to everything stated above, are egregious breaches of professional and judicial ethics and serve as grounds for a mistrial.
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Even the notorious RINO and former presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is denouncing the sham conviction of President Donald Trump.
In a rigged trial orchestrated by New York Democrats in conjunction with the Biden White House, Trump was found guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to adult porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.
Romney, who makes no secret of his disdain for the former president and has tried to sabotage him at every turn, argued that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should never have let the case go to trial.
“Bragg should have settled the case against Trump, as would have been the normal procedure. But he made a political decision,” Romney reportedly told his biographer McKay Coppins, a writer at the Atlantic.
“Bragg may have won the battle, for now, but he may have lost the political war,” he continued. “Democrats think they can put out the Trump fire with oxygen. It’s political malpractice.”
Last month, Romney also made the case that Joe Biden should pardon Trump because it would make him seem like the bigger man.
“You may disagree with this, but had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought on indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him,” he said in an interview with MSNBC.
“I’d have pardoned President Trump. Why? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy.”
Meanwhile, other Republican Senators have warned that they will create havoc in the Senate unless the White House stops politically persecuting its opponents.
Strongly worded statements are not enough.
Those who turned our judicial system into a political cudgel must be held accountable.
We are no longer cooperating with any Democrat legislative priorities or nominations, and we invite all concerned Senators to join our stand. pic.twitter.com/H0CzIjXgwC
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) May 31, 2024
“The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways,” read a letter led by Mike Lee, also of Utah, and signed by several other Senators. “As a Senate Republican conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart.”
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While Melinda Gates has discussed her Catholic upbringing, she seems to embrace the same cafeteria Catholic approach used by Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to justify a myriad of horrid behaviors, including embracing, championing, and funding abortion.
On May 28, 2024, she announced plans to give tens of millions of dollars globally to support abortion through the foundation she founded in 2015, Pivotal Ventures.
Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, told The National Catholic Register, “Melinda French Gates could do much to help women and their preborn children on the national — and even international level — yet she has decided instead to pour money into the abortion industry that already makes billions of dollars by taking the lives of innocent preborn children.”
“Tragically, this kind of ‘help’ destroys lives and damages women.”
And Gates has promised lots of money to destroy lives, approximately $200 million.
Pivotal Ventures said the new grants are “aimed at supercharging the work of organizations that are fighting in the U.S. to advance women’s power and protect their rights, including reproductive freedom.”
The National Catholic Register reports that some of the abortion-supporting recipients of Gates’ largesse include:
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Leading German Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger was attacked by a crazed Muslim with a knife and nearly killed at a rally in Mannheim Friday. A police officer was also seriously injured after tackling the wrong person and turning his back on the terrorist. A total of 6 people were injured.
Michael Stürzenberger has been raising awareness of the threat posed by what he calls “political Islam” since a friend of his was killed in the Mumbai Hotel Attack 2008. Stürzenberger rejects the use of terms like “radical Islam” and “Islamism,” claiming that Islam is not merely a religion but a political ideology that always seeks to assume power once in the plurality.
Thoroughly censored and defamed by legacy media, he holds street rallies with supporters of the Civil Movement Pax Europa (BPE), where he often debates with angry young Muslim men in amazingly cool-headed fashion.
The German government has sought to jail him on ridiculous charges, even though Stürzenberger takes great pains to obey the law and refrain from attacking “all Muslims.”
The Gateway Pundit has reported on the campaign against Stürzenberger for years.
Donald Trump Jr. shared a video of Stürzenberger and fellow Islam critic Irfan Peci 2023, in which a young Muslim man stated “we must use violence to institute an Islamic state once Muslims are a majority”.
Anyone with a brain knew this was coming but the woke morons in charge will continue to welcome in their own demise till it’s too late. https://t.co/Gpx6WbH9iL
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 5, 2023
Stürzenberger and his supporters have continued their brave work despite constant death threats and occasional attacks.
Now, after pro-Hamas protestors have taken to the streets in Germany unopposed, calling for the institution of Sharia law and a caliphate in Germany, an Afghan man identified as Sulaiman (25) felt emboldened enough to attack Stürzenberger with a combat knife in Mannheim Friday, May 31.
The video makes clear the police, who are usually tasked with harassing Stürzenberger and supporters rather than defend him, did not know how to respond.
The first officer to intervene tackled a Stürzenberger supporter and was then stabbed in the neck after turning his back on the terrorist. One of six officers looking on finally opened fire after 15 seconds, injuring the terrorist.
Complete livestream of BPE event in Mannheim:
The Gateway Pundit is in touch with Michael Stürzenberger in his hospital bed, from where he sends thanks to all his supporters. He was stabbed in the face from the cheek to the lips, the chest near the lungs, and the thigh near an artery.
Fortunately, he is now in stable condition and vowing to continue the fight for freedom with a smile:
“It was really close call yesterday. Just now, four doctors came for the ward rounds.”
“The stab wound to the side of the chest, which went towards the lung, could have been life-threatening.”
“The stab wound to the thigh hit veins and caused significant blood loss.”
“There was also a second stab wound to the leg above the knee, fortunately without injuring the tendon.”
“The injury to the upper arm is relatively minor. It’s different with the stabs to the face.”
“I have staples in the side of my jaw. The upper lip was stitched, I had a gaping open wound up to the teeth.”
“A big thank you to all the doctors and the facial surgeons who came especially from a specialized clinic.
“What a single Afghan “refugee” can do with a knife…“
MANNHEIM STABBING – UPDATE FROM THE VICTIM:
It was really close call yesterday. Just now, four doctors came for the ward rounds.
The stab wound to the side of the chest, which went towards the lung, could have been life-threatening.
The stab wound to the thigh hit veins… pic.twitter.com/6nHwxqTZAf
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) June 1, 2024
Dutch political leader Geert Wilders expressed his support for Stürzenberger:
‘”Terrible! Michael Stürzenberger – who has interviewed me several times – is now the victim of a cowardly act of terror.”
Verschrikkelijk! Het slachtoffer Michael Stürzenberger – die mij vaker heeft geïnterviewd – is nu het slachtoffer van een laffe terreurdaad. https://t.co/PnSf8RAXWI
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) May 31, 2024
Qur’an 47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…”https://t.co/EdnZczNw33 pic.twitter.com/xjFdeGb0S7
— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) May 31, 2024
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Conservative champion, Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán, is a politician with very strong geopolitical views and a willingness to implement those views, even against fierce pressure.
On the one hand, we have his heroic anti-war stance as in Orbán’s Hungary ‘Redefining’ Relationship With NATO, Will Not Participate in Any Ukraine Operations.
On the other, we have a leader that is calling for the right to organize and seize power in the European Union, as in ‘The EU Leadership Has Got to Go’: Hungarian PM Orbán Kicks off Campaign for European Elections With a Call to ‘Occupy Brussels’.
So it stands to reason that Orbán would call for the union of two of the biggest conservative figures in the continent, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and French RN party leader Marine Le Pen.
Meloni is on a good footing right now, as Conservative PM Giorgia Meloni’s Italy is the Fastest Growing European Economy, Leaving Liberal Germany Behind.
She has also manifested hope of a united right, as in Italian PM Meloni Will Run in June European Elections, Wants To ‘Bring Together the Centre-Right Forces and Send the Left Into Opposition’.
Having said that, the relationship with Marine Le Pen is said to be far from close. We indeed see Le Pen usually teaming with other conservative forces in Italy, as in Conservative Bond: Italian Salvini and French Le Pen United Against Mass Migration, Ahead of EU Elections Next Year.
But Marine Le Pen has now publicly asked Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to form a ‘right-wing super group’ in the next European Parliament – a call echoed by Orbán.
Politico reported:
“In an interview with French weekly magazine Le Point, the Hungarian prime minister said the ‘future of the sovereignist camp in Europe, and of the right in general, now rests in the hands of two women’, arguing that if the French far-right figurehead and Italian leader work together ‘within a single group or a coalition, they will be a force for Europe’.
Meloni’s party, Brothers of Italy, currently sits with the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the EU parliament, while Le Pen’s National Rally is part of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group.”
With conservatives expected to surge in the June 6-9 EU election, Le Pen advocates for a single rightwing group.
Such a group could become the second force in Parliament.
“Orbán shares Le Pen’s vision. The momentum which would result from such a partnership ‘could be enough to reshape the configuration of the European right, or even supplant the European People’s Party’, he said.”
Orbán’s party left the European People’s Party (EPP) in 2021.
While holding talks to join Meloni’s ‘European Conservatives and Reformists’, he wants to understand the ECR relationship with Le Pen’s ‘Identity and Democracy’ — which the Hungarians favor — and the EPP, which Orbán criticizes as being ‘under German influence’.
“’Apart from the number of seats a particular party wins, the most important thing, in my opinion, will be the number of MEPs prepared to go further in the war in Ukraine and the number who will be in favor of ending it’, said Orbán, who has frequently opposed European sanctions against Russia and aid packages for Ukraine as it fends off Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.”
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What a joke. After spending the last three years destroying America with mass illegal immigration, the Biden regime wants to convince Americans that they actually care about the border crisis.
It can only be an election year.
The regime has begun to reach out to mayors of border towns to join crooked Joe Biden when he makes his announcement regarding executive action to try and curb border chaos.
Too little, too late.
The Biden administration is preparing to roll out a sweeping border executive action as early as Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, who cautioned that timing is fluid.
White House officials have begun reaching out to mayors who represent cities along the US southern border to potentially join President Joe Biden when he announces the order, two other sources familiar with those conversations said.
Scoop: The White House is reaching out to mayors who represent cities along the US southern border to potentially join Biden when he announces a border executive order, sources tell me + @cdechalus. The administration is preparing to announce the order as early as Tuesday.
— Priscilla Alvarez (@priscialva) June 1, 2024
When asked in March, Biden claimed that he did not have the authority to take executive action at the border.
“We need more forces on the border! I don’t have the authority to do that!” Biden shouted.
WATCH:
“Why are you waiting to take executive action on the border?”
BIDEN: “We need more forces on the border! I don’t have the authority to do that!”
Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to dismantle border security — and could reverse them at any time. He refuses. pic.twitter.com/1tKIgu79QR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 2, 2024
In late May, Democrat Senator Chris Murphy on CBS’s “Face the Nation” claimed that if Biden issues executive orders for the border, it would have little effect.
“The President could take executive action and has been talking about it since back in February when Homeland Security Secretary mentioned it was being considered. Should he just get caught trying?” Brennan asked.
“The President has such limited ability to issue executive orders that would have an impact on the border. He can’t conjure resources out of thin air,” Senator Murphy responded.
Watch:
President Biden “has such limited ability to issue executive orders that would have an impact on the border,” says Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT, as he calls instead for bipartisan border legislation from Congress.
Biden “can’t conjure resources out of thin air. If he were to try to shut… pic.twitter.com/mLuqT7QYta
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 26, 2024
The Biden regime’s actions over the last 3 years clearly show that they have no intention of securing the border. Last year, they even sold off unused portions of President Trump’s border wall material for pennies on the dollar. That is proof positive that they were taking proactive steps to make the border even more open.
The cumulative damage of an open border for over 3 years has resulted in an estimated 10 to 12 million illegals entering our country. That is not counting the millions that were here previously.
The last three-year total of illegals entering the US is equivalent to the population of 41 individual states. This is not sustainable for our nation.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is one of the major influences keeping the border open. In February while on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he dodged all responsibility and blamed the border crisis on a “broken system.”
Watch:
WATCH: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas says that DHS doesn’t “bear responsibility” for the “broken” immigration system.@SecMayorkas: “The system has not been fixed for 30 years. … Congress is the only one who can fix it.” pic.twitter.com/dzDH0GQPQW
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) February 11, 2024
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Chicago is engulfed in a seemingly endless crime wave.
Over Memorial Day weekend alone, there were at least 41 shootings with 9 fatalities, according to the Chicago Police Department.
In Alderman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth’s 48th Ward, robberies and sex crimes are at their highest level in over a decade.
But Manaa-Hoppenwort said she will no longer post crime alerts on social media or send crime alerts to her constituent email list.
In a blog post, she shared that “over-reporting,” or more accurately ACTUALLY reporting crime, leads to an inaccurate public perception about crime rates.”
Our updated alert system is based not only input from our community but is also informed by research from recent years that shows how over-reporting of crime leads to an inaccurate public perception about crime rates. Research also shows us that over-reporting of crime negatively impacts our most marginalized and underserved neighbors.
Read more about the influence of crime media on the public’s expectations of crime rates here. [MDPI]
Read more about how over-reporting of crime in neighborhood safety apps influence perception of crime here. [APA]
While subscribers must now opt in to receive crime alerts, note that doing so does not guarantee that you will receive an alert for every instance of crime in the ward. We will continue to send alerts based on the questions and research above and the capacity of our team.
Constituents who want to keep their families safe in her Ward will now have to “opt in” or call the local police districts.
It’s strange that Manaa-Hoppenworth would take this moment to stop telling grown adults about the ward’s rising violent crime problem. Four men were shot in her ward between May 22 and May 27 in three separate incidents, according to Chicago police.
The first two shootings occurred at the exact same address, according to CPD records. Manaa-Hoppenworth tried to explain away the first shooting by saying it was “isolated.” That came back to bite her when the second shooting occurred at literally the same location. We ribbed her about that. Anyone want to bet our nudge was a major factor in her decision to shut up about crime?
Year-to-date shooting incidents in the 48th ward are at the highest level since 2015, according to the city’s data portal. As of May 13, 41 robberies had been reported this year in Manaa-Hoppenworth’s ward. That’s up 78% compared to the same time last year, and it’s the highest number of year-to-date robberies since 2012.
Also at the highest level in her ward since at least 2012 are criminal sexual assaults. There have been 14 reported so far this year, up from six at this point last year.
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Joe Biden’s America.
According to the CBP, 3,593 Chinese illegal aliens were caught after crossing the southern border in May of this year alone. 98 percent of them were in the San Diego sector in California. San Diego sector also had hundreds of illegals from each country: Jordan, Turkey, and Mauritania in May.
The two busiest sectors for the month of May were the Tucson sector, with over 33,000 illegals apprehended, and the San Diego sector, with over 32,000 illegals. These numbers don’t count “got aways”.
The total number of illegals caught at the southern border for May was about a shocking 118,000, with over 6,000 of them coming from countries that could be a threat to national security. Illegal aliens are being let into the US on a daily basis in numerous ways, including ports of entry with the CBP One App, and illegal crossings at various parts of the border.
NEW: Per CBP sources, 3,593 Chinese nationals were apprehended after crossing the southern border illegally during the month of May, 98% of which (3,517) were in the San Diego sector.
770+ Jordanians, 670+ Turkish, and 500+ Mauritanians also were recorded crossing illegally in…— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 1, 2024
The San Diego sector has been a very easy point of entry for illegals especially since California is controlled by leftist Democrats. In late May, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin interviewed a Pakistani illegal who described how easy it was to cross Biden’s open border.
Watch:
NEW: A Pakistani man who crossed illegally into Jacumba, CA told me he came to the US for work, not asylum, & that he passed through Brazil & Peru. I asked him if he knows that crossing the border the way he did is illegal?
He said yes.
I asked, “no big deal?”
“No,” he smiled. pic.twitter.com/sfhklAlMTk— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 24, 2024
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is one of the key players in keeping the border intentionally open. He has refused to take responsibility and instead blames the border crisis on a “broken system” when he was on NBCs “Meet the Press” in February.
“Do you bear responsibility for what is happening at the border?” Kristin Welker asked.
“We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system,” Mayorkas continued.
Watch:
WATCH: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas says that DHS doesn’t “bear responsibility” for the “broken” immigration system.@SecMayorkas: “The system has not been fixed for 30 years. … Congress is the only one who can fix it.” pic.twitter.com/dzDH0GQPQW
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) February 11, 2024
Since January 2021, an estimated 10 to 12 million illegal aliens have entered the US under Biden’s open border.
That number equals about the population of 41 individual states.
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While French President Emmanuel Macron struts around the world warmongering on Ukraine, or else fear-mongering about ‘climate change,’ the country he was supposed to take care of is falling apart.
A floundering economy, a chaotic society made worse by unchecked mass migration, and now, to top it all, Macron got a brutal wakeup call yesterday (May 31), as Standard & Poor’s cut its long-term sovereign credit rating from AA to AA−.
Coming on the eve of the European Elections that his party is projected to lose by a landslide, many see this as ‘probably his darkest day in office.’
Bloomberg reported:
“In a statement on Friday, the credit assessor highlighted the French government’s missed goals in plans to restrain the budget deficit after huge spending during the Covid pandemic and energy crisis.
S&P said that although reforms and a recovery in economic growth will improve the situation, the hole will remain above 3% of gross domestic product in 2027.”
The reduction from AA to AA- trashes Macron’s claim as an economic reformer.
Polls are showing his Renaissance group trailing way behind Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.
“Le Pen seized on the S&P decision to call on voters to sanction Macron at EU election. She also called other opposition lawmakers to support the latest no-confidence motion her party has proposed to bring down his government.
‘The catastrophic management of public finances by governments that are as incompetent as they are arrogant has put our country in grave difficulties, with record taxes, deficits and debts’, she said in a message on X late Friday.”
S&P sees France’s general government debt as a share of GDP increasing to about 112% of GDP by 2027 – from about 109% in 2023.
Finance Minister Bruno Maire tried to put a good spin on the news, saying that the reason for the downgrade is that the government ‘saved the French economy’ during the COVID lockdowns. Yeah, right.
“S&P said the agenda will continue to face strong opposition, both from parliament, where the government has no absolute majority, and from protests, like those seen against pension reform in 2023. ‘Political fragmentation will likely make the continued implementation of policies to address economic and budgetary imbalances somewhat uncertain’.”
Read more:
Peter Sweden: IT’S SPREADING – Massive Farmers Protest in Germany (Video)
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This week on Blessed News ‘Inside J6’, I sat down with author and journalist Jack Cashill to discuss his long-running investigations into the real stories behind January 6th. He has written numerous books. However, his most recent one is specifically about the events of that day. “Ashli: The Untold Stories of the Women of January 6th.” Cashill often states, “The real question is not why thousands of women went to Washington on January 6. The real question is why the rest of us did not.”
Although Cashill was not physically present in our nation’s capitol on January 6th, 2021, he began writing about the events in the following days. Cashill mentions that, for the first time ever, one of the publications he writes for edited out part of his article. The part they edited out was Cashill prophesizing that January 6th will go down as a celebrated “Mid-Year 4th of July.”
You can check out the podcast interview with Jack Cashill below.
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A massive rally took place across central London on Saturday as patriotic Brits voiced their opposition to the mass immigration that has destroyed their beautiful city.
The rally was attended by journalist Andy Ngo, who estimated that between 15,000 and 20,000 people attended in what the liberal media dubbed a “far-right” gathering.
A woman who attended the Tommy Robinson rally in London shows me her “Make England Great Again” hat along with a shirt showing a mugshot of Trump & the text: “Never surrender.”
The rally was attended by an estimated 15-20k. The event is called far-right.pic.twitter.com/yOXrxgSnM3
— Andy Ngô ️ (@MrAndyNgo) June 1, 2024
Ngo noted that the rally was attended by English people rather than foreigners, underlining how the native British people are opposed to the mass immigration being forced upon them by globalist elites.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many English people in London before. pic.twitter.com/nr3evDrDKn
— Andy Ngô ️ (@MrAndyNgo) June 1, 2024
At one point, protesters chanted in support of President Trump following his sham conviction by the Biden regime on charges of falsifying business documents.
Breaking: Chants of “Trump, Trump” break out in front of Big Ben at the Tommy Robinson rally in London. pic.twitter.com/E4P1SNKLUl
— Andy Ngô ️ (@MrAndyNgo) June 1, 2024
Tommy Robinson himself took to the X platform to make clear his “message to the world” that London should remain British rather than becoming an Islamic city.
Our message to the world today pic.twitter.com/1Ir0TW1whT
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 1, 2024
Other journalists and British patriots took to social media to express their support for the rally.
CONGRATULATIONS TOMMY
Tommy Robinson’s call to march to parliament was met positively. Tens of thousands honored his call which can also be seen as a counter-reaction to far-left pro-Hamas marches London has seen since October 7.
Any Tommy Robinsons in other European cities? pic.twitter.com/4VlimE8HOP— Harry Theocharous (@TheocharousH) June 1, 2024
TOMMY ROBINSON IS BACK!!!
Tens of thousands rallying right now, taking London back from the Jihadists who have occupied and terrorised the city for the last 8 months
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) June 1, 2024
It is so refreshing to see British flags waving in London after 7 months of Palestine, Hamas and Hezbollah flag.
British Patriots march with Tommy Robinson to uphold British values. pic.twitter.com/bm4NQlvD5O
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) June 1, 2024
Antifa thugs and other counter protesters also turned up at the rally, although they failed to disrupt it in any meaningful way.
About 50 counter protesters turned up today from @AntiRacismDay @hopenothate against @TRobinsonNewEra. Lots of people have asked how effective they were. This picture sums it up nicely… pic.twitter.com/uori5XvxvB
— Voice Of Wales (@VoWalesOfficial) June 1, 2024
Just about to catch my train back to lovely Lincolnshire. The Tommy Robinson rally went well, and even though there was an obvious Antifa presence, there was zero trouble. If any kicks off now, it’s an orchestrated attempt to smear the right. As per usual pic.twitter.com/XptQghyx58
— Princess Pigtails aka Pugtails (@TexanGhost) June 1, 2024
‘Anti-hate’ activists from the Stand Up To Racism movement call for British journalist Tommy Robinson to be assaulted.
“Get a milkshake in your face.”
The small group are holding a counter-demonstration to @TRobinsonNewEra’s patriotic rally taking place in Westminster. pic.twitter.com/FQJItwC7hM
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 1, 2024
Conservatives and patriots are waking up across America, Europe, and all around the world.
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Who would guess that the hardest part of being the King of Britain is dealing with your own family members?
Charles III waited 70 years to ascend to the throne. And when he did, he has had to deal nonstop with problems created by his own brother and his younger son.
When it comes to disgraced Prince Andrew, who has been forced to quit his Royal duties over his long association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the main problem is that he continues refusing to leave the Royal Lodge, where he has lived for 20 years, for his new – and much smaller – home in Frogmore Cottage.
King Charles is reportedly threatening to sever ties with the duke of York unless he agrees to move out, a friend of the King has claimed.
Andrew presently shares the 30-room, £30million mansion with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
Daily Mail reported:
“The King has long been trying to get his brother – who has no apparent source of income – to leave the Windsor mansion amid rumors the Prince of Wales is keen to take up residence in the property to reflect his role as heir to the throne.”
The King is said to be willing to pay for his brother to live comfortably out of his ‘private’ funds from the Duchy of Lancaster, but the level of funding ‘needs to be appropriate.’
“A friend of the King told The Times: ‘Unfortunately, if Andrew refuses to leave within a reasonable time frame, then the King may be forced to reassess the whole package of support he provides and the duke would be required to fund the lion’s share of his security, accommodation and lifestyle costs all on his own – which, given the sums involved, is highly unlikely to be possible in the long term’.”
The King has continually attempted to evict Andrew from Royal Lodge, and now claims have emerged saying that Andrew can’t meet the £400,000-a-year upkeep of Royal Lodge.
“He was granted ‘a stay of execution’, it was reported in October, after he did a deal with the King to carry out the repair works on the 19th century, Grade II-listed property.”
Pictures appear to show that the mansion may be falling in disrepair.
The Frogmore Cottage – previously the house of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – Harry and Meghan – is said to be in good condition.
Andrew has signed a 75-year lease on the Royal Lodge, paying only £250 a week, but also agreeing to maintain the vast property.
“Part of the terms of this alleged deal with his older brother was that he would carry out repair works on the 19th century, Grade II-listed house, but these do not appear to have been done yet.
It was reported that Andrew, who was forced to quit royal duties over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, may have his royal allowance of £249,000 cut, making it difficult for the Duke to fulfill his promises.”
People close to Andrew say he ‘is going nowhere, because he has a cast iron lease.’
Read more:
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Indiana Fever player Caitlin Clark is currently the most-searched basketball player in the USA during the men’s NBA playoffs according to Google trends!
Google Trends Data during NBA Playoffs and start of WNBA Season: pic.twitter.com/8gV5w5d34H
— David Eickholt (@DavidEickholt) May 30, 2024
Not only that, but Caitlin Clark’s team – the Indiana Fever – is the top searched team in every single state except for one, Louisiana!
This is another Google trend pic.twitter.com/YRyxB8oHWy
— Brian Hemping (@brianhemping) May 30, 2024
Caitlin Clark is THE REASON the WNBA is breaking all-time audience records this year.
Caitlin Clark continues to sell out arena after arena everywhere she plays.
Caitlin Clark is the reason the WNBA players for the first time are traveling on charter flights – and not in the economy seats.
So how do the women thank her?
ASSAULT.
ASSAULT!
pic.twitter.com/81HW8ZMGbn— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) June 1, 2024
Twitter-X is going crazy after the abuse Caitlin took today during her game against Chicago. Chennedy Carter slammed into Clark from behind! Clark had no idea this was coming!
This is just embarrassing. Caitlin is a bigger person than me. I’d be fed up with this shit. @CaitlinClark22
— Kayce Smith (@KayceSmith) June 1, 2024
Angel Reese cheered the assault!
Angel Reese appeared to celebrate a cheap shot on Caitlin Clark……..and ended up losing the game!
That’s what kids call karma. Clark and the Fever end the day with a win. pic.twitter.com/384GsAW0ZH
— OutKick (@Outkick) June 1, 2024
Dave Portney was IRATE! – ‘Fly commercial! Fly commercial, you b*tch.”
Read her lips, what does it look like she’s saying to Caitlin Clark? pic.twitter.com/fwLjoF1JI5
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) June 1, 2024
The Chicago player called Clark a “bitch” before she assaulted her from behind.
Read her lips, what does it look like she’s saying to Caitlin Clark? pic.twitter.com/fwLjoF1JI5
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) June 1, 2024
Dave Portnoy.
MAKE THIS CHICK FLY COMMERCIAL!!! pic.twitter.com/b6a6IdpURt
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 1, 2024
More Portnoy.
Angel Reece celebrating a blatant cheap shot like she won a title. . Jealously is a disease. pic.twitter.com/l0Oi8E5OtZ
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 1, 2024
Moments later Caitlin Clark took an elbow to the face by Angel Reese.
Welcome to the @wnba Caitlin!
This is how the savior of the league is treated @CaitlinClark22 pic.twitter.com/bRqAH9nMTC
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) June 1, 2024
And then there was this…
GODDDAM THEY HATE CAITLIN CLARK pic.twitter.com/OK5OazHeCm
— LeLakers 2️⃣3️⃣ (@LeLaker) June 1, 2024
Those women sure are welcoming to Caitlin!
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American Airlines is veering towards a strike by flight attendants ahead of the busy summer travel season.
The current contract expired in 2019, and cost-of-living adjustments have stayed stagnant at rates negotiated in 2014.
Whatever you think of unions, workers are suffering in the Biden economy.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) issued a statement to members advising them to prepare for a strike.
Association Negotiations Update #56
Intensive Mediation Concludes With No Agreement;
Flight Attendants Should Prepare For a StrikeTwo weeks of intensive mediation at the National Mediation Board (NMB) offices in Washington, D.C., failed to produce an agreement with American Airlines. These sessions followed three weeks of mediation in DFW. Per the request of the NMB, we cannot release particular details. We remain apart on the key economics of the deal plus the company’s completely unacceptable demand for scheduling concessions.
More information about the status of bargaining and the upcoming steps will be forthcoming. We believe the Board will call the parties in for one last ditch effort in the next two weeks but that has not been set. We believe we will have more information from the NMB on Monday and will send an update. If we are unable to reach an agreement, the matter will be before the NMB to determine if we will be released. While these delays are frustrating, we also know that the company’s ability to stall these negotiations is rapidly reaching an end.
All Flight Attendants need to prepare for a strike. Strike handbooks will be mailed to your address on file with APFA.
Our right to strike under the Railway Labor Act has not changed. However, we cannot strike until released by the NMB and following a thirty-day cooling-off period. There must be no unauthorized or illegal work actions, including but not limited to work slowdown/stoppages or concerted action of refusing to pick up open trips. Please do not jeopardize yourself or our collective efforts by advocating for or engaging in unauthorized or illegal activities.
The company, however, remains tone-deaf. For Flight Attendant Appreciation Day, the airline provided cold sandwiches with a side of low wages.
The comments on Instagram were brutal:
“Appreciate your FA’s with that industry leading contract you promised!!!”
“Why don’t you post about the last 4-5 days operation? About the FAs stranded literally all over the country with no hotel, sitting on hold with tracking/Scheduling for hours and hours all while not being paid???”
“I’m on vacation fielding texts and calls from FAs since 3am the past few days because you willfully left them stranded, lost in the system, abandoned and unsupported. We don’t need an IG shoutout we need reliable infrastructure and consistency from the company we work for. Step it up and for the love of god leave the stale cookies and coagulated ham sandwiches in the drafts folder next time. Pay us what you owe us.”
Some directly called out American Airlines CEO Robert Isom, who received new compensation that soared to over $31 million in 2023.
“@robert_isom Honest question; Do you think you work 2,100 times smarter or harder than a flight attendant does? I don’t think that’s physically possible considering we are worked to our absolute limits. 17 hour days on 6 hours of rest aren’t even uncommon. So why do you pay yourself over 2,100 times what a flight attendant salary is? Your flight attendants want to move on with their lives, buy a car, buy a home, start families, not have anxiety in the grocery store because we can’t afford food.”
“YOU HAVE FAILED US. @robert_isom@americanair Signed, 27,000+ Flight Attendants who respectfully don’t need your degrading ham sandwiches today but would really prefer a contract. Thanks.”
Under the Railway Labor Act, the National Mediation Board does not often allow strikes, but a bipartisan group of 168 lawmakers has urged the Board “to use all of the tools at its disposal to encourage the resolution of these negotiations.”
We are writing to express our concern about the number of ongoing, protracted contract negotiations between parties before the National Mediation Board. As you know, there are thousands of workers across the country who are currently being subjected to drawn out contract negotiations, and we urge you to use the tools at your disposal to ensure the timely resolution of these cases.
First, we want to acknowledge the work of the National Mediation Board (NMB) in dealing with the unprecedented level of bargaining in recent years due to pent-up demand from delayed bargaining during COVID. With the NMB’s assistance, most of these negotiations are settled, demonstrating the professionalism and hard work of the Board and your staff. We are committed to providing you the resources to do your job moving forward.
However, we are concerned about the increasing number of contract negotiations before the NMB that are being unfairly drawn out to the detriment of workers. We understand that there are certain ongoing negotiations that have dragged on for as long as five years, and we have heard from workers who are justifiably concerned that they are being subjected to unfair delays in the bargaining process. For example, we know that over 100,000 flight attendants are currently in contract negotiations, many of whom are working under the terms of contracts that are now several years past the contract amendable dates. Furthermore, many of these workers were on the frontlines throughout the Covid pandemic and made countless sacrifices to keep their companies financially afloat, and it is important that they are able to reap the benefits of the collective bargaining process in a timely manner.
We are also concerned that the reason for these increasingly prolonged negotiations is due in part to the recent inability of workers to avail themselves of self-help options to facilitate labor disputes. It has long been understood that the best way to achieve labor peace is through collective bargaining backed by the threat of “self-help” for both parties, including the right to strike for workers. Indeed, workers across a range of professions have secured groundbreaking new contracts in recent years, many of which were won due to workers’ credible ability to exercise self-help options.
But, over recent decades, workers’ ability to utilize self-help options has been eroded. In fact, there have there been only two releases to strike of airline workers since 2006, the last being Spirit Airlines Pilots in 2010, compared to dozens in the 1980s and 1990s. Thus, management has little incentive to reach agreements with their workers in a timely manner and many companies have used this development to their advantage,improvements in the lives of tens of thousands of frontline workers.
Accordingly, we urge the Board to use all of the tools at its disposal to encourage the resolution of disputes with ratified agreements that are long overdue.
Thank you for your diligent work to resolve disputes and please continue that work knowing that we support your efforts and use of the statute to encourage settlement of contract disputes.
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Disgraced Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell weighed on the chilling conviction of President Trump for allegedly “falsifying business documents” and received a blistering response from conservatives on social media.
As the Gateway Pundit reported, the rigged New York City jury convicted Trump on ALL 34 COUNTS in Alvin Bragg and corrupt Judge Juan Merchan’s lawfare case Thursday afternoon.
A giddy Merchan saluted the jury members for their “dedication and hard work” after one of American history’s greatest travesties of justice. The next step is the sentencing phase on July 11, where Merchan will have a chance to throw Trump behind bars.
Merchan to jurors: I really admire your dedication and hard work. You worked very hard and gave this matter the attention it deserves.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
McConnell issued a pathetically canned response later that night with no emotion or outrage over the violation of Trump’s sacred constitutional rights.
“These charges never should have been brought in the first place,” he wrote. “I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal.”
These charges never should have been brought in the first place. I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal.
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) May 31, 2024
Conservatives on social media proceeded to dunk all over McConnell for his mealy-mouthed response:
Which staffer unfroze Glitch McConnell from a meat locker in the Capitol this evening?
— Emerald Robinson
(@EmeraldRobinson) May 31, 2024
You sir, are a coward. You should have said something louder and much sooner than now. Wow. What history is gonna say about you. Are you not sad? You should be.
—
Slow down there zippy you might strain yourself you worthless piece of leadsership!
— Rhonda Arquette (@Gigi_Tx6) May 31, 2024
And yet, you and Johnson did nothing about it. Would the democrats sit around while a sham trial happened to one of them?
Useless as usual
— Travis (@Travis_4_Trump) May 31, 2024
You funded the prosecution, dipsht.
— Gunther Eagleman
Resign Mitch McConnell.
Your statements are more flaccid than a wet noodle.
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) May 31, 2024
McConnell probably won’t lose any sleep over this and is probably secretly thrilled that his mortal enemy faces potential prison time. For years, he has been working against the MAGA movement especially on foreign policy and immigration.
As Jim Hoft notes, McConnell’s dedication to the global establishment is so complete that he even pushed through a Ukraine funding package that included language for automatic impeachment if Trump ever decided to end funding for the Ukraine-Russia war.
Thankfully, he will step down as GOP leader in November. Let’s hope he is replaced with an America-first leader rather than another globalist RINO.
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When it comes to The View’s co-host Sunny Hostin, the anti-Israel apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
To celebrate her graduation from her exclusive $63,000-a-year New York City prep school, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Sunny’s daughter Paloma Hostin shared a genocidal anti-Israel message on Snapchat.
In the Snapchat post obtained and shared on X by StopAntisemitism, Paloma wrote, “Now that I got my diploma: FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE.”
She added, “And to all the mfs who screenshotted my stories and showed them to your parents trying to get me suspended or expelled, look at me now.”
Sunny Hostin’s daughter, Paloma, just graduated from Fieldston, a $63k per year elite private high school in NYC.
How did she celebrate? By taking to SnapChat and calling for the erasure of the world’s only Jewish state.
She’s off to Cornell, class of 2028. pic.twitter.com/0JEvsBoJX1
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 31, 2024
According to The New York Post, Paloma, who is headed to Cornell University in the fall, attempted to walk back the disgusting display with a follow-up on her Instagram account, which is now set to private.
“I woke up feeling heavy about the humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East. Both sides have endured unimaginable loss and suffering. Today, my prayers are with everyone affected by these tragedies,” she wrote in a caption underneath an image of a peace sign painted against a colorful backdrop.
With the recent changes to Title VI and the broader definition of anti-Semitism, does this put Paloma in hot water with Cornell?
Given the recent changes to Title VI and the broader definition of anti-Semitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws, as well as the House passing the Antisemitism Awareness Act in May 2024, the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be… pic.twitter.com/K6o8MXFUij
— Always Looking for the Truth (@lehmanlaw) May 31, 2024
It isn’t hard to figure out that Paloma’s anti-Israel sentiments are likely home-grown.
During a recent appearance on The View, liberal comedian Bill Maher drew applause from the audience after he pushed back against Sunny during a debate on Israel, Hamas, and the ongoing war in the Middle East.
“If I had any doubt that I was right about the change that’s happened in the left, watching people protest for a terrorist organization like Hamas — that straightened me out pretty quick,” he said.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Maher why some Americans seemingly taking the side of a terrorist group over Israel.
“It’s astounding to me that they can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys, just morally,” he said. “If you’re for Hamas, just live in Gaza for a day … [even] before the war.”
“Trust me, you would go running, and screaming, and begging to live in Tel Aviv, a place that has your values.”
He added that women’s rights, in particular, are practically nonexistent in Gaza and many other nations.
That’s when Hostin chimed in and asked Maher if he also had concerns about those in Gaza,“Are you at all concerned about the innocent civilians that have been collectively punished and murdered, largely children and women?”
“Are you at all concerned about the fact that the International Criminal Court just today issued a subpoena for Bibi Netanyahu?”
Maher reminded Hostin that Hamas has openly declared its intent to commit genocide against the Jewish people.
“Now, this is a war,” he said. “Do you think Hamas needs to be destroyed? This is the question.”
Watch:
.@billmaher explains why he’s said “woke” policies on the left could get Donald Trump reelected and gives his take on the college campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/SWVTmaj3JL
— The View (@TheView) May 21, 2024
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In the fall of 2023, Joe Gow, the former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, announced his decision to step down from his position at the end of the school year to transition into a faculty role.
In December 2023, however, he was fired from that position for producing and appearing in pornographic videos with his wife and sharing the content on X, porn websites, books, and the YouTube channel “Sexy Happy Couple.”
Although the couple used pen names (Geri and Jay Hart) in two books, “Married with Benefits: Our Real-Life Adult Industry Adventures” and “Monogamy with Benefits: How Porn Enriches Our Relationship,” they did not appear to try to be secretive about their adult entertainment adventures.
University of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said in a statement at the time that Gow was terminated following a unanimous vote by the UW Board of Regents.
“In recent days, we learned of specific conduct by Dr. Gow that has subjected the university to significant reputational harm. His actions were abhorrent.”
“As a tenured faculty member, Dr. Gow will be placed on paid administrative leave as he transitions into his faculty role at UW-La Crosse. However, I have filed a complaint this evening with interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan regarding Dr. Gow’s status as a tenured faculty member, asking that such status be reviewed. In addition, an outside law firm has been engaged to undertake a fulsome investigation of the matter. We anticipate the complaint will be considered in the normal course as dictated by Wis. Admin. Code Ch. 4.”
Gow now argues in a Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed, while bragging about the success of his videos, that he should not lose tenure. He frames the argument as a violation of his First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression.
Gow wrote:
”For about a decade, my wife, Carmen Wilson (also an academic), and I had used our vacation time to secretly record a series of sex scenes with adult-industry professionals,” Gow wrote. “We made 18 of them in all, and we also published two books (using pen names) about our experiences. Late last year, after I had announced I was stepping down from my administrative position at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse to focus on my faculty role, we thought it would be interesting to see how a few of our scenes might be received on popular adult websites. We uploaded five of them (featuring just the two of us). Knowing those platforms host millions of videos, we doubted anyone would pay much attention.”
”How wrong we were,” he added. “We watched incredulously as our videos, with no promotion whatsoever, drew hundreds of views per day, then thousands, then tens of thousands. After just a few weeks, we passed a million views in all, leading one site to rank us as its No. 2 creators for North America and Oceania in December 2023.”
Gow continued, ”I understand why UW leaders didn’t want me to continue as chancellor, but I am puzzled by their determination to keep me from returning to the classroom. After all, these are the same people who, at a board meeting held just weeks before my firing, energetically affirmed the importance of promoting free speech on our campuses.”
“In the meantime, I enjoy recalling an anecdote my wife told me: When we were headed to Las Vegas a few years ago, one of her co-workers asked what we planned to do there. ‘Oh,’ she told him, ‘the usual stuff: Sit by the pool, eat nice dinners, make some porn.’ He chuckled at her cheeky reply.”
”If only the Wisconsin regents and system president could lighten up, too. Laugh at us if you want to. Call us strange. But please don’t try to suppress the vital conversations we’re starting,” he said.
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, Interim UW-La Crosse Chancellor Betsy Morgan alleges Gow failed to cooperate with the investigation, participated in unethical and potentially illegal conduct, and violation of information use technologies.
A public hearing, scheduled for mid-June, must be held before Gow is stripped of tenure.
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Now that a kangaroo NYC court has convicted him of bogus crimes, President Trump may not be able to travel to six key countries even if re-elected and must surrender his firearms to the government.
New York immigration attorney Karin Wolman revealed to the New York Post on Saturday that if Trump were to prevail in November, his conviction on felony counts “would almost certainly affect his ability to travel for diplomatic purposes” to countries such as the following six countries: Australia, China, India, Israel, New Zealand, and Taiwan.
Australia, India, Israel, Taiwan, and New Zealand are important U.S. allies, while China is America’s most prominent geopolitical foe.
Wolman notes that all six nations require visas to visit, and the visa applications include questions about criminal backgrounds.
To enter these countries, Trump would likely have to apply for a waiver and a temporary visa, according to Wolman. “It will be up to each country whether they want to waive his 34 felony convictions,” she said.
While Wolman said that she does not foresee these countries banning Trump, one cannot rule out the possibility of a ban if deranged leftists take over the allied governments or if China wants to use the conviction to send a message.
But the news gets even worse for the 45th president. Trump, a licensed gun owner, will also have to hand over his firearms in the coming weeks thanks to the conviction.
Under New York state and federal law, convicted felons are forbidden from possessing firearms. Criminal defense attorney Peter Tilem explained to the Post this means that another person must take the guns or they must be surrendered to state authorities by Trump’s July 11 sentencing.
“There is no grace period,” Tilem said. “You are federally prohibited once you are convicted.”
Back in 2016, Trump told a French magazine during an interview regarding a string of terror attacks in France that he is always packing heat.
“I always carry a weapon on me,” he said. “If I’d been at the Bataclan concert hall or one of those bars, I would have opened fire.”
As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, the rigged New York City jury convicted Trump on ALL 34 COUNTS in Alvin Bragg and corrupt Judge Juan Merchan’s lawfare case Thursday afternoon.
A giddy Merchan saluted the jury members for their “dedication and hard work” after one of American history’s greatest travesties of justice. The next step is the sentencing phase on July 11, where Merchan will have a chance to throw Trump behind bars.
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Tim Pool, host of the YouTube show Timcast IRL, abruptly ended his livestream on Friday, according to the website Anarchist Federation.
This unexpected termination occurred as Laura Loomer advocated for the execution of Democrats whom she accuses of orchestrating a coup against Trump following his conviction in a recent bogus hush money trial.
During the show, Loomer passionately voiced her frustrations with the political forces aligned against Trump, calling for stark actions against these “traitors.”
“Wake up. Stop being nice to these people,” Loomer said. “I don’t give a sh*t about these people, their livelihood, their well-being, the well-being of their families, their little kids. I don’t give a sh*t. And that’s the mentality that everybody needs to have now in this country, because it is war. It is war.”
Pool echoed Loomer’s sentiments, asserting that there was “no question” that if Trump were reelected, he should start locking Democrats up.
“Should there be lists of Democrats who need to go to jail? 100%,” Pool said. “And the reason for that is they committed crimes… And the reason we can put them on trial is to show the whole world we will uncover what you’ve done. We will make sure everyone knows, and you will be held accountable for it.”
“Not just jail, they should get the death penalty,” Loomer said.
As Loomer began to call for the death penalty as punishment for treason, the live stream was suddenly cut off. The video disappeared from YouTube and was replaced with a disclaimer stating it had been “removed by the uploader.”
After the abrupt end of the live stream, one user asked Loomer who pulled the plug on the feed.
“Who pulled the feed? Was it Tim? It went down on YouTube and Rumble at the same time?” the user asked.
In her response, she confirmed that it was Pool who ended the stream when she called for treason charges and the death penalty for Democrats accused of plotting against Trump to prevent his YouTube account from being taken down due to her comments.
“Tim Pool had to cut the feed. He ended the stream when I said people who committed treason in our country (I was talking about the Democrats who staged a coup against Donald Trump) should be tried for TREASON and get the DEATH PENALTY,” Loomer wrote on X.
“Apparently you’re not allowed to say that on YouTube even though it’s literally in our US legal system… I am not angry with Tim. It’s not his fault that YouTube is pro-censorship. Obviously I don’t want his account to be taken down just because I was defending Donald Trump and because I said there needs to be a trial and then the maximum punishment on the books for TREASON,” she added.
“I stand by everything I said. The Leftists at the top of this lawfare machine are committing treason. Many of these efforts are funded by the CCP. These lawfare agents and communists deserve the death penalty. I will say it till I’m blue in the face because it’s TRUE. I believe Tim Pool is posting the show on Rumble. Hopefully he will tweet the link out so all Of you can watch the show,” Loomer concluded.
Pool, who recently confessed that he did not vote for Trump in 2016 and identified as a pro-Bernie Sanders social liberal, faced criticism for his decision to end the live stream. Some users accused him of prioritizing monetization and income over free speech, while others defended his action as a necessary business decision.
One user commented, “I like watching Tim but he still feels monetization and income is more important than his and guest’s free speech, since he won’t simultaneously cast to Rumble.”
Another commented, “Content creators should be boycotting Google. That is the only way things will change, but none will because they don’t want to give up the $. The overlords know this. This is how the matrix controls information.”
A third user expressed disappointment, stating, “I blame him. He supports a platform that censors common viewpoints. He does it because it’s self serving, right?”
Another user defended Pool’s action, stating, “Was definitely a business decision. Tim has 50 employees can’t afford to be spended for a week. Laura sometime is just too hot for live television too spicy.”
.@Timcast Tim Pool had to cut the feed. He ended the stream when I said people who committed treason in our country (I was talking about the Democrats who staged a coup against Donald Trump) should be tried for TREASON and get the DEATH PENALTY.
Apparently you’re not allowed to… https://t.co/MRPIyHYWBB pic.twitter.com/C3qVOr3uS6
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) June 1, 2024
For the record, several conservative websites, including The Gateway Pundit, can no longer monetize on YouTube and have seen reduced viewership for standing up and telling the truth to the world. We were not afraid to report the truth. As a result, we were demonetized for not bowing to them.
The Gateway Pundit was also banned by Google Adsense, which is why our readers are now seeing a few disagreeable ads displayed on our website for reporting the election fraud that other conservative websites hesitated to report back in 2020 and only recently decided to report on.
The Gateway Pundit is embroiled in numerous lawsuits for reporting what happened in the fraudulent election. As a result, we were labeled as fake news, even by other conservative websites and Republicans.
On the flip side, The Gateway Pundit is currently one of the lead plaintiffs in the historic free speech case against the Biden regime that was argued in front of the Supreme Court in March. We expect a decision this month. Stay tuned…
But we will not stop reporting the truth. Even our very public financial challenges will not prevent us from speaking the truth to our audience—the best audience online today.
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Guest post by Briana G. Céspedes, U.S. Air Force
Why does someone join the United States military? Service members are the one percent who voluntarily raise their hands and swear to defend the Constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic. Sometimes, the domestic enemies pose great threats that have gone unnoticed for too long.
From 2020 to the present, one such service member could never have imagined the illegal actions that would be made against her for simply protecting the oath she took.
Not many know that at least 8,500 active duty members were discharged, most without an honorable characterization, and tens of thousands were placed on permanent non-pay status in the Reserves and National Guard.
And every member has different experiences ranging from loss of pay, coercion, threats from leaders, loss of promotion, and mental and physical injury. For Céspedes, the moment of leaving the military was a sad sigh of relief. In other words, involuntary discharge was the final blow in a long series of mistreatments.
On July 11, 2022, Céspedes was generally discharged from the U.S. Air Force due to her convictions to not participate in a new experimental vaccine. Her conviction was clear as she researched what products the mRNA technology contained and spoke with her Christian mentors.
She could not disregard her body and did not believe she had to force herself though she received pressure on all sides. Secretary of Defense Austin stated in a memo to the Armed Forces that they would not mandate non-FDA approved vaccines (Mandatory Vaccination Program, 2021).
This however, was not the case when it came to implementation and her unit was given a deadline of 2 months before all of them had to be fully vaccinated with only Emergency Authorized Products.
She couldn’t understand why the mandates coming through were not matching with the promises their leaders were telling them. She could not get herself to inject some new product in her body that was not tested as all other vaccines are required to.
With this conviction, she went to the base Chaplain and told him her reasons for requesting a religious exemption. He found her conviction to be sincere and forwarded that information to the commander of her wing.
This was back in September of 2021, when, she received an email directly from her Wing Commander, without anyone cc’d, directly stating that if she did not get the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the month, she would be disobeying a lawful order.
The email also stated that because she would be disobeying a lawful order, she could face court martial and dishonorable discharge. At that moment, she realized, this was going to be a big, long, hard fight. Her MAJCOM (Major Command) Commander had taken the time to individually reach out to her with haste, this was a big deal and obviously pressure coming from the top. She was filled with fear.
But, as her father told her, “Bri, maybe you’re in the military for such a time as this, maybe you’re fight for freedom is different than you thought.” She remembered why she joined and remembered what kept her there.
The U.S. Air Force taught her a few core values: Integrity First, meaning we will always show true character despite pressure; Service Before Self, meaning we will regard other’s lives and livelihoods above our own; and, Excellence in All We Do, meaning taking this fight to the end and excelling with precision.
She realized that many of her peers did not want to take the shot either, but they responded with, “I have no choice, when I joined the U.S. military I gave over my rights.” Dale Saran has a response to that.
“No one’s really litigated that issue,” Saran said. “. . .But we’ve come so far down the road that we just believe it, we just accept that. It’s not correct to say, as a matter of law, that you are suddenly property of the U.S. government once you join the military. For example, if the military said tomorrow ‘we’re going to sterilize everybody who comes into the military because we don’t want to have pregnancies, would anybody think that that was legitimate? I mean you could make a very good argument for it, you could make a very good case for the practical nature of it, but it would be completely illegal, immoral and just terrible,” Saran said. “So as soon as you go with that you could think of all kinds of limits on that power. Does it give you the right to experiment on troops? No.”
This was just the beginning. After submitting her Request for Religious Exemption in September of 2021, she was under the impression that she would be receiving a response to this question which would change her life and service forever, within 140 days.
In Air Force policy 52-201, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE, it requires that the Air Force respond to the Airmen within this timeline requirement. This mandate can only be exempted by Congress as a T-0 waiver level.
Congress never gave this exemption to the Air Force. It was not until 168 days after submission that she received her first notification on February 14, 2022.
During those almost 6 months, a lot happened. She had been sent to quarantine 8 times, which equals to 112 days in isolation. She had transferred to a new unit where she was the only one required to wear a mask since she was the unvaccinated Airman and could not be in the same room as her coworkers during lunch.
She had received threats of dishonorable discharge, loss of all benefits and was not able to leave the local area as an unvaccinated Airman. When regulations started to ease, they only got stricter for her.
Without the vaccine, she could not enter even a coffee shop because she did not have the COVID Passport. And, at her new unit she experienced another long series of quarantines counting to almost 4 months that she spent in the barracks alone.
This led to long periods of inactivity, wastefulness, and ultimately, mental strain. If the Department of Defense is so worried about suicide among the ranks, then why would they threaten, pressure and isolate to this extent? If not for her faith, Céspedes would have resorted to other options to get out of her misery.
Her appeal was denied promptly after submission on March 24, 2022 and at this point, she knew she would be discharged but not sure when. She prepared herself to make a new way in the civilian world without the GI Bill (where the government covers the cost of a 4-year degree).
She was afraid to fail more than what she had already been told she was failing in. Supervisors, coworkers, friends, commanders, her first sergeant, who is supposed to protect the morale and welfare of the unit, all told her the same thing, “just get the dang vaccine! Then we can help you!” Even her commander told her that he did not want “an essential worker who is valued like you” to be discharged, but “my hands are tied,” he said.
On April 12, 2022, she was given a Letter of Reprimand for violation of UCMJ Article 92, Disobeying a Lawful Order. That same month, as she was supposed to put on her next rank, her commander wrote a Nonrecommendation for Promotion and pulled her Staff Sergeant, E-5 line badge.
Then, May 19, 2022, she received the Notification of Recommendation for Discharge with MISCONDUCT SERIOUS OFFENSE as there reason for discharge. It was here that she learned she would not be getting a dishonorable discharge. She cried from relief. It was not an honorable discharge but, at least she would not be on the same level as a criminal.
She was thankful to the Congressmen and women that worked hard to stop President Biden’s attempt at giving service members like her a dishonorable discharge. She hopes that they will continue to push to upgrade the characterization to honorable, since involuntary veterans cannot continue to be punished for an illegal mandate that has now been rescinded. Many involuntary veterans are not able to pursue school because they are not eligible for the GI bill and are barred from employment opportunities and even third party benefits like membership with national veteran support organizations.
At this point, she was ready to get out. She had made plans with her family, she was prepared to start over. Waiting is what killed her the most. Day to day she had to show up to work in uniform knowing that it would be stripped from her.
For her, it was hard to be proud to wear the uniform when everyone saw her as a threat and a rebel. She got close to the Lord, her family over FaceTime and the local church. She fought for the principle more than the product, realizing the wrong done to everyone. How could we, as the most brave, be known to bow to the most illogical of rules?
This vaccine did not provide immunity nor safety, and more than that, rules were being broken left and right in the implementation of it. The beauty of the United States is the accountability the people are required to keep their leaders to based on the Constitution. That is what kept her standing.
And, on July 11, 2022, she was out. She sat on the kitchen floor in disbelief, full of sadness because she was now returning without the honorable stamp from the military, but with its rejection. But, keeping to her oath had just begun.
And that beginning includes sharing stories of the thousands upon thousands of service members that have suffered the same consequence for their convictions.
We need to raise awareness on the illegality and immorality that was done to those the U.S government says they honor the most. We need to honor our veterans and make sure they receive the veterans support and basic characterization of honorable they deserve.
We train our service members with the principles of liberty, integrity, and honor. So, let’s acknowledge the wrong done and thank our members for maintaining those principles we all are required to defend.
With the recent Declaration of Military Accountability, she joins in the movement to ensure that service members like her, the junior enlisted in the barracks is protected. Protected from willful illegality and misuse of authority within the ranks.
Junior enlisted should be able to trust their leaders, yet, we are facing a crisis of recruitment and retention because of the way DOD leadership has chosen to treat their members. The military should be known for honor and we expect our leaders to be honorable no matter the cost.
This is the story of one Involuntary Veteran.
There are many more out there.
And we won’t stop reminding the DOD leadership what oaths they have taken and keep them accountable to that.
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Donald Trump holds a commanding lead over Joe Biden among Arab Americans, according to the latest polling data from the American Arab Institute.
The institute surveyed around 900 voters in four key states that have sizeable Arab populations: Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
This is what they found:
While some national polls show President Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza is impacting voters from traditionally Democratic constituencies, this is most clearly the case with Arab American voters. In 2020, Biden bested former President Donald Trump by 59%-35%. In this poll, Biden is now losing to Trump by 32%-18%.
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As in our October 2023 poll, President Biden continues to receive less than 20% of the Arab American vote—which stands in sharp contrast to the nearly 60% of the Arab American vote he received in 2020. Donald Trump continues to receive the votes of about one-third of Arab Americans—the same as he did in 2020.
The pollsters concluded that the main reason for Biden’s massive decline in popularity is because of his role in supporting Israel’s war against Hamas.
BREAKING- AAI 2024 election poll of #ArabAmericans in key states: Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, + Virginia.
KEY FINDINGS:
– Support for Biden at 18%
– 88% disapprove of Biden’s handling of Gaza
– 80% view Gaza as important in determining their vote–>https://t.co/1IIdSHOMnF pic.twitter.com/Sqtsvs39fZ
— Arab American Institute (@AAIUSA) May 30, 2024
They continued:
79% of Arab Americans have an unfavorable view of President Biden, while 56% have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump. Biden’s negative ratings are largely driven by the 56% of Democrats who view him unfavorably—with almost all Republicans saying they have an unfavorable view of Biden. On the other hand, Trump’s numbers are higher because he retains the near total support of those who identify as Republicans (while, of course, receiving almost no support among Arab Americans who are Democrats).
The simple reason why Biden’s numbers and ratings are so low is, in a word, Gaza. When given 10 issues and asked to rate which of the three are most important to them, 60% say it is the war in Gaza. In response to another question, 57% also say that Gaza will be “very important” in determining their vote in November.
After 8 months of Israel’s relentless assault on Palestinians in Gaza, 88% of Arab Americans say they have a negative view of the way Biden has handled the war, with overwhelming majorities across all party identification: Republicans (87%), Independents (86%), and even Democrats (87%).
As we have extensively reported at The Gateway Pundit, Democrats are panicking about Biden’s unpopularity among Arab voters.
As a result, he is desperately trying to change course on Israel by unveiling a three-part proposal to end the conflict that would start with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would be forced to withdraw from populated areas of Gaza. Unfortunately for Biden, Israel has yet to agree to the plan and is unlikely to do so.
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A Texas elementary school teacher has been caught on tape filming X-rated videos inside her classroom and is now under investigation.
KHOU reported Thursday that the woman was a music teacher at Gray Elementary in Lamar Consolidated Independent School District in Fort Bend County. The school is located in Richmond, roughly 31 miles from Houston.
In the videos, the teacher is seen exposing her bare breasts and a** to a camera in one video inside the classroom. Another clip shows her exposing herself in a bathroom.
“This is me being crazy at work,” she says.
WATCH:
GRAPHIC: Disturbing footage has just surfaced of a former elementary teacher at @LamarCISD setting up her camera to film a p**n*graph*c video at school. She filmed herself shaking her bare b*tt and b*easts and tw*rk*ng for the camera.
.@GregAbbott_TX how can Texans be assured… pic.twitter.com/TXxcO5ok7J
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2024
While the incident happened earlier this year, the videos only emerged on Wednesday, thanks to Libs of TikTok.
The unidentified woman resigned in February for “undisclosed reasons,” but the school district claims it wasn’t aware of these disgusting actions until the videos surfaced.
She told KHOU 11 News that she had made a big mistake, which she regrets.
‘It was a poor judgment on my part,” the teacher said. “I would never do it again.”
The woman claimed that the footage was intended for an ex-boyfriend and not for general public consumption.
At this point, the woman has not been charged with any crime. KHOU legal analyst Carmen Roe says the former teacher was not necessarily criminal.
The former teacher told the outlet that she stepped down from Lamar CISD for reasons unrelated to the video. She hopes her career and reputation are not permanently impacted.
KHOU also revealed she has filed a police report for possible revenge porn.
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Emboldened by support from leaders of the terrorist Hamas organization and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, several chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have announced plans to travel to Washington D.C. to “surround the White House.”
SJP shared their plans on Instagram:
June 8 marks eight months of US-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, and marks the 54th anniversary of the occupation of Gaza.
A month ago, Biden said that the invasion of Rafah was a red line. But now, the invasion of Rafah has continued for weeks, has expanded to the entire Gaza Strip, and Biden’s red line is nowhere to be seen. Instead of following through and stopping military aid to Israel, Biden has authorized billions MORE in weapons shipments to be used to kill and massacre Palestinians.
Biden can’t draw the line, but we have. On June 8, we’ll come together from across the country and surround the White House. Wearing red, and raising our demands high, we’ll show the world that we are the red line.
Busses from Raleigh will be meeting at 7AM! Link in our bio for more info.
CEASEFIRE NOW. END THE SIEGE ON GAZA. FREE THE PALESTINIAN PRISONERS. END THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE. on social media announcing the June 8 plans.
The flyer accompanying the post says, “Biden, we are your red line. Stop the genocide. Surround the White House!”
The ANSWER Coalition and Peoples Forum NYC shared that buses are being made available for transportation to the event from all over the country, including Dearborn, Michigan; Des Moines, Iowa; Portland, Maine; and more.
The actions have the full support of terrorists and brutal regime leaders.
The Gateway Pundit reported that senior Hamas official Khaled Mashal officially thanked student protesters at American universities for their protests and anti-Israel encampments and for their participation in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” war.
A translation of his remarks was provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Mashal said, “We thank the great student Flood, which emerged from the American, European, and Western universities, and has reached all the countries of our nation. We are grateful for the spirit that we have witnessed in our nation and in humanity as a whole. We are grateful to the free people of the world.”
“We have an opportunity to defeat Israel, Allah willing. We have an opportunity to dismantle the Zionist enterprise. We have an opportunity to change the world.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei also shared his support of the protestors in a letter posted a letter online:
“Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing on the right side of history. You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government’s ruthless pressure – which openly supports Zionists…Dear university students in the US, my advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.”
Imam Khamenei’s letter addressed to the American university studentshttps://t.co/A9n98vGdT9#LetterFromLeader #United4Palestine pic.twitter.com/c9gnFrWyKc
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 29, 2024
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Guest post by Joe Hoft who holds a CPA and MBA and multiple degrees and designations. He once oversaw the financial reporting of a billion-dollar entity and was also an international executive in Hong Kong for nearly a decade.
Republished with permission.
Corrupt Soros-backed Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, and the Trump-hating gang of former Obama White House and Biden DOJ members like Matthew Colangelo, dropped BS indictments against President Trump in April 2023.
Below is the indictment:
Donald J. Trump Indictment by Jim Hoft on Scribd
On Thursday, a New York jury in corrupt Judge Juan Merchan’s court found President Trump guilty of 34 “felonies.” Judge Merchan is arguably the most conflicted judge in history with his 20-something daughter raking in tens of millions from Democrat politicians before, during, and because of this case being tried.
These so-called “felonies” have been ignored by Big Media for a year, yet their accounting-related characteristics really stand out to anyone with an accounting background.
Eleven of these activities classified as “felonies” in the indictment don’t make any sense. President Trump didn’t commit these crimes because these accounting activities clearly aren’t crimes.
Throughout the investigation of the indictments, the corrupt actors going after President Trump claimed the following in 11 instances, starting with their first of 34 so-called felonies.
The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
Eleven times this indictment makes similar claims as above. This “felony” refers to the receipt of an invoice.
Bragg claims that President Trump:
“Made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen.”
This is the same as saying President Trump received an invoice from Michael Cohen. I don’t believe that there was evidence that President Trump ever received these invoices himself. But it really doesn’t matter.
US companies and entities receive thousands, if not millions of invoices every day. Individuals receive invoices as well. For most people they receive their electric bill or invoice in the mail or via email.
President Trump was found guilty of 11 felonies for receiving invoices in the mail or in his email. This is the equivalent of an American being found guilty of a felony for receiving their electric bill in the mail.
It is likely that no one in history other than President Trump has ever been charged with a felony for receiving an invoice from a vendor. Trump has no control over the receipt of invoices. He certainly never created them.
Also, he likely never received an invoice in his life. His accounts payable department would receive the invoices and record receiving them in vouchers in the books. President Trump never did this. He was the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. This work was performed by the accounts payable department and yet he is charged with 12 felonies for posting these entries in the books.
The remaining 11 felonies for paying the invoices were also likely prepared by the Accounts Payable Department and perhaps signed by President Trump. Bragg claims that President Trump signed 9 of the checks.
It’s most likely that President Trump signed these checks after a cursory review at best, as most executives do for small payments.
This entire case is a sham. The fact that these monsters like Bragg and Colangelo used this to imprison an innocent man for fake crimes is the real crime.
Joe Hoft holds a CPA and MBA and multiple degrees and designations. He once oversaw the financial reporting of a billion-dollar entity and was also an international executive in Hong Kong for nearly a decade.
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Maxine Waters made an obnoxious comment about the Trump verdict this week and got immediate push back from other people on Twitter/X.
Perhaps Republicans should investigate and prosecute Maxine Waters for inciting violence when she urged people to harass Trump officials in public places. Or maybe they should look into all of the campaign funds she has funneled to her daughter over the years.
The response to Waters shows just how fed up people are with the vitriol of the left.
FOX News reports:
‘Corrupt criminal’: Maxine Waters receives backlash over vitriolic response to Trump’s guilty verdict
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., received backlash on social media in response to her reaction to the criminal conviction of former President Trump in a post where she mocked the former president.
“Trump shut your mouth!” Waters posted on X following Trump’s conviction.
“You talk about saving the Constitution? You’re the one who has disrespected the Constitution and you have supporters who believe we should get rid of the Constitution! Just shut your mouth, you’re convicted on all counts!”
The post, which ignited an immediate push back from conservatives on social media, received over 1 million views on X.
Here’s her tweet:
Trump shut your mouth! You talk about saving the Constitution? You’re the one who has disrespected the Constitution and you have supporters who believe we should get rid of the Constitution! Just shut your mouth, you’re convicted on all counts!
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) May 30, 2024
Here are some of the responses:
Maxine Waters is notorious for being one of the dumbest and most corrupt members of Congress.
Lots of financial skeletons in her closet.
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) May 31, 2024
You’re the one who should be on trial for corruption to the nth degree – aren’t you voted to be the most corrupt congressperson ever??
You incite violence, ignorance, hate and promote putting your political opponents in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT – just like the communists do.…
— MARXIST Denier (@MARXISTDenier) May 31, 2024
This woman is a corrupt criminal who has laundered over a million dollars in campaign cash to her daughter. https://t.co/iTMPXG9gW4
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 31, 2024
Woman who implored supporters to physically get up in the faces of any Trump administration official has thoughts to share… https://t.co/lF0EfADHdS
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 31, 2024
Shut up you retarded moron https://t.co/Rqap2rw7ly
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 31, 2024
These people are mentally ill. TDS is real. https://t.co/GMG7uFFFOm
— Mike Sperrazza (@MikeASperrazza) May 31, 2024
Oh the ratio
Shut your mouth
Trump supporters LOVE the constitution it’s Democrats who constantly disregard it
Retire already you old hag https://t.co/DCwx4WpwhQ pic.twitter.com/lbPR9119xG
—
(@azinthegarden) May 31, 2024
Maxine Waters, you are a wacko and your party are the fascists. You have weaponized justice and your leader Joe Biden is the same as Vladimir Putin.
You shut your mouth because you’re ignorant and every time you speak, it shows. We will defeat you in November. https://t.co/ClwllaNUYc
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) May 31, 2024
Remember when your biggest donor was a crypto ceo who stole 30+ billion dollars from American citizens? No, I do. https://t.co/47CVQi6Psz pic.twitter.com/GFAN1ggNQr
— Chasten (@drchasten) May 31, 2024
Republicans should look into any alleged issues Waters has and give her a taste of her party’s own medicine.
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President Trump’s campaign for a third electoral win has, hopefully for the Biden Regime, been derailed by a historic conviction, but according to fundraising numbers, he will be the next President of The United States.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
There was no crime, but the Democrats ratcheted up what would be a misdemeanor to a felony in order to bypass the statute of limitations, and Marxist Judge Juan Merchan helped to rig the trial for a guilty verdict.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen, who the media and prosecutors falsely labeled his “fixer,” in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after “highly conflicted” Judge Merchan, whose daughter has received MILLIONS of dollars consulting the Democrats who want to take down Trump, instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed. Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history.
The jury only had to agree that something bad happened, but not on what that something was.
This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
The jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial on Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts! Ironically for the Biden Regime, however, the conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony charges has translated into MORE THAN $34 MILLION fundraised for our real President.
As The Gateway Pundit reported this morning, Trump had raised a campaign record of $34.8 MILLION in the 24 hours after he was convicted by a leftist jury of 34 felony charges in the Alvin Bragg witch hunt trial.
President Trump announced that he would appeal the bogus charges and called Joe Biden a dummy in a press conference this morning.
Now, Team Trump's MAGA War Room X account reveals that Donald Trump's reelection campaign has raised nearly $53 MILLION off of his conviction in Merchan's Kangaroo Court!
JUST IN pic.twitter.com/YHidOAVwHA
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) May 31, 2024
Keep in mind that Joe Biden previously set a record with an event that raked in a previously unprecedented $25 million. About a week later, Trump set another record unprecedented event with a fundraising amount of over $50 million!
President Trump's nearly $53 Million in 24 hours is not something to be totally surprised about as the Americans denounce political prosecution.
The Trump campaign released the following statement on Friday evening:
In the 24 hours since Crooked Joe Biden and his New York henchmen got their sham trial verdict, the Trump Campaign has raised $52.8 million through the online digital fundraising platform.THAT'S MORE THAN $2 MILLION PER HOUR!With more than one third of these donors being new to the campaign, it is clear that more and more Americans are seeing through the Biden election interference and joining President Trump in the movement to save our nation."Biden and his Democrat allies have turned our legal system into a political tool, and Americans from every corner of the country have had enough," said Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita. "This momentum is just getting started and together, as President Trump stated perfectly, Americans will render the real verdict November 5th."
To join the movement, go to donaldjtrump.com
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It has always been about this. President Trump is up in the polls, and the Republican base is coalescing around him.
The globalist elites are in a panic. Trump is the greatest threat to their power over humanity in the civilized world. Something must be done.
On Thursday, President Trump became a political prisoner under the Biden regime.
Alex Soros, the son of the infamous leftist financier George Soros, has made an appeal to Democrats.
His directive? To relentlessly label former President Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” at every possible turn.
In a post dripping with far-left rhetoric, Alex Soros wrote, “Democrats should refer to Trump as a convicted felon at every opportunity.”
“Repetition is the key to a successful message and we want people to wrestle with the notion of hiring a convicted felon for the most important job in the country!” Soros added.
This brazen call to action highlights the Soros agenda of incessant character assassination.
Democrats should refer to Trump as a convicted felon at every opportunity. Repetition is the key to a successful message and we want people to wrestle with the notion of hiring a convicted felon for the most important job in the country! https://t.co/WLLMWatlkP
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) May 31, 2024
They want him gone – no matter the cost.
Alex Soros tweeted out an obvious threat against President Trump earlier this year.
Alex shared a post from the far-left The Atlantic that features a bullet hole and a sum of $47. “Last year, the crime and inflation crises largely evaporated. So did the leading theories about what had caused them,” the caption reads.
The Soros family’s influence extends deep into the American justice system, which has funded and installed more than 70 district attorneys across the United States, including Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis.
Their goal? To undermine the American justice system and advance their radical agenda.
NEW, UPDATED MAP: The U.S. currently has 70 Soros-backed social justice prosecutors. pic.twitter.com/YE4Gnx2OfV
— Law Enforcement Legal Defense (@LELDF) March 29, 2023
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Michigan Dems Pass Bill to ease Voter Fraud, Make Investigating Fraud Impossible
A week ago, Michigan Senate Bill 603 was reported out of the Elections Committee in the Michigan House on a party-line vote. Democrats were in favor of the bill, which would effectively make illegal any kind of voter fraud investigation for future elections.
House Elections Cmte. Vice-Chair Smit: “If the 2020 was so Secure, why are Democrats Making Future Investigations Illegal?”
Elections Committee Vice Chair Rachelle Smit explained, “This bill prevents Boards of Canvassers from investigating election fraud. Now, it only permits investigations for ‘error’ but assumes that there is no such thing as voter fraud. The Democrats are ensuring are elections and election processes are neither safe nor secure. This bill ensures that every election is now suspect because there’s no way to investigate fraud.”
Independent studies by academics have shown ‘impossible statistical anomalies’ in the 2020 Michigan election returns, especially with absentee ballots. As well, the Gateway Pundit interviewed and published video from dozens of eyewitnesses who saw late-arriving illegal ballots, ghost voters, mishandling of ballots, intimidation of GOP election workers and poll challengers, illegal expulsion of GOP workers, likely fraudulent ballots, secret suppressed evidence of a systemic effort to register fake voters, all processed and counted to throw the election against incumbent Donald Trump, all just within Michigan.
Rep. Rachelle Smit, a Republican, is a former elections clerk for her local jurisdiction in west Michigan. Her colleague Rep. Jay DeBoyer was also a former County Clerk overseeing elections in St. Clair County, Michigan.
Rep. Jay DeBoyer had this to say about the legislative changes enacted by the Democrat legislature, “The Dems are successfully stacking the deck by stripping provisions of law that would provide for the detection of potential fraud committed during the process of administering an election. This is bad; we all know it’s bad yet the ignorance and pure disregard for election security from the democrats reigns Supreme.”
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Scientists in the United Kingdom have announced a “ground-breaking” vaccine that they claim could save people from bowel cancer.
In a statement from the British National Health Service, the state-run healthcare system confirmed that thousands of cancer patients would be given “fast-tracked access to trials of personalised cancer vaccines.”
The statement read:
The NHS today announced it has treated its first patient in England with a personalised vaccine against their bowel cancer, in a clinical trial part of NHS England’s new Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad.
In a national first, father-of-four Elliot Phebve received the developmental jab at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, one of several sites taking part in the colorectal cancer vaccine trial sponsored by BioNTech SE.
The German biotechnology company will tomorrow (1 June) present new preliminary data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual conference in Chicago on how measuring circulating tumour DNA could potentially help early detection of colorectal cancer.
According to the NHS, the cancer vaccines have been developed using the same MRNA technology used to create the COVID-19 jabs, which incidentally are neither safe nor particularly effective.
Elliot is among the first in England to receive a personalised cancer vaccine as part of a trial aimed at helping cancer patients.
If successful, these vaccines might one day prevent a patients cancer from returning or spreading.
Find out more. https://t.co/uSfShuxwy0 pic.twitter.com/31ryJHiFdl
— NHS England (@NHSEngland) May 31, 2024
The statement continued:
The investigational cancer vaccines evaluated in the colorectal cancer trial are based on mRNA – the same technology used for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – and are created by analysing a patient’s tumour to identify mutations specific to their own cancer.
Using this information, medics then create an experimental individualised cancer vaccine.The developmental vaccines are designed to induce an immune response that may prevent cancer from returning after surgery on the primary tumour, by stimulating the patient’s immune system to specifically recognise and potentially destroy any remaining cancer cells.
The investigational cancer vaccines being jointly developed by biopharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, are still undergoing trials and have not yet been approved by regulators.
The development comes as scientists around the world say they are baffled by a mysterious cancer “epidemic” affecting young people. This has been particularly highlighted in the United Kingdom by Princess Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis, although the specific type of cancer has not been publicly disclosed.
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As the Gateway Pundit reported, the rigged New York City jury convicted President Trump ALL 34 COUNTS in Alvin Bragg and corrupt Judge Juan Merchan’s lawfare case Thursday afternoon.
A giddy Merchan saluted the jury members for their “dedication and hard work” after one of American history’s greatest travesties of justice. The next step is the sentencing phase on July 11, where Merchan will have a chance to throw Trump behind bars.
Merchan to jurors: I really admire your dedication and hard work. You worked very hard and gave this matter the attention it deserves.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
One person undoubtedly thrilled over Trump’s misfortune was arguably the most corrupt and wicked Democrat of all: Hillary Clinton.
As the Daily Beast revealed, Crooked Hillary was presenting an award Thursday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the Global Leadership Awards, shortly after the news of Trump’s conviction broke.
A grinning Hillary thanked the adoring crowd and then joked, “Anything going on today?” The attendees responded by erupting in applause.
WATCH:
hillary clinton tonight: “anything going on today?”
*audience cheers* pic.twitter.com/y8F4Y7YCFo
— diane-jefferson (@dianejeffersonc) May 31, 2024
The Beast reported Hillary went on to say “Well, I have to tell you, there’s nowhere I’d rather be than right here,” drawing loud laughter from the audience.
But the vile woman was not done having a party at Trump’s misfortune. She went on Instagram that same night to promote a $22 mug with a painted image of herself sipping tea. Above and around the image reads the slogan, “Turns out she was right about everything.”
She explained in the post that each purchase would fund the radical-left Onward Together groups to help them “defend democracy.”
“We recently had some new merch made based on a phrase I hear a lot,” Hillary wrote in the post. “The design happened to be finalized today.”
“With your purchase, you’ll support Onward Together groups defending democracy… and get a pretty great mug to sip tea from,” she continued.
LOOK:
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As tensions increase between the China and the United States during China’s Unrestricted Warfare to collapse America, there are concerns about Unrestricted Warfare moving into a Shooting War over issues like Taiwan. The American military’s dalliance with “woke” ideologies are concerning and are tangibly degrading professionalism, operational planning, and output of the Defense Industrial Base.
Administration officials such as Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth deny “wokeness” is an issue and the Army has been pushing their interpretation of internal polling data that “safety” is the real issue in regards to failures to meet recruiting and retention goals – which immediately triggered Republican Congressional requests to see the complete, unredacted data instead of the Army official interpretation of the data.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Milley blamed allegations of “wokeness” as the real issue causing recruiting and retention – concurrently with West Point being sued for left leaning admission policies.
Despite denials from Administration officials of the existence of wokeness, there is growing evidence that the U.S. Military is in a crisis and this can possibly translate into catastrophic consequences for the U.S. military in kinetic conflict with China.
The Navy and Air Force are the lead services in deterring Chinese aggression and responding to hostility in the Western Pacific. Woke policies have reduced readiness of the ships and aircraft as well as the combat effectiveness and morale of the Service Members.
The key metric describing readiness for U.S. Military units is what is known as “Operational Readiness” (OR) rates. Things are not looking good in this area. In a stunning admission, the Commandant of the Marine Corps revealed that the OR rate for the 31 Amphibious Vessels of the U.S. Navy was 32%.
That means of the 31 ships, only 9 were ready. Each deployed Expeditionary Strike Group normally has three of these ships, so the rest of the amphibious ships (22) have various maintenance issues preventing them from deploying.
Not a good situation in anyway – this means only 9 of the 31 Amphibious ships are available for worldwide contingencies. The USS Boxer, one of the large and valuable amphibious warfare ships will shortly and incredulously be out of service for a year and a half for maintenance issues.
The Air Force has similar issues. The premier incoming fighter for the Air Force is the F-35A, the Air Force version of the Marine F-35B which unexplainedly ejected a pilot in 2023 after takeoff from Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina.
The Air Force OR rate for the F-35A is 55% and repairs are slow. This OR rate is falling, not climbing as more F-35s are introduced into service, an odd phenomena – OR rates should be climbing as more and more of the force becomes more familiar on how to keep these critical assets mission ready.
So how does wokeness play into these hard metrics? A lot. There is a direct correlation between OR rates and training, cohesion, and lethality of frontline units.
When the Navy obsesses over terms to be more gender-inclusive, when the Air Force Academy promotes critical race theory over combat knowledge, when the Department of Defense embraces corrosive DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) training, these ideologies steal valuable time from focusing on the true mission of the Military, deterring conflict and if necessary winning.
General Milley was infamously curious about “White Rage”, he should have been just as curious on true causal factors of poor OR rates such as wokeness – which will directly lead to more American casualties and losses in possible conflict with China.
In the Army War College Parameters Journal, an article come out that ignited a debate. In the article, the authors identified casualties of 3,600 a day in future conflict, losses not seen since the American Civil War, and thus their intuitive conclusion: Bring back the draft.
This paper purports to be interested in intellectual truth but avoided any possible correlation between the political indoctrination of wokeness and a poorly trained and led military that can lead to these high casualties.
An American aircraft carrier has approximately 5,000 Sailors on board between the ship’s crew and Air Wing. If the carrier is going in harm’s way with fewer escort vessels and aircraft because of poor OR rates – this could lead to mass casualties and loss of life.
This is sons, daughters, husbands, wives, friends, and loved ones unnecessarily put at risk because of the focus on DEI over military readiness. The Arleigh Burke Destroyers – the most numerous combat vessel in the U.S. Navy, has been delivered for years with a vacant position for a much needed, Close In Weapons System to protect the ship from Chinese missiles.
It is intuitive that our ships need to have maximum protection in harm’s way, yet the Services prioritize wokism over making sure American ships are fully equipped.
Although some American military leaders theorize wokeness is a strength – it only emboldens China. The debacle of Afghan withdrawal was woke theater and communicated loss of resolve and strength by America.
The Joint Staff and the Central Command Staff were once the most brilliant military staffs in the world but have been overtaken by wokeness and have lost their military art form. This is a green light for China to advance and seize territory.
A U.S. military hampered by wokeness could struggle to respond with decisive force before Chinese troops dig in with their gains. Having to retake seized land would require bloody amphibious operations hindered further by fewer amphibious ships available due to low OR rates.
A highly trained and equipped military focused on readiness would be far better at deterring conflict with China. Woke ideologies will cause severe human and strategic costs to America.
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Now, ten Republican senators announced on Friday that they are suspending all cooperative legislative efforts with Democrats, accusing the White House of engaging in actions that are “un-American” and making a “mockery” of the rule of law.
On Thursday, several Republican figures released strongly worded statements expressing their outrage and support for Trump following his guilty verdict.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene lambasted her colleagues for their inaction against the Democrats.
She wrote, “Republicans have done NOTHING to stop the Democrats from destroying our justice system and our freedoms. Many Republicans would just quote the Constitution as they are marched to the firing squad. When good men do nothing, evil prevails.”
I agree with every single word here.
Republicans have done NOTHING to stop the Democrats from destroying our justice system and our freedoms.
Many Republicans would just quote the constitution as they are marched to the firing squad.
When good men do nothing, evil prevails. https://t.co/O2FSubZcZk
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) May 30, 2024
On Friday, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) echoed Greene’s sentiments, emphasizing the need for more than just verbal condemnation.
“Strongly worded statements are not enough,” Lee asserted on Friday. “Those who turned our judicial system into a political cudgel must be held accountable. We are no longer cooperating with any Democrat legislative priorities or nominations, and we invite all concerned Senators to join our stand.”
The defiant stance was formalized in a letter initially signed by eight Senators, including Mike Lee (R-UT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), JD Vance (R-OH), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).
The letter lambasts the Biden administration for its profound disregard for American principles and the politicization of justice.
The senators have vowed to block any non-security related funding increases for the administration, oppose all political and judicial appointments, and refuse expedited consideration of Democrat-led legislation unless it directly pertains to national security.
The letter reads:
“The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways. As a Senate Republican conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart.
To that end, we will not 1) allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare; 2) vote to confirm this administration’s political and judicial appointees; and 3) allow expedited consideration and passage of Democrat legislation or authorities that are not directly relevant to the safety of the American people.”
Strongly worded statements are not enough.
Those who turned our judicial system into a political cudgel must be held accountable.
We are no longer cooperating with any Democrat legislative priorities or nominations, and we invite all concerned Senators to join our stand. pic.twitter.com/H0CzIjXgwC
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) May 31, 2024
In a statement, Sen. Rubio wrote, “Statements of outrage are no longer enough So I hope every Republican Senator who is sickened by what the deranged left is doing to our country will join us in taking action in the Senate.”
Sen. Schmitt wrote, “Democrats have destroyed the integrity of our justice system and made a mockery of the Constitution – all in the name of maintaining political power. My colleagues and I aren’t going to go along with the status quo. Enough is enough.”
Sen. Marshall wrote, “Joe Biden and his army of partisan hack judges have weaponized our judicial system against his political opponent. Words are not enough. Call on your Senator to join our fight – We will block every single Biden judicial nomination until America votes on November 5th.”
Sen. Blackburn wrote, “The White House’s weaponization of our government to target President Trump for political gain represents the pinnacle of two tiers of justice. We cannot allow this grave injustice to prevail in the United States of America. My Republican colleagues & I are taking a stand.”
Sen. Scott wrote, “100% agree. Our country is in real trouble. Republicans must stand together and end this madness.”
Senator Mike Lee urged his colleagues to join the boycott, stating, “I hope to have every Republican senator sign this. This is a call for unity within the Senate Republican Conference. Now is the time to choose: will we let the Republic fall, or will we take action to protect it?”
In a new update, Senators Josh Hawley and Ron Johnson have joined the pledge.
“UPDATE: salute to [Senator Josh Hawley and Senator Ron Johnson] for joining our pledge! Democrats don’t get to wreck our judicial system and expect any cooperation on their legislative priorities,” Sen. Lee wrote.
UPDATE: salute to @HawleyMO and @SenRonJohnson for joining our pledge! Democrats don’t get to wreck our judicial system and expect any cooperation on their legislative priorities. pic.twitter.com/tbGB7Oj5zu
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) May 31, 2024
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Billionaire hedge fund manager and longtime Democratic Party donor Bill Ackman is set to endorse Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
Ackman, who is the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management and has an estimated worth of $4 billion, has reportedly decided to endorse Trump after concluding that Joe Biden must be removed from office.
The Financial Times reports:
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman is leaning towards backing Donald Trump in the US election, according to a person briefed on his thinking, as some of Wall Street’s leading figures throw their weight behind the former president.
Ackman, who backed Trump’s Republican rivals, including Nikki Haley, in the party’s primary contest this year, is likely to make his endorsement on X, the Elon Musk-controlled social media platform in which he is a minority investor. Ackman has previously donated money to Democrats, including Dean Phillips, who mounted a primary challenge to President Joe Biden this year.
The person familiar with Ackman’s thinking said the billionaire did not believe alternative candidates such as Robert F Kennedy Jr, whose long-shot White House bid he had also supported, were likely to win.
They added that Ackman’s dislike for Biden far outweighed his ambivalence for Trump.
Ackman has recently expressed grave concerns about the rise of anti-semitism across the American left and helped spearhead the campaign to remove Harvard President Claudine Gay from office.
His likely endorsement comes after the CEO of Blackstone, Stephen A. Schwarzman, also confirmed that he would be fully supporting Trump against the Biden regime.
“The dramatic rise of antisemitism has led me to focus on the consequences of upcoming elections with greater urgency,” Schwarzman told Axios.
“I share the concern of most Americans that our economic, immigration and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction. For these reasons, I am planning to vote for change and support Donald Trump for President. In addition, I will be supporting Republican Senate candidates and other Republicans up and down the ticket, he added.
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Joe Biden’s campaign staffers audibly cheered after the Trump guilty verdict was announced on Thursday according to ABC News.
The jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial on Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts!
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed.
After deliberating for several hours on Thursday, the jury returned a guilty verdict after the judge rigged the trial by allowing jurors to choose which crime they believed Trump committed.
Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree something bad happened. This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
This was clearly the greatest travesty of justice in American history.
So now we have a convicted US President with 34 felony counts and NO ONE knows what crime President Trump committed!
The sentencing was set for July 11 – Three days before the Republican convention!
The guilty verdict comes after Joe Biden sent his DOJ official and hatchet man Matthew Colangelo to New York to get Trump.
This is clearly election interference at the highest level.
“Our team has heard that there were some cheers inside the Biden campaign headquarters in Wilmington when the verdict was read,” ABC News reported.
The Soviet-style show trial and guilty verdict is already backfiring on Biden and the Democrat party.
Trump has raised a record $39 million since the guilty verdict was announced and he got a six-point bump in approval.
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Donald Trump on Friday held a press conference at Trump Tower this morning after he was convicted on 34 sham felony charges in the New York City courthouse on Thursday.
“It all comes out of the White House,” said Trump of his political persecution. He continued, “Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country.
He’s the worst president in the history of our country, the most incompetent; he’s the dumbest president we’ve ever had. He’s the dumbest President, most incompetent president, and he’s the most dishonest president we’ve ever had.”
Trump gave an outstanding speech that wasn’t a campaign stump speech, and he spoke so clearly and powerfully for 33 straight minutes. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is “a man who can’t put two sentences together,” as Trump noted during his press conference. This is why the prosecution and Merchan placed Trump under a gag order.
The truth is too damning to the narrative about Donald Trump that they are trying to promulgate with their far-left media allies. And they don’t want Trump speaking because Joe Biden can’t speak for sh*t.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, President Trump announced his plans to appeal the “tyrant” Judge Juan Merchan’s rigged show trial and the sham verdict in Alvin Bragg’s felony witch hunt case.
There was no crime, but the Democrats ratcheted up what would be a misdemeanor to a felony in order to bypass the statute of limitations, and Marxist Judge Juan Merchan helped to rig the trial for a guilty verdict.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen, who the media and prosecutors falsely labeled his "fixer," in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after “highly conflicted” Judge Merchan, whose daughter has received MILLIONS of dollars consulting the Democrats who want to take down Trump, instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed. Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree that something bad happened, but not on what that something was.
This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
The jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial on Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts! Ironically for the Biden Regime, however, the conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony charges has translated into MORE THAN $34 MILLION fundraised for our real President.
In addition to slamming Biden as "the dumbest president we've ever had," Trump also slammed RINOs Liz Cheney and "Crying Adam Kinzinger," the disgraced fake Republicans who led the congressional J6 witch hunt and second impeachment hoax against President Trump.
At every turn, the deep state and the Swamp have been persecuting Donald Trump and trying to stop him since day one.
WATCH BELOW:
Trump: I've been treated very badly by two other judges also because it's all the same thing. And it all comes out of the White House. Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country. He's the worst president in the history of our country, the most incompetent; he's the dumbest president we've ever had. He's the dumbest President, most incompetent president, and he's the most dishonest president we've ever had.
He's a Manchurian Candidate. You take a look at the way he treats China, Russia, so many others. You know, I ended the Russian pipeline; it was dead. He comes in, and he approves it.
And he gets three and a half million, meaning three and a half million is paid to the family, his family, from the mayor of Moscow’s wife. And I said, “Where did that come from?” Nobody wants to talk about it. But he's a very big danger to our country. And the only way they think they can win this election is by doing exactly what they're doing right now: Win it in the courts because they can't win at the ballot box.
So we're going to show them that— Oh, we're gonna fight. It's actually, I don't know, it's something where I'm wired in such a way that a lot of people would have gone away a long time ago; they would have gone away after impeachment hoax number one, that was a total hoax. I had great support from the Republican Party, though. Then you had impeachment hoax number two. And then they formed a committee. How about they formed a committee of thugs, the J6 committee of thugs. And they took their records, and they destroyed all of the records after the committee was abandoned because those records were great for us. Now, can you imagine if Republicans did that? Everybody would have been in jail by now.
Think of it, the unselect — I call it the unselect -- they call it the select committee. I call it the Unselect Committee of thugs. They meet, it’s 100% Democrat and two pass Republicans that are no longer Republicans that are no longer in business anymore. Thank you. But it was all Democrats and two wayward Republicans: Liz Cheney, and Cryin. Adam Kinzinger…
He cries every time he goes on television, He’s the most emotional human being I think I've ever seen. And that was our Representatives. These two people were our Reps. So, they had all this stuff that they're leaking, and then when it came time to look at the records, like where the police said and the Capitol Guard said that I supplied, think of it, that I recommended as many soldiers or National Guard as you want-- 10,000. If you had 500, you wouldn't have had a problem, there wouldn't have been a J6, but Nancy Pelosi and the group didn't want it.
Anyway, so they have testimony to all of that— that I did not attack the Secret Service agent in the front of a car. You know, these are strong people, and I supposedly went to the driver, and I grabbed him around the neck, and he rebuffed me, and then I went to the other guy, who I think is a black belt in karate. And he's slightly younger than me, maybe 35 years, 40 years, 50 years.
And I grabbed him around the neck; he's a black belt in karate, they know how to get somebody from around their neck. They would have gone like this, and that would be the end of that. Actually, I had a friend that said, you shouldn't dispute that. That makes you look like the toughest cookie we've ever seen. You should have let that go on. But the fact is, it never happened. It was all made up. And that was proven to be made up. It proved to be a false story. And they deleted and destroyed all of that information, every ounce of it.
We're dealing with a corrupt government. We have a corrupt country. Our elections are corrupt, our borders are open. Our borders are going to be closed very soon. November 5 is going to be the most important day in the history of our country.
Now, when I say that, because my people are always saying, do this, do this because we're fighting for America: DonaldJTrump.com. I hope everybody watching right now: DonaldJtrump.com because it really makes a difference. They have a lot of money on the other side. I don't know where they get it. Nobody knows where they get it, but for some reason they get money. But they're not on the side of our country.
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Independent presidential candidate, Robert Kennedy, Jr. spoke out against the disgusting Democrat Party show trial and verdicts against President Trump saying, “It’s going to backfire on Democrats!”
Robert Kennedy, Jr. is also a victim of the Democrat Party machine.
Democrats rigged their primary to make it impossible for any candidate to challenge Joe Biden. This is due to their “super-delegate” rule that allows far left elitists to pick the candidate and not the voters.
These undemocratic party rules forced Robert Kennedy, Jr. to run as an independent.
The Biden administration and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also refused to provide Secret Service protection to Robert Kennedy, Jr. this campaign cycle. This is despite the fact that Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s father and uncle John F. Kennedy were assassinated several years ago.
Robert Kennedy obviously knows about Democrat Party tactics and smash mouth politics.
Robert joined Jesse Watters last night on FOX News.
Robert Kennedy, Jr: I think, Jesse, that it is going to backfire. This conviction is going to backfire on the Democrats. I think every time that President Trump has been indicted, that his approval ratings actually increase, his popularity increases. I think there’s a large number of Americans who are going to see this as the politicization of the weaponization of the enforcement agencies. I think it’s going to hurt. It’s bad for our democracy. I think the Democrats feel like… the DNC, feels like it has a candidate that cannot win fair and square in the polls. And so they have to win in the courts. They have to win by clearing the deck and getting their other opponents out of the race.
I’m not a fan of President Trump’s, but I I want to win. I want to beat him in a campaign on a level of playing field. I want to talk about his issues, about locking down the economy, shutting down 3.3 million businesses, about running up a $34 trillion debt, about engaging us in forever wars and doing favors for Wall Street.
I don’t want to beat him in a courtroom. I think in America, it’s not good for our country.
I told @jessebwatters that I believe the strategy to beat President Trump in the courtroom rather than the ballot box will backfire.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m no fan of Trump’s. I’m running against him because of his record: his lockdowns during Covid, his failure to root out… pic.twitter.com/wknEE0r8T8
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 31, 2024
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J6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel needs to get to the emergency room immediately.
Instead, he is perpetually locked in a cell of the New York prison system where inmates including Jefferey Epstein are known to mysteriously kill themselves or beg for medical care, for days before they die.
After languishing for over a month in solitary confinement on the roof of the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn, a prison notorious for its horrific conditions, Samsel called The Gateway Pundit in duress on Friday.
“I can’t walk. I’m in so much pain. It’s so fucked up here. My leg is swollen, where I had the blood clot — it’s real stiff, where my ankle is,” Samsel explained on the recorded line at the federal prison. “You can feel there is something in there. When I walk it hurts. I filed a medical grievance and Sam told me he’s going to get me to see a medical doctor.”
For protesting on Jan. 6, 2021, Ryan Samsel is caged in a filthy cell enduring the stench of sewage leaking through the ceiling, the sound of non-stop screaming and fighting among the other inmates who have lost their minds from constant lockdown, being housed on a block with child predators and trannies, starving rather than eating the rotten food he is served — which we now know is infested with maggots — and the uncertainty of whether he’ll survive incarceration without surgery.
The Brooklyn prison is so dangerous federal judges in New York are in a legal battle with the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons over the cruel and unusual treatment ongoing in the notorious correctional facility. Staffers at the Sunset Park federal prison are under fire for depriving inmates of court-ordered medical treatment.
For weeks, the jail has canceled Samsel’s legal calls. But allegedly his attorney Stanley Woodward and mitigation expert Sam Mangel, whom Samsel just paid a whopping $45,000 to retain, were told he canceled their calls.
Samsel’s family tried reaching Woodward numerous times to no avail when Samsel went missing in the hole barred from communication.
Finally, Woodward responded with a text, claiming, “He refused three calls with me this week.”
Now, in a life-or-death medical emergency Woodward, is still M.I.A., out of pocket and out to lunch.
In Woodward’s absence, this reporter found another attorney willing to immediately assist Samsel. Attorney Jon Gross agreed Thursday to file an emergency complaint that would persuade a judge to allow him to go to the hospital.
Meanwhile, Woodward asked Samsel’s family to let him know he must simply “file a medical slip” to see a doctor.
“You know I’ve been scheduling legal calls with him,” the attorney for several high-profile defendants wrote to Samsel’s family in a text after ignoring several of their calls. “The best thing for him to do is submit a medical call slip. Please ask him to do that.”
“If he has not written one today, they will not give him medical today.”
If only it were that easy while incarcerated.
Over time if not treated, the clots become muscular tumors or fibroids. Samsel now lives with golf-ball-sized lumps on his body as he continues to develop more blood clots.
Samsel had already asked guards for help on Monday and submitted a medical slip when he realized bizarre lumps surfaced on the back of his neck. But prison guards have yet to escort him to medical.
“We trusted him in the beginning. Now, he just literally changed his tune. He is not advocating for his own client’s medical treatment,” the concerned family member told TGP in an exclusive interview. “This has been going on for years, went to hearings, and told the judge — nothing got resolved. Stanley is just not doing anything to push things along for him to get medical treatment. It’s like he’s just leaving him in the dust letting him sit there and rot in the jail. Ryan’s life is in his hands at this point. These attorneys would not be called out, if they would just fight. Stanley is not doing his job, advocating for his client’s dire medical conditions.”
Samsel’s family member shot back at Woodward’s inept response, warning “He needs to go to the emergency room and has a blood clot and what are you going to do about it right now?!”
Woodward has yet to respond.
TGP attended Samsel’s Feb. 2 verdict hearing the last time he was in court, when he was found guilty by Judge Jia Cobb. Attorneys representing Samsel’s co-defendants argued on behalf of their client’s presentencing release, asking the judge to allow them to remain free ahead of sentencing in June.
Judge Cobb granted their request, permitting J6 defendants Paul Johnson, Steven Randolph and Jason Blythe to return home after court. Woodard uttered only a few words for the duration of the proceeding.
Samsel asked the judge if he could approach the bench and then plead with her for the 15 minutes she permitted him to speak to “please” authorize him the vascular surgery to safely live through incarceration without blood clots or reliance on blood thinners.
Woodward interrupted Samsel, only to contend, “He can wait until he goes to prison.”
After Woodward refused to answer a dozen of Samsel and TGP’s calls in December, this reporter found another attorney, Brad Geyer, who was willing to file a lawsuit in Samsel’s medical battle with the Bureau of Prisons.
But Woodward refused to avail Samsel’s medical records to Geyer’s team.
Samsel requested that Woodward be removed from his case, but was informed by Judge Cobb that she would not grant his request ahead of his sentencing which was slated for June 13, but postponed to Sept. 3, Samsel’s birthday.
It remains unclear why Woodward, refuses to advocate for the J6 political prisoner’s medical treatment.
Mysteriously, Samsel was transferred from the DC Gulag to the Sunset Park Brooklyn prison in February while awaiting sentencing in the DC court.
J6 defendants regularly complain about inadequate defense counsel, with a limited pool of attorneys willing to take their cases. In February, Samsel pursued representation from Amy Collins to file a complaint for medical treatment. After a discussion with prosecutors, Collins allegedly offered Samsel home detention in exchange for his testimony against President Donald Trump during Trump’s J6 trial.
One defense who asked his name be withheld suggested we file a FOIA request to uncover whether prosecutors are getting bonuses for securing convictions against J6 defendants. Samsel’s family fears Woodward has a backdoor deal with prosecutors as well.
Former criminal defense attorney Jonathon Moseley is assisting the non-profit Condemned USA with drafting litigation for several J6 defendants including the former president.
Condemned USA is also assisting J6 political hostage, Marine Corp veteran Dominic Pezzola with forging a complaint that will allow him treatment for cancer while serving a 10-year-prison sentence in FCI Butner in North Carolina for protesting at the US Capitol on Jan. 6.
Samsel and Pezolla were both detained in a Virginia prison when the FBI offered them plea deals that entailed lying about Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs having a gun during the Capitol riot. Samsel offered to testify about the nefarious plea offer during the Proud Boys trial, while Pezzola admitted on the stand during the trial that the government told him they would let he would go home if he advanced the fictitious seditious conspiracy narrative, but he refused.
Moseley wonders whether Woodward’s reluctance to get Samsel to a doctor is strategic.
“Maybe, like many attorneys, he thinks if he can just make friends with the prosecutor he’ll get a better deal,” Moseley, told TGP in an exclusive interview. “It’s inadequate to say, ‘Fill out a medical slip’ when Ryan’s movement is restricted. He can’t just wander over to an office and fill out a medical slip, like in high school. He’s locked down.
“There are forms he has to request, that they will ignore, and I assume he’s already done that to the extent that he can. But this is not just a high school campus. It’s a prison. So, somebody on the outside needs to do that,” he continued. “I can only imagine that Stanley doesn’t want to ‘rock the boat’ before sentencing. I have no idea.”
Moseley, a criminal defense attorney for 22 years, was prepared months ago to assist the Geyer with drafting a habeas corpus lawsuit documenting the medical deprivation and how the assaults Samsel has endured while detained have worsened his blood-clotting condition.
“We were going to help make sure something was filed back in December. Stan interfered with it and still hasn’t done anything,” Moseley admonished. “It’s almost June.”
Moseley warns the government has repeatedly assaulted and tortured Samsel to shut him up.
“The assaults on Ryan Samsel are real.” Moseley told previously told TGP. “Ryan Samsel can testify about Ray Epps, so, they have either got to flip him or they’ve got to disappear him.”
Three January 6 defendants have killed themselves while being prosecuted by the United States government for protesting.
Mark Roderick Aungst, a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor related to the Capitol riot, died by suicide while awaiting sentencing for his involvement in the events of that day. Matthew Perna, pleaded guilty to multiple trespassing-related charges before he committed suicide. Christopher Stanton Georgia of Georgia died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound days after the Capitol siege.
Democrats and their henchmen in the Department of Justice have blood on their hands.
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Following Trump’s guilty verdict in his New York City Hush Money Trial, Tucker Carlson wrote on X that Trump’s life could be in danger in the months leading up to the general election.
Tucker wrote on X, “Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump.”
“He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first. But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.” added Tucker.
LOOK:
Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump. He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first. But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your…
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 30, 2024
This isn’t the first time Tucker has warned about a possible assassination attempt against Trump.
Last year, during an interview with comedian Adam Carolla, Tucker stated, “If you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment, and none of them work. What’s next? Graph it out, man. We’re speeding towards assassination.”
WATCH:
Tucker Carlson Says They Will Do Anything to Stop Trump From Being President Again
“If you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work…What’s next? Graph it out. We are speeding towards… pic.twitter.com/U29a7vMiUe
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 30, 2023
In an interview with Dan Bongino earlier this year, Tucker shared that he has warned Trump in person that he should be on full alert for an assassination attempt.
Tucker is absolutely right that assassination is now a very real threat for Trump. He makes the argument simply on the basis of the fact that nothing else, legal or illegal, has worked to stop Trump and Trump’s enemies absolutely cannot afford for him to win.
Other indications… pic.twitter.com/NG3PernSR4
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) January 1, 2024
In recent weeks, Trump’s security has appeared to be more beefed up.
LOOK:
Don’t you find it interesting how much protection surrounds Trump??
There is only 1 reason for this…
This is from Sunday, May 26th, at the Nascar Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/GOheeayv30
— Seo Ju Ae (@WINHero6) May 30, 2024
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President Trump on Friday delivered remarks at a press conference at Trump Tower, announcing his appeal against the sham verdict in Alvin Bragg’s felony witch hunt case.
There was no crime, but the Democrats ratcheted up what would be a misdemeanor to a felony in order to bypass the statute of limitations, and Marxist Judge Juan Merchan helped to rig the trial for a guilty verdict.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after “highly conflicted” Judge Merchan, whose daughter has received MILLIONS of dollars consulting the Democrats who want to take down Trump, instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed. Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree that something bad happened, but not on what that something was.
This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
The jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial on Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts! Ironically for the Biden Regime, however, the conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony charges has translated into MORE THAN $34 MILLION fundraised for our real President.
“We’re going to be appealing it on many different things. He wouldn’t allow us to have witnesses. He wouldn’t allow us to talk. He wouldn’t allow us to do anything,” said Trump during his press conference.
Trump is expected to appeal Merchan’s ruling to greatly restrict the testimony of Trump’s star witness, former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith, who would have exalted Trump of any alleged, bogus, fake crime.
“He was waiting for two days, and when it was his turn, Bragg’s people protested, and the judge knocked him out and said you can’t testify. He actually said you can’t testify for anything having to do with the trial; you can say what the federal elections is. Well, that doesn’t help. Everybody knows that. But you can’t testify,” said Trump at one point during his press conference today.
Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) recently told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview, “It’s almost as though he has intentionally committed the most egregious reversible error, knowing that if there is a conviction, it will be reversed on appeal. But in the meantime, prior to the election, the Democrats can claim that Donald Trump is a convicted felon. That’s what this is about.”
Trump's sentencing hearing was set for July 11, THREE DAYS before the Republican National Convention, where delegates will choose the GOP nominee for President. The motives of the prosecutors and the judge couldn't be clearer.
Trump slammed the judge as a "tyrant" and said any honest members of the media in the courthouse could see he was "crazed" and angry with Trump in making his many reversible errors.
Watch below:
Trump: We're going to be appealing this scam. We're going to be appealing it on many different things. He wouldn't allow us to have witnesses. He wouldn't allow us to talk. He wouldn't allow us to do anything. The judge was a tyrant, and you got to see that with Bob Costello, a fine man. I've never seen anything like it, and neither has anybody that was in that courthouse where he demanded that the courthouse be cleared. Now, the good news is, most of the people in the courthouse were the media. And anybody that was in the media, if you're fair, you'll say, “Wow, that was anger. That was crazed. He was crazed!”
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J6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel is pleading for assistance from prison guards, his attorney, and the American public to get to an emergency room immediately after strange lumps surfaced on the back of his neck while the blood clots in his leg and foot that he developed months ago remain dangerously untreated.
The new lumps may be malignant tumors or blood clots, but getting to a doctor or the life-saving surgery he was prescribed over three years ago, before his arrest for protesting at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, is an ongoing and uphill battle.
If Samsel suffers a medical emergency, it could take hours or days before anyone even notices while detained in perpetual lockdown in MDC Brooklyn, the jail system where Jeffrey Epstein allegedly killed himself, and inmates are known to die while begging for help from lazy, abusive prison staff.
And he suspects the notorious medical negligence within the understaffed correctional facility is exactly why the prosecutors and US District Judge Jia Cobb transferred him to the dangerous prison, “to set him up” to die or endure assaults while living on blood thinners.
“I’m on the eighth floor in a high-rise building in the back corner cell and literally in a corner and there is no call button. If I get sick, I might not see a CO for a full day. It’s dangerous here. It’s literally dangerous,” Samsel told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview Wednesday.“ This place is as harsh as where Jeffrey Epstein died.
“They should not put this many inmates in the prison because they are understaffed, and we are constantly locked down. Judge Cobb knew how bad the conditions were in this jail a year and a half ago when she first sent me here.”
The 40-year-old former MMA fighter has a history of bilateral thoracic outlet syndrome, a condition that causes him to develop blood clots. Over time if not treated, the clots become muscular tumors or fibroids. Samsel now lives with golf-ball-sized lumps on his body as he continues to develop more mysterious tumors.
A glandsectomy, a simple vascular procedure, would prevent his blood from clotting and save his life. But Judge Cobb refuses to grant him the surgery and his attorney Stanley Woodward refuses to fight for his medical rights.
“The plastic surgeon said, ‘You need a glandsectomy and we need a biopsy,’ before you start to get more lumps. Today, I have four more lumps, like he said I would. Judge Cobb and the prosecutor are the ones who recommended that I come to MDC Brooklyn, that ‘The medical here is good.’
“The prosecutors and the judge sent me to New York to set me up.”
“No human being should have to go through this. Where is Jim Jordan? How can Jim Jordan sit there and totally ignore what is happening to me? MTG promised she was going to do something. What is she doing? I need help! I got new lumps in my neck.”
Samsel called attention to the ongoing dispute between federal judges and the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons over the abuse of inmates detained in the dilapidated Brooklyn prison.
“The medical staff here have lied to the judges,” he explained. “The judges here in New York, because the conditions are so horrible, the inmates here are [serving] three days for every one day spent in jail. And they really are violent offenders, some of them. If that’s the case, we all should go home.”
New York judges are indeed cutting down the sentences of inmates detained in MDC Brooklyn for being served maggot-infested meals amid illegal perpetual lockdowns, lack of proper medical treatment by cruel correction officers, short-staffing and a host of other miserable conditions that have gone unchecked for decades.
The corruption in MDC Brooklyn most recently boiled over in January when Manhattan Federal Court Judge Jesse Furman issued a blistering 19-page ruling laying out why the Brooklyn prison, which handles pre-trial detention for the Manhattan and Brooklyn federal courts, should shut down, particularly after the jail lost power for eight days in 2019 during a polar vortex.
“It has gotten to the point that it is routine for judges in both this District and the Eastern District [Brooklyn] to give reduced sentences to defendants based on the conditions of confinement in the MDC,” Furman wrote. “Prosecutors no longer even put up a fight, let alone dispute that the state of affairs is unacceptable.”
“When I ask my lawyers, what about me, they say, ‘Judge Cobb is not going to do that. She disagrees with these judges,'” Samsel continued. “How is that not selective prosecution? How come these guys get the medical? How come one guy got $120,000 for his stitches being left in too long? I don’t know what to do. Judge Cobb, I wrote her. I’ve sent her everything and she does nothing.”
Samsel said he spoke with Furman last week as the federal judge inspected the prison. Furman reportedly notified Judge Cobb about the detriments of the deplorable conditions of the jail. Evidently, Cobb couldn’t care less.
“Judge Cobb told him to stop reaching out to other judges,” Samsel said. “Now, I haven’t gotten any medical. They just gave me Statin, for blood vessels. It took them 3 years to do that. I want a status hearing and I want that status hearing to be public. We are tired of being treated like this. This is not fair.”
Throughout 40 months of incarceration in pretrial detention, Samsel has been transferred to 19 different correctional facilities 26 times. When he finally gets to a doctor in jail, they prescribe him surgery. Then he is transferred to another jail and never sees his way to the operating table.
In April, hours after TGP published Ray Epps’ interviews with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in which the suspected government plant is repeatedly heard lying to authorities in violation of federal law, prison guards dragged J6 political hostage Ryan Samsel’ to solitary confinement.
Samsel was detained in the hole, a small cage on the rooftop of the dilapidated MDC Brooklyn prison, for weeks. Prison guards finally released Samsel back to the general population of the prison on May 18. This time, they housed him in a unit with convicted child sex offenders and trannies.
“I don’t care. If I have to lay my life down for people to know the truth, then I will,” Samsel said. “No human being — you’re never going to change the crime rate on the outside if you treat people like this. There is no reform. It’s sad. You have to reform people physically, mentally, and spiritually. You can’t bring people in here and break them.”
The J6 political prisoner is now barred from visitation for a year and prohibited from purchasing a commissary.
And he might as well starve than eat the rotten food that is regularly served in the New York prison. The general population of the federal prison is almost as bad as the hole. Inmates are perpetually locked in their cells for days and even weeks at a time, where dirty water from the toilets above leaks from the ceilings.
Defense lawyers have confirmed MDC Brooklyn is serving maggot-infested food to inmates.
“We actually get maggots here. There are maggots in our food,” Samsel said. That dust that you see on the air vent — there was a tuberculosis outbreak and they never cleaned the air vents. There are people that die here, constantly, I swear to God. There is no emergency call button. You are literally locked in a cell here, with thousands of people, and left in a room.”
“I’m not allowed to get visits for a whole year. I’m not allowed commissary. And they still haven’t given me medical. I wish that people would come here and help stand up for me.”
Last week, Samsel sent TGP photographs an investigator obtained from inside MDC Brooklyn, showcasing the unsanitary conditions of the correctional facility and the barf-inducing, rotten trays of food inmates are regularly served.
TGP has tried reaching Woodward numerous times about the status of Samsel’s health. Woodward has yet to respond.
Samsel warns prison guards have been canceling his legal calls, but Woodward and mitigation expert Sam Mangel, whom Samsel just invested $45,000 to retain, contend to Samsel’s family they have been repeatedly told by the prison that Samsel has canceled the calls.
Samsel was scheduled to be sentenced on June 13, but Judge Cobb postponed his sentencing to Sept. 3, on Samsel’s birthday.
Judge Cobb “is such a nasty person to me, she purposely set my sentencing to my birthday,” he noted.
Last year, when Samsel was detained in a Philadelphia jail, a doctor issued are report to the government outlining Samsel’s immediate need for surgery. The jail staff locked then him in the broom closet, which they substituted for a “hard cell,” for over five months with the light on. Correctional officers also forced him to use a bucket for a toilet to prevent him from communicating and “fishing” through the toilet for food.
“Instead of giving me physical rehab, I sat in a broom closet. Congress has yet to do anything about it. I don’t know why they are not investigating my assaults,” he said.
Samsel rendered aid to Josh Black, another demonstrator who was shot in the face by cops at the J6 Save America rally.
Police attempted to arrest Black as Samsel attempted to provide him aid, but Samsel fended the cops away.
The cops then fired another munition that ignited inches away from Samsel’s face.
For shielding Black from the cops, federal district Judge Jia Cobb convicted Samsel of felony assault.
Judges are treating hardened criminals more humanely than J6 protesters.
On May 22, Brooklyn Federal Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall scolded a Bureau of Prison attorney who “lied” about whether MDC inmate Jonathan Goulbourne received his antibiotic regimen. Goulbourne’s appendix burst on April 14, and jail staff ignored him for more than several hours before sending him to the hospital. Hall is demanding the MDC staffers get private defense attorneys to replace their DOJ lawyers who shield them from criminal exposure.
Goulbourne, who is charged with causing death through the use of firearms in connection with a murder, “returned to the hospital with prescriptions for painkillers and antibiotics, but a weekend lockdown and a problem with a missing ID cut him off from his painkillers,” New York Daily News reports. “After the lockdown ended, Goulbourne was thrown into the jail’s segregated housing unit after an encounter with a nurse and lost access to the last few doses of his antibiotic regimen.”
In December, Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Dora Irizarry threatened to hold an assistant US attorney in contempt for ignoring her order to send MDC Brooklyn detainee James Young to a medical facility. Instead, they housed Young, accused in a string of gunpoint store robberies, among the general population despite open wounds and a highly contagious MRSA infection and forced by prison staff to wear a yellow jumpsuit to signify infection.
Samsel has been repeatedly assaulted for refusing to cooperate with the government in a plea deal that entailed lying about Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs having a gun at the Capitol riot and testifying against former President Donald Trump. The assaults have left him with lifelong injuries including a broken jaw and brain damage that has resulted in the loss of vision in his right eye.
“I refused to turn on the Proud Boys. I refused to turn on Donald Trump. I stood my ground. I went to trial. I didn’t take a plea deal. I ask the public to stand for me, when I need you,” he said. “I need help. If there is an organization at this point that can help me, please help.”
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Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has officially left the Democratic Party, announcing his departure just one day after the controversial guilty verdict in former President Donald Trump’s trial.
On Friday, Manchin, who is not seeking re-election, announced that he changed his party affiliation at the West Virginia State Capitol.
He explained that his decision was motivated by his criticism of both major parties for what he sees as “partisan extremism,” which he believes is harmful to American democracy.
“From my first day in public service in 1982, I have always focused on doing what’s best for my state and my country, without regard to party or politics. Throughout my days in elected office, I have always been proud of my commitment to common sense, bipartisanship and my desire to bring people together. It’s who I am. It’s who I will always be. I have never seen America through a partisan lens,” Manchin said in a statement.
“However, since becoming a United States Senator in 2010, I have seen both the Democrat and Republican parties leave West Virginia and our country behind for partisan extremism while jeopardizing our democracy. Today, our national politics are broken and neither party is willing to compromise to find common ground. To stay true to myself and remain committed to put country before party, I have decided to register as an independent with no party affiliation and continue to fight for America’s sensible majority,” he added.
Manchin then shared a post on X showing himself registering as an independent.
“My commitment to do everything I can to bring our country together has led me to register as an independent with no party affiliation,” the senator wrote on X.
My commitment to do everything I can to bring our country together has led me to register as an independent with no party affiliation. pic.twitter.com/tvMB2N87AW
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) May 31, 2024
In 2022, after Arizona Senator Sinema changed her registration from Democrat to Independent, people were asking West Virginia Senator Manchin if he’d do the same.
“I’m not a Washington Democrat. I don’t know what else to tell you. … And if a Washington independent is — we’ll see what happens there. We’ll have to look. People are registering more for independent than any other party affiliation, they are sick and tired of it,” Manchin said at the time.
Although Manchin announced his departure from the Democratic Party, he said he would neither seek re-election to the Senate nor pursue a presidential bid.
“After months of deliberation and long conversations with my family, I believe in my heart of hearts that I have accomplished what I set out to do for West Virginia. I have made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will not be running for re-election to the United States Senate,” Manchin said in a statement last year.
“But what I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.”
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CNN Pundit Scott Jennings warned Democrats on how their perversion of the legal system and latest lawfare case against Donald Trump will massively backfire on the neo-Marxist elites.
Scott Jennings: Well, if my phone and the text messages I’m receiving or any indication, every Republican in the country is madder than a wet hen. I mean, people who are decidedly non-MAGA, not Trump fans, are blowing up tonight saying, ‘This case never should have been brought… This is ridiculous charges… It was egregious use of the criminal justice system.”
I’m hearing people say, I had no intention of voting for Donald Trump, and now I am. Then if you ask the Trump campaign what’s happening, they literally broke their online donation portal because people were rushing to the internet to give them money in the minutes after the verdict… I think there’s a real chance here. It’s going to massively backfire on the Democrats and help Donald.
Scott is right!
For the record – the disgusting woman on the right is Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump official who sold her soul for 30 pieces of silver and now sits with the clucks on The View everyday.
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On Tuesday, the Biden campaign rolled out actor Robert De Niro for an unhinged rant outside the courthouse during the lawfare trial against President Trump.
It didn’t go well.
The presser devolved into chaos as De Niro insulted millions of hardworking Americans, and he was mercilessly heckled as he called Trump supporters “clowns” and engaged in shouting matches with fed-up Americans.
Now, The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced that it is withdrawing the NAB Leadership Foundation’s Service to America Award De Niro was set to receive in Washington, D.C., on June 4th.
Alex Siciliano, NAB’s senior vice president of communications, said in a statement to The Hill, “This event is proudly bipartisan, uniting those from across the political spectrum to celebrate the impactful work of local broadcasters and our partners.”
“While we strongly support the right of every American to exercise free speech and participate in civic engagement, it is clear that Mr. De Niro’s recent high-profile activities will create a distraction from the philanthropic work that we were hoping to recognize. To maintain the focus on service of the award winners, Mr. De Niro will no longer be attending the event.”
De Niro told The Hill in a statement, “I support the work of the NAB Leadership Foundation and would like to express my appreciation and gratitude for what the Foundation has done and will continue to do for the good of us all, and I wish them well for their continued good work.”
Artist Scott LoBaido captured De Niro perfectly.
The unveiling of Robert De Niro’s portrait “Cry-Baby” @joshmacciello @realdonaldtrump @donaldjtrumpjr @siggyflicker
: @WTPAreTheNews pic.twitter.com/4ZRwoXPq9N— Scott LoBaido (@ScottLoBaido) May 29, 2024
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Ironically for the Biden Regime, the May 30, 2024 conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony charges has translated into MORE THAN $34 MILLION fundraised for the next President.
You can donate to President Trump’s campaign HERE!
Despite Joe Biden’s crippling inflation, Americans are giving whatever they can to save this country!
In what has been widely denounced as a show trial, Trump was found guilty on Wednesday evening on all 34 charges of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to adult porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.
As The Gateway Pundit reported last night, following the verdict and within minutes, President Trump’s donation page CRASHED from the massive influx of support as patriots stood up to the Biden Regime’s anti-American persecution of the opposition leader. The Biden campaign released a disgusting statement following this shameless assault on the former President, labeling Donald Trump a “dictator,” lecturing that “no one is above the law,” and fundraising off of their desecration of American values.
President Trump will likely comment on the massive fundraising haul and America’s rejection of the junk charges during his press conference this morning. TUNE IN LIVE AT 11 AM ET HERE:
Per Trump War Room, "Today, the Trump campaign announced a record-shattering small-dollar fundraising haul following the sham Biden Trial verdict totaling $34.8 million – nearly double the biggest day ever recorded for the Trump campaign on the WinRed platform."
RNC Research responded on X, "~30% of them were BRAND NEW DONORS."
"Democrats will rue the day they unleashed a sleeping giant."
$34.8 million in less than a day — and ~30% of them were BRAND NEW DONORS.
Democrats will rue the day they unleashed a sleeping giant. https://t.co/77LqkhDXto
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 31, 2024
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan, whose daughter has received MILLIONS of dollars consulting the Democrats who want to take down Trump, instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed. Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree that something bad happened, but not on what that something is. This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
So now we have a convicted US President with 34 felony counts, and NO ONE knows what crime President Trump committed!
The Trump campaign released the following statement announcing the massive patriotism and support:
Trump Shatters Fundraising Records After Rigged Biden Trial Verdict
May 31, 2024
Today, the Trump campaign announced a record shattering small dollar fundraising haul following the sham Biden Trial verdict totaling $34.8 million – nearly double the biggest day ever recorded for the Trump campaign on the WinRed platform. Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats with their election interference political witch hunt have awakened the MAGA movement like never before.
"From just minutes after the sham trial verdict was announced, our digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with support, and despite temporary delays online because of the amount of traffic, President Trump raised $34.8 million dollars from small dollar donors. Not only was the amount historic, but 29.7% of yesterday's donor's were brand new donors to the WinRed platform. President Trump and our campaign are immensely grateful from this outpouring of support from patriots across our country. President Trump is fighting to save our nation and November 5th is the day Americans will deliver the real verdict." - Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, Trump Campaign Senior Advisors
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) May 31, 2024
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President Trump will hold a press conference this morning at 11 am ET at the Trump Tower Atrium to speak out on his political persecution by radical left Biden Thugs in the Manhattan Court House.
Trump announced the presser on Truth on Thursday after the guilty verdict came in.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial on Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts! The sentencing was set for July 11.
“I’m a political prisoner!” Trump said after the verdict in his rigged trial with far-left jurors, a far-left conflicted Judge, and politically motivated prosecutors was announced.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan, whose daughter has received MILLIONS of dollars consulting the Democrats who want to take down Trump, instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed. Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. This is unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree that something bad happened, but not on what that something is. This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
So now we have a convicted US President with 34 felony counts, and NO ONE knows what crime President Trump committed!
After deliberating for several hours on Thursday, the jury returned a guilty verdict after the judge rigged the trial by allowing jurors to choose which crime they believed Trump committed.
Trump is facing four years in prison for every count. Biden and his thugs will do whatever it takes to keep Trump out of the White House for four more years.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported last night, following the verdict and within minutes, President Trump's donation page CRASHED from the massive influx of support as patriots stood up to the Biden Regime's anti-American persecution of the opposition leader. The Biden campaign released a disgusting statement following this shameless assault on the former President, labeling Donald Trump a “dictator,” lecturing that “no one is above the law,” and fundraising off of their desecration of American values.
Watch Trump's press conference live below at 11 am ET/10 am CT via Real America's Voice:
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The days of Megyn Kelly’s feuds with Donald Trump are well and truly over.
In what has been widely denounced as a show trial, Trump was found guilty on Wednesday evening on all 34 charges of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to adult porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.
In an epic rant on her eponymous talk show, Kelly laid into the verdict and warned that Republicans must target Democrats such as Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in order to seek retribution.
Here is a transcript of her remarks:
It is a before-and-after moment for America. What just happened today is a line we can’t uncross. And these Democrats will rue the day they decided to use lawfare to stop a presidential candidate. I’m not talking about violence. I’m talking about tit for tat.
You just wait and it won’t be Hunter Biden the next time. It is going to be Joe Biden. It could potentially still be Barack Obama. It could still potentially be Hillary Clinton. We’re going to have to look at what the statutes of limitations are, on the various crimes they surely committed.
We’re going to have to look at passing laws to revive those dead crimes, felonies or misdemeanors so that those cases can be brought out of time. That’s what may be in the interests of justice. Just like they did for E. Jean Carroll with a New York state law that was passed just so that she could sue him.
That’s what happened. Turned about as fair play and John Yoo, an amazing lawyer who worked in the Bush administration, Department of Justice, has a great piece out today how that is the only way they’ll learn. The only way to save the Republic now is to give them a taste of their own medicine.
Megyn Kelly calls for retribution and revenge.
We’re going to start putting Democrats in prison.pic.twitter.com/81yXbIzTmv
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 31, 2024
What more can you add to that?
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Rep. Mike Belcher, a New Hampshire state representative and self-described “anti-communist revolutionary” announced his Anti-Communism Education Act following the Biden regime’s unAmerican show trial and felony verdicts against President Trump.
Rep. Mike Belcher will introduce the legislation in New Hampshire. He is asking fellow Republicans to use his legislation as a model in their states.
Belcher also made it known that he is not suicidal in case something bad happens to him.
Rep. Belcher originally introduced the legislation in January. Now he is urging Republicans to push similar legislation in their states.
At one time this legislation would have had the approval of all Americans. Not today. Look how far the Marxists have come!
Mike posted this tweet on Thursday following the Trump show trial in New York City.
I am not at all suicidal.
This one is going to cause trouble.Here is my updated Anti-Communism Education Act.
I will introduce it here in NH shortly. Please consider using it as model legislation – ask your representative to introduce in your state.
Enjoy.…
— Mike Belcher (@MikeBelcher14) August 21, 2023
Here is the text of his anti-Communism legislation.
Anti-Communism Education Act (ACE Act)
This act shall be known as the “Anti-Communism Education Act.”
Purpose:
The legislature finds that a comprehensive education on the true history of the praxis and worldview of Communism, the way it evolved, how it hides itself as other ideologies, or as non-ideological, by manipulating language and definitions, how to recognize and identify Communism, why it represents an unmitigated and irredeemable evil in direct conflict with all values outlined in the NH and US Constitutions, and how to effectively combat Communism politically is a critical need for New Hampshire citizens.
This mandate falls wholly within the context of an adequate education, is consistent with Constitutional requirements on education as “being essential to the preservation of a free government,” “the duty of legislators to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries and public schools, to encourage public and private institutions… and the countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and economy, honesty and punctuality, sincerity, sobriety, and all social affections, and generous sentiments, among the people.” Communism touches and perverts all of these values to the detriment of the liberties and happiness of the citizenry.
Over time this knowledge has nearly been lost to history, and a false narrative of our heritage has emerged to replace it in order to subjugate Americans under miseducation and misinformation. The battle against Communism does not merely represent a distant memory of our forefathers carrying rifles in faraway lands. The battle is here, today and every day, and must be won perpetually, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, victim of Stalin and author of The Gulag Archipelago said, “the line separating good and evil… passes through every human heart” – every generation must make this a facet of their existence or succumb to this parasitic ideology.
Communism is not an economic theory, as misunderstanding and purposeful obfuscation has led many to believe, but an all-encompassing worldview and dangerous disposition towards destruction. This disposition is an ever-present facet of human nature. Perpetual ideological combat against the doctrines of Communism is the only way we may succeed in keeping this republic.
Rule-Making Authority Granted
DOE to adopt rules to ensure the development and/or acquisition, and delivery, of the following curriculum. Appropriations may be made from the education trust fund as necessary to develop and/or acquire curriculum, oversee and track delivery, and any other necessary task to ensure delivery to NH students. It is the expectation of the legislature that most of the individual prescribed requirements may be met in one to several days of instruction.
Middle School Mandatory Curriculum
Course of study on the connection between “Capitalism,” “Socialism” and “Communism” including the following:
· “Communism” and “Socialism” are all part of the same ideology and a person who is a “Communist” is also, necessarily, a “Socialist.” “Socialism” was Marx’s prophesied Stage 5 of “Scientific” History wherein the government must force people to be the same and equal until, according to the theory, it becomes human nature. Once it becomes human nature, and “Socialist Man” is achieved, Stage 6 of History, “Communism,” has been achieved. Communism cannot be achieved, though, because it is a cult prophesy that goes against nature.
· “Capitalism” is what Socialists called Stage 4 of History, which they wrongly believe will naturally undergo revolution into Socialism. “Capitalism” is a caricature of free market economics, but due to confusion was adopted widely by free-market champions as a synonym, though it is not.
· Study will review the theorized 6 stages of history as described by Marx with a particular emphasis on the “revolution” necessary between stages 4 and 5, and the use of violent coercive State force in stage 5, including historical precedents such as the Kulaks.
Course of study on the Book/Essay: Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power: Josef Pieper (omitting the Christian theological roughly second half of essay) including:
· Philosophy of communication vs. deception and creation of “pseudorealities” through misinformation – relate to book/move “The Matrix” as a metaphor for a “pseudoreality.” Specifically that false information conveyed not to inform the hearer, but to confuse or control them, is dangerous, and shifts the perspective of the hearer away from reality such that reality slowly becomes incomprehensible.
Course of study on the book Animal Farm, George Orwell, including:
On the nature of Communism and “equity” as forcing “sameness” through violence and threat,” on the tendency for people to experience normalcy bias ignoring warning signs of dangerous Communist political movements until it’s too late, and the use of censorship and terms such as “conspiracy theory” to delegitimize people and ideas that may be true and honest.
Course of study on the updated and corrected history of Soviet and FBI archives of Project Venona, including:
· The “Red Scare,” Venona documents, and Bella Dodd testimony that largely vindicated Senator McCarthy, and laid bare the broad scope of Communist infiltration of the US government and institutions, and the FDR administration. Further, that the history of “McCarthyism” as a “witch hunt” was a Communist-and-sympathizer driven disinformation operation aimed to discredit the Senator, and the anti-Communism movement broadly, and to stymie the attempt to root out Communists in powerful positions.
Course of study on selected readings from Gramci, including:
The Prison Notebooks on “war of position,” or institutional capture via counter-hegemony, and gradual institutional takeover of the “long march” to affect Communist revolution.
Course of study on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, including:
· Communist radicalized students rose up to demand revolution and attacked adults with state sanction, including family. The five reds and five black categories of “oppressor” or “oppressed” of the cultural revolution, the efforts to destroy all existing culture, and the millions killed by mobs, and social struggle sessions shall be included.
Course of study on the book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton, including:
· Selected readings from the book focusing on the tendency for the psychologically abused to blame themselves, the Communist application of the psychological abuse principle known as DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender), and summary of the book in audio format by Dr. James Lindsay of New Discourses Podcast.
Course of study on the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt School), including:
The advent of neo-Marxism as a retooled Communist ideology after Marx’s failed prophesy of proletariat uprisings.
· Herbert Marcuse, the concepts of “critical consciousness,” and “repressive tolerance,” the transition of pseudo-economic Marxism to identity-based Marxism, and the targeting of black Americans by the Communist International (ComIntern) and Frankfurt School to stoke racial hatred and black separatism – including Soviet plans for a separatist ethnonationalist black “Socialist republic” in southeast America to be overseen by Soviet apparatchiks.
Course of study on the historical transition from the “Science” of alchemy to modern scientific methodologies, including:
· That the principles of modern science as falsifiability, reproducibility, and testing of theorems run contrary to Alchemy as being primarily about a predetermined (prophesied) outcome, and making human understanding fit within that frame.
· Emphasis on the nature of Hermetic Alchemy and associated metaphysics, and efforts to corrupt modern science with alchemy (smuggling metaphysics as “science,” science is a too, not something you “believe in”).
High School Mandatory Curriculum
Freshman year course of study on defected Soviet KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov, including:
· The Soviet program of “demoralization,” the concept of rendering people without discernment and intellectual defenses, and the concept of Mass Formation Psychosis.
· Study should include interviews with Bezmenov, and brief history of the Soviet and ComIntern ideological subversion campaigns.
Freshman year course of study on the eugenics movement championed by early American Hegelians and New Age Alchemists including:
· The coerced or forcible sterilization and abortion of many based in New Age concepts of “soul quality,” and deficits of “quality souls” compared to reproductive rates.
· Welfare programs designed to break the family unit, and particularly the work of Cloward-Pliven strategies.
· Planned Parenthood founded as an anti-black eugenics organization by New Age eugenicist and racist Margaret Sanger, who believed blacks to be a lesser race unable to contribute towards achieving the Age of Aquarius.
· Overview of the false historical allegations that “Jews” are behind Marxism or Communism, that disposition towards Communist ideology is a human universal, as all people experience the oppression of nature and are therefore vulnerable, and that the Marxist cult beliefs parasitized sects of Judaism like it does all other belief systems.
Sophomore year course of study reviewing selected readings from the book The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race, by Isaac Gottesman, including:
· The infiltration of American colleges of education by radical Marxists in the 1960s onward, and the shift in training and curriculum towards Marxism.
· The influence and current prevalence of of Brazilian Marxist Paulo Friere, and his works including Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and Politics of Education within American colleges of education.
Junior year course of study on the publication Unrestricted Warfare, the Chinese Communist Party war doctrine against America, including:
· Selected readings identifying America as vulnerable to ideological subversion and political warfare paradigms.
· Selected readings, drawing from other resources where necessary, to identify the ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party’s war doctrine against America, including the desirability of training Chinese children to be willing to murder women and children, to commit genocide, and to dominate the whole globe – including the American heartland.
Junior year course of study on the German idealist philosopher Hegel, including:
· The “Hegelian dialectic,” from the alchemical origins of Hermeticism to the weaponized Problem-Reaction-Solution formulation of political warfare.
· The movement of “Young Hegelians” and “Old Hegelians,” which spread this Historicist ideology around the world, including to avowed “Hegelian” thinkers Karl Marx, Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and so on.
Senior year course of study in on selected readings from the book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy D. Snyder, including:
· The atrocities of the Soviets in their march through Eastern Europe.
· Study should incorporate audio/video resources including portions of historian Darryl Cooper’s MartyrMade podcast, episode 19: The Anti-Humans.
Senior year viewing of film Mr. Jones, 2019, a historical thriller documenting the history of the Holodomor forced famine of Ukrainian “Kulaks” by Stalin
Electives offered to all students at the high school level (to be offered at minimum in alternating years)
Political Warfare 101, a deeper study into the concepts of political warfare, including:
· “Active measures,” the entire political warfare practice of actively subverting the opposition, including disinformation, demoralization, counter-hegemony and counter-state operations, coopting persons and organizations, and compromising and turning enemy agents.
· “Reification,” the social science concept of bolstering a presupposition by adoption of the framework, usually done when attempting to argue against an item at face-value that was intended for the purpose of reifying some other concept.
· “Entryism,” or the Marxist political warfare tactic of infiltrating an organization or institution, and utilizing the internal control mechanisms (such as hiring and firing) to bring in more Marxists and expel anti-Communists.
· “Counter-hegemony,” the Marxist practice outlined by Gramci whereby organizations are infiltrated, and then overtaken by Marxists by becoming the most intractable and critical group within the organization, in order to capture the organization towards revolutionary ends.
· “Dialectical inversion,” or the Marxist practice of inverting concepts by changing the framing, usually by obfuscating between oppression imposed by man and that imposed by nature, and blaming their opposition for natural phenomena and oppression in order to cast them as the villain and demand more power or resources.
· “Good trouble” and “beautiful trouble,” as the political warfare concepts named by Marxists for direct action, protest, and other street-level operations and provocations.
· “Framing,” as the psychological practice of adopting the point of view of the “oppressed,” see also “critical consciousness.”
· “Mass lines,” as the Maoist political warfare doctrine of developing narratives and operational/information preparation of the environment such that seemingly random events are provoked at correct times and turned into mass social movements.
· “Metaphysics,” and “presuppositions,” as the beliefs people hold that precede logic – those items taken as true on their face – as the foremost location for attack by Communist ideology, and the smuggling of Marxian metaphysics under the false banner of “science.”
· “Epistemology,” theories of knowledge, the logical fallacy of legitimation by paralogy (appeals to experts, bandwagon, authority, etc), the Socratic and scientific method, and methodology of scientific studies.
· “Pedagogy,” the methodologies of teaching, and the capture of pedagogy by Marxian methodologies.
· “Disinformation,” as the information warfare tactic of deceit, and also as the delegitimation tactic of the label “disinformation” given by political warfare operators.
· How all these concepts relate to political and information warfare with a particular focus on Maoist doctrine. Study should draw significantly from materials from Unconstrained Analytics’ intelligence products, New Discourses articles and podcasts, Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and the updated Marxist political warfare strategy guide “Beautiful Trouble.”
Political Warfare 102: a study on the history of political and ideological warfare, including:
· Occultism and secret societies from Plato’s writings to New Age Theosophy and Madam Blavatsky, Hermeticism and Gnosticism, the Eleusinian Mysteries and other cult initiation rites.
· Cult inner circles and intelligence agencies, mutually assured destruction through rites involving perversion and blackmail with an emphasis on the historic use of children as a sexual “honeypot” for blackmail materials:
o The Kincora boys’ home in Northern Ireland run by British intelligence.
o Western intelligence agencies’ links to the private island of Jeffery Epstein.
o Such use of children dating back to Plato, as discussed in his Symposium, and continuing through the modern era, from Herbert Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization, “the road to higher culture leads through the true love of boys.”
· The “dialectic” as used by powerful people and organizations as a weapon through an engineered “problem,” and shaping the “reaction” through cultural means, to achieve a desired outcome “solution.”
· Study should draw significantly from materials from Unconstrained Analytics, New Discourses, Sovereign Nations, and Derryl Cooper’s MartyrMade Podcast 3-episode series on Jeffery Epstein.
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The Gateway Pundit is excited to announce an exclusive partnership with New Gen 47 PAC to provide exclusive coverage of a series of concerts in the coming months that will promote national unity and encourage Americans to support Donald J. Trump for president.
Jim Hoft, the founder and owner of The Gateway Pundit, released a statement this morning on the exciting new venture:
Jim Hoft: “We are thrilled to announce our new partnership between The Gateway Pundit and NewGen47 for the highly anticipated Waka Flocka Flame concert on June 14th. This collaboration promises to bring an unforgettable experience, blending top-tier entertainment and politics with the support of one of America’s most trusted news organizations. Stay tuned for exclusive updates and content from this exciting partnership. There’s much more to come!”
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, New Gen 47 PAC, founded by LJ Fino, President of First Class Records, and PR consultant Alex Fahmy, have big plans to hold concerts and music events with famous musicians to rally low-propensity, young, and minority voters for Donald Trump and other conservatives in November.
It can be recalled that cofounder LJ Fino had a hand in producing hit #1 songs, such as “Justice for All” featuring Donald Trump and the J6 Choir and Kari Lake’s “81 Million Votes my Ass,” as Mailman Media’s Head of Recorded Music Operations. Fino’s First Class Records label has also produced music by Lara Trump.
Their launch event on June 14 in Maimi, Florida will feature a performance by famous ‘No Hands’ rapper Waka Flocka Flame. Get tickets to the launch event with Waka Flocka Flame Miami HERE:
Waka Flocka Flame is an Atlanta-based rapper who, according to Genius, “became a mainstream artist with the release of his hit club-bangers 'O Let’s Do It', 'Hard in da Paint', and 'No Hands' featuring Wale and Roscoe Dash, with the latter peaking at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. All were singles included on his debut studio album Flockaveli, released on October 5th, 2010. His second studio album Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family was released in 2012 and was preceded by the lead single 'Round of Applause' featuring now renowned rapper Drake. His ruthless style of rap governed the genre to how it is today, along with T.I., Jeezy and Gucci Mane.”
His hit song “No Hands” ft. Roscoe Dash & Wale was also nominated for BET’s Best Collaboration Award, alongside “Look at Me Now” by Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes, “What’s My Name” by Rhianna ft. Drake, and “All of the Lights” by Kanye West ft. Rihanna, in 2011.
The “Hard in Da Paint” rapper’s team recently told The Gateway Pundit, “The president upon arrival shook things up, said things, and made comments that were out of the box, out of the ordinary, and quite frankly surprising to most.” They continued, “However, this is exactly what made him unique and worthy of leading this country. Waka is one of many who may have questioned the approach, but that line of questioning is what led him to such stern support today.”
Other New Gen 47 events with A-list entertainers and pro-Trump Hollywood celebrities are expected to be announced soon.
We guarantee you, their set list is something to be excited for!
The Gateway Pundit will provide exclusive video coverage of New Gen 47’s historic entertainment and concert series in support of Donald J. Trump for President in 2024.
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This announcement comes as the American political landscape has been rocked by what many are calling a travesty of justice involving Democrat show trials and persecution of President Donald Trump, the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election . A biased New York jury returned a GUILTY verdict on ALL 34 COUNTS against President Trump following a contentious trial, widely regarded as politically motivated in New York City.
We now live in a country where elections are rigged, you can be sued or charged with a crime for questioning a rigged election, and the regime is convicting opposition leaders on bogus charges.
Like entertainers, such as renowned rap star Kodak Black, who was convicted of gun crimes -- the same charges Hunter Biden still walks free on -- was sent to prison for years and later granted a pardon by President Trump, Trump is a victim of the corrupt justice system in America. Kodak Black came out last year, saying, “We need Donald Trump in office, forever!”
Now more than ever, it is vitally important that Americans wake up to the corrupt Biden Regime and vote for Donald Trump in November.
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Is the destruction of the temporary pier President Joe Biden ordered erected on the coastline of the Gaza Strip just the latest example of God judging this administration for its push to have Israel divide its land?
Less than two weeks after its completion, the pier broke into pieces and much of it submerged “[d]ue to high sea states and a North African weather system,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Tuesday, according to Stars and Stripes.
Four vessels holding the pier in place broke free from the moorings Saturday, with two washing up on the Israeli coast near Ashkelon, and two others beaching near what was the pier site.
BREAKING:
The humanitarian pier that Biden made to deliver aid in Gaza has washed away.
If this doesn’t sum Biden up idk what does… pic.twitter.com/f3LAL0xPOY
— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) May 25, 2024
The Biden administration plans to rebuild the pier.
The weather-induced destruction of the structure, coupled with a deadly string of tornadoes in the American heartland, not seen in years, appears to fit a pattern: Whenever the U.S. has pressured Israel to divide its land, bad and often catastrophic things have happened.
Bible scholars have pointed to the Bible’s book of Genesis, Chapter 12 as an explanation for this phenomenon in which God says to Abraham: “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.” More on this momentarily.
The Biden pier in Gaza is sinking into the sea….
($320m sinking along with it…) pic.twitter.com/mMAM5AjT6w— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) May 27, 2024
During his State of the Union address on March 7, when Biden announced that he was directing the U.S. military to build the temporary Gaza pier, he immediately thereafter said in his remarks, “As we look to the future, the only real solution is a two-state solution.”
“There is no other path that guarantees Israel’s security and democracy,” he added. “There is no other path that guarantees Palestinians can live with peace and dignity.”
So Biden’s answer to the Hamas terrorists breaking the peace and invading Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking over 240 hostages, is to reward the conduct with a Palestinian state?
Keep in mind, Israel had pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, so this was the first opportunity for the Palestinians to show they could govern themselves and live in peace with Israel. That’s not what happened.
The Palestinians elected a Hamas majority to run their government and have been using Gaza as a base to attack Israel ever since.
The $320 million dollar pier appears to be sinking off the Gaza coast. This comes days after waves swept away 4 vessels supporting the operation and parts of the pier broke off and floated towards Ashdod. Via @AP https://t.co/OI8vtaypZc pic.twitter.com/oiLzUZdysE
— Eretz Yisrael 24 (@EretzYisrael24) May 27, 2024
A Gallup poll published in December showed 65 percent of Israelis opposed the two-state plan, while 25 percent supported it. In January, Politico reported, “The two-state solution is dead,” citing that polling.
The clear concern is that if more territory is ceded to the Palestinians, it would just offer more opportunities to strike Israel.
Yet on May 19, Biden reiterated during his commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, “I’m working to make sure we finally get a two-state solution, the only solution for two people.”
That same day, Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, having just come from talks with Crown Prince and Prime Minster of Saudi Arabia Mohamed bin Salman “focused on a comprehensive vision for an integrated Middle East region,” the U.S. Embassy in Israel said in a news release.
That “comprehensive vision” includes “a two-state solution that meets the aspirations and legitimate rights of the Palestinian people,” the administration said, according to Politico.
So rough seas destroying the pier came the same week that the Biden administration was negotiating with Saudi Arabia and no doubt trying to pressure Israel to give up more of its land.
The timing of the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Harbor last month came in even closer proximity to an adverse action taken by the U.S. toward Israel.
On March 25, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas.
Rather than exercise its veto power, as the U.S. has done consistently in the past to protect the Jewish state from the U.N.’s pronounced, long-standing anti-Israel bias, the Biden administration abstained from voting.
“The U.S. declining to protect Israel from a resolution it passionately objects to by not providing a veto is an extraordinary thing,” Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, told CNBC.
The following morning at 1:30 a.m., a cargo ship ran into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse and killing six workers, as well as shutting down the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest in the country, for the foreseeable future.
NTSB releases preliminary report on the March 26 contact of the containership Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and subsequent bridge collapse in Baltimore: https://t.co/qjMPGI9zK4 pic.twitter.com/3byTzQbTWP
— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) May 14, 2024
The bridge is named after the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” so it has very symbolic significance for the nation.
Dallas Theological Seminary professor Mark Hitchcock argued on his podcast at the time that there was a connection between the bridge collapse and the Biden administration’s action toward Israel.
“One of the key factors of God’s blessing … on our country is our support for Israel. And as that support begins to quickly deteriorate, this could be another contributing factor to America’s demise,” he asserted.
Hitchcock cited Genesis 12, in which God instructs Abraham to go to the land of Israel.
“I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,” God said.
Hitchcock — author of many books about biblical prophecy, including most recently “What’s Next? Israel-Gaza War,” which he co-authored with Jimmy Evans — argued that the U.S. has not been blessing Israel of late.
“There’s a very open, very public breach right now between the United States and Israel,” Hitchcock said.
Additionally, he cited William Koenig’s book “Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel,” in which the author chronicles the catastrophic events that have happened each time the U.S. has tried to push Israel toward a two-state solution.
In an online newsletter, Koenig also made the connection between the Key Bridge collapse and America’s recent actions toward Israel.
In a recent video posted on YouTube, Koenig laid out the premise of “Eye to Eye” (originally published in 2007 and updated in 2017).
“The Lord showed me as I observed news that when we applied pressure on Israel to divide their covenant land, given by God to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Genesis 15:18, we’d have enormous, record-setting catastrophes that happened the same day or within 24 hours,” he said.
“I noticed, the greater the pressure on Israel to divide their land — or in other words, to create an Arab state in the biblical heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria — the greater the corresponding catastrophes,” Koenig said, listing the Perfect Storm (1991); Sept. 11, 2001; Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Ian (2022) as examples, as well as a large tornado outbreak.
Hurricane Katrina came after President George W. Bush pressured Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to hand over control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians.
The evacuations of Jewish settlements in Gaza were completed on Aug. 23, 2005.
“I want to congratulate Prime Minister Sharon for having made a very tough decision,” Bush said that day, adding, “The prime minister made a courageous decision to withdraw from … Gaza.”
The same day, what would become Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas.
The Category 4 storm, with winds as high as 140 mph, was the costliest hurricane to ever hit the U.S., causing $198.8 billion in damage and killing over 1,800 people.
Koenig pointed out, “It came right on the heels of the final Jews being forced from their home. The parallels in Israel, the parallels with what was happening in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast, was amazing. Evacuees and refugees being forced from their home in Gaza. Evacuees and refugees being forced from their home in New Orleans.”
Additionally, in 2002, the Bush administration joined Russia, the European Union and the U.N. in the so-called Quartet to facilitate Middle East peace negotiations, Koenig noted in a presentation about his book in 2007.
The Quartet’s plan for Israel, officially released on April 30, 2003, called for a two-state solution.
“The day after the Quartet roadmap was delivered was the beginning of the biggest tornado outbreak in U.S. history,” Koenig said. There were 434 tornadoes sighted in the Midwestern states in the first 10 days of May 2003, he said.
WISH-TV reported that six of the tornadoes reached F4 strength, meaning winds of 207 mph and stronger. The storms killed 42 people and injured over 600 more.
“This was in the heartland of America, the Midwest, as the heartland of Israel was being negotiated,” Koenig highlighted, referring to the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, which Israel captured from Jordan during the Six-Day War in 1967.
He further noted that in the summer of 2003, Europe experienced its hottest temperatures going back to 1540, resulting in at least 30,000 deaths, according to the U.N. In other words, the E.U. and Russia experienced what appeared to be judgment, too.
As the Biden administration continues to push a two-state solution, the U.S. has gone through one of its worst tornado seasons in years, USA Today reported Wednesday.
“Since April 26, the U.S. has experienced 18 killer tornadoes in which 36 people have died,” the news outlet said.
“We’ve had a lot of tornadoes and several ‘big’ days,” Harold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, told USA Today.
“Preliminarily, the U.S. has seen four days with at least 30 tornadoes rated EF1 or stronger,” Brooks told the news outlet. “The average is two a year. That likely puts 2024 in the top 10% of years.”
Between April 25 and May 27, tornadoes touched down on all but two days, The Washington Post noted.
Further, during that time period, 17 of those days “had PDS [particularly dangerous situation] tornado warnings, the most on record for that stretch” of time.
Divine judgment, or just coincidence?
Only God knows for sure, but there has been a pattern going back decades that makes one believe He’s seeking to communicate to America’s leadership: “Stop trying to force Israel to divide its land.”
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Mayor Eric Adams was right.
Mayor Eric Adams appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show in 2022 and told the host that he felt the current bail system was a catch-and-release failure.
He stated, ” This catch, repeat, release system is just destroying the foundation of our country.” he then goes even deeper to say that the current system is why Democrats are losing black and brown voters in mass.
We cannot talk our way out of this. We have to be real about what people are facing in the streets.”
When we look at the state of New York just a little over two years later, nothing has changed, and I would confidently say that things have gotten worse.
WANTED-ASSAULT: in front of 995 Simpson Street #Bronx @NYPD41PCT On 5/22/24 at approx. 10:30 PM. The suspect discharged a firearm striking the victim. Any info call us at 800-577-TIPS or anonymously post a tip on our website https://t.co/TRPPY5zHV2 Reward up to $3,500 pic.twitter.com/C5MZhXZInN
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) May 23, 2024
Outside of media that caters to celebrity news and their Democrat donors, it is now almost impossible to scroll any news timeline without seeing a black or brown mugshot.
Chiefs’ Isaiah Buggs turns himself in on animal cruelty charges as hookah lounge conspiracy theory swirls https://t.co/auzY62PWE8 pic.twitter.com/fCAUvuU4u6
— New York Post (@nypost) May 30, 2024
Aside from the mugshots revealing that white supremacy isn’t the cause of crime in black and brown communities, most of these crimes include sexual harassment and violent assaults from a repeat offender.
A Border Belt Independent report from February went into great detail about what “bail reform” is doing to law enforcement after a man who was charged with murder was released on bond.
The practice of allowing murder suspects to post bail has been a source of debate across the country and in Robeson County, which has the highest violent crime rate in North Carolina.
At least six of the roughly 66 people who were charged with first- or second-degree murder in 2023 in cases investigated by the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office were out on pre-trial release as of mid-January, an analysis by the Border Belt Independent shows.
At least six of the roughly 66 people who were charged with first- or second-degree murder in 2023 in cases investigated by the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office were out on pre-trial release as of mid-January, an analysis by the Border Belt Independent shows.
Locklear made bond for a robbery committed in March of 2022 and was released in May of 2023 for the November 2022 first-degree murder charges.
Locklear was one of three arrested after a Red Springs man was found dead in a ditch on Nov. 29, 2022.
Law enforcement aren’t the only people dealing with the fallout of bail reform for violent criminals. American voters are starting to realize trying to save people based on their skin tone or financial status is creating a world where criminals who should be behind bars are now free to kill or assault their loved ones.
Just last week, former ‘General Hospital’ actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed while trying to stop robbers who were trying to steal parts of his car. The actor’s fiancee took to social media to express her frustration and grief at the reality that criminals who should be behind bars are causing people to lose their lives.
Heartbreak in L.A.: Johnny Wactor’s Fiancée Speaks Out After Tragic Loss
In a heartbreaking turn of events, the fiancée of actor Johnny Wactor has broken her silence after his tragic death in Los Angeles. The former fiancée, who remains unnamed, tearfully addressed the media,… pic.twitter.com/Co8cYDdgxz
— Off Topic Show (@OffTopicShow2) May 28, 2024
All in the name of fighting racism.
It’s time to wake up. This is not sustainable for the country’s foundation, and if we do not push harder for change, it will not end well.
WATCH:
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Judge Jeanine Pirro of FOX News reacted to the Trump verdict today by saying that America has gone over a cliff.
As a judge herself, Jeanine lamented what this decision has done to the public image of our legal system, but as a political matter she was clearly outraged.
She spoke for millions of Americans.
From FOX News:
America has gone ‘over a cliff’ with Trump’s conviction, Judge Jeanine says: ‘All smoke and mirrors’
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro said Thursday that America has “gone over a cliff” after former President Trump was found guilty on all counts, making him the first former President of the United States to be convicted of a crime.
“I want to believe that Americans believe in justice, and I think that in their gut, they realized that there is something that is very wrong here. We have gone over a cliff in America,” Pirro said on-air, moments after the jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records on all counts, concluding his historic and unprecedented criminal trial. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts.
“This verdict is a verdict of someone who was forced to fight a 1,000-pound gorilla with both hands tied behind his back. This was a defendant for whom crimes were created, against whom a judge…was handpicked for this defendant, who denied him the ability to fight the way he needed to fight, who brought in crimes that we have never heard of in New York before, where they had dead misdemeanors that they resurrected into felonies based upon non-unanimous verdicts of crimes that are federal over which no state court or no state judge or prosecutor has jurisdiction,” Pirro said.
“And in the end, with all this smoke and mirrors, at 34 counts, and a hooker, and a guy, [who] according to a federal judge is a serial perjurer, we have convicted a former President of the United States of America,” she continued.
Watch the video below:
Here’s more:
America has gone over a cliff. To convict a former president of crimes that are not even specified in the indictment and for which the president was not allowed to defend himself, is a sad day for this great country. November 5th cannot come soon enough. pic.twitter.com/JYMYpzIPrh
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) May 30, 2024
Democrats have set a dangerous precedent by doing this. They may not like life under the new rules they have created.
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Sean Davis is a columnist and the CEO of the conservative outlet The Federalist.
After the verdict came down in the sham NYC Trump trial today, Davis suggested that Republicans need to start creating lists of Democrats to prosecute and send to prison.
He is not joking. He is suggesting that the right needs to punch back twice as hard.
The liberal outlet Mediaite was horrified by this:
The Federalist CEO Calls For Republicans to Draw Up Lists of Democrats to ‘Put in Prison’ After Trump Verdict
Sean Davis, the CEO and co-founder of the the right-wing website The Federalist, called on Republicans to draw up lists of Democrats to “put in prison” in a social media post reacting to Donald Trump’s conviction on Thursday evening.
“In 2016, the presidential race was decided based on candidates releasing lists of potential Supreme Court nominees,” wrote Davis. “In 2024, I want to see lists of which Democrat officials are going to be put in prison.”
“This is what happens when you cross the Rubicon,” he added.
“If you are a state AG/prosecutor with original criminal jurisdiction, you had better be drafting up charges, indictments, and warrants for every Democrat official involved in this insane, treasonous attack on our entire constitutional republic,” he mused in another post.
Read the tweets from Davis below:
In 2016, the presidential race was decided based on candidates releasing lists of potential Supreme Court nominees.
In 2024, I want to see lists of which Democrat officials are going to be put in prison.
This is what happens when you cross the Rubicon.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 30, 2024
If you’re a Republican running for office, you can just go ahead and throw away all of your elegant little policy proposals for this or that corporate exclusion or tax subsidy. Give me a list of which Democrat officials you’re going to put in prison, or get lost.
There’s only…
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 30, 2024
If you are a state AG/prosecutor with original criminal jurisdiction, you had better be drafting up charges, indictments, and warrants for every Democrat official involved in this insane, treasonous attack on our entire constitutional republic. https://t.co/pvpxBGt2TG
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 30, 2024
Biden and Garland should be indicted in Texas tomorrow for their ongoing criminal human trafficking conspiracy across the border and into the state of Texas, in direct contravention of state law.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 31, 2024
Democrats must be made to feel pain over their decision to do this.
It is the only thing they understand.
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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has been observing the Trump trial as a legal expert for FOX News.
Today, after the guilty verdict came down, Turley reacted by calling it ‘bizarre’ and noting that it is still not even clear what Trump was specifically found guilty of.
He also suggested that the case will be overturned on appeal.
From Townhall:
Jonathan Turley Has a Lot to Say About the Trump Verdict
Legal expert Jonathan Turley reacted with strong words to the guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump, who was convicted on all 34 counts at his New York hush money trial after only two days of jury deliberations spanning over nine hours.
“I obviously disagree with this verdict as do many others,” Turley tweeted, saying that he believes that the case will be reversed “eventually” either at the state or federal level. “However,” the George Washington University Law School professor added, “this was the worst expectation for a trial in Manhattan. I am saddened by the result more for the New York legal system than the former president. I had hoped that the jurors might redeem the integrity of a system that has been used for political purposes.”…
Turley, who was there at the time of the verdict’s reading, called it “one of the most bizarre moments” he ever experienced in the courtroom. Judge Juan Merchan had just said the jury had not yet reached a decision and that they’d be dismissed for the day.
Watch the clip below:
Jonathan Turley explains we still don't even know what Trump has actually been found guilty of… Just amazing,pic.twitter.com/ssnBDUwlLZ
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 30, 2024
Turley commented on Twitter:
I obviously disagree with this verdict as do many others. I believe that the case will be reversed eventually either in the state or federal systems. However, this was the worst expectation for a trial in Manhattan. I am saddened by the result more for the New York legal system…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 30, 2024
This trial was a travesty of justice and the Democrats will eventually regret it.
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A massive fire broke out at Farina Farms Inc. in Marion County, Illinois, on Wednesday night, resulting in the deaths of millions of chickens.
The farm is one of the largest free-range egg facilities in the country.
The fire, which began around 6:30 p.m. along Highway 37, quickly escalated into a 5-alarm fire, requiring the intervention of at least 20 different fire departments from surrounding areas, according to WAND TV.
Described as “humongous” by Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps, the fire engulfed multiple buildings spanning 200-300 yards in length.
The smoke was so dense that it was visible on FOX 2’s Power Doppler radar, reaching altitudes between 13,000 and 15,000 feet and could be seen for miles around, WGN9 reported.
“The fire at the Chicken Farm south of Farina is so hot it is actually producing a rare type of cloud over it. It’s called a “pyrocumulus cloud.” They form over large fires (typically wildfires) due to the intense, upward vertical motion of air cooling and condensing as it moves higher into the sky,” Meteorologist Jacob Dickey wrote on Facebook.
“If fires burn hot enough, they can create clouds that produce lighting and rain, called pyrocumulonimbus clouds. That probably isn’t the case in Farina, but the fire is being spotted on radar between 12,000 to 15,000 feet high!” he added.
The Beckemeyer Volunteer Fire Department alone transported nearly 30,000 gallons of water over a distance of 45 miles to assist in the firefighting efforts, according to Chief Luke Baker.
“You can imagine the amount of water and manpower that was being used,” Baker commented. “Requests like this are made by MABAS (Mutual Aid Box Alarm System) to bring resources in from different areas so as not to deplete a whole county’s fire departments in one place. All in all, it was a massive effort by these first responders to bring it under control.”
The cause of the fire remained unknown. Fortunately, no injuries were reported, but the impact on the local economy and food supply is expected to be significant.
Another angle of Chicken Farm on fire in Farina, IL! pic.twitter.com/QCHcm0GIPT
— Southern Illinois Fire Incidents (@SouthernILFire) May 30, 2024
“We’re monitoring developments regarding last night’s devastating fire at Farina Farms in Marion County, just on the other side of our district line. Thanks to the swift and courageous action of first responders, it appears there were no injuries,” said Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL).
We’re monitoring developments regarding last night’s devastating fire at Farina Farms in Marion County, just on the other side of our district line. Thanks to the swift and courageous action of first responders, it appears there were no injuries.https://t.co/At54ev6ImF
— Rep. Mike Bost (@RepBost) May 30, 2024
Prayers for the families that work at the chicken farms at Farina. Hundreds of people in the area will be affected. Emergency crews worked diligently throughout the night.
Thank you Nicole Williams for the picture. pic.twitter.com/ZnO6Bie9tE— Darren Bailey (@DarrenBaileyIL) May 30, 2024
Another chicken farm burns to the ground in Farina Illinois. pic.twitter.com/yT23a4VpET
— Ultra MAGA Dean (@dean_mays11) May 30, 2024
This disaster comes amid a devastating outbreak of bird flu that is already decimating bird populations.
Over 4 million chickens in Iowa will need to be culled after the detection of highly pathogenic bird flu at a major egg farm, the state announced on Tuesday.
Read more:
Governor Signs Disaster Proclamation as Officials Order Killing of 4.2 Million Chickens
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President Trump will hold a press conference tomorrow at 11 AM ET at the Trump Tower Atrium to speak out on his political persecution by radical left Biden Thugs in the Manhattan Court House.
Trump announced the presser on Truth on Thursday after the guilty verdict came in.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial on Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts!
“I’m a political prisoner!” Trump said after the verdict in his rigged trial with far-left jurors, a far-left conflicted Judge, and politically motivated prosecutors was announced.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed.
After deliberating for several hours on Thursday, the jury returned a guilty verdict after the judge rigged the trial by allowing jurors to choose which crime they believed Trump committed.
Trump is facing four years in prison for every count.
The sentencing was set for July 11.
The Gateway Pundit will provide updates on Trump's press conference.
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Crime pays in the Windy City as long as you are not a law-abiding citizen.
As CWB Chicago reported, 35-year-old Whitley Temple, who ran over a Chicago police officer with his own squad car in June 2022 while naked after he stopped to help her, was found NOT GUILTY on all charges including attempted murder by reason of insanity by Judge Tyria Walton on Wednesday.
In addition to the murder, Temple was acquitted on four other charges: two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, vehicular hijacking, and possession of a stolen vehicle. CWB Chicago notes Walton conducted a bench trial that dragged on for a month due to repeated continuances.
As CBS News Chicago notes, prosecutors alleged that on June 13, 2022, 23-year veteran Chicago Police Officer Edward Poppish found Temple naked in the street in West Garfield Park. She then stole his squad car, ran him over, and dragged him with the SUV.
She proceeded to race down the Kennedy Expressway at 90 mph before slamming into four cars at Harrison Street and Damen Avenue in the Illinois Medical District.
Poppish suffered a concussion as result of Temple’s actions and needed several stitches to his head.
Below is the video of the 2022 incident. Talk about a travesty of justice.
WATCH:
She stole a police SUV and ran over an officer.
Chicago judge finds her not guilty by reason of insanity.https://t.co/EmXtKHUkez
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 30, 2024
To make matters worse, the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services hired Temple earlier this year as a lead accountant while awaiting trial. Sources told CBS Chicago she was terminated in March.
While Temple is a free woman, she must report to court for a meeting with mental health officials on a treatment plan as the outletnotes.
Temple’s defense attorney had claimed to Walton that his client was “in a psychotic state” at the time of the incident during the bench trial, arguing that this is a “textbook insanity case.” The prosecution and defense presented their closing arguments on Wednesday before Walton announced her verdict the following day.
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The political temperature in America has reached a boiling point following the controversial guilty verdict in the sham trial of President Donald Trump.
President Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to a hush-money payment made to adult porn star Stormy Daniels.
This verdict makes Trump the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. The jury reached their decision after a five-week trial and two days of deliberation.
Donald Trump denounced the trial as a “disgrace” and “rigged,” claiming that a “conflicted” and “corrupt” judge presided over the proceedings. He has consistently maintained his innocence, declaring himself a “very innocent man,” and has announced plans to appeal the verdict.
In a united front, several Republican figures released strongly-worded comments to express their outrage and support for Trump.
Sen. JD Vance wrote, “This verdict is an absolute miscarriage of justice. While the outcome of this trial will no doubt be subject to appeal, it’s a disgrace to our judicial system that such measures will be necessary. The partisan slant of this jury pool shows why we ought to litigate politics at the ballot box and not in the courtroom. Ultimately, I have faith that the 2024 election will be decided by the American people, not corrupt judges and prosecutors.”
Senator @JDVance1 Statement On Verdict In President Trump’s Manhattan Trial:
“This verdict is an absolute miscarriage of justice. While the outcome of this trial will no doubt be subject to appeal, it’s a disgrace to our judicial system that such measures will be necessary.… pic.twitter.com/tPsxxROZ3o
— Senator Vance Press Office (@SenVancePress) May 30, 2024
Sen. Tuberville wrote, “It’s a very dark day in American history. This ‘trial’ was a political witch hunt from the start. The fact that the Biden campaign staged a press conference outside the court tells you everything you need to know. Liberal activist Alvin Bragg and Biden-donor Judge Merchan had a shared goal: to put President Trump behind bars. Whether you consider the lopsided jury, the gag order issued to silence only President Trump, the prosecution’s failure to outline the alleged underlying crimes, or the lack of a unanimous verdict required for conviction, this trial was a complete joke and a massive misuse of taxpayer dollars.”
“This is pure election interference and the American people will see through it. We can’t have a two-tier justice system. If we don’t return to our Constitution, which guarantees every U.S. citizen the right to free speech and the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury, we are no better than Venezuela or communist China.”
Pure election interference.
My full statement on today’s verdict against President Trump: pic.twitter.com/btmJJCnK34
— Coach Tommy Tuberville (@SenTuberville) May 30, 2024
Sen. Ted Cruz wrote, “This is a dark day for America. This entire trial has been a sham, and it is nothing more than political persecution. The only reason they prosecuted Donald Trump is because Democrats are terrified that he will win reelection. This disgraceful decision is legally baseless and should be overturned promptly on appeal. Any judge with a modicum of integrity would recognize that this entire trial has been utterly fraudulent.”
RELEASE: My Response To The Trump Verdict pic.twitter.com/oHwEmZlW0j
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 30, 2024
Sen. Mike Lee wrote, “A sad day for America. The verdict against Donald Trump, marred by unclear charges and irregular jury instructions, sets a dangerous precedent. This was a political prosecution to help Joe Biden, a weaponization of our justice system that threatens the very fabric of our Republic.”
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) May 30, 2024
Sen. Ted Budd wrote, “Today’s verdict is a total disgrace. Previous district attorneys, federal prosecutors, and the Federal Election Commission all chose not to pursue this for a clear reason: President Trump committed no crime. President Trump deserves the same Constitutional rights as any American. But from the start, this was a rigged charade designed to weaponize the justice system to interfere in the presidential election and hurt President Trump. If Americans can be found guilty of a crime based on underlying allegations that were never charged, all of our Constitutional rights are at risk.”
Today’s verdict is a total disgrace. pic.twitter.com/rHqY1vas0K
— Sen. Ted Budd (@SenTedBuddNC) May 30, 2024
Sen. Barrasso wrote, “The case in New York against President Trump has never been about justice. Democrats are weaponizing the justice system against a political opponent. Elections are decided in voting booths, not courtrooms. President Trump will keep fighting to get America back on track.”
The case in New York against President Trump has never been about justice. Democrats are weaponizing the justice system against a political opponent.
Elections are decided in voting booths, not courtrooms.
President Trump will keep fighting to get America back on track.
— Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) May 30, 2024
Rep. Thomas Massie wrote, “Guilty on 34 counts, but no underlying crime. Partisan hacks serving as judges, investigators, and prosecutors have turned our legal system into a farce at both the state and federal level.”
Guilty on 34 counts, but no underlying crime. Partisan hacks serving as judges, investigators, and prosecutors have turned our legal system into a farce at both the state and federal level. pic.twitter.com/It2tcRHpxG
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 30, 2024
“Time for Red State AGs and DAs to get busy,” Rep. Mike Collins wrote.
Time for Red State AGs and DAs to get busy.
— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) May 30, 2024
Rep. Matt Gaetz wrote, “This verdict is the corrupt result of a corrupt trial, a corrupt judge, and a corrupt DA. We will stand with President Trump now more than ever to save the country.”
This verdict is the corrupt result of a corrupt trial, a corrupt judge, and a corrupt DA.
We will stand with President Trump now more than ever to save the country.
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) May 30, 2024
Rep. Jim Jordan wrote, “The verdict is a travesty of justice. The Manhattan kangaroo court shows what happens when our justice system is weaponized by partisan prosecutors in front of a biased judge with an unfair process, designed to keep President Trump off the campaign trail and avoid bringing attention to President Biden’s failing radical policies. Americans see through Democrats’ lawfare tactics and know President Trump will be vindicated on appeal.”
The verdict is a travesty of justice.
The Manhattan kangaroo court shows what happens when our justice system is weaponized by partisan prosecutors in front of a biased judge with an unfair process, designed to keep President Trump off the campaign trail and avoid bringing…
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 30, 2024
Rep. James Comer wrote, “Today is a sad day for all Americans. This verdict in New York is another example of Democrats being relentless in their pursuit to weaponize the courts, abuse America’s judicial system, and target President Joe Biden’s political opposition. One thing is clear: Democrats are afraid to face Donald Trump. Americans will make their voices heard this November.”
STATEMENT
Today is a sad day for all Americans. This verdict in New York is another example of Democrats being relentless in their pursuit to weaponize the courts, abuse America’s judicial system, and target President Joe Biden’s political opposition. One thing is clear:…
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) May 30, 2024
Rep. Paul Gosar, “I completely disagree w/this shameful verdict. This trial has been a sham from the beginning & while I am angry w/the decision, I am not at all surprised by the Democrats’ actions & efforts 2 silence & destroy their greatest political opponent & threat.”
I completely disagree w/this shameful verdict. This trial has been a sham from the beginning & while I am angry w/the decision, I am not at all surprised by the Democrats’ actions & efforts 2 silence & destroy their greatest political opponent & threat.
— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) May 30, 2024
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wrote, “SHAM CASE. SHAM JUDGE. SHAM VERDICT. President Trump is innocent, and everyone knows it. Our justice system has been weaponized against political opponents. This is what happens in banana republics, not in America.”
SHAM CASE.
SHAM JUDGE.
SHAM VERDICT.President Trump is innocent, and everyone knows it. Our justice system has been weaponized against political opponents. This is what happens in banana republics, not in America.
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) May 30, 2024
Rep. Greg Steube wrote, “What is happening to President Trump is beyond the pale. It’s truly unbelievable that in the United States of America, the Democrats have weaponized our justice system to go after their political opponents in a presidential election. Regardless of the outcome, this entire trial is a sham. The American people see right through it.”
What is happening to President Trump is beyond the pale.
It’s truly unbelievable that in the United States of America, the Democrats have weaponized our justice system to go after their political opponents in a presidential election.
Regardless of the outcome, this entire trial… pic.twitter.com/NLfCEL52Vv
— Congressman Greg Steube (@RepGregSteube) May 30, 2024
Rep.Troy Nehls wrote, “Today is one of the darkest days in the history of our country. I don’t know if our country can ever recover from the abuse of this government on President Donald Trump. I hope the American people will see through this and do the right thing for the future of our country, as we know Judge Merchan is compromised to the core. He’s scum. There is no doubt in my mind this will be overturned on appeal. You have poked the bear, and I will fight like hell to get President Trump back in the White House.”
Today is one of the darkest days in the history of our country.
I don’t know if our country can ever recover from the abuse of this government on President Donald Trump.
I hope the American people will see through this and do the right thing for the future of our country, as…
— Congressman Troy E. Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) May 30, 2024
Rep. Nancy Mace wrote, “This is a VERY dark day for American democracy when the law is weaponized against its own citizens.”
This is a VERY dark day for American democracy when the law is weaponized against its own citizens.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) May 30, 2024
Rep. Darrell Issa wrote, “The Trump trial and verdict are a disgrace.”
The Trump trial and verdict are a disgrace.
— Rep. Darrell Issa (@repdarrellissa) May 30, 2024
Rep. Andy Biggs wrote, “The sham case against President Trump is a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars. President Trump is innocent!”
The sham case against President Trump is a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars.
President Trump is innocent!
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) May 30, 2024
Rep. Clay Higgins wrote, “The New York trial was 100% rigged. This perversion of justice will not stand. Trump will win on appeal and again in November.”
The New York trial was 100% rigged. This perversion of justice will not stand. Trump will win on appeal and again in November.
— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) May 30, 2024
Rep. Andrew Clyde, “This is the biggest miscarriage of justice in American history. Liberal jury. Corrupt judge. Unprecedented lawfare. The Left has rigged and weaponized our justice system because they’re TERRIFIED of facing President Trump in November.”
This is the biggest miscarriage of justice in American history.
Liberal jury. Corrupt judge. Unprecedented lawfare.
The Left has rigged and weaponized our justice system because they’re TERRIFIED of facing President Trump in November.
— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) May 30, 2024
Rep. Eli Crane, “They shamelessly weaponized our “justice” system against their political opponent with a rigged trial. Unjust and un-American. I stand with President Donald J. Trump.”
They shamelessly weaponized our “justice” system against their political opponent with a rigged trial.
Unjust and un-American.
I stand with President Donald J. Trump.
— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) May 30, 2024
Rep. Mary Miller wrote, “The leftists are trying to tear America apart by erasing our borders, bankrupting us, and ending our impartial system of justice. The American people see right through these RIGGED political show trials against President Trump. The leftists will fail & we will save America.”
The leftists are trying to tear America apart by erasing our borders, bankrupting us, and ending our impartial system of justice. The American people see right through these RIGGED political show trials against President Trump. The leftists will fail & we will save America.
— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) May 30, 2024
Rep. . Keith Self wrote, “The sham Trump trial, starring Judge Juan Merchan was orchestrated by Joe Biden. Now he will suffer the consequences. I had a front row seat to the circus in New York City last week, and while the jurors may have been fooled, the American people are not. On November 5th, a nation of his peers will deliver justice to Joe Biden by voting him out of office.”
The sham Trump trial, starring Judge Juan Merchan was orchestrated by Joe Biden. Now he will suffer the consequences.
I had a front row seat to the circus in New York City last week, and while the jurors may have been fooled, the American people are not.
On November 5th, a…
— Rep. Keith Self (@RepKeithSelf) May 30, 2024
Rep. Greene commented, “I agree with every single word here. Republicans have done NOTHING to stop the Democrats from destroying our justice system and our freedoms. Many Republicans would just quote the constitution as they are marched to the firing squad. When good men do nothing, evil prevails.”
I agree with every single word here.
Republicans have done NOTHING to stop the Democrats from destroying our justice system and our freedoms.
Many Republicans would just quote the constitution as they are marched to the firing squad.
When good men do nothing, evil prevails. https://t.co/O2FSubZcZk
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) May 30, 2024
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RINO former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey endorsed fellow RINO Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer for reelection in an announcement made on Thursday.
It should be remembered that RINO Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who oversaw early voting in Lake’s stolen 2022 election for governor, founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans dark money PAC aimed at eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda and admits to voting for Democrats last election cycle. Richer also sued Kari Lake, alleging defamation after she spoke out against him for the corrupt election and his serious conflicts of interest. He would seemingly like nothing more than to see Kari Lake lose.
Richer is set to face Justin Heap and Don Hiatt in the the July 30 GOP Primary for Maricopa County Recorder. The Gateway Pundit recently reported that Heap, who is endorsed by Kari Lake, Rep. Andy Biggs, and Rep. Paul Gosar, savaged Richer at a candidate forum hosted by the Palo Verde Republican Women’s Club’s May 15 luncheon with one simple prompt for the audience: Please raise your hand if you personally or someone you know received an extra ballot at your house during the last election cycle.
It was over for Richer, who oversees early voting and mail-in ballots in Maricopa County, when nearly half of the crowd raised their hand and exposed the corruption in Richer’s current system.
This is not the first time Ducey has endorsed the Anti-MAGA candidate in a race. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Ducey previously endorsed open-borders RINO Karrin Taylor Robson in the August 2022 Primary Election for Arizona Governor against Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake.
The Gateway Pundit recently outlined in another report that Kari Lake is leading by a landslide in the polls for Arizona’s Senate seat, but things may turn sour for the Trump-Endorsed candidate, who almost lost the 2022 primary to mass voter disenfranchisement and potential fraud, again.
It can be recalled The Gateway Pundit and Cygnal Polling conducted a poll of likely Republican voters weeks before Kari Lake’s August 2, 2022 Arizona gubernatorial primary, which found that she led competitors by double digits. Then, shenanigans in the primary election made Lake’s race a nail-biter.
When the polls opened across Maricopa County, the printers were not working, and some voters were reportedly handed slips of paper with a phone number to call. Voters were also told to visit a different polling location if they wanted to have their vote counted. Some voters were reportedly told that they had already voted.
Other issues were discovered statewide, and Pinal County even ran out of ballots at polling locations and turned voters away from the polls. Prior to this, Pinal County sent 63,000 erroneous ballots to voters leading up to the August 2nd Primary Election.
Many saw these issues as a trial run for the 2022 general election, in which 60% of machines in Maricopa County failed on election day, and other irregularities were detected statewide. Kari Lake reportedly lost the General Election by less than 1% to corrupt Democrat Katie Hobbs, who oversaw the election as Secretary of State.
Yet Kari Lake's opponent, Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, in a February 2023 Congressional Homeland Security Committee Hearing, said Trump lost his election and that he has “seen zero evidence” that election fraud had an impact in the 2020 election — even after the rigged midterms where irregularities occurred in his county during the Primary and General Elections, and 60% of machines in Maricopa County failed in the general election.
Ducey will presumably back Kari Lake's opponent, Mark Lamb, in the Senate Primary, and it appears the fix is in.
Richer released an extensive statement via email to voters and on X today:
-- GOVERNOR DUCEY ENDORSEMENT -- When I moved to Arizona at the end of 2015, the state had the best brand of Republican politics in the country. Principled conservatives of character and competence.
Our then-governor, Governor Doug Ducey, of course played a large role in setting that standard. And as I settled in and attended more political and professional events (especially a lot with the Arizona Chamber of Commerce), Governor Ducey repeatedly made promises that cemented this positive brand.
Governor Ducey promised to make Arizona one of the best business climates in the country (and he was succeeding).
Governor Ducey promised to keep Arizona out of late-night talk shows (and he was succeeding).
Governor Ducey promised an efficient, effective government that would improve government where it was needed, and remove government it where it wasn't needed (and he was succeeding).
Governor Ducey promised to avoid the personal controversies that had plagued so many politicians, including some Arizona politicians (and he was succeeding).
Governor Ducey promised a serious, professional approach to the Governor's Office that would resemble his work as a serious, professional CEO of a successful business (and he was succeeding).
Philosophically, my politics had been set long before moving to Arizona.
Since age 15 (weird?), I'd idolized the likes Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, Bill Buckley, and Richard Epstein (who as my teacher for two different degrees was ... a little different than his writings... Hi Professor Epstein if you're reading!!!). And I'd worked at places like American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, and the Washington Legal Foundation.
But in terms of elected officials, I had fewer north stars.
Governor Ducey became one.
And that's why I'm so proud that today he is endorsing my campaign for reelection.
"I'm endorsing Stephen Richer for reelection as Maricopa County Recorder because he is a conservative focused on efficient, lawful, and limited government.
As Recorder, Stephen led a massive voter roll cleanup and added safeguards into our county’s vote-by-mail process. And to protect homeowners from title fraud, he introduced the free Maricopa Title Alert service.
Stephen’s commitment to consistently improving government operations is what Maricopa County deserves; please join me in voting Richer for Recorder."
I'm very grateful to Governor Ducey's support of my ongoing efforts as Recorder to improve vote-by-mail, voter registration, and public document recording for Maricopa County.
And, as always, I'm grateful to you all for the opportunity to be in this role.
-- GOVERNOR DUCEY ENDORSEMENT --
When I moved to Arizona at the end of 2015, the state had the best brand of Republican politics in the country. Principled conservatives of character and competence.
Our then-governor, Governor Doug Ducey, of course played a large role… pic.twitter.com/AlQhkE6FBD
— Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct) (@stephen_richer) May 30, 2024
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The jury returned a verdict in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial on Thursday: Guilty on all 34 counts!
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed.
After deliberating for several hours on Thursday, the jury returned a guilty verdict after the judge rigged the trial by allowing jurors to choose which crime they believed Trump committed.
Trump is facing four years in prison for every count.
The sentencing was set for July 11 – Three days before the Republican convention!
Judge Merchan was informed there is no bail.
President Trump said the trial was rigged after the guilty verdict was announced.
“I’m a political prisoner!” Trump said.
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The Biden campaign released a statement labeling Donald Trump a “dictator” and lecturing that “no one is above the law.”
Joe Biden’s team also begged for donations.
Evil never sleeps.
Dana Perino read the remarks today.
Biden Campaign Communications Director released this disgusting statement following this shameless assault on the former President:
“Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain.”
“But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality “There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. “Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president,” Tyler continued.
“The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater.
“He is running an increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution, pledging to be a dictator ‘on day one’ and calling for our constitution to be ‘terminated’ so he can regain and keep power.
“A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans’ freedoms and fomenting political violence – and the American people will reject it this November.”
They always project their own actions.
Good Lord, save us from this wickedness!
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The American political landscape has been rocked by what many are calling a travesty of justice. After a contentious trial, widely regarded as politically motivated, the jury returned a guilty verdict on all 34 counts against President Trump.
Shortly after the verdict was announced, President Trump’s official website was updated with a bold and defiant message: “BREAKING NEWS: I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER!”
According to the fundraising email:
I was just convicted in a RIGGED political Witch Hunt trial: I DID NOTHING WRONG!
They’ve raided my home, arrested me, took my mugshot, AND NOW THEY’VE JUST CONVICTED ME!
But with your support at this moment in history, WE WILL WIN BACK THE WHITE HOUSE AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Crooked Joe Biden needs to get the message – right here, right now – that his chances of a 2nd term END TODAY!
BUT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, OUR IMMEDIATE PUSHBACK MUST BE SO MASSIVE, IT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY! WE MUST MAKE JOE BIDEN REGRET EVER COMING AFTER US!
The message was accompanied by a call to action for supporters to donate and stand against what Trump describes as the Deep State’s latest attempt to undermine his legacy and influence.
No matter how many vicious lies and attacks they throw our way, President Trump will NEVER SURRENDER our great country to the Left’s tyranny! But the Democrats will spend billions and billions of dollars to try and stop our movement, and we’re counting on YOUR support to finish what we started.
Together, we will DISMANTLE the Deep State, WIN BACK the White House, and SAVE AMERICA in 2024! Please consider completing your contribution today. Thank you!
Remember, YOUR SUPPORT IS THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN US AND TOTAL TYRANNY!
So I’m humbly asking for you to please, please, PLEASE join me at this dark hour.
[…]
YOUR SUPPORT IS THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN US AND TOTAL TYRANNY!
So I need 10 MILLION TRUE MAGA PATRIOTS to chip in and proudly shout:
I STAND WITH TRUMP!
Within minutes of the message being posted, President Trump’s donation page experienced an unprecedented surge of traffic, causing it to crash.
A GOP source told me that WinRed, the Republican donation platform, is overwhelmed at the moment. pic.twitter.com/fqMJCehx7D
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 30, 2024
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The New York City jury reached a verdict in Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan’s lawfare case against President Donald Trump late on Thursday afternoon.
The Gateway Pundit contributor Paul Ingrassia is attending the ongoing show trial today in New York City. He will be reporting from the media room.
Ingrassia, who has been live reporting from inside the Merchan kangaroo court for several days now, has observed firsthand the blatant disregard for due process and fair trial standards.
Despite the prosecution’s failure to clearly define the alleged criminal act committed by President Trump, the court appears poised to find him guilty at all costs and send him to prison, irrespective of the evidence or lack thereof.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.
The verdict will be announced after 5 PM ET.
UPDATE: Jury has a verdict; they’re expecting another 30 minutes before the formal announcement.
This is much sooner than we anticipated, even just a few minutes ago. Few were expecting a jury verdict today.
I will post the latest updates as soon as I receive them. https://t.co/6VSvO6wFic
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
In a shocking twist that defies the principles of American jurisprudence, Judge Merchan instructed the jurors that they do not need to reach a unanimous decision on the specific “unlawful means” that Trump is accused of in the case. They just have to sense that he is guilty. This goes against all common law in US history.
Instead, the jury was given the liberty to select from three main options, effectively turning the process into a choose-your-own-adventure game of legal implications.
President Trump is being tried by a jury in a city that voted 87% for Joe Biden. The jury members all admitted to reading The New York Times and watching MSNBC for their news.
The verdict is in…
Prayers for President Trump and his family.
As we wait for a jury verdict, say a prayer for President Trump, his family, and our country.
May God bless President Trump and the United States of America! pic.twitter.com/Iz26k9zKqb
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Each count could result in 4 years in prison!
Judge Merchan salutes the jury.
“Merchan to jurors: I really admire your dedication and hard work. You worked very hard and gave this matter the attention it deserves.”
Merchan to jurors: I really admire your dedication and hard work. You worked very hard and gave this matter the attention it deserves.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
“Trump will win this on appeal. This trial has been a complete and total mockery of the rule of law; due process; the constitution; and the criminal justice system. Absolutely disgraceful!”
Trump will win this on appeal.
This trial has been a complete and total mockery of the rule of law; due process; the constitution; and the criminal justice system.
Absolutely disgraceful!
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
The post New York Jury Reaches Verdict on Trump’s NY Lawfare Trial — GUILTY!! — ALL 34 COUNTS! — EACH COUNT COULD RESULT IN 4 YEARS IN PRISON!… Judge Merchan Tells Jurors He “Admires Your Dedication and Hard Work” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
There’s something odd about the fact that Ukrainians mean to host a diplomatic meeting in Switzerland that supposedly is a ‘peace summit’ but that does NOT count with the presence of one of the warring parties.
Not only that, but the losing side appears determined to establish the conditions for peace – have they not heard that ‘history is written by the victor‘?
Whatever the rationale behind it, it is now becoming increasingly clear that the oncoming Ukraine ‘peace summit’ is developing into a big flop.
The fact that US President Joe Biden will probably not be present at the event led embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ‘issue a warning’ over his non-attendance.
Newsweek reported:
“Biden’s absence from the talks on June 15 and 16—which will be aimed at developing a common understanding of a path toward a just and lasting peace in Ukraine—would be like giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a standing ovation, Zelensky told reporters during a press briefing in Brussels, Belgium.
Washington has said that the U.S. will participate in the summit but hasn’t said whether Biden will be attending. Bloomberg reported on May 23, citing people familiar with the matter, that the U.S. president will likely miss the event because it clashes with a campaign fundraiser in California.”
Russia hasn’t been invited to participate in the summit, China will only send a low-level civilian official, and Biden will apparently prefer the company of Hollywood celebrities to the optics of a failed war.
“‘If [Biden] is not present, it will be just like applauding Putin: personally applauding and doing so standing’, Zelensky said, as he urged as many countries as possible to participate in his peace summit.
‘I believe that the Peace Summit needs President Biden, and other leaders who are looking at the U.S. response also need him. If you want peace, you will be there and you will speak, even if you don’t agree with something. And if you want war, you will go to the mob that Russia wants to organize’.”
Out of the more than 160 delegations from around the world invited to join the peace summit, there have been 70 confirmations.
Euronews reported:
“Meanwhile, China and Brazil, two countries that the West has accused of failing to denounce Russia’s invasion, published last week a joint statement insisting on the need to include both Ukraine and Russia in any peace conference. Following Beijing’s policy, the statement did not mention the occupied territories in Eastern Ukraine.
‘All parties should create conditions for the resumption of direct dialogue and push for the de-escalation of the situation until the realisation of a comprehensive ceasefire’, the two countries wrote.
‘China and Brazil support an international peace conference held at a proper time that is recognised by both Russia and Ukraine, with equal participation of all parties as well as fair discussion of all peace plans’.”
Read more:
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The jury reached a verdict after day two of deliberations in the NY lawfare case against Trump.
UPDATE: Guilty on all 34 counts
The verdict will be announced in 30 minutes.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed.
This is a breaking story..please check back for updates.
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A recent survey conducted by AmmunitionToGo.com at the 2024 National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meetings in Dallas, Texas, reveals a striking trend: a majority of NRA members are gearing up for potential civil unrest surrounding the upcoming presidential election.
The survey, which included nearly 1,000 respondents, revealed growing concerns among NRA members about the legitimacy of the 2020 election and the nation’s future stability. More than half of those polled were 50 years old or older.
An overwhelming 97% of survey respondents believe the Second Amendment was, in part, enshrined in the United States Constitution as a defensive mechanism against a tyrannical government. This belief underscores the deep-rooted conviction among NRA members about the fundamental purpose of their gun rights.
When it comes to what threatens the Second Amendment, NRA membership is split. That said, the concept of a gun owner database appears the most concerning to members among the more commonly discussed threats. Red flag laws and a renewed assault weapons ban follow. Currently, federal law prohibits a universal, national gun registry or database through the Brady Act.
The survey also suggests NRA members are more politically active than the average American, with 6 out of 10 surveyed members having contacted lawmakers about gun rights issues. This proactive approach to advocacy demonstrates the commitment of NRA members to protecting their Second Amendment rights.
Despite media reports of internal challenges within the NRA, 75% of respondents trust the organization to advocate for Second Amendment rights. However, 87% feel the NRA could do more, pointing to the high-profile case of Kyle Rittenhouse as an example of where they believe stronger advocacy was needed.
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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Marco Troper, the 19-year-old son of leftist former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found dead at the University of California, Berkeley back in February. Now, an autopsy report has finally revealed his cause of death.
The San Francisco Gate received the coroner’s report from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office which said that Troper died from an “accidental” drug overdose in his dorm. The teen had a wide range of drugs in his system when he perished, including alprazolam, which is often branded as Xanax, as well as cocaine, amphetamine, and hydroxyzine.
The report shows the levels of alprazolam and cocaine found in his bloodstream were likely high enough alone to cause death. THC, which is present in marijuana, was also present in his body.
The paper notes there was speculation regarding Troper ingesting fentanyl, but the autopsy did not find the deadly opioid in his system.
No foul play is suspected.
TGP previously revealed that Troper was found unresponsive in his dorm at the Clark Kerr Campus, a student housing complex, around 4:23 p.m. local time on February 13. Despite prompt life-saving attempts by the Berkeley Fire Department, Troper was pronounced dead at the scene.
His grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, said at the time that the family feared he had started taking drugs in college and speculated to the San Francisco Gate that one caused his death.
“He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” she said. “One thing we do know, it was a drug.”
Troper was the son of Susan Wojcicki and tech executive Dennis Troper. Mrs. Wojcicki was the Youtube CEO from 2014 to 2023 and a huge Hillary Clinton supporter.
She resigned the day after the House Republicans issued subpoenas for Big Tech CEOs at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Wojcicki was not listed on the list of subpoenaed CEOs despite YouTube being a subsidiary of Alphabet.
Under Wojcicki’s reign, she demanded governments censor the free speech rights of ordinary citizens and suspended President Trump from Youtube following the J6 protests.
“Our recommendations for governments who want to have more control over online speech is to pass laws to have that very cleanly and clearly define such that we can implement it. There are times we see the laws being implemented or being suggested that they are not very clean or possible for us to cleanly interpret them. And we’ve also seen laws just passed for the internet as opposed to for all speech. And I do think that’s a dangerous area when we start to get in and say oh sure you can say something like this for a magazine or on TV but you can’t say it on the internet,” she said.
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In yet another alarming display of lawlessness in the heart of New York City, a man was brutally attacked with a machete in broad daylight in Times Square on Thursday.
The violent incident occurred outside a McDonald’s restaurant, according to New York Post.
The victim, whose identity has not been disclosed, suffered severe stab wounds to both legs and was transported to a local hospital. He is reportedly in stable condition and expected to survive this horrific assault.
According to a recent report, the NYPD has successfully apprehended all three suspects believed to be responsible for this brutal attack.
A man was stabbed in both legs by three men wielding a machete outside of the Times Square McDonald’s around 1 p.m. today.
The victim, who was not identified, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, and is listed in stable condition.
[Per @CitizenApp, all three suspects have been… pic.twitter.com/6E5vY6LXdu
— Crime In NYC (@CrimeInNYC) May 30, 2024
Here is one of the suspects arrested by the police.
One of the three suspects in the Times Square machete stabbing was arrested at 6th Avenue and W 52nd Street. / Via @nypost pic.twitter.com/ml0VbrkRWE
— Crime In NYC (@CrimeInNYC) May 30, 2024
Eyewitness accounts describe one of the suspects wearing blue jeans and a black shirt, accessorized with a backpack. Another was clad in a black hoodie emblazoned with the “Wu Tang Clan” logo, and the third suspect wore a gray hoodie paired with blue jeans.
Despite these descriptions, police have yet to make any arrests, adding to the growing frustration among New Yorkers over the apparent impunity with which criminals operate.
This latest episode is part of a troubling trend of violent crimes that are becoming all too common across New York City.
Residents and business owners are increasingly alarmed by the rise in assaults, robberies, and other criminal activities that are eroding the quality of life and stifling economic recovery in areas like Times Square that are crucial for the city’s tourism and entertainment industries.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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A person has died after being ingested by a jet engine at Amsterdam Airport.
The incident took place on Wednesday on an aircraft run by Dutch airline KLM that was destined for Denmark.
The Daily Mail reported:
Officials investigating the death of a person who was sucked into a jet engine in Amsterdam yesterday are yet to identify whether the victim was a man or woman after their body was shredded by the spinning turbines. The unidentified victim was killed immediately when they were pulled into the KLM passenger plane’s engine at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport yesterday afternoon as it prepared for takeoff.
Passengers and crew members on board the Embraer 190 aircraft – which KLM uses for their Cityhopper service to nearby destinations – told local outlet De Telegraaf that a ‘hellish noise’ came from the engine, which quickly began trailing smoke. Emergency crews carried out a ‘massive’ response after the horror tragedy was reported around 3pm, with a picture posted by public broadcaster NOS showing the plane surrounded by fire trucks and ambulances.
Investigators from the Dutch military police have said that is was too early to say whether this was an ‘incident’, or a form of suicide, and in a press conference late last night said they were still trying to identify the sex of the victim.
In a statement from the Dutch airline KLM, the airline said it was “taking care” of passengers traumatized by the incident.
“A fatal incident took place at Schiphol today during which a person ended up in a running aircraft engine. Sadly, this person has died,” the statement read.
“The flight concerned was KL1341 bound for Billund. We are currently taking care of the passengers and employees who witnessed the incident at Schiphol. The circumstances are currently under investigation.”
Schiphol Airport also confirmed the incident on their X feed.
“Today there was a horrible incident where a person ended up in an airplane engine,” they wrote. “Our thoughts go out to the relatives and we care for the passengers and colleagues who witnessed this. The Royal Military Police is currently conducting an investigation.”
Vandaag is er een afschuwelijk incident geweest waarbij een persoon in een vliegtuigmotor is beland. Onze gedachten gaan uit naar de nabestaanden en we hebben zorg voor de passagiers en collega’s die dit hebben gezien. De Koninklijke Marechaussee voert momenteel onderzoek uit. https://t.co/G7QD0Ihevl
— Schiphol (@Schiphol) May 29, 2024
Last year, a similar incident took place at San Antonio airport in Texas when an airport worker was sucked into a plane run by Delta Airlines. Examiners eventually concluded he had taken his own life.
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In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Thursday, ruling that the New York State Department of Financial Services violated the NRA’s First Amendment rights by effectively blacklisting the group.
The decision, surprisingly authored by far-left Justice Sonia Sotomayor, affirmed that the NRA “plausibly alleged” that its free speech rights were stifled by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) under directives perceived to be politically motivated.
The case, rooted in actions taken by former DFS Superintendent Maria T. Vullo, has ignited fierce debates over the intersection of regulation and free speech.
Vullo, acting on what many conservatives see as a directive from former Governor Andrew Cuomo, issued “guidance letters” to financial institutions in 2018 which effectively coerced them into severing ties with the NRA.
These actions followed closely on the heels of the Parkland shooting and were justified by Vullo as measures to mitigate “reputational risks” associated with gun advocacy groups.
According to Fox News, “The NRA agreed to pay $2.5 million and to refrain from offering insurance in New York for five years.”
Justice Sotomayor’s opinion firmly states, “The judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is vacated, and the case remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
This significant rebuke overturns the Second Circuit’s dismissal of the NRA’s suit, enabling the organization to continue its legal battle against New York regulators who pressured insurers and bankers to cease business with the gun advocacy group.
“Today, the Court reaffirms what it said then: Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors. Petitioner National Rifle Association (NRA) plausibly alleges that respondent Maria Vullo did just that,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the decision.
“The NRA’s allegations, if true, highlight the constitutional concerns with the kind of intermediary strategy that Vullo purportedly adopted to target the NRA’s advocacy. Such a strategy allows government officials to “expand their regulatory jurisdiction to suppress the speech of organizations that they have no direct control over… Vullo allegedly used the power of her office to target gun promotion by going after the NRA’s business partners. Insurers in turn followed Vullo’s lead, fearing regulatory hostility.”
“Ultimately, the critical takeaway is that the First Amendment prohibits government officials from wielding their power selectively to punish or suppress speech, directly or, as alleged here, through private intermediaries,” Sotomayor added.
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Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed a disaster proclamation on Tuesday for one of her state’s counties as public health officials prepare to euthanize more than 4 million chickens exposed to a highly contagious bird flu.
The order comes after a case of avian influenza was confirmed among a large flock of egg-laying chickens in Sioux County on Tuesday by state and local agriculture officials, according to a report from CBS News.
As a result, the animals will be destroyed and their remains will be isolated in an attempt to prevent the further spread of the contagion.
In total, some 4.2 million chickens will be put down.
Iowa is the nation’s largest exporter of chicken eggs and the economic effects of the culling are expected to be felt far and wide.
Reynolds signed a disaster proclamation for Sioux County that will last until June 27, her office announced in a Tuesday statement.
“Today Gov. Kim Reynolds announced the signing of a disaster proclamation for Sioux County, Iowa effective immediately,” the governor’s office said. “This proclamation allows state resources from Iowa Homeland Security, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, and other agencies to assist with tracking and monitoring, rapid detection, containment, disposal, and disinfection.”
“The proclamation also waives regulatory provisions related to commercial vehicles responding to affected sites,” the statement continued. “The recent HPAI detections in birds do not present an immediate public health concern, and it remains safe to eat poultry products. If producers suspect signs of HPAI in their flocks, they should contact their veterinarian immediately.”
When responding to the news on her X account, Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst said she has full confidence in her state’s farmers.
“This is serious, but our Iowa farmers know how to mitigate the spread!” she wrote.
I’m in touch @IADeptAg about avian flu being detected in Sioux County.
This is serious, but our Iowa farmers know how to mitigate the spread!
I will continue my work to ensure @USDA has a more coordinated response on HPAI outbreaks.
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) May 28, 2024
The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported that the discovery of illness among the flock of chickens in Sioux County was the first reported in the state this year.
Other infections have been detected in neighboring Minnesota.
It is believed that avian influenza cases are spread between farms by migrating birds.
According to the Dispatch, 23 million birds have been culled and their carcasses have been isolated in Iowa over the past two years.
Sioux County has been one of the most severely affected counties during that time horizon.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that it has seized close to 34,000 pounds of cocaine valued at $468 million within a span of a. month.
On Tuesday, Coast Guard officers were seen unloading the confiscated cocaine, which was seized between Feb 21st through March 23rd.
The drugs were seized by the Coast Guard off the coast of South America and Mexico.
Rear Admiral Andrew Sugimoto stated, “I am extremely proud of this crew and their dedication to disrupting organized crime in the Eastern Pacific.”
“The effort put in while interdicting more than 33,000 lbs of cocaine in a few weeks’ time is unparalleled,” added Sugimoto.
US Coast Guard offloads $468M worth of confiscated cocaine https://t.co/yDOBvVuaZZ pic.twitter.com/Sk4osZzJQy
— New York Post (@nypost) May 29, 2024
Per Fox 11 Los Angeles:
The United States Coast Guard announced that it seized nearly 34,000 pounds of cocaine — worth $468 million — in multiple incidents over the span of a month. The Coast Guard offloaded the tons of cocaine in San Diego on Tuesday.
The drugs were seized in seven separate busts off the coast of Mexico and Central and South America between Feb. 21 and March 23, the Coast Guard said, including a bust on March 17 where Coast Guardsman seized nearly 8,000 pounds of drugs.
“I am extremely proud of this crew and their dedication to disrupting organized crime in the Eastern Pacific,” Rear Admiral Andrew Sugimoto said. “The effort put in while interdicting more than 33,000 lbs of cocaine in a few weeks’ time is unparalleled.”
All eight busts were made by the Coast Guard Cutter Munro. Capt. Rula Deisher, the commanding officer of the Munro, said she “couldn’t be prouder of them. Their dedication and grit goes to show that Munro is one of the best national security cutters in the fleet, and we are committed to keeping the country safe by stopping illegal drugs before they hit the street.”
US Coast Guard Seizes $468 Million of Confiscated Cocaine https://t.co/hBgQ7Vfx7f
— Elena (@helen44767171) May 30, 2024
The large amount of cocaine was seized in eight different encounters with drug smuggling vessels.
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Against the background of the continuing rapid advances of Russian Federation troops all along the frontline, we’ve come to understand that the battles for cities, while relevant, are just a means to an end.
The endgame is the Russian war of attrition against Ukrainian troops and equipment – which would have concluded pretty fast if it was not for the massive Western aid consisting of funds, equipment, and training.
The way the Russians have begun to go about it lately is a strategy of ‘death by a thousand cuts’, in which they nibble about seeking weaknesses, exploit many of those these weak spots, making Ukraine scramble reinforcements to and fro, effectively outmaneuvering the exhausted defenders, trying to get them to the breaking point.
Having said that, every city siege has its own symbolic importance, and in the case of the Donetsk region key stronghold of Chasov Yar, it is expected that its conquest will allow Russian troops to immediately roll back defenders across significant amount of territory, as it was the case right after they took Avdeevka.
WATCH: Chasov Yar.
Chasov Yar. pic.twitter.com/zpn4rKUOEn
— Adam (@YepAdam_) May 22, 2024
This battle is happening in the larger context of the ‘Yug Group of Forces’ clashing against de Ukrainian 79th Air Assault, 28th and 41st mechanized brigades in the Donestsk areas of Elizavetovka, Konstantinovka, and Chasov Yar.
Five days ago the Russian paratroopers managed a breakthrough up to the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, a body of water that defenders are fortifying behind.
Ukrainians reportedly deployed significant mechanized forces – to the tune of several dozen armored vehicles and tanks – along the canal.
So the besiegers have started to systematically target those defenders with air strikes, drones and artillery.
WATCH: Russian Aerospace Forces operating in the Chasov Yar area
Air dominance over NATO forces in Chasov Yar established: pic.twitter.com/n3O0tR0JKO
— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) April 13, 2024
A pair of Russian Aerospace Forces Su-25s are operating in the Chasov Yar area. The attack on Ukrainian positions continues. pic.twitter.com/pf6Vk0kEMm
— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) April 9, 2024
WATCH: Tank assault on Chasov Yar defenses, and Heavy Flamethrower artillery strikes on the same positions.
Tank assault on Chasov Yar defenses, and Heavy Flamethrower artillery strikes on the same positions. pic.twitter.com/xljaHMKTmg
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 30, 2024
WATCH: Russians capture a Ukrainian firing point.
On the outskirts of Chasov Yar, the Russian tricolor is flying – there, stormtroopers opened enemy firing points and captured a strong point. BMD-2 fighters of the Russian Federation entered enemy positions with the tricolor on board.
Paratroopers of the 98th storm… pic.twitter.com/A1OOb4lz52— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) April 8, 2024
Russian troops also advanced along the forest belt and occupied the northern part of the Stupki-Golubovskie-2 nature reserve.
“Everything suggests that the AFU command is very hopeful that we don’t have enough reserves and is essentially playing all-in. It’s either do or die. Either they hold the main contour of the city defense, knocking us back behind the line of the canal and out of the Canal microdistrict, or we, having broken through to the Novy microdistrict, occupy this very contour and enter the city center with great chances for its rapid further liberation.”
Ukrainian soldiers are increasingly resorting to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
“Lack of troops and artillery, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are increasingly relying on drones to drop explosives and supplies to hold Chasov Yar.”
The effectiveness of this tactic may be somewhat thwarted by superior Russian Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities.
Participating in the Chasov Yar defense is reportedly the Omega special unit, a part of the Foreign Legion within the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine.
Russian sources say it is just a front for the work of mercenaries, including from the French and Spanish legions.
British paper ‘The Times’ reports on a Ukrainian Armed Forces brigade that is fighting near Chasov Yar and has lost 40% of its fighters in two years.
The unit was decimated by losses, as well as illnesses and desertion. 90% of the brigade is made up by forcibly mobilized citizens of Ukraine.
WATCH: Defense of Chasov Yar under pressure.
Defense of Chasov Yar under pressure pic.twitter.com/5jHSfpgFBe
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 30, 2024
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The two Haitis seem to remain in a collision course.
In the first Haiti, the elegant political class in their salons keep making unelected political decisions about the future of the country, but these decisions don’t necessarily apply to the second Haiti, the real life one, in which the heavily armed rebel gangs have territorial domain over 80% of the capital Port-au-prince.
A clear image of just how dysfunctional the political situation in the Caribbean country has become can be gleaned by the fact that now, the unelected Transition Council has nominated the THIRD Prime Minister in just a month.
Yes, you read it right.
The latest choice, Prime Minister Garry Conille, has vowed ‘to seek unity’ in his first statement since selected to head the government.
Conille let us know who is pulling the strings: he thanked the ‘civil society groups’ (Globalist NGOs), political parties (Establishment) and members of the Haitian diaspora (Foreign Influences).
In fact, as a former UN official, he is as Globalist as one can be.
Associated Press reported:
“’Together, we will work for a better tomorrow for all the children of our nation’, he wrote on X, the social media platform, in Haitian Creole.
Conille submitted his resignation Tuesday as UNICEF’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, a post he has held since January 2023. He previously served as prime minister of Haiti from October 2011 to May 2012 under then-President Michel Martelly and was former chief of staff to Bill Clinton in the ex-president’s role as U.N. special envoy to Haiti.”
To hear about the UN and the Clintons in the same paragraph dealing with Haiti is disturbing to say the least.
Conille helped coordinate reconstruction efforts after the 2010 earthquake, and served as a U.N. development specialist before becoming a regional director with UNICEF.
Haiti awaits the U.N. mission with a Kenyan police force to try to stabilize the security situation.
There hasn’t been an elected leader in Haiti since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
“In addition to choosing the prime minister, the transitional council is tasked with arranging presidential elections before early 2026.
On Wednesday, [the council] issued a statement noting that Conille was one of five prequalified candidates that they interviewed for one hour each on Tuesday, and that they are now working with him to choose a new Cabinet.
‘The transitional presidential council renews its firm determination to do everything possible to stem the phenomenon of insecurity and lead the country on the path to free, fair, democratic and inclusive elections’, it said.”
One hopes that Conille does not take the same path as former Prime Minister Ariel Henry – equally unelected – who was supposed to promote the transition, but remained in power until the rebel gangs exiled him, preventing him from returning to Haiti.
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President Donald Trump is back in court today on Thursday in Juan Merchan’s kangaroo court in New York City.
The prosecution has yet to define the alleged criminal act that President Trump committed. But it doesn’t matter. The court is ready to find Trump guilty and send him to prison.
Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime. They just had to agree something bad happened. This, of course, is completely unconstitutional.
It is indeed unconstitutional, @catturd2. In 1999, SCOTUS ruled in Richardson v United States that a jury must find a defendant unanimously guilty on a “specific violation” or charge.
The relevant section of the decision, delivered by liberal Justice Breyer https://t.co/jje9TNEJj6 pic.twitter.com/KlMCPodMUe
— Mαχιмυs Knιgнт♞ (@Maximus_4EVR) May 29, 2024
The Gateway Pundit contributor Paul Ingrassia is attending the proceedings in New York City today. Paul has been live-reporting from inside the Merchan kangaroo court for several days now.
Paul ended his reporting yesterday with this analysis:
The jury will deliberate between 10 AM and 4:30 PM today.
We will be posting Paul Ingrassia’s live updates below.
Paul Ingrassia is joined today by Judge Jeanine Piro, Attorney Andrew McCarthy, Andrew Giuliani, Ashley Lamb and Kasondra Watkins.
BREAKING: With a great group waiting to be let inside the courthouse to report on President Trump’s show trial!
I’ll be posting all day long — so be sure to turn on notifications for live updates throughout the day!@AndrewCMcCarthy @JudgeJeanine @gopAshleyLamb @KasondraWatkins pic.twitter.com/IO1QinQhYH
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia and Andrew Giuliani spoke outside the courthouse this morning as the show trial deliberations continue inside.
TRUMP SHOW TRIAL: Will there be a VERDICT Today? LIVE w/ @PaulIngrassia https://t.co/vsJz7uj4Mm
— Andrew H. Giuliani (@AndrewHGiuliani) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 9:31 AM: RECAP: Bragg combined two misdemeanor crimes to create a felony because both of their statutes of limitations expired.
The question of how, by combining these two crimes, it revives the falsification misdemeanor and elevates it to a felony, remains unanswered. A pivotal point that has gone overlooked — the statute in question is unclear, and does not expressly state, that two misdemeanors make a felony.
But even if that were somehow true, myriad other legal issues abound. First, the “smorgasbord of options” issue that Merchan described yesterday, in which the jurors were effectively licensed to “mix and match” different predicate crimes in order to help reach a guilty verdict.
The three “predicate crimes” were an FEC violation, and two tax-related violations. The problem with the FECA law is that this should not be an issue in a state court. State courts do not have jurisdiction to rule on Federal Election-related matters, which are highly complex and have their own separate set of rules. This is why President Trump’s counsel wanted to bring in an FEC expert witness. Even though the issue should not have been brought into state court in the first place, at the bare minimum, have an authority on election law to explain what these highly intricate laws mean and how they should be interpreted. Merchan is far from an expert in anything, especially federal election law. He’s an “acting” state court judge from a low-ranking law school. But of course he prevented that witness from testifying, because he is a tyrant and he alone has the ability, in his words, to say what the law is.
The other two “predicate crimes” — the tax filing violation and books and records violation — are so open-ended and ambiguous as to be impossible to rule on. However, even so, the underlying point stands: no jury is permitted to select a buffet of different crimes to more easily satisfy the burden of proof to fast-track a guilty verdict.
This is a violation of due process, which the Supreme Court has been crystal clear. It is also likely jury tampering, which Merchan has done shamelessly. He would not provide the jurors with written instructions in order to have exclusive control over the law, its application, and interpretation.
Every single aspect of this case has been tainted by impropriety, prejudice, flagrant ethical breaches, and rule violations of the most egregious and highest order. President Trump’s fundamental constitutional rights, including due process and the right to speak freely, have been denied by this so-called Judge with impunity. Whatever the verdict, any right-minded appeals court will toss this case out without a second thought — because the violations are so blatant from top to bottom.
RECAP: Bragg combined two misdemeanor crimes to create a felony because both of their statutes of limitations expired.
The question of how, by combining these two crimes, it revives the falsification misdemeanor and elevates it to a felony, remains unanswered. A pivotal point… https://t.co/wYHHBpiI0R
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 9:33 AM: BREAKING: Norm Eisen, one of the legal masterminds of all the lawfare being waged against President Trump, was spotted in the courthouse overflow room today.
This is a man who should not be within 200 miles of any courthouse in America, for all the damage he has done to the rule of law in this country.
BREAKING: Norm Eisen, one of the legal masterminds of all the lawfare being waged against President Trump, was spotted in the courthouse overflow room today.
This is a man who should not be within 200 miles of any courthouse in America, for all the damage he has done to the rule…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 9:39 AM: BREAKING: President Trump and his legal team enter the courtroom. He is donning a bright blue tie. Yet again, Juan Merchan disrespects the office of the presidency by referring to the 45th president and frontrunner to be the 47th president (by a lot!) as “Mr. Trump.”
BREAKING: President Trump and his legal team enter the courtroom. He is donning a bright blue tie.
Yet again, Juan Merchan disrespects the office of the presidency by referring to the 45th president and frontrunner to be the 47th president (by a lot!) as “Mr. Trump.”
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 9:47 AM: BREAKING: Merchan is doubling down on his commitment to not provide the jury with written instructions, which is not customary for most courts.
In a case as convoluted as this one, in particular, where most lawyers and veteran legal analysts have difficulties wrapping their heads around the law, it is unfathomable why Merchan would only want to further complicate things by not providing written jury instructions.
His motive is clear: like any tyrant, he alone wants complete control over the law, and how it should be applied. This is a subtle form of jury tampering. He is intimidating the jurors, 10 of 12 of whom are not lawyers, into pressuring them to seek advisement from Merchan, who can then guide the verdict in the way he thinks is best by telling them how the law must be interpreted.
BREAKING: Merchan is doubling down on his commitment to not provide the jury with written instructions, which is not customary for most courts.
In a case as convoluted as this one, in particular, where most lawyers and veteran legal analysts have difficulties wrapping their…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 10:05 AM: BREAKING: Merchan now describing the burden of proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, to the jury. Explains that the burden of proof is on the People, not the Defendant.
Now mumbles and rushes through the definition of a burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Merchan effectively lowered the burden of proof in this case by giving the jurors “options” of crimes to choose from, in order to elevate the underlying falsification crime from a misdemeanor to a felony.
This is a flagrant violation of due process because it violates the principle of jury unanimity. As @JeffClarkUS rightly pointed out on here a few days ago: “Merchan needs to acquaint himself with Ramos v. Louisiana from the U.S. Supreme Court,” which spells out these principles clearly and concisely — two words that were evidently lost in translation on Merchan when he migrated to the United States from Colombia.
BREAKING: Merchan now describing the burden of proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, to the jury. Explains that the burden of proof is on the People, not the Defendant.
Now mumbles and rushes through the definition of a burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Merchan…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 10:35 AM: BREAKING: Just a few short years ago it would’ve been unthinkable for an independent journalist like myself to cut against the narrative being pushed by the mainstream media that is working in tandem with Merchan’s court and Biden’s administration, to interfere with the 2024 election. For that reason, we all are indebted to @elonmusk for the courageous and noble task he undertook to purchase @X and fight every single day to keep this platform free, to the best of his abilities.
Without @X, the broader public would be in the dark about the truth of what is happening. We all would be completely dependent on the opinions of far left media pundits like Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Anderson Cooper – all of whom received front row, priority seats by Merchan’s court to shape the narrative for this show trial (in sharp contrast with commentators from right-leaning alternative networks like @NEWSMAX, @RealAmVoice, @RSBNetwork, @OANN, and even @FoxNews, including high-profile journalists with sizable platforms, all of whom were relegated to the overhead press room, if they had access to the courtroom at all – many were denied). The fact that Biden Regime apparatchiks like Jen “circle back” Psaki, and two of the architects of all the lawfare against President Trump – Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissman – also received preferential access to the courtroom is utterly unconscionable, yet further proof of Biden’s direct involvement in this show trial.
It’s easy to forget the tremendous damage that can be done to society by giving a malicious cabal of left-wing activists posing as “mainstream journalists” complete and total control over the narrative, particularly on a story like the Trump Show Trial, one of not just national but global importance.
After all, it was the Joy Reids and Norm Eisens of the world who brainwashed large swathes of the public into believing the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrators at the Capitol on January 6th 2021, committed “Insurrection,” or that the 2020 presidential election was somehow the “most secure” election in American history (even though nobody can explain why Biden, the most “popular” president, also suffers from the lowest approval ratings in history).
It’s false narratives like these that provided the grounds, ultimately, for the investigations, indictments, and show trials against President Trump, and his legions of supporters, that persist to this day — the real reason for the travesty of justice now occurring in Merchan’s kangaroo courthouse.
This further demonstrates the importance of @X in opening the proverbial floodgates for independent journalists to hold the legacy media accountable, which are, for all intents and purposes, rank propagandists (and not very good ones) for the Biden Regime.
Although @X has made substantial inroads toward getting the truth out, serious problems remain on this platform. Importantly, the voices of honest journalists like myself, @AndrewHGiuliani, @JonathanTurley, @AndrewCMcCarthy, and others here, are still being throttled, shadow banned, and in some cases, outright censored by nefarious shadow actors operating nefariously behind closed doors.
It is thus of critical importance that we ring the alarm bells, and make sure this issue front and center for @elonmusk, so his team can review the throttling – both in terms of viewership and financially – and do everything possible to ensure his platform remains open to all voices, including those who have sacrificed the most to tell the truth.
BREAKING: Just a few short years ago it would’ve been unthinkable for an independent journalist like myself to cut against the narrative being pushed by the mainstream media that is working in tandem with Merchan’s court and Biden’s administration, to interfere with the 2024…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 10:35 AM: BREAKING: In yet another display of Merchan’s “brilliance,” rather than give the jury written transcripts of the requested testimony involving the meetings between Pecker and Cohen (which would be much easier for everyone), he is having the testimony instead be read out loud in the courtroom.
This so-called Judge is clearly a micromanager and control freak, and wants his hand in every single aspect of the proceeding to lead the jury to the desired verdict. Not a good look! Jury tampering!
BREAKING: In yet another display of Merchan’s “brilliance,” rather than give the jury written transcripts of the requested testimony involving the meetings between Pecker and Cohen (which would be much easier for everyone), he is having the testimony instead be read out loud in…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 10:52 AM: BREAKING: Few people are talking about just how difficult it is to follow the spoken testimony of the requested transcripts by the jury. The chosen two speakers are reading quickly, occasionally stuttering over some words, and not always enunciating clearly and properly. She’s no Hollywood actor!
President Trump looks aggravated, and you can’t blame him. Hopefully at least a few of the jurors will sympathize with how he feels right now, as they are also being forced through this agonizing process. The “icebox” courtroom remains dark; the blinds are closed, allowing little sunlight in. The courtroom, which is old and needs a serious refurbishing, is lit by stark fluorescent lighting. The seats on which jurors and members of the public sit are hard and uncomfortable. The air doesn’t filter well, resulting in a stuffy courtroom and miserable experience for everyone in attendance.
BREAKING: Few people are talking about just how difficult it is to follow the spoken testimony of the requested transcripts by the jury. The chosen two speakers are reading quickly, occasionally stuttering over some words, and not always enunciating clearly and properly. She’s…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 10:55 AM: BREAKING: The oral transcript they are now reading for the jury is the cross-examination of David Pecker.
Not sure if the jury is allowed to take notes throughout as they listen to the requested oral transcripts — if they cannot, there is no way for them to follow and process all this information, which is further complicated by the poor enunciation of the chosen two speakers tasked by Merchan to read the testimony. Prosecution and Defense, in addition to the press and members of the public, all are obligated to sit and listen to this testimony.
BREAKING: The oral transcript they are now reading for the jury is the cross-examination of David Pecker.
Not sure if the jury is allowed to take notes throughout as they listen to the requested oral transcripts — if they cannot, there is no way for them to follow and process…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 11:03 AM: BREAKING: If you’re looking to find my live updates from the Trump Show Trial all in one place, refer to this piece in @gatewaypundit— one of the few places in print media for honest and accurate reporting. Their reporting on this story has been top of the line all throughout — and I encourage all my followers to give them your support. Many thanks to Jim and the entire team!
BREAKING: If you’re looking to find my live updates from the Trump Show Trial all in one place, refer to this piece in @gatewaypundit — one of the few places in print media for honest and accurate reporting.
Their reporting on this story has been top of the line all throughout…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 11:03 AM: BREAKING: Some of you have asked me about jury observations. I am in the press overflow room today, and thus cannot see the jury or their reactions. The live video feed being streamed into the overflow room, which is situated on the same floor of the courthouse adjacent to the courtroom where the trial is taking place, is very selective in terms of the video and audio it broadcasts.
I can see President Trump, his attorneys, Bragg’s prosecutors, Merchan, and whoever is on the witness stand. I can also hear everything going on in the courtroom. President Trump’s invitees, as well as the members of the public, are visible, but more difficult to make out. I cannot see any of the jurors, because the court wants to protect their identities — which is odd, given that some members of the press, like Anderson Cooper and Lawrence O’Donnell, have preferential access to the courtroom itself and can see everything going on. While other networks, like Newsmax, are forced to air their coverage from across the street.
I promise to get updates, however, from those in the courtroom about the jury — and whether they reacted or behaved in a way that might indicate how they are thinking. Stay tuned!
BREAKING: Some of you have asked me about jury observations. I am in the press overflow room today, and thus cannot see the jury or their reactions. The live video feed being streamed into the overflow room, which is situated on the same floor of the courthouse adjacent to the…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 11:16 AM: BREAKING: Read back concluded. Merchan now dismissing the jurors from the courtroom, and back into the deliberations room.
BREAKING: Read back concluded. Merchan now dismissing the jurors from the courtroom, and back into the deliberations room.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 11:24 AM: BREAKING: One of the jurors appears partial to Donald Trump. And frankly, how couldn’t at least one be? Even in deep blue Manhattan, there are still countless Trump supporters — just look how many confronted washed-up actor Robert DeNiro when he made a pathetic display outside the courthouse two days ago as a favor for his buddy, Joe Biden.
In a jury pool of 12, assuming 90% of Manhattan is Democrat, should mean that at least 1 or 2 voted for President Trump in 2020. Granted, the voir dire process always favors the prosecutor’s say over who should be impaneled, particularly so with a biased judge like Merchan. That said, it’s very difficult to believe that you won’t find at least one or two jurors who also think this is a farce and show trial. Remember, we only need 1 for a hung jury.
Based on a report I heard from earlier today, 8 of the 12 are dyed-in-the-wool liberals. Circumstantial evidence of this is found in their news consumption habits: at least eight cited the NY Times as their go-to source for news.
All that said, it’s still incredulous that all twelve would be anti-Trump, or at least suffer from clinical TDS as to remain oblivious to the obvious errors that are riven throughout this proceeding. Again, you only need 1!
BREAKING: One of the jurors appears partial to Donald Trump. And frankly, how couldn’t at least one be? Even in deep blue Manhattan, there are still countless Trump supporters — just look how many confronted washed-up actor Robert DeNiro when he made a pathetic display outside… https://t.co/NlWIeuqavF
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 11:50 AM: BREAKING: How is it that an alleged FECA violation could serve as a predicate for a federal crime in a state court?
Merchan’s holier-than-thou approach to judging, in which he believes he can be all three of judge, jury, and executioner of this entire case, is grounds for an investigation. He is bringing in laws on which he has zero grounds at all to form a judgment about. Federal campaign law is entirely outside his purview and jurisdiction. So too is something as open-ended as “tax law violations,” which are equally complicated and fall outside the realm of his highly limited jurisdiction as an acting state court judge.
Some other thorny and problematic legal issues not given enough attention:
First, to the extent they normally have exclusive jurisdiction over enforcing their own rules, does the FEC have the ability to bring CRIMINAL (not just civil) charges against the alleged perpetrator, and if so, can they do it on their own? (And not, for example, by first getting approval through the DOJ?)
Second, how is it that an alleged state election law violation can be brought against President Trump at all? Didn’t he run for President? Last I checked, the President is a federal, not state, office. Moreover, how is it that the state election law is being used to incorporate the three predicate offenses into this proceeding? T
hird, where in the statute that allegedly serves as the basis for Bragg and Merchan’s entire theory of criminal liability against President Trump, allowing them to magically make felonies of misdemeanors, says that you can do just that? First, what law is implicated here? Second, where in the law does it say a class A misdemeanor, having expired due to the statute of limitations, can be raised to a class E felony once accompanied with a predicate crime? I’ve noticed many commentators, including conservatives, taking this assumption for granted: that misdemeanors can be made into felonies willy-nilly based on what the judge says, but that’s far from true. There is no direct link: logically it doesn’t work out, and a close reading of the applicable statutes would show that to be true.
We shouldn’t jump the gun and assume what isn’t true, because we run the risk of accepting narratives contrived, for nefarious purposes, by Biden Regime-approved judges like Merchan, or talking heads like Andrew Weissman and Norm Eisen! The lesson is to be extremely scrupulous and thorough!
BREAKING: How is it that an alleged FECA violation could serve as a predicate for a federal crime in a state court?
Merchan’s holier-than-thou approach to judging, in which he believes he can be all three of judge, jury, and executioner of this entire case, is grounds for an… https://t.co/LgzKhxlZay
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 11:59 AM: BREAKING: New Trump Truths released over the past half hour in response to the Biden Show Trial:
BREAKING: New Trump Truths released over the past half hour in response to the Biden Show Trial: pic.twitter.com/UbXWkaTJM5
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 12:35 PM: UPDATE: Jury still deliberating. We are now half past noon and still no verdict, of course.
The longer these deliberations take place, the lesser of a likelihood a verdict will be reached today. And the longer the deliberations, conventional wisdom holds the better it is for the defense.
A lot of the morning was spent re-reading the Cohen and Pecker transcripts, suggesting the jurors are doing a thorough and meticulous read-through of the law and facts.
Thoroughness is likely a good sign, given the numerous legal hurdles that must be overcome in order to meet the burden of proof for each and every component of the complex legal matrix that is Bragg and Merchan’s theory of criminal liability here.
UPDATE: Jury still deliberating. We are now half past noon and still no verdict, of course.
The longer these deliberations take place, the lesser of a likelihood a verdict will be reached today. And the longer the deliberations, conventional wisdom holds the better it is for…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 1:07 PM: BREAKING: I’ll be giving an update on the trial with the great @LouDobbs at 3 PM! Tune in! Also will be giving updates soon on @oann and @RSBNetwork! Stay tuned!
BREAKING: I’ll be giving an update on the trial with the great @LouDobbs at 3 PM! Tune in!
Also will be giving updates soon on @oann and @RSBNetwork! Stay tuned!
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul joins Andrew Giuliani outside the show trial.
LIVE from the TRUMP SHOW TRIAL w/ @PaulIngrassia https://t.co/iykinUzBjk
— Andrew H. Giuliani (@AndrewHGiuliani) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 4:03 PM: UPDATE: It’s now past the 4 pm hour and still no verdict. Courthouse right now is quiet— no media updates. President Trump’s team, including @JasonMillerinDC, @AlinaHabba, and others, were doing hits at the press gaggle across the street outside the courthouse. I’m told jury verdicts often happen in the morning, so if there is no verdict by noon tomorrow, expect deliberations to go into next week. Stay tuned for further updates.
UPDATE: It’s now past the 4 pm hour and still no verdict. Courthouse right now is quiet— no media updates.
President Trump’s team, including @JasonMillerinDC, @AlinaHabba, and others, were doing hits at the press gaggle across the street outside the courthouse.
I’m told jury…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 4:05 PM: Ingrassia: Trump Trial Has Been ‘Unprecedented, Unorthodox, And Ridiculous’
Ingrassia: Trump Trial Has Been ‘Unprecedented, Unorthodox, And Ridiculous’https://t.co/bO2cD5Onag
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 4:09 PM: UPDATE: Conventional wisdom holds that the longer deliberations drag on, the better the prospects look for President Trump.
That being said, nothing about this show trial has been either “conventional” or “wise,” so we shall see what happens.
But we can pretty much rule out seeing a verdict today, and potentially one this week.
UPDATE: Conventional wisdom holds that the longer deliberations drag on, the better the prospects look for President Trump.
That being said, nothing about this show trial has been either “conventional” or “wise,” so we shall see what happens.
But we can pretty much rule out…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 4:15 PM: BREAKING: Merchan to excuse the jury at 4:30, based on what we’re hearing.
BREAKING: Merchan to excuse the jury at 4:30, based on what we’re hearing. https://t.co/Z694a07DdI
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 4:38 PM: BREAKING: Jury has a verdict!
BREAKING: Jury has a verdict!
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 4:38 PM: UPDATE: Jury has a verdict; they’re expecting another 30 minutes before the formal announcement.
This is much sooner than we anticipated, even just a few minutes ago. Few were expecting a jury verdict today.
I will post the latest updates as soon as I receive them.
UPDATE: Jury has a verdict; they’re expecting another 30 minutes before the formal announcement.
This is much sooner than we anticipated, even just a few minutes ago. Few were expecting a jury verdict today.
I will post the latest updates as soon as I receive them. https://t.co/6VSvO6wFic
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
As we wait for a jury verdict, say a prayer for President Trump, his family, and our country.
May God bless President Trump and the United States of America! pic.twitter.com/Iz26k9zKqb
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 4:54 PM:Courtroom buzzing in nervous anticipation right now.
Courtroom buzzing in nervous anticipation right now.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 5:06 PM: BREAKING: JURY FINDS PRESIDENT TRUMP GUILTY — ABSOLUTELY SICKENING!
BREAKING: JURY FINDS PRESIDENT TRUMP GUILTY — ABSOLUTELY SICKENING!
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 5:08 PM: BREAKING: WITCH HUNT! KANGAROO COURT! A TOTAL SCAM OF A TRIAL!
GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS 1-34.
This will be to President Trump’s political advantage, mark my words.
BREAKING: WITCH HUNT! KANGAROO COURT! A TOTAL SCAM OF A TRIAL!
GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS 1-34.
This will be to President Trump’s political advantage, mark my words.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 5:11 PM: Merchan to jurors: I really admire your dedication and hard work. You worked very hard and gave this matter the attention it deserves.
Merchan to jurors: I really admire your dedication and hard work. You worked very hard and gave this matter the attention it deserves.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 5:11 PM: Trump will win this on appeal.
This trial has been a complete and total mockery of the rule of law; due process; the constitution; and the criminal justice system.
Absolutely disgraceful!
Trump will win this on appeal.
This trial has been a complete and total mockery of the rule of law; due process; the constitution; and the criminal justice system.
Absolutely disgraceful!
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
Paul Ingrassia 5:17 PM: Blanche requests a sentencing hearing for mid to late July due to other proceedings, specifically the Florida matter. Bragg Prosecutor doesn’t oppose a date for mid July. Merchan: Sentencing date is July 11th at 10 am. All motions due no later than June 13th, two weeks from today. All responses due by June 27th.
Blanche requests a sentencing hearing for mid to late July due to other proceedings, specifically the Florida matter.
Bragg Prosecutor doesn’t oppose a date for mid July.
Merchan: Sentencing date is July 11th at 10 am.
All motions due no later than June 13th, two weeks from…
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
I WILL ALWAYS STAND WITH DONALD JOHN TRUMP, THE 45TH AND 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! pic.twitter.com/kbmVMeIyyN
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 30, 2024
The post LIVE UPDATES FROM NYC TRUMP TRIAL: The Gateway Pundit Contributor Paul Ingrassia Reports from Judge Merchan’s Kangaroo Courthouse – Jury Deliberations Continue appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
California State Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) publicly criticized her own Democratic party for their stance on legislation designed to combat child sex trafficking.
The controversy centers on Senate Bill 1414 (SB 1414), which was debated in the California Senate last Thursday, May 23rd.
SB 1414, introduced by Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), aims to make soliciting sex from a minor a felony.
This measure aims to address the issue of child sex trafficking by imposing harsher penalties on those who purchase sex from minors.
Currently, solicitation of a minor for sex is classified as a misdemeanor, which can result in a maximum penalty of one year in county jail and a fine of up to $10,000.
SB 1414 proposes upgrading this crime to a felony, with penalties including a prison sentence of 2 to 4 years and a fine of up to $25,000. The bill also mandates registration as a sex offender for those convicted of this offense.
However, the Senate Public Safety Committee’s amendments have diluted the bill’s original intent. The committee proposed reducing the severity of penalties for offenders soliciting older minors (16- and 17-year-olds), an action that has been met with strong disapproval from advocates of the bill who believe it undermines efforts to protect all minors from exploitation.
“Selling sex has been within human cultures for millennia. It is a very difficult area of law to get into,” said Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley).
During the hearing, Democrat State Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman delivered an explosive rebuke of her own party’s stance.
“I’d like to say, as a progressive, proud member of this body for the last 12 years, I’m done. I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children,” she said.
“I don’t want more people in prison, but I don’t want people buying girls. I don’t want people buying little girls anymore.”
Eggman, who is also a mental health professional and social worker, spoke about her experiences working with individuals deeply wounded by abuse.
“I can tell you, I’ve spent my entire career working with people who have been wounded… by the abuse that’s been heaped on them, oftentimes by those that they love and look to protect them,” she said. “If their parents won’t do it, then by God, we should.”
Eggman continued her explosive speech by affirming the need for a moral stand against child exploitation.
“Again, I am not arguing that we open the gates to flood our prisons with people, but I am arguing that we have a moral responsibility to say, enough, enough. We have given away enough on this area, and we’ve got to move back into the center, or we all look like fools and laughing stocks, and what do we stand for?”
She concluded her explosive speech by urging her colleagues to prioritize child protection and reject the status quo.
“But the rest of you who are going to be here for a while, let’s get our stuff together and really start focusing on some of the important things. We talk about learning, and we talk about being safe. This is like at the core of it. And a lot of these kids can be throwaway kids,” she said.
“They’re poor kids, they’re kids of color, but they shouldn’t have to live a life determined by what happens to them by others at a very young age and by having the Democratic Party of California say, it’s okay. It’s not okay. And I’m not doing it anymore. And I hope none of you do, too. We have to be able to draw a line. And for me, I’m drawing a line. I urge your aye vote.”
Hat Tip Cramer Sez.
HOLY SH*T!!!
Susan Talamantes walks away from the Democrat party in California after 12 years !!
“I’m done. I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children.”
“I don’t want people buying little girls anymore. And I’m tired of saying it’s okay… pic.twitter.com/G28gJAVpwc
— TONY
Several prominent far-left ‘social justice’ organizations have positioned themselves against the bill designed to escalate penalties for those convicted of purchasing or soliciting sex from minors.
These groups, often advocating for broad criminal justice reform and reduced incarceration, argue that the bill might disproportionately impact marginalized communities and lead to increased prison populations.
The organizations opposing the bill include:
We are finding out what evil is really like. It can be recalled that Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law that protects sex offenders who have sex with minors of the same sex.
California Senate Bill 145 was signed into law in 2020 and addresses the state’s sex offender registry laws, specifically regarding young LGBTQ+ individuals.
The bill, authored by State Senator Scott Wiener, aims to eliminate discrimination against LGBTQ+ youth by allowing judges to have the same discretion in cases of oral and anal sex as they do with vaginal intercourse involving minors aged 14 to 17 and adults within a 10-year age range.
In other words, Scott Wiener is arguing that a 14-year-old boy can actually consent to sex with a 24-year-old grown man (predator).
Democrats truly are perverted. They love criminals and crime!
The post California Democrat State Senator Blasts Her Own Party for Protecting Child Predators in Explosive Speech (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
We learned a week ago that the FBI was authorized to use deadly force at Mar-a-Lago when agents raided the President’s home in an uncalled for and unprecedented raid.
Julie Kelly Reports New Revelations about the Mar-A Lago Raid
In a nutshell..
• The FBI authorized the use of deadly force
• Agents were prepared to engage in with Trump and his Secret Service team
• they had an onsite medical team available in case it got deadly
The FBI risked the lives of Donald Trump, his family, his staff, and MAL guests for a publicity stunt to make it look like Trump stole national security files.
People need to be arrested for this.
Julie Kelly Reports New Revelations about the Mar-A Lago Raid
In a nutshell..
• The FBI authorized the use of deadly force
• Agents were prepared to engage in with Trump and his Secret Service team
• they had an onsite medical team available in case it got deadly
The FBI… https://t.co/DJm14f21Pk pic.twitter.com/I4vVbEP0zE
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) May 21, 2024
Merrick Garland personally approved the raid.
Garland: “I personally approved” the Mar-a-Lago raid. pic.twitter.com/qw8HJOcsGZ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 11, 2022
The far-left communists who are using corrupt courts to put President Trump in prison, say that it was standard practice to use lethal force against the President of the United States when the FBI raids his home and steals documents from the President. However, Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service Agent, shared that nothing about the raid on Mar-a-Lago was standard.
If there is anyone more qualified to comment on this I do not know about them.
“There was nothing standard about the raid on Mar a Lago.
These people do not get to do anything they want.”
Credit:@dbongino pic.twitter.com/zJpAzwBObf
— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) May 22, 2024
President Trump shared that the Democrats were authorized to use deadly force and that he and his family may have been in the line of fire if something broke out. The Libs countered to say he wasn’t supposed to be at home that day.
Libturds are saying that they knew Trump was not home at the time. That doesn’t matter . He could have come home during the raid . They obviously were expecting something or they would not have had medics there. Were they expecting a shootout with Secret Service ? The… pic.twitter.com/KPtJbc3gMF
—
Ames
Per a discussion with Liz Harrington today on the Joe Hoft Show, Liz shared that she believes that President Trump was supposed to be there that day.
“I was trying to remember, and I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure he was supposed to be there.”
Here is what Harrington shared.
Biden’s DOJ and FBI Thought President Trump Would Be at MAL on the Day of the Raid! pic.twitter.com/6XFGtEYwdb
— Joe Hoft (@realJoeHoft) May 30, 2024
The post EXCLUSIVE: “I’m Pretty Sure” President Trump Was Supposed to be at Mar-a-Lago on Day of Raid (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei released a letter this week to American college students who staged campus protests against Israel and the United States after the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, praising their protests as part of an international “Resistance Front” and encouraging them to “become familiar with the Quran.” The Islamist regime in Tehran is a state sponsor of terrorism and main supporter of Hamas.
The campus protests, held mainly at expensive elite colleges and universities with a large foreign student body, were a joint effort of communist and Islamist groups fomenting hatred of Israel and Jews, and revolution in the United States.
Many of the campus occupation encampments featured daily calls to Islamic prayer sessions and Marxist indoctrination chants.
Khamenei’s letter is a bold effort to by the Iranian government to openly foment revolution within the United States in the face of a weak, appeasing Joe Biden.
Videos from the occupation of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. earlier this spring in which a statue of Washington was desecrated:
JUST NOW: The Palestinian flag is raised over George Washington University at the start of Islamic prayer. pic.twitter.com/yghXZyfgBL
— (@LeighWolf) May 2, 2024
George Washington University gathers for evening prayer pic.twitter.com/iLa4Ksx3Vt
— The Daily Sneed
George Washington University suspended students for protesting against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. These same students are leading chants at a mass mobilization at the university, just blocks away from the White House. pic.twitter.com/kXIQ9UDrVS
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) April 27, 2024
The Wretched of the Earth are here at George Washington University in DC at the Liberated Zone Palestine Encampment and they’re fighting back. This young lady has been leading chants for the last two hours without a break. A true rockstar! pic.twitter.com/ZYWIdDxfhZ
— Facts Chaser
(@Factschaser) May 8, 2024
Excerpts of Khamenei’s letter posted online:
“Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing on the right side of history. You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government’s ruthless pressure – which openly supports Zionists…Dear university students in the US, my advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.”
You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government’s ruthless pressure – which openly supports Zionists.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 29, 2024
Dear university students in the US, my advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 30, 2024
Imam Khamenei’s letter addressed to the American university studentshttps://t.co/A9n98vGdT9#LetterFromLeader #United4Palestine pic.twitter.com/c9gnFrWyKc
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 29, 2024
“In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
I am writing this letter to the young people whose awakened conscience has moved them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza.
Dear university students in the United States of America, this message is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.
You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government’s ruthless pressure—a government which openly supports the usurper and brutal Zionist regime.
The greater Resistance Front which shares the same understandings and feelings that you have today, has been engaged in the same struggle for many years in a place far from you. The goal of this struggle is to put an end to the blatant oppression that the brutal Zionist terrorist network has inflicted on the Palestinian nation for many years. After seizing their country, the Zionist regime has subjected them to the harshest of pressures and tortures.
The apartheid Zionist regime’s genocide today is the continuation of extreme oppressive behavior which has been going on for decades. Palestine is an independent land with a long history. It is a nation comprised of Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
After the World War, the capitalist Zionist network gradually imported several thousand terrorists into this land with the help of the British government. These terrorists attacked cities and villages, murdered tens of thousands of people and pushed out multitudes into neighboring countries. They seized their homes, businesses and farmlands, formed a government in the usurped land of Palestine and called it Israel.
After England’s initial help, the United States became the greatest supporter of this usurper regime, ceaselessly providing it with political, economic and military support. In an act of unforgivable recklessness, the United States even opened the way and provided assistance for the regime’s production of nuclear weapons.
The Zionist regime used an iron-fist policy against the defenseless people of Palestine from the very beginning and has, day by day, intensified its brutality, terror and repression in complete disregard of all moral, human and religious values.
The United States government and its allies refused to even frown upon this state terrorism and ongoing oppression. And today, some remarks by the US government regarding the horrific crimes taking place in Gaza are more hypocritical than real.
The Resistance Front emerged from this dark environment of despair, and the establishment of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran expanded and fortified it.
The global Zionist elite – who owns most US and European media corporations or influences them through funding and bribery – has labeled this courageous, humane resistance movement as “terrorism”.
Can one call a people a terrorist nation for defending themselves on their own land against the crimes of the occupying Zionists? And is helping such a nation and strengthening it, an act of terrorism?
The oppressive leaders of global hegemony mercilessly distort even the most basic human concepts. They portray the ruthless, terrorist Israeli regime as acting in self-defense – yet they portray the Palestinian Resistance which defends its freedom, security and the right to self-determination, as terrorists!
I would like to assure you that today the circumstances are changing. A different fate awaits the important region of West Asia. The people’s conscience has awakened on a global scale, and the truth is coming to light.
Moreover, the Resistance Front has grown in strength and will become even stronger.
And history is turning a page.
Besides you students from dozens of American universities, there have also been uprisings in other countries among academics and the general public.
The support and solidarity of your professors is a significant and consequential development. This can offer some measure of comfort in the face of your government’s police brutality and the pressures it is exerting on you. I too am among those who empathize with you young people, and value your perseverance.
The Quran’s lesson for us Muslims and all of humanity, is to stand up for that which is right: “So be steadfast as you have been commanded” (11:112).
The Quran’s lesson for human relations is: “Do not oppress and do not be oppressed” (2:279).
The Resistance Front advances by a comprehensive understanding and the practice of these and hundreds of other such commands – and will attain victory with the permission of God.
My advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.”
Sayyid Ali Khamenei
May 25, 2024
The post Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Foments Revolution in US with Praise of College Protests Against Israel and America; Tells Students, “My Advice to You Is to Become Familiar With the Quran” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
A recent map has revealed the alarming trend of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) acquiring vast swaths of American farmland, raising serious national security concerns.
Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land expanded to approximately 43.4 million acres in 2022, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
According to the USDA, Chinese investors’ ownership of U.S. agricultural land has skyrocketed from merely 13,720 acres in 2010 to an astounding 346,915 acres by 2022 out of the 43 million acres.
Chinese entities hold ownership of farmland across 29 of the 50 U.S. states.
According to the data reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, Canadian investors hold the largest share of foreign-owned agricultural and non-agricultural land in the U.S., owning 32 percent or 14.2 million acres.
Additionally, investors from four other countries—Netherlands (12 percent), Italy (6 percent), the United Kingdom (6 percent), and Germany (5 percent)—together possess another 13 million acres, accounting for 29 percent of all foreign-held land in the U.S.
The remaining 38 percent, or 17.1 million acres, are owned by various other countries. For instance, China owns 346,915 acres, representing just under 1 percent of the foreign-held acres.
Despite Chinese entities owning less than 1 percent of the foreign-held agricultural land in the U.S., the topic has garnered significant attention.
According to USDA:
Chinese primary-investor filers reported owning 346,915 acres of agricultural land as of December 31, 2022.
Two Chinese-owned companies—Brazos Highland Properties, LP and Murphy Brown LLC (Smithfield Foods)—reported 102,345 acres and 97,975 acres, respectively, and were by far the largest Chinese reporters.
Other top Chinese-owned reporters were Murphy Brown of Missouri (Smithfield Foods) (42,716 acres); Harvest Texas, LLC (29,705 acres); and Walton International Group (USA), Inc. (29,437 acres) (Report 10).
These five companies accounted for 87 percent of all reported Chinese holdings. There were no filings directly by the government of China. Chinese investments in U.S. agricultural land are spread across the country (figure 4).
The states with the largest Chinese holdings are Texas (159,640 acres); North Carolina (44,776 acres); Missouri (43,071 acres); Utah (32,447 acres); and Virginia (14,382 acres) (Report 11).
Together, these five states had 85 percent of Chinese filings associated with U.S. agricultural land. In Texas, in particular, long-term leases associated with wind energy investment predominate, while land ownership tends to be more common in other states.
Chinese entities acquiring farmland in close proximity to critical U.S. military installations have sparked growing concerns, posing potential national security risks.
An alarming instance involves a Chinese company, Fufeng USA, acquiring 365 acres of farmland near the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.
The parcel of land’s location near a US Air Force base that houses sensitive drone technology has lawmakers on Capitol Hill worried about potential espionage by Beijing.
The Fufeng Group also purchased a corn mill near Grand Forks. Local citizens are rightly concerned with this new project in their backyard.
Also, a report by CNN in 2022 revealed China has placed Huawei equipment atop cell towers on purchased farm land near US military bases in the Midwest capable of disrupting service and capturing signals.
“Among the most alarming things the FBI uncovered pertains to Chinese-made Huawei equipment atop cell towers near US military bases in the rural Midwest. According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the FBI determined the equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons,” the outlet reported.
The Gateway Pundit reported that starting in 2015, a Chinese real estate development company called China Oceanwide Holdings began buying land on Oahu in the Hawaii Islands just ten miles west of the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor.
The stated intent of the land purchases was to build a luxury hotel and homes, but nothing was ever built, even though China Oceanwide had accumulated land worth over 500 million dollars in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor.
A rising number of states are taking action or have already enacted legislation to prohibit “foreign adversaries” and foreign entities—particularly China—from purchasing farmland.
As of 2024, several U.S. states have enacted or are in the process of enacting laws that restrict or ban foreign ownership of land. These states have primarily targeted countries perceived as national security threats.
Here is a list of 24 states with such restrictions, according to Mother Jones.
These states have various laws in place, ranging from complete bans on foreign ownership of agricultural land to restrictions based on national security concerns regarding specific countries, such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The motivation behind these laws includes protecting food security, preventing espionage, and safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Congress is also advancing legislation that aims to address the issue at the federal level.
“Communist China shouldn’t be allowed to buy another acre of American farmland, nor should we rely upon our top foreign adversary for key parts of our food supply chain. Food security is national security!” Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) wrote on X.
Communist China shouldn’t be allowed to buy another acre of American farmland, nor should we rely upon our top foreign adversary for key parts of our food supply chain.
Food security is national security!https://t.co/aduwyjP0SD
— Ashley Hinson (@RepAshleyHinson) May 29, 2024
Hinson has introduced an amendment to the 2024 Farm Bill within the House Agriculture Committee that aims to limit foreign acquisitions of U.S. farmland. She asserts that such measures are crucial for safeguarding American food security, the Daily Mail reported.
In February 2023, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) introduced the “Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act,” which would prohibit the purchase of public or private agricultural land in the U.S. by foreign nationals associated with the CCP.
“The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a threat to American democracy. The United States is engaged in a great power struggle with the CCP, and we must respond with tough policies that will protect our farmland and food supply chain,” said Rep. Newhouse.
“We should be taking every action we can to strengthen our domestic production while preventing our nation’s strongest adversaries from having an advantage over our supply chain. I am proud to introduce this legislation alongside many of my House colleagues to keep the CCP from gaining a foothold from within our own borders.”
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Corrupt prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Wednesday gushed over Judge Juan Merchan as the jury deliberated in the lawfare trial against President Trump.
Recall that Andrew Weissmann was Robert Mueller’s “pit bull” during the Russian collusion inquisition. Weissmann was unable to take out Trump during the 2+ year Russian collusion hoax so he has been chomping at the bit ever since.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed.
Judge Merchan is allowing the jurors to choose ONE of the three predicate crimes. Jurors do NOT have to unanimously agree on which of the three predicate crimes Trump committed.
Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark said mixing and matching crimes violates every principle of the Due Process Clause.
Weissmann celebrated the lawfare trial against Trump and said he has a “man crush” on Judge Merchan.
“With respect to Judge Merchan, I am like now, I have like a man crush on him,” Weissmann said.
Pathetic.
WATCH:
MSNBC legal analyst has orgasm on live TV while discussing Judge in Trump trial pic.twitter.com/LJe1VuLag4
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 30, 2024
Judge Merchan Wednesday afternoon dismissed the courtroom for the day in Alvin Bragg’s ‘hush money’ lawfare trial against Trump.
There was no verdict.
The deliberations will reconvene Thursday morning at 9:30 ET.
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May the 1st was NOT an ordinary night in Las Vegas.
At a family house, people noticed an unexplainable streak of light that raced across the sky, a phenomenon that was also captured on Las Vegas police bodycams.
After that, the family saw strange creatures in their backyard, and even recorded video of the encounter.
Hallucination? Fantasy? A hoax? According to a veteran crime scene reconstruction analyst, a true story.
Scott Roder, who has testified as an expert in some of the most highly publicized criminal cases in the world, analyzed the video, and says that the images show at least two ‘beings’ using some sort of “cloaking device”.
The exért came to this conclusion after breaking down the video of the reported alien sighting in Las Vegas frame by frame.
New York Post reported:
“In one second of real time, there are 30 frames that show a ‘head with smoke around it’, which Roder called ‘some sort of cloaking device’, moving into the top right corner of the video and peering over the fence.
‘I applied the same principles that I would apply to any kind of homicide investigation’, said Roder, who testified in cases like Oscar Pistorious’ murder trial. ‘At this particular time, with what we’ve seen here, is proof of a couple of things. That these entities… are real. They’re there. This is not fake. This is not a fraud’.”
21 other people, situated across eastern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, reported seeing the same glowing green light, according to the American Meteor Society.
“Shortly thereafter, Angel Kenmore called 911 and told the dispatcher that he saw a ‘tall, skinny alien creature with greenish color’, about 8 to 10 feet tall, hiding behind their forklift in the backyard.”
The camera catches only a glimpse of the backyard, and it’s nearly impossible to spot anything with the naked eye.
“Not only does Roder point out what he believes is the ‘creature’ Kenmore describes, but there’s a second ‘visual anomaly’ that moves into the right-hand corner of the video
Roder said that he came to his conclusion after looking at the totality of the evidence, from the light in the sky, the police response and the bodycam images, as well as the way in which the ‘visual anomalies’ move.
Roder knows there are many people who won’t believe his analysis, so he opened it up to ‘peer review’.
You can check here the complete story told by a family member.
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One of the top mortgage lenders in the United States is offering a new program that allows home buyers to put zero percent down on their mortgages.
United Whole Sale Mortgage is offering a new program that will allow first-time home buyers and people earning below or at 80% of an area’s average income to put zero down on their mortgages.
In a statement to Market Watch, chief operating officer of UWM, Melinda Wilner shared, “Homeownership is something we’re very passionate about.”
Previously, UWM offered buyers a rate of as little as 1% down.
One of the biggest U.S. lenders is offering 0%-down-payment mortgages for first-time home buyers. Here’s the catch. https://t.co/o56BP20bEz
— Steven Cashtro (@stevecashtro7) May 23, 2024
Per Zero Hedge:
Home buyers will be able to buy a home without putting any money down under a new program launched by United Wholesale Mortgage, one of the largest U.S. mortgage lenders.
The Pontiac, Mich.-based company’s new program will be available to first-time home buyers and people earning at or below 80% of an area’s median income, the company said in a press release.
UWM (UWMC) will give eligible buyers a second-lien loan of up to $15,000, in the form of down-payment assistance, for 3% of the home’s purchase price. The loan will not accrue interest or require a monthly payment.
“Homeownership is something we’re very passionate about,” Melinda Wilner, chief operating officer at UWM, told MarketWatch.
UWM isn’t the only one offering zero-down mortgages.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Bank of America has offered zero-down mortgages for black and Hispanic Borrowers
READ:
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As the Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump returned to court Wednesday for corrupt judge Juan Merchan’s kangaroo trial in New York City as the jury began deliberations on his fate.
During the jury deliberations on Wednesday afternoon, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba appeared as a guest on Fox News with Shannon Bream, who attempted to run interference for the Biden regime. Bream likely wishes she had never made this decision because she was outclassed in a battle of the wits.
Bream opened by querying whether there is a net positive for Trump thanks to the kangaroo trial. Habba replied that from a political standpoint, this was true, but America should never have had to “hit rock bottom” in terms of morals, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
Bream attempted to fake concern, claiming that these dramas would always follow Trump regardless of his guilt or innocence. Habba correctly deemed this as extortion and went on to rail against America’s litigious culture, which she noted Joe Biden is taking full advantage of in order to sideline his political opponent.
The interview went horribly wrong for Bream when she responded that Biden had nothing to do with the trial. What followed was an epic yet firm smackdown of the reporter based on cold, hard facts.
Bream was left stammering slightly at the end and had no good response to Habba’s blistering replies.
WATCH (The crucial part of the exchange starts at the 1:50 mark):
Alina Habba just had to lay it out for Shannon Bream. pic.twitter.com/oitLz6tZMx
— Gary D (@KMGGaryde) May 29, 2024
Bream: The Biden Administration is not responsible for this trial.
Habba: How can you say the Biden Administration is not responsible for this trial?
Bream: Uh, it’s a state trial; it’s Alvin Bragg; whether you think there’s a political motive for him, it’s not connected to the DOJ… the feds passe don these lection charges.
Habba: Shannon, you should look at how many logs they have of state officials (such as) Letitia James (and) Fani Willis visiting the White House and then tell me that this is not a Biden trial…
Bream: But the feds passed on this case…
Habba: The feds passed on this case, so did DA Cy Vance and so did Bragg (years ago)…and you know when it came back? When he (Trump) decided to run for office.
So tell me how that’s not an indication that Joe Biden, who just sent his campaign down here with Robert De Niro yesterday, isn’t a part of this?
Frankly, any question that we had of that was squashed yesterday. And whether you have any more concerns about whether he’s involved in this, look at the fact he is literally publicizing for tonight a speech if a verdict comes out. That’s a sad state of affairs.
Bream: Do you not think, though, that uh, any president would want weigh in on something this historic?
Habba: I wish Biden had that same sentiment about the border, fentanyl, and our children being mutilated. I would prefer he would focus on the real things instead of trying to attack his political opponent, who he just cannot beat.
After watching Habba filet Bream, President Trump unleashed on the news anchor, calling her “naive.”
I never knew Shannon Bream was so “naïve.” In her interview with my Representative, Alina Habba, Shannon just suggested that Crooked Joe Biden was not involved in my Show Trial. HOW STUPID! Not only is he involved, he is virtually leading it, and all of the other Trials as well -… pic.twitter.com/k4em1uaFHo
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 29, 2024
As Gateway Pundit readers know, Trump has been charged with 34 felony “falsification of business records.” He was penalized for every payment he allegedly made to his former lawyer and pathological liar, Michael Cohen, regarding Cohen paying off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
The prosecution has not proven Trump committed any of these crimes or even had an affair, but he will likely be found guilty anyway given the rigged jury.
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Joe Biden continued to pander to blacks at a restaurant and jazz club in Philly after speaking gibberish to a few rows of people crammed into the corner of a school gym.
Joe Biden is getting desperate so his team announced “Black Voters for Biden Harris” on Wednesday.
After slurring through remarks to a few dozen people at Girard College, Biden headed over to SOUTH restaurant and jazz club.
Biden speaks to nearly empty gym
Joe Biden lied to the blacks in the jazz club about his involvement in the civil rights movement as a kid.
“In 1969, I got involved deeply in the civil rights movement,” Biden told the blacks at the jazz club.
This is one of Joe Biden’s favorite lies (he has many). Biden was never involved in the civil rights movement as a kid and he was forced to admit he lied about it back in 1987.
WATCH:
BIDEN: "In 1969, I got involved deeply in the civil rights movement."
That's the second time in less than ten minutes he has repeated the same debunked lie. It is still not true. pic.twitter.com/A5egMw4aOt
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 29, 2024
Biden used a bizarre accent as he pandered to black voters.
“We’re rebuilding a $60 ZILLION bridge in Baltmur!” Biden said.
Imagine the headlines if Trump said this.
VIDEO:
BIDEN: "We're rebuilding a $60 ZILLION bridge in Baltmur!" pic.twitter.com/D0KztGLe2g
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 29, 2024
Biden’s handlers cranked up the music to drown out reporters.
WATCH:
Biden's handlers crank the music after his incoherent remarks to drown out reporters' questions pic.twitter.com/KaQMMPM83h
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 29, 2024
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President Trump made a Truth Social post earlier, congratulating Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on refusing demands by Democrats and leftist organizations to recuse himself from Trump cases surrounding January 6 and the 2020 election.
The Gateway Pundit recently reported that Democrat politicians have called for Alito’s recusal over reports that Alito’s home displayed the inverted flag on January 17, 2021—just days after the January 6 Capitol event and shortly before Joe Biden’s inauguration. Leftist group Citizens for Ethics also sent a letter to Chief Justice Roberts “calling on him to immediately create an enforcement mechanism for the Supreme Court Code of Conduct and to encourage Justice Alito to recuse from January 6 and election related cases.”
The letter from Citizens for Ethics further cites the American Flag and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag flown outside Alito’s vacation home. According to the letter, the flag “has been associated with a far-right religious sect of the “Stop the Steal” movement.”
However, according to Americanflags.com, “This iconic emblem, also known as the Pine Tree flag, holds a special place in the hearts of those who cherish American values and the relentless pursuit of liberty.” These godless leftists sure do hate Christians!
Also, in an appalling violation of the code of ethics, one sitting federal judge wrote a political hit piece in the New York Times publicly attacking conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Judge Walton, a Bush appointee, previously spoke with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about threats he has received after he called Trump a “charlatan” and rendered excessive punishment to J6 defendants. Walton, a SITTING JUDGE, also weighed in on Trump’s statements defending himself against Judge Merchan, his conflicted daughter Loren Merchan, and the latest gag order. These people are total hypocrites.
According to Alito, the upside-down flag was a reaction to “F*ck Trump” yard signs posted by neighbors and verbal attacks toward his wife rather than a political statement. The Gateway Pundit reported that after nasty leftist neighbors bombarded her with harassment and vulgar language and called her a “c*nt,” Mrs. Alito was so distraught that she hung the flag upside down for a short time.
This also comes as SCOTUS recently signaled that they may consider for the first time granting Russell Alford, one of the few J6 defendants to refuse a plea deal, his petition for writ of certiorari, a move that only happens for roughly 1% of cases brought to SCOTUS.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Justice Samuel Alito refused the demand by Democrats that he recuse himself from any Supreme Court cases involving the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, Trump immunity and the 2020 election over the flags his wife flew at their residential and vacation homes.
Alito’s letter turning down calls for recusal goes into detail about his wife flying an upside-down American flag at their Northern Virginia home in January 2021 over a dispute with her nasty Democrat neighbors. The dispute has gone on for years, with the neighbors protesting in front of Alito’s home after the June 2022 Dobbs decision to return abortion laws to the states.
Alito also described his wife’s flying of an ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Revolutionary War flag at their family vacation home on Long Beach Island, New Jersey in the summer of 2023, saying his wife flew it "to express a religious and patriotic message."
Alito added, "My wife is an independently-minded private citizen. She makes her own decisions, and I honor her right to do so. Our vacation home was purchased with money she inherited from her parents and is titled in her name. It is a place, away from Washington, where she should be able to relax."
In response to Alito standing up to the Marxist Democrats trying to cancel him, Trump commended his "INTELLIGENCE, COURAGE, and 'GUTS'" in a Wednesday Truth:
Trump: Congratulations to United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for showing the INTELLIGENCE, COURAGE, and “GUTS” to refuse stepping aside from making a decision on anything January 6th related. All U.S. Judges, Justices, and Leaders should have such GRIT - Our Country would be far more advanced than its current status as A BADLY FAILING NATION, headed by the Worst President in American History, Crooked Joe Biden!
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. However, the warrants have not yet been granted, nor has authorization for an investigation, and the ICC has no police force to enforce the warrants if they are issued.
ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan has applied for arrest warrants for five individuals connected with the Israel-Hamas War. Three from Hamas: Yahya Sinwar (Head of Hamas in Gaza), Mohammed Deif (Commander-in-Chief of the Al-Qassam Brigades), and Ismail Haniyeh (Head of Hamas Political Bureau) for war crimes committed in Israel and Palestine from October 7, 2023.
The other two alleged perpetrators are Israeli officials: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the Minister of Defense of Israel, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza from at least October 8, 2023.
Israel’s specific actions condemned by the ICC prosecutor include closing border crossings, blocking aid supplies such as food and medicine, cutting off cross-border water and electricity to Gaza, and attacking and killing aid workers. Israel states that the aid workers were killed accidentally in the normal context of war.
They justify the other allegations by citing the need to prevent terrorists from entering Israel and to stop weapons and ammunition from getting into Gaza. These measures pertain to Israel’s sovereign borders, and a country has the right to enforce its border policy. Ironically, Egypt is not being charged despite also closing its borders, hindering refugee exits, and preventing aid shipments from entering.
The official statement of the ICC acknowledges that Israel took these actions to (i) eliminate Hamas, (ii) secure the return of hostages abducted by Hamas, and (iii) collectively punish the civilian population of Gaza, whom they perceived as a threat to Israel.
It is questionable whether the third point is true. As for eliminating Hamas and recovering the hostages, the ICC did not offer an alternative solution for how Israel should achieve these goals through acceptable means.
Those in favor of the ICC warrants against Israel point out that the ICC has also issued warrants for nefarious characters like Vladimir Putin and various other dictators and despots.
The rogues’ gallery of high-level offenders who have had ICC warrants enforced on them includes Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, his son, and brother-in-law for crimes against humanity; Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s finance minister and a deputy prime minister; former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak; former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt for genocide; former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo for crimes against humanity; and Kosovar President Hashim Thaci for war crimes. Supporters of the ICC warrants argue that if Israel’s allies flout these charges against Israel, it undermines the court’s authority to take action against other violators.
Before issuing an arrest warrant, the ICC must undergo several steps, including a preliminary examination, authorization of an investigation, gathering of evidence, and a review by a Pre-Trial Chamber. An investigation must be conducted to establish sufficient grounds for the warrant.
If Israel refuses to cooperate with an ICC investigation, the ICC can still proceed by relying on evidence gathered from other sources, such as non-governmental organizations, international agencies, or states willing to assist.
Moreover, the UN Security Council has the authority to refer situations to the ICC, even if the country involved is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC and defines its functions, jurisdiction, and structure. However, this referral requires a resolution supported by the majority of Security Council members, which can be difficult to achieve due to geopolitical considerations.
If sufficient grounds are found to issue the warrant, the ICC lacks a police force to enforce it, relying instead on member states to carry out arrests. Only countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute are obligated to enforce these warrants. Israel is not a signatory, which complicates the situation. The State of Palestine, while not a signatory in the traditional sense, has acceded to the Rome Statute.
In contrast, the US, China, India, Russia, and almost all Arab states are not parties to the Rome Statute. This means that unless the individuals in question travel to a signatory country willing to enforce the warrants, the likelihood of their arrest remains low. While signatory countries would be obligated to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister if he visited, no country would invade Israel to make the arrest.
Although the U.S. is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, it holds considerable influence over many ICC member states. The U.S. can leverage diplomatic pressure to discourage countries from cooperating with the ICC in specific cases.
Additionally, the U.S. has passed laws, such as the American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA), which includes provisions to protect U.S. nationals and allies from the ICC’s jurisdiction. This can extend to diplomatic efforts to protect Israel.
If the countries tied to the crime are not signatories to the ICC, the court can still investigate if the United Nations Security Council refers the case, if a non-signatory state accepts the court’s jurisdiction, or if the crimes occurred on the territory of a signatory state. However, Israel is unlikely to accept the court’s jurisdiction, and neither Israel nor Palestine are traditional signatories.
Therefore, obtaining a referral from the UN Security Council would be necessary, but this is unlikely given that three of the five permanent members (the US, China, and Russia) are not signatories and would likely object. Even if Russia and China perceived that they could gain some benefit by agreeing to enforce the ICC investigation, the United States could still veto the resolution.
The bottom line is that the issuance of an arrest warrant is unlikely, and the enforcement even less so.
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