President Trump released a statement this afternoon on the massive amount of aid that the United States is providing to Ukraine as Europe does next to nothing, and Congress announces a new $95 billion foreign aid package.
“Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation!” said Trump in a scathing Truth Social post.
Speaker Mike Johnson, the self-proclaimed “wartime speaker,” announced on Wednesday that he is proceeding with his intention to introduce a series of foreign aid bills for discussion, including provisions for funding Ukraine.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, “Gaza and other conflict zones around the world.” “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
It’s been reported, yet to be confirmed, that details of Speaker Johnson’s foreign aid strategy have been leaked. The alleged specifics are as follows:
$95.34 billion, roughly 60% of which goes directly into the DIB:
Ukraine – $48.43 billion
- $19.85 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- $14.8 billion for DOD ops in EUCOME AOR
- $13.8 billion in USAl for Ukraine to purchase US weapons
- $8 million for IG
- ($7.85 billion direct support to Ukraine government)
Israel – $14.1 billion
- $4 billion for missile defense (Iron Dome and David’s Sling)
- $1.2 billion for Iron Beam
- $4 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- $3.5 billion in FMS for Israel to purchase US weapons
- $800 million for ammunition plant improvements
Red Sea Operations – $2.4 billion
- use for operations, force protection, and the replacement of combat
expendituresINDOPACOM – $2.58 billion
- 1.9 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD
- 542 million to INODPACOM UPL
- 133 million to enhance cruise missile components
Submarine Industrial Base – $3.3 billion
- Investment in dry dock construction, etc, in support of SIB and AUKIS
BREAKING: Speaker Johnson’s foreign aid plan has reportedly “leaked.” The terms are purportedly as follows:
$95.34 billion, roughly 60% of which goes directly into the DIB:
Ukraine – $48.43 billion
• $19.85 billion replenishment of stocks to DOD• $14.8 billion for DOD ops… pic.twitter.com/OMheF8zEVo
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) April 16, 2024
President Trump released a statement admonishing Europe for footing the bill and telling them to “GET MOVING.”
Trump: Why isn’t Europe giving more money to help Ukraine? Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation! Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America in order to help a Country in desperate need?
As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE! In addition, I am the only one who speaks for “ME” and, while it is a total mess caused by Crooked Joe Biden and the Incompetent Democrats, if I were President, this War would have never started!
President Trump aired similar sentiments in a press conference with Speaker Johnson last week, noting that “we keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars” and calling on Europe to give money to equalize America’s aid contributions. Trump also stated that he wanted to see Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress attach loan terms to the aid we’re providing.
Via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the “loan” structure in the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes FULL LOAN FORGIVENESS!
And still no southern border security… These people care more about protecting Ukrainians than they do Americans.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Thursday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) issued a stern warning to former President Donald Trump regarding his continued support for Speaker Mike Johnson, saying, “If Trump supports this monstrous, unpaid-for foreign aid debt buster, he will lose the very supporters who comprise his vanguard. Mark my words.”
In a pivotal turn, Senator Rand Paul has openly supported Congressman Thomas Massie’s call for Speaker Johnson’s resignation. “Thomas Massie’s doing the right thing. I think the Republicans need real leadership… I think we need someone who has some courage and some intestinal fortitude,” Sen. Paul said.
Rep. Matt Gaetz(R-FL) also said, “There is no other way to describe it, it is surrender, it is disappointing. I won’t support it.”
Boebert also joined in on X, commenting, “President Trump is right. We need his strength to regain peace! I oppose this insulting, America Last bill as well!”
President Trump is right.
We need his strength to regain peace!
I oppose this insulting, America Last bill as well! https://t.co/xvN99BLWvT
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 18, 2024
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RINO Rep. Mike Gallagher’s betrayal of Republican voters will continue, as the soon-to-resign Congressman from Wisconsin announced he will stay in the Swamp until Saturday to support the Biden-endorsed foreign aid package.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, “Gaza and other conflict zones around the world.” “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced multiple amendments to the Swamp’s foreign aid package to cut 100% of funding to Ukraine to provide aid to Americans impacted by the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and Hawaii wildfire disasters, but only some of the Israel aid to secure our southern border. Another amendment would require members who vote for the Ukraine aid bill to enlist in the Ukrainian military and go fight the war themselves. Still, it’s clearly not likely the RINO-Democrat Swamp will pass any of these.
Gallagher, who is currently chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, announced last month that he will not seek reelection.
Instead of serving out the rest of his term, Gallagher will retire early, leaving the GOP with a one-vote majority!
But it’s worse than that.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, if Gallagher had left before April 9th, he would have triggered a special election in his district. Because he is leaving after April 9th but still in April, there will be no special election, so the seat will remain empty until January when the new Congress convenes.
This ensures that Republicans will lose another seat of their majority in Congress.
Emerald Robinson believes Gallagher’s decision to leave shortly after RINO Ken Buck of Colorado is an organized tactic to put Republicans into the minority before the November elections. That way, Democrats can nullify a Trump victory by using the 14th Amendment to keep him from office.
The early retirements of Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher are part of a scheme by the uniparty cabal to stop Trump from winning the 2024 election.
How? They want to flip the House blue in time to nullify the electoral vote via the 14th Amendment.
— Emerald Robinson
This is how the Uniparty works.
They do everything they can to screw with their voters.
It can be recalled that Gallagher voted with the RINOs against the Mayorkas impeachment and for the $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, as well as reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702. Now, he is staying through the weekend to vote for the Uniparty’s foreign aid bill.
By next week, Republicans in the House will have bent over and let the Democrats ram the massive spending bill, FISA 702 reauthorization, and the disastrous foreign aid bill through.
Per Politico:
Speaker Mike Johnson may get a much-needed boost for his foreign aid plans as departing Rep. Mike Gallagher has flexibility to remain in town into Saturday to support the package, according to his office.
“The congressman has the flexibility to stay and support the aid package on Saturday,” a spokesperson told POLITICO. The Wisconsin Republican previously announced his intent to resign his seat Friday, which would further slash Johnson’s majority to a one-seat margin.
Even more despicable, shortly after making this announcement, Gallagher was awarded the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, “the highest honor for which civilians not employed by the Department of the Navy can receive,” according to the United States Navy.
Today, the Secretary of the Navy presented Rep. Gallagher with the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honorary award that the U.S. Navy can bestow upon a civilian not employed by the Navy. pic.twitter.com/uG1ArZBAQK
— Rep. Gallagher Press Office (@RepGallagher) April 17, 2024
Unlike America First Republicans, Uniparty RINOs receive all of the praise and awards when they sell out their country and their constituents.
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Arizona Congressional Candidate Abe Hamadeh (AZ-08) laid out a comprehensive election integrity plan, exclusively to The Gateway Pundit, to ensure elections are free and fair and election fraudsters are punished when he is elected to U.S. Congress.
Hamadeh plans to introduce legislation to crack down on cheaters, illegal immigrants voting in local and federal elections, ranked-choice voting and private funds, such as Zuckerbucks, influencing elections.
Maricopa County, Arizona, which holds 60% of the state’s electorate and the fourth largest county in the Country, received $3 million in ‘Zuckerbucks’ from a Democrat non-profit before the stolen 2020 election. Still, roughly four years later, Nobody knows who accepted it or where it went.
Hamadeh told The Gateway Pundit in a statement, “I fully support election integrity efforts to ensure every vote counts and every voice is heard. A secure election is fundamental to our democracy and the very fabric our country was founded upon, and I am committed to upholding the integrity of our electoral process.”
“I firmly believe we must implement a unified standard of voting in order to achieve this. My comprehensive election integrity plan will achieve just that, and I look forward to proposing these policies on day one in Congress,” He continued.
As The Gateway Pundit readers recall, Abe Hamadeh’s race for Arizona Attorney General in 2022 was stolen by just 280 votes after 60% of voting machines in Maricopa County due to intentional voter suppression that targeted Republicans on election day. Additionally, thousands of ballots were not counted due to wrongfully canceled voter registrations and ballot misreads across the state of Arizona.
No serious person believes the 2022 election in Arizona was run fairly for statewide candidates.
President Trump has endorsed Abraham Hamadeh for Congress in Arizona’s 8th District, noting that Abe is “Strong on the Border, the Military/Vets, Crime, Cutting Taxes, Election Integrity, and Protecting our Great Second Amendment.”
Like Trump, Hamadeh refused to surrender to the radical left and their stolen elections and fought his election lawsuit all the way through the corrupt Kangaroo Courts.
Abe’s five-point plan to secure elections nationwide is as follows:
Voter ID Requirement for Federal Elections: I will introduce legislation that requires states to adopt voter identification for federal races. If a citizen does not have a valid identification, they will not be allowed to vote.
Federal Ban on Ranked Choice Voting: On day one in Congress, I will introduce legislation that imposes a federal ban on ranked choice voting for federal races. At its core, ranked choice voting is unconstitutional and should be banned at the federal level. Ranked choice voting takes away our country’s long history of a vigorous primary system, confuses voters, and makes it nearly impossible to conduct audits to ensure election integrity.
Withhold Federal Funding From Cities that Allow Non-Citizens to Vote: In Congress, I will advocate for withholding federal funding to cities that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Voting is a right that extends to all lawful citizens of the United States. Any individual who is in the United States illegally should not be allowed to vote in any local election.
Strict Penalties for Election Fraud: In Congress, I will introduce legislation that imposes severe penalties for election fraud to deter individuals from engaging in fraudulent activities including making voter fraud a federal crime. Election fraud is a severe crime and any individual found guilty of violating election laws or undermining the integrity of the electoral process will be prosecuted accordingly.
Ban Corporate and Non-Profit Funding: I will introduce legislation to prevent all private donations to help run elections. Americans should never have another “Zuckerbucks” interference in an election. Free and fair elections are the centerpiece of our country and there is no room for corporate meddling to tilt outcomes and further encourage widespread fraud.
In addition, Congress should allocate funds for states to upgrade and secure their voting machines, including regular cybersecurity assessments and prohibit the use of internet-based voting systems due to security vulnerabilities.
This includes enhancing cybersecurity measures to protect voter databases, election systems, and infrastructure from foreign interference or hacking attempts. We must establish protocols for responding to cybersecurity threats and ensure transparency in reporting any breaches or attempts to undermine election integrity.
“It is time to restore confidence in our democracy and protect the fundamental right to vote as Americans. I will tirelessly fight for the integrity of our elections for generations to come when elected to Congress. This is my promise to not only Arizona but to all Americans,” Hamadeh concluded.
Learn more and support Abe Hamadeh’s campaign for U.S. Congress here.
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An unpublished op-ed by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer discovered through a public records request reveals that he believes the First Amendment is “the biggest threat to elections and Democracy,” Americans ‘ opinions are “disturbing,” and that “it may be time to revisit our First Amendment jurisprudence.”
The election official in Arizona’s largest county also refers to his constituents and Trump supporters who know that Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win 81 million votes as “gullible,” “crazies,” and “idiots.” He even suggests that suing citizens for defamation would be a remedy to his problems if it weren’t for the First Amendment.
Jack Butler, editor of The National Review, rejected the drafted op-ed, citing Richer’s attack on freedom of speech.
However, days earlier, Richer apparently gave a similarly written speech, ironically in commemoration of Constitution Day, to students of the Maricopa County Community College District, which was approved by the district beforehand.
In his drafted speech, Richer warns, “Despite what I’m going to say, I’m a huge fan of the Constitution” before remarking that “the Constitution today is in some ways a thorn in the side of my office. Specifically the First Amendment.” He also states, “It’s possible that our First Amendment jurisprudence needs to change,” even calling it a “religious problem.” In closing, Richer tells the college students, “If you have some time to spare to think about the problem of disinformation, I’d greatly appreciate it, and so too would all elections workers in the country.”
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on a similar op-ed published on CNN before The National Review rejected his more edgy and anti-American opinion piece. In his prior article, titled “What Happened to Trusting Experts?” Richer complained about the so-called conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election and the ongoing Arizona 2020 election audit while criticizing COVID-19 and vaccine skeptics as “Average Joes” who “somehow know better.”
This is the same Maricopa County official who sued Kari Lake with the backing of a Soros-funded nonprofit for speaking out and criticizing the stolen 2022 election, where she led by double digits in the polls until the intentional voter suppression that targeted Republicans on election day. But Richer, who helped oversee a sham election and is now trying to silence critics, claims that “the gravest threat to voting rights and our elected form of government is no longer the systemic disenfranchisement of a particular class of people, but instead the undermining of the entire election system through lies and disinformation.”
It should be remembered that Richer oversaw early voting in Lake’s stolen 2022 election for governor and founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans dark money PAC aimed at eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda. He is anything but an objective election official, and when catastrophes such as 60% of machines failing on election day and an estimated hundreds of thousands of early ballots being counted with no signature verification occurred in a race that Lake reportedly lost by less than 1%, it would seem reasonable for Lake to criticize and question the integrity of the officials who oversaw the election.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Kari Lake recently pled no contest in the lawfare defamation case, which is backed by a Soros-linked Protect Democracy, so that she could focus on her campaign against Soros-funded Democrat Ruben Gallego. This is the same leftist organization that is currently engaged in lawfare to silence The Gateway Pundit for questioning elections. Though they haven’t admitted it publicly, they seemingly share the same views that the First Amendment is “a thorn in the side” and needs to be diluted.
It was further revealed after the 2022 election that Stephen Richer’s office colluded with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to censor information they disagree with surrounding elections in Maricopa County, explicitly mentioning The Gateway Pundit’s reporting. Clearly, he hates the First Amendment.
As our readers recall, The Gateway Pundit successfully sued Maricopa County for unconstitutionally barring our correspondent, Jordan Conradson, from their press room, citing “a real or perceived conflict of interest” and claiming he is “not a bona fide correspondent of repute.”
Still, they allowed the far-left fake news media into their press room. They didn’t want us in their press room before, during, and after the rigged 2022 election because we would have asked about the actual conflicts of interest:
Grassroots activist and EZAZ.org founder Merissa Hamilton published a bombshell thread exposing Stephen Richer’s anti-First Amendment emails on X:
MARICOPA COUNTY FEATURING ELECTION OFFICIAL STEPHEN RICHER:
“THE FIRST AMENDMENT is the Biggest Threat to Democracy and Elections”Many have seen the article by @azfreenews on Stephen using government resources to have staff compile news on his “personal”… pic.twitter.com/vnXvDHGREJ
— Merissa Hamilton
Via Thread Reader:
MARICOPA COUNTY FEATURING ELECTION OFFICIAL STEPHEN RICHER:
“THE FIRST AMENDMENT is the Biggest Threat to Democracy and Elections”Many have seen the article by @azfreenews on Stephen using government resources to have staff compile news on his “personal” defamation lawsuit, but not everyone saw in the article that he tried to get published by @nro, but it was TOO EXTREME for even them
WHY WAS IT TOO EXTREME?
Let’s break it down, shall we!
Article: azfreenews.com/2024/03/marico…
Maricopa County Recorder Had Staff Compile News On His Personal Defamation Lawsuit Against Kari Lake – AZ FREE NEWSBy Staff Reporter | Public records revealed that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer tasked staff with compiling articles and online content pertaining to his personal defamation lawsuit against K…https://azfreenews.com/2024/03/maricopa-county-recorder-had-staff-compile-news-on-his-personal-defamation-lawsuit-against-kari-lake/
In August of 2021, Jack Butler, the Submissions Editor at National Review, reached out to Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, asking if he would like to place another op-ed in @NRO
Stephen offered to write a piece making the case that the “Stop the Steal” movement is “anti-conservative”
But on Sept. 23rd, 2021, Recorder Stephen Richer presented a very different op-ed & copied one of his staff on the email
Stephen said, “Not the article I promised, but what do you think about this one”
Jack Butler from @NRO gave a reply that it was essentially too extreme for them
What made it so controversial?
Jack said Recorder Stephen Richer needed to “shed the bits about reconsidering First Amendment jurisprudence”
But he could keep the parts about the D *mini*n lawsuits “having their desired effect”
Oh my gosh! What desired effect is that? Oh boy, buckle up!
Recorder Stephen Richer opens up lamenting that his job has caused him to be disturbed by humanity
And that’s led to him having a new perspective on the First Amendment…. He references European laws as an alternative
You know, the ones where the Police arrest you for posting almost any opinion on social media that the government doesn’t approve of at any given moment
It should be noted that as I write this, there have been several posts of the FBI visiting people to “check in on their social media posts”
He then moves into fabricating a ridiculous fake example of an obviously fake statement saying that “gullible people” might believe this “fake” set of factsHe goes on to lament that the First Amendment is particularly “protective of political speech” and that seems to be a BIG problem for him when it comes to people talking about elections
In Recorder Stephen’s world of receiving a paycheck from your hard-earned tax dollars, YOUR OPINIONS AREN’T WELCOME!
Recorder Stephen continues by saying that “local crazies” — YES YOU — believe the “lies” about election operations
We should apparently just TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT as the MINISTRY OF TRUTH — how very Orwellian
He claims prominent politicians tell him in private that they believe elections are fine
He says the First Amendment means he “can’t touch these idiots” — especially for him as a public official
He suggests suing for DEFAMATION as a remedy — sound familiar
Recorder Stephen Richer goes on to complain about America First news @OANN and Telegram, calling his voters “IDIOTS”
What an election tagline — “YOU ARE AN IDIOT IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SAY AND VOTE FOR ME BECAUSE I AM THE GOVERNMENT”
Recorder Stephen Richer says that the First Amendment is “the biggest threat to elections and democracy”
He claims the First Amendment is the cause of people “dropping out of elections” — Of course, people losing trust in elections has absolutely nothing to do with citizens just wanting the most secure and competent elections possible that FOLLOW THE LAW {note my sarcasm}
This is a theme we’ve seen recently at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, where Supervisor Clint Hickman blamed peaceful citizens participating in public comment as the reason they face violent threats
I am a survivor of violence, and I find Hickman’s statements extremely offensive and, quite frankly anti-American
While violence should always be condemned, it’s massively irresponsible for a public official to falsely blame peaceful people for the actions of others that have absolutely nothing to do with them
We’ve heard such rhetoric from despots in the last century in Europe, and it didn’t end well
While I condemn such rhetoric too, Clint Hickman has a right to say such haphazard speech, seemingly looking to whip people up into a frenzy since it was getting close to the 11:30 MAG Region closing time
REMINDER: Elections are the First Amendment antidote to politicians we don’t like!!!!
PS. As a former government employee, I also experienced threats. There are a lot of unstable people out there, and everyone is their verbal punching bag, unfortunately. If only there was a large county that had a tremendous budget for mental health to help people resolve their demons
NOPE! Too busy distributing health services by race instead of need.
Recorder Stephen Richer closes his op-ed with the hope that the D* mini *n defamation lawsuit “resets” some of this First Amendment jurisprudence “landscape”
He goes on to suggest that whether or not the election tabulation systems provider wins their defamation lawsuits, it’s within the government’s best interest to limit First Amendment rights in America
This is TERRIFYING STUFF!!!!
The man (Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer) who oversees one of the most essential functions of the First Amendment, OUR RIGHT TO VOTE, believes it’s the government’s role — in a way his job — to limit that fundamental human right of speech
The Founders must be rolling over in their graves!!!
Without free speech, the consent to govern does not exist! We quickly slip into tyranny!!
But IT GETS WORSE!!!!
A few days earlier in 2021, Recorder Stephen Richer sent his staff a version of the op-ed to use as a speech on CONSTITUTION DAY — a sacred day in the history of human rights
NOTE: He says he oversees the administration of elections, which is precisely the type of description he’s suing @karilake for defamation over
Maricopa County Recorder Steven Richer’s speech seems designed to trample on the Constitution, but he tries to give it a smiley diet-coke cover
He reminds us he’s broken the main promise he made to us — “Make the Recorder’s Office Boring Again”
Where do we get a refund for that one?
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer goes into the Constitutional history of voting rights before laying down the hammer and fully trampling on one of the most sacred documents in human rights history
THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS A THORN IN HIS SIDE
He says: “I posit that the gravest threat to voting rights and our elected form of government is no longer the systematic disenfranchisement of a particular class of people, but instead the undermining of the entire
election system through lies and disinformation.And it is in this respect, that the Constitution today is in some ways a thorn in the side of my office. Specifically the First Amendment.”
(WHAT ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH)
Well, yeah, dude…. LITERALLY, THE POINT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS SO IT WOULD BE A THORN IN THE SIDE OF TYRANTS AND DESPOTS
He also complains of “C*VID” misinformation on the vaccine — This is where I get especially perturbed
My side note: I am still heartbroken that I lost the co-founder of and one of my closest friends earlier this year in part to a common lethal symptom of taking vaccines, who was forced to take the vaccine by Trudeau to see her newborn grandbaby
My dear friend was disabled, so in 2020, she took a scooter she adjusted for her needs and went door to door in triple-digit weather to get that “Make the Recorder’s Office Boring Again” man elected in support of the FIRST AMENDMENT and free, fair, and competent elections!
The 501c3 arm of our organization is currently suing Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and the County. My co-founder planned on being the main plaintiff because she saw it as the best recourse to get that man and his office to follow the law, giving us our best chance to fairly re-elect President Trump and save freedom! She wanted Stephen to know how she felt about his job performance.
Unfortunately, she died suddenly right before the lawsuit was supposed to be filed.
On the morning of her death, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting to review the Presidential Preference Election Plan. We couldn’t make it because I was attending to her family in ensuring her body was well looked after according to her wishes.
Reportedly, Clint Hickman complained we weren’t at the meeting. I would have spoken about this at the PPE certification meeting last week, but Chairman @jacksellers banned public commentEZAZ.org
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer closes his speech by saying, “he doesn’t have a solution” to the problem of the pesky First Amendment —
He calls it a RELIGIOUS PROBLEM too — HAPPY EASTER FELLOW CHRISTIANS!
He says he’s “hesitant to disrupt something that has served this country well for so long”
Wow! A lot can change in two (& three) years!!!! Doesn’t seem so hesitant now.
BUT IT STILL GETS WORSE!!!
The response from his staff (presumably) wasn’t anything like Jack Butler’s — kindly saying it’s too extreme
NOPE!!!
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s staff is ALL-IN saying, “I love it”
This man, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, NOW has the hubris to ask the voters to re-hire him to finish what he’s started
This begs the question
If he’s using his government staff to assist in this effort of First Amendment jurisprudence, what exactly is happening in his office with your hard-earned money?
That’s a great question and I hope we get some answers on this!!!!
In the meantime, you can download the full speech and op-ed public record requests from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer at
BY THE WAY
It’s definitely just a coincidence that my entire account was suspended yesterday while I have been working on government accountability in Maricopa County with a whole department run by a man who seeks First Amendment Jurisprudence while the Supreme Court is reviewing a case as to whether or not the government can coordinate with social media companies to suppress our speech and even access to the platforms
TOTAL COINCIDENCE!!!!!
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Speaker of The House Mike Johnson on Tuesday told reporters, “I regard myself as a wartime speaker… in a literal sense,” as the embattled speaker faces pushback from his Republican colleagues for his leadership since taking over the House.
Who are we at war with?
As David Sacks, co-host of the All In podcast, said on X, “Mike Johnson proclaims that he is a ‘wartime speaker’ but what war is America in? America does not need to be in any wars unless fools in Washington make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Johnson: Look, we are in unprecedented times, we are in dangerous times. This has been articulated here, around the world, and here at home. We need steady leadership, we need steady hands at the wheel. I regard myself as a wartime speaker, I mean, in a literal sense we are. I knew that when I took the gavel. I didn’t anticipate that this would be an easy path. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich posted a couple of days ago on his social media that this is the hardest challenge that has faced a speaker, probably in the history of the country, and the moment that we’re in right now, he said, arguably may be comparable to the Civil War but maybe worse.
This comes after a post by Newt Gingrich that seemingly got to Johnson’s head.
As a former Speaker of the House I want To say how much I admire the steady, composed and persistent way Speaker Mike Johnson is working through the hardest job any Speaker has had to contend with, with the possible exception of the Civil War. We should all keep him in our…
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) April 10, 2024
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who recently announced that we will cosponsor a motion to vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker, chimed in on X, “Get a grip; we are not at war. You can’t use that as an excuse to justify passage of warrantless spying, a bloated omnibus, or $100 billion in foreign aid.”
“I regard myself as a wartime Speaker.”
Get a grip; we are not at war. You can’t use that as an excuse to justify passage of warrantless spying, a bloated omnibus, or $100 billion in foreign aid. https://t.co/hOb0IRNxVr
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 17, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday that Mike Johnson is trying to make good with Democrats and save himself from an ousting. This means negotiating with the Biden regime to introduce a substantial funding package for foreign conflicts to whip up opposition from the Democrats to a Motion to Vacate against him.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Gaza and other conflict zones around the world. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
In the last month, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and now this.
Roger Stone came in hot, telling his followers on X, “Speaker Mike Johnson sold us the f*ck out on FISA,” and declaring that he will not be speaker next year:
Speaker @MikeJohnson sold us the fuck out on FISA. While I don’t think we can afford to vacate the chair now with just a two seat margin ,when we extend our lead in the House in the next general election, Mike Johnson will not be the next speaker.
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 18, 2024
Johnson is not capable of fighting back against the Uniparty cabal, let alone being a “wartime Speaker.”
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has introduced multiple amendments to Biden and Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package, which funds Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other conflict zones around the world as our US Southern Border remains wide open and Biden’s Border Bloodbath rages on.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Gaza and other conflict zones around the world. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Worse, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
One amendment proposed by Marjorie Taylor Greene to a funding bill that would provide $26.38 billion to Israel would divert some but not all funding toward the development of space laser technology to finally secure the US southern border.
The amendment reads, “By the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.”
“Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world. I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense. America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses,” said Greene in a post on X:
Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world.
I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense.
America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses. pic.twitter.com/oDeDqTXvQQ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 18, 2024
Another amendment would require members who vote for the Ukraine aid bill to enlist in the Ukrainian military and go fight the war themselves. The amendment reads, “Any Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military.”
Greene said on X, “I mean if you want to fund the war, why don’t you go fight in it. Show your support for Ukraine.”
I mean if you want to fund the war, why don’t you go fight in it.
Show your support for Ukraine. https://t.co/J7JIvJgji5
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 18, 2024
Greene further introduced two amendments that would slash foreign aid, presumably to Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, by 100% and dedicate those resources to helping Americans impacted by the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and Hawaii wildfire disasters.
The Amendments read:
Each amount made available by this Act is hereby reduced by 100 percent, and such amounts shall be made available to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist the communities in and around East Palestine, Ohio.
Each amount made available by this Act is hereby reduced by 100 percent and such amounts shall be made available to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the purposes of aiding the communities in and around Lahaina, Hawaii.
Via Nick Sortor:
JUST IN: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced MULTIPLE amendments to the Ukraine aid bill
Two of which divert 100% of the funds to support the victims of East Palestine, Ohio AND Maui, Hawaii.
Now THAT’S how you put AMERICA FIRST!
JUST IN: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced MULTIPLE amendments to the Ukraine aid bill
Two of which divert 100% of the funds to support the victims of East Palestine, Ohio AND Maui, Hawaii.
Now THAT’S how you put AMERICA FIRST! pic.twitter.com/N2gdprqtAo
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 18, 2024
It can be recalled that Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of The House late last month after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans. The vote – 286 to 134 – had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ The bill was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The bill, which passed last month before Congress went on recess, left our border wide open for Joe Biden and his dangerous illegal immigrants and continues the practice of flying millions of illegals into and across the United States. It further allocates millions of dollars for abortions up until birth and for youth transgender or LGBTQ programs.
In the last month alone, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up the $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and the disastrous foreign aid package introduced yesterday.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced in an X post on Monday, “I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by Rep. MTG. He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.”
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In the last month, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and now this.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday that Joe Biden, the Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the RINOs are colluding on an aid package for Ukraine, which may upset plans by some Republican lawmakers to remove Johnson from the Speaker’s chair.
On Tuesday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Johnson was negotiating with the Biden regime to introduce a substantial funding package for foreign conflicts and whip up opposition from the Democrats to a Motion to Vacate against him.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Gaza and other conflict zones around the world. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
This legislation includes a loan structure, which comes after Mike Johnson spoke at a press conference with President Trump at the Mar a Lago on April 12. The President expressed his desire to make the funding “in the form of a loan” and stop “handing out gifts.”
According to a source with knowledge about the press conference, Mike Johnson went to the Mar a Lago to speak with President Trump about a variety of issues critical to the GOP and to show unity within the party. Johnson originally hoped to cover support for his Ukraine aid package in the press conference, though after what appeared to be a lack of enthusiasm, the topic shifted to election integrity efforts. During the conference, a reporter asked Trump whether he would support a Ukrainian aid bill if the Speaker moved forward with it.
Trump responded to the reporter’s question:
Trump: We’re looking at it right now, and they’re talking about it, and we’re thinking about making it in the form of a loan instead of just a gift. We keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars, and we’ll take a look at it. But much more importantly to me is the fact that Europe has to step up, and they have to give money. They have to equalize it. They don’t equalize. I’m very upset about it because they’re affected much more than we are. The Ukraine situation would have never happened if I was president. It would have never, ever happened, and everybody says that, including Democrats. That it happened is such an outrage. Millions of people are dead right now—both sides, millions of people are dead. Cities are blown to ashes; you’ll never rebuild those cities and certainly not like they were, so beautiful. And this is something that should have never happened. October 7 should have never happened in Israel. It should have never happened. What happened there was outrageous. Iran was broke when I was president. People weren’t buying oil from Iran. They weren’t allowed to. If they were going to buy oil from Iran, then they weren’t going to do any business in the US. And I said it to China, I said it to everybody. They weren’t doing business. They were broke. They didn’t have money for Hamas. They didn’t have money for Hezbollah. It would have never happened. October 7 would have never happened; It did happen, and now it’s a disaster, and it’s only getting worse. So, it’s very sad.
Via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
However, the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term is over in January. If Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later.
From the text of H.R. 8035 – Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024:
More below:
(d) CANCELLATION OF INDEBTEDNESS.—
(1) The President may not before November 15, 2024 take any action related to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine that cancels any indebtedness incurred by Ukraine pursuant to this section.
(2) At any time after November 15, 2024, the President may, subject to congressional review provided by section 508, cancel up to 50 percent of the total indebtedness incurred by Ukraine or antici- pated to be incurred by Ukraine with respect to economic assistance and related expenses made available under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia’’ in title IV of this Act. Upon completion of the congressional review process set forth in section 508, such cancellation shall be final and irrevocable.
(3) The President may, subject to congressional review provided by section 508, cancel any remaining indebtedness to the government of Ukraine under this section at any time after January 1, 2026. Upon completion of the congressional review process set forth in section 508, such cancellation shall be final and irrevocable.
In section 508 of the bill, which gives Congress the authority to review Ukraine loan forgiveness and pass a joint resolution in disapproval, Biden is also given the power to veto any resolution disapproving the action–if House RINOs even pass one. Congress can only delay loan forgiveness by the President for “5 calendar days after the veto message is received by the appropriate House of Congress.”
More below:
SEC. 508. (a) REPORT REQUIRED.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, before taking any action described in paragraph (2), the President shall submit to Congress a written report that describes that action and the reason for that action.
(2) ACTION DESCRIBED.—An action described in this paragraph is an action related to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine authorized by section 507(d)(1).
(b) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PERIOD.—
(1) 2024.—During calendar year 2024, if the President submits to Congress a report under subsection (a)(1), the President may not take any action with respect to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine until the later of—
(A) the date that is 10 calendar days after the date of such submission; or
(B) the date on which Congress has considered and failed to pass a joint resolution of disapproval, as provided in this section.
(2) SUCCEEDING YEARS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—During calendar year 2025 or any calendar year thereafter, if the President submits to Congress a report under subsection (a)(1), the President may not take any action with respect to the indebtedness of the Government of Ukraine until the later of—
(i) the date that is 30 calendar days after the date of such submission, except as provided in subparagraph (B); or
(ii) the date on which Congress has failed to pass a joint resolution of disapproval, as provided in this section.
(B) EXCEPTION.—The period for congressional review of a report submitted under subsection (a)(1) shall be 60 calendar days if the report is submitted to Congress on or after July 10 and on or before September 7 in any calendar year.
(3) VETO MESSAGE.—If the President vetoes a joint resolution of disapproval, he may not take any action with respect to the indebtedness of Ukraine for 5 calendar days after the veto message is received by the appropriate House of Congress.
Via Greg Price on X:
But wait it gets even funnier.
If the president cancels Ukraine’s debt, Congress can pass… wait for it… a resolution disproving of it!
… which the president can also veto. pic.twitter.com/o8Ijou7J3s
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 17, 2024
In response, Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) noted how Biden also wants to forgive “100% of student loans” and will likely exercise the power that weak Republicans handed over.
This for the President who wants to “forgive” 100% of student loans. https://t.co/o4Rt5F3ncV
— Bob Good for Congress (@GoodForCongress) April 17, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. also chimed in:
Trump: The Swamp thinks you’re stupid. They think every conservative in America is an idiot who will fall for their bullsh*t!!!
The Swamp thinks you’re stupid. They think every conservative in America is an idiot who will fall for their bullshit!!! https://t.co/UzvkgrPSdh
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 17, 2024
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Tyler Robinson, a special advisor at the United States Small Business Administration (SBA), recently revealed to an O’Keefe Media Group undercover journalist the inner workings of the Biden Administration and who is really running the White House.
Robinson says he reports to Arthur Plews, SBA Chief of Staff, who reports to SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman.
He revealed that some refer to former Facebook board member and Biden Chief of Staff Jeff Zients as “the second most powerful person in Washington” and that “by getting Jeff’s sign off, you’re getting the President to sign off.”
“Whatever this guy says, it’s what the President says,” Robinson told an undercover journalist. Robinson also said Jeff Zients is the most powerful person at the White House, “other than like the President.” Zients is even more powerful than Kamala Harris “in some ways” but “not legally,” according to Robinson.
Zeints’ approval for activity within the Administration includes his sign-off on activity that potentially violates the Hatch Act, which prevents federal employees from taking part in partisan activity or influencing an election. Robinson says that SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman indirectly campaigns for Joe Biden and helps to get Democrats elected in Congress. “Pretty much every week, she goes somewhere in the country… We can tell their accomplishments; she can’t like go on a stage and be like, ‘Hey, vote for Joe Biden.’ Like that’s illegal,” said Robinson.
“Any time we go [to a state], we try to visit with a Member of Congress, if they’re a Democrat… because then we can help them get reelected as well. So we’re going to Montana because Senator Tester, he’s the Democratic Senator from Montana, like he’s in a tough reelection race, and that’s like a seat we need in the Senate to maintain a majority.” Robinson added, “We all, like as an office, were going, and the White House was like, ‘yes, go. Invite Senator Tester. Don’t invite the other Senator because he’s a Republican, and don’t invite the two members of Congress because they’re Republicans.'” He then confirmed that the White House authorized the SBA to campaign for this Senator.
Robinson also revealed that Biden’s shadow cabinet of advisors, which includes Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton. According to Robinson, Hillary Clinton is close to people in the White House, such as Director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, a former employee of Hillary Clinton, and uses them to influence policy. “She does a lot of the international stuff… They have like the Clinton Initiative,” he added.
Recall that O’Keefe previously exposed another White House official who admitted that Joe Biden’s mental health is in decline and that there are closed-door discussions about how to remove Kamala Harris from the 2024 ticket without stirring a “scandal” and giving poor optics to the American people.
Now we know who’s running the White House behind Joe Biden’s rapidly declining ability.
Watch below via James O’Keefe:
BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Uncovers who is really running the White House. Undercover cameras catch Special Advisor @SBAgov call former @facebook Board Member @WHCOS @ZientsJeff27574 “the second most powerful person in Washington” where “whatever this guy says, it’s what the President says.” Asked by OMG’s American Swiper Citizen Journalist “is Jeff [Zeints] more powerful than Kamala,” Robinson confirms “Yeah.” @VP @KamalaHarris. Robinson also states that @BarackObama and @HillaryClinton are still involved behind the scenes at the White House.
Tyler Robinson, Special Advisor to the Chief of Staff of Administrator @SBAIsabel Guzman, details how @WhiteHouse directs @SBAIsabel Guzman to campaign for @POTUS so constantly that “[Guzman] is the most traveled member of the cabinet. Like pretty much every week.” Under the guise of talking to small business owners, Guzman travels across the country to help elect Democrats – especially swing state Democrats like @SenatorTester: “The White House was like, yes, go. Invite Senator Tester. Don’t invite the other Senator because he’s a Republican. And don’t invite the two members of Congress because they’re Republicans.” Such actions may be considered potential violations of the Hatch Act, which restricts federal employees from taking an active part in partisan political management and forbids them from campaigning for or against candidates.
Robinson says Guzman acts “as a spokesperson for Biden” as “…we try to visit with a member of Congress if they’re a Democrat…Just because then we can help them get re-elected as well.” @US_OSC @JudicialWatch
BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Uncovers who is really running the White House. Undercover cameras catch Special Advisor @SBAgov call former @facebook Board Member @WHCOS @ZientsJeff27574 “the second most powerful person in Washington” where “whatever this guy says, it’s what the… pic.twitter.com/vLeollXEFX
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 17, 2024
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Joe Biden, Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the RINOs are colluding on an aid package for Ukraine, which may upset plans by some Republican lawmakers to remove Johnson from the Speaker’s chair.
The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.” It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, Palestine. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who recently announced that we will cosponsor a motion to vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker, said on X, “Biden backs Johnson’s plan because Johnson’s plan is Biden’s plan.”
Biden backs Johnson’s plan because Johnson’s plan is Biden’s plan: https://t.co/A60ILkeawg
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 17, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) the motion thanks to his actions over the House Omnibus bill, which will fund the government until September 30.
Massie announced in an X post on Monday, “I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by Rep. MTG. He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.”
I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by @RepMTG.
He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 16, 2024
Massie further slammed Johnson for leading the House to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and his push for another disastrous foreign aid package:
Speaker Johnson has led the GOP to pass:
1) an omnibus that spends more than Pelosi’s highest year
2) an expansion of the domestic warrantless surveillance program
and this week he’s pushing
3) Schumer’s dream bill which contains $100 billion of foreign aid, mostly for war.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 16, 2024
Massie’s support is pivotal given the slim Republican majority in the House, which has been further diminished by the resignations of several GOP members and the ousting of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). This delicate balance suggests that a unified Democrat vote, coupled with the motion to vacate, could end Johnson’s tenure as Speaker.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Johnson was in negotiations with the Biden regime to introduce a substantial funding package for foreign conflicts and whip up opposition from the Democrats to a Motion to Vacate against him.
On Monday, Johnson said he is ready to fund the hapless Ukraine War. Johnson is not capable of fighting back against the Uniparty cabal so he joined them – once again.
Still no southern border security… These people care more about protecting Ukrainians than they do Americans.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) also slammed the foreign aid bills, asking, “Where is the funding for our border? $48.43 BILLION more for Ukraine but NO security for AMERICANS?”
Where is the funding for our border?
$48.43 BILLION more for Ukraine but NO security for AMERICANS?
Unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/lhWCact7mJ
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) April 16, 2024
The Biden White House released the following statement on Johnson’s Ukraine funding package:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the House’s National Security Supplemental
I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. Israel is facing unprecedented attacks from Iran, and Ukraine is facing continued bombardment from Russia that has intensified dramatically in the last month.
The House must pass the package this week and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: We stand with our friends, and we won’t let Iran or Russia succeed.
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Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has reportedly raised nearly $1 Million since making good on his campaign promises to indict Trump.
Per the New York Times, “Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A., campaigned as the best candidate to go after the former president.”
Jury selection is still underway for Bragg’s election interference lawfare case against Trump. Last April, Trump was hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
The far-left judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels trial trampled all over Trump’s First Amendment rights with a strict gag order.
Juan Merchan earlier this month expanded Trump’s gag order to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members after it was learned that the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign and received tens of MILLIONS of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the first seven jurors in liberal Judge Juan Merchan’s Kangaroo Court, and they all get their news from the far-left New York Times. The trial is rigged.
Right Side Broadcasting Network reports,
Amid the start of President Donald Trump’s now-infamous “hush money” trial in a Manhattan Criminal Court, disturbing allegations have emerged that paint a picture of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s possible financial boons for prosecuting the 45th president.
According to a report from Newsweek, based on campaign finance data, Bragg has raised more than $800,000 since indicting the 45th president in 2023. If he is not reelected in 2025, his term as DA in Manhattan will end in 2026.
The outlet stated that the money was raised between March 2023 and the last reporting date of January 2024.
It can be recalled that Bragg, in 2022, reduced 52% of all felony charges to misdemeanors. He then elevated a misdemeanor charge against Donald Trump, where the statute of limitations had already expired, to felony charges last year.
As Bradley Smith, Institute for Free Speech Chairman, Capital University law professor, and former Federal Election Commission Chairman, notes in an op-ed for The Federalist, the made-up felony charges against Trump are completely baseless, setting aside the clear conflicts of interest with the prosecution and the judge.
DA Alvin Bragg argues that Trump falsified business records in order to “conceal crimes that hid information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election” and to “boost his electoral prospects.” Under this theory, Bragg claims that Trump violated campaign finance laws by not publicly reporting so-called campaign expenditures to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
As Smith writes,
Misreporting business expenses is normally, at most, a misdemeanor. Bragg seeks to ratchet it up to a felony here by arguing that the misreporting was done to cover up a crime. That alleged crime is a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The theory is that Trump’s payments to Daniels were campaign expenditures and thus needed to be publicly reported as such. By not reporting the expenditure, the theory goes, Trump prevented the public from knowing information that might have influenced their votes.
But let’s think about this for a minute. Political candidates do things all the time that are “for the purpose of influencing an election,” but that, nonetheless, are not considered campaign expenditures. For example, a candidate cannot buy a new suit, get his teeth whitened, or pay for cosmetic surgery with campaign funds, even if he does so for the purpose of looking good on the campaign trail.
That’s because, in campaign finance law, these types of expenditures are known as “personal use.” FECA specifically prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to personal use, defined as any expenditure “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
Does anyone really think a candidate should be able to use campaign funds to settle lawsuits, or threatened lawsuits, arising from activities that occurred long before his candidacy? It’s stressful being a candidate, and a little relaxation may make the candidate more effective on the stump. Does that mean your campaign contribution should pay for a candidate massage? How about a country club membership, or tickets to the Super Bowl (after all, the candidate might take along a potential donor)?
Herein lies the most frightening part of this prosecution: Had Trump made these payments with campaign funds, it seems a near certainty he would now be facing criminal charges for a knowing and willful diversion of campaign funds to pay personal obligations. If Bragg’s prosecution is successful, it will mean a candidate can use campaign funds to pay almost any obligation that, the candidate might argue, would benefit his candidacy. Perhaps worse, zealous prosecutors could get a candidate coming or going — falsification of records if campaign funds are not used, and illegal personal use if campaign funds are used.
On Thursday, Joe Hoft published an article further explaining the complete lack of criminal conduct asserted by radical Soros-funded New York City Alvin Bragg in his lawsuit against President Trump. Joe Hoft was then invited on The War Room with Steve Bannon to discuss his investigation:
Per Greg Price on X:
In 2022, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg reduced 52% of all felony charges to a misdemeanor.
In 2023, he then elevated a misdemeanor to a felony that both the DOJ and his predecessor refused to go after so he could indict the Republican nominee for president.
Today, Donald Trump will be in court for it because America is currently making Putin’s Russia look like a free country.
In 2022, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg reduced 52% of all felony charges to a misdemeanor.
In 2023, he then elevated a misdemeanor to a felony that both the DOJ and his predecessor refused to go after so he could indict the Republican nominee for president.
Today, Donald Trump will…
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 15, 2024
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The Gateway Pundit contributor Paul Ingrassia and investigative journalist Laura Loomer on Tuesday provided updates on the ongoing election interference lawfare against Donald Trump taking place less than a mile away from illegal aliens protesting at New York City Hall.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday that more than 1,000 illegal aliens from Africa swarmed New York City Hall on Tuesday after they were falsely promised work visas and green cards.
Ingrassia, a New York resident, told us more about the thousands of illegals from Guinea and other African countries “demanding housing, work permits and health care.” Ingrassia continued, “Meanwhile, all the resources are being used to prosecute Donald Trump just two blocks away from here.”
He also shared updates on President Trump’s trial, the conflicts of interest with bad actors trying to take Trump down, and the highly partisan questions for jury members in the ongoing jury selection.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, they’re trying to ruin President Trump not only in his legal and business life but also in his personal life—preventing him from attending his son’s graduation and threatening arrest if he is not present for every day of the witch hunt trial.
Ingrassia noted the disrespect and total disregard from the judge toward a President of the United States and a leading candidate, adding that Judge Merchan “is violating every rule, every custom, every norm, every precedent.”
“This is a kangaroo court. This is a banana republic system of justice that we’re seeing in New York. It’s very shameful, and, you know, as that goes on, you have illegals flooding the streets just blocks away from the courthouse. It’s a true disgrace.”
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The disrespect is further seen with the far-left judge’s trampling of Trump’s First Amendment rights with a strict gag order, which was recently expanded to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members. This comes after Trump sounded the alarm on the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign and received tens of MILLIONS of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Monday, President Trump shared a video of Laura Loomer and Andrew Giuliani making true statements about the trial, the judge, and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and came under fire for a potential violation of his gag order.
Merchan is reportedly considering fining Trump $3,000 for sharing this video of Loomer “verbally attacking Merchan’s wife.” Loomer simply pointed out that “Judge Merchan’s wife literally worked for Letitia James.”
Trump trial: Judge Merchan mulls prosecution request to fine Trump $3,000 for attacking witnesses
“During a lunch break, Trump posted a video of right-wing ally Laura Loomer verbally attacking Merchan’s wife.” —-@YahooNews
“Attacking” https://t.co/j6fNstfFsG
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 16, 2024
Loomer spoke to Ingrassia and The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson on Tuesday with more on the “all Muslim” illegals from Africa and threatened consequences against Trump for sharing her video:
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The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government is holding a hearing this afternoon to “examine the federal and state responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and the effects on the civil liberties of Americans,” according to the committee’s webpage.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 2 pm. Watch live below.
Simultaneously, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the House Oversight Select Subcommittee is holding a hearing to examine evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins exerted influence over multiple scientific journals to craft a narrative about COVID-19:
Former RNC Chair candidate and Founder and CEO of the Center for American Liberty Harmeet Dhillon will testify on the government’s overreach during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WATCH: @pnjaban will be testifying today at 2:00pm ET before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government about government overreach during COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/sWnEGsl0L7
— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) April 16, 2024
Other witnesses include State Surgeon General of Florida Dr. Joseph Ladapo and Co-Founder of Freedom in Education Beanie Geoghegan.
Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, has been vocal about his concerns with the COVID-19 vaccines. As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Ladapo slammed Dr. Fauci in an interview with Russell Brand, calling him “a dishonest, self-serving political animal who happens to have scientific training.”
Via House Judiciary Committee:
Liberty, Tyranny, and Accountability: Covid-19 and the Constitution
- Harmeet Dhillon, Founder and CEO, Center for American Liberty
- Dr. Joseph Ladapo, State Surgeon General of Florida
- Beanie Geoghegan, Co-Founder, Freedom in Education
Watch live below:
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The House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold another hearing to look at “inappropriate influence exerted by the federal government over research publications related to COVID-19” after recently obtaining evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins were in communication with multiple scientific journals.
This is similar to the allegations in Murthy v. Missouri, a lawsuit against the Biden administration and an army of government agencies for conspiring with social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, to censor the speech of millions of American citizens, particularly following the election of Donald Trump and amid the government manufactured Covid 19 pandemic.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The US Supreme Court heard arguments last month from The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and our co-plaintiffs in the lawsuit against federal agencies that censored the truth about COVID-19.
Via House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic:
Wenstrup Announces Hearing on the Possible Inappropriate Relationship Between Top Scientific Journals and U.S. Government
WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review” to explore any potential inappropriate influence exerted by the federal government over research publications related to COVID-19. The Select Subcommittee recently obtained evidence that indicates top scientific journals Science, Nature, and The Lancet were in communication with federal government officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, during the pandemic. This hearing seeks to ensure that the federal government is not granted undue access to the scientific review process during a future health crisis.
WHAT: Hearing titled “Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review”
DATE: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
TIME: 2:00 PM ET
LOCATION: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
WITNESSES:
Holden Thorp, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
Science Journals
American Association for the Advancement of Science
*Declined to participate*
Magdalena Skipper, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
Nature
*Declined to participate*
Richard Horton, BSc, MB, ChB
Editor-in-Chief
The Lancet
Read more about the Select Subcommittee’s invitations to the respective Editors-in-Chief of Science, Nature, and The Lancet here.
Watch live below:
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The House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs is hosting a hearing titled “How the Border Crisis Impacts Public Safety” this morning to “examine how the Biden Administration’s policy changes have benefitted criminal illegal aliens to the detriment of the safety and security of American citizens and legal residents,” according to a press release.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 am ET. Watch live below.
Biden facilitated the unprecedented border invasion. He took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to weaken border security.
President Trump has more accurately dubbed the border and public safety crisis “Biden’s Border Bloodbath.”
Trump’s figurative use of the word ‘bloodbath’ while talking about the effects of foreign trade policy on the U.S. auto industry at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on March 16, provoked outrageous smears from liberals and reporters who took his remarks out of context. Trump recently posted a video rebuking the smears and talking about the quite literal “Biden’s Border Bloodbath.”
One of the most notable effects of Biden’s Border Bloodbath was the horrific murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old student at the University of Georgia, whose skull was disfigured by a savage illegal alien that Joe Biden welcomed into the country.
More recently, an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported by the Trump administration in 2020 was charged in the March 22 murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, whose bullet-riddled body was found dumped on a Grand Rapids highway.
According to ICE, Ortiz-Vite was previously deported under the Trump Administration in 2020.
Yet Joe Biden takes no responsibility and even apologizes for calling these animals “illegal.”
Witness Ken Cuccinelli, Senior Fellow for Immigration and Homeland Security at the Center for Renewing America, retweeted an image from Libs of TikTok, which showcases some of the countless Americans who have fallen victim to Biden’s open border, commenting, “I will be testifying tomorrow in the House on crime emanating from @JoeBiden‘s open border. Sad.”
Libs of TikTok: These are the faces of Americans who lost their lives at the hands of criminal illegal aliens who were allowed to roam our country under Joe Biden. The same administration would want nothing more than to get rid of voter ID so these illegals can vote. Chip Roy and Speaker Johnson will be introducing the ‘Safeguard American Voter Eligibility’ (SAVE) Act which will make it a crime for any non-citizen to vote, impose penalties for any election official who registers an illegal voter, and require proof of citizenship to vote. The SAVE Act must pass!
I will be testifying tomorrow in the House on crime emanating from @JoeBiden‘s open border.
— Ken Cuccinelli II (@KenCuccinelli) April 15, 2024
Sheriffs Bill Waybourn of Tarrant County, Texas, and Mike Chapman of Loudon County, Virginia, will also provide the committee with expert testimony on the open border’s impact on public safety.
Via House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs:
Grothman Announces Hearing on Biden Border Crisis’ Impact on Public Safety
WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) announced a hearing titled “How the Border Crisis Impacts Public Safety.” The subcommittee hearing will examine how the Biden Administration’s policy changes have benefitted criminal illegal aliens to the detriment of the safety and security of American citizens and legal residents.
“The words coming from President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas on their efforts to apprehend and remove illegal aliens are empty. The Biden Administration’s policies have allowed criminal aliens to roam freely in the United States, which exacerbates the harmful impacts felt by communities both along the border and across the nation. Every crime committed in the United States by an illegal immigrant is preventable yet Democrats seem to be allergic to discussing this issue due to their blind loyalty to President Biden and his disastrous policies. The safety and security of Americans should not be a partisan issue. I look forward to discussing with the expert witnesses invited before the subcommittee on what needs to change and why it hasn’t,” said Subcommittee Chairman Grothman.
WHAT: Hearing titled “How the Border Crisis Impacts Public Safety.”
DATE: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
TIME: 10:00 a.m. ET
LOCATION: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
WITNESSES:
- Hon. Ken Cuccinelli, Senior Fellow for Immigration and Homeland Security, Center for Renewing America
- Bill Waybourn, Sheriff, Tarrant County, Texas
- Mike Chapman, Sheriff, Loudoun County, Virginia
The hearing will be open to the public and press and will be livestreamed online at https://oversight.house.gov/.
Read More:
Hearing Wrap Up: Biden Administration’s Catch and Release Operation Has Inflamed the Raging Crisis at the Southern BorderWrap Up: Biden Administration’s Policies Have Fueled Worst Border Crisis in U.S. History
Watch live below at 10 am ET:
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Former GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who made waves for being the youngest challenger to Donald Trump in the race and perhaps the most likable, came out with a statement on Monday condemning Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawfare against President Trump.
Vivek always stood up for President Trump in the ongoing attempts by Democrats to take him out by other means, like sham indictments and challenges to remove him from the ballot, and destroyed GOP Primary opponents who refused to condemn the Biden Regime’s fascism. He frequently took aim at and destroyed neocon Nikki Haley for being a member of the RINO establishment who was happy to let the deep state destroy American civil rights and the leading Presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
After Vivek Ramaswamy’s departure from the race, President Trump invited him on the stage at a campaign event in Atkinson, New Hampshire, where Vivek declared, “We need a commander-in-chief who will lead us to victory in this war.”
Vivek, in his statement on Bragg’s ridiculous and legally flawed indictment, cited Bradley Smith, Institute for Free Speech Chairman, Capital University law professor, and former Federal Election Commission Chairman. Smith noted earlier in an op-ed for The Federalist that the made-up felony charges against Trump are completely baseless, setting aside the clear conflicts of interest with the prosecution and the judge.
DA Alvin Bragg argues that Trump falsified business records in order to “conceal crimes that hid information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election” and “boost his electoral prospects.” Under this theory, Bragg claims that Trump violated campaign finance laws by not publicly reporting so-called campaign expenditures to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
“That’s bunk,” says Vivek Ramaswamy.
As Smith writes,
Misreporting business expenses is normally, at most, a misdemeanor. Bragg seeks to ratchet it up to a felony here by arguing that the misreporting was done to cover up a crime. That alleged crime is a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The theory is that Trump’s payments to Daniels were campaign expenditures and thus needed to be publicly reported as such. By not reporting the expenditure, the theory goes, Trump prevented the public from knowing information that might have influenced their votes.
But let’s think about this for a minute. Political candidates do things all the time that are “for the purpose of influencing an election,” but that, nonetheless, are not considered campaign expenditures. For example, a candidate cannot buy a new suit, get his teeth whitened, or pay for cosmetic surgery with campaign funds, even if he does so for the purpose of looking good on the campaign trail.
That’s because, in campaign finance law, these types of expenditures are known as “personal use.” FECA specifically prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to personal use, defined as any expenditure “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
Does anyone really think a candidate should be able to use campaign funds to settle lawsuits, or threatened lawsuits, arising from activities that occurred long before his candidacy? It’s stressful being a candidate, and a little relaxation may make the candidate more effective on the stump. Does that mean your campaign contribution should pay for a candidate massage? How about a country club membership, or tickets to the Super Bowl (after all, the candidate might take along a potential donor)?
Herein lies the most frightening part of this prosecution: Had Trump made these payments with campaign funds, it seems a near certainty he would now be facing criminal charges for a knowing and willful diversion of campaign funds to pay personal obligations. If Bragg’s prosecution is successful, it will mean a candidate can use campaign funds to pay almost any obligation that, the candidate might argue, would benefit his candidacy. Perhaps worse, zealous prosecutors could get a candidate coming or going — falsification of records if campaign funds are not used, and illegal personal use if campaign funds are used.
According to Smith, Trump “has a defense on the merits, and his supporters should use it.”
Trump shared Smith’s piece earlier on Truth Social:
Regardless of the facts, they don’t even have a case against Trump. As Vivek put it, “The complete absence of a legal argument even to bring this case against Trump isn’t just embarrassing to Alvin Bragg, it’s embarrassing to our country.”
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that prosecutors requested earlier during jury selection that the court hold President Trump in contempt for ‘violating’ his gag order and asked the court to impose sanctions while threatening Trump with jail time if he continues to speak out against this political witch hunt. They are trying everything possible to nail Trump with a fake crime and take away his right to a fair trial.
Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said to a crowd of protesters outside the Manhattan courthouse, “The facts–think about this–are so weak in this case that Joe Biden would not even bring this case. That’s how bad this is. It took a Soros-funded District Attorney in order to bring this case. There’s no underlying felony.”
“Alvin Bragg‘s case against Trump rests on the ludicrous legal premise that a candidate must use *campaign* funds to make personal hush money payments. Yet if Trump had done that, they’d undoubtedly be going after him for that. This isn’t the pursuit of justice, it’s a political persecution that is tearing our country apart,” commented Vivek with a video statement attached.
Watch below:
Ramaswamy: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump and its trial begins today. What a joke. I’m against these prosecutions on principle. I think they’re destructive to our country. But let’s just examine the facts and the law here. Alvin Bragg, effectively, is prosecuting Donald Trump for making hush-money payments—allegedly—to stormy Daniels and then paying Michael Cohen in a means that Alvin Bragg thinks is falsifying business records. Well, first of all, falsifying business records in New York is a misdemeanor, not a felony. And it falls outside of the statute of limitations, meaning it happened so far long ago that Alvin Bragg can’t bring the case unless he charges it as a felony, which requires an underlying crime that he’s advancing by falsifying those business records that was also a felony.
Here’s where the legal stretch really begins. That requires Alvin Bragg to say that Donald Trump’s payments should have been made out of a campaign account. That’s his theory of the case, instead of being made personally or else it’s a constructive campaign contribution. That’s bunk. Think about it. Look at smart people like former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith, who has correctly pointed out that if Donald Trump did use campaign money, campaign contributions, to pay off hush money, that would arguably be an even stronger legal case to bring against him than the case they’re bringing now. So, in that version of the world, it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t; they’re gonna get him going, or they’re going to get him coming. It’s almost as though they decided this is the person we’re going to prosecute. And then we’re going to figure out what we’re going to charge them with after the fact.
Well, guess what? That’s exactly what happened. You have Alvin Bragg, a Manhattan DA, who was elected on the promise of going after Donald Trump. For what crime? We had no idea, just the idea that they had to go after Donald Trump. This is a politician keeping his campaign promise. That is a bastardization of our legal system. That’s not how we do things in the United States, and that motivation accounts for why this case is so weak and emblematic of the other prosecutions that have since followed against Donald Trump. I think Trump is going to prevail. But most importantly, I hope we move beyond this phase of our history, where you have one political party that thinks it can use the legal system to prosecute its opponents. The same shoe can fit the other foot, and if we keep going down this direction, we’re not going to have a country left. And the complete absence of a legal argument even to bring this case against Trump isn’t just embarrassing to Alvin Bragg, it’s embarrassing to our country. I hope Donald Trump not only prevails in this trial, but that we prevail as a country to move beyond this phase of our national history. That’s what it’s going to take to reunite and rebuild this nation.
Elon Musk also commented on Vivek’s post:
This case is obviously a corruption of the law.
Lawfare.
This case is obviously a corruption of the law.
Lawfare.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2024
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Terrorist sympathizing protestors in New York City wielded Hezbollah flags and chanted “Death to America” in New York City today.
More from Laura Loomer on Bannon’s War Room:
As The Gateway Pundit reported, far-left pro-Palestine protestors blocked the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday afternoon.
This is after pro-Palestine activists shut down the Golden State Bridge and blocked the entrance to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
Pro-Palestine Protestors Take Over the Brooklyn Bridge, Block Traffic (VIDEO)
Chants of “Death to America” were also heard earlier in New York City, and one protestor burned an American flag.
As seen in the footage, a young man carrying an American flag is nearly set on fire as the flag he is carrying is torched, and his shirt catches flame. One self-hating American woman shouted, “I love it. Burn it down,” when asked what she thought of burning the American flag.
Laura Loomer shared footage of her confrontation with a Hezbollah flag-waving woman on Wall Street. At the same time she was confronting the woman who confirmed she does, in fact, support Hezbollah, the idiot next to her repeatedly said, “Donald Trump is antisemitic.” Another woman said, “America is a terrorist organization.”
Watch below:
Loomer: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:
HEZBOLLAH FLAGS IN NYC!
A woman was waving a HEZBOLLAH terrorist flag on Wall Street in NYC at the pro HAMAS rally moments ago. I confronted her about it on video, and she shoved it in my face and screamed obscenities at me. One of the women told me my future children should be aborted because I’m Jewish.
Hezbollah was designated as an Islamic terrorist org by the US Justice Department in 2001. In 2010, State Department officials described Hezbollah as the most technically capable terrorist group in the world and a continued security threat to the United States
These pro-Palestine rallies are terrorist rallies. This is video evidence.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:
HEZBOLLAH FLAGS IN NYC!
A woman was waving a HEZBOLLAH terrorist flag on Wall Street in NYC at the pro HAMAS rally moments ago. I confronted her about it on video, and she shoved it in my face and screamed obscenities at me. One of the women told me my future… pic.twitter.com/DaSfRht1tL
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2024
One young woman who got in the face of NYPD Deputy Chief Timothy Beaudette earlier in the day, screaming, “Are you f*cking kidding me?” was neutralized by the Chief:
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The House of Representatives on Monday passed a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888, which passed on Friday to renew FISA 702 and allow warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans.
This was a betrayal of Americans.
Shortly before the final passage of H.B. 7888 on Friday, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), which would have required a warrant to spy on Americans. However, 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview with Maria Bartoromo this weekend, slammed Mike Johnson for voting with Democrats again to break the tie and “abdicating the power of the purse” to the Democrats in the latest spending package. “As I see it now, I’m not sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge,” Senator Paul remarked:
Recall that official intelligence documents show that the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans, including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families. Republicans in Congress chose to screw the American people and allow unwarranted search and seizure of our private communications, giving the Biden Regime and FBI renewed authority to spy on Trump and innocent Americans, as they previously did, leading up to the 2024 election.
The final vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act was 273-147 on Friday, with 126 Republicans in favor of betraying the American people. On Monday, the legislation was brought back to a vote on a motion to reconsider, requested by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and demanded by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in a recorded vote.
However, 117 Republicans voted with 142 Democrats in favor of a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider, which was requested by House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH). The legislation now heads to the Democrat-led Senate, where it will presumably pass and then be signed into law by Joe Biden.
Recall that Mike Turner, a staunch opponent of FISA reform to end warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans, came under fire earlier this year for sending a letter to colleagues and raising concern over “an urgent matter with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability that should be known by all Congressional Policy Makers.” According to Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who asked Speaker Johnson for an inquiry and possible removal of the House Intelligence Chair from his committee, this was an attempt by Turner to create unfounded worry in pursuit of a “political agenda” to prevent the passage of FISA reform legislation.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), following Friday’s disappointing vote by RINOs, Democrats, and Speaker Johnson, sent a letter to all 435 members of Congress on Monday urging them to protect civil liberties, follow the U.S. Constitution and fix the current legislation to make it constitutional.
“I urge all Members of Congress to vote NO on the motion to table the motion to reconsider,” states the letter. “I am specifically asking the 56 Members of Congress who voted for final passage of H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, after supporting and voting for Biggs Amendment #1 to vote NO on the motion to table.”
Friday’s legislation permits U.S. agencies to monitor foreign targets abroad but has come under scrutiny for its implications and past misuse in surveilling American citizens. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
Shortly before final passage, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs, which would require a warrant to spy on Americans. 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
Here are the 117 RINOs who voted in favor of warrantless spying on the American people and President Trump’s campaign:
| Aderholt | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Allen | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Amodei | Republican | Nevada | AYE |
| Babin | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Bacon | Republican | Nebraska | AYE |
| Balderson | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Barr | Republican | Kentucky | AYE |
| Bergman | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Bice | Republican | Oklahoma | AYE |
| Buchanan | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Bucshon | Republican | Indiana | AYE |
| Burgess | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Calvert | Republican | California | AYE |
| Carey | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Carl | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Carter (GA) | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Carter (TX) | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Chavez-DeRemer | Republican | Oregon | AYE |
| Ciscomani | Republican | Arizona | AYE |
| Cole | Republican | Oklahoma | AYE |
| Crawford | Republican | Arkansas | AYE |
| Crenshaw | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| De La Cruz | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Diaz-Balart | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Duarte | Republican | California | AYE |
| Dunn (FL) | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Edwards | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Ellzey | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Emmer | Republican | Minnesota | AYE |
| Estes | Republican | Kansas | AYE |
| Ezell | Republican | Mississippi | AYE |
| Feenstra | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Ferguson | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Fitzpatrick | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Fleischmann | Republican | Tennessee | AYE |
| Flood | Republican | Nebraska | AYE |
| Foxx | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Franklin, Scott | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Gallagher | Republican | Wisconsin | AYE |
| Garbarino | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Garcia, Mike | Republican | California | AYE |
| Gimenez | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Gonzales, Tony | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Graves (LA) | Republican | Louisiana | AYE |
| Graves (MO) | Republican | Missouri | AYE |
| Green (TN) | Republican | Tennessee | AYE |
| Grothman | Republican | Wisconsin | AYE |
| Guest | Republican | Mississippi | AYE |
| Guthrie | Republican | Kentucky | AYE |
| Hill | Republican | Arkansas | AYE |
| Hinson | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Houchin | Republican | Indiana | AYE |
| Huizenga | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Jackson (TX) | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| James | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Johnson (SD) | Republican | South Dakota | AYE |
| Kean (NJ) | Republican | New Jersey | AYE |
| Kelly (MS) | Republican | Mississippi | AYE |
| Kelly (PA) | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Kiggans (VA) | Republican | Virginia | AYE |
| Kiley | Republican | California | AYE |
| Kim (CA) | Republican | California | AYE |
| LaHood | Republican | Illinois | AYE |
| LaLota | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Lamborn | Republican | Colorado | AYE |
| Latta | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| LaTurner | Republican | Kansas | AYE |
| Lawler | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Lee (FL) | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Lucas | Republican | Oklahoma | AYE |
| Malliotakis | Republican | New York | AYE |
| McClain | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| McHenry | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Meuser | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Miller (OH) | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Miller (WV) | Republican | West Virginia | AYE |
| Miller-Meeks | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Molinaro | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Moolenaar | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Moore (UT) | Republican | Utah | AYE |
| Moran | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Murphy | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Newhouse | Republican | Washington | AYE |
| Nunn (IA) | Republican | Iowa | AYE |
| Obernolte | Republican | California | AYE |
| Pfluger | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Reschenthaler | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Rodgers (WA) | Republican | Washington | AYE |
| Rogers (AL) | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Rogers (KY) | Republican | Kentucky | AYE |
| Rouzer | Republican | North Carolina | AYE |
| Rutherford | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Salazar | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Scalise | Republican | Louisiana | AYE |
| Scott, Austin | Republican | Georgia | AYE |
| Sessions | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Simpson | Republican | Idaho | AYE |
| Smith (NE) | Republican | Nebraska | AYE |
| Smucker | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Stauber | Republican | Minnesota | AYE |
| Steel | Republican | California | AYE |
| Stefanik | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Steil | Republican | Wisconsin | AYE |
| Strong | Republican | Alabama | AYE |
| Tenney | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Thompson (PA) | Republican | Pennsylvania | AYE |
| Turner | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Valadao | Republican | California | AYE |
| Van Duyne | Republican | Texas | AYE |
| Wagner | Republican | Missouri | AYE |
| Walberg | Republican | Michigan | AYE |
| Waltz | Republican | Florida | AYE |
| Wenstrup | Republican | Ohio | AYE |
| Williams (NY) | Republican | New York | AYE |
| Wilson (SC) | Republican | South Carolina | AYE |
| Wittman | Republican | Virginia | AYE |
| Womack | Republican | Arkansas | AYE |
The Motion to Table a Motion to Reconsider solidified the vote for tyranny.
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UPDATE: RINOs voted to pass the Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888 and reauthorize warrantless spying on Americans:
The months-long battle over FISA Section 702 reform legislation introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) to end warrantless surveillance of Americans and Biden Regime dissidents and the Intelligence Committee’s bill to reauthorize the controversial spying tool seemingly came to an end on Friday when 126 House Republicans joined Democrats to renew the FISA 702 by a vote of 273 to 147.
The final vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act was 273-147, with 126 Republicans in favor of betraying the American people. The legislation was headed to the Democrat-led Senate where it would presumably pass and then be signed into law by Joe Biden.
However, tonight, following a vote on a motion to table, requested by House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH), the House of Representatives will vote on a motion to reconsider the renewal of FISA 702. Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) called for reconsideration of the bill after it passed in the House on Friday, which was met with pushback from Turner.
Watch the votes live below.
Recall that Mike Turner, a staunch opponent of FISA reform to end warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans, came under fire earlier this year for sending a letter to colleagues and raising concern over “an urgent matter with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability that should be known by all Congressional Policy Makers.” According to Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who asked Speaker Johnson for an inquiry and possible removal of the House Intelligence Chair from his committee, this was an attempt by Turner to create unfounded worry in pursuit of a “political agenda” to prevent the passage of FISA reform legislation.
Friday’s legislation permits U.S. agencies to monitor foreign targets abroad but has come under scrutiny for its implications and past misuse in surveilling American citizens. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
Shortly before final passage, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs, which would require a warrant to spy on Americans. 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
Biggs’ amendment would end the FBI’s ability to surveil Americans and end the current practice of collecting, storing and digging through Americans’ communications without a warrant.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has not given up following Friday’s disappointing vote by RINOs, Democrats, and Speaker Johnson, sending a letter to all 435 members of Congress on Monday urging them to protect civil liberties, follow the U.S. Constitution and fix the current legislation to make it constitutional.
“I urge all Members of Congress to vote NO on the motion to table the motion to reconsider,” states the letter. “I am specifically asking the 56 Members of Congress who voted for final passage of H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, after supporting and voting for Biggs Amendment #1 to vote NO on the motion to table.”
Recall that official intelligence documents show that the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans, including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families. If Republicans in Congress continue to screw the American people and allow unwarranted search and seizure of our private communications, the Biden Regime and FBI will have renewed authority to spy on Trump and innocent Americans, as they previously did, leading up to the 2024 election.
Andy Biggs called on his colleagues to “vote down the expansion of Biden’s surveillance state” by adding the warrant requirement he previously requested to FISA:
The House has one last chance to vote down the expansion of Biden’s surveillance state.
We cannot reauthorize FISA without a warrant requirement.#KillFISA https://t.co/ltiB3utZ6V
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) April 15, 2024
Luna released the following video, where she slammed the two-tiered spy program and its weaponization against Americans on X, commenting, “Today we have an opportunity to #killFISA. IT NEEDS TO BE AMENDED TO REQUIRE A WARRANT FOR SURVEILLANCE. Voting starts at 6:30pm. Please phone your rep and ask them to protect your 4th amendment.”
Luna: [FISA] literally has been responsible and reached, I think, over a quarter of a million times, in addition to the fact that they actually had made carve-outs in this legislation for members of Congress, but not the general population, meaning that if you’re a member of Congress, you’ll be notified by the FBI nicely that you’re being under surveillance. But if you’re a normal person, you’re not, so that’s completely unacceptable.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview with Maria Bartoromo this weekend, also slammed Mike Johnson for voting with Democrats again to break the tie and “abdicating the power of the purse” to the Democrats in the latest spending package. “As I see it now, I’m not sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge,” Senator Paul remarked:
Paul: Americans shouldn’t be spied on by their own government. The Fourth Amendment was put in by our founding fathers to protect us. FISA doesn’t obey the Fourth Amendment. And so, Speaker Johnson was incredibly wrong. He broke the tie. He voted with the Democrats. Here we have the leader of the Republicans in the House votes with the Democrats against a warrant requirement. We also have Speaker Johnson voting for the spending package, once again, with a majority of the Democrats. As I see it now, I’m not sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge. The debt, the deficit this year will be $1.5 to $2 trillion, and that’s Mike Johnson’s bill. He put it forward, he supported it with a minority of Republicans with a majority of Democrats. This is not using the power of the purse. This is abdicating the power of the purse.
Per the Washington Examiner:
Monday’s motion to table vote is the culmination of months of infighting within the Republican Party over how to reform the key surveillance program. Though House Judiciary Committee members and other privacy hawks secured wins with a two-year sunset and a stand-alone vote on Rep. Warren Davidson’s (R-OH) bill, the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, sometime this week, House Intelligence Committee members and national security allies ultimately secured victory with no warrant requirements and a mostly-agreed upon base text.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced severe backlash for the Biggs amendment, as the House tied 212 to 212, causing the amendment to fail. Many members accused the speaker of being a “tiebreaker” vote, despite his office claiming he was not the last member to vote on the amendment.
How the vote on the motion to table swings could impact whether the House needs to prepare for another FISA vote and whether Johnson needs to prepare for a possible motion to vacate. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had said ahead of the vote that her decision on whether to move forward with the motion would depend on Johnson’s approach to FISA and Ukraine aid.
Watch the House vote live below at 6:30 pm E.T.:
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President Trump, refusing to be silenced by a leftwing judge and Soros-funded prosecutor, is facing scrutiny for sharing a video of his allies exposing the conflicts of interest in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case.
Jury selection is still underway for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawfare case against Trump. Last April, Trump was hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
The far-left judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels trial trampled all over Trump’s First Amendment rights with a strict gag order.
Juan Merchan earlier this month expanded Trump’s gag order to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members after it was learned that the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign and received tens of MILLIONS of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, prosecutors are now seeking to hold President Trump in contempt for ‘violating’ the gag order and asking the court to impose sanctions while threatening Trump with jail time if he continues to speak out against this political witch hunt.
“Donald Trump did nothing wrong,” Laura Loomer began chanting outside the courthouse before she and Andrew Giuliani ripped into Judge Merchan, his wife, Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg, and Bragg’s star witness, admitted perjurer Michael Cohen.
“The facts–think about this–are so weak in this case that Joe Biden would not even bring this case. That’s how bad this is. It took a Soros funded District Attorney in order to bring this case. There’s no underlying felony,” exclaimed the son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
As Bradley Smith, Institute for Free Speech Chairman, Capital University law professor, and former Federal Election Commission Chairman, notes in an op-ed for The Federalist, the made-up felony charges against Trump are completely baseless, setting aside the clear conflicts of interest with the prosecution and the judge.
DA Alvin Bragg argues that Trump falsified business records in order to “conceal crimes that hid information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election” and “boost his electoral prospects.” Under this theory, Bragg claims that Trump violated campaign finance laws by not publicly reporting so-called campaign expenditures to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
However, as Smith writes,
Misreporting business expenses is normally, at most, a misdemeanor. Bragg seeks to ratchet it up to a felony here by arguing that the misreporting was done to cover up a crime. That alleged crime is a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The theory is that Trump’s payments to Daniels were campaign expenditures and thus needed to be publicly reported as such. By not reporting the expenditure, the theory goes, Trump prevented the public from knowing information that might have influenced their votes.
But let’s think about this for a minute. Political candidates do things all the time that are “for the purpose of influencing an election,” but that, nonetheless, are not considered campaign expenditures. For example, a candidate cannot buy a new suit, get his teeth whitened, or pay for cosmetic surgery with campaign funds, even if he does so for the purpose of looking good on the campaign trail.
That’s because, in campaign finance law, these types of expenditures are known as “personal use.” FECA specifically prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to personal use, defined as any expenditure “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
Does anyone really think a candidate should be able to use campaign funds to settle lawsuits, or threatened lawsuits, arising from activities that occurred long before his candidacy? It’s stressful being a candidate, and a little relaxation may make the candidate more effective on the stump. Does that mean your campaign contribution should pay for a candidate massage? How about a country club membership, or tickets to the Super Bowl (after all, the candidate might take along a potential donor)?
Herein lies the most frightening part of this prosecution: Had Trump made these payments with campaign funds, it seems a near certainty he would now be facing criminal charges for a knowing and willful diversion of campaign funds to pay personal obligations. If Bragg’s prosecution is successful, it will mean a candidate can use campaign funds to pay almost any obligation that, the candidate might argue, would benefit his candidacy. Perhaps worse, zealous prosecutors could get a candidate coming or going — falsification of records if campaign funds are not used, and illegal personal use if campaign funds are used.
President Trump Truthed the following video from today’s protest outside the courthouse:
Loomer: We’re gonna be here every single day, talking to all of you fake news media freaks and letting you know that Donald Trump did nothing wrong until you start to report the truth. Judge Merchan’s wife literally worked for Letitia James. Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Andrew Laufer’s, Twitter profile banner is a photo of him with Letitia James, talking about getting Trump. He said that he had fundraisers for Kamala Harris. Tell me that this isn’t the witch hunt. How is this fair? How is this fair to Donald Trump?
Giuliani: You’re absolutely right. We’ve got to be out of here for President Trump. Let them know that he did nothing wrong. Let them know this is a political persecution by prosecution of the leading candidate for President of the United States. That’s what’s going on here. That’s what’s going on in the United States of America. The facts–think about this–are so weak in this case that Joe Biden would not even bring this case. That’s how bad this is. It took a Soros funded District Attorney in order to bring this case. There’s no underlying felony.
Shortly after posting this, Politico criticized Trump for “test[ing] the boundaries of the gag.”
Donald Trump doesn’t need to oblige the communist, crooked Judge Merchan.
If they arrest Trump he will raise over $100 MILLION.
Donald Trump Did Nothing Wrong!
He has a right to defend himself!
I will happily be a bullhorn in support of Trump since he’s been silenced! https://t.co/TN1g4RTaD5
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2024
Politico reports,
Even as prosecutors were seeking a contempt ruling against Donald Trump for violating the gag order in recent days, Trump once again tested the boundaries of the gag during the trial’s lunch break.
He posted a video of one of his prominent allies, Laura Loomer, announcing through a bullhorn that “Donald Trump did nothing wrong.” Notably, Loomer used the same moment to criticize Justice Juan Merchan’s wife for purportedly working for New York Attorney General Tish James, a Trump political foe. Loomer also criticized prosecutors’ star witness, Michael Cohen, for employing the services of a lawyer with ties to Trump’s political opponents.
While Loomer’s views are well known, Trump’s decision to amplify them on Truth Social could be viewed as violating the gag, which prohibits him from commenting on Merchan’s family members or any witnesses in the case.
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on the ongoing jury selection in Alvin Bragg’s election interference case against Donald Trump.
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President Trump’s Manhattan “hush money” criminal trial kicks off today with jury selection.
The Gateway Pundit reported last month on President Trump’s court hearings in New York, where Far-left Judge Arthur Engoron’s outrageous $464 million judgment in Marxist AG Letitia James’ civil fraud case was overturned, and Far-left Judge Juan Merchan set the Stormy Daniels trial for April 15. Trump held a press conference at his 40 Wall Street building where he slammed the judges and prosecutors for their election interference attempts to take out the leading presidential candidate.
Far-left New York Judge Juan Merchan released his questionnaire for potential jurors late Monday night, including questions about where the jurors get their news from, whether or not they’ve attended a Trump rally, and whether they follow President Trump on social media. The questions also ask if they have ever supported Q Anon, Proud Boys, Antifa, Boogaloo Boys, Three Percenters or Oath Keepers.
The highly conflicted judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, who, according to The New York Post, helped Democrats raise $93 million off of her father’s case, is a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign. Merchan’s firm, Authentic Campaigns, Inc., has also received tens of millions of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump.
President Trump recently said the daughter of the far-left judge posted a photo of him behind bars. Merchan responded by expanding Trump’s gag order to bar Trump from making factual statements about the judge’s far-left family members.
For these reasons, Trump filed a motion to recuse Merchan from presiding over this unfair trial brought by Biden’s thugs earlier this month.
Recall that Trump’s lawyers also asked for a 90-day delay so they could pour over the thousands of pages of discovery, but the judge denied their request.
Trump blasted the Merchan yesterday, calling him “perhaps the most highly conflicted Judge in New York State history,” for giving his lawyers a short period of time to read through the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg illegally hid.
FIREWORKS! Trump Blasts Judge Overseeing Stormy Daniels ‘Hush Money’ Lawfare Case on Eve of Trial
According to pro-Trump New Yorker Dion Cini, a rally in protest of Manhattan District Attorney “Fat Alvin” Bragg is scheduled from 8 am until 6 pm outside the courthouse at Collect Pond Park:
Reminder, all day tomorrow. Take the day off or quit your job, your life depends on it! https://t.co/79QdKTccP3
— Dion Cini (@dioncini) April 15, 2024
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The months-long battle over FISA Section 702 reform legislation introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) to end warrantless surveillance of Americans and Biden Regime dissidents and the Intelligence Committee’s bill to reauthorize the controversial spying tool came to an end on Friday when 126 House Republicans joined Democrats to renew the FISA 702 by a vote of 273 to 147.
The final vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act was 273-147, with 126 Republicans in favor of betraying the American people. The legislation now heads to the Democrat-led Senate where it will presumably pass and then be signed into law by Joe Biden.
This legislation permits U.S. agencies to monitor foreign targets abroad but has come under scrutiny for its implications and past misuse in surveilling American citizens. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
Section 702 was scheduled to expire on April 19.
Shortly before final passage, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs, which would require a warrant to spy on Americans. 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
This is despite official intelligence documents showing that the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans, including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, less than 24 hours after the bill passed in the House, Speaker Johnson posted on X about America’s founding principles — after giving the regime power to spy on any American at will! Many see what he did as a betrayal of Americans and disregard for the US Constitution and ‘ratioed’ him with 3500+ comments and only 1400 likes.
Because of Mike Johnson and the RINOs, the FBI has renewed authority to spy on Trump and innocent Americans, as they previously did, leading up to the 2024 election.
Congressman Eli Crane (R-AZ) told The Gateway Pundit in December that he believes the federal government will abuse FISA authority and weaponize it against Trump again “in a heartbeat.”
“Anytime you try and change stuff up here in Washington, DC, the fearmongers always come out and start threatening people. I think Speaker Johnson fell prey to that,” said Crane after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled a vote on FISA reform legislation on the House Floor late last year.
Loomer Unleashed correspondent Charles Downs confronted silent FBI Director Chris Wray on the FBI’s election interference last week.
Watch below:
Do you want to reauthorize #FISA so the FBI can spy on President Trump’s campaign again?
Do you want to spy on the Trump campaign again?
WATCH:
FBI Director Christopher Wray was just confronted by @LoomerUnleashed DC Correspondent @TheCharlesDowns today.
“Do you want to reauthorize #FISA so the @FBI can spy on President Trump’s campaign again? Do you want to spy on the @TeamTrump campaign again?” pic.twitter.com/SaO0WurH9j
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 11, 2024
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President Trump arrived in Pennsylvania earlier, where he is set to deliver remarks at a campaign stop in the town of Schnecksville, located north of Philadelphia.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Biden, too, will be in Pennsylvania next week for multiple low-energy campaign events after taking the weekend off at his home in Rehoboth Beach. After one day at the White House and campaigning in Pennsylvania next week, Biden will return to his beach house for another weekend.
Meanwhile, President Trump will be fighting off the Biden Regime’s lawfare attempts and the far-left judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels ‘hush payment’ trial on Monday.
Supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida cheered Trump on earlier as he departed from Palm Beach International Airport en route to Pennsylvania:
Scene outside of Palm Beach International for President Trump’s departure to Pennsylvania! pic.twitter.com/3EKw1ubcAo
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) April 13, 2024
President @realDonaldTrump is wheels down in Pennsylvania! pic.twitter.com/BIVbXkppnE
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) April 13, 2024
In Pennsylvania, rally-goers packed in hours early to see the 45th and 47th President speak:
Pennsylvania is FIRED UP to see 45th & 47th President Donald Trump tonight!! pic.twitter.com/4l8MNxid1k
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) April 13, 2024
By 2 pm, the line had thousands of supporters ready and waiting for doors to open at 3 pm:
Thousands of people lined up in Pennsylvania to see President Trump speak 5 hours from now.
Pennsylvania is undoubtedly Trump Country! pic.twitter.com/GeWkQRBzFe
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) April 13, 2024
Trump is scheduled to speak at 7 pm ET.
Trump will likely respond to the Iranian missile and drone attacks on
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California State Assemblyman Bill Essayli spoke to The Gateway Pundit yesterday about new legislation to end California’s practice of releasing dangerous pedophile illegal immigrants back into the community and ignoring requests from ICE for deportation.
Essayli said California law enforcement is being “compelled by state law” to release illegal immigrants who are convicted of crimes back into the community. “The California legislature is very radical and extreme. They have passed sanctuary state laws that say it is illegal for any sheriff or any member of law enforcement to cooperate with ICE or to recognize any ICE detainers,” Essayli added.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “Detainers request that state or local law enforcement agencies maintain custody of the noncitizen for a period not to exceed 48 hours beyond the time the individual would otherwise be released, allowing ERO [Enforcement and Removal Operations] to assume custody for removal purposes in accordance with federal law.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Assemblyman Essayli announced on Wednesday his plans to introduce legislation that would require California law enforcement to comply with immigration authorities and allow them to detain and deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes against minors.
This comes after a Colombian illegal immigrant, who was previously convicted for sex crimes against a minor in California, was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts, last week.
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Essayli released the following video statement on Wednesday after the illegal immigrant, who was convicted of sexual intercourse with a minor in California at the end of 2022, was released and arrested all the way in Boston, Massachusetts. This is despite receiving a prison sentence in California of about four years.
Essayli: Hi, I’m Assemblyman Bill Essayli here with an urgent legislative announcement. Recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Colombian illegal immigrant who had been convicted of sex crimes against a minor in the state of California. ICE issued a detainer to release him into their custody for deportation. San Bernadino was unable to honor the detainer due to California sanctuary state laws. Yes, the laws of California prohibit law enforcement from handing over convicted child pedophiles to ICE for purposes of deportation. This is unacceptable in a civilized society. That is why today I am announcing that I have introduced legislation to reverse this misguided policy in the state of California and allow law enforcement to hand over pedophiles, people convicted of child sex offenses, to immigration to deport them and to get them out of our country. They have no business remaining here. Thank God, ICE was able to find and apprehend this individual before he’s able to hurt anyone else. This should never happen, and as lawmakers, we have an obligation and a duty to protect the citizens of this nation. And that is what I intend to do with this bill. Thank you
Voters can contact state legislators in California and demand that they allow ICE to deport illegal immigrants who are found guilty of sex crimes against minors.
Essayli joined The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson with more on Thursday.
Bill Essayli is running for re-election to represent California’s District 63 in the State Assembly. Learn more and support his campaign here!
Watch below:
Essayli: I woke up yesterday, and I saw Bill Melugin’s reporting. He does great work for the border. And he was reporting how ICE had arrested this pedophile, this child sex offender in Massachusetts, who was released from San Bernadino County Jail, and I immediately engaged because I know the Sheriff of San Bernardino, and it was not his fault. He was compelled by state law to release him into the community. The California legislature is very radical and extreme. They have passed sanctuary state laws that say it is illegal for any sheriff or any member of law enforcement to cooperate with ICE or to recognize any ICE detainers. It is illegal for them to do that, which is outrageous. So what I did is I had my staff craft a very narrow bill. Let’s make it very clear, if you’re a convicted child sex offender, you must be handed over to ICE. So, it’s going to require local law enforcement to cooperate with immigration authorities when an illegal alien criminal has been convicted of sex crimes against children. That’s what the bill does.
Conradson: Why stop at just pedophiles? Don’t you agree that all sanctuary laws in the state should be abolished?
Essayli: 100%. I mean, if I was running the place, I would get rid of all of it. But we have a super-majority Democrat legislature here and what they usually do, their tactic is if you just bring a blanket policy, they’re gonna pull out a grandma or some sob story of some guy who was popped for smoking weed, and they say, “oh, it’s not fair to deport this person who’s part of our community, blah, blah, blah.” So, to avoid all those ridiculous arguments, I brought a very narrow bill. So, I said, let’s just focus on illegal aliens, who’ve done the worst thing ever, which is commit a horrible act against a child. So, what is your excuse? I want to hear from the Democrats. What is your explanation and justification for shielding that individual from deportation? So, it’s a strategy to hold them accountable and expose their extreme, radical viewpoint. We did something similar last year with SB14, where we try to make child sex trafficking a serious felony. It initially was killed in the Public Safety Committee, and because of the outcry from the public, Newsom actually picked up the phone and called the Speaker of the Assembly and said, “What the hell are you guys doing? You guys need to reverse this.” It was making him look bad. So, we’ll see if we can shame them into doing the right thing again here.
Conradson: This guy was arrested on sexual intercourse and oral copulation with a minor. It carried a prison sentence of about four years, how have you figured out how he got out of prison or custody so quickly?
Essayli: What they’ve done with the prison system in California is a whole nother story. They have dumped prisoners out on the street because of our laws here. We went from 180,000 prisoners; now we’re down to 90,000 prisoners. So, what they’ve done is they’ve made it harder to keep people in prison for a long time. So, it’s not uncommon for people to serve no more than half their sentence in the state of California. So, if you’re sentenced to four years, you’ll never do more than two years, and now they’re coming up with all kinds of credits and ways to expedite even that timeline to get people out of prison.
Conradson: I thought you asked a great question on Twitter. Why do California Democrats support pedophiles? Do you know why that might be?
Essayli: Well, let’s see what they have to say. I’m gonna give them the opportunity to respond. So, I posed the question because that’s the effect of their policy is they are shielding and protecting pedophiles. So, let’s see; maybe that wasn’t their intent, and now they have the opportunity to do the right thing. And if not, then they can explain to us why they seek to protect pedophiles. I’d like to know the answer myself.
Conradson: Do you find it strange that the same party protecting these pedophiles is the same party that’s pushing this perverted sexual education, telling kids they are old enough and mature enough to choose their own gender and sexual identities in public schools?
Essayli: Make no mistake the Democrat Party, the radical elements of the Democratic Party are after your kids. They want to raise your kids. They want to indoctrinate your kids. And so it is totally consistent with their radical ideology, because they’re making a play for the next generation. And look, if you can convince a child that they can pick any number of genders, you can pretty much convince them of anything. So they’re making a play to separate children from their parents.
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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, the dirty RINO who sued Kari Lake for defamation backed by the far-left Soros and Obama-linked henchmen at Protect Democracy who are trying to silence all election critics on the right, has come under fire for reportedly using staff and public funds to gather media content and likely evidence pertaining to his lawsuit against Kari Lake.
This could also be seen as an effort to influence Kari Lake’s election and stop a political opponent utilizing public funds. While Richer claims to be a Republican, he has made it a goal to stop people like Kari Lake from being elected to office.
Richer, who oversaw early voting in Lake’s stolen 2022 election for governor, founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans PAC, a dark money PAC aimed at eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda. It was later revealed that Richer’s office colluded with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to censor information they disagree with surrounding elections in Maricopa County, explicitly mentioning The Gateway Pundit’s reporting.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Kari Lake recently pled no contest in the lawfare defamation case, which is backed by a Soros-linked nonprofit, so that she could focus on her campaign against Soros-funded Democrat Ruben Gallego.
The latest stunt is nothing new for Stephen Richer.
Richer previously came under fire for potentially violating the law and using his office for political gain to stop an election integrity ballot measure that would have prevented bogus mail-in ballots from being counted.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Richer was accused in a complaint filed with former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich of illegally using his office and public funds to campaign against the 2022 ballot initiative, Proposition 309, which would have created universal voter ID requirements for all voters to cast a ballot.
Proposition 309, named the Arizonans for Voter ID Act, would have required all voters to have proof of registration regardless of how, when, or where their ballot is cast, including when voting by mail. This is a common-sense measure to protect elections, but Richer lobbied against this ballot initiative and reportedly published a document, written by a County employee during work hours, in opposition to the County website, which appears to be illegal under Arizona laws that prohibit the use of public funds to influence an election.
The ballot initiative failed to pass by less than one percent last election cycle, where 60% of voting machines failed on election day and severely disenfranchised Republican in-person voters.
Similarly, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs recently came under fire after it was discovered her office may have violated the law by using government resources to advance her political career and influence elections in early 2019, immediately after she entered the Secretary of State’s office. As uncovered in public records, an employee at the Secretary of State’s office used government resources to acquire a blue ‘verified’ checkmark for Katie Hobbs’ personal and campaign Twitter page.
An Arizona legal expert told The Gateway Pundit, “At the time, this privilege was only available under very specific circumstances and, based on Twitter’s response, was not readily available to her, which could be a violation of ARS 38-504(C),” said the attorney. This was the same Twitter account that Hobbs used in 2017 to label Trump supporters “neo-Nazis” and for her political campaign in the last election.
AZ Free News reports,
Public records revealed that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer tasked staff with compiling articles and online content pertaining to his personal defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake — Senate candidate and 2022 gubernatorial candidate — as well as topics of personal political interest.
Richer also tasked staff with printing his favorite articles and pieces of online content from these lengthy daily news compilations and organizing them in a binder. Richer admitted in one email obtained by public records that this daily content gathering assignment took a “significant amount of time” for staff to put together.
Richer filed his defamation lawsuit last June against Lake over her claims of him improperly administering the 2022 election. Lake has unsuccessfully petitioned to dismiss his lawsuit; her petition was denied earlier this month.
Records reveal that Richer has regularly tasked staff with tracking a wide variety of media reports and other online content on topics of personal political interest to Richer, unrelated to the statutory duties of the recorder’s office. This included coverage of other elected officials in Arizona and across the nation; the political landscape for the 2024 election; the indictments against former President Donald Trump; developments in social media; and updates on various public policies.
Some news and online content gathered by staff touched on legal challenges to free speech.
According to AZ Free News, Richer’s office responded to a request for comment with a statement that said, “Providing leadership with news clips relating to the office and regarding current events is a standard practice. It has been a practice of this office for the past three years and it was originally implemented by staff from former Senator McSally’s office, where it was a standard practice, who joined the Recorder’s Office in January 2021… Recorder Richer values news and being aware of developments within our state and relating to our statutory responsibilities.”
However, they did not respond to additional questions regarding what content was gathered and used in Richer’s defamation lawsuit and why staff were tasked with gathering content on Richer’s personal lawsuit and political topics unrelated to the Recorder’s office.
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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (left) Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates (right) By Matthew Casey/KJZZ
James O’Keefe has released footage from his cell phone confrontation in Washington, D.C., with a principal economist at the Federal Reserve who nervously paced away, followed by cameramen, from the public pier near Nationals Park baseball stadium.
Economist Aurel Hizmo thought he was meeting the undercover journalist he was dating at a bar when OMG cameramen approached him, saying, “Are you [redacted]’s friend? She’s on the phone right here.”
But she wasn’t on the phone; James O’Keefe, working on a project at the California/Mexico border, was!
Earlier this week, O’Keefe Media Group released a stunning report of a top economist for the Federal Reserve admitting in an undercover video that Jerome Powell was a Trump-hater who wanted to be remembered in history for undermining President Donald Trump.
O’Keefe’s reporting on this comes years after and confirms The Gateway Pundit’s previous reporting of Jerome Powell raising the interest rates AGAIN under President Trump, following Trump’s 102nd stock market record in October 2018. The Dow Jones then crashed 1,501 points in just one week.
Right after Barack Obama was elected President, on December 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve (The Fed) lowered the Fed Funds rate by an entire percent, from 1% down to 0%.
The Fed had not lowered the Fed Funds rate by such a large amount (1% ) since at least before 1990, if ever. The Fed kept this 0% rate for most of Obama’s eight years in office.
President Trump said the “Fed is crazy.” He was right.
CNBC reported in December 2015 that President Obama oversaw “seven years of the most accommodative monetary policy in U.S. history” (from the Fed). The Fed Funds rate was at zero for most of Obama’s time in office. Finally, in December 2015, the Fed announced its first increase in the Fed Funds rate during the Obama Presidency.
The Fed Funds Rate significantly impacts the economy:
Lower interest rates usually spur the economy by making corporate and consumer borrowing easier. Higher interest rates are intended to slow down the economy by making borrowing harder.
As liberal fed economist Aurel Hizmo stated, “Trump wanted him to lower interest rates because when you lower interest rates, it stimulates the economy, and Trump was President. He wanted to stimulate the economy, but [Powell] wouldn’t do it. And he started raising interest rates, and doing the opposite of what Trump wanted.
When James O’Keefe confronted Hizmo with his statements that Powell wants to go down in history as “someone who held the line against Trump,” Hizmo replied, “I never said that.” He continued to double down after it was revealed they have him on tape, and said, “No, I never said that, I would never say that… I’m not commenting on any of this.” He continued to deny the statements he made as he walked away from cameramen holding a phone with James O’Keefe on the other line.
Clearly nervous that he was busted revealing the truth about the politically weaponized federal reserve, Hizmo slipped up, saying, “I’m not giving you any comments. I haven’t said anything about Jerome Trump… I don’t talk about Jerome Trump.”
He even desperately claimed that he is “not a Federal Reserve official” and “cannot talk for anybody at the Federal Reserve” before getting into his car and driving away.
While it is unclear if he is considered a “Federal Reserve Official,” Aurel Hizmo, a former finance professor, now works as a subject matter expert and even writes speeches for Jerome Powell.
After the undercover footage was released earlier this week, Hizmo deleted his LinkedIn profile, which says he works as a “Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve Board.”
DELETED: Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist at @federalreserve TAKES DOWN his LinkedIn.
We saved everything. And have more video coming today… https://t.co/aL6Etm1GLK pic.twitter.com/G5Fd5yJZca
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 11, 2024
Watch below:
“I DID NOT SAY THAT AT ALL”: Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist for the Federal Reserve denies every one of his quotes when confronted by O’Keefe and OMG. pic.twitter.com/4JqiDAu8qE
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 11, 2024
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Kari Lake recently pled no contest in the lawfare defamation case brought against her by fake “Republican” Stephen Richer and Protect Democracy – a far-left group of Soros and Obama-linked henchmen who are trying to silence all election critics on the right.
Instead of allowing the Soros-linked far-left Protect Democracy to subpoena and dig through her personal communications and campaign secrets and wasting more time or money on the bogus lawsuit, Lake decided it’s time to focus on her campaign. Lake is expected to face Soros-backed far-left Marxist Ruben Gallego in the 2024 general election for the US Senate.
This clearly is a hit job on Kari Lake by her political opponents.
In fact, George Soros’ son recently hosted a fundraiser in Gallego’s honor, which likely led to Lake’s decision to file for default judgment shortly after in the lawsuit filed by Soros-linked attorneys.
Then, ironically, as The Gateway Pundit reported Gallego resorted to attacking Kari Lake for her fundraising event last week with President Trump at the Mar-A-Lago, where she raised a record-shattering one million dollars. This money can now go to her campaign instead of fighting the bogus lawsuit that is simply meant to bankrupt her.
Lake only moved to determine the amount of damages Stephen Richer wants her to pay for the statements that the elected government official didn’t like and allegedly caused him pain and suffering.
However, that didn’t stop Richer and his leftist friends in the fake news media, who quickly started promulgating a narrative that Kari Lake admitted guilt. Headlines such as “Kari Lake admits fault in Stephen Richer defamation case” and “Kari Lake admits she defamed Republican election official” began popping up in Arizona media, and national mainstream media outlets followed.
As for Richer, he told the local KTAR news station, “We now have a judgment saying that Kari Lake lied about me, lied to the world, lied to Arizona, lied about the 2022 election. And so that will be entered in a court of law, and now we’ll move on to assess just how much it damaged me, and we’re going to say it damaged me a lot” — a total lie.
Howard Fischer, a leftwing hack journalist who despises Kari Lake, wrote for Tucson.com, “In a video statement explaining her decision, Lake insisted her legal capitulation has nothing to do with conceding that her statements were wrong — even though her court papers admit that they were” — another lie.
Lake never admitted to defamation. She only conceded that she did say things that hurt Richer’s feelings while still maintaining that nothing she said was defamatory.
Lake said in a video statement on March 26, “Behind this ridiculous lawsuit are a dozen East Coast lawyers funded by special interests who have rolled into Arizona to interfere in my campaign for US Senate. It’s a political witch hunt, and everyone knows it.”
She continued, “By participating in this lawsuit–it would only serve to legitimize this perversion of our legal system and interfere in our elections. So I won’t be taking part.”
“Instead, I will focus– continue to focus on the issues that matter to the people of Arizona: securing the border, bringing back our economy, improving healthcare and education,” she added:
Lake’s Motion for a Default Judgement even states, “It is often said that defaulting admits the allegations in the operative complaint. This is a misnomer.” The filing then cites case law, which states, “An entry of default serves as a judicial admission of all well-pleaded facts in the complaint. A party against whom default is entered, however, is not held to admit facts that are not well-pleaded or to admit conclusions of law. If a complaint does not include well-pleaded facts for a required showing, entry of default does not mean that required showing has been made.“
The motion clearly stipulates that Lake’s entry of default judgment does not admit to the allegations of defamation or that Richer’s complaint had the required showing of well-pleaded facts.
Read the full filing here.
Kari Lake only admits to making the statements that left Richer butthurt and took a toll on his emotions.
Attorney Mike Davis called it a “shrewd move,” noting that by pleading no contest, her time and money could be better spent winning her race for the Senate than fighting a bogus lawsuit funded by a dark money organization.
This is a very shrewd move by @KariLake.
She essentially said:
“Even if I defamed you, which I did not, your supposed damages are much less than the money and time I’d spend defending against this Democrat lawfare and election interference.”
Kari Lake outfoxed them. https://t.co/U7PCn3YpOj
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) March 27, 2024
Lake joined Bannon’s War Room after filing her Motion for Default Judgement. “My words are true, but how did they hurt you?” Lake said she’s telling Stephen Richer and the far-left group behind his election interference lawfare:
LAKE: This is the most important Senate race in the country, and let me just remind you, my opponent has been endorsed by Hillary Clinton and the Soros family. And all these attorneys, by the way, in this case that I just said, we’re going to call your bluff. All these attorneys, about a dozen of them, all of them coming from New York, Washington, DC, Harvard, rolling into town— many of them with associations, and affiliations, their groups, with Soros. So, this is just a witch hunt, a political witch hunt, designed to pull me off the campaign trail and try to coordinate this mini-me of Joe Biden. And we’re not going to have it. I’m not going to have them interfering in this all-important race. This is so critical in Arizona. So, I just said to Richer, cut to the chase, what are your damages, where did I hurt you, how did my words hurt you? My words are true, but how did they hurt you? You said you have mental issues because of it? Show us what drugs you’re on, and we’ll reimburse you for the drugs. What are your medical issues? We’ll have a psychiatrist look at you and let us know— an independent medical examiner to look at you and let us know what your issues are because of my words.
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The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government is currently hosting a hearing on freedom of the press and protecting journalists, as the Biden Regime attempts to infringe on the rights of the press and shape news stories to fit their narrative.
Rep Chip Roy opened the hearing at 9:30 am ET, remarking, “Today’s hearing is about defending our fundamental liberty and protecting journalists and their sources from these attacks. We will examine the federal government’s infringement on the freedom of the press and examine the prospects for federal shield law.”
Witnesses include investigative journalists Catherine Herridge and Sharyl Attkisson and Chief Broadcast Officer at SAG-AFTRA News & Broadcast Department Mary Cavallaro.
Recall that last month, Catherine Herridge, an Emmy-winning and nominated reporter known for her work on national security and intelligence, was held in civil contempt by an Obama-appointed federal judge for her refusal to unmask her confidential sources related to a blockbuster story on how there is infiltration from China in US universities.
The judge ordered Herridge to turn over her source(s) in response to a lawsuit that was filed by Chinese-American scientist Yanping Chen against the FBI. Chen subpoenaed Herridge in an effort to find out who her sources were. When Herridge refused, she was threatened with contempt charges and potential jail time.
Via House Judiciary Committee:
REMINDER
Hearing Advisory.
Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources
Tomorrow. 9:30 am. @C__Herridge, @SharylAttkisson. pic.twitter.com/7kK9JUXutv
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 10, 2024
Date:Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Watch live below:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. ET. The hearing, “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources,” will examine the federal government’s infringement on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press, as well as federal shield law proposals.
WITNESSES:
- Catherine Herridge, Investigative journalist
- Mary Cavallaro, Chief Broadcast Officer, SAG-AFTRA News & Broadcast Department
- Sharyl Attkisson, Investigative journalist; managing editor, “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson”
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California State Assemblyman Bill Essayli announced on Wednesday his plans to introduce legislation that would require California law enforcement to comply with immigration authorities and allow them to detain and deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes against minors.
Contra Costa News reports,
“It is completely unacceptable that California law currently requires local law enforcement to protect illegal immigrant pedophiles from deportation under our ‘sanctuary state’ policy. I am amending AB 2641 to correct this gross injustice, remarked Assemblyman Bill Essayli.
“As the son of legal immigrants, I was raised to love our country and respect the law. Anyone here in this country illegally who dares commit a sex crime against a minor must be prosecuted and deported expeditiously–this is common sense,” added Assemblyman Bill Essayli.
The language of AB 2641 is currently being amended and will be available in the coming days as it moves through the California Legislature.
This comes after a Colombian illegal immigrant, who was previously convicted for sex crimes against a minor in California, was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts, last week.
While illegally in the United States on an expired visa, the Colombian national was convicted in December 2022 of sexual intercourse with and oral copulation of a minor, which carried a combined prison sentence of four years. However, the illegal immigrant and child sex offender was later released from California state custody on an unknown date, and he moved to Massachusetts.
It is currently unclear why he was released without serving the full term of his sentence.
According to an announcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, San Bernardino County refused to honor ICE’s request for advance notification of release to the San Bernardino County-West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, California before the illegal was released into the public.
Essayli states, “the laws of California prohibit law enforcement from handing over convicted child pedophiles to ICE for purposes of deportation,” making it so that San Bernadino County could not legally comply with ICE’s requests.
“On April 2, deportation officers from ERO Boston took him into custody and served him with a warrant for his arrest and a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge. The Colombian noncitizen will remain in ICE custody pending his removal proceedings,” reads the announcement from ICE.
Bill Melugin reported on Wednesday,
NEW: ICE says San Bernardino County, CA ignored their detainer request and released a Colombian sex offender from custody who had been convicted of sex crimes against a California minor. He made his way to Massachusetts, & Boston based ICE officers found & arrested him last week.
NEW: ICE says San Bernardino County, CA ignored their detainer request and released a Colombian sex offender from custody who had been convicted of sex crimes against a California minor. He made his way to Massachusetts, & Boston based ICE officers found & arrested him last week.… pic.twitter.com/V7xPjLgBp6
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 10, 2024
Assemblyman Bill Essayli chimed in, asking, “Why do California Democrats support pedophiles?”
San Bernardino was FORCED by state law to protect this pedophile because of our sanctuary state laws. This is completely unacceptable. As a California legislator, I will not stop until we get these misguided policies reversed. Why do California Democrats support pedophiles? https://t.co/JaDSfGbfzl
— Bill Essayli (@billessayli) April 10, 2024
Essayli released a video statement earlier, announcing his plans to “end California’s Sanctuary State for illegal immigrant pedophiles” with legislation he says will “require law enforcement to comply with federal immigration authorities in cases involving illegals convicted of child sex crimes.”
Watch below:
Essayli: Hi, I’m Assemblyman Bill Essayli here with an urgent legislative announcement. Recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Colombian illegal immigrant who had been convicted of sex crimes against a minor in the state of California. ICE issued a detainer to release him into their custody for deportation. San Bernadino was unable to honor the detainer due to California sanctuary state laws. Yes, the laws of California prohibit law enforcement from handing over convicted child pedophiles to ICE for purposes of deportation. This is unacceptable in a civilized society. That is why today I am announcing that I have introduced legislation to reverse this misguided policy in the state of California and allow law enforcement to hand over pedophiles, people convicted of child sex offenses, to immigration to deport them and to get them out of our country. They have no business remaining here. Thank God, ICE was able to find and apprehend this individual before he’s able to hurt anyone else. This should never happen, and as lawmakers, we have an obligation and a duty to protect the citizens of this nation. And that is what I intend to do with this bill. Thank you
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Today I am introducing legislation to end California’s Sanctuary State for illegal immigrant pedophiles.#AB2641 will require law enforcement to comply with federal immigration authorities in cases involving illegals convicted of child sex… pic.twitter.com/ungMMDhnO8
— Bill Essayli (@billessayli) April 10, 2024
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James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group has released undercover footage of a Federal Reserve employee admitting to how Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sabotaged President Trump and wants to go down in history as “someone who held the line against Trump.”
Principal Economist Aurel Hizmo, a self-proclaimed liberal, told an undercover journalist more about Powell’s hatred for Trump, saying, “As soon as he became Chair, Trump wanted him to lower interest rates. Because when you lower interest rates, it stimulates the economy, and Trump was President. He wanted to stimulate the economy, but he wouldn’t do it. And he started raising interest rates, and doing the opposite of what Trump wanted. Trump tried to find all the loopholes to fire him.”
The Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates under Joe Biden, which Hizmo says is to prevent a recession and the economy from crashing.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates at least 11 times since 2022 – 7 times in 2022 and 4 times in 2023 – in an effort to hedge inflation.
But it hasn’t worked, as Americans are still getting crushed by Joe Biden’s inflation crisis.
JUST IN: Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 22 Years
Hizmo further told the journalist that conservatives at the Federal Reserve are “dumb” and would be discriminated against depending on how ‘out there’ they are.”
“I don’t think there are any conservatives in the field,” he said, adding, “all the people I work with are academics.” He continued, “Trump supporters are not voting for him for logical reasons,” and implied that President Trump is stupid.
Aurel Hizmo is a former finance professor who now works as a subject matter expert who even writes speeches for Jerome Powell. The people behind the scenes, who are running our institutions into the ground and pulling the strings behind the public figures, think you’re stupid!
Finally, Hizmo told the undercover journalist how the Federal Reserve’s priorities are turning to focus more on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and climate change and to apparently implement environmental and social governance (ESG) policies to include “wealth inequality as part of the mandate” and “create[ing] an environment” for climate scientists.
When confronted by James O’Keefe and two reporters, Hizmo denied saying any of this! Stay tuned for more footage…
Watch below via James O’Keefe:
BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not just be establishing interest rates, but to be setting policies for desired social outcomes.
“Under Powell, the Fed has changed to think about equity issues, like racial issues, think about wealth inequality as part of the mandate, as part of the things we are following. Think about climate change.” Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve, who prior to working at the Fed was an Assistant Professor @NYUStern and received his PhD in Economics from @DukeU, helps write speeches for Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell for the Federal Open Market Committee.
Hizmo says “Trump is just a crazy person” and conservatives are “dumb” as he describes to OMG’s American Swiper Citizen Journalist a politicized Federal Reserve Board where Powell has promoted ESG issues like climate change and “wants to be remembered in history” “as a savior.” But shhh…don’t tell anyone because Hizmo says: “I’m just really worried that I’m saying stuff that’s classified…It’s all classified.” @RonPaul @RandPaul
BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not… pic.twitter.com/5CqZX2LhwT
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 10, 2024
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Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who recently resigned from his role in the Georgia indictment against President Trump and 18 co-defendants, is now pleading poverty to skip out on his divorce agreement to pay alimony and child support.
Wade withdrew from the Trump lawfare RICO case after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled that he must be removed in order for Soros Funded District Attorney Fani Wills to continue her RICO case against Trump and the co-defendants.
During his time at the District Attorney’s office, after Willis improperly hired Wade to prosecute Trump while she was sleeping with him, Wade was paid more than $700,000!
It can be recalled that Soros-funded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was subpoenaed to testify in the divorce proceedings of Nathan Wade and Joycelyn Wade. According to a court filing obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Willis was served a subpoena at her Atlanta office for her testimony.
These revelations about Willis and Wade’s secret and nefarious relationship came to light after Mike Roman, a former Trump campaign official and co-defendant in the racketeering case led by Willis, moved to accuse both Willis and Wade of misconduct. The motion, spearheaded by Roman’s attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, alleges an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” between Willis and Wade.
Now, Wade is claiming he’s broke and asking for an emergency hearing to lower the amount of money he agreed to pay his ex-wife in their divorce settlement.
The Gateway Pundit reported last week that Joycelyn Wade, the ex-wife of Nathan Wade, filed for contempt of court, accusing her him of failing to comply with financial obligations amidst her ongoing health struggles.
Court documents reveal that Nathan Wade has allegedly ceased financial assistance for their daughter’s education and living expenses and their son’s nascent soccer career in Europe.
Joycelyn Wade, who has been facing severe health issues necessitating urgent medical procedures, including an endoscopy and colonoscopy, claims Nathan Wade abandoned her financially during this critical time.
New York Post reports,
Nathan Wade is pleading poverty since losing his prosecutor role in the Donald Trump election fraud case and trying to avoid paying his estranged wife alimony, new court papers show.
Wade — forced to step down as special prosecutor in the Georgia case following the revelation of his affair with District Attorney Fani Willis — says he can no longer afford to honor the terms of a temporary agreement he reached with wife Joycelyn Wade less than three months ago, according to the filing.
“With the income from [Wade’s] employement as the Special Prosecutor no longer coming in, and with income from [his] private practice being diminished, [he] is no longer able to … meet the financial obligations set forth in the temporary order,” Wade’s divorce lawyer M. Scott Kimbrough wrote in papers filed Monday.
During the investigation into his affair, it was revealed he had made over $700,000 while working for the DA, and had spent thousands on lavish trips for himself and Fani to the Caribbean, Central America and California.
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ATTENTION READERS: BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE ALL-IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION INCLUDED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE AND ATTEND CARA’S EMERGENCY COURT HEARING TOMORROW AT 9:30 AM ET.
MAGA U.S. Senate candidate Cara Castronuova (R-NY) will represent herself at a historic emergency hearing tomorrow in her lawsuit to ensure free and fair elections for candidates chosen by the people, not political insiders and establishment hacks, in the state of New York.
As Paul Ingrasia previously reported for The Gateway Pundit, Cara Castronuova filed a lawsuit in New York State Federal Court that seeks to change New York’s notoriously draconian and anti-democratic ballot eligibility laws. Under current law, candidates running for public office who are not chosen by the Ed Cox-led state party apparatus, like Cara Castronuova, who hopes to secure the Republican Party nomination for Senate, must collect 15,000 pen ink original signatures over 37 calendar days in order to qualify.
State Party Chairman Ed Cox has operated effectively as the gatekeeper for a trenchant New York State Republican Party that refuses to change with the times, particularly with regard to selecting candidates who are stridently and unapologetically pro-Trump and pro-America First, much like Cara Castronuova. As evidence: the State Party’s last two candidates for major electoral offices – Mike Sapraicone, whom the Party handpicked in a closed-door convention in February for Senate, is a well-known Trump hater who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats over the years. As recently as 2022, Sapraicone made contributions to Trump-hating District Attorney Letitia James, who is spearheading the ongoing political prosecution against President Trump in New York State, including overseeing his criminal trial set to begin in Manhattan, later this month.
Cox previously picked loser Mitzi Phillips, a registered Democrat at the time she ran in the special election for George Santos’ former seat in Congress and lost against Democrat Tom Suozzi.
As reported by Ingrasia, in 2000, when John McCain was running in his first bid for President in the Republican Primary, he too challenged New York State on the basis of its arbitrary and unduly burdensome signature requirement laws. A judge at the time found McCain, a major presidential candidate with national name recognition and enormous resources behind him, to have a valid constitutional claim against New York State’s onerous so-called “petition gathering scheme.” Steve Forbes too, another billionaire candidate with significant financial resources to expend on paid “volunteer walkers,” was also found by New York courts to have a valid legal claim because of the undue burden imposed by New York’s onerous election rules – Forbes and McCain’s cases (on the books as Molinari v. Powers) were cited as controlling authorities by Castronuova in her lawsuit.
However, unlike John McCain, Cara is an America First Gateway Pundit reporter and outspoken supporter of President Trump, as well as a born fighter with two Golden Gloves Boxing Championships under her belt–which is why the RINO Uniparty Establishment is trying so desperately to stop her.
If successful in her lawsuit, Castronuova will be permitted to run in a three-way Republican primary and eventually against Kirsten Gillibrand, the current Democrat Senator from New York.
Cara told The Gateway Pundit,
The Board of Elections and the two parties have crafted a scheme called the “petition gathering scheme”. This SCAM requires a candidate that is not the establishment’s “favored candidate” to get upwards of 15,000 signatures, and they suggest you get triple the amount (45k!) in order to get on the ballot. Keep in mind, the establishment pick in my case doesn’t have to get a single signature. The only “signature” he got was from the chairman of the GOP party here in New York State. Meanwhile, I got upwards of 15,000 signatures from actual, real American people. What makes the Republican chairman’s signature count more than those 15,000+ people who want me on the ballot?
Once a candidate gets their signatures, the Republican and Democrat parties will get their proxies to fight to the death to get the signatures invalidated and knocked out in court. (This is absolute utter disrespect to the voter who signed the petition.) No average American stands a chance or has the money to pay the legal fees that would be necessary to challenge the party. So, most average Americans, the very ones that should be representing us in government, can ever run for office thanks to this unconstitutional SCAM. And that is why we are in the horrific state we are in in New York. It is almost impossible for 99.9% of the population to challenge anyone in the high government offices. The only people they will put into those positions are (in my opinion) either compromised because they owe their election win to the party or incredibly wealthy people who gave “donations” to all right people to get to the top.
You can support Cara tomorrow at 9:30 AM at the Federal Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, NY 11201!
You can also help Cara with her legal costs and support her campaign here.
EMERGENCY HEARING IN THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN BROOKLYN TOMORROW FOR MY BALLOT ACCESS CASE!
We The People want to pick our own candidates. We are and tired of the coronations. We are sick of the tomato can candidates the establishment keeps putting up to lose.
Please come down tomorrow morning to the federal courthouse on 225 Cadman Plaza East, meet us at 9:30am outside and then come watch my emergency hearing at 10 AM. I will ask the judge in an emergency hearing for immediate ballot access for the Republican Primary.
I got the ridiculous 15,000 signatures required (an unconstitutional requirement by the way) and almost killed myself doing it. Now is the STALLING period that the NY State Republican Committee and Board of Elections crafted to give my opponent an unfair advantage.
My opponent is out there campaigning and fundraising for close to 50 days now while I’m dealing with this NONSENSE of signature gathering and worrying about legal battles.
My opponent has an unconstitutional head start and it’s a violation of my equal protection, under the constitution of the United States. While I was out there for over a month gathering tens of thousands of signatures in the pouring rain, and on holidays, he was sitting on his you know what…hobnobbing, fundraising, appearing in media.
This individual was not required to collect a single signature, which again is unconstitutional, and a violation of equal protection. This will be addressed in court.
Please come support me and the Constitution, and We The People’s right to pick our candidates without unconstitutional intervention.
EMERGENCY HEARING IN THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN BROOKLYN TOMORROW FOR MY BALLOT ACCESS CASE!
We The People want to pick our own candidates. We are and tired of the coronations. We are sick of the tomato can candidates the establishment keeps putting up to lose.
Please come… pic.twitter.com/lLUYwxLl3w
— Cara Castronuova (@CaraCastronuova) April 9, 2024
Cara also posted a video about her ongoing case with a call to action on her Instagram on Monday.
MORE:
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***IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION***
READERS: If you are OUTRAGED by what Ed Cox and the New York State Uniparty is doing by denying quality candidates, like Cara Castronuova and Josh Eisen, from their constitutional right to ballot access – while stripping regular New Yorkers of their rights in turn, CALL Ed Cox’s office and TELL him to allow an OPEN PRIMARY by PUTTING CASTRONUOVA and EISEN on the BALLOT.
PHONE: (518) 462-2601. FAX: (518) 449-7443.
ALSO, PLEASE COPY & PASTE THE FOLLOWING EMAIL, AND SEND IT TO ED COX AND THE NY STATE GOP APPARATUS, DEMANDING THAT THEY ALLOW OTHER CANDIDATES, LIKE CASTRONUOVA AND EISEN, TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PRIMARY IN A HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCHUP AGAINST THEIR HANDPICKED, ANTI-TRUMP RINO CANDIDATE IN MIKE SAPRAICONE:
EMAIL: FRONTDESK@NYGOP.ORG
SUBJECT: ALLOW CASTRONUOVA AND EISEN BALLOT ACCESS
HELLO,
I AM AN OUTRAGED, AMERICAN PATRIOT, TRUMP SUPPORTER, AND NEW YORK VOTER WHO DEMANDS THAT YOU INCLUDE CARA CASTRONUOVA AND JOSH EISEN ON THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT – AND NOT CONTINUE TO DENY NEW YORKERS THEIR FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CHOOSE THEIR DESIRED CANDIDATE.
IN ADDITION, PLEASE GET RID OF THE COMPLETELY ARBITRARY AND ONEROUS “PETITION GATHERING SCHEME,” WHICH UNCONSTITUTIONALLY EXCLUDES OTHERWISE BETTER QUALITY AND ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES FROM BALLOT ACCESS BASED ON THE ARCANE RULES SET BY PARTY LEADERS THAT STRIP THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR TRUE AMERICA FIRST CANDIDATES FROM WE THE PEOPLE!
SINCERELY,
OUTRAGED NEW YORK RESIDENT/AMERICAN CITIZEN
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The Village of Dolton, Illinois’ voted Monday to hire failed former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who let her city burn with rampant crime and violence, to investigate Democrat Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s corruption for a hefty $400 an hour.
Henyard is already under FBI investigation for abusing her power after she shut down businesses that didn’t donate to her campaign.
She has also been accused of stealing charitable funds and even using taxpayer dollars for personal use.
Last month, the corrupt mayor even vetoed an investigation after the Dolton Village Board of Trustees voted unanimously to probe Henyard’s spending and invite the FBI to investigate her scandalous activity.
According to The New York Post, “The heart of her scandals, however, center around a tax-funded ‘economic development’ trip to Las Vegas last May,” which includes allegations of sexual assault.
Residents have dubbed her the “worst mayor in America.”
Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Dolton trustees were considering hiring Lightfoot to lead the investigation into her fellow Democrat.
City of Dolton to Hire Worst Mayor of Chicago to Investigate “Worst Mayor in America”
“She’s the best they can find?” the New York Post asked.
And it appears she is, as the Board officially tasked Lightfoot with “figuring out what happened in Vegas,” as Dolton Board of Trustee member Brittney Norwood put it.
Will Lightfoot do any better than the highly political FBI, or will what happened in Vegas stay in Vegas?
Fox News reported on Monday:
Starting Tuesday, Lightfoot will be paid $400 an hour to gather information on Henyard’s alleged spending and finance mismanagement as well as “any state and federalviolations.”
Ahead of Monday’s vote, Lightfoot said she understood the residents want to go in a different direction from Henyard, and promised to “follow the facts where they lead.”
At the end of her investigation, Lightfoot will present a report to the Village of Dolton on her findings. The findings in the report will determine what happens beyond that.
Henyard has been accused of misdeeds ranging from weaponizing police in retaliatory business raids to spending taxpayer money on luxuries like traveling to Las Vegas. Last month, Henyard reportedly vetoed the board’s resolution to probe her spending over purported misuse of funds.
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Tiffany Henyard, mayor of the Chicago suburb of Dolton, is under the spotlight for possible misuse of taxpayer funds. (@nypost / X screen shot)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is hosting a town hall to hear her constituents about the issues affecting them in Tunnel Hill, Georgia, tonight before she heads back to Washington, D.C., tomorrow.
I’m looking over some notes on my way to my District 14 Town Hall.
Hearing from my constituents before returning to Washington tomorrow morning is so important! pic.twitter.com/BSwzEFGToQ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
It can be recalled that the Georgia Congresswoman filed a motion to vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker thanks to his actions over the House Omnibus bill, which will fund the government until September 30.
The legislation passed by a 286-134 vote, achieving the necessary 2/3 vote to avoid a government shutdown. Democrats bailed out Johnson after over 100 members of his caucus rebelled.
During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show on Wednesday, Greene expressed bewilderment at Johnson’s recent legislative decisions, which she argues starkly contrast with his proclaimed values and the expectations of his conservative base.
The more than 1,000-page spending bill was made public at 2:32 am on Thursday while Americans were asleep, which MTG says “violated the 72-hour rule” that requires the text of a bill or resolution to be available to members for at least 72 hours before a vote.
Not only did the bill leave our border wide open for Joe Biden and his dangerous illegal immigrants, but it also continued the practice of flying millions of illegals into and across the United States. It further allocates millions of dollars for abortions up until birth and for youth transgender or LGBTQ programs.
MTG told Tucker Carlson that Mike Johnson’s radical departure from his known conservative stances is what she believes is a result of “being blackmailed.”
MTG went off earlier today on Twitter, slamming Mike Johnson for being “the Democrat Speaker of the House” and for “serving the Deep State and betraying Americans!”
Our Republican Speaker of the House is upsetting many of our members by relying on Democrats to pass major bills and working with Dems by giving them everything they want.
That makes him the Democrat Speaker of the House not our Republican Speaker of the House. https://t.co/5P7I9QErRU
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
Important thread about how Speaker Johnson is once again serving the Deep State and betraying Americans! https://t.co/VpKuRIhrKK
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
Watch live below:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene holds a town hall in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District to discuss the issues affecting Americans today.
Tune in to RSBN at 6:00 p.m. ET on April 8, 2024.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Hosts a Constituent Town Hall in Tunnel Hill, GA https://t.co/iXkwXHqShA
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
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President Trump reportedly raised more than $50 million at a fundraiser on Saturday, smashing the record set by two Presidents and the alleged 81 million vote-getter, Joe Biden.
Per Fox, Trump went into the event with expectations of raising $33 million after Trump and the RNC raised $65.6 million in March.
As Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined forces with Joe Biden and leftist celebrities Stephen Colbert and Lizzo, who got sued for sexual harassment, in an out-of-touch event that raked in an unprecedented $25 million on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, as The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump made an appearance in Massapequa Park, New York, to pay his respects to Officer Diller, who tragically lost his life after being shot by a repeat offender with 21 previous arrests and nine felony charges during a routine traffic stop in Queens.
Trump’s presence at the wake was seen by many as a sign of solidarity with the police force and the grieving family. He also made a contribution to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, an organization that assisted the Diller family by paying off their mortgage.
Charlie Kirk said after the news of Biden’s record-setting fundraiser, “We are outgunned and will be outspent.”
Tonight will be the largest fundraiser in political history – $25,000,000 in hard money raised in a single evening for Biden.
This is more raised in one night than Trump raised the entire month of February.
Democrats are beginning to fine tune their messaging, and they have a…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 28, 2024
However, Trump brought in a new record on Saturday, doubling Joe Biden’s $25 million night.
Fox News reported,
“It took three Democrat presidents to raise $25 million and one president to raise over $50 million, Donald J. Trump,” campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez boasted.
Saturday’s fundraiser took place at a private home in Palm Beach, hosted by billionaire and hedge fund founder John Paulson. Among the 100 or so guests will be heavy-hitters like casino mogul Steve Wynn, Bigelow Aerospace Founder and President Robert Bigelow, and former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
“The response to our fundraising efforts has been overwhelming, and we’ve raised over $43 million so far,” Paulson said in a statement. “There is massive support amongst a broad spectrum of donors.”
Though the fundraiser is expected to take in tens of millions, Trump still needs to close the gap with his Democratic rival, incumbent President Biden, who is reported to have around $192 million on hand compared with just over $93 million for Trump.
President Trump spoke to the media before the event, stating, “This has been some incredible evening before it even starts because people – they wanted to contribute to a cause of making America great again, and that’s what’s happened.”
Trump later said on Truth Sociail,
Biggest night in Fund Raising of ALL TIME!!!Will double up the Biden number of last week at Radio City. People are desperate for change. They want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! DJT
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Then-President Donald Trump holds two thumbs up at a campaign rally for incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of Senate runoff in Dalton, Georgia on Jan. 4, 2021. (Mandel Ngan - AFP / Getty Images)
Arizona Senate Candidate and current Congressman Ruben Gallego, who represents crime and drug-infested South Phoenix, recently attacked Kari for hosting a fundraising event at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump-Endorsed Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Kari Lake raised a record-breaking one million dollars on Wednesday at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser with President Trump, Roger Stone, and conservative comedian Roseanne Bar in attendance.
Kari Lake SMASHES Fundraising Record – Raises ONE MILLION Dollars at Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser
Gallego was quick to criticize Lake’s fundraiser, saying in a social media post, “I’d take a town hall with hardworking Arizonans over Mar-a-Lago any day.”
I’d take a town hall with hardworking Arizonans over Mar-a-Lago any day. pic.twitter.com/2GH5v7jFrn
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) April 4, 2024
However, as many pointed out, Gallego recently attended a fundraising event in his honor with Alex Soros, son of leftist billionaire megadonor George Soros, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of ‘Hamilton.’ It does not appear that this event was held in Arizona, and it was definitely not held with the “hardworking Arizonans” that Gallego portrays to affiliate with.
But @RubenGallego does love a fancy banquet with George Soros’s son in NYC! #AZSen https://t.co/9ERKIlW35l pic.twitter.com/jnq5UzV5JX
— Austin Kruger (@AustinKruger) April 4, 2024
Soros tweeted about the event in mid-March:
Soros: Kicking off campaign season with my co-host @Lin_Manuel for congressman @RepRubenGallego’s senate run in Arizona. Ruben has an impressive life story and the stakes of this year’s election couldn’t be higher, they’re existential.
Kicking off campaign season with my co-host @Lin_Manuel for congressman @RepRubenGallego’s senate run in Arizona. Ruben has an impressive life story and the stakes of this year’s election couldn’t be higher, they’re existential. pic.twitter.com/Gme5zJD6yg
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) March 19, 2024
Fox reported,
Alex Soros, son of liberal billionaire George Soros who now leads his father’s nonprofit empire, has continued huddling with Democrats leading up to the 2024 elections.
Soros posted a picture “kicking off campaign season” on social media this week with likely Democrat Arizona Senate nominee Rep. Ruben Gallego, who has received thousands of dollars from Soros this cycle.
Gallego attended the affair alongside Soros despite previously declaring the “ultra-wealthy don’t need any more advocates in Washington” and knocking the GOP for standing with “special interests and their billionaire buddies.”
Soros, meanwhile, has been an ardent supporter of Gallego. Federal Election Commission records show that he maxed out $6,600 in donations to his campaign for the 2024 elections.
As RAV correspondent Ben Bergquam noted last month, Gallego was hugging Soros “like a little schoolboy” and “sucking up to the communist left.”
“This might be one of the most pathetic pictures I’ve ever seen,” said Bergquam captioning the photo of Ruben Gallego appearing to kiss Soros’s ass:
This might be one of the most pathetic pictures I’ve ever seen. Look at cartel sellout @RubenGallego hugging Alex Soros (George Soros’ son), like a little schoolboy – Sucking up to the communist left.
All you need to know about Ruben is he is owned by the cartels and the… pic.twitter.com/824JmHKrR9
— Ben Bergquam – Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News (@BenBergquam) March 23, 2024
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Joe Biden is in Baltimore, Maryland to visit the recently collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and “deliver remarks reaffirming his commitment to the people of Baltimore,” following a fly-by tour on Air Force One the White House said.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the collapse of the bridge after a cargo ship collided with and took out a support column.
The Key Bridge is a major commuter route carrying the Baltimore Beltway I-695 over the Patapsco River at the southern end of the Baltimore Harbor.
Two weeks later, it is still unclear how this happened, but Old Joe’s coming to the rescue.
Per AP:
BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Bide got a firsthand look Friday at efforts to clear away the hulking remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, as cranes, ships and diving crews work to reopen one of the nation’s main shipping lanes.
Aboard Marine One, circling the warped metal remains and the mass of construction and salvage equipment trying to clear the wreckage of last week’s collapse, Biden got his first up close view of the devastation. On the ground, he was set to receive updates from local officials, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers.
Eight workers — immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — were filling potholes on the bridge when it was hit by a huge cargo ship and collapsed in the middle of the night of March 26. Two men were rescued, but the bodies of only two of the six who died have been recovered. The president was also set to meet with the families of the victims.
Watch live below:
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Trump-Endorsed Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Kari Lake raised a record-breaking one million dollars on Wednesday at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser with President Trump, Roger Stone, and conservative comedian Roseanne Bar in attendance.
“We made history at Mar-A-Lago,” Lake said on X.
We made history at Mar-A-Lago.
One million dollars in one day.
Thank you to everyone who made this possible.
Both the White House & the Senate majority run through Arizona.
We need all hands on deck to save America from the radical left.https://t.co/rAVvdrkZP7 pic.twitter.com/FAAhBqFu0F
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 4, 2024
According to sources who spoke to Breitbart, Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno held the previous record for a non-incumbent of $350,000.
Kari Lake has not released fundraising numbers for the first quarter of 2024. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Lake announced in January that her campaign raised a whopping $2.2 million in quarter four of 2023 after announcing her candidacy on October 10.
Kari Lake also leads in general election polling, a trend that has remained unchanged since before she announced her Senate bid.
Incumbent Kyrsten Sinema announced that she will not run for re-election last month, leaving Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego (D) in a race where Kari Lake wins regardless, according to a recent Rasmussen poll:
The latest poll from @Rasmussen_Poll shows that any way you slice it, with Sinema or without, I am beating @RubenGallego.
The people of Arizona despise @JoeBiden‘s agenda, & they’re not going to send the radical (Ruben) who enabled it to the United States Senate.
I am on a… pic.twitter.com/Umq0pVQp7w
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) February 29, 2024
Breitbart reports,
Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno previously held the record with a $350,000 haul earlier this year, according to sources.
The massive haul gives Lake a boost going into the new quarter with just seven months until election day.
Gallego, the expected Democrat nominee for the Arizona senate seat, raised $3.3 million last quarter for a total of $9.6 million cash on hand, his campaign announced.
Lake leads Gallego in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a poll conducted in February for Lake’s campaign.
You can donate to Kari Lake’s campaign to help her defeat radical left Soros-tied Marxist Ruben Gallego here.
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President Trump responded to Joe Biden’s blasphemous proclamation of Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility while speaking at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, “devout Catholic” Joe Biden prioritized transgenders, who he ironically said “are made in the image of God,” over the holiest of Christian holidays this past Sunday.
From Easter Sunday:
Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans:
I see you.
You are made in the image of God, and you’re worthy of respect and dignity. pic.twitter.com/ihvsJrXEyd
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 31, 2024
To make matters worse, Biden issued his proclamation on Good Friday, seemingly to spark outrage and diminish the importance of Holy Week. Biden also banned any Christian-themed designs from being submitted to the White House’s Easter-themed art contest.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Trump’s campaign responded to Biden over the weekend, saying, it’s “appalling and insulting that Joe Biden’s White House prohibited children from submitting religious egg designs for their Easter Art Event, and formally proclaimed Easter Sunday as ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’” They further called on Biden and White House to “issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
And on Tuesday, Trump made a proclamation of his own: “November 5 is going to be called Christian Visibility Day, when Christians turn out in numbers that nobody’s ever seen before.”
Trump spoke at two separate rallies on Tuesday in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Green Bay, Wisconsin.
In Michigan, Trump addressed another failure of the Biden regime, “Biden’s Border Bloodbath,” days after an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported by the Trump administration in 2020 was charged in the March 22 murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, whose bullet-riddled body was found dumped on a Grand Rapids highway.
WATCH LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Meanwhile, sleepy Joe Joe Biden stayed in the basement after a long weekend of celebrating transgenders. When Biden appeared at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, he slurred, stumbled, and wandered around the “oyster bunnies.” He also repeatedly sniffed at least one uncomfortable baby. Trump’s top advisor, Jason Miller, called it a “sh*tshow.”
President Trump will be in Wisconsin and Michigan today.
Biden — all tuckered out from the Easter Egg Roll — will be doing nothing. https://t.co/o3nDHT8oeo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 2, 2024
Watch Trump fire back at Biden’s “disrespect to Christians” below:
TRUMP: We’re going to win the White House, and we are going to save our country. We’re going to save our country. And what the hell was Biden thinking when he declared Easter Sunday to be trans visibility day? Such total disrespect to Christians.
November 5 is going to be called something else; you know it’s gonna be called? Christian Visibility Day, when Christians turn out [to vote] in numbers that nobody has ever seen before. Let’s call it Christian Visibility Day. I’ve just come from Grand Rapids, Michigan where I was proud to receive the endorsement of the police…
TRUMP:
“November 5th is going to be called ‘Christian Visibility Day’, when Christians turn out in numbers that nobody’s ever seen before” pic.twitter.com/knGEq2b8Rs— Sara Rose (@saras76) April 2, 2024
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President Trump is expected to speak at 5 pm CT this evening during another rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
This is Trump’s second rally of the day in the Midwest.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Trump delivered remarks at the Grand Rapids Convention Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earlier this afternoon. Trump addressed “Biden’s Border Bloodbath” days after an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported by the Trump administration in 2020 was charged in the March 22 murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, whose bullet-riddled body was found dumped on a Grand Rapids highway.
Watch a replay of his earlier speech here:
Meanwhile, old Joe Biden, the so-called President of the United States, did nothing.
President Trump will be in Wisconsin and Michigan today.
Biden — all tuckered out from the Easter Egg Roll — will be doing nothing. https://t.co/o3nDHT8oeo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 2, 2024
According to Brick Suit, the line in Green Bay began forming at 5 am CT, twelve hours before Trump is scheduled to speak. This is despite chilly weather and a winter storm warning for 1 pm.
Green Bay Wisconsin – Just after 5am and the line is forming for President Trump’s rally 12 hours from now.
Mild weather at this hour (°37) but a winter storm warning has been issued starting at 1pm.#TrumpRallyGreenBay pic.twitter.com/HuNygreTON— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) April 2, 2024
The massive crowd was let in early, starting at approximately 1 pm, before the doors officially opened at 2 pm:
We’re within an hour of being let in. It’s starting to snow just now, but they let the start of the line in early. Can’t get outside to see the rest of the line, but I’ve been seeing g a constant stream of people arrive.
Now it’s up to weather. pic.twitter.com/JSB218RzXa
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) April 2, 2024
Watch live coverage of the rally below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a Rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. ET.
RSBN will be LIVE with all-day coverage at 3:30 p.m. ET.
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Crowd of Trump supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin - via @Brick_Suit on X
President Trump is expected to deliver remarks at the Grand Rapids Convention Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this afternoon at 2:30 pm ET.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump will address “Biden’s Border Bloodbath” days after an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported by the Trump administration in 2020 was charged in the March 22 murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, whose bullet-riddled body was found dumped on a Grand Rapids highway.
According to ICE, Ortiz-Vite was previously deported under the Trump Administration in 2020.
Illegal Alien Who Murdered Michigan Woman Was Deported Under Trump But Snuck Back Into US
“Joe Biden’s Violent Criminal Illegals are invading backyards and communities across Michigan, resulting in death, destruction, and chaos,” states the news release on Trump’s campaign website.Trump’s figurative use of the word ‘bloodbath’ while talking about the effects of foreign trade policy on the U.S. auto industry at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on March 16, provoked outrageous smears from liberals and reporters who took his remarks out of context. Trump posted a video rebuking the smears and talking about the quite literal “Biden’s Border Bloodbath.”
Biden’s Border Bloodbath pic.twitter.com/Y4L2M1YMOL
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) March 22, 2024
Ruby Garcia’s murder is only one of the many consequences Michigan has faced due to Biden’s Border Bloodbath:
Biden’s Border Bloodbath has had devastating consequences in Michigan.
President Trump will END it on DAY ONE.pic.twitter.com/1tfZX0k5zy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 2, 2024
President Trump is also expected to speak in Green Bay, Wisconsin, at 6 pm ET. Register for tickets here.
Watch live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver Remarks on Biden’s Border Bloodbath in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. ET.
Join RSBN LIVE at 1:30 p.m. ET.
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Brandon Ortiz-Vite is charged with murder in the death of Ruby Garcia. (@wzzm13 / X)
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Ruby Garcia, family photo.
A recent poll from J.L. Partners, conducted March 20-March 24, 2024, shows that Michelle Obama would lose by three points in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup against President Trump, further squashing the prospect of the Democrats yanking Biden from the race for Michelle.
It is no better than Joe Biden, who also trails Trump by three points in a head-to-head race and by four points when other candidates are included in the poll.
NEW: Donald Trump beats Michelle Obama in a hypothetical 2024 election matchup by 47 points to 44, according to Daily Mail poll pic.twitter.com/ljUwyAetTN
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) March 31, 2024
Trump leads Biden in all but a few general election polls to date.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the office of former First Lady Michelle Obama responded to rumors last month, saying she will not be running for president.
Prominent political figures have recently predicted Michelle Obama will be the Democrat presidential nominee in 2024.
The majority of voters believe Joe Biden is too old to serve a second term, so many are now speculating he will be replaced with California Governor Gavin Newsom… or perhaps Michelle Obama.
Ted Cruz previously said the Democrats are going to pull a surprise by drafting Michelle Obama to take Joe Biden’s place for the 2024 race.
Though Obama’s team says she will not be running for office, many on the right and the left still believe there is a chance Democrat leadership could still replace Biden with Obama.
“Perhaps until now,” writes Daily Mail.
Daily Mail reports,
‘Some have been touting an emergency parachute for Biden for some time: draft Michelle Obama,’ said pollster James Johnson, cofounder of J.L. Partners.
‘But it turns out voters are no more keen to vote for Michelle over Trump than they are for Biden, with Trump beating her overall and even with Independents.
‘It was never very realistic, but this poll puts paid to the idea she can be any kind of saving force for the Democrats.’
The idea has occasionally been touted by Democrats worried about Biden’s advance age and his ability to win a second election.
And not even the Democrats’ lawfare can save them now.
When Trump voters were asked, “Imagine Donald Trump is convicted with a crime between now and November. How likely would you be to still vote for Donald Trump at the election?” 93% say they will still vote Trump, and only 2% responded very unlikely.
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Then-President Donald Trump holds two thumbs up at a campaign rally for incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of Senate runoff in Dalton, Georgia on Jan. 4, 2021. (Mandel Ngan - AFP / Getty Images)
Joe Biden denied he issued an official proclamation last week declaring March 31–Easter Sunday–Transgender Day of Visibility.
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility,” the White House declared on Good Friday. “I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”
Biden also banned any Christian-themed designs from being submitted to the White House’s Easter-themed art contest.
This is even though Easter is a Christian holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Real Clear Politics’ Philip Wegmann said in an X post Monday, “‘I didn’t do that,’ Biden said when asked about proclaiming Easter Sunday ‘trans day of visibility.” Asked about Speaker Johnson’s claim otherwise, the president replied, ‘he’s thoroughly uninformed.'”
“Elderly man with a poor memory” https://t.co/ZB6z7SjtPO
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) April 1, 2024
Biden’s comments were reportedly in response to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who slammed him for betraying “the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ” and “banning sacred truth and tradition.”
The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Banning sacred truth and tradition—while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day”—is outrageous and abhorrent. The American people are taking note. pic.twitter.com/ZCExyVkAVS
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 30, 2024
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates later doubled down, saying, “Biden is right. He did nothing in conflict with the ‘tenets’ of Easter, which he celebrated yesterday,” even though the ‘Devout Catholic’ banned Christian-themed designs from the White House’s Easter art contest.
White House deputy press secretary @AndrewJBates46: “President Biden is right. He did nothing in conflict with the ‘tenets’ of Easter.”
Full quote on POTUS’ exchange with reporters concerning Speaker Johnson’s statement that Biden had ‘betrayed the central tenet of Easter”: https://t.co/vGhaeWFspD pic.twitter.com/AYGLMWkSUu
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) April 1, 2024
As The Gateway Pundit reported, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also tried to gaslight the American people on Monday, saying, “I’m so surprised by the misinformation that’s been out there!” KJP said. “Every year for the past several years, on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility is marked!”
KJP continued to insult millions of Christians: “As you know, for folks who understand the calendar,” she said with contempt and the suggestion that Americans are stupid, “Easter falls on different Sundays… and this year it happened to coincide with Transgender Visibility Day! And so that is the simple fact. That is what has happened. That is where we are!”
However, while the pseudo-holiday just “happened to coincide” with Easter, similar proclamations were previously issued on March 31, 2021, March 30, 2022, and March 30, 2023.
Thus, it appears likely that the White House’s decision to release its 2024 proclamation earlier, on March 29, 2024, which was also Good Friday, was an attempt to spark outrage and diminish the importance of Holy Week.
The intentionality of the anti-Christian move is further evidenced by Kamala Harris’ refusal to mention Christians or Jesus Christ in her brief ‘Happy Easter’ message while having much longer messages in celebration of abortion and the Regime’s blasphemous ‘Transgender Day of Visibility.’
This is also the same Regime that uses the FBI to target Christians and single them out as potential domestic terrorists.
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On Monday, President Joe Biden showcased his trademark dishonesty when he responded to a question about the prospect of taking executive action on the southern border. (@Breaking911 / X screen shot)
Joe Biden drew massive criticism over his Good Friday proclamation of Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility from conservatives, Christians, and even from NBA stars, as the Orlando Magic’s Jonathan Isaac slammed Biden on Saturday for “promot[ing] division.”
Isaac, in the past, has refused to wear a ‘Black Lives Matter’ shirt and take a knee or remain seated for the national anthem with his teammates, coaches and referees in 2020, telling reporters, “kneeling or wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt don’t go hand in hand with supporting black lives… My life has been supported through the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
He also refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine, saying, “It seemed that there was so much pressure in doing it. I don’t see the wisdom in putting something into my body that’s not going to stop me from getting the virus or transmitting it, for which he faced backlash from leftists in the media.
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility,” the White House declared on Good Friday. “I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”
Biden, who says he is a “devout” Catholic, also banned religious artwork from the White House Easter egg competition.
As Kristinn Taylor reported earlier, in response to the backlash from Americans, the Regime spent Saturday afternoon and evening pushing back against criticism, and the White House released an official statement from Biden Sunday morning about Easter. Biden also posted about Easter several times on social media.
Still, none of Biden’s statements addressed concerns about the controversies regarding his transgender proclamation nor the banning of religious themes in the White House Easter Egg contest for children of National Guard members.
Later on Sunday evening, Joe Biden’s Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine, who identifies as a trans woman, released his/her own statement on Trans Visibility Day – with no mention of Easter Sunday.
Christian basketball star Jonathan Isaac broke his silence Saturday, commenting on X, “We should be angry but shouldn’t lose the spirit of what tomorrow means.”
They want you to hate! This helps no one and only promotes division. They know exactly what they are doing.. we should be angry but shouldn’t lose the spirit of what tomorrow means! Don’t lose focus. Because He is risen there is hope for all. https://t.co/e0ghj9zWcK
— Jonathan Judah Isaac (@JJudahIsaac) March 30, 2024
He later added context, noting that Biden recognized the pseudo-holiday last year but still reminded his followers, “The message is the same. Keep focused on what Resurrection Sunday Is all about.”
In the name of fairness Biden did recognize the day last year when it didn’t fall on Esther! That’s important, and to me, releases the administration from the allegation on intentionality! Instead of deleting the tweet like it never happened this is my good faith retraction lol.… https://t.co/XdnSHVEWea
— Jonathan Judah Isaac (@JJudahIsaac) March 30, 2024
Biden, in fact, released similar proclamations on March 31, 2021, March 30, 2022, and March 30, 2023. However, it appears likely that the White House’s decision to release their 2024 proclamation earlier on March 29, 2024, which was also Good Friday, was an attempt to spark outrage and diminish the importance of Holy Week.
Why else would Biden ban Christian symbolism in the White House Easter egg competition?
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Republican U.S. Congressional Candidate Kathleen Winn (AZ-06) recently spoke to The Gateway Pundit about her primary race against GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani following his controversial vote in favor of the $1.2 trillion spending bill.
Instead of voting against the bill, which empowers Biden’s border invasion, the Representative of southern border towns in Arizona allocated taxpayer dollars to fund full-term abortion services and transgender youth services, including sex-change surgeries for kids.
Ciscomani’s district, which includes Arizona’s second-largest city, Tucson, sits just northeast of Sasabe, Arizona, which is reportedly the number-one hotspot for illegal border crossings into the United States.
CBS reports,
Nestled between the Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation and a highway that connects Tucson with Nogales, Mexico, this area in southern Arizona is one of the most remote stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border. For the past months, it has also been the busiest region for Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants entering the U.S. unlawfully.
Undeterred by miles of border wall, violent Mexican cartels and a treacherous terrain with extreme temperatures, migrants have been crossing into the Tucson sector of Arizona by the hundreds, and sometimes by the thousands, each day — often with the help of smugglers.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, RINO Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) was disinvited from attending a church in his district out of condemnation for his yes vote in favor of abortion and youth LGBTQ organizations while the southern border catastrophe rages on.
Ciscomani was one of the 101 RINOs who voted for the massive spending bill to avert a government shutdown. The bill received more support from Democrats than Republicans.
The vote—286 to 134—had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ It was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Ciscomani was the only Representative in the Arizona Republican delegation who voted in favor of the bill.
The disastrous omnibus bill does nothing to secure the border while allocating millions of dollars to funding full-term abortions, LGBTQ programs, and youth gender transitioning programs. It also funds the Biden Regime to continue its attack on the Second Amendment with a federal gun-grab operation to keep firearms out of the hands of people who they say “pose a threat to themselves and others.”
“Ciscomani’s vote was an attack on Christianity,” Kimberly McAllister, the wife of The Bridge Church Pastor David McAllister, told The Gateway Pundit. “It was an attack on Christian values, and not just Christian values, conservative values, and on people who care about family and children. You don’t have to be a Christian to hold these values,” she continued while comparing Ciscomani to a “liberal Democrat.
McAllister added, “It was just such an attack on everything that we hold dear: family, life, protection, law and order, the border. I mean, so many things; it was one after the other, but as a church, the cultural issues of the LGBTQ and transgender agenda, the abortion, those are a big thing for us.”
Kathleen Winn told The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson that she has already gained enough signatures to get her name on the ballot for the July 30 Primary. Meanwhile, Ciscomani’s efforts to get signatures on his ballot petition have actually driven more voters to sign Winn’s petition.
Support Kathleen Winn and donate to her campaign here. You can also read Winn’s Op-Ed on The Gateway Pundit, “Every State is a Border State—The Reality of the Southern Border Invasion,” here.
Watch the full interview below:
CONRADSON: “People that live in your district, how do they feel about this vote to not secure our border?”
WINN: “I think it’s in accordance with every other vote he’s taken. It’s why he’s being primaried. He’s being primary because he’s tone deaf to the concerns of the people in the district. We have six Republicans in our state, and five of them vote the same, and Juan votes with the Democrats. And this last vote puts him up at 57% of the time he’s voting with the Democrats.
And this bill — he thinks he’s Santa Claus, because the money that he’s getting for projects in the district, he’s proud of that with no regard for the taxpayer dollars that he has the ability, he has the control, the power of the purse to shut down the border, and like you said, Jordan 44%, I want to underline that 44% of all illegals coming into this country are coming through the Tucson sector, that’s our district, and you don’t use that as a negotiation point to stop the massive funding and giving away dollars that we don’t even have to secure this country. His priorities are just not in a correlate with the voters of this district.”
CONRADSON: “Eli Crane and Andy Biggs, they’ve both spoken out on this — great congressman from Arizona — we need to shut the government down if the Biden Administration is not going to shut the border down. It seems that the rest of our Republican representatives are on board with that voting against this, quite frankly, disgusting bill to leave our border wide open. What do you think of that shut down the government until we shut the border down?”
WINN: “I’ve always been an advocate to shut down the government until we secure the border. I don’t want to just shut down the government just for no good reason, but until we are safe as a country and safe as a nation, that should be our top priority.
There should be no other priority. And this bill—I don’t remember the number of pages, it was over 1000—and they had it for the too short a time. But what they did spend money on $260 or $86 million for organizations that support full term abortion. So is that really more important than securing the border? That seems to me to be ludicrous and people are upset about that $200 million for yet another new FBI building in Alabama. This is not a headquarters. This is now a subsequent FBI building.
So, I don’t know what our priorities are. But in our district the people here, they want to be safe, and we almost have half the illegal immigration coming through where we live. It’s a total disconnect. So, I don’t know how you say I’m representing the district, I’m representing the people that live in southern Arizona and not provide safety, security and a plausible strategic plan for deportation, for securing the border, and for being responsive to the needs of the district. And being responsive isn’t picking out your 10 top charities and giving them millions of dollars, which is what he’s done now.”
CONRADSON: “I want to highlight one thing you said: it allows full term abortions all the way 22 weeks and it provides funding for that. It also does not prevent ice from funding abortions for illegal immigrants, the same with transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants. In addition to that, nearly $4 million dollars of this bill goes to LGBTQ programs, most of which surround so called gender affirming care for minors, gender transitions for minors, hormone care for minors to change their hormones.
I spoke to Kimberly McAllister of the bridge church in Tucson, and she told me that it was so egregious in her eyes that she actually disinvited Ciscomani from even attending her church. They had originally had planned for Cisco to attend the church and not even speak but just come, and after this, she said no don’t even come to my church. And she told me that Ciscomani’s vote “was an attack on Christianity.” What are your thoughts on that?”
WINN: “I don’t know how you say “I stand for Christian values, I am a Christian,” and then vote for full term abortions. They don’t go together, and The Bridge has been so active in our community to fight against transgenderism, drag queen story hour; we’ve worked together, I’ve worked with them. They have been just a real advocate for parents and children in our community.
So what this money went for, we’re talking over 1,700 earmarks, 1,700, and Juan’s patting himself on the back. I think that what the church did is is completely appropriate for where they stand in their beliefs. You know, there’s people that believe in abortion. In our state, it’s 15 weeks, but our laws currently in Arizona don’t support full term abortion. So why you would fund $286 million and say yes to that and then expect to go sit in a church that is against all abortion, you clearly don’t know what or who you’re representing.
And I think many churches I’m finding I’ve received calls from about five churches that I’m going to go get to speak at in the next few weeks because of this issue, this very issue. And then I think you mentioned the clinic to provide hormone therapy for kids — $2 million in Oregon. So, all these monies are being allocated for these special interest projects, these earmarks this pork, and our border is, not secure.
I don’t know why this is so complicated, but the government is dysfunctional, and I think I’m disappointed. I don’t know that I’d have asked for him to be removed, but Congressman Johnson felt that this was the time to put this out there. I don’t understand it at all. And I would have voted with Andy Biggs and Eli crane and the rest of the delegation.
How complicated is it if you say I’m a Republican to not vote with the other members? you were elected as a Republican, and I don’t care what the margin is. There’s nothing moderate about these. These are extreme liberal policies. So How dare you say, I’m a moderate Republican, when your policies that you just voted for are left of left? It’s not what people voted for to begin with, and he has, again, disappointed the voters in our district.”
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Hearings in the Georgia RICO indictment against President Trump and 18 co-defendants are continuing today in an effort to dismiss the case after the judge ruled that Fani Willis can continue her political witchhunt against the leading Presidential candidate.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled earlier this month, ignoring lies on the witness stand, that District Attorney Fani Wills can continue her RICO case against Trump and his associates.
In his 23-page decision, Judge McAfee ordered Fani Willis to address the “appearance of impropriety” before the case can move forward. McAfee ruled Willis can stay on the case but must fire her lover Nathan Wade, the top prosecutor she hired to hunt down Trump.
Nathan Wade resigned from the RICO case following this decision.
However, Judge McAfee announced last Wednesday that President Trump and his co-defendants could appeal the Fani Willis disqualification decision.
HUGE: Georgia Judge Allows Trump to Appeal Fani Willis Disqualification Decision
The Georgia Court of Appeals has 45 days to decide on any appeal to the judge’s disqualification order.
Now, attorneys for Trump and his 18 co-defendants are urging McAfee to dismiss the charges on the grounds that the indictments violate the First Amendment.
CNN reports,
For the first time since a judge ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can continue to oversee the Georgia 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump, the focus will return to the details of the sprawling case.
During a hearing Thursday, Trump’s lead attorney in Georgia is expected to argue that the indictment should be dismissed because the former president’s political speech is protected by the First Amendment.
In a motion filed in late 2023, before the unsuccessful efforts by defendants to disqualify Willis from the case emerged, Trump attorney Steve Sadow argued that the peddling of conspiracy theories and claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election were at their core political speech, and therefore Trump never should have been indicted.
“The core political speech and expressive conduct alleged in this indictment against President Trump are protected from government regulation and thus criminal prosecution by the State,” Sadow wrote.
According to further argues that “Criminalizing President Trump’s speech and advocacy disputing the outcome of the election—while speech endorsing the election’s outcome is viewed as unimpeachable—is thus blatant viewpoint discrimination.”
Sadow argued this morning that, “But for protected First Amendment speech, President Trump would not be charged in RICO or the other counts.” He continued, “Since that violates the Constitution as applied to the charges here, and his speech here, and his position here, this is ripe for a Constitutional challenge, and one step further, if it’s not ripe now, and we get into intent, when does the court determine that? Do you determine that after we have a trial?”
Trump attorney Steven Sadow argues for tossing out the Georgia election interference case on First Amendment grounds at a pretrial hearing:
“The reason why we don’t even get to a trial is because it’s unconstitutional to force an accused … to stand trial on protected speech.” pic.twitter.com/tO4NtNBshw
— The Recount (@therecount) March 28, 2024
Watch the hearing live below:
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Hearings in the Georgia RICO indictment against President Trump and 18 co-defendants are continuing today in an effort to dismiss the case after the judge ruled that Fani Willis can continue her political witchhunt against the leading Presidential candidate. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Fulton Co
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Early Tuesday morning, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD, collapsed after a cargo ship collided with a support column, causing the bridge to collapse. The Francis Scott Key Bridge is a significant commuter route carrying the Baltimore Beltway I-695 over the Patapsco River at the southern end of the Baltimore Harbor, and it’s the state’s number one thoroughfare for hazardous materials, which are not allowed to go through the underwater roadway tunnels in Baltimore.
Local agencies are now rerouting vehicles transporting hazardous materials through west Baltimore:
Harbor Crossing alt routes are I-95 or I-895 tunnels. Vehicles transporting hazardous materials (includes propane over 10 lbs) are prohibited in tunnels and should use the western section of I-695 around tunnels. https://t.co/L32avzic9T
— MDTA (@TheMDTA) March 27, 2024
New reports state that as many as 1.8 million gallons of fuel and other hazardous materials may have spilled into the water. Authorities have suspended their search-and-rescue mission for the six bridge workers who fell into the water and are now presumed dead.
ABC News reports,
Federal officials are monitoring about 1.8 million gallons of fuel inside the container ship Dali for its “spill potential,” according to an unclassified memo from the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. But a U.S. official familiar with the matter told CNN “lots would have to go wrong” for that amount of fuel to spill.
The Department of Homeland Security has also deemed the water near the crash site unsafe for divers, according to a memo obtained by ABC News.
A search-and-rescue effort for six people believed to have fallen from the collapsing bridge into the frigid waters of the Patapsco River below has been suspended and will shift to a recovery mission, officials said.
An elite Coast Guard team is examining 13 damaged containers, “some with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and/or hazardous materials [HAZMAT] contents,” the CISA memo said. The team is also analyzing the ship’s manifest to determine what was on board and if any materials could pose a health risk, the source said.
“There is minor sheening on-scene. Booming has been ordered and is staged but will not be placed until search and rescue and dive operations are complete,” the document said. “The amount of potential oil spill is 1.8M gallons of marine grade diesel.”
More from Fox:
The Singapore-flagged cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its collapse, was transporting containers with hazardous materials, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Vice Admiral Peter Gautier said during the White House press briefing that of the 4700 containers on board the Dali, 56 contain hazardous materials and two are missing overboard. The ones that are in the water do not contain hazardous materials, he told reporters.
“There is no threat to the public from the hazardous materials on board,” Gautier said.
A specialized hazmat team went aboard the ship to inspect the cargo.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy announced on Wednesday that the data recorder known as the “black box’ has been recovered from the DALI cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge early Tuesday morning.
The black box is expected to reveal a timeline for the DALI and ultimately lead to what caused the ship to lose its power.
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So-called Republican U.S. Congressman Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) was recently disinvited from attending a church in his district out of condemnation for his controversial vote in favor of the $1.2 trillion spending bill.
Instead of voting against the bill, which empowers Biden’s border invasion, the Representative of southern border towns in Arizona allocated taxpayer dollars to fund full-term abortion services and transgender youth services, including sex-change surgeries for kids.
Ciscomani was one of the 101 RINOs who voted for the massive spending bill to avert a government shutdown. The bill received more support from Democrats than Republicans.
The vote—286 to 134—had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ It was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Ciscomani was the only Representative in the Arizona Republican congressional delegation who voted in favor of the bill.
The disastrous omnibus bill does nothing to secure the border while allocating millions of dollars to funding full-term abortions, LGBTQ programs, and youth gender transitioning programs. It also funds the Biden Regime to continue its attack on the Second Amendment with a federal gun-grab operation to keep firearms out of the hands of people who they say “pose a threat to themselves and others.”
This was not at all well-received by conservatives across the nation, especially in the border towns that Ciscomani represents in and around Tucson, Arizona.
“Ciscomani’s vote was an attack on Christianity,” Kimberly McAllister, the wife of The Bridge Church Pastor David McAllister, told The Gateway Pundit. “It was an attack on Christian values, and not just Christian values, conservative values, and on people who care about family and children. You don’t have to be a Christian to hold these values,” she continued while comparing Ciscomani to a “liberal Democrat.
“It was just such an attack on everything that we hold dear: family, life, protection, law and order, the border. I mean, so many things; it was one after the other, but as a church, the cultural issues of the LGBTQ and transgender agenda, the abortion, those are a big thing for us.”
Kimberly McAllister told us that they had allowed candidates, such as GOP U.S. Congressional Candidate Kathleen Winn and GOP Pima County Supervisor candidate Janet Wittenbraker, to attend their services, introduce themselves to the congregation, and even gather signatures for their ballot petitions. When Ciscomani’s team heard about this, his campaign manager contacted McAllister and requested to be “formally introduced,” said Kimberly.
“I thought, okay. If he wants to show up, that’s okay, but I did tell him that we would not be formally introducing him from the stage or anything like that. We only invited him to attend services and just to talk to people on his own, but we wouldn’t really be facilitating that.”
However, due to Ciscomani’s vote in favor of the omnibus spending bill, “we told him that he was no longer welcome,” said Kimberly.
Kimberly and David McAllister are strong conservative ministers who are not afraid to speak out on cultural issues in their church. Kimberly told The Gateway Pundit, “I think it has to start with pastors being willing to stand up and deal with these issues head-on.”
The Bridge Church also has a ministry group with about 100 members called Activism for Christ, which is dedicated to educating on local issues and making “a difference in our culture,” said Kimberly. You can support the mission of The Bridge Church in Tucson here.
More from our conversation with Kimberly McAllister:
Kimberly McAllister: I just feel like for far too long, the church has been told to stay out of politics and that we don’t have a place in that, and this is far beyond politics. This is not politics to us. This is a battle of good against evil, and this is exactly as Christians what we’re told to do. We’re told to be out in the world, shining our light, making a difference, impacting our world, fighting for truth, fighting for what’s good and right. And we’ve all heard the quote, “All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to be silent,” and that’s what the church has been for far too long. They’ve been afraid, they’ve listened to the world, and the world says to be quiet, and they have been. But if Christians and pastors and churches will start to not just step up but lead the way, we could turn everything around. And so at The Bridge, that’s what we’ve tried to do. We try to work really hard to not just go to church on the weekend and get our little teaching and see all our friends, but to really make a difference in the world for Christ.
It is our job to preach the gospel, and that’s what we try to do and we try to help people get right with God, but getting right with God is the first step. The second step in being a Christian is then living right for God. And the Bible is very clear about what that means, living right for God, and so we take that very seriously. And all these issues — the Bible talks about border issues, the Bible talks about law and order, the Bible talks about LGBTQ issues, all of these things, protecting children, it talks about family, it talks about life. And so I guess that I think a lot of it is just a pastor’s willingness to stand up in front of the congregation and teach on all these things, and don’t get me wrong; we don’t get up and teach on all these social issues every single weekend, but when it comes up, when there’s an opportunity, because it comes up in the passage that we’re using, he’s not afraid to speak out, and I just think that a lot of pastors are just afraid. And we’ve lost people, and we’ve been accused of, you know, preaching politics from the pulpit, and we get that all the time, but we don’t care. Because we’re just preaching what the Bible talks about: biblical values and biblical truth. So, I think it has to start with pastors being willing to stand up and deal with these issues head-on, and if you lose people, then you lose people. So be it. They’ll find another church. There’s other churches out there. And then that impacts other people. So many people, because of the teachings that we hear on the weekend, we have wanted to go out into our world and make a difference, and we have many ministries that do that. We have a ministry called Activism for Christ in Tucson, and we do all kinds of things in our city to go out and make a difference in our culture, in our world where they are. And it’s been great, and they love it because a lot of us are tired of just talking about how messed up our world is and how horrible things are, and we want to do something about it. So, we’ve gotten involved and a lot of us have become PCs, and so there’s all kinds of opportunities for us to take advantage of. And it feels good. It feels good to be out there trying to do something to change our world. And then when people step up, that’s when God can get behind it and make the difference because God uses people to fight against evil. You know, he’s just he doesn’t just sit up there and eradicate it. We have to do the hard work. And when we take that first step, then that’s what God uses to make a difference.
Kathleen Winn has stepped up to challenge Rep. Juan Ciscomani in the 2024 Primary Election on July 30. Arizona Congressional District 6 voters can support Kathleen Winn here and sign the petition to get Winn on the ballot here.
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President Trump held a press conference earlier at the Trump Building at 40 Wall St. on Monday to speak out on two New York court hearings in his civil fraud case and the Stormy Daniels hush money case, which happened earlier in the day.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier on Trump’s court hearings in New York, where Far-left Judge Arthur Engoron’s outrageous $464 million judgment in Marxist AG Letitia James’ civil fraud case was overturned, and Far-left Judge Juan Merchan set the Stormy Daniels hush payment trial for April 15.
President Trump had until Monday to either pay the judgment ordered by Judge Engoron or convince the appellate court to allow him to defer the payment pending appeal. The appellate court intervened on Monday, ruling that Trump can post a $175 million bond and extended his deadline by ten days.
Following the hearing, President Trump gave a statement to the press where he slammed Engoron as a “disgrace to this country,” who has left New York “battered by his decision” to punish and intimidate investors and businessmen.
In the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ case, Trump’s lawyers asked for a 90-day delay so they could pour over the thousands of pages of discovery, but the judge denied their request.
Trump also blasted this case as a witch hunt in remarks outside of the courthouse earlier. “This is a witch hunt. This is a hoax,” Trump said as he entered the courthouse with his attorneys.
President Trump notified his followers of his press conference following both hearings on Truth Social earlier:
Will be having a News Conference at 40 Wall Street at 1 P.M. Thank you!
RSBN reports,
President Donald Trump gave a press conference early Monday afternoon from the Trump Building where he scorched New York Judge Arthur Engoron for being “corrupt” and for continuing to propagate “election interference” in 2024.
“This is ALL about election interference,” Trump told the press.
He arrived at 40 Wall Street in New York just after sitting in for a pretrial hearing in the ongoing “hush money” case overseen by another New York Judge, Juan Merchan. Per CBS, Merchan set the trial date in that case for April 15.
“It’s a shame what’s happening to our country,” Trump continued.
To kick off the press conference, Trump took aim at Joe Biden’s weaponization of justice to interfere with the election, saying, “This is all Biden run things, meaning Biden in his thugs, because I don’t know if he knows he’s alive. And it’s a shame. It’s a shame what’s happening to our country. This is election interference. They are doing things that have never been done in this country before.” Trump later called Biden “the worst President in the history of our country by far.”
He further slammed Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump, who in 2022 resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation and went on to write a book on the topic. In the book, he claims the investigation “developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.” Pomerantz resigned after Bragg, just weeks into his first term in office, decided not to seek an indictment of Trump at that time.
He also slammed Matthew Colangelo, a former DOJ attorney, who previously led the New York Attorney General’s investigation into Trump and now leads Alvin Bragg’s hush money investigation.
Trump said “Biden and his thugs” are only doing this because they cannot win an election with his record of destroying our country and destabilizing the world.
TRUMP: That was done by Biden and his thugs, also, because they can’t win an election because of the borders, because of energy prices, because of inflation, because of Afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country. He can’t win because of Russia, Russia, Russia, because of all the problems because of Ukraine being attacked by Russia, and he can’t win because of the October 7 Attack of Israel, which he should have never allowed to happen; would have never happened if I were president. Ukraine would have never been attacked if I was president, and you wouldn’t have inflation if I was president. We didn’t have inflation. So all of these things, so what they do is they do election interference, which is court cases and let’s try and tie them up and let’s take as much of his money as possible.
So, we’re going through this weaponization of our government to try and knock out somebody’s political opponent. And so far based on the polls is not working at all people understand. We have a man who just ruled. They’d like to trial to start in 21 days or something. And I don’t know how you can have a trial that’s going on right in the middle of an election. Not fair. Not fair. It’s not fair at all. He knows that too. He’s a Democrat judge he wants to do that because they’re all trying to damage Trump as much as possible.
Trump attorney Todd Blanche also chimed in, “We very much believe that starting this trial in April, or even starting this trial at any point before the election, is completely unfair to President Trump.” He continued, “It’s completely unfair to the American people who are evaluating who they want to be the next president, and we’re going to continue to fight. We’re going to continue to do everything that we can to defend President Trump in that courtroom.”
“The date that Judge Merchan held today, April 15, is not a date we should go to trial, and we’re going to continue to fight.”
Clifford Robert, Trump’s attorney in the Letitia James witch hunt, commented on the bond reduction, “We’re gratified by the appellate division’s decision today, which shows that there still is a rule of law in New York and that the Appellate Division is following it.”
Trump accused Engoron of creating “a fraud in order to help his narrative and her narrative because he does whatever she [Letitia James] wants,” noting that he fraudulently valued Trump’s 20-acre Mar a Lago club at $18 million. “The judge, really, what he’s done is fraudulent.”
Trump then took questions from the dishonest reporters in attendance to end the press conference.
Watch below via C-span:
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President Trump spoke to the media and slammed crooked Judge Arthur Engoron on Monday after an Appellate Court hearing in his New York civil fraud case, which significantly lowered his bond amount.
Engoron previously ordered Trump to pay a fine of $355 million with daily interest, which quickly ballooned to $464 million, to punish him for his honest business practices and job creation in the state of New York.
Radical Marxist New York Attorney General Letitia James spent the month of February taunting Trump by posting a daily calculator of compounding interest on the judgment.
+$114,553.04 = $464,805,336.70 https://t.co/gugrACDTpC
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) February 25, 2024
Letitia James sought $370 million in ‘damages’ when there was no victim in this fraud case, and she also sought to ban Trump and his sons from operating any businesses in New York. She accused Trump of inflating his assets and defrauding lenders and insurance companies, despite having no evidence or rationality.
This was an attempt by a Marxist Attorney General and Judge to steal Trump’s assets and harm the leading Presidential candidate.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, a New York appellate court ruled that President Trump can post a $175 million bond to cover Letitia James’ $464 million judgment.
Trump has ten days to post the bond.
Last Thursday, Letitia James took the initial step to seize Trump’s assets. She filed judgments in Westchester County where Trump’s private estate and golf course named Seven Springs is located.
President Trump had until Monday to either pay the judgment or convince the appellate court to allow him to defer the payment pending appeal. The appellate court intervened on Monday and ruled Trump can post a $175 million bond and extended his deadline by ten days.
Trump took to Truth Social after the decision, noting, “This is the 5th time in this case that [Engoron] has been overturned, a record.”
“Judge Engoron has refused to obey the decision of the Appellate Division relative to the Statute of Limitations. This is a confrontation between a Judge and those that rule above him – A very bad situation in which to place New York State and the Rule of Law! Engoron has disrespected the Appellate Division and its very clear and precise ruling. He should be made to do so, and at the same time, release the GAG ORDER. This is the 5th time in this case that he has been overturned, a record. His credibility, and that of Letitia James, has been shattered. We will abide by the decision of the Appellate Division, and post either a bond, equivalent securities, or cash. This also shows how ridiculous and outrageous Engoron’s original decision was at $450 Million. I DID NOTHING WRONG, AND NEW YORK SHOULD NEVER BE PUT IN A POSITION LIKE THIS AGAIN. BUSINESSES ARE FLEEING, VIOLENT CRIME IS FLOURISHING, AND IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THIS BE RESOLVED IN ITS TOTALITY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU!” Trump said in a Truth Social post.
In a follow up post, Trump demanded Letitia James and Judge Engoron explain why he ruled that Mar-a-Lago was only worth $18 million.
“Judge Engoron and Letitia James should be forced to explain why he ruled that Mar-a-Lago was worth $18,000,000 when, in fact, it is worth from 50 to 100 times that amount. How did the Attorney General of the State of New York force this Corrupt Judge to do that in order to help her narrative – AND WHY?” Trump said.
President Trump also gave a statement to reporters outside of the courthouse, slamming Engoron for his “terrible disservice to the state of New York,” which he says is “being battered by his decision.”
Trump concluded, “Judge Engoron is a disgrace to this country, and this should not be allowed to happen.”
One liberal hack reporter can be heard after Trump finished his remarks, asking, “Did you accept foreign money to pay the bond?”
Watch below via Fox:
TRUMP: Thank you very much, Judge Engoron has done a terrible disservice to the state of New York. What he’s done is terrible. Businesses are fleeing. You see that we just released a statement on Truth. Businesses are fleeing and crime is flourishing all over the state, and what he’s done is such a disservice and should never be allowed to happen again. New York State is being battered by his decision. So, I greatly respect the decision of the Appellate Division and I’ll post either $175 million in cash, or bonds, or security, or whatever is necessary, very quickly within the ten days, and I thank the Appellate Division for acting quickly. But Judge Engoron is a disgrace to this country, and this should not be allowed to happen. Thank you very much.
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Senate Democrats on Friday night voted unanimously to continue facilitating the invasion of our country by shooting down Tennessee Republican Senator Bill Hagerty’s amendment to the Swamp’s spending bill that would prevent the use of American tax dollars to fly illegals from foreign airports into various U.S. cities.
The disastrous omnibus bill does nothing to secure the border while allocating millions of dollars to funding full-term abortions, LGBTQ programs, and youth gender transitioning programs. It also funds the Biden Regime to continue its attack on the Second Amendment with a federal gun-grab operation to keep firearms out of the hands of people who they say “pose a threat to themselves and others.”
The 1,000-page bill was made public at 2:32 am on Thursday while Americans were asleep and was voted on the next day.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had enough and filed a Motion to Vacate the chair against Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday morning after his “complete betrayal of Republican voters across the country.”
Senator Bill Hagerty posted a clip from the Senate Floor on Friday night, commenting, “Tonight every single Senate Democrat voted against my amendment that would stop Biden Admin from using taxpayer dollars to charter flights for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from their countries directly to American towns to be resettled. Indefensible.”
Watch below:
HAGERTY: In order to consider my very simple and reasonable amendment, it’s vital that the Senate must move the Democrat leaders blocking the amendment out of the way in order to move forward with my amendment. Let me cut through the procedural language here. I’m bringing forward a vote on a very simple question: Do you support American taxpayer dollars being used to fly illegal immigrants from countries like Venezuela and Haiti into America to be settled in cities and towns near you? If so, then vote against me; Vote ‘No’ to preserve this practice of using taxpayer dollars to charter planes that move and import 1000s of illegal aliens into your states.
Make no mistake here. President Biden has been secretly flying hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from foreign countries into Blue City airports. Just last year alone, in 2023, it was reported that some 320,000 illegal aliens had been flown in using this method.
Elon Musk later chimed in on Saturday, “This is insane!”
This is insane! https://t.co/s8qHtKJ9CQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2024
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, new revelations emerged that the Biden Regime is not only mishandling the southern border but actively aiding and abetting the invasion by operating secret charter flights to transport illegal immigrants from foreign airports to various U.S. cities.
Real America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam was the first to report on this treason last month after he discovered “15-acre facilities” in the Darién gap between Colombia and Panama that the United States is using to process and smuggle illegals into the United States before they even reach the border.
Throughout Central and South America, illegal immigrants’ access to the U.S. with full rights is currently being streamlined through regional processing centers called Safe Mobility Offices, and they are arriving in cities near you as refugees.
Elon Musk previously warned Americans on X after the news broke, saying, “This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants. It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time.”
Rep Andrew Clyde (R-GA) took to social media on Thursday to further detail the devastating open border policies in the rushed omnibus bill, stating, “The Swamp’s second spending package is finally out. Follow along for all the policy wins that were SURRENDERED during backroom negotiations.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to damage or remove President Trump’s border wall.”
“Surrendered: Defunding Biden’s CBP One App, which is being used to funnel millions of illegal aliens into our country.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to diminish current immigrant law that allows ICE to work with state and local law enforcement agencies to identify and remove illegal aliens.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to implement memos containing disastrous open border policies.”
“Surrendered: Requiring Secretary Mayorkas to prioritize ICE funds to detain illegal aliens & ensure illegal aliens on the non-detained docket are enrolled in the ATD program with GPS monitoring.”
“Surrendered: Defunding the Biden Administration’s radical asylum rule.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting ICE funds from being used to pay for or perform abortions.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to administer hormones or transgender surgeries to illegal aliens in ICE custody.”
“Surrendered: Defunding DHS’ DEI executive orders & CRT initiatives.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to support a Disinformation Governance Board or any entity engaged in censorship.”
“Surrendered: Defunding DHS’ government-by-proxy censorship.”
“Surrendered: Defunding DHS’ ongoing efforts to transport illegal aliens into the U.S.”
“Surrendered: Defunding DHS policies that severely limit Border Patrol agents’ ability to chase illegal aliens.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to purchase or operate drones manufactured by the CCP or other adversaries.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to issue employment authorization documents to illegal aliens.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS from reallocating border wall funds for other purposes.”
“Surrendered: Prohibiting DHS funds from being used to amend the U.S. Oath of Allegiance.”
“Surrendered: Blocking a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for DHS employees.”
“Surrendered: Defunding DHS’ asylum rule.”
Out of all these pro-illegal immigration policies, the Democrats wouldn’t even allow an amendment to stop Biden and his handlers from flying illegals across our border and directly to American towns.
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently slammed current House Speaker Mike Johnson over his “complete betrayal of Republican voters across the country” in bringing a spending bill filled with disastrous liberal policies to the floor on Friday to avert a government shutdown.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Friday that MTG filed a Motion to Vacate the chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans. The vote – 286 to 134 – had 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting ‘yay.’ It was later passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The 1,000-page bill was made public at 2:32 am on Thursday while Americans were asleep, which MTG says “violated the 72-hour rule” that requires the text of a bill or resolution to be available to members for at least 72 hours before a vote.
BREAKING: MTG Files Motion to Vacate the Chair and Remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker
The bill leaves our border wide open for Joe Biden and his dangerous illegal immigrants and continues the practice of flying millions of illegals into and across the United States. It further allocates millions of dollars for abortions up until birth and for youth transgender or LGBTQ programs.
The Gateway Pundit also reported that The Biden Regime on Saturday morning, after the funding bill passed, continued its attack on the Second Amendment and launched a federal gun-grab operation to keep firearms out of the hands of people who they say “pose a threat to themselves and others.”
More from Fox:
The 1,012-page bill — released around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday — includes earmarks that would go toward controversial LGBTQ+ facilities and a late-term abortion clinic. Another request includes a multimillion-dollar proposal for what critics dub “gun confiscation” research.
According to appropriations documents, Wisconsin Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwinrequested $400,000 request for a facility called Briarpatch Youth Services. One of the group’s programs is called “Teens Like Us LGBTQIA2s+” for ages 13-18 and a “Gender Affirming Clothing Program” that provides minors with clothing that matches their gender identity. It also organizes a “pride prom” for kids as young as 12, and connects LGBTQ youth without parental knowledge.
Another $12.5 million is proposed for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study called the Prevent Firearm Injury and Mortality research. The NIH said on its website they are “committed to supporting scientific research to develop, evaluate, and implement effective public health interventions to better understand and prevent violence, including firearm violence, and the resulting trauma, injuries, and mortality.”
The House of Representatives is scheduled to go on recess for two weeks, so any immediate action regarding vacating the chair will be delayed. Republican voters across the country can call and email their Representatives’ offices to make their voices heard during the break.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke to One America News Network’s John Hines on Friday after introducing her Motion to Vacate against Speaker Johnson. She said she’s not the only Republican Congressmember who believes Mike Johnson betrayed the voters and that “there’s a lot of support for a motion to vacate in the conference.” She added, “He heard from our conference over and over again. Everyone was furious.”
GREENE: This is a complete betrayal of Republican voters across the country. I entered the motion to vacate this morning after Mike Johnson brought part two of an omnibus to the bill to the House floor, this morning and forced all of us to vote on a bill that would fund abortion up until full term, that doesn’t do anything to secure our border. And this comes after people are seeing this video that’s horrifying to every single American, where there’s a large group of military-aged men, illegals, rushing the border, running over Border Patrol, running over the National Guard. Speaker Johnson totally gave up every ounce of authority he had as House Speaker to use this funding of the government to secure the border for the American people, and it is way past time. He also violated the 72-hour rule. He forced all of us to vote on a bill without amendments. We had no choice. We couldn’t introduce amendments. We couldn’t fight for the values of our districts, and we had to vote on a bill in one day that had 1,012 pages. These are breaking our conference rules. This is not what Republicans want from a Republican Speaker of the House. And he’s basically handed over control to Chuck Schumer.
We need to choose a new Speaker, we need to choose a Speaker of the House that is a Republican that will walk into a room and negotiate through strength and not hand over every single win to Chuck Schumer and the White House. So, I’ll be talking with many of my colleagues and work through this process. It’s also my intent to make sure that committees can continue to do their important work, the important investigations that we have going on, such as our investigation into Joe Biden on the Oversight Committee, also taking our articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, which by the way are my articles of impeachment, over to the Senate — Chuck Schumer needs to hold a trial in the Senate — and also continuing the work through House Admin on January 6 and other important committee work. But the clock is ticking, and the time has started that our conference needs to have the conversation and find a Speaker that we can trust that will support the Republican majority and the American people.
Everyone will be able to go home for the two-week recess, and I’m sure they’ll be able to spend time thinking about this and hearing from their constituents. I know most people, our Republican base is furious over this bill, the second part of the omnibus that passed with Democrat votes, and it passed without the majority of the majority. More Republicans voted against this bill today than did vote for it. So, it’s time to go home and talk to our constituents over the break. It doesn’t have to receive a floor vote until I call it up for a floor vote. And right now, that’s going to basically be a decision that I make when the time comes to call it for a vote. I’m not announcing a time yet, but I am giving a lot of respect and time to my conference.
This is an important election year. Most Americans are terrified for our future. We’re watching what’s happening at the border, wondering who will be the next woman that is raped, who will be the next Laken Riley, who will be the next person that finds squatters in their home? There was a woman just killed in New York when she went to remove squatters from her mother’s house. There’s crimes being committed against Americans every single day by illegals. We need a Speaker of the House that is willing to negotiate through strength, and that is also willing and capable of leading the People’s House for the policies of President Trump when he wins this election in 2024 and moves into the White House. That’s extremely important to me, and it’s extremely important to the American people.
Taking away our ability to introduce amendments on this important funding bill was absolutely infuriating to most of our Republican members. Yes, it was basically throwing in the towel and letting Chuck Schumer drive the bill process and choose what type of earmarks, earmarks such as funding for late term abortion clinics, funding for DEI, funding for trans policies that will be used on children and the youth of America. This is not what Republicans support. We don’t want to vote for a bill that funds those type of things that are against our values in order to fund our military. That shouldn’t be the choice that Republicans were put in. However, that’s what Speaker Johnson did to our entire conference today, and that’s why a majority of the majority voted against this funding bill today. I put in the motion to vacate, respectfully. This is not a personal attack against Mike Johnson at all. I respect him completely as a person, and I think he’s a good man, but he’s a man that’s not capable to lead the country at this time.
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The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, chaired by Rep Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), is holding a hearing with doctors and public health policy experts to assess COVID-19 vaccine safety systems this afternoon.
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on vaccine-related health complications and the surge in sudden deaths across the country.
The federal government’s surveillance system, designed to monitor injuries from vaccinations, has come under criticism for failing to adequately inform the public about vaccine injury reports.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, during the first part of this hearing series titled “Assessing America’s Vaccine Safety Systems, Part One,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) delivered a fiery testimony, questioning the rapid authorization of COVID-19 vaccines and highlighting the volume of adverse event reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
“I’m not a doctor, but I have a Ph.D. in recognizing bullsh-t when I hear it,” said Rep. Greene while highlighting the massive surge in vaccine injuries and deaths because of Biden’s tyrannical vaccine mandate, clinical trials resulting in serious injuries, and hurried approval for these vaccines even for toddlers and babies.
Earlier this month, the subcommittee also subpoenaed former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to testify in a deposition on his handling of COVID and his decision to kill elderly New Yorkers by quarantining them in nursing homes with COVID-positive patients.
BREAKING@COVIDSelect announces a subpoena to compel former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to appear for a deposition.
Governor Cuomo forced New York nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients. Americans died.
Accountability and honesty are non-negotiable pic.twitter.com/WE307WQWbX
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) March 5, 2024
ABC News reports,
The House subcommittee tasked with investigating the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday subpoenaed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in relation to his administration’s handling of nursing homes during the pandemic, according to documents first obtained by ABC News.
Specifically, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is seeking to question Cuomo about one of his administration’s most controversial COVID-era directives: instructing nursing homes to admit recovering COVID-positive patients from hospitals, a move that has faced criticism that it led to increased deaths in nursing homes.
The subpoena and letter from the Republican-led subcommittee is the latest development for the former New York governor, who has faced intense scrutiny into his administration’s handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. In 2021, ABC News reported that federal prosecutors in Brooklyn were investigating Cuomo’s coronavirus task force with a focus on nursing homes. No charges were brought.
The subpoena was signed by Republican Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, which authorizes the subcommittee to issue subpoenas. It requests a May 24 deposition in Washington.
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on Andrew Cuomo’s deposition following today’s hearing.
Via House Oversight Committee:
Assessing America’s Vaccine Safety Systems, Part 2
Subject Assessing America’s Vaccine Safety Systems, Part 2Date March 21, 2024Time 2:00 pmPlace 2247 Rayburn
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
Witnesses and testimonies:
Patrick Whelan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
UCLA Division of Rheumatology
David Gortler, Pharm.D.
Senior Research Fellow for Public Health Policy and Regulation
The Heritage Foundation
Renée Gentry
Director, Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic
George Washington University
Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado, M.D. (Minority Witness)
Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
The hearing is expected to begin shortly after 2 pm pending a vote on the House Floor.
Watch live below:
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The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, chaired by Rep Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), is holding a hearing with doctors and public health policy experts to assess COVID-19 vaccine safety systems this afternoon. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on vaccine-related health complica
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